Blair Cramer (Kassie DePaiva) Bio - One Life To Live

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Blair Cramer

KASSIE DEPAIVA

CHARACTER BIO

Fiery and driven, Blair is ruled by her emotions and characterized by her unwillingness to back down from whatever challenge she's facing. While she can often act first and ask questions later, Blair's huge capacity for love is unquestionable.

The Good

Survived traumatic upbringing in various foster homes.
Connected with her mother and extended family as an adult.
Managed to build herself a fortune thanks to some hard work and clever manipulations.

The Bad and the Ugly

Conned Asa Buchanan into marriage but was quickly kicked out because of her infidelity.
Conned Todd Manning into marriage.
Manipulated by Spencer Truman, who framed Todd for Margaret's murder.

Friends

Starr Manning: Daughter
Dorian Lord: Aunt

Foes

Tea Delgado: Enemy
Marty Saybrooke: Enemy

Love Interests

Todd Manning

ACTOR BIO

Kassie DePaiva joined the cast of One Life to Live as Blair Cramer 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.