Most Recent Role: Emily Stewart on As The World Turns
Alias Name(s): Kelley Menighan, Kelly Menighan
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Glenview, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 2-15-1967
Birth Name: Kelley Menighan
Alias Name(s): Kelley Menighan, Kelly Menighan
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Glenview, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 2-15-1967
Birth Name: Kelley Menighan
Kelley, who plays savvy businesswoman Emily Stewart, is a graduate of Southern Methodist University where she majored in theater and English and minored in art history. She also studied dance at the Jane Perry Dance Studio in Los Angles and acting with private coaches. Her training also includes working for producers Michael and Melissa Trikilis, from whom she gained valuable knowledge about...
Most Recent Appearance
Ep. #13269
Friday 16 May 2008 on CBS
Alison gets her test results and learns she passed because of him. Emily distances herself from Casey after what happened in New York and says that it can never happen again and then fires him and says it's for the best. Lily tells Holden that she wants her marriage back. Alison is told by one...
News Headlines
- external: 50 Years of Turning 2006-03-21
- external: As Emily's World Turns 2005-08-26
- external: Exclusive Red Carpet Video Interviews 2005-05-24
Kelley is a spokesperson for the "March of Dimes" charitable organization, a cause that is close to her heart.
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Kelley and husband Jon consider co-stars Martha Byrne (Lily) and Michael Park (Jack) among their close friends.
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Kelley and Jon's third child, Georgia Grace, is nicknamed Gigi after Kelley's maternal grandmother.
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Kelley booked the church for her wedding one week after her first kiss with castmate Jon Hensley.
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Kelley's regional theatre credits include
"They're Playing Our Song," "Picnic," "As You Like It," "Godspell," "Bus Stop," "Crimes of the Heart" and "The Taming of the Shrew." (edit)
"They're Playing Our Song," "Picnic," "As You Like It," "Godspell," "Bus Stop," "Crimes of the Heart" and "The Taming of the Shrew." (edit)
Kelley Menighan Hensley: (on working with Marie Masters who plays Dr. Susan Stewart) One of my favorite things at work is to be with Marie and have any kind of scene with her, because I feel like she brings out the absolute best in me. It's like being in an acting class and you make that breakthrough about something for the first time. Every time I'm with her I feel like that. And I liked us with Jessie (Dunphy, ex-Alison), too.
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Kelley Menighan Hensley: (on her legacy) I don't want to leave this Earth with a legacy of, 'She did a soap opera for 20 years, and she was a really good mom.'...I need to contribute something more.
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Kelley Menighan Hensley: (on life in L.A) I would never succumb to going out to lunch with half of the slimeballs in that town. People don't think that [casting couch] stuff happens, but it happens every day. I was lucky I didn't...succumb to that.
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Kelley Menighan Hensley: (on giving up a career in production)
I would probably be a millionaire by now. I look back and go, 'What if I did that?' But I wouldn't have my family. I wouldn't have my husband. Nothing is worth that. Regret is not in my vocabulary because that means looking back. You can only look ahead. (edit)
I would probably be a millionaire by now. I look back and go, 'What if I did that?' But I wouldn't have my family. I wouldn't have my husband. Nothing is worth that. Regret is not in my vocabulary because that means looking back. You can only look ahead. (edit)
Other Appearances
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As The World Turns
Emily Stewart |
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The Young and the Restless
Ep. #8606 Emily Stewart |
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