Biography

Ricky Paull Goldin was born in San Francisco, California, January 5, 1965, to Irish/British parents, He was raised on both sides of the Atlantic, and attended Fordham University.

Ricky's entertainment career took off at the age of 3, when he appeared in episodes of Romper Room, Alf, Kate & Allie, 21 Jump Street and by the age of 15 he had made it to Broadway, starring in On Golden Pond.

Ricky's the executive producer and director of Project Dad for Discovery Life, TLC, and Family networks (2016-2017). In addition to Project Dad, with his production company, DB Goldline, Ricky has created, executive produced, and sold shows to CBS, ABC, MTV, HGTV, TLC, Discovery Family, Discovery Life, ESPN, Viacom, The Style Network, Lifetime, and The Design Network. In 2015, Ricky was executive producer and director on Parents' Choice Award Winner, Chicken Soup for the Soul's Hidden Heroes. Also in 2015, Ricky's production team was awarded 2 Emmys and a Peabody for A Chef's Life.

Also an accomplished Broadway and television actor with a career which has spanned more than 3 decades, Ricky's received 5 Emmy nominations and picked up 4 Clio awards. Ricky has appeared in several daytime dramas, where he created characters audiences fell in love with. He was a series regular on Another World, Guiding Light, All My Children, and appeared on Daytime's #1 series The Young and the Restless, and Bold and the Beautiful. In 2014 Goldin appeared in (and was a producer) on Beacon Hill, a web series shot entirely on location in Boston. In 2010 Ricky and his production company set out to pay tribute to his late father, Dr. Paul Goldin, who was a hypnotist, and a master of the paranormal. Ricky Goldin created, hosted and executive produced Seeing VS Believing, which premiered on TLC in May 2010.

In live theater, Ricky performed in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance (in London and Dublin) and Grease. In which he played Danny Zuko in the Broadway revival of Grease alongside Brooke Shields and Rosie O'Donnell, for over 726 performances.

Ricky's has hosted everything from ESPN auto races in Dubai, to 5 Live from the red carpet Emmy events for Disney/ABC.

Shortly after Ricky ended his run on All My Children, Disney Family.com picked him to appear in their collaboration with Kellogg's for a new group of on-line advertising. CeReality is Disney Family's cutting edge mini-web series. It debuted September 2011. The first of the series, 'The Young and the Breakfast,' took an affectionate tongue-in-cheek poke at the soap opera genre.

After appearing in HGTV's Favorite Places, featuring his home in California, HGTV offered Ricky his own design series. Spontaneous Construction premiered in February 2013 on HGTV, and also aired on the DIY Network.

Ricky lives with Gretta Monahan and their son Kai Rei Goldin.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ricky Paull Goldin (grammar corrected by, and fixed by U.N.Owen)

You can drop me in the middle of the desert, naked, with no money or provisions, And I'll come out in a three piece suit, driving a Ferrari. I'm just lucky that way....

My seven years on Guiding Light (1952) have been a wonderful experience. Now it's time for a new adventure, a new chapter in my life. I will especially miss working with Beth Ehlers, since it doesn't get any better than "Gus and Harley".