Eden Riegel

Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Eden Sonja Jane Riegel (born January 1, 1981) is an American actress. She portrayed Bianca Montgomery in the daytime drama All My Children, and propelled the character into a gay icon, as well as a popular figure within the medium.<ref name="WWW.afterellen.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="www.washblade.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Nominated previously on multiple occasions, she received a Daytime Emmy Award for the role in 2005.<ref name="soapcentral.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In addition to her work on All My Children, Riegel has guest starred in several prime time shows, as well as film, and starred as character "Eden" in the web series Imaginary Bitches. She assumed the role of Heather Stevens on The Young and the Restless from April 2010 to November 2011.<ref>[1] Template:Webarchive</ref>

Riegel is also a prolific voice actress, providing the voices for many video games and animated projects. She is the voice director for Disney's animated TV series Amphibia, The Owl House, The Ghost and Molly McGee, Hailey's On It!, Zombies: The Re-Animated Series, Primos and Kiff (alongside her brother Sam Riegel)

Early life

Born to Kurt and Lenore Riegel on New Year's Day 1981 in Washington, D.C.,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Riegel was raised in a Virginia suburb and became interested in acting while watching her brother, Sam, perform dinner theater, which she later joined in for $10 a week.<ref name="theatermania.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her big break came when she won the role of Cosette in Les Misérables, leading to other roles on and off-Broadway. She graduated from the Professional Children's School and attended Harvard University, with ambitions to become a lawyer, but later left the institution.<ref name=theatermania.com/> In 2000, she served as an intern at the White House for the summer.<ref name=soapcentral.com/><ref name="www.wchstv.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Career

All My Children

From July 2000 to February 2005, Riegel portrayed the role of Bianca Montgomery on the American ABC soap opera All My Children; Bianca was the daughter of the show's central character, Erica Kane. During the 2004-2005 baby switch storyline, when Bianca's daughter is kidnapped and switched with the son of Babe Carey Chandler (Alexa Havins), Riegel also portrayed Bianca on fellow ABC soap opera One Life to Live.

In December 2000, Riegel's character Bianca "came out" to her mother, Erica Kane (Susan Lucci), becoming the only lesbian on a daytime soap opera at that time.<ref name="goliath.ecnext.com">Template:Cite book</ref> In 2003, the kiss between Bianca and character Lena Kundera (Olga Sosnovska) made history when it became the first lesbian kiss to appear on American daytime television.<ref name="afterellen.com">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="firstcoastnews.com">Template:Cite news</ref> In 2005, Bianca shared a kiss with close friend and confidante Maggie Stone (Elizabeth Hendrickson), making TV Guide's list of best same-sex kisses on television.<ref name="www.tvguide.com">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Riegel's character was awarded the first Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation award for "Favorite OUT Image of the Year" in 2004.<ref name="glaad.org">Template:Cite news</ref> Lesbianation.com, self-proclaimed as the leading online community for lesbians, voted Eden Riegel as Number 7 on their top ten list of Women We Love: The Ladies of June '06, stating, "We were swamped with requests to add All My Children hottie Eden Riegel to our list this month — and here she is!"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Riegel was nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series (2001, 2002, 2004) and won the award in 2005.<ref name=soapcentral.com/> She also won two Soap Opera Digest Awards in 2001 for Outstanding Female Newcomer.<ref name=soapcentral.com/> Later that year, Riegel, along with best friend and co-star Elizabeth Hendrickson, exited All My Children, with their last show airing on February 24, 2005. Riegel then moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue other acting ventures. She made a brief return to the soap opera when Bianca's mother (Erica) married in May 2005, and returned for an extended stay from December 16, 2005, to January 10, 2006. Bianca's daughter, Miranda, was aged accordingly. Riegel returned again for a short visit from May 24, 2006, until mid-June, in a storyline connected with Bianca's sister Kendall's (Alicia Minshew) pregnancy and coma. In August 2006, Riegel's return to All My Children as a contract player was announced. The actress taped her first scenes on September 12, which first aired on October 11. Riegel commuted back and forth between her home and family in Los Angeles and New York, where All My Children tapes. In 2007, she parted ways with the show once again, but reappeared in the episode dated August 14, 2007, when Bianca phones in to check on Kendall from Paris, and in December for a Christmas visit.

