Rebecca Budig

Rebecca Jo Budig /ˈbʌdɪɡ/ (born June 26, 1973) is an American actress and television presenter, best known for her role as Greenlee Smythe Lavery on the ABC soap opera All My Children. --- Rebecca Budig was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. She graduated from the Cincinnati Public Schools School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) and later went on to major in zoology at Miami University in Ohio. In 1993, Budig moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue an acting career. While there, she began studying with acting coaches Howard Fine and Jay Goldenberg at the Howard Fine Acting Studio and at the Young Actors Space, respectively. Budig's first acting job was in Aerosmith's music video Livin' on the Edge. She later had a cameo role as a teenage girl saved by Chris O'Donnell's character Dick Grayson in Batman Forever. In 1995, she auditioned for the role of Kelsey Jefferson on All My Children, but received an offer from Guiding Light, where she began her three-year stint as Michelle Bauer from (1995 to 1998). --- Budig is the youngest of eight children, she has five sisters and two brothers. She met former Bachelor star Bob Guiney while hosting the The Bachelor repeat shows on ABC Family. The two were married on July 3, 2004. On January 13, 2010, People Magazine reported that Budig and Guiney had decided to split, with Budig filing for divorce in April 2010. The couple had no children, and the divorce finalized on July 23, 2010. Budig became engaged to television marketing executive Michael Benson on Christmas Day, 2010