Peter Reckell
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Peter Paul Reckell is an American actor. He is best known for playing Bo Brady
, a role he originated in 1983 on the NBC drama Days of our Lives
.
Reckell has played Bo Brady
on Days of our Lives
from 1983 to 1987, 1990 to 1992, and from 1995 to the present. Other notable credits include Eric Hollister on As the World Turns
(1980–1982) and Johnny Rourke on Knots Landing
(1988–1989).
, but grew up on a farm in Michigan
. The second oldest of six children, he has two brothers and three sisters. While in junior high school, Reckell built theater sets and performed in the chorus, and eventually became a theater technical director. He went on to appear in numerous plays throughout high school.
Upon graduation, Reckell attended the prestigious Boston Conservatory
, where he received a bachelor of fine arts
degree in theater with a minor in music and dance.
His feature film credits include Rustam Ibraguimbekov's 'Broken Bridges," which was filmed in Russia.
In 2010 Reckell joined the cast of the Emmy Award winning web soap series Venice: The Series
as Richard McAndrews. This venture soon became a family affair with wife Kelly Moneymaker
coming on board in 2011 to coordinate music for the highly anticipated third season of the show.
On May 14, 2009, twenty-six years since his debut on Days of our Lives
, Reckell was nominated for his first Daytime Emmy Award
for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
have a daughter, Loden Sloan Reckell, born November 2007.
Reckell enjoys practicing yoga, martial arts, swimming, horseback riding and mountain biking.
Soap Opera Digest Awards
Other
Bo Brady
Beauregard Aurelius "Bo" Brady is a fictional character on the NBC Soap Opera, Days of our Lives, the youngest of the series' Brady family. Created under head-writer Margaret DePreist, the role was originated by actor Peter Reckell on May 2, 1983. Robert Kelker-Kelly briefly stepped into the role...
, a role he originated in 1983 on the NBC drama Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
.
Reckell has played Bo Brady
Bo Brady
Beauregard Aurelius "Bo" Brady is a fictional character on the NBC Soap Opera, Days of our Lives, the youngest of the series' Brady family. Created under head-writer Margaret DePreist, the role was originated by actor Peter Reckell on May 2, 1983. Robert Kelker-Kelly briefly stepped into the role...
on Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
from 1983 to 1987, 1990 to 1992, and from 1995 to the present. Other notable credits include Eric Hollister on As the World Turns
As the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
(1980–1982) and Johnny Rourke on Knots Landing
Knots Landing
Knots Landing is an American primetime television soap opera that aired from December 27, 1979 to May 13, 1993 on CBS. Set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles in California, the show centered on the lives of four married couples living in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle...
(1988–1989).
Early years
Reckell was born in Elkhart, IndianaElkhart, Indiana
Elkhart is a city in Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. The city is located east of South Bend, northwest of Fort Wayne, east of Chicago, and north of Indianapolis...
, but grew up on a farm in Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
. The second oldest of six children, he has two brothers and three sisters. While in junior high school, Reckell built theater sets and performed in the chorus, and eventually became a theater technical director. He went on to appear in numerous plays throughout high school.
Upon graduation, Reckell attended the prestigious Boston Conservatory
Boston Conservatory
The Boston Conservatory is a performing arts conservatory located in the Fenway-Kenmore region of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in music, dance and musical theater...
, where he received a bachelor of fine arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts
In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...
degree in theater with a minor in music and dance.
Career
Reckell made his network-television debut as Eric Hollister on As the World Turns. He then played Bo on Days of our Lives from 1983–87 and later from 1990-91. He returned to the role of the rugged cop for the third time in August 1995. During part of his absence from Days, Reckell appeared in the recurring role of Johnny Rourke on the primetime series Knots Landing. Among Reckell's stage credits are 'Moonchildren', 'The Fantasticks', 'Pirates of Penzance', 'Jesus Christ Superstar', 'Guys and Dolls', 'Love Letters' and 'Death Trap'.His feature film credits include Rustam Ibraguimbekov's 'Broken Bridges," which was filmed in Russia.
