Happy birthday, Patrika Darbo.
Although she’s not on Days of our Lives or The Bold and the Beautiful right now, actress Patrika Darbo, has a great reason to celebrate today!
She was born on April 6, 1948, in Jacksonville, Florida, which means that this talented actress is turning 76 years old today! Darbo studied acting at both Georgia Southern University and the Atlanta School of Drama — and worked as a credit manager in order to pay the bills. Not long after, the popular star landed her first professional job when she appeared in the 1983 television series The Optimist.
Subsequent work included guest appearances on television series such as Bay City Blues, Riptide, Diff’rent Strokes, St. Elsewhere, Punky Brewster, and Mama’s Family as well as the feature films The Night Before, The Burbs, Troop Beverly Hills, and Spaced Invaders.
A bit part on ABC’s General Hospital allowed Darbo to sample the frantic pace of daytime television, and she returned to the soap opera genre in 1998 when she joined the cast of Days of our Lives to portray Nancy Wesley.
She remained there until 2005 — earning a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in the process — and she reprised the part in both 2013 and 2016 — and returned to Salem recently for a big story as Nancy faced heartbreak at her husband’s cheating hands. Also in 2016, she won a Primetime Emmy in the Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category for her work in Acting Dead.
Between February 2017 and March 2018, Darbo starred as Shirley Spectra on The Bold and the Beautiful and first brought Shirley to The Young and the Restless this time a few years ago in a video call to her niece, Sally Spectra (Courtney Hope).
Her other acting credits include a recurring role on Step by Step as well as guest appearances on Seinfeld and Dexter. In 1994, she played Roseanne Barr in the made-for-TV biopic Roseanne and Tom: Behind the Scenes.
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