Kelley Menighan Hensley
Kelley Menighan Hensley | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 15, 1967 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
Kelley Menighan Hensley (born February 15, 1967, in Glenview, Illinois) is an American actress best known for her role as Emily Stewart on As the World Turns.[1]
Career
[edit]Hensley appeared on the program from 1992 until the series finale in 2010. She earned Daytime Emmy Nominations in 2002 and again in 2008 for Best Supporting Actress.
Hensley also made a cross-over to the daytime drama, The Young and the Restless on March 27, 2007, portraying Emily opposite Adrienne Frantz's Amber Moore.
In 2012, Hensley appeared on the Showtime dark satire series Reality Show. She played Katherine Warwick, the matriarch of a family being recorded for a reality TV series without their knowledge or permission. From 2013 to 2014, Hensley portrayed Veronica Ashton on the soap opera web series Tainted Dreams.[2][3]
Personal life
[edit]She married her co-star Jon Hensley (Holden Snyder) on May 25, 1996.[4] The couple had three children and divorced in 2015.[5] Hensley is a vegetarian.[6]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Guns | Tong's Blonde | |
| 2015 | Shooting the Warwicks | Katherine Warwick |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983–2010 | As the World Turns | Emily Stewart | 1,713 episodes |
| 1989 | Young Charlie Chaplin | Uncredited | Episode #1.6 |
| 1991 | The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw | Waitress | Television film |
| 2007 | The Young and the Restless | Emily Stewart | Episode #1.8606 |
| 2012 | Reality Show | Katherine Warwick | 7 episodes |
| 2014–2017 | Tainted Dreams | Veronica Ashford | 12 episodes |
References
[edit]- ^ "Soap Opera Style". Soap Opera Weekly. 2007-02-13. p. 24.
- ^ Logan, Michael (December 30, 2013). "First Look: An All-Star Soap Cast Shines in Tainted Dreams". TV Guide. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ "Tainted Dreams: Meet the Characters". TaintedDreamstheSeries.com. Archived from the original on September 28, 2015. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ Rohan, Virginia. "Longtime soap As the World Turns comes to a halt this week", The Record (Bergen County), September 15, 2010. Accessed September 15, 2015. "For Kelley Menighan Hensley of Old Tappan, who has played Emily Stewart since 1992, that realism took getting used to. The actress, who'd grown up on ABC soaps and had never seen ATWT, checked it out before testing for the show.... Hensley, who met her husband, actor Jon Hensley (Holden Snyder), on ATWT, came to love being part of the show."
- ^ Beckley, Bryan (May 5, 2017). "Catching Up With Kelley Menighan". Soap Opera Digest. United States: American Media, Inc. Odyssey Magazine Publishing Group Inc. Archived from the original on May 5, 2017. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
- ^ "All EYES on ATWT's Kelley Menighan Hensley". Soap Opera Weekly. 2007-02-27. p. 30.
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- 1967 births
- American soap opera actresses
- Living people
- People from Glenview, Illinois
- People from Old Tappan, New Jersey
- Actresses from Illinois
- 20th-century American actresses
- American television actresses
- 21st-century American women
- Actors from Bergen County, New Jersey
- American television actor, 1960s birth stubs