Lisa Deanna Rinna (born July 11, 1963) is an American actress and television host. She is best known for her roles as Billie Reed on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives, Taylor McBride on Fox's television drama Melrose Place and as the host of Soapnet's talk show Soap Talk. Rinna was also a contestant on the fourth and sixth seasons of The Celebrity Apprentice. In 2014, she became a cast member on the fifth season of Bravo's reality television series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

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. In 2009, Rinna stated that she would love to reprise her role of Taylor McBride on CW's revival Melrose Place, if given the offer, however the series was cancelled after only one season.

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 aired 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. In addition to subsequently guest-hosting Live with Regis and Kelly, Rinna also hosted the TV makeover program Merge on Lifetime.

She competed in the second season of Dancing with the Stars with professional Louis van Amstel 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 had signed a deal to create a reality TV series based around their family life. The series, titled Harry Loves Lisa, premiered on TV Land on October 6, 2010 and ran for 6 episodes.

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. Rinna returned to the show in its sixth season as one of the "All-Stars" contestants. After being eliminated from that roster, she appeared on the May 13, 2013 episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with Lil Jon to talk about their time on the show.

In 2014, Rinna joined the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for the show's fifth season. Earlier in the same year, she had been one of the contestants in the progressive game show/talent competition Sing Your Face Off. (It was not known, as of the middle of August 2015, whether Rinna had formed any plans to do any singing as herself.)

Modeling

In 1998, Rinna, while six months pregnant, posed for a nude pictorial and cover shoot for the September issue of Playboy magazine. She later recounted the instructions given to her by Playboy photographer Deborah Anderson: "'I do not want you long and sinewy and angular and muscular. I want you soft...' This was really hard for me because being 35 years old and posing for Playboy, you want to amp it up."

In May 2009, she posed again for Playboy and was its cover model.

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, with husband Harry Hamlin, was the owner of the Belle Gray clothing boutique in Sherman Oaks, California. They closed the store in 2012 because both were busy with their acting careers and no longer had time to manage the store.

In April 2012, Lisa brought her collection to QVC as the Lisa Rinna Collection.

Personal life

Rinna was born in Newport Beach, California, US, the daughter of Lois and Frank Rinna. At age seven, Lisa moved to Medford, Oregon, when her father was transferred there for job-related reasons, and attended school there. She is of Italian, Portuguese, and English descent. She married actor Harry Hamlin in 1997. They have two daughters, Delilah Belle (b. 10 June 1998) and Amelia Gray (b. 13 June 2001). They have performed together in a number of television and film productions, including a 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 having silicone, botox and Juvderm injections; although she remains fond of botox, an Allergan, Plc (AGN:NYSE) from Dublin, Ireland product. She has said that using Juvderm was a mistake.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Captive Rage	Lucy Delacorte
1990	Monday Morning	Susan Pevensie
	'	Annie Derrick	4 episodes
1991	Lies Before Kisses	Adrianne Arness	TV movie
	Shades of L.A.	Holly	Episode: "Send Up the Clowns"
	Baywatch	Kelly	Episode: "Thin or Die"
1992	Night Sins/Days of Our Lives	Billie Reed	TV movie
1992-1995, 2002-2003, 2012-2013	Days of Our Lives		September 18, 1992 September 28, 1995; July 3, 2002 January 8, 2003; March 9, 2012 January 30, 2013
1993	Robot Wars	Annie
1994	Winter Heat/Days of Our Lives	Billie Reed	TV movie
1995	Vanished	Marielle Delauney
1996-1998	Melrose Place	Taylor McBride	66 episodes
1997	Close to Danger	Jennifer Cole	TV movie
1998	House Rules	Cassiopa 'Cassie' Devine	Episode: "Pilot"
	Nick Fury: Agent of Shield	Contessa Valentina 'Val' de Allegro Fontaine	TV movie
2000	Another Woman's Husband	Laurel McArthur
	Movie Stars	Amy Wells Hunter	Episode: "The Seduction of Reese Hardin"
2001	Oh, Baby	Michelle Grant	TV movie
	Sex, Lies & Obsession	Joanna Thomas
	Good Advice	Veronica Simpson
2002	My Adventures in Television	Samantha	Episode: "The Chinese Baby"
2004	'	Holly	Episode: "YMCA"
	Veronica Mars	Lynn Echolls	Episode: "Return of the Kane" Episode: "An Echolls Family Christmas"
2005			Episode: "Clash of the Tritons"
2006	Dancing with the Stars	Herself	Main contestant
2007	Tease	Herself
	Entourage	Donna Devaney	Episode: "Malibooty"
2008	Hannah Montana	Francesca	Episode: "Killing Me Softly with His Height"
2010	Community	Mark's Mom	Episode: "The Art of Discourse"
	Harry Loves Lisa	Herself	Main cast
	RuPaul's Drag Race	Herself	Episode: "The Snatch Game"
2011	Big Time Rush	Brooke Diamond	Episode: "Big Time Moms"
	The Celebrity Apprentice 4	Herself	Season 11
2013	All-Star Celebrity Apprentice		Season 13
2014	Sing Your Face Off	Herself	Season 1
2014present	The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills	Herself	Main cast (season 5-present)

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