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Name: Kassie DePaiva  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 21st March 1961
   
Place of Birth: Morganfield, Kentucky, USA
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
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Kassie DePaiva, in a still from One Life to Live.

Kassie DePaiva (born Katherine Virginia Wesley on March 21, 1961 in Morganfield, Kentucky) is an American soap opera actress. She is credited prior to 1996 as Kassie Wesley.

After graduating from high school, DePaiva attended Indiana University in Bloomington for two years. She then transferred to UCLA, where she dropped out shortly before graduation to go overseas with the USO to entertain troops stationed in Japan, Korea, and Okinawa.

She has played two major soap roles: Chelsea Reardon on Guiding Light (1986–1991) and Blair Daimler Cramer One Life to Live. She has played the role on One Life to Live since 1993, when she replaced Mia Korf. (Cramer is one of the few characters in soap operas that changed ethnicity; Korf is half-Asian while DePaiva is white.) She was also featured in the horror film Evil Dead II (1987).

DePaiva is also a singer, and has released two album: Naked and No Regrets. At the age of eighteen she made her debut singing on the legendary Grand Ole Opry stage.

She married fellow One Life to Live actor James DePaiva in May 1996. They have a son together named James Quentin.

Award nominations

  • Daytime Emmy Awards
    • 2005 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for One Life to Live
  • Soap Opera Digest Awards
    • 2005 Outstanding Lead Actress for One Life to Live'
    • 2003 Outstanding Lead Actress for One Life to Live
    • 2001 Outstanding Lead Actress for One Life to Live
    • 1998 Hottest Female Star for One Life to Live

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