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Guiding Light’s Frank Grillo & Wendy Moniz File for Divorce

Guiding Light Alums Frank Grillo & Wendy Moniz File for Divorce After 19 Years of Marriage

Frank Grillo and Wendy Moniz file for divorce guiding light one life to live

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The couple met on the CBS soap opera and worked together on the MMA series Kingdom.

Soaps.com regrets to report Frank Grillo and Wendy Moniz have separated, and filed for divorce, per People. Their noted date of separation is February 21. The couple met while working together on Guiding Light where Grillo played Hart Jessup from 1997 until 1999 and Moniz played Dinah Marler from 1995 – 1999. They married October 28, 2000 and had two children together. Moniz is reportedly asking for joint legal and physical custody of their sons.

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On Guiding Light, Hart Jessup was Roger Thorpe’s (Michael Zaslow) son who fell in love with Dinah Marler, daughter of Ross Marler (Jerry verDorn) and Vanessa Chamberlain (Maeve Kinkead). Hart eventually left her for Cassie Layne (Laura Wright, Carly Corinthos, General Hospital), but Dinah manipulated him into marrying her with news of a pregnancy and a faked illness. When Hart finally decided to return to the woman he truly loved, Dinah tried to shoot Cassie but he jumped in front of the bullet. Hart went into cardiac arrest and died after suffering brain damage when his blood supply was cut off for too long a period of time during surgery.

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After Guiding Light Moniz and Grillo each carved out successful careers with the couple reuniting in Grillo’s Audience Network MMA fighting drama series Kingdom that ran from 2014 – 2017. In addition to playing Grillo’s love interest for several episodes in 2016, Moniz has had several recurring roles on TV over the years including those on Yellowstone, House of Cards, Damages and Nash Bridges. She returned to soap operas in 2011 for a brief stint as Mayor Kathleen Finn on One Life to Live. Meanwhile, Grillo appeared in the Avengers and The Purge franchise movies, as well as Point Blank and Zero Dark Thirty. His other TV credits include The Gates, Prison Break and The Shield. Coming up, Grillo will be seen in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard starring Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) and Samuel L. Jackson (Shaft), Boss Level with Mel Gibson (Daddy’s Home 2) and Naomi Watts (The Loudest Voice), Jiu Jitsu with Nicolas Cage (National Treasure) and Juju Chan (Wu Assassins) and several more projects in development.