In 2010 Reckell joined the cast of the Emmy Award winning web soap series Venice: The Series
Venice: The Series
Venice: The Series is a web series co-produced by and starring American actress Crystal Chappell, and is inspired in part by the Otalia storyline on the daytime drama Guiding Light....
as Richard McAndrews. This venture soon became a family affair with wife Kelly Moneymaker
Kelly Moneymaker
Kelly Susan Moneymaker is a popular music singer, who is most noted for replacing Gioia Bruno in the music group Exposé.Moneymaker was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska...
coming on board in 2011 to coordinate music for the highly anticipated third season of the show.
On May 14, 2009, twenty-six years since his debut on Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
, Reckell was nominated for his first Daytime Emmy Award
Daytime Emmy Award
The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming...
for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Personal life
Reckell and his wife singer Kelly MoneymakerKelly Moneymaker
Kelly Susan Moneymaker is a popular music singer, who is most noted for replacing Gioia Bruno in the music group Exposé.Moneymaker was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska...
have a daughter, Loden Sloan Reckell, born November 2007.
Reckell enjoys practicing yoga, martial arts, swimming, horseback riding and mountain biking.
Filmography
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
| 2004 | Broken Bridges | Jeff | |
| 2009 | Street Dreams Street Dreams (film) Street Dreams is an American film about Derrick Cabrera who has a dream of being sponsored and one day going pro. He is an up and coming skater from Chicago with all the talent but has the world against him. Parents, friends and schoolmates can't understand how Derrick has so much passion for... |
Dan Reynolds | |
| Television | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1980–1982 | As the World Turns As the World Turns As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light... |
Eric Hollister | |
| 1982 | The Facts of Life The Facts of Life (TV series) The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979 to May 7, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focused on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, a prestigious... |
Alan Cooke | Episode: The Affair |
| 1983–present | Days of our Lives Days of our Lives Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around... |
Bo Brady Bo Brady Beauregard Aurelius "Bo" Brady is a fictional character on the NBC Soap Opera, Days of our Lives, the youngest of the series' Brady family. Created under head-writer Margaret DePreist, the role was originated by actor Peter Reckell on May 2, 1983. Robert Kelker-Kelly briefly stepped into the role... |
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| 1988 | Shades of Love: Moonlight Flight | Tommy Rivers | TV-Movie Television movie A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to... |
| 1988–1989 | Knots Landing Knots Landing Knots Landing is an American primetime television soap opera that aired from December 27, 1979 to May 13, 1993 on CBS. Set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles in California, the show centered on the lives of four married couples living in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle... |
Johnny Rourke | 20 episodes |
| 1991 | Locked Up: A Mother's Rage | Danny | TV-Movie Television movie A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to... |
| 1992 | Days of our Lives: One Stormy Night | Bo Brady Bo Brady Beauregard Aurelius "Bo" Brady is a fictional character on the NBC Soap Opera, Days of our Lives, the youngest of the series' Brady family. Created under head-writer Margaret DePreist, the role was originated by actor Peter Reckell on May 2, 1983. Robert Kelker-Kelly briefly stepped into the role... |
NBC NBC The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago... Television special Television special A television special is a television program which interrupts or temporarily replaces programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. Sometimes, however, the term is given to a telecast of a theatrical film, such as The Wizard of Oz or The Ten Commandments, which is not part of a regular... |
| 1993 | Baywatch Baywatch Baywatch is an American action drama series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, starring David Hasselhoff. The show ran in its original title and format from 1989 to 1999, sans the 1990-1991 season, of which it was not in production... |
Jordan Stewart | Episode: Tentacles (2) |
| 1995 | Women of the House Women of the House Women of the House is an American situation comedy television series. It is a spin-off of Designing Women and stars Delta Burke, who had reconciled with producers after a bitter, highly publicized, off-screen battle.- Premise :... |