In 2008, Riegel agreed to return to All My Children with Tamara Braun. Braun came on as Reese Williams, Bianca's new lover/girlfriend and later wife. Bianca first aired on October 17, 2008. Reese followed on October 30, 2008. Riegel's return was partly to minimize the effect of Alicia Minshew's absence on the show while Minshew took a two-month hiatus to get married. Reese and Bianca's union made history when it resulted in the first legal same-sex marriage in American daytime television.<ref name="AfterEllen.Com">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="www.cnn.com">Template:Cite news</ref> Riegel left the show again in February 2009, but also confirmed in an interview with Soap Opera Digest that she would be returning in spring 2009 to conclude the Reese and Bianca story.<ref name="SOAPnet.com">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2010, Riegel returned for a short-term stint for All My Children's 40th anniversary.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The character had been cited as too iconic to recast,<ref name="sympatico.msn.ca">Template:Cite magazine</ref> but in 2010, Riegel decided to permanently exit the role, and plans to recast were subsequently confirmed.<ref name="SOD">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="www.soapCentral.com">Template:Cite news</ref> However, on February 22, 2013, it was announced that Riegel would be reprising her role as Bianca in guest-arc on the Prospect Park's brief continuation of All My Children.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Other projects

Prior to joining All My Children, Riegel had a small role on the daytime drama As the World Turns as an AIDS patient, appeared in Law & Order and portrayed a minor character in the feature film American Pie.<ref name=soapcentral.com/><ref name=www.wchstv.com/> She sang and did voice acting work in the film The Prince of Egypt. She has also done some voicework for animated TV shows like Stitch! and Bleach. While portraying Bianca, she remained active in other acting avenues, doing a small guest role on American Dreams and appearing in the New York play The Sex Lives of Superheroes.

In 2008, Riegel joined the cast of Year One, a Harold Ramis film that stars Jack Black and Michael Cera. The film is a comedy about two men wandering through civilization during Biblical times, and was released in June 2009.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Eden and her brother, Sam Riegel, both voiced characters in the 2012 Vita port of Persona 4 Golden, voicing the characters of Marie and Teddie, respectively.

In 2008, Riegel starred in the web series Imaginary Bitches, portraying the role of "Eden", a single girl who deals with the lonely reality that her best friends are all in serious relationships by creating some imaginary friends...who turn out to be total bitches. The show is edited by Eden's half-sister Tatiana S. Riegel, written by brother Sam Riegel, and was created by Andrew Miller.<ref name="new.tubefilter.tv">Template:Cite news</ref> In 2010, Riegel took over the role of Heather Stevens on The Young and the Restless.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She also guest-starred on ABC's Castle, portraying the distraught sister of a man who is killed in the episode.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

Her older brother, Sam, is a voice actor and voice director in various animated shows and video games, and her half-sister, Tatiana (known as "Tanya" to friends and family), is an Oscar-nominated film editor for various television shows and films. Eden discussed the portrayal of Bianca with Tatiana, who is a lesbian, and with the producers of All My Children, in order to ensure that the character was not a stereotype.<ref name="findarticles.com">Template:Cite news</ref>

In March 2007, Riegel became engaged to actor Andrew Miller, who had been a high school classmate of Cameron Mathison's (Ryan Lavery on All My Children).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Miller and Riegel married on September 30, 2007, and their first son, Jack Oscar Miller, was born on May 21, 2011.<ref name = "jackoscar">Template:Cite news</ref> In June 2013, Riegel announced on Twitter that she was expecting her second child, a boy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her second son, Henry Isaac Miller, was born on December 20, 2013.

Riegel is a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and is a close friend of actresses Rebecca Budig, Alicia Minshew, and Elizabeth Hendrickson.<ref name="TVguide.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Filmography

Films

List of live-action acting performances in films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
1992	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	Choir Member	Uncredited role
1994	The Frog King	Princess	Short Film
1996	Duo	Joan
1999	Henry Hill	Nicole Hill
1999	American Pie	Sarah
2001	Semmelweis	Elisabeth	Short Film
2009	Year One	Lilith
2012	Trauma Team	Taylor Ruske
2013	The Morning After	Lisa	Short Film
2014	Teacher Of The Year	Jackie Campbell
2016	ISRA 88	Mary Anderson
2018	Living Room Coffin	Polly

