Drake Hogestyn

Birth Name:

Donald Drake Hogestyn

Birth Place:

Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States

Profession

Actor

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․"

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