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Cynthia Watros

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Cynthia Watros Biography

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  • Birth Place: Lake Orion, MI
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 09/02/1968, Virgo
  • Profession: Actor
A capable small-screen player who got her start with a four-year, Daytime Emmy-winning stint on Guiding Light, Watros tested the prime-time waters with a handful of TV guest appearances before signing on to the sitcom Titus in 2000 as the title character's girlfriend. Due to a salary dispute, she almost didn't get the part but refused to sell herself short, perhaps because she had grown up poor and had survived a crippling blood disease to boot. After Titus folded in 2002, the leggy blonde landed a role on The Drew Carey Show as the rotund comic's old high-school pal. Her biggest success came when she joined the cast of Lost as a mysterious plane-wrecked psychologist during the show's second season.
Cynthia Watros Fast Facts:
  • Raised in a trailer park in Lake Orion, MI, following her parents' divorce; both her father and brother are electrical engineers.
  • As a teenager, survived a three-year bout with immune thrombocytopenia purpura, a life-threatening blood disease.
  • Was one of two opening-night understudies for the 1993-94 off-Broadway production of John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone; Debra Messing was the other.
  • Clashed onscreen (and reportedly off as well) with Guiding Light costar Kim Zimmer.
  • Won a Daytime Emmy (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series) in 1998 for her role on Guiding Light.
    Cynthia Watros Relationships:
  • Bruce Watros - Father
  • Curtis Gilliland - Husband
  • Emma Rose Marie Gilliland - Daughter
  • Nancy Salvador - Mother
  • Sadie Anne Marie Gilliland - Daughter
  • Steven Watros - Brother

  • College:
  • Attended Macomb Community College, Macomb, MI; Boston University, Boston, MA (BFA)
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