Booked and Busy: What Soap Alums Are Up to the Week of September 21, 2020
- Natalie Hall (ex-Colby) stars as a lifestyle blogger in the Lifetime flick A Very Charming Christmas Town, airing Nov. 8 at 8 PM EST
- Terri Ivens (ex-Simone) stars in The Last Exorcist, out Oct. 13, and the upcoming thriller 86 Melrose Avenue as Detective Garcia
- Debbi Morgan (ex-Angie) stars in Merry Liddle Christmas Wedding, Lifetime's first-ever holiday movie sequel, airing Nov. 28 at 8 PM EST
- Alicia Minshew (ex-Kendall) starred in the 2018 faith-based flick Wholly Broken; the film was just made available to stream on Amazon Prime
- Tonya Pinkins (ex-Livia) appears in the film The Artist's Wife, available for streaming on Sept. 25
- Finn Wittrock (ex-Damon) is set to star in the 2021 film A Mouthful of Air, which centers on a woman dealing with postpartum depression
- Cornelius Smith, Jr. (ex-Frankie) will star in the musical American Prophet: Frederick Douglass in His Own Words, taking the stage at the Kreeger Theater in Washington, D.C., next year; watch his performance of the song "Let the Storm Come" here
- Eden Riegel (ex-Bianca) appears in the 2021 Marilyn Monroe flick Blonde as Esther; she'll also voice Coco Bandicoot in the video game Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, out Oct. 2
- Jonathan Bennett (ex-J.R.) stars in Hallmark's Christmas House, airing Nov. 22 at 8 PM EST
- Lacey Chabert (ex-Bianca) helms Hallmark's Christmas Waltz, airing Nov. 28 at 8 PM EST, and Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas, airing Dec. 5 at 9 PM
- Alexandra Chando (ex-Maddie) stars in the 2021 film Construction
- Billy Magnussen (ex-Casey) stars as young Paulie "Walnuts" in the 2021 Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark
- Lea Salonga (ex-Lien) stars in Yellow Rose, about a Filipina-American teen in Texas aspiring to country music stardom, out Oct. 9
- Amanda Seyfried (ex-Lucy) is set to star in the 2021 film A Mouthful of Air, which centers on a woman dealing with postpartum depression
- Ming-Na Wen (ex-Lien) voices Mulan in the video game Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory, debuting on Nov. 13
- Tamara Tunie (ex-Jessica) returns to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Melinda Warner this fall
- Robin Givens (ex-Stephanie) stars in Lifetime movie Dear Christmas, airing Nov. 27 at 8 PM EST
- Karrueche Tran (Vivian) stars in IFC Films' MMA movie Embattled, heading to VOD and select theaters on Nov. 20
- Mario Lopez (ex-Christian) stars in the Lifetime movie Feliz NaviDAD, airing Nov. 21, at 8 PM EST
- Gina Rodriguez (ex-Beverly) stars in crime drama Kajillionaire, out Sept. 25
- Danube Hermosillo (ex-Darlita) appears as Rose in an episode of Netflix's Julie and the Phantoms
- Obba Babatundé (Julius) stars in the upcoming film The Millennial, set to be released on Nov. 11
- Kristolyn Lloyd (ex-Dayzee) joins AMC alum Cornelius Smith, Jr. in American Prophet: Frederick Douglass in His Own Words; watch her performance of the song "Let the Storm Come" here
- MacKenzie Mauzy (ex-Phoebe) stars in the 2021 film Construction
- Dylan Neal (ex-Dylan) stars in Hallmark's Christmas She Wrote, airing Dec. 6 at 8 PM
- Charlene Tilton (ex-Lucy) will star in Lifetime's A Welcome Home Christmas, airing Nov. 2 at 8 PM EST (will repeat on Veterans Day, Nov. 11)
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- Alison Sweeney (Sami) stars in Hallmark's A Merry and Bright Christmas, airing Nov. 25 at 8 PM EST
- Victor Webster (ex-Nicholas) stars in Five Star Christmas, airing on Hallmark Nov. 26 at 8 PM EST
- Trevor Donovan (ex-Jeremy) and Jen Lilley (ex-Theresa)'s Hallmark Movies & Mysteries film, USS Christmas, airs Nov. 28 at 9 PM
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- Ryan Paevey (ex-Nathan) stars as time traveler Charles in Hallmark's A Timeless Christmas, airing Nov. 15 at 8 PM EST
- Sarah Drew (ex-April) stars in Hallmark's Christmas in Vienna, airing Nov. 14 at 8 PM EST
- Bethany Joy Lenz (ex-Michelle) stars in Five Star Christmas, airing on Hallmark Nov. 26 at 8 PM EST
- Jessica Tuck (ex-Megan) will star in the LGTQ-centric short film The Shift, which features vignettes set during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Judith Light (ex-Karen) stars in CBS' new drama, Manhunt: Deadly Games, about the 1996 Olympics
- Barbara Niven (ex-Liz) stars in a Hallmark film called USS Christmas, which airs Nov. 28 at 9 PM; her other flick, Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing, airs Dec. 5 at 8 PM
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- Melissa Ordway (Abby) stars in ION Television's 2020 holiday film The Christmas Sitters
- Brooks Darnell (ex-Nate) headlines Lifetime's Let's Meet Again on Christmas Eve, airing Dec. 5 at 8 PM EST
- Camryn Grimes (Mariah) stars in the 2021 short film 2020
- Vivica A. Fox (ex-Stephanie) stars in ION Television's holiday flick Christmas Together
- Peter Porte (ex-Ricky) stars in Fox's soapy new series, Filthy Rich