Lisa Deanna Rinna was born on July 11, 1963 in Medford, Oregon is a successful actress who is most known for her work in the popular soap, Days of Our Lives and in the hit series, Melrose Place. Her other television projects include co-hosting the lifestyle show, Soap Talk, and hosting the Lifetime series, Merge. Her work on Soap Talk earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination, and her performance on the Lifetime made-for-tv movie, Another Woman’s Husband, contributed to the film’s high ratings.

She and her husband, Harry Hamlin, have worked together on several different television projects, which include the Lifetime movie Sex, Lies & Obsession and Veronica Mars . Rinna’s big screen credits include Captive Rage, Monday Morning, Robot Wars and Good Advice. Moreover, Rinna is the proud owner of her own clothing shop, Belle Gray, which was named after her two daughters.

In 2005, Rinna and her dance partner, Louis van Amstel, competed against ten other couples in the season 2 of the ABC reality series, Dancing with the Stars. Despite receiving relatively high marks from the judges, Rinna and van Amstel were eliminated from the show on the seventh week after they failed to gain enough votes from the viewers.