Lisa Rinna

Lisa Rinna
Lisa Rinna, January 2008
Born	Lisa De Anne Rinna 11 July 1963 (1963-07-11) (age 46) Newport Beach, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1985 – present
Spouse(s)	Harry Hamlin (1997-present) 2 children
Official website

Lisa Deanna Rinna (born July 11, 1963) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Billie Reed on Days of our Lives, Taylor McBride on Melrose Place, and most recently as the host of SoapNet's Soap Talk.

Career

Acting

At 22, Rinna appeared in the 1985 John Parr "Naughty Naughty" music video as the passenger in Parr's car. Rinna later appeared as the girlfriend to Jason Bateman's character in several episodes of The Hogan Family in 1990. She received national recognition when she first starred on NBC's Days of our Lives in the role of Billie Reed from 1992 to 1995; she briefly reprised the role in 2002. She later switched from daytime TV to primetime, playing Taylor McBride on Aaron Spelling's Melrose Place from 1996 to 1998. Rinna starred in the Lifetime movie Sex, Lies & Obsession opposite husband Harry Hamlin. Her previous Lifetime movie, Another Woman's Husband, boasted one of the highest ratings for a movie on Lifetime since 1999. She also guest-starred on an episode of Movie Stars for the WB, the first ever on-screen appearance she shared opposite her husband. Rinna nabbed her first role in the feature film Good Advice, starring Charlie Sheen and Jon Lovitz, and recently appeared in an episode of HBO's Entourage. Rinna recently announced that she would love to reprise her role of Taylor McBride on CW's revival Melrose Place, if given the offer.^{[citation needed]}

Hosting

In 2002, Rinna was named co-host of Soap Talk, the daily lifestyle show that airs on SOAPnet, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. In June 2006, SoapNet announced that it was canceling Soap Talk after four seasons due to low ratings.

In August 2007, Rinna replaced Joan Rivers as the host of TV Guide Network's red carpet coverage. Rinna has recently guest-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly.

Lisa Rinna hosts the TV makeover program "Merge" on Lifetime.

Reality television

She competed in the second season of Dancing with the Stars and was eliminated in Round Seven based on audience voting, despite having higher marks from the judges than fellow celebrity dancer Jerry Rice.

On December 4, 2008, TV Guide reported that Rinna and Hamlin have signed a deal to create a reality TV series based around their family life. The series is being developed by TV Land.^[1]

Modeling

In 1998, Rinna created a stir when she posed for a nude pictorial while six months pregnant in the September issue of Playboy magazine. She posed again and was the cover model in May, 2009.^[2][3] Rinna explains she received direct orders from Playboy photographer Deborah Anderson, who also shot Rinna for the Room 23 book. "She said, 'I do not want you long and sinewy and angular and muscular. I want you soft,' " says Rinna. "This was really hard for me because being 45 years old and posing for Playboy, you want to amp it up," Rinna told People at Tuesday's Room 23 book launch hosted by Sanela Diana Jenkins and Neuro Brands.^[4]

Stage

Rinna recently starred in the Broadway production of "Chicago", playing the role of Roxie Hart, alongside her husband, who played the role of Billy Flynn. ^[5]

Business owner

Rinna owns two Belle Gray clothing boutiques in Southern California's San Fernando Valley, one in Sherman Oaks and one in Calabasas. The stores' name comes from the middle names of her two daughters, Delilah Belle and Amelia Gray.

Howard Stern Show

Rinna has been a frequent guest of the Howard Stern show, sharing salacious details of her sexual practices with her husband.

Personal Life

Rinna married actor Harry Hamlin in 1997. They have two daughters, Delilah Belle (born 1998) and Amelia Gray (born 2001). They have performed together in a number of television and film productions, including portraying a married couple on the first season of the television series Veronica Mars.

She has acknowledged having plastic surgery and using botox and juvederm; although she remains fond of botox, she has said that using juvederm was a mistake.^[6][7]

Rinna, Hamlin, and their daughters recently met pop sensations the Jonas Brothers at a private concert at The Roxy and Miley Cyrus on the set of her show Hannah Montana.

Rinna at the 81st Academy Awards in February 2009

Filmography

• Captive Rage (1988)
• Monday Morning (1990)
• Robot Wars (1993)
• Good Advice (2001)
• Peace, Love & Bikinis! (2005) (documentary)

Television

• Lies Before Kisses (1990)
• Days of our Lives (1992–1995 and 2002–2003) as Billie Reed
• Days of our Lives: Night Sins (1993) as Bille Reed
• Days of our Lives: Winter Heat (1994) as Billie Reed
• Vanished (1995)
• Melrose Place (1996–1998) as Taylor McBride (S5 Ep1 - S6 Ep34)
• Nick Fury: Agent of Shield (1998)
• Close to Danger (1997)
• Another Woman's Husband (2000)
• Oh, Baby (2001)
• Sex, Lies & Obsession (2001)
• Soap Talk (2002–2006)
• 8 Simple Rules (2004) as Holly- Gym Instructor (S2 Ep10)
• Veronica Mars (2004–2005) as Lynn Echolls (S1 Ep6, Ep10 and Ep12)
• Dancing with the Stars (2006) as Herself,
• Entourage (2007) as Donna (S4 Ep3)
• Hannah Montana (2008)

Contestant

• Lifetimetv Show: Merge

Upcoming

• Tease (2007)
• Pop Fiction (2008) as herself, one episode

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lisa Rinna

• Lisa Rinna at the Internet Movie Database
• Soapnet
• Belle Gray
• Official Lisa Rinna website
• TV.coms' Lisa Rinna page
• Lisa Rinna's MySpace page
• Merge (Host)
• TheSuperFicial