Three times Day Time Emmy Awards winner, Maura West is an American actress. She is famous for playing Carly Snyder on the CBS daytime soap opera “As the World Turns”. From September 2010 to August 2011, West portrayed Diane Jenkins on “The Young and the Restless”, and as of 2017, she plays mob heiress Ava Jerome on “General Hospital.”

 

As of 2019, Maura West has an estimated net worth of $4 million and her annual salary is reported to be around $600,000-$800,000. Further, West has been married twice; Jonathan Knight and currently to Scott DeFreitas. In addition, she has five children.

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Maura West Net Worth and earnings in 2019!

As of 2019, Maura West has an estimated net worth of $4 million and her annual salary is reported to be around $600,000. The main source of Maura West’s earnings comes from her acting career.


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Further, West has won several awards and is considered one of the most talented and respected actors in the entertainment industry. No doubt, she earns a decent amount of salary from her acting career.

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In addition, she has a beautiful house in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Maura West Husband, ex-Husband, Children, Affairs

As of now, Maura West is a married woman and since 2000 she and her husband Scott DeFreitas is living happily. She met Scott on the sets of her previous series “As The World Turns”.


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They have four children together named Joseph Peter, Katherine Marie West, Basil John, Joe West, and Birdie West.


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Did you know, Maura West was previously married to Jonathan Knight in 1995? But after living together around four years they divorced in 1999. Rumors were Knight was a gay man and later it was classified after he made headlines after being engaged with Harley Rodriguez.


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For the information, Jonathan is an American singer and part of the boy band ‘New Kids on the Block’. They have a son named Benjamin Knight.

Career Beginning: As the World Turns

Maura West started her television acting career fresh out of college in her early twenties. In 1995, she joined the CBS soap opera “As the World Turns”, where she portrayed as Carly Snyder. She held the role for 15 straight long years from April 11, 1995, to May 8, 1996. She received the nomination for Soap Opera Digest Award in the category of Outstanding Villainess.

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On September 10, 1997, she returned to the same role, remaining in the series, until its television finale on September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created the series whereas, Jean Passanante and Leah Laiman served as writer. In 1967, the shows switched to color and expanded from a half-hour in length to one hour starting on December 1, 1975.

Thus, the series became the most-watched daytime drama from 1958 until 1978, with ten million viewers tuning in each day. At its height, core actors such as Helen Wagner, Don MacLaughlin, Don Hastings, and Eileen Fulton able to gain nationally known. Three of these actors Wagner, Hastings, and Fulton are also the three longest-serving actors in the history of American soap operas.

Achievements of “As the World Turns”

From (1999 – 2000), she gained two Soap Opera Digest Award in the category of Outstanding Younger Lead Actress. In 2001, she received the nomination for Soap Opera Digest Award in the category of Favourite Couple award, which she shared with her co-star Michael Park.

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She received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2001 and 2002.

From (2004, 2008 and 2009), West nominated for three times for Daytime Emmy Award in the category for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. However, she only winning twice, once in 2007 and in 2010. At the 32nd Daytime Emmy Awards, West and Park received a nomination for the Special Fan Award for Most Irresistible Combination.

The Young and the Restless

In 2010, it was announced that she would join the CBS soap opera, “The Young and the Restless”, as the third actress to portray Diane Jenkins. On September 2010,  she began to work in the role and made her first appearance on the show on October 8, 2010.

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In May 2011, CBS Soaps In-depth confirmed West had been let go from the soap after only several months on-air. The series was created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The series originally focused on two core families,  the wealthy Brooks family, and the working class Foster family.

General Hospital

It was announced in April 2013 that West would join the ABC soap opera “General Hospital” in a top-secret role. On April 24, 2013, she confirmed to have joined the cast in the newly created role of  Ava Jerome.

She made her first appeared on May 8. It is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running American soap opera in production. It is the third longest-running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns.


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In 2015, she earned a nomination for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. On April 26, 2015, she received Daytime Award for the same category.

West appeared in the series “A Baby Story” in 2007. Most recently, she appeared in the feature film “Come Back to Me” where, she served as an adaption of the novel, The Resurrectionist.

Maura West Early Life

Maura West was born as Maura Jo Snyder on April 27, 1972, as the youngest of four children in Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. She changed her last name, to her mother’s maiden named West, at the age of  18.

She attended Boston University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. She has two elder brothers named Peter and Andrew and one sister Amy.

Maura West Age, height, Weight, Body Measurements

  • Age: 46 years as of 2019
  • Birthplace: Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S
  • Star Sign: Taurus
  • Net Worth: $4 million
  • Salary: $45,000-$70,000
  • Height: 5 feet 3 inch ( 1.61m)
  • Weight: 56 kgs (123.5 lbs)
  • Body Measurements: 33-24-35 inches

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