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Vincent Michael Irizarry was born November 12, 1959 in Queens, New York. He was the middle child of six. At the age of eight the Irizarry family moved to Long Island, New York where they still live.

Vincent has always had a passion and a great talent for the arts. Beginning at the early age of eleven, he started studying photography, which he still enjoys. He also studied piano, becoming classically trained. He then continued his training at Berklee College of Music in Boston. It was there that he became actively involved in acting, performing in many productions with the regional repertory company. Some of his Boston Theater credits are Death Watch, The Long Goodbye, and The Imaginary Invalid.

Vincent moved from Boston to New York to begin a career as a professional actor, receiving a full-time scholarship with the late Lee Strasberg at his Theater Institute.

Vincent's first professional acting performance was at the New York Shakespeare Festival in The Death of Von Richtoven. Off-Broadway he has portrayed Paul McCartney in Lennon and has performed leading roles in Modigliani and Everyman. He has also appeared in productions of The Indian Wants the Bronx, The Taming of the Shrew, Death Watch, The Long Goodbye, and The Imaginary Invalid.

Vincent's first daytime television work was as the anti-hero, Lujack, in The Guiding Light, a role he received while he was waiting tables and sleeping in the back of New York's 13th Street Theater. His portrayal of Lujack earned him a Daytime Emmy nomination in 1986 and made Vincent a nationally popular star. In one month, Vincent pulled in more fan mail than any other actor in the history of any Proctor and Gamble daytime drama

Soon after his success in The Guiding Light, Vincent moved to Los Angeles, where he worked opposite Nancy McKeon in the Television movie Firefighter, and with Treat Williams and Peter Coyote in Joseph Wambaugh's Echoes in The Darkness; as well as many guest-starring roles in shows such as L.A. Law, Murder She Wrote, Hotel, Throb, Mancuso FBI, The Sentinel, Beverly Hills 90210, and the pilot Circus. He  played the starring role in  the film, Lying Eyes, the story of a man whose insatiable desires lead him to live a double life of lies. This movie is played quite often on cable’s Lifetime network.

During his time in Los Angeles, Vincent tried his hand at daytime television. Vincent portrayed  Dr. Scott Clark on Santa Barbara. Vincent's character was moved into a triangle with Jane Rogers and Signy Coleman which proved successful.

In 1990 he won critical acclaim in the lead role of Gino Santangelo in the Jackie Collins Miniseries Lucky Chances.

In feature movies, Vincent played Sissy Spacek's abusive husband in Marie--a True Story and starred in Clint Eastwood's Heartbreak Ridge.

In 1992 Vincent returned to New York and The Guiding Light in the newly created role of Nick McHenry (Lujack's unknown twin) a tough, but tender investigative reporter. He continued in this role until 1996.

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In November 1997, he joined the cast of All My Children in what was supposed to be a short-term contact role as the evil and manipulative Dr. David Hayward. Dr. Hayward turned out to be not only incredibly evil but also immensely popular, and Vincent returned to Pine Valley in 1998 where he resided until 2006. He plays his evil parts so well that he won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villain in 1999.

In the fall of 2006, Vincent joined The Young and Restless as the mysterious David Chow.  In the fall of 2008, Vincent returned to All My Children to the role of Dr. David Hayward. 

Besides acting, Vincent returned to developing his voice to the level of legit tenor. After studying with premier voice coach, Tad Motyka, he realized a dream by performing as a soloist with the Orchestre de Lyon, France and went on to perform for the Red Cross at Carnegie Hall.

Vincent and his wife Avalon live in New Jersey.  Vincent has four children.

update 08/21/2010

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