Kristen Alderson

Kristen DeAnn Alderson is an American actress and singer. She is best known for playing Starr Manning, most recently on the ABC soap opera General Hospital, and previously on the former ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Alderson would be one of the main Llanview transplants with Roger Howarth and Michael Easton, that was placed on contract with the GH series. Her first air date is on May 13th as the new character.

Actress history

 * : Starr Manning (Spring 1998 to January 13, 2012)
 * General Hospital: Starr Manning (February 24, 2012 to March 20, 2013) and an as yet unknown character (May 13, 2013-)

Biography
Kristen was born on May 29, 1991 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Richard and Kathy Alderson. She has a younger brother, Eddie, who played on OLTL until its cancellation. Kristen has been playing the role of Starr Manning since the age of six, and was put on contract at the age of nine. She was at the time the youngest actor on daytime television with a contract role. Kristen experienced her first kiss on-screen, when Starr and her boyfriend Travis O'Connell kissed. In 2005, Kristen received a Soap Opera Digest Award for "Favorite Teen" for her work on OLTL. While acting, she attended a Catholic school in Pennsylvania through the seventh grade, but received on-set tutoring in the eighth grade. She then attended the Professional Performing Arts School in New York for high school. After OLTL's cancellation, Kristen moved to Los Angeles with her brother, where she continued her role of Starr on GH. Due to the OLTL reboot she will return to GH as a new character.

She is currently dating her General Hospital co-star Chad Duell

Official sites

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 * YouTube