Linda Dano

Dr. Gretel "Rae" Cummings

	Linda Dano Birth name: Linda Rae Wildermuth Date of birth and location: May 12, 1943 Los Angeles, California

Dr. Rae Cummings on the ABC Television Network’s "One Life to Live"

Linda Dano is an accomplished actress, entrepreneur, author, former talk show host, fashion advisor and designer. For 17 years, Dano played the character of Felicia Gallant on Another World and won the 1993 Outstanding Lead Actress Emmy Award for her outstanding performance. The ABC network picked Dano up in June, 1999 to reprise the role of Gretel "Rae" Cummings, and shortly after, appeared on all four of ABC daytime soaps, including One Life to Live, General Hospital, All My Children and Port Charles. Her character's home-base remains on One Life to Live.

Off the set, Linda has co-authored the books, Looking Great...It Doesn't Have To Hurt, released in 1997, and Living Great, released in 1998. Many fans may also remember her from the show "Attitudes", which she co-hosted for six years on the Lifetime Television Network. She has also appeared on many national talk shows, including The Rosie O'Donnell Show and The View.

For over ten years, Linda Dano has also owned and operated Strictly Personal, a fashion consulting firm located in New York. On the QVC network, Linda has also created her own line of fashion accessories which are for the cost-conscious buyer. Her fashion line is also available through the QVC online service which is respectively named iQVC.

Dano and her husband, Frank Attardi, a retired advertising executive, live in Connecticut in a restored home dating back to 1730.

Related websites:

• The Official Linda Dano Web site
  A well-organized and professional Web site featuring the latest news, fashion and style tips, awards and charity events, soap talk and contact information.

Filmography:

• Somewhere in the City (1998) - Television Producer

• When the Vows Break (1995) (TV) - as "Helene"

• Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss (1993) (TV) : as "Sandra Drake"

• Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (1986) (TV) - as "Margot Delefont"

• "Another World" (1964) -(TV Series) - as "Felicia Gallant" from 1982-1999

• "As the World Turns" (1956) (TV Series) -  as "Cynthia Haines" from 1981-1982.

• Shadow of Chikara, The (1978)  - as "Rosalie Cutter"

• "Montefuscos, The" (1975) (TV Series) - as "Angela Montefusco Cooney"

• Night That Panicked America, The (1975) (TV)  as the "secretary"

• Nurse Killer, The (1975) (TV) - as "Kamala"

• Last Survivors, The (1975) (TV) - as "Linda Collison"

• Hello, Dolly! (1969) (uncredited)

• Boston Strangler, The (1968) (uncredited)

• Star! (1968) (uncredited)

• "One Life to Live" (1968) (TV Series) as "Gretel Rae Cummings" (1978-1980, 1999-present)

• Tony Rome (1967) (uncredited)

Notable TV guest appearances:

• "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993) playing "Dr. "Miano"" in episode: "Valentine's Day" (episode # 5.16) 2/14/1997

• "Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The" (1977) playing "Josette" in episode: "Voodoo Doll (Part 2)" (episode # 2.18) 2/19/1978

• "Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The" (1977) playing "Josette" in episode: "Voodoo Doll (Part 1)" (episode # 2.17) 2/12/1978

• "CHiPs" (1977) playing "Eloise" in episode: "Hitch-Hiking Hitch" (episode # 1.16) 2/9/1978

• "Barney Miller" (1975) playing "Leslie Dornan" in episode: "Rape" (episode # 4.15) 1/26/1978

• "Rafferty" (1977) in episode: "Walking Wounded" 11/14/1977

• "Charlie's Angels" (1976) playing "Joy" in episode: "Angels on the Air" (episode # 2.10) 11/9/1977

• "Starsky and Hutch" (1975) playing "Janet Mayer" in episode: "Crying Child, The" (episode # 3.6) 10/22/1977

• "Rockford Files, The" (1974) playing "Gwen Molinaro" in episode: "Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Waterbury Will Bury You" (episode # 3.13) 1/14/1977

• "Rockford Files, The" (1974) playing "Marie" in episode: "In Hazard" (episode # 2.18) 2/6/1976

• "Emergency!" (1972) in episode: "Above and Beyond ... Nearly" (episode # 5.20) 1/31/1976

• "Matt Helm" (1975) playing "Nurse" in episode: "Panic" (episode # 1.12) 12/27/1975

• "Harry O" (1974) playing "Barbara Milland" in episode: "Double Jeopardy" (episode # 1.19) 2/13/1975

• "Rockford Files, The" (1974) playing "Ellen Murdock" in episode: "Aura Lee, Farewell" (episode # 1.15) 1/3/1975

• "Emergency!" (1972) playing "Lora Gibson" in episode: "Firehouse Four, The" (episode # 4.11) 11/30/1974

• "Peyton Place" (1964)

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Copyright by Katherine Thurston, About One Life to Live Fans Guide, June, 2001.

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