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Families in Genoa City are crazy rich. But how rich are the actors who play these characters? Today, we will be talking about Peter Bergman, an actor who has been playing the role of Jack Abbott for more than three decades. Is Peter as rich as Jack Abbott? We have got some interesting facts from his personal life as well.
Peter Bergman caught the acting bug while trying to impress his high school crush
Anyone who’s watched Bergman in Y&R would know that his character Jack used to be a bit of a ladies’ man. But do you know that it was his high school crush that helped him discover his love for acting?
When Bergman was in high school, he was chasing after a girl. To impress her, he auditioned for the role of Captain Hook in a high school production of Peter Pan. He was not expecting to get the role. But to his surprise, he not only got selected but ended up loving acting very much.
After high school, Bergman had joined a college but then he dropped out to join an acting school instead. For that, he moved to New York with a friend and worked for a construction company as a bricklayer for a year. Finally, after saving enough money, he joined the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He graduated in 1974.
While in New York, he also worked as a phone solicitor and a janitor.
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Peter Bergman was fired from his previous job while he and his wife were expecting
It was during this period that he met his first wife, actress Christine Ebersole. They married in 1976 and got divorced in 1981. In 1985, he got married to Mariellen, his current wife. They had their first baby, son Connor, in 1987 and second baby, daughter Clare, in 1989.
In an interview with CBS Los Angeles, Bergman said that Connor was three years old while Clare was just four weeks old when he landed the role of Jack Abbott. He was incredibly excited but at the same time, he was also worried about what the future held for him and his young family – which was obvious since he was abruptly fired from his previous job.
Before his Y&R career, Bergman was a series regular on another popular soap, All My Children, for about ten years. He said in an interview that it was a devastating experience as he had to move his pregnant wife and a young kid to California where he thankfully got a new job.
Of course, being fired from a job while expecting a baby must have hit Bergman very hard. But looking back at it, it’s perhaps the best thing that has happened to him. After all, he got an even bigger role on a show which is ruling the roost in the daytime world.
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The third time’s the charm
Peter Bergman joined the Young and the Restless in 1989 as the third actor to play the role of iconic Jack Abbott. Bergman celebrated the milestone of thirty-two years with Y&R on November 27, 2021.
Having spent such a long time on the show, people often refer to Bergman as Jack when they meet him – the actor confessed himself. But it’s not only fame he has earned from the soap. As one of the leading actors of daytime’s number one drama, Bergman has made a good fortune as well.
Bergman has successfully completed 32 whole years on Y&R while earning honors and a salary that has helped him accumulate a net worth of $10 million.