One Life to Live Todd and Blair "Love and Memories"

Kassie DePaiva joined the cast of One Life to Live as Blair Cramer (now Manning) in December 1993.

One Life to Live marked Ms. DePaiva's return to Daytime television; she had played good-girl Chelsea Reardon on Guiding Light from 1986 to 1991.

Born and raised in Kentucky with two older brothers and a younger sister, Ms. DePaiva worked at Nashville, TN's Opryland as a singer and, at the age of 18, debuted as a soloist at the legendary Grand Ole Opry, performing two songs. While working at Opryland, she realized that she wanted to entertain. Towards that end she enrolled in Indiana University and, later, at the University of California at Los Angeles to study theater. While attending UCLA she became a member of the four-part harmony band, Newport, which performed in the Los Angeles, San Diego and Las Vegas areas. Ms. DePaiva ultimately dropped out of college to take advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel with the USO on its Orient tour to Japan, Korea and Okinawa.

Shortly after her return to the United States, Ms. DePaiva sang back-up for soul singer Bobby Womack during two U.S. tours and a Great Britain tour. Not long afterwards she landed her first professional acting role, as Bobbie Jo in the feature film Evil Dead II.

Just before joining One Life to Live, Ms. DePaiva completed guest-star appearances on episodes of Melrose Place, Baywatch and Timetrax.

Ms. DePaiva has released three CDs Naked, No Regrets and I Want To Love You. You can learn more information at kassiedepaiva.com. Ms. DePaiva is married to former One Life to Live co-star James DePaiva (Max Holden), and gave birth to son James Quentin in 1997.

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Trevor St. John joined the cast of One Life to Live in May 2003, posing as Walker Laurence, who was later revealed to be Todd Manning.

Mr. St. John was born Spokane, WA and raised in nearby Orchard Prairie, WA. He attended Whitworth College on a jazz performance scholarship where he played the drums. While at college, he also performed in As You Like It, All My Sons, Judgement and Merry Wives of Windsor.

His first major acting role was opposite Glenn Close in the television movie Serving in Silence. His other television credits include guest starring roles on Murder She Wrote, Seaquest, Pacific Blue, Diagnosis Murder, Nash Bridges and Just Shoot Me. His film credits include Payback, Bio Dome, Crimson Tide and Higher Learning. He has also appeared in the independent films The King's Guard and Dog Town.

As a jazz percussionist, Mr. St. John has played with Marshall Royal (Count Bassie Orchestra), Slide Hampton and Bill Berry (Duke Ellington Orchestra) and Gene Harris.

In 2001, he started his own fitness company, Bioconstructs. He continues to run the company where he teaches biomechanics to fitness professionals nationwide.

Mr. St. John resides in New York with his family.

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But of course who can forget the original Todd Manning; Roger Howarth.

Roger Howarth was born (born September 13, 1968) in Westchester County, New York.[1] His father was involved in theater and wrote plays.[1] Exposed to the arts at an early age, Howarth performed in the play The Grand Duke at the age of seven. He was active in his high school drama department, and performed in numerous plays at school. He played soccer from the time he was a small child up until 18 and 19 years of age.[2] He took the opportunity to play in other countries with the Puma Shoes U.S. National Soccer Team. In an interview, when asked if he was a professional soccer player, Howarth answered, "No! Heavens no."[2] He explained how he had played soccer, from the time he was a little kid, all the way up to age 18/19 years.[2] He was on a team that played in Europe, Brazil, and other countries, but it was an amateur team, he "never got paid" to play, he cited.[2]

Howarth initially resisted acting as a profession, and studied political science at George Washington University. But after only one semester, he dropped out of college to join an intense acting program at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut.[1]

Roger Howarth iportrayed character Todd Manning on the daytime drama One Life to Live, which became an iconic fixture in the genre's medium, and earned Howarth a Daytime Emmy Award for the portrayal.[1]

In addition to his work on One Life to Live, Howarth has guest starred in television shows such as Prey and Dawson's Creek. He currently portrays the role of Paul Ryan on the daytime drama As the World Turns.

The Todd Storyline:

When Todd first appears on the show, in 1992, he is an arrogant, cruel fraternity brother who leads his gang of "brothers" to participate in the brutal rape of Marty Saybrooke at a party in May 1993. After being sentenced to prison for eight years, Todd develops a burning desire to seek revenge on the two women he holds responsible for his jail time, Nora Gannon (his attorney who threw the case when she discovered that Todd was guilty) and Marty. After escaping from prison, Todd causes more terror when he holds a knife to Nora, who is blind at the time, and threatens to rape her. Nora is able to escape the attack when Bo Buchanan arrives in time to save her, and Todd flees. In time, Todd's run from the law soon ends on the night of the annual Costume Ball at a place called Serenity Springs. Bo is able to corner Todd and Todd has no other choice but to surrender. In a bizarre twist of fate, Todd is given a pardon after saving the lives of Marty and Tina and Cord's two children, C.J. and Sarah. But Todd's trouble is only beginning.

After becoming a free man once again, Todd faces his next obstacle: A string of rapes in Llanview become a thorn in his side, as all suspicions are pointing to him. After doing some detective work on his own, Todd is able to find out that the true culprit is his old fraternity brother, Powell Lord III. After a showdown with Powell, Todd finally has a sense of the pain he caused Marty and sincerely apologizes to her for the rape. The next shockwave to hit Todd is the sudden death of his father, Peter Manning. It is a bittersweet goodbye to the man who abused him as a child, but upon his death, Todd learns something even more startling. It is in his mother's old letters that he learns that he was adopted, and that there is also a large sum of money for him. Schemers David Vickers and Dorian Lord discover that Todd Manning is really an heir to none other than Victor Lord, and is worth an estimated $30 million.