Kelly Maria Ripa (born October 2, 1970 in Stratford, New Jersey) is an American actress of Italian and Irish descent.

She presently co-hosts (& likewise is co-executive producer) of Live! With Regis and Kelly (a morning talk show) and also co-stars, with Faith Ford, in Hope and Faith (a sitcom on ABC).

Acting inside high school plays led to roles at local theaters and the regular spot on the USA Network's Dance Party USA -- an afternoon teen music program. She wwhen so found & cast as gothic adolescent sour suffering heroine, Hayley Vaughan, on the a measure of laundry soap opera All My Children. Starting on the indicate inside 1990, the character of Hayley quickly drew the big as punishment.

Inside early 1995 her character was paired with Mark Consuelos' character, Mateo Santos. a romance blossomed between the castmates, using Ripa & Consuelos eloping around 1996. In time, it got tercet toddlers. Inside a reciprocal guide, the few left Totally Our Kids inside December 2002.

Self-Parody

In Saturday Night Live skits about Survive by having Regis & Kelly, a role of Kelly Ripa is typically taken by Amy Poehler. While Ripa hosted SNL, inside 1 skit Poehler appeared when Ripa & Ripa when Angelina Jolie. In another skit, Ripa spoofed a omnipresent hair coloring ads in which she has appeared (therein skit, Ripa prefers Tressant Suprème because the independent ingredient is crack cocaine, thus explaining her stereotyped "peppy" persona). Farther inside another episode she experienced the brief Five 2nd cameo when herself in the skit just about Thailand. She attended Eastern High School.

She has likewise laugh at of herself in Family Guy, voicing herself. In the episode "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1", Peter Griffin found a genie in a beer bottle and his number one wish was to understand Kelly Ripa behind a scenes. the jinni opened a wizard window onto Ripa's Swallow Regis & Kelly dressing room, showing Ripa cheat her individual face to show an horrible alien face, then attend the attached-higher man, removing his heart and eating it.

Awards

Ripa won 3 Soap Opera Digest Awards for playing Hayley inside Completely The Kids in 1996, 1998 & 2000. She has been nominated for Eighter Daytime Emmy Awards. 3 one nominations were for swimming Hayley in A lot Our Youngsters, & Cinque were for performing hosting duties alongside Regis.

Links
[http://groups.google.com/group/KellyRipa Kelly Ripa Google group]