Sharon Case

Sharon Case (born February 9, 1971) is an American actress and former model.

At the age of 17, Case began working as a model, relocating briefly to Japan, before pursuing an acting career.

She is best known for her roles on daytime television soap operas, scoring parts in the serials General Hospital and As the World Turns during the early stages of her career.

Case was born on February 9, 1971, in Detroit, Michigan.

During her childhood, she was involved heavily in dancing, devoting herself to ballet and jazz.

When she was three, Case relocated to Chatsworth, California.

At the age of 17 in 1988, Case caught the eye of a scout while attending a modeling event, and was offered a modeling job in Japan.

She traveled to Japan for five months, before returning to Los Angeles.

She later took part in theater, garnering lead role credits in the musicals Grease, The Wizard and The Nutcracker.

In November 1989, Case scored her first television role playing Dawn Winthrop on the ABC Network soap opera General Hospital.

Case wanted to "perfect" her audition prior to screen testing as Dawn, who served as the long-lost daughter of the long-running character Monica Quartermaine (Leslie Charleson).

Speaking of the audition, Case stated: "I practiced night and day [...] It was a heavy scene in which Dawn learned that her boyfriend Ned (Kurt Robin McKinney) had once slept with her mother! I knew I had to do the best job [possible]".

She departed General Hospital the next year, after a guest appearance on another ABC series, the comedy drama Doogie Howser, M.D..

In 1991, Case appeared in various other television series, including Diplomatic Immunity, Beverly Hills, 90210, Parker Lewis Can't Lose and Cheers.

From November 1992 to 1993 Case stepped into her second soap opera role, as Debbie Simon on the CBS Network drama As the World Turns.

Case has stated that she loved the role, and wanted to stay on to explore more into the character of Debbie who was a "manic depressive", an issue that hadn't been covered on daytime television.

During this, she also appeared on the CBS crime drama Silk Stalkings as Bonnie Abagail.

In 1994, she stepped into the role of Sharon Newman on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, which she still plays.

In 1994, a year after departing from As the World Turns, she became a regular on the primetime soap opera Valley of the Dolls, which was based on the romantic novel of the same name.

In 1997, Case had a role in the HBO film Breast Men.

Previously, she turned down a larger role in the film due to being uncomfortable topless on-screen.

Instead, she accepted a smaller, clothed role.

Case, who is considered a leading actress in the series, won the 1999 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance.

In December 2001, Case became the first soap opera actress to be featured on the cover of FHM, a men's lifestyle magazine.

This issue featured multiple other daytime television actresses.

Case is active on social networking website Twitter.

In 2005, Case appeared in an independent film entitled Carpool Guy with The Young and the Restless co-star Lauralee Bell.

Also that year, she starred in the short film Wentworth.

The film was about a man named Wentworth who had to choose between the women of his dream, Emily, and the "perfect" woman in his dreams, "Dream" Emily, both played by Case.

It was directed by Steve Suettinger, and produced independently by students at the University of Southern California.

Produced by Roundhay Garden films and directed by Adam Kargman, it was filmed from May 14 to July 16, 2006.

In the film, Janie (Case) is being tricked by her therapist into believing she has repressed memories of sexual child abuse.

The film was met with critical acclaim from independent movie reviewers who found her performance "mesmerizing" and "stunning".

Oscar Award nominee Jesse Friedman heavily praised the film, and encouraged people to watch it.

She was married to businessman Sandy Corzine from April 2007 to November 2009, with the marriage ending in divorce.

In 2007, Case starred with Debra Hopkins in her second short film, Repressions, which ran for 24 minutes.

In 2009, Case appeared on an episode of the sex comedy web series Poor Paul which was created by former The Young and the Restless co-star Kevin Schmidt.

As of May 2019, Case was in a relationship with her The Young and the Restless co-star, Mark Grossman, who plays Adam Newman, one of the character's love interests on the soap.

Although Case's main goal was to become an actress, she turned her attention to modeling as a teenager.

She stated: "I thought modeling would be a good start in the business".