Linda Dano (born May 12, 1943) is an American actress, author and
businesswoman. She is well-known for her roles in daytime drama, in
particular Gretel Rae Cummings on One Life to Live and Felicia Gallant
on Another World. Dano was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award five
times, winning once in 1993 for her work on Another World. Dano also
co-hosted the talk show Attitudes on Lifetime and has had a
long-running clothing and home furnishings line with QVC, first
partnering with the home shopping channel in 1993.Dano was born Linda
Rae Wildermuth in Long Beach, California, to Evelyn (Delgado) and Ted
Wildermuth. Dano was married to advertising executive Frank Attardi
for over 20 years until his death in 2004. She has two stepchildren,
three step grandchildren, a niece and a nephew.In the mid to late
1970s Dano appeared in such television police and detective dramas as
Ironside, Police Woman, Harry O, Petrocelli, The Rockford Files (in 3
different roles), Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels and CHiPS, as well
as in Emergency!, Barney Miller and The Six Million Dollar Man (in 2
different roles). Dano was cast in the short-lived 1975 NBC comedy
series The Montefuscos, which was cancelled after three episodes were
broadcast and ultimately ran for seven. She had small roles in the
movies The Last Survivors (1975), The Nurse Killer (1975), The Night
That Panicked America (1975), and The Shadow of Chikara (1977).After
years of being on contract to 20th Century Fox alongside such actors
as Tom Selleck, Dano joined the ABC soap opera One Life to Live in the
role of Gretel Cummings from 1978 to 1980. From 1981 to 1982 she
played Cynthia Haines on As the World Turns.
businesswoman. She is well-known for her roles in daytime drama, in
particular Gretel Rae Cummings on One Life to Live and Felicia Gallant
on Another World. Dano was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award five
times, winning once in 1993 for her work on Another World. Dano also
co-hosted the talk show Attitudes on Lifetime and has had a
long-running clothing and home furnishings line with QVC, first
partnering with the home shopping channel in 1993.Dano was born Linda
Rae Wildermuth in Long Beach, California, to Evelyn (Delgado) and Ted
Wildermuth. Dano was married to advertising executive Frank Attardi
for over 20 years until his death in 2004. She has two stepchildren,
three step grandchildren, a niece and a nephew.In the mid to late
1970s Dano appeared in such television police and detective dramas as
Ironside, Police Woman, Harry O, Petrocelli, The Rockford Files (in 3
different roles), Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels and CHiPS, as well
as in Emergency!, Barney Miller and The Six Million Dollar Man (in 2
different roles). Dano was cast in the short-lived 1975 NBC comedy
series The Montefuscos, which was cancelled after three episodes were
broadcast and ultimately ran for seven. She had small roles in the
movies The Last Survivors (1975), The Nurse Killer (1975), The Night
That Panicked America (1975), and The Shadow of Chikara (1977).After
years of being on contract to 20th Century Fox alongside such actors
as Tom Selleck, Dano joined the ABC soap opera One Life to Live in the
role of Gretel Cummings from 1978 to 1980. From 1981 to 1982 she
played Cynthia Haines on As the World Turns.
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