Heather Tom
Heather Tom (born November 4, 1975 in Hinsdale, Illinois) is a two-time Emmy
Award-winning American soap opera
actress. Very early in her career, she played Heather Harper (Jonathan Bower's love interest) on an episode of Who's The
Boss?. She is well known to American daytime drama fans for her role as Victoria
Newman, daughter of the powerful Victor (Eric
Braeden) and Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas
Scott) on CBS' The Young and the
Restless. She played the role from 1991 until December 2003. She won two Daytime Emmy awards in 1993 and 1999 for "Outstanding Younger
Lead Actress" along with nominations in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2005. Heather Tom holds the record for the
most Emmy Award nominations for actresses under the age of thirty.
In 2003, she took on a new role as Kelly Cramer Buchanan on ABC's soap One Life to Live. She also made a handful of guest appearances on All My Children in 2004 playing the Kelly Cramer character. She is the third actress to portray Kelly Cramer Buchanan after Gina Tognoni and Tracy Lindsey Melchior. In August 2006, Tom announced she had decided not to renew her contract with One Life to Live after three years. She last aired in December 2006.
In February 2007, she guest starred on Monk and in March 2007, she and her sister Nicholle Tom guest starred on The Wedding Bells.
In August 2007, she took over the role of Katherine "Katie" Logan (previously played by Nancy Sloan), the younger sister of Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang), Donna (Jennifer Gareis) and Storm Logan (William deVry), on The Bold and the Beautiful.
Tom has also worked extensively in theater, both in New York and on the West Coast.
Siblings
Her siblings are also actors: her brother David Tom played Billy Abbott on Y&R, and also co-starred with her on One Life to Live as her brother. Her sister, Nicholle Tom, played Maggie Sheffield on the sitcom The Nanny.
Advocacy work
Tom is a vocal supporter of reproductive/abortion rights, and helped found a group for daytime actors, "Daytime for Choice" who are members of Planned Parenthood. In July 2005 Tom penned an op-ed in Soap Opera Digest criticizing Days of Our Lives for a storyline in which an abortion caused a young woman to develop a fertility-destroying infection. Tom admitted on Howard Stern that she had an abortion.
Awards (Won)
- (1999) Daytime Emmy Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for The Young and the Restless
- (1993) Daytime Emmy Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for The Young and the Restless
- (1997) Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Younger Lead Actress for The Young and the Restless
Award (Nominated)
- (2007) Daytime Emmy Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for One Life to Live
- (2005) Daytime Emmy Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for One Life to Live
- (2004) Daytime Emmy Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for The Young and the Restless
- (2000) Daytime Emmy Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for The Young and the Restless
- (1998) Daytime Emmy Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for The Young and the Restless
- (2005) Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Supporting Actress for One Life to Live
- (1994) Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Younger Leading Actress for The Young and the Restless
- (1993) Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Younger Leading Actress for The Young and the Restless
- (1996) Young Artist Award Best Performance by a Young Actress - TV Drama Series for The Young and the Restless
- (1994) Young Artist Award Best Youth Actress in a Soap Opera for The Young and the Restless
- (1993) Young Artist Award Best Young Actress in a Daytime Series for The Young and the Restless
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