In 2007, she married her One Life to Live co-star David Fumero. She even made two appearances on All My Children playing the same character. Fumero would come back in 2010 and be featured in a 15-episode story arc.

She stayed with the show as a series regular through 2007 and would appear periodically through 2008. Fumero got her big break starring as Adriana Cramer on the soap opera One Life to Live in 2004. Melissa Fumero has been playing the uptight Detective Amy Santiago and possible love interest of Detective Jake Peralta on Brooklyn Nine-Nine since the show premiered in 2013. Here are some soap opera actors that made the move from daytime to prime-time.

Additionally, NBC decided to cancel Passions in 2007 to make room for another hour of the successful morning news program The Today Show. Before the all these shows were taken off the air, they were able to produce some successful actors that can be seen on many of our favorite prime-time television programs, including some major current hits like FOX’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Following. Series like All My Children and One Life to Live were cancelled a few years ago to pave the way for talk shows that are less expensive for the ABC network. The daytime soap opera genre is slowing dying out.

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