Detailed Biography

Jacob Wayne Young is an American actor and singer.

Early life and career

Jacob Wayne Young was born in Renton, Washington, He is the youngest child of Rhonda and Michael Young, Sr., and was raised in Tillamook, Oregon and Roy, Washington, moving to San Diego, California at age seventeen with his mother. His parents divorced and his mother remarried to Dan Wilson. He has one older brother Michael, Jr., and two sisters Tiffany and Charity.

Young portrayed Rick Forrester on the CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful from December 31, 1997 to September 15, 1999. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series in 1999. Young later portrayed Lucky Spencer on General Hospital for three years from February 25, 2000 until February 10, 2003. In 2001, he was named "Sexiest Soap Star" by People magazine, and won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor the next year.

Young has portrayed the character of JR Chandler on All My Children since October 1, 2003. In 2005, he was again nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Younger Actor, and in 2009 he was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Other projects

On September 11, 2001, Artemis Records released Young's self-titled CD.

In 2004, Young guest starred in the film The Girl Next Door. He guest starred on ABC's Hope & Faith, and from May 2006 through August 20, 2006, he starred in Disney's Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, in the role of Lumiere.

Personal life

In April 2006, Young became engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Christen Steward, a model. They were married on May 13, 2007 at the Westmount Country Club in Woodland Park, New Jersey.

On November 25, 2008, Young and Steward welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Luke Wayne Young. Luke is a biblical name they picked due to its strong reference. Young's middle name, which was given to him by his mother for her love of Wayne Newton, was the second name chosen for the child.