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Eden Riegel (born January 1, 1981 in Washington, DC) is an American actress.
From 2000 to 2005, she has played the role of Bianca Montgomery on the soap opera All My Children. In October 2000, Riegel's character became the only lesbian currently on the daytime serials when she came out to her mother on the program. She won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Female Newcomer in 2001.
Since then, Riegel has become a symbol in the gay community. Many former soap fans, including
Ellen DeGeneres, have expressed renewed interest in
All My Children since Bianca came out. In 2003, her story hit fever pitch when Bianca and her love interest, Lena Kundera (Olga Sosnovska) were scheduled to share the first lesbian kiss on American daytime television. In 2004, with Lena out of the picture, Bianca shared a kiss with close friend and confidante Maggie Stone (Elizabeth Hendrickson). She was awarded the first Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation award for Favorite OUT image of the year award in 2004.
During the baby swap storyline when Bianca's daughter was kidnaped and switched with the son of Babe Chandler (Alexa Havins) Riegel also played Bianca Montgomery on One Life to Live.
Before Riegel joined the show, she appeared in Les Misérables on Broadway, and attended Harvard University. While attending Harvard, she worked as a Congressional intern. Prior to joining the
AMC she had a small role on the soap opera As The World Turns as an AIDS patcient and played a minor character in the feature film American Pie. She also did voice acting work in the film The Prince of Egypt.
While working on
AMC she remained active in other acting work doing a small guest role on American Dreams and apearing in the New York stageplay
The Sex Lives of Superheros. She also apeared in talk shows like SoapTalk, Soap Center and The View. When she shared the first same sex kiss on daytime television she was interviewed by numerous news outlets including CNN.
She was nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards for "OutstandingYounger Actress in a Drama Series" in 2001, 2002 and 2004for her work on the soap. Her name has been submitted for nomination consideration for the 2005 Daytime Emmys. She also won two Soap Opera Digest Awards, in 2001 for "Outstanding Female Newcome" and in 2005 for "Outstanding Younger Lead Actress".
Both Eden Riegel and Elizabeth Hendrickson exited
All My Children on February 24th 2005 and have moved to Los Angeles to pursue other acting ventures. Riegel has suggested to Soap Opera Digest that she will likely make a brief return to the soap when her on screen mother Erica Kane (
Susan Lucci) and Jackson Montgomery (
Walt Willey) get married.
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