- Born
- Birth nameJean Paige Turco
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Paige Turco was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 17, 1965. When she was a year old her father passed away and her mother moved them to Springfield, Massachusetts. As a child she studied to become a ballerina. She performed as a soloist with the New England Dance Conservatory, The Amherst Ballet Theatre Company and the Western Massachusetts Ballet Company, but her dreams were shattered when an ankle injury terminated her career as a dancer at the age of 14. She was forced to re-evaluate her career decision and focused on drama and musical comedies instead. Paige graduated from the University of Connecticut with a degree in drama.
She landed her first soap opera part in 1987 in CBS's Guiding Light (1952), as a troubled teenager who is adopted by a wealthy woman. The following year she transferred to ABC's All My Children (1970), where she played Melanie Cortlant. In 1989 Paige left soaps and tried her luck on the big screen, starring in such films as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993), The November Conspiracy (2000) and Vibrations (1996) before landing a lead role as Gail Emory in Shaun Cassidy's controversial television series American Gothic (1995). The series was canceled after only one season. She met and fell in love with John Mese on the show and the couple got engaged shortly after it ended. She and Mese went on to work alongside each other in Dark Tides (1998) and R2PC: Road to Park City (2000) before the couple called off their engagement in 2001 and went their separate ways. Paige starred in many independent films, including Urbania (2000), Astoria (2000), Runaway Virus (2000) and The Pompatus of Love (1995) and had a few guest appearances in such television series as NYPD Blue (1993), Party of Five (1994), The Fugitive (2000) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) before landing a lead role in Wolfgang Petersen's and Shaun Cassidy's series The Agency (2001). Paige played Terri Lowell, a graphical technician for the OTS department and sometimes field agent. "The Agency" lasted two seasons before being canceled by CBS. Paige recently finished filming two new movies, The Empath (2002) and Rhinoceros Eyes (2003).
- IMDb mini biography by: Kerry (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
- SpouseJason O'Mara(September 19, 2003 - 2017) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenDavid O'Mara
- ParentsDavid Vincent Turco
- RelativesJoyce Jean Jodoin(Aunt or Uncle)
- Turco and her now-former husband Jason O'Mara had similar career changers in their early life. She trained to be a classical ballerina, then broke her foot at age 14 during a rehearsal, and her hopes of a dancing career ended while acting took off. O'Mara was an promising rugby player, also sidelined by injury. While recuperating, he tried out for a school play and got hooked.
The couple met while they were starring in The Agency (2001). They married in 2003 and have a son, David O'Mara (born 2004). In 2017, Turco and O'Mara filed for divorce. - She has one son name David O'Mara (born 2004) with her ex-husband Jason O'Mara.
- You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people. The other thing is that you may not want to tell the world everything you do in bed.
- Melanie was such a - I hate to use this word - token character. There's always a virgin or a good girl on the show. In fact, Lauren Holly [ex-Julie] was leaving just as I was coming in. I remember being so nervous because I had this scene where I had to dance with James Mitchell [a famed Broadway dancer], and I was a wreck. I thought 'Oh, my God, I'm going to step all over his feet.' I was a dancer, and he was somebody who I was starstruck by because of the dance world. But he was so wonderful to me. And he was really patient with me, too. When you first start on a show, it's a little crazy. But I have fond memories." - on her time on "All My Children
- I went through a period where I couldn't even go to the ballet and watch because it was so painful and I missed it.
- You can tell from how someone dances with you how he'll be in bed. He doesn't have to be a technically proficient dancer to be great in bed, but it helps. Sex is all about balance and sensitivity and being aware of where the other person's energy is. Great dancers are usually great lovers. Whether they're worth two cents as people is another story. I should make guys dance with me before they get any further.
- It was kind of wild because I lived with all of them. I used to ask my mom about my dad and she would say 'We didn't have enough time.' My mother and I are very close. When she misses me, she says, 'Oh, I'm watching the show, it's like you're with me.'
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