Kelly Ripa

  Kelly Maria Ripa was born on the 2nd of October in 1970. She is an American dancer and actress, talk-show host and producer, and a TV producer. Her most famous role is Hayley Vaughan's part in ABC's All My Children (1990-2002) as well as Faith Fairfield on ABC's Hope & Faith (2003-2006). Since 2001, Ripa has been the co-host of the syndicated morning talk show Live! alongside Kelly as well as Ryan in various formats. Ripa along with her husband Mark Consuelos, own a production company in New York called 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, as well as Joseph Ripa, a labor union president and bus driver who attended Rutgers University. She has an older sister named Linda who is a children's books author.She has three-quarters Italian and one-quarter Irish ancestry. Ripa was born Catholic. Since June 2009 her father, who is the Democratic County Clerk of Camden County, New Jersey is Ripa's father. She is the only child in her family who has entered the acting industry. She has been studying ballet since the age of three. She plays the piano, and in her words, is "no Barbra Streisand" but can sing.