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Drake Hogestyn Biography
Birth Name:Donald Drake Hogestyn
Birth Place:Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Profession Actor
Fast Facts
- At the 2005 Soap Opera Digest Awards, he won Favorite Couple with "Days of Our Lives" costar Deidre Hall
- Was nominated for four Soap Opera Digest Awards between 1997 and 1999
- Won Hottest Male Star two years in a row at the Soap Opera Digest Awards, starting in 1994
- Went to the University of South Florida in Tampa on a baseball scholarship and graduated with a double major in microbiology and applied sciences
- Played third base for one of the New York Yankees' farm teams from the time the team drafted him out of college to 1978
- Started his acting career when he was one of the 30 hopeful actors selected out of 75,000 in a Columbia Pictures talent search
- Known for playing the long running role of John Black on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives․"
Awards
- 1994Soap Opera Digest Award-Hottest Male Star: winner
- 1995Soap Opera Digest Award-Hottest Male Star: winner
- 1997Soap Opera Digest Award-Hottest Male Star: nominated
- 1998Soap Opera Digest Award-Hottest Romance: nominated
- 1999OFTA Television Award-Best Actor in a Daytime Serial: nominated
- 2000OFTA Television Award-Best Actor in a Daytime Serial: nominated
- 2005Soap Opera Digest Award-Favorite Couple: winner
- 20201st Annual Soap Hub Award-Favorite Days of Our Lives Actor: nominated
- 20212nd Annual Soap Hub Award-Favorite Days of Our Lives Actor: nominated