| Emmy award-winning actress Cady McClain joined the cast of the long-running daytime drama, AS THE WORLD TURNS, as wealthy Rosanna Cabot on April 15, 2002. Having previously left Oakdale after exposing her half-sister Carly Tenney's adulterous plot to collect the $50 million trust fund Rosanna had set up for Carly's son, Rosanna has returned to town and set her sights on Carly's longtime admirer, Craig Montgomery.
Also familiar to daytime audiences as Dixie Martin on All My Children (1988-2002), McClain began her career at the age of nine with the well known commercial, "I Am Stuck on Band-Aids." Appearances on such television series as Cheers, St. Elsewhere and Lou Grant followed. Her early film credits include My Favorite Year and Pennies From Heaven.
McClain arrived in New York City at the age of 17 where she was cast as the lead in the television movie, A Father's Homcoming. On stage, McClain's credits include roles in Much Ado About Nothing at Lincoln Center, and The Comedy of Errors at the Hudson Theatre Guild.
McClain, who hails from Southern California, wrote, produced and co-directed the surrealist one-woman piece, Mona 7. She also spent a semester at New York's New School for Social Research and then was accepted to The School of Visual Arts as an illustration major. |
