Booked and Busy: What Soap Alums Are Up to the Week of October 26, 2020

All My Children

• Jennifer Bassey (ex-Marian) will play the mother of a hitman-turned-minister in The Church of Mike
• Josh Duhamel (ex-Leo) will star in the action-drama movie Blackout, filming in Mexico City
• Dorothy Lyman (ex-Opal)'s new play, The Keys (about "fear, love and hope in the time of Covid") will get a Zoom reading
• Cornelius Smith, Jr. (ex-Frankie) stars in the short film First Day Back, part of The Social Justice Now Film Festival
• Lacey Chabert (ex-Bianca) has partnered with Dearfoams Slippers for a holiday campaign
• Keith Hamilton Cobb (ex-Noah) will screen his award-winning play, American Moor, as part of New Haven's Elm Shakespeare Company's virtual festival "Building a Brave New Theatre: Exploring Race & Shakespeare in 2020” and lead an Oct. 29 discussion

The Bold and the Beautiful

• Obba Babatundé (Julius) appears in the new thriller Trigger, streaming now on BET+
• Adrienne Frantz (ex-Amber) stars in UPTV's new movie Always a Bride
• Kristolyn Lloyd (ex-Dayzee) will star in an Audible production of Dominique Morisseau’s Paradise Blue for the 2020 Williamstown Theatre Festival 

Days of Our Lives

• Marci Miller (Abigail) will star in the indie film My Dead Roommate, complete with an all-female cast and cre

General Hospital

• Nathin Butler (ex-Ewen) is writing and producing an Australian crime drama called Far North
• Jeff Kober (Cyrus) stars in the inspirational film The Church of Mike
• Demi Moore (ex-Jackie) is filming the movie Please Baby Please

Guiding Light

• Tom Pelphrey (ex-Jonathan) has been cast as a regular in Amazon Prime's mystery-drama show, Outer Range; he will play Perry Abbott, a loyal son distraught over his wife's disappearance
• Matt Bomer (ex-Ben) will star in LGBTQ+-themed short films from GLSEN
• Victoria Platt (ex-Vicky) will join NCIS in the role of Special Agent Veronica "Ronnie" Tyler

One Life to Live

• Florencia Lozano (ex-Téa) voices suffragette Victoria Woodhull in Season One of the podcast A Simple Herstory 
• LaChanze (ex-Yvette), best known as a Broadway superstar, will speak at TEDxBroadway 2020 on Nov. 17
• Laura Harrier (ex-Destiny) is filming the second season of Hollywood
• Jessica Morris (ex-Jennifer) will appear in the upcoming Netflix show The Upshaws

The Young and the Restless

• Burgess Jenkins (ex-Billy) appears in the inspirational film The Reason, debuting Dec. 15
• Eva Marcille (ex-Tyra) is teaming up with former The Real Housewives of Atlanta co-star Cynthia Bailey to highlight Black-owned businesses this Christmas, working with Seagram’s Escapes' Holiday Marketplace
• Vivica A. Fox (ex-Stephanie) will host VH1's I Love New York: Reunited special with Tiffany Pollard
• Barbara Crampton (ex-Leanna) will star in Season 2 of Shudder's anthology series Creepshow