Katherine Kelly Lang (born
July 25,
1961) is an
American actress, best known as
Brooke Logan on the American daytime
soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.
Career
Lang's first credit was a movie called
Skatetown, U.S.A. (
1979), with
Scott Baio,
Mark Hamill, and
Patrick Swayze. That was followed by guest roles in various television series such as the short-lived
The Powers of Matthew Star and
Masquerade and the longer-running
Riptide,
Happy Days,
The Fall Guy, and HBO's
1st & Ten.
In 1987, she was offered the part of middle-class
Brooke Logan on the soap opera
The Bold and the Beautiful (
B&B), and has been an integral part of the program ever since. Her love affair with
Ridge Forrester (played by
Ronn Moss) has been a key
story arc for over 20 years, and a love triangle among Brooke, Ridge, and
Taylor (
Hunter Tylo) stretched across an entire decade. The show's 5,000th episode included only four characters: Brooke, Ridge, Stephanie and Eric.
