Background:

“When she started, she had never acted and came from the reality show ... she was always very serious about the work and worked really hard to learn her lines. A soap opera is like boot camp. Now, she makes it all seem very spontaneous, and she's right there for you. It's really been lovely to see her grow as an actress.” Passion co-star Juliet Mills (on Heidi Mueller)

American actress Heidi Mueller is perhaps best known to soap opera fans for playing Kay on NBC's “Passions” from 2003 to 2008. She picked up a Soap Opera Digest nomination for the role. She made her big screen debut in 2011's “Vile.” Prior to “Passions,” Mueller appeared alongside her father Don Mueller and her siblings on the NBC reality TV series “Who Wants to Marry My Dad?” (2003-2004).

Mueller was engaged to actor  Matthew Lawrence from December 2004 to March 2006.


Cincinnati Roots

Childhood and Family:

Heidi Mueller was born Heidi Jo Mueller on January 29, 1982, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to parents Pam and Don Mueller. Her parents later divorced. She has three older siblings, Joe, Carla and Chris. Heidi attended high school at Landmark Christian School in Cincinnati, Ohio. She went on to major in psychology at Liberty University in Virginia.    


Vile

Career:

Heidi Mueller originally auditioned for the reality television dating game show “The Bachelor,”  which debuted on ABC in 2002, but she did not succeed. Instead, NBC picked her and her family for the reality show “Who Wants to Marry My Dad?”, whose point was to have the children pick out a new bride for their father to propose to and marry.  The show ran from July 14, 2003 until August 2, 2004.  

Mueller's huge break came when she joined the cast of the NBC soap opera “Passions” in the mid 2003 in the role of Kay. In 2005, she received a Soap Opera Digest nomination for Outstanding Female Newcomer for her performance, but quit later in 2008. Mueller became the fourth actress to play Kay, after Taylor Anne Mountz (1999-2000), Gina Marie May (2000, temporary replacement) and Deanna Wright (2000-2003).  

In 2011, Mueller appeared as Secretary in several episodes of the HBO comedy series “Funny or Die Presents....” The same year, she also made her feature acting debut in “Vile,” directed by Taylor Sheridan. Co-stars in the horror film included Eric Jay Beck, April Matson, Akeem Smith, Greg Cipes, Elisha Skorman, Maya Hazen and Rob Kirkland.


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