Kristian Alfonso - wikipedia Kristian Alfonso This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. ( January 2015 ) Kristian Alfonso Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso Kristian - Joy Alfonso ( 1963 - 09 - 05 ) September 5, 1963 ( age 54 ) Brockton, Massachusetts, U.S. Occupation Actress Years active 1981 -- present Spouse ( s ) Simon Macauley ( 1987 -- 1991 ) 1 child Danny Daggenhurst ( 2001 -- present ) 1 child Website http://www.kristianonline.com/ Kristian - Joy Alfonso ( born September 5, 1963 ) is an American actress, former figure skater and fashion model. She is best known for playing Hope Williams Brady, which she has played since 1983 on the NBC dramatic serial Days of Our Lives. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early career 1.2 Return to Days of our Lives 1.3 Other credits 2 Personal life 3 Other 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Biography Early career She began her career as a figure skater and gold medal champion at the Junior Olympic Figure Skating Championships. At the age of 13, a tobogganing accident ended her skating career and Alfonso began modeling. By the time she was 15 she had appeared on the cover of over 30 magazines, including Vogue and Harper 's Bazaar. She was first seen on TV playing opposite Rock Hudson in the TV movie The Starmaker in 1981. Her career took off in April 1983 when she started playing Hope Williams on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. During that time, her character fell in love with, and married, Bo Brady ( Peter Reckell ). Alfonso left the show in April 1987 for a two - year stint on the night time soap opera Falcon Crest as Pilar Ortega for its last two seasons. She returned to Days briefly from April to July 1990 ; this return culminated in the entire town of Salem believing that Hope had died. In 1993 she starred alongside Dolph Lundgren in the film Joshua Tree ( 1993 film ) in which she played a cop abducted by an innocent convict on the run. Return to Days of Our Lives She returned to the show for a third time in May 1994 as `` Gina, '' an amnesiac who looked a lot like Hope. She ended up being Hope, but not before a drawn - out storyline involving evil Stefano DiMera ( Joseph Mascolo ) brainwashing Hope into believing she was Princess Gina Von Amberg. In 2015 Hope, a prominent detective in the Salem Police Department, was the one to finally kill the evil Stefano Dimera, now elderly and in a wheelchair, by shooting him in cold blood in his own study at the Dimera mansion. She, and Detective Raphael `` Rafe '' Hernandez hid his body in a condemned building. Stefano appeared several times as a ghost as the actor Joseph Mascolo had retired, until Mascolo 's death in late 2016. Hope 's decision to kill Stefano ( and the subsequent visitations ) would have repercussions that will weighed heavily on her conscience in the years to come. She also played in Season 6 of Friends in an episode titled `` The One That Could Have Been, Part 1 '' as Hope Brady from Days of Our Lives. Alfonso gained her start with the talent show TALENT AMERICA held in NYNY. From there she was picked up by a modeling agency in New York. She later was a frequent Judge for the competition. She was in her very early teens at this time and considered a face model for the agency. Career ups and downs lead her back to a more permanent position with Days of Our Lives, where she has recently re-signed for two more years. Other credits Alfonso 's other film and television credits include Army of One, aka Joshua Tree, MacGyver, Blindfold : Acts of Obsession, Full House, Burke 's Law, Murder, She Wrote, Melrose Place, Baywatch, Amazing Stories, Love Stories, and Who 's The Boss ?. Personal life Alfonso was married to Simon Macauley from 1987 to 1991. They have a son, Gino William ( born October 1990 ). She married Danny Daggenhurst on October 6, 2001. The couple have two children, Jack ( born July 18, 2002 ), and Spartan ( her stepson ). Other In November 2006, Kristian Alfonso created her own jewelry line called Hope Faith Miracles. She has appeared on QVC and runs her jewelry website, which contains all of her See also Bo Brady and Hope Williams Supercouple References ^ Jump up to : `` Official Kristian Alfonso Website ''. Official Kristian Alfonso Website. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Jump up ^ Army of One, AKA Joshua Tree, ( 1993 film ) on IMDb Jump up ^ `` MacGuyver : Unfinished Business '' on IMDb Jump up ^ `` MacGuyver : The Negotiator '' on IMDb Jump up ^ Full House : Star Search on IMDb Jump up ^ `` Full House : Half a Love Story '' on IMDb Jump up ^ `` Unfinished Business '' on IMDb Jump up ^ `` Amazing Stories : Remote Control Man '' on IMDb Jump up ^ `` Kristian Alfonso 411 ''. Soap Opera Digest. Archived from the original on 2013 - 12 - 16. External links Official website Kristian Alfonso on IMDb BNF : cb14056265b ( data ) ISNI : 0000 0000 0312 7083 SNAC : w6cg0m66 VIAF : 27270268 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kristian_Alfonso&oldid=822712381 '' Categories : Female models from Massachusetts Actresses from Massachusetts American film actresses American soap opera actresses American television actresses Living people People from Brockton, Massachusetts 1963 births Hidden categories : BLP articles lacking sources from January 2015 All BLP articles lacking sources Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from July 2010 Wikipedia articles needing clarification from July 2010 Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia تۆرکجه Deutsch فارسی Français 한국어 Italiano Nederlands Norsk Suomi Svenska 3 more Edit links This page was last edited on 28 January 2018, at 01 : 44. 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Question: who is the actress that plays hope on days of our lives
Answer: Kristian-Joy Alfonso