Eric Braeden

Known for ActingBorn 1941-04-03 (age 85)Bredenbek, Germany

Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German-born film and television actor. The internationally-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning and People’s Choice Award-winning film and television actor ERIC BRAEDEN is a television icon and arguably the most popular character in daytime history. For over 37 plus years, he has portrayed “Victor Newman” on the #1 rated daytime drama series The Young and the Restless, which has over 120,000,000 daily viewers around the world. The show is syndicated in over 30 foreign countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, the Middle East, New Zealand, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey. Braeden recently wrote his critically acclaimed autobiography I’ll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America’s #1 Daytime Drama from HarperCollins, which appeared on the Publishers Weekly and Canadian bestseller list. Additionally, according to A.C. Nielsen, Braeden has one of the highest TVQ’s on television, and is one of the most recognized actors in the world. On July 20 2007, he was the recipient of a star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame and become the first German born actor since Marlene Dietrich to receive such an honor.Read more

Movies & web series

The Daytime Emmy Awards

Intertect

The Titanic Chronicles

How I Met Your Mother

Banacek

E! True Hollywood Story

Barbary Coast

The Nanny

Titanic

The Power Within

Happily Ever After

Garrison's Gorillas

The Gallant Men

Combat!

Matt Helm

3055 Jean Leon

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Murder, She Wrote

Mission: Impossible

Den of Thieves

The Six Million Dollar Man

Kojak

Diagnosis: Murder

Jericho

WWE Unforgiven 2002

McCloud

Hawaii Five-O

The Rat Patrol

12 O'Clock High

Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives

How the West Was Won

77 Sunset Strip

Wonder Woman

Run for Your Life

The Young and the Restless

Barnaby Jones

Lucky Chances

Honeymoon with a Stranger

Vega$

Blue Light

The Rookies

Colossus: The Forbin Project

CHiPs

Mannix

Bronk

The Magician

Charlie's Angels

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War