
Eric Braeden
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Biography
Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German-born film and television actor. The internationally-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning and People’s Choice Award-winning film and television actor ERIC BRAEDEN is a television icon and arguably the most popular character in daytime history. For over 37 plus years, he has portrayed “Victor Newman” on the #1 rated daytime drama series The Young and the Restless, which has over 120,000,000 daily viewers around the world. The show is syndicated in over 30 foreign countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, the Middle East, New Zealand, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey.
Braeden recently wrote his critically acclaimed autobiography I’ll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America’s #1 Daytime Drama from HarperCollins, which appeared on the Publishers Weekly and Canadian bestseller list. Additionally, according to A.C. Nielsen, Braeden has one of the highest TVQ’s on television, and is one of the most recognized actors in the world. On July 20 2007, he was the recipient of a star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame and become the first German born actor since Marlene Dietrich to receive such an honor.
Known For

Gunsmoke

The Six Million Dollar Man

Diagnosis: Murder

Murder, She Wrote

Hawaii Five-O

The F.B.I.

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Mission: Impossible

E! True Hollywood Story

Wonder Woman

Charlie's Angels

CHiPs

Kojak

Cannon

McCloud

Banacek

Switch

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Mannix

How I Met Your Mother

The Magician

Bronk

Jericho

The Eddie Capra Mysteries

The Nanny

The Rookies

The Daytime Emmy Awards

The Virginian

Blue Light

Titanic

The Young and the Restless

Den of Thieves

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

Meet the Deedles

The Rat Patrol

Lucky Chances

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Run for Your Life
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