Linda Dano Biography
Linda Dano is an American actress, author, and businesswoman. She is best known for being a soap opera actress and is also a businesswoman and best-selling author.
Dano also co-hosted the talk show Attitudes on Lifetime and has had long-running clothing and home furnishings line with QVC, first partnering with the home shopping channel in 1993.
Linda Dano Real Name
Dano was born as Linda Rae
Linda Dano Age
Dano was born on May 12, 1943, in Long Beach, California, U.S.She is 75 years old as of 2019.
Linda Dano Father
The father to the American Actress is known as Ted Wildermuth. Her father died of a dangerous disease called Alzheimer’s, which intrigued her daughter Linda to join campaigns against the disease.
Linda Dano Husband
According to the reports we have, Linda’s love life has not been a paradise to her. She has been in three marriages. Linda was first married to Larry Peck from 1963 to 1967, She later got married to Salvatore Giordano from 1968 to 1974. Her last marriage was with Frank Attardi from 1982 to 2004.
Linda Dano Kids
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.
Linda Dano Net Worth
Dano is an American actress who has a net worth of $8 million dollars.
Linda Dano Books
She is the author of two books, Looking Great which she wrote and published in 1997 and Living Great in the year 1998.
Linda Dano Attitudes
Attitudes is an American television talk show on Lifetime that aired from 1985 to 1991. Hosted originally by Linda Dano and Nancy Glass, it was taped before a live studio audience at EUE Screen Gems Studios, 222 East 44th Street in New York City.
Linda Dano Alzheimer’s
The soap opera star cared for her father who suffered from the disease until his death in 1996. Now she wants to help others coping with loved ones stricken by Alzheimer’s. Dano joined the National Family Caregivers Association is launching a new consumer campaign designed to provide information, resources, and support to caregivers and their families. For several years Dano has worked with organizations to tackle medical conditions such as depression and Alzheimer’s disease.
Her father’s life was taken by the effects of Alzheimer’s and she would battle depression later after the double loss of her husband as well as her mother, Evelyn, a week-and-a-half afterward, with mother showing signs of dementia before her death. Dano is active in such groups as HeartShare, the National Osteoporosis Foundation, the National Alzheimer’s Association, and Support Partners, among others. Dano is also a patron of the Catholic Guardian Society of New York.
Linda Dano Hallmark
She wowed us for decades on NBC’s Another World as the flamboyant, but flawed (and also fantastic) Felicia Gallant, and then made her way through the ABC soaps as Rae Cummings. Now, Linda Dano is back on our small screens… and of course, it’s with a soap connection.
On The Chronicle Mysteries, Days of Our Lives veteran Alison Sweeney plays Alex McPherson, a novelist, and podcaster who takes on a cold case. At the Hallmark Channel’s recent semi-annual bash, Soap Hub caught up with Linda Dano, who shared the scoop on her new role on The Chronicle Mysteries, AW memories, and her time at ABC as Rae Cummings!
How are you enjoying tonight?
This party’s magnificent! Hallmark is treating me like I’m a star!
You are!
Thank you. I came home after doing the film and friends were asking me if I’d do another. I said if they ask, yes! Ali [Sweeney] called me at home and offered me the part. It all started last year when I called her and said I love Hallmark. It’s so ‘feel good.’ And I’m happy to see you on it.
A few months later, she called me and said, ‘I have a part for you.’ It’s in the last of her three films [for now] with this series. She asked if I’d come and play. I didn’t hesitate. I asked if they’d fly me to Vancouver where it filmed. They did! First-class!
What can you say about your role on The Chronicle Mysteries?
The woman I play and her husband created and operate a wine empire. I’m the matriarch. Everyone at Hallmark couldn’t have been nicer. I felt so at home, so welcome, which is important.
It’s going to be 20 years in June that AW went off the air.
Can you believe that?
Linda Dano Movies
- One life to live
- Another world
- Guiding Light
- As The World Turns
- Attitudes
- Port Charles
- The Montefuscos
Linda Dano Says the Time for Soaps is Now
Linda Dano Talks Hallmark’s The Chronicle Mysteries, Another World Reboot
Beloved soap star Linda Dano is teaming up with Alison Sweeney for her new Hallmark project The Chronicle Mysteries!
DivaGalsDaily editor-in-chief Delaina Dixon chatted with Dano, who starred in One Life to Live and Another World, about how she landed the role in the new Hallmark film.
She [Alison Sweeney] called me up and said ‘Listen, I’m producing, and I’m also the lead in these three movies, and I have a part for you in the third one.’ And I went, ‘Woah, Hallmark! Okay! I’ll do it. God bless you, Alison Sweeney!’
Dano plays the matriarch of a winery in the new film, and teased Delaina with a description of her character:
“She’s [Alison Sweeney] trying to uncover who killed someone. So they come and they interview me,” Dano says about her role in the film.
Would the soap veteran reprise her role as Felicia Gallant in an Another World reboot?
“I don’t know that I would do it. But it’d kinda be hard for me not to do it if they brought back Felicia. That kind of feels like I’d have to go, right?”
When asked if now is a good time for soaps, Dano replies, I think it’s always been time for soaps.”
I think that’s the absolute charm of Hallmark. It’s kind of like the soap world … You feel like you know these characters, you feel like they’re part of you — and I think that’s very important.”
Linda Dano Talks Hallmark’s The Chronicle Mysteries, Another World Reboot
Beloved soap star Linda Dano is teaming up with Alison Sweeney for her new Hallmark project The Chronicle Mysteries!
DivaGalsDaily editor-in-chief Delaina Dixon chatted with Dano, who starred in One Life to Live and Another World, about how she landed the role in the new Hallmark film.
She [Alison Sweeney] called me up and said ‘Listen, I’m producing, and I’m also the lead in these three movies, and I have a part for you in the third one.’ And I went, ‘Woah, Hallmark! Okay! I’ll do it. God bless you, Alison Sweeney!’
Dano plays the matriarch of a winery in the new film, and teased Delaina with a description of her character:
“She’s [Alison Sweeney] trying to uncover who killed someone. So they come and they interview me,” Dano says about her role in the film.
Would the soap veteran reprise her role as Felicia Gallant in an Another World reboot?
“I don’t know that I would do it. But it’d kinda be hard for me not to do it if they brought back Felicia. That kind of feels like I’d have to go, right?”
When asked if now is a good time for soaps, Dano replies, I think it’s always been time for soaps.”
I think that’s the absolute charm of Hallmark. It’s kind of like the soap world … You feel like you know these characters, you feel like they’re part of you — and I think that’s very important.”