Adrianne Therese León (born March 15, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Caught Crimson.
León began her career writing songs for the soap opera ''
General Hospital'' and went on to have a role as the
punk rock teen
Brook Lynn Ashton, which earned her a
Daytime Emmy
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nomination and a
Soap Opera Digest Award
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History
1977 until 1983
The Soapy Awards were an award prese ...
. She left the show for the CBS soap opera ''
The Young and the Restless
''The Young and the Restless'' (often abbreviated as ''Y&R'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in fictional Genoa City (not the real-life similarly-named Genoa City ...
'', where she took over the role of
Colleen Carlton.
Biography
Early life
Adrianne León was born in
San Diego
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, California; she is of
Ecuadorian
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and
Puerto Rican descent and lived in Ecuador as a child.
After moving to the US, León began modeling and performing. After completing the seventh grade, she was homeschooled by her mother and then rapidly advanced through high school.
She is a member of the
ASCAP
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...
[ ] and
AFTRA.
Career
León voiced over a Glamma Jammas commercial and was also in a public service announcement for
Vons
Vons is a Southern California and Southern Nevada supermarket chain owned by Albertsons. It is headquartered in Fullerton, California, and operates stores under the Vons and Pavilions banners. It was owned by Safeway Inc. and headquartered in ...
, a supermarket chain.
León was hired in 2002 to write songs alongside Rick Krizman for the soap opera ''
General Hospital''.
In 2003, she performed two songs for the documentary ''
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina'': "Everlasting Dream"
and "She Heals You".
She formed Caught Crimson
with the help of Murray Yates, lead vocalist of the Canadian rock band
Forty Foot Echo. León later recruited former
Artension bassist Kevin Chown, former
Alien Ant Farm
Alien Ant Farm is an American rock band that formed in Riverside, California in 1996. They have released five studio albums and sold over 5 million units worldwide. The band's cover of Michael Jackson's " Smooth Criminal" topped the ''Billboard ...
guitarist
Terry Corso, and former Forty Foot Echo drummer Rob Kurzretier. She provided vocals for a Glamma Jammas commercial song titled "Don't Get Me Started", written and produced by Kendall Marsh. She also sang "Favor Me" and "Falling In", both written and produced by Jody Whitesides.
On October 4, 2003, Adrianne León performed at the California Avocado Festival and on August 23, 2003, she played at the Aloha Festival, where she opened for
Dishwalla
Dishwalla is an American alternative rock band from Santa Barbara, California. The band's name comes from a Hindi term for a person providing satellite TV to a neighborhood (" dish" + walla). In a '' Vox'' interview, lead guitarist Rodney Brow ...
. Both festivals were held in
Carpinteria, California
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.
In May 2004, León was cast as the feisty and rebellious teen
Brook Lynn Ashton in the soap opera ''General Hospital''. She portrayed the character as a talented
punk rock singer and songwriter who constantly fights against her mother
Lois Cerullo's pressure to become a rock star.
Léon was named "Outstanding Performer of the Week" of September 13, 2004 by ''
Soap Opera Weekly
''Soap Opera Weekly'' was a weekly magazine covering American daytime soap operas. It featured onscreen and offscreen news about the series, interviews with and articles about performers, storyline summaries and analysis, and related promotional i ...
'' for her performance.
The role earned her a Soap Opera Digest Award for "Outstanding Female Newcomer"
as well as a
Daytime Emmy
The Daytime Emmy Awards, or Daytime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the New York–based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (N ...
Award nomination for "Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series"
later in 2005.
She also guest-starred on the
ABC prime-time sitcom ''
Hot Properties'' as the young music VJ Courtney alongside
Harry Hamlin
Harry Robinson Hamlin (born October 30, 1951) is an American actor, author, and entrepreneur. He is best known for his roles as Perseus in the 1981 fantasy film '' Clash of the Titans'' and as Michael Kuzak in the legal drama series '' L.A. Law' ...
, as his much younger fiancée. In early 2006, León took over the role of
Colleen Carlton on ''
The Young and the Restless
''The Young and the Restless'' (often abbreviated as ''Y&R'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in fictional Genoa City (not the real-life similarly-named Genoa City ...
''.
She returned as her character
Brook Lynn Ashton on ''General Hospital'' on May 21, 2010.
Brook Lynn Ashton at Soap Central
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Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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1987 births
21st-century American actresses
Living people
American child singers
Female models from California
American women singer-songwriters
American film actresses
American women rock singers
American rock songwriters
American soap opera actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
American actresses of Puerto Rican descent
Singer-songwriters from California
Actresses from San Diego
American musicians of Puerto Rican descent
American people of Italian descent
American people of Canadian descent
Guitarists from California
21st-century American women singers
21st-century American women guitarists
21st-century American guitarists
21st-century American singers