Kelly Ripa

Biography

Kelly Maria Ripa is an American television host and actress born on October 2, 1970, to a labor union president and homemaker in Stratford, New Jersey. She's known for her 12-year stint on the ABC soap opera All My Children as Hayley Vaughan Santos, and later played Faith Fairfield on the sitcom Hope & Faith. Since 2001, she's co-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly, a role that has earned her recognition in media circles.