Louise Sorel

Louise Sorel is an actress who played Rayna Kapec in the third season episode . She filmed her scenes between Monday and Tuesday at Desilu Stage 9, Stage 10 and Paramount Stage 5.
Sorel was born in Los Angeles, as the daughter of producer Albert J. Cohen and actress Jeanne Sorel. She made her television acting debut in the 1963 episode of Route 66 entitled "Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea", playing the wife of her future Star Trek co-star William Shatner. (Series-regular Glenn Corbett also appeared in that episode.) After "Requiem", she would go on to work with Shatner on an episode of Shatner's series , the 1976 TV movie Perilous Voyage (which was actually filmed in 1968), and (1982).
However, she is best known for playing conniving characters on American daytime soap operas, most notably (as Augusta Lockridge from 1984 through 1986, again from 1989 through 1991) and (as Vivian Alamain from 1992 through 2000 and again from 2009 – 2011), winning a number of Soap Opera Digest Awards for her work on the latter. Other soaps she worked on include One Life to Live and Port Charles.
Sorel also made guest appearances on such shows as , , I Spy, Medical Center, Ironside, , , , , , Diff'rent Strokes, and . Sorel and Susan Oliver guest starred together in "The White Birch" episode of The Name of the Game. She and Jeff Corey co-starred together in "The Dead Man," which was the first story in the first episode of Night Gallery. She was also a regular on The Don Rickles Show in 1972 and Ladies' Man from 1980 through 1981 and had a recurring role on in 1982. Her film credits include (1971), (1974, co-starring Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban, and Jorge Cervera, Jr.), (1982) and (1984, starring Bruce Davison) and (1984, with Wendy Schaal and Christopher McDonald).
Outside acting, she has been involved with Friends of the Sea Lions and Celebrity Action Council. She has studied French at the Institut de Francais in Ville Franche-Sur-Mer. She had her Days of Our Lives dressing room painted with a mural that depicted Paris in the summertime.
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