Famous Stars on Santa Barbara

 As we all know, Santa Barbara had many talented actors/actresses on it's cast. Some of them are now big stars. Sometimes they started on Santa Barbara in a small part or they played a guest-role. And now they are movie-stars or play in very populair TV-series. 

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Leonardo DiCaprio is perhaps the most famous and wanted movie-star of this time. He played in many movies like Titanic, Romeo + Juliet, The Man In The Iron Mask and more. Recently he's working on The Beach. One of his first roles he played was Young Mason Capwell on Santa Barbara in 1988. We see Mason in a flashback as a young boy.

On the internet you can found maybe thousands of pages about Leonardo DiCaprio. Here are some links:

Look here for pictures and sounds of Leonardo on SB

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Kevin Sorbo is now very populair as Hercules in the TV-series: Hercules, The Legendary Yourneys. Before that he had a carreer as a model. In Santa Barbara he was seen in 1986 as a delivery-man/ Lars Stedewell, a small guest-part.

There are many websites about Hercules and also about Kevin Sorbo himself. I selected a few links for you:

 

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Robin Wright Penn was the first Kelly Capwell on Santa Barbara. After that her movie-carreer took off and she became a big star. She played in movies as Princess Bride and Forrest Gump. She also married the famous ex-husband of Madonna; Sean Penn.

Besides websites on movies she made, I also found two websites totally dedicated to Robin Wright. Here they are:

 

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Tamlyn Tomita was seen in Santa Barbara as Ming Li in 1988. Before Tamlyn played in SB she was seen as Kumiko in the movie The Karate Kid Part II. After SB she played in many famous TV-series and movies such as Burning Zone and Babylon5, but the most impressive role she played, IMHO, was in Hiroshima, Out Of The Ashes.

I found two websites that are totally dedicated to Tamlyn Tomita, a small one and a more complete one:

 

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Tawny Kitaen was the first Lisa DiNapoli on Santa Barbara in 1989. She played in several movies and TV-series but is best known now as Deianeira, the wife if Hercules in Hercules, The Legendary Yourneys. Like her co-star on Hercules, Kevin Sorbo (see above), Tawny also used to be a model.

Besides the info you find on the Hercules-sites, there are also two websites totaly about Tawny, one about tawny herself, the second about her role as Deianeira:

 

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Téa Leoni was the second one to play Lisa DiNapoli on Santa Barbara in 1989. After Santa Barbara she became a movie-star, known from movies like A League Of Their Own, Wyatt Earp and the big succes of 1998: Deep Impact. She also produced a movie; There's No Fish Food In Heaven.

There must be some websites about such a star and yes, there are. Here are two of them:

 

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