Adrianne León is an American actress, known for portraying Brook Lynn Ashton on General Hospital and Colleen Carlton on The Young and the Restless.
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Adrianne León was born in San Diego, California; she is of Ecuadorian and Puerto Rican descent and lived in Ecuador as a child. After moving to the US, León began modeling and performing. After completing the seventh grade, she was homeschooled by her mother and then rapidly advanced through high school. She is a member of the ASCAP and AFTRA.
León voiced over a Glamma Jammas commercial and was also in a public service announcement for Vons, a supermarket chain.
León was hired in 2002 to write songs alongside Rick Krizman for the soap opera General Hospital. In 2003, she performed two songs for the documentary Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina: "Everlasting Dream" and "She Heals You". She formed Caught Crimson with the help of Murray Yates, lead vocalist of the Canadian rock band Forty Foot Echo. León later recruited former Artension bassist Kevin Chown, former Alien Ant Farm guitarist Terry Corso, and former Forty Foot Echo drummer Rob Kurzretier. She provided vocals for a Glamma Jammas commercial song titled "Don't Get Me Started", written and produced by Kendall Marsh. She also sang "Favor Me" and "Falling In", both written and produced by Jody Whitesides. On October 4, 2003, Adrianne León performed at the California Avocado Festival and on August 23, 2003, she played at the Aloha Festival, where she opened for Dishwalla. Both festivals were held in Carpinteria, California.
In May 2004, León was cast as the feisty and rebellious teen Brook Lynn Ashton in the soap opera General Hospital. She portrayed the character as a talented punk rock singer and songwriter who constantly fights against her mother Lois Cerullo's pressure to become a rock star. Léon was named "Outstanding Performer of the Week" of September 13, 2004 by Soap Opera Weekly for her performance. The role earned her a Soap Opera Digest Award for "Outstanding Female Newcomer" as well as a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for "Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series" later in 2005.
She also guest-starred on the ABC prime-time sitcom Hot Properties as the young music VJ Courtney alongside Harry Hamlin, as his much younger fiancée. In early 2006, León took over the role of Colleen Carlton on The Young and the Restless.
She returned as her character Brook Lynn Ashton on General Hospital on May 21, 2010 and was written off the show in 2011. León frequently said on her social media in 2018-19 that she would love to return to General Hospital someday to reprise the role, before Amanda Setton debuted as Brook Lynn in November, 2019. She said the same thing at a fan event in August, 2019, three months before Setton's debut, and also said so to Soap Opera Digest in an article about the event that was published October 7, 2019. León has never publicly said whether GH Executive Producer Frank Valentini contacted her to invite her back to the show before he hired Setton, who worked for him at One Life to Live.