Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
33
Gender
Male
Birthday
April 03, 1941 ( 83 years old )
Place of Birth
Bredenbek, Germany
Also Known As
Hans-Jörg Gudegast
Eric Braeden
Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German-born film and television actor. The internationally-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning and People’s Choice Award-winning film and television actor ERIC BRAEDEN is a television icon and arguably the most popular character in daytime history. For over 37 plus years, he has portrayed “Victor Newman” on the #1 rated daytime drama series The Young and the Restless, which has over 120,000,000 daily viewers around the world. The show is syndicated in over 30 foreign countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, the Middle East, New Zealand, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey. Braeden recently wrote his critically acclaimed autobiography I’ll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America’s #1 Daytime Drama from HarperCollins, which appeared on the Publishers Weekly and Canadian bestseller list. Additionally, according to A.C. Nielsen, Braeden has one of the highest TVQ’s on television, and is one of the most recognized actors in the world. On July 20 2007, he was the recipient of a star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame and become the first German born actor since Marlene Dietrich to receive such an honor.
Known For
Titanic
1997-11-18Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971-05-20Piranha
1978-08-03Meet the Deedles
1998-03-27Operation Eichmann
1961-03-15Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970-04-08100 Rifles
1969-03-26The Man Who Came Back
2008-02-08Dayton's Devils
1968-10-01The Ambulance
1990-03-22