Eric Braeden

Also Known As: Hans-Jörg Gudegast

Biography: 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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Bredenbek, Germany

Birthday: April 03, 1941

Adult: No

Gender: Male

Popularity:

9.82%

Known For:

Titanic
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Piranha
Meet the Deedles
Operation Eichmann
Colossus: The Forbin Project
100 Rifles
The Man Who Came Back
Dayton's Devils
The Ambulance
The Adulteress
Code Name: Diamond Head
The Aliens Are Coming
3055 Jean Leon
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Death Race
Happily Ever After
The Mask of Sheba
WWE Unforgiven 2002
The Ultimate Thrill
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John
And the Winner Isn't
Den of Thieves
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
The Power Within
Lady Ice
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
Morituri
Death Scream
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
Intertect
The Titanic Chronicles