Hunter Tylo

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Hunter Tylo
Born	Deborah Jo Hunter July 3, 1962 (1962-07-03) (age 47) Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Other name(s)	Deborah Morehart
Years active	1980 - present
Spouse(s)	Tom Morehart (1980-1984) Michael Tylo (1987-2005 )

Hunter Tylo (born July 3, 1962) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Taylor Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful, where she is one of the longest-serving cast members.

Biography

Early life

Hunter Tylo was born Deborah Jo Hunter in Fort Worth, Texas, the daughter of Jo Anne and Morris Jabez Hunter. She is of Cherokee Native American descent on her mother's side. She has an older sister Elizabeth and a younger brother named Cliff. Tylo has been credited as Deborah Morehart; Morehart was the last name of her first husband.

Career

Tylo is primarily a soap opera actress. However, in 1984, using the name Deborah Morehart, she appeared in the sorority slasher film The Initiation with future Melrose Place star Daphne Zuniga. Her television debut was on All My Children in 1985. She met her future husband Michael Tylo on the set playing his love interest. She left the show and married Tylo in 1987. She played Marina Toscano on Days of our Lives from 1989 to 1990.

Tylo played the role of Dr. Taylor Hayes as a series regular on The Bold and the Beautiful from 1990 through 2002. She returned to the show in 2004 for a two-episode appearance as a vision. In May 2005, she returned as a series regular.

Melrose Place controversy

In 1996, Tylo was cast in Melrose Place and opted to leave The Bold and the Beautiful to take the role. However, she was fired by Melrose Place producer Aaron Spelling prior to filming any episodes for the series, when she announced she was pregnant.

The character she was to play, Taylor McBride, was recast with Lisa Rinna taking the role. Tylo quickly returned to The Bold and the Beautiful. Tylo sued Spelling on grounds of discrimination for being pregnant and won $4.8 million from a Los Angeles jury.

Prior to trial, during the discovery phase of the litigation, Spelling's lawyers were partially successful in an interlocutory appeal that forced Tylo to answer questions in her deposition about her pregnancy (and her husband's ability to get her pregnant).^[1]

In 2001, she wrote her autobiography "Making a Miracle."^[2]

Personal life

She was first married to Tom Moreheart and they had a son Christopher 'Chris' Morehart.

In 1987 she married Michael Tylo, with whom she had daughters Izabella Gabrielle and Katya Ariel Tylo, and son Michael Tylo, Jr. The marriage ended in 2005.^[3]

In 1998, her infant daughter Katya was diagnosed with a rare cancer of the right eye called retinoblastoma. Doctors removed the eye and began chemotherapy, but later in the year a tumor was detected in Katya's other eye; that tumor inexplicably disappeared. Katya recovered and wears a prosthetic right eye.

On October 18, 2007, Tylo's 19-year old son, Michael Tylo Jr., drowned in the family pool in Henderson, Nevada.^[4]The Clark County coroner concluded that "the cause of death was drowning due to seizure disorder," and was ruled accidental.^[5].

In May 2008 she filed a restraining order against boyfriend Corey Cofield, claiming that he had acted violently towards her and her children; she asked for the order to be withdrawn in October 2008, telling a judge that Cofield was attending therapy and was much better.^[6]

References

External links

• Hunter Tylo at the Internet Movie Database

• Hunter Tylo at TV.com
• Hunter Tylo on the Net
• Retinoblastoma International