Kelly Ripa

  Kelly Maria Ripa (born October 2, 1970) is an American actress, dancer, talk show host, and television producer.As an actress, Ripa's best known roles include Hayley Vaughan on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children (1990-2002, 2010) and Faith Fairfield on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith (2003-2006). Since 2001, Ripa has been the co-host of the syndicated morning talk show Live! with Kelly and Ryan in various formats. Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, own a New York-based production company, Milojo. In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the Most Powerful People in Media.Kelly Maria Ripa was born and raised in Berlin, New Jersey, the daughter of Esther, a homemaker, and Joseph Ripa, a labor union president and bus driver who attended Rutgers University. She has a sister, Linda, who is a children's book author.She has three-quarters Italian and one-quarter Irish ancestry. Ripa was raised Catholic. Her father has been the Democratic County Clerk for Camden County, New Jersey, since June 2009. She is the first in her family to enter the acting profession. She studied ballet since age three, plays the piano, and in her words is "no Barbra Streisand" but can carry a tune.