True Laurita O'Brien (born February 28, 1994) is an American model and actress. She is best known for her
Daytime Emmy Award
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winning portrayal of
Paige Larson
A list of notable characters from the NBC soap opera '' Days of Our Lives'' that significantly impacted storylines and debuted between January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2019.
Madeline Peterson Woods
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on
NBC
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's
soap opera
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''
Days of Our Lives
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''.
Career
O'Brien is signed with
Ford Models
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Company
Ford Models was started in 1946 by Eileen ...
. She started at the age of five when her mother got her into television commercials, and subsequently got into modeling at the age of 13. During her teenage years she modeled for the likes of
Guess
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and
Pottery Barn
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The company is headq ...
. O'Brien appeared in the Girlfriend perfume campaign with
Justin Bieber
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, and as his second girlfriend in his music video, "
One Time". She began her acting career in 2012, when she guest starred in an episode of ''
Jessie'' playing the role of Diamond Bloodworth.
In 2014, she joined the cast of the
Daytime Emmy Award
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winning
soap opera
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''
Days of Our Lives
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'', portraying the role of Paige Larson; she debuted on March 3, 2014. O'Brien is signed to a two-year deal with the series. In June 2015, it was reported that O'Brien was let go from the soap, and last appeared on September 9, 2015. In 2016, she joined the series ''
Queen Sugar
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'' as Stella.
Personal life
O'Brien was born in
Los Angeles
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,
California
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, to Elizabeth Marie (''née'' Domasin), a housewife, and John Richard O'Brien, a
graphic designer
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. Her maternal first cousin is actress
Hailee Steinfeld
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whose mother is Cheri (''née'' Domasin), an
interior design
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er. Both O’Brien’s and Steinfeld’s maternal grandfather was Ricardo Domasin who was of half
Filipino
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(from
Bohol
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)
and half
African-American
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descent.
Their maternal grand-uncle is former child actor Larry Domasin.
In her spare time, O'Brien enjoys cooking, working out, eating healthy, kickboxing and doing yoga. She has been dating her former ''Days of Our Lives'' co-star
Casey Moss
Casey Allen Moss (born November 16, 1993) is an American actor and singer. He is known for playing the role of JJ Deveraux on the NBC soap opera ''Days of Our Lives''.
His portrayal of JJ Deveraux earned him a nomination for the Daytime Emmy Awar ...
since 2015. Moss and O'Brien got engaged on June 9th 2022
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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Living people
Female models from California
American actresses of Filipino descent
American soap opera actresses
1994 births
Actresses from Los Angeles
21st-century American actresses
American television actresses
Daytime Emmy Award winners
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series winners
People of African-American descent
21st-century African-American women