Paige Turco

Jean Paige Turco to Joyce Jean (Jodoin) and David Vincent Turco in Boston, Massachusetts. At one year old her mother moved them to Springfield, Massachusetts, where she was raised, after the death of her father. She is of Italian, French-Canadian and English ancestry. She took ballet lessons as a little girl and planned to become a classical ballerina. She attended the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts, graduating in 1983 and performed as a soloist at the New England Dance Conservatory, the Amherst Ballet Theatre Company, and the Western Massachusetts Ballet Company. An ankle injury ended the possibility of professional ballet. She remarked later, "I couldn't even go to the ballet anymore. It was too painful." Turco graduated from Bay Path College in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, in 1987 and majored in drama at the University of Connecticut.

Career In 1987, Turco made her television acting debut as Dinah Marler in the CBS soap opera Guiding Light (1987–1989), She appeared as Melanie Cortlandt in the ABC soap opera All My Children (1989–1992). and later in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993). She also appeared as Zoe Morgan in a recurring role in Person of Interest (2011–2015).

From March 2014, Turco starred as Doctor Abigail Griffin, in the main cast for the first six seasons of The CW post-apocalyptic drama series, The 100, from 2014–2019, returning in 2020 for the series finale episode. She worked alongside Eliza Taylor who played her daughter Clarke, also Henry Ian Cusick, Marie Avgeropoulos, and Lindsey Morgan. She was married to Irish actor Jason O'Mara from 2003 to 2017. They have one child together,

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