Trivia

In 1997, she wrote her own cookbook: Soap Opera Cafe: the Skinny on Food From a Daytime Star. She dedicated it to the person who helped her realize she had a passion for cooking, her father, Paul Mattson.

When not performing, she enjoys skiing and ice skating as well as gardening and decorating.

From June of 1996 until March of 1997, she had her own cooking show on the Lifetime network called The Main Ingredient.

Daytime soap actress for nearly three decades, usually plays scheming blondes.

Was only 15 when she performed nude in Bonnie's Kids (1972) and 17 when she was nude in Candy Stripe Nurses (1974).

Has originated three of her seven roles in daytime television: Sugar on The Bold and the Beautiful in 2003, Cheri Love on As the World Turns in 2007, and Lee Michaels on Days of Our Lives from 2010-2011.