Actors who got their start on soap operas: 59 Photos

Brad Pitt. Right at the start of Pitt's acting career, he landed a two-episode stint on the long-running soap opera, Another World.

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• Susan Lucci. American actress known for her role as Erica Kane on 'All My Children'. ...
• Anthony Geary. American actor famous for playing Luke Spencer on 'General Hospital'. ...
• Eric Braeden. ...
• Erika Slezak. ...
• Maurice Benard. ...
• Deidre Hall. ...
• Kim Zimmer. ...
• Peter Bergman.

Irna Phillips. The program was written by a school teacher turned radio actress, Irna Phillips, who has been credited with 'inventing' the genre soap opera. Phillips wrote many successful plots, for example, The Guiding Light, the longest running soap ever. The serial was introduced in January 1937, and lasted for 19 years on radio.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(nLXFZoTBMpTPwPAPwJ_k6Qo__34,

As of 2024, William Roache holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-serving actor in a television soap opera, having played Ken Barlow on Coronation Street since 1960.

3 days ago. By the early 1990s, DiCaprio began acting regularly on television, starting with a role in the pilot of The Outsiders (1990) and one episode of the soap opera Santa Barbara (1990), in which he played a teenage alcoholic.