Finola Hughes is an English actress, entrepreneur, author, dancer, and television personality. She made her major breakthrough role of Anna Devane on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.
Following her performance in the series, the actress rose to fame and won many prestigious awards and nominations, including the Soap Opera Digest Award and more.
Finola is best known for Staying Alive (1983), All My Children (1999-2000), Like Crazy (2011), and New Wall Street (2016).
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Net Worth Of Finola Hughes And Career Highlights
Finola Hughes has a net worth of $8 million from her multiple professional careers as an actress, television host, author, producer, director, and entrepreneur. Additionally, she has earned a decent sum of money through various brand endorsements, sponsorship, and promotions.
She has been working in the entertainment field for a long decade, and due to her experience in this field and quality of acting skills. Hughes made a debut appearance came on the big screen when she portrays the role of Dancer in the 1980's musical comedy, The Apple. After two years later, she made her appearance in the TV Series named The Kenny Everett in 1982.
From the 1980s to the 1990's she got a lot of opportunities to work on movies and TV shows which includes Nutcracker (1982), The Hot Shoe Show (1983), Staying Alive (1983), The Master of Ballantrae (1984), Haunted by Her Past (1987), L.A. Law (1987), It's Garry Shandling's Show (1989), and The Bride in Black (1990).
Finola got her big breakthrough role in 1985 when she was cast on one of the most hit TV series, General Hospital. Hughes has been a regular member of the series and characterized the different roles of Anna Devane / Alex Marick / Anna Devane Scorpio in 946 episodes to date from 1985-2021.
Doris Hursley and Frank Hursley create the hit TV series. The series has been operational since 1963 and is also listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running American soap opera in production and the second longest-running drama television series in American history.
During the 1990s from 2000s, Finola has appeared in more than twenty-five TV movies and TV series such as Soapdish (1991), Aspen Extreme (1993), Jack's Place (1992-1993), Burke's Law (1994), Dream On (1994), Dark Side of Genius (1994), Blossom (1993-1995), Generation X (1996), The Crying Child (1996), Superman: The Animated Series (1996), Life with Louie (1997), Intrepid (2000), and others.
In 1999, Finola Hughes portrayed the different roles of Dr. Alex Devane Marick / Anna Devane Hayward / Anna Devane in the TV series named All My Children, which Agnes Nixon directs. She made her appearance in 121 episodes where Susan Lucci, David Canary, and Michael E.Knight are the leading stars in this series.
Some of her hits TV series includes Charmed (1996-2006), General Hospital: Night Shift (2008), Make It or Break It (2010), Melissa & Joey (2010), The Stafford Project (2013), Granite Flats (2014-2015), and New Wall Street (2016).
Additionally, General Hospital stars have also directed the movie named The Bet in 2013, where Scott Hagood, Tim T.Whitcomb, and Portia Thomas are the stars.
As per Imdb.com, she made her announced that her directed movie named Byrd and the Bees would be released soon, where Tracy Spiridakos, Jason Connery, Ross McCall, Pauline Collins, Susan Santiago, and others are the cast members.
With her successful professional career, she is living a lavish lifestyle with her family.
Finola Hughes Married Life With Russell Young
Regarding her personal life, Finola Hughes got married to her longtime boyfriend, Russell Young. The couple tied the wedding knot on 4 July 1992 in a private wedding ceremony.
Finola's husband, Russell Young, was born on 13 March 1959 who is a British-American Pop artist famous for his silkscreens and paintings. He is better known for paintings specially produced for numerous stars; some of his clients are Barack Obama, Jennifer Aniston, Kanye West, Angelina Jolie, and Elizabeth Taylor.
He has also been involved in the musical industry and has directed more than 100 music videos.
Finola Hughes and her husband Russell Young at the 2012 Art of Elysium Heaven Gala at Union Station (©: zimbio.com)
The duo has three children, one of their own, and two of them are adopted. Additionally, they have two sons and one daughter.
Their single biological son, named Dylan Joseph Young, was born on 9 November 2000. Later the pair have adopted their second son named Cash Justice Young, in 2005.
In April 2008, the couple adopted their third child, a daughter named Sadie Beatrice Young, when she was just four months of age.
Her beau suffered from Swine Flu, which almost took his last breath, and was in a coma for eight days. The doctor even declared that he wouldn't surprise him. But luckily, he defeated the death and was cured of the Swine Flu.
The couple and their kids lived in New York City, but after the 9/11 attacked, they shifted their location to California, the United States of America.
Unfortunately, their house was damaged by the Southern California wildfire in 2018; the house hasn't been damaged much; they moved back into the house by repairing their minor damages made by wildfire.
Finola, alongside her husband, Russell, has been associated with various charity activities in the past few years and has owned the awards.
Who Is Finola Hughes? Age, Parents, Height
Finola Hughes was born on 29 October 1959 in London, United Kingdom. She is currently 61-years-old as of 2021, having a Zodiac sign of Scorpio.
She was born to her Italian mother and an Irish father in London, England, the United Kingdom. However, the identity of her parents is not revealed yet. Unfortunately, her father died in 1985 due to a heart attack.
Finola Hughes holds British nationality and belongs to the mixed ethnicity of Italian-Irish.
The British actress had her education at the Arts Educational School, where she studied ballet from the age of 10 through 17 and then joined the Northern Ballet Company.
The 61-years-old actress stands at the height of 5 feet 5 inches or 1.65 m and weighs around 56 kg or 123 lbs.