List of voice performances in films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
1993	Peppermint Rose	Unknown	Voice role Special
	Richard Scarry's Best Busy People Video Ever!	Unknown	Voice role Released straight-to-video
	Richard Scarry's Best Learning Songs Video Ever!	Unknown	Voice role Released straight-to-video
1994	Richard Scarry's Best Silly Stories and Songs Video Ever	Unknown	Voice role Released straight-to-video
	Richard Scarry's Best Sing Along Mother Goose Video Ever	Unknown	Voice role Released straight-to-video
1998	The Prince of Egypt	Young Miriam	Voice role	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2003	Azumi	Azumi	Voice role English dub
2006	Azumi 2: Death or Love	Azumi	Voice role English dub
2013	Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Lost Tower	Queen Sara, Sara's Daughter	Voice role English dub
2015	Tiger & Bunny: The Rising	Kaede Kaburagi	Voice role English dub	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar	Kiara	Voice role Television film
2017	The Lion Guard: The Rise of Scar	Kiara	Voice role Television film
2018	Sailor Moon S: The Movie	Himeko Nayotake	Voice role English dub Viz Media Version

Television

List of live-action acting performances on television and related media

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
1995-1997	New York Undercover	Meghan Cooper	Episode: Digital Underground Episode: The Solomon Papers
1997	Law & Order	Natalie	Episode: Mad Dog
2000–2013	All My Children	Bianca Montgomery	(Role from: July 2000 - February 2005; May 2005; December 2005 - January 2006; May 2006; October 2006 - April 2007; August 2007; December 2007; October 17, 2008 - February 24, 2009; April 24, 2009 - April 29, 2009; January 5, 2010; April 29, 2013 - July 15, 2013)
2004	American Dreams	Protestor	Episode: Shoot the Moon
2004–2005	One Life to Live	Bianca Montgomery	3 episodes
2010	Castle	Rachel Goldstein	Episode: Punked
2010–2011	The Young and the Restless	Heather Stevens	April 20, 2010 – November 4, 2011
2012	NCIS	Meredith Bilson	Episode: The Good Son
2014	Hawaii Five-0	FBI Analyst Katie Halinan	Episode: Pe'epe'e Kanaka
	Criminal Minds	Shelley Hicks	Episode: A Thousand Suns
2015	Rizzoli & Isles	Florence Reynolds	Episode: In Plain View
2016	NCIS: Los Angeles	Dr. Iris Miller	Episode: Crazy Train
2017	One Day at a Time	Lucy	Episode: Quinces
2018	A.P. Bio	Katie	Episode: Dating Toledoans
2021	Sydney to the Max	Rabbi Feller	Episode: "The Bat Mitzvah Planner"

List of voice performances in television and direct-to-video

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2002	Samurai Deeper Kyo	Sakuya	English dub as Sonja Lingo/Eden Regal
2004	DearS	B-Ko	English dub as Jane Lingo
2009–2016	Stitch!	Yuna Kamihara	English dub
2010–2011	Bleach	Rurichiyō Kasumiōji	English dub
2011	Marvel Anime: Iron Man	Nanami Ota	English dub
2012–2013 2022	Tiger & Bunny	Kaede Kaburagi	English dub	citation	CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref>
2015	Sailor Moon R	Kōan	English dub Viz dub; as Claudia Lenz	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Fresh Beat Band of Spies	Spooky Spooks	Episode: "Ghost of Rock" as Eden Riegel Miller	<ref>Template:Cite episode</ref>
2016–2019	The Lion Guard	Kiara	10 episodes	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Dts	Sailor Moon Crystal	Kōan	Episode: "Infiltration -Sailor Mars-" English dub as Claudia Lenz	<ref name="Sailor Moon"/>
2019–2022	Amphibia	Additional Voices	dialogue director	<ref name="btva"/>
2020–2023	The Owl House	Boscha / Additional Voices	dialogue director
2020–2021	Kinderwood		casting director/assistant dialogue director/dialogue director
2020	Santiago of the Seas		voice director ("A Pirate Christmas")
2021–2024	The Ghost and Molly McGee	Kat/Howlin Harriet/Purple Hair Girl/Bobbi/Hungry Girl/Twin Girls/Abby/Darryl's Lawyer/Harriet/Additional Voices	dialogue director	<ref name="btva"/>
2021–2021	Archibald's Next Big Thing Is Here		voice director (6 episodes)
2021–2022	TrollsTopia		voice director (11 episodes)
2022–2023	Interrupting Chicken		voice director
2023–Present	Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures		voice director
2023–2023	Kiff		voice director (5 episodes)
2023–2024	Hailey's On It!	Olga	dialogue director
2024–Present	Zombies: The Re-Animated Series	Razzy	dialogue director
2024–Present	Primos	N.K. Scheinhorn/Caroline Malfeo/Jaguar/Additional Voices	dialogue director

