Lisa Deanna Rinna (born July 11, 1963) is an American television host and actress. She is best known for her roles as Billie Reed on Days of our Lives, Taylor McBride on Melrose Place, and as the host of SoapNet's Soap Talk.

Career

Acting

At age 22, Rinna appeared in the 1985 John Parr "Naughty Naughty" music video as the passenger in Parr's car. Rinna later appeared as the girlfriend to Jason Bateman's character in several episodes of The Hogan Family in 1990. In 1992, she received national recognition when she first starred on NBC's Days of our Lives as Billie Reed. She departed in 1995, though reprised the role from 2002 to 2003. She later switched from daytime to primetime, portraying Taylor McBride on Aaron Spelling's Melrose Place from 1996 to 1998. Rinna has starred in two projects opposite husband Harry Hamlin, the teen crime-drama Veronica Mars, and the Lifetime movie Sex, Lies & Obsession. Her previous Lifetime movie, Another Woman's Husband, boasted one of the highest ratings for a movie on Lifetime since 1999. She has also appeared in Hannah Montana in the role of Mr. Dontzig's cousin Francesca. She also guest-starred on an episode of Movie Stars for the WB, the first ever on-screen appearance she shared opposite her husband. Rinna got her first role in the feature film Good Advice, starring Charlie Sheen and Jon Lovitz, and recently appeared in an episode of HBO's Entourage. Rinna recently announced that she would love to reprise her role of Taylor McBride on CW's revival Melrose Place, if given the offer.

In February 2009, Rinna starred in the Broadway production of Chicago, portraying the role of Roxie Hart, alongside her husband, who played the role of Billy Flynn. In 2011, Rinna guest starred on Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush as Brooke Diamond. Later that year, it was confirmed that Rinna would again reprise the role of Billie Reed on Days of our Lives. She reported to work in December, with her first scenes airing March 9, 2012. However, in August 2012, it was confirmed by Huffington Post that Rinna would once again leave the soap to develop a panel-focused talk show.

Hosting and reality television

In 2002, Rinna was named co-host of Soap Talk, the daily lifestyle show that airs on SOAPnet, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. In June 2006, SoapNet announced that it was canceling Soap Talk after four seasons due to low ratings.

In August 2007, Rinna replaced Joan Rivers as the host of TV Guide Network's red carpet coverage. Rinna has recently guest-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly.

Lisa Rinna hosts the TV makeover program Merge on Lifetime.

She competed in the second season of Dancing with the Stars and was eliminated in Round Seven based on audience voting, despite having higher marks from the judges than fellow celebrity dancer Jerry Rice. Lisa was also featured as a guest judge on the fourth episode of RuPaul's Drag Race.

In 2008, TV Guide reported that Rinna and Hamlin signed a deal to create a reality TV series based around their family life. The series is called Harry Loves Lisa and it premiered on TV Land on October 6, 2010.

In 2011, Rinna participated in Season 4 of Celebrity Apprentice. She was eliminated after being the project manager on the 2nd task, writing and performing a children's book.

Modeling

In 1998, Rinna, while six months pregnant, posed for a nude pictorial and cover shoot for the September issue of Playboy magazine. She posed again and was the cover model in May, 2009. Rinna explains she received instructions from Playboy photographer Deborah Anderson, explaining, "I do not want you long and sinewy and angular and muscular. I want you soft...This was really hard for me because being 45 years old and posing for Playboy, you want to amp it up." In 2012 to benefit the charity Dress for Success, she modeled an adult incontinence brief made by Depend under a tight fitting evening gown.

Business owner

Rinna owns a Belle Gray clothing boutique in Sherman Oaks, California.

Personal life

Rinna was born in Medford, Oregon, the daughter of Lois and Frank Rinna. She married actor Harry Hamlin in 1997. They have two daughters, Delilah Belle (born June 10, 1998) and Amelia Grey (born June 13, 2001). They have performed together in a number of television and film productions, including the commercial for Depend undergarments, as well as portraying a married couple on the first season of the television series Veronica Mars.

She has acknowledged having plastic surgery and using botox and juvéderm; although she remains fond of botox, she has said that using juvéderm was a mistake.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Captive Rage	Lucy Delacorte
1990	Monday Morning	Susan Pevensie
1990	'	Annie Derrick	4 episodes
1991	Lies Before Kisses	Adrianne Arness	TV movie
1991	Shades of LA	Holly	Episode: "Send Up the Clowns"
1991	Baywatch	Kelly	Episode: "Thin or Die"
1992	Night Sins/Days of our Lives	Billie Reed	TV movie
1992-1995, 2002-2003, 2012-present	Days of our Lives	Billie Reed(#1)	September 18, 1992-September 28, 1995; July 3, 2002-January 8, 2003; March 9, 2012-present
1993	Robot Wars	Annie
1994	Night Heat/Days of our lives	Billie Reed	TV movie
1995	Vanished	Marielle Delauney	TV movie
1996-1997	Melrose Place	Taylor McBride	66 episodes/recurring role
1997	Close to Danger	Jennifer Cole	TV movie
1998	House Rules	Cassiopa 'Cassie' Devine	Episode: "Pilot"
1998	Nick Fury: Agent of Shield	Contessa Valentina 'Val' de Allegro Fontaine	TV movie
2000	Another Woman's Husband	Laurel McArthur	TV movie
2000	Movie Stars	Amy Wells Hunter	Episode: "The Seduction of Reese Hardin"
2001	Oh, Baby	Michelle Grant	TV movie
2001	Sex, Lies & Obsession	Joanna Thomas	TV movie
2001	Good Advice	Veronica Simpson
2002	My Adventures in Television	Samantha	Episode: "The Chinese Baby"
2004	'	Holly	Episode: "YMCA"
2004	Veronica Mars	Lynn Echolls	Episode: "Return of the Kane" Episode: "An Echolls Family Christmas"
2005	Veronica Mars	Lynn Echolls	Episode: "Clash of the Tritons"
2007	Entourage	Donna Devaney	Episode: "Malibooty"
2008	Hannah Montana	Francesca	Episode: "Killing Me Softly with His Height"
2010	RuPaul's Drag Race		Episode: "The Snatch Game"
2010	Community	Mark's Mom	Episode: "The Art of Discourse"
2011	Big Time Rush	Brooke Diamond	Episode: "Big Time Moms"

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