HollywoodPoker’s Eileen Davidson is Back in Genoa City
HollywoodPoker’s soap celebrity Eileen Davidson is back in Genoa City for a period, three-episode story arc, reprising the role of Ashley Abbott, which she started on The Young and the Restless back in 1982.
Davidson’s character visits her former gathering place, before Ashley Abbott made her way to the fame and glamorous Los Angeles fashion world in The Young and the Restless spin-off, The Bold and the Beautiful.
Davidson was cast on the long running soap in March 1982, beating out more than 100 candidates. As the original Ashley Abbott, she became an integral part of the show. After seven years of playing a front burner character, she left The Young and the Restless in 1989, which prompted the producers to continue featuring the character with a look-alike actress.
Following several appearances on primetime television, Davidson returned to daytime soap to assume the role of Kelly Capwell on Santa Barbara, before landing yet another signature character, Kristen Blake, on Days of Our Lives in 1993. Five years and a year-long vacation later, she came back to The Young and the Restless only to be released from the soap due to lack of storyline. She was last seen as Ashley in January 2007.
In a surprise move three months later, Davidson signed a three-year contract with sister soap The Bold and the Beautiful to once again portray her Young and the Restless character, Ashley Abbott, a role she continues to play at present.
For the duration of Davidson's absence on The Young and the Restless, Brenda Epperson Doumani took over the role from 1989 to 1996 but was replaced by Shari Shattuck until 1999.
Davidson started her career as a model in Mexico City and California, eventually adding commercials and print work in Europe. Her agent had recommended that she take acting classes to get work in commercials, but she took to acting so well that she was sent out to auditions for acting roles.
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