KAYE, Thorsten 1966–

PERSONAL

Original name, Thorsten Ernst Kieselbach; born February 22, 1966, in London, England (some sources cite Mainz, West Germany [now Germany]); immigrated to the United States, 1985; father, an auto industry worker; children: (with Susan Haskell, an actress) McKenna. Education: U.S. International University, B.A. (fine arts); Wayne State University, M.A. (theatre and theatre history). Avocational Interests: Literature, music, riding American motorcycles, watching hockey and football.

Career: Actor. Also worked as a stunt performer. Hilberry Repertory Theatre Company, Detroit, MI, member of company, 1991–94; teacher of acting workshops. Also worked as a physical education teacher, rugby player, runner, decathlete, and carpenter.

Awards, Honors: Soap Opera Digest Award nomination, outstanding male newcomer, 1997, for One Life to Live; Soap Opera Digest Award nomination, outstanding hero, 2001, and Daytime Emmy Award nomination, outstanding lead actor in a drama series, 2003, both for Port Charles.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Patrick Thornhart, One Life to Live, ABC, 1995–1997.

Dr. Ian Thornhart, Port Charles (also known as Port Charles: Fate, Port Charles: Miracles Happen, Port Charles: Naked Eyes, Port Charles: Secrets, Port Charles: Superstitions, Port Charles: Tainted Love, Port Charles: Tempted, Port Charles: Time in a Bottle, and Port Charles: Torn ), ABC, 2000–2003.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Donor, 1990.

Airport agent, Deadly Desire, USA Network, 1991.

Runaway Father, 1991.

Joey Highsmith as an adult, The Prophet's Game, Cinemax, 1999.

Dr. Nick Harris, Shark Attack 2 (also known as Shark II ), USA Network, 2000.

Jasper, The Silencers, PM Entertainment Group, 1996.

Television Appearances; Awards Presentations:

Presenter, The 23rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, CBS, 1996.

The 12th Annual Soap Opera Awards, NBC, 1996.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Ralph Hackett, "Asylum," Sliders, Sci–Fi Channel, 1998.

Also appeared in Air America, syndicated; and Law & Order, NBC.

Television Appearances; Other:

Jury foreperson, Nothing Lasts Forever (miniseries; also known as Sidney Sheldon's Nothing Lasts Forever ), CBS, 1995.

Isadore Rechelko (some sources cite Isadore Rechenko), Falcone (pilot), CBS, 2000.

Film Appearances:

Deadly Desire, Paramount, 1991.

Writer's Block, Skylark Films, 1991.

Film Work:

Stunt performer, The Bone Collector, Universal, 1999.

Stage Appearances:

Feraillon, A Flea in Her Ear, Hilberry Theatre, Detroit, MI, 1991.

Marc Antony, Julius Caesar, Hilberry Theatre, 1991.

Bazarov, Nothing Sacred, Hilberry Theatre, 1992.

Billy, The Real Thing, Hilberry Theatre, 1992.

Major Sergius, Arms and the Man, Hilberry Theatre, 1992.

Bensinger, The Front Page, Hilberry Theatre, 1993.

Brick, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hilberry Theatre, 1993.

Christian, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hilberry Theatre, 1993.

Eilert Loevborg, Hedda Gabler, Hilberry Theatre, 1993.

Title role, Macbeth, Hilberry Theatre, 1993.

Dogberry, Much Ado about Nothing, Hilberry Theatre, 1994.

Appeared in Love for Love, Tartuffe, and The Winter's Tale, all London productions; appeared in other productions, including Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, and Twelfth Night. Appeared as the Wicked Witch of the West, c. 1983.

RECORDINGS

Audio Books:

Narrator, From Timber Ridge to Daymer Gardens: A Journey in Words, 1999.

WRITINGS

Poetry:

(With Dorothy Bridges and Jesse Wilder) From Timber Ridge to Daymer Gardens: A Journey in Words, 1998.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Soap Opera, December 5, 1995.

Soap Opera Digest, July 30, 1996; February 13, 2001.

Soap Opera Weekly, May 28, 1996.

Soaps in Depth, February 6, 2001; January 7, 2003; July 22, 2003.

Electronic:

Thorsten Kaye Home Page, http://www.thorstenkaye.com, September 17, 2003.