Steve Briston | Episode: North to Alaska |
| 2000 | Days of our Lives' 35th Anniversary | Bo Brady Bo Brady Beauregard Aurelius "Bo" Brady is a fictional character on the NBC Soap Opera, Days of our Lives, the youngest of the series' Brady family. Created under head-writer Margaret DePreist, the role was originated by actor Peter Reckell on May 2, 1983. Robert Kelker-Kelly briefly stepped into the role... |
NBC NBC The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago... Television special Television special A television special is a television program which interrupts or temporarily replaces programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. Sometimes, however, the term is given to a telecast of a theatrical film, such as The Wizard of Oz or The Ten Commandments, which is not part of a regular... |
| 2001 | Sheena Sheena (TV series) Sheena is an American action-adventure/fantasy television series which was produced for first-run syndication from 2000 to 2002.Based upon the comic book character Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, which previously spawned a popular 1950s TV series of the same title, the 2000s series updated the... |
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| Webseries | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2010-present | Venice: The Series Venice: The Series Venice: The Series is a web series co-produced by and starring American actress Crystal Chappell, and is inspired in part by the Otalia storyline on the daytime drama Guiding Light.... |
Richard | |
Awards and nominations
Daytime Emmy Awards- 2009: Nominated, "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" - Days of our Lives
Soap Opera Digest Awards
Soap Opera Digest Awards
The Soap Opera Digest Awards were an awards show held by the daytime television magazine Soap Opera Digest. The awards were founded in 1984 to replace the less-lavish Soapy Award; those awards shows had run since 1977. The Soap Opera Digest Awards are meant to promote excellence in the soap opera...
- 1984: Won, "Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Soap Opera" - Days of our Lives
- 1985: Won, "Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Soap Opera" - Days of our Lives
- 1986: Nominated, "Favorite Daytime Super Couple on a Daytime Serial" - Days of our Lives (shared w/Kristian AlfonsoKristian AlfonsoKristian-Joy Alfonso is a long-time American dramatic actress, former figure skater and fashion model. She is best known for playing Hope Williams Brady, which she has played since 1983 on the long-running NBC dramatic serial Days of our Lives.- Early career :She began her career as a figure...
) - 1986: Won, "Outstanding Young Leading Actor in a Daytime Serial" - Days of our Lives
- 1996: Won, "Hottest Male Star" - Days of our Lives
- 2001: Won, "Favorite Couple" - Days of our Lives (shared w/Kristian AlfonsoKristian AlfonsoKristian-Joy Alfonso is a long-time American dramatic actress, former figure skater and fashion model. She is best known for playing Hope Williams Brady, which she has played since 1983 on the long-running NBC dramatic serial Days of our Lives.- Early career :She began her career as a figure...
)
Other
Other
The Other or Constitutive Other is a key concept in continental philosophy; it opposes the Same. The Other refers, or attempts to refer, to that which is Other than the initial concept being considered...
- 2002: Won, "America's Favorite Couple" - Days of our Lives (shared w/Kristian AlfonsoKristian AlfonsoKristian-Joy Alfonso is a long-time American dramatic actress, former figure skater and fashion model. She is best known for playing Hope Williams Brady, which she has played since 1983 on the long-running NBC dramatic serial Days of our Lives.- Early career :She began her career as a figure...
) - 2005: Nominated, "Irresistible Combination" - Days of our Lives (shared w/Kristian AlfonsoKristian AlfonsoKristian-Joy Alfonso is a long-time American dramatic actress, former figure skater and fashion model. She is best known for playing Hope Williams Brady, which she has played since 1983 on the long-running NBC dramatic serial Days of our Lives.- Early career :She began her career as a figure...
)
Discography
| Albums | |||
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| Year | Album | ||
| Peter Reckell (album) Peter Reckell (album) Peter Reckell is an album released by Peter Reckell and was produced by Kelly Moneymaker in 2000 and released on the Midnite Sun Records independent record label.-Track listing:#Woohoo Baby #Back In Louisville #Life Goes On... |
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| Appears On | |||
| Song | Album | ||
| When Two Chevys Collide | Days Of Our Lives: Love Songs | ||