Hunter Tylo

Born Deborah Jo Hunter in Fort Worth, the native Texan is an accomplished equestrian with a degree in pre-med from Fordham University in New York. She was a top fashion model in the seventies and eighties, and began her acting career in Dallas, Texas doing plays such as "Vanities", "The Marriage-Go-Round", "I Ought To Be in Pictures", "The Odd Couple" and "The Dining Room". More recently, she appeared at the Beverly Hills Theater, in "Rear Window". In her early television career beginning in 1984, she landed 3 major contract roles, finally remaining with CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful (1987) for the past 23 years, as "Dr. Taylor Forrester". She has appeared on numerous magazine covers. She has received many awards, and is consistently voted as "Most Popular Actress" in "Soap Digest" and "CBS Daytime". She has guest-starred on many prime-time shows, including Diagnosis Murder (1993), The Nanny (1993) and Zorro (1990), as well as movies for the Hallmark Channel, and mini-series such as