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Martha Byrne
Birth nameMary Martha Byrne
BornNovember 23 1969 (1969--) (age 39)
Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Spouse(s)Michael McMahon
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Mary Martha Byrne (born December 23, 1969 in Ridgewood, New Jersey) is an American actress.

Career

Featured roles

Byrne began acting at a young age when she joined the cast of the Broadway musical Annie, where she played the role of July.

She was a featured actor on a number of prime time episodic television programs, including Kate and Allie, Murder, She Wrote, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Jake and the Fatman, and Hearts are Wild. Byrne also appeared in several television movies, with featured roles in When the Cradle Falls, Pink Lightning, and the HBO movie Anna to the Infinite Power, where she played the title role.

Daytime television

Byrne is perhaps best known for her role on the soap opera As the World Turns, portraying Lily Walsh Snyder. She initially assumed the role from Lucy Deakins in May 1985 and played Lily until October 1989, when she left the show and Heather Rattray assumed the role of Lily. Byrne returned in April 1993.

Byrne became part of a "supercouple" when then-head writer Douglas Marland paired Lily, a "poor little rich girl", with hard-luck farmhand Holden Snyder, played by Jon Hensley. The couple is still popular today.

In 1987, Byrne was involved in controversy when she taped Lily's first love scene months before her own 18th birthday. Lily lost her virginity to the character of Dusty Donovan; to add to the controversy, actor Brian Bloom, who was playing Dusty, was even younger than Byrne. This provoked controversy (as teenage characters are generally portrayed by actors who are a few years older, and therefore of consenting age).

From 2000 until 2003, Byrne assumed a double role when she played Lily's long-lost twin, Rose D'Angelo.

Music

Byrne is also a singer. She released her self-titled album Martha Byrne in 1996.

She has also released a second album, Woman Thing Music. Byrne again was the subject of controversy, as the sponsor of the second album was Philip Morris. The CD could only be purchased in conjunction with the purchase of cigarettes, or at one of the "Woman Music Thing" concerts that Philip Morris sponsored. Byrne eventually withdrew endorsement from the music label, as she did not want to be associated with a product that could encourage underage smoking.

In 2006, Byrne realized another album entitled, "The Other Side."

Awards and recognition

Byrne is an eight-time Daytime Emmy Award-nominee, winning Outstanding Younger Actress in 1987 and Outstanding Lead Actress in 2001.

Personal life

Byrne has been married since 1994 to Michael McMahon, a former undercover officer in the New York City Police Department.[1] They live in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey.

Their first child, Michael Terrence McMahon, was born on May 29, 1998. An episode of the TLC series A Baby Story chronicled her second pregnancy and the birth of her son, Maxwell Vincent McMahon, on September 3, 2002. Their third child and first daughter, Annmarie, was born June 12, 2006.

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As the World Turns

Creator(s) Irna Phillips
Senior cast member(s) Helen Wagner
Don Hastings
Eileen Fulton
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As the World Turns

Creator(s) Irna Phillips
Senior cast member(s) Helen Wagner
Don Hastings
Eileen Fulton
No. of episodes 13,166 (as of October 12, 2007)
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Annie
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Music Charles Strouse
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Based upon Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie
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Kate & Allie was a television situation comedy shown on CBS from March 19, 1984 to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS in March 1984 as a midseason replacement series.
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Parker Lewis Can't Lose is an early 1990s comedy television series produced by Columbia Pictures Television that was strongly influenced by the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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Jake and the Fatman was a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor Jason Lochinvar "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. is a spin-off of this series.
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soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap.
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As the World Turns

Creator(s) Irna Phillips
Senior cast member(s) Helen Wagner
Don Hastings
Eileen Fulton
No. of episodes 13,166 (as of October 12, 2007)
Production
Executive producer(s) Christopher Goutman
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As the World Turns character

Lily Snyder
Played by Martha Byrne
Duration 1985-
Date of birth August 19, 1969
Marital status married (Holden Snyder)
Occupation Co-owner of WOAK-TV
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Lucy Deakins (born in 1971) is an American actress.

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Lucy Deakins graduated from Stuyvesant High School and enrolled in Harvard University in 1988. She graduated in 1994 with a degree in comparative religion.
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Heather Rattray

Born March 25 1965 (1965--) (age 42)
Moline, Illinois, U.S.A.

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supercouple (or power couple) is a term used to describe a popular or financially-wealthy pairing that captivates and intrigues its observers beyond normal expectations, applying primarily to soap opera, prime time, film, and celebrity.
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Douglas Marland (born Marland Messner, May 5, 1935 - March 6, 1993) was an American writer of soap operas. Marland wrote for a number of soap operas, creating some of the best known characters on daytime, including The Quartermaines, Bobbie Spencer, Luke Spencer on General
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Holden Snyder is a fictional character on the American soap opera As The World Turns. He is currently being played by actor Jon Hensley, who has played him from October 1985 to January 1989, 10/1989-07/1995 & 01/1997-present.
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Jon Hensely

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Browns Mills, New Jersey, U.S.
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