Rebecca Holden

Rebecca Holden is an American actress, model, and singer. She first gained wide recognition in the modeling industry as "the Breck Girl" while studying voice and piano in New York City. Her early modeling work led to appearances on magazine covers and in national commercials for major brands such as Ivory Soap, Dentyne, Kellogg's, Chevrolet, Gillette, Playtex, Arrid, and 7 Up.

Holden expanded her career into television, guest-starring on numerous primetime programs including The Love Boat, Magnum, P.I., Matt Houston, Three's Company, Taxi, Night Court, Mike Hammer, Remington Steele, Barney Miller, Quincy, M.E., T.J. Hooker, and Police Squad!. She achieved a major television break when she joined the second season of the TV series Knight Rider (1983–1984) as a series regular playing the role of April Curtis. She also portrayed the character Elena on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.

Alongside her screen acting, Holden pursued musical endeavors. While working as a model, she formed a country music group that toured for two years. In 1989, she charted two singles for TRA-Star Records titled "The Truth Doesn't Always Rhyme" and "License to Steal." She subsequently recorded the album The Highway Runs Both Ways for Curb Records, as well as a self-titled album for BMG Europe.

Following a move to Tennessee to help care for her ill sister, Holden appeared in various stage plays and musicals. Her theatrical performances include playing Nancy in Oliver!, Lola in Damn Yankees, and starring in a production of Baby, the Musical at the Boiler Room Theatre in Franklin, Tennessee. In 1993, she served as the co-host for the TNN dance program Dancin' at the Hot Spots. In the early 2010s, she toured with Kevin Sasaki in "Together Forever," a musical tribute to Eydie Gormé and Steve Lawrence.

Holden's later film work includes playing Beth in the 2009 movie adaptation of The Book of Ruth: Journey of Faith. Filmmaker Richard Rossi cast her in 2017 as Sister Sara Sunday in the independent film Canaan Land, and in 2023 she starred in the western film Was Once a Hero alongside Darby Hinton and John Carter Cash. Over the course of her career, she was recognized at the first Cash Box magazine Nashville Music Awards in 1989 as New Independent Artist and New Independent Female, and she won Best Actress at the Malibu Film Festival for her role in Canaan Land.

In her personal life, Holden was married to her childhood sweetheart, Bobby Vasselo, from 1980 until their divorce in 1986. She married record producer Joel Diamond on New Year's Eve in 2014. Throughout her life, Holden has engaged in charitable work, serving as a founding board member of Operation California (now Operation USA) and traveling to Ethiopia during the famine, as well as helping form Operation Texas for earthquake victims in Mexico City. In 2022, she became a board director and Ambassador of Goodwill for The Stars Foundation, and she also serves on the board of the William Stephanie Foundation.