Video games

List of performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2008	Tales of Vesperia	Estellise Sidos Heurassein		<ref name="btva"/>
2009	Star Ocean: Second Evolution	Rena Lanford	as Claudia Lenz	<ref name="btva"/>
	Final Fantasy XIII	Cocoon Inhabitants		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Dead or Alive Paradise	Hitomi<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Shared with Hynden Walch
	Naruto Shippuden: Dragon Blade Chronicles	Akari Tatsuhiro	English dub
2010	Nier	Devola / Popola	Uncredited	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2011	Dead or Alive: Dimensions	Hitomi
2012	Call of Duty: Black Ops II	Josefina Menendez / Jane McKnight
	Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City	Sherry Birkin
	Resident Evil 6	Sherry Birkin		<ref name="btva"/>
	Persona 4 Golden	Marie		<ref name="btva"/>
	Soulcalibur V		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2013	Fire Emblem Awakening	Sumia		<ref name="btva"/>
	Shin Megami Tensei IV	Isabeau		<ref name="btva"/>
	Saints Row IV	Jane Austen	Serves as narrator for the game
2014	Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster	Chuami	Final Fantasy X -Will- Audio Drama
	Guilty Gear Xrd	May
2015	Saints Row: Gat out of Hell	Jane Austen / Demons
	Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven	Charlotte	as Claudia Lenz
2016	Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness	Miki Sauvester		<ref name="btva"/>
	World of Final Fantasy	Hauynn / Masked Woman
	Final Fantasy XV	Iris Amicitia		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Persona 5	Hifumi Togo
2017	Nier: Automata	Devola / Popola	as Claudia Lenz	<ref name="btva"/>
	Fire Emblem Heroes	Genny / Kana (female)		<ref name="btva"/>
	The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II	Duvalie The Swift		<ref name="btva"/>
2018	Monster Hunter: World	The Handler		<ref name="btva"/>
2019	Fire Emblem: Three Houses	Fleche von Bergliez	Credited as Eden Miller	<ref name="btva"/>
	Catherine	Anna Rosmont		<ref name="btva"/>
	Monster Hunter: World - Iceborne	The Handler
	Persona 5 Royal	Hifumi Togo		<ref name="btva"/>
2020	Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time	Coco Bandicoot, Fake Coco	Replacing Debi Derryberry	<ref name="btva"/>
	Yakuza: Like a Dragon	Eri Kamataki		<ref name="btva"/>
	Fallout 76: Steel Dawn	Tally Lang		In-game credits<ref>Template:Cite video game</ref>
	The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV	Duvalie The Swift	As Claudia Lenz	<ref name="btva"/>
2021	Persona 5 Strikers	Additional Voices		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139...	Devola / Popola		In-game credits<ref name="NRv1credits">Template:Cite video game</ref>
	Guilty Gear -STRIVE-	May		<ref name="btva"/>
	Cookie Run: Kingdom	Princess Cookie		<ref name="btva" />
2022	Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes	Fleche von Bergliez	Credited as Claudia Lenz	<ref name="btva"/>
2023	Mato Anomalies	Butterfly, Cheyne		In-game credits
2023	The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie	Duvalie The Swift		<ref name="btva"/>
2024	Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth	Additional voices		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Granblue Fantasy: Relink	Additional voices		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2025	Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii	Additional voices		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Web series

List of acting performances in web series

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2008	Imaginary Bitches	Eden	13 episodes	<ref name="new.tubefilter.tv" />
2025	Wildemount Wildlings	Sky Bloodforge	3-episode actual play limited series	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Awards and nominations

Awards won
Year	Award
2005	Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for All My Children<ref name=soapcentral.com/>
2005	Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Younger Lead Actress for All My Children<ref name=soapcentral.com/>
2004	GLAAD Media Award Favorite OUT Image of the Year Award for All My Children<ref name=glaad.org/>
2001	Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Female Newcomer for All My Children<ref name=soapcentral.com/>
Nominated
Year	Award
2024	Children's & Family Emmy Awards Outstanding Voice Directing for an Animated Series for Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures
2023	Children's & Family Emmy Awards Outstanding Voice Directing for an Animated Series for The Ghost and Molly McGee
2022	Children's & Family Emmy Awards Outstanding Voice Directing for an Animated Series for Amphibia
2009	Daytime Emmy New Approaches - Daytime Entertainment for Imaginary Bitches
2004	Daytime Emmy Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for All My Children<ref name=soapcentral.com/>
2002	Daytime Emmy Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for All My Children<ref name=soapcentral.com/>
2001	Daytime Emmy Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for All My Children<ref name=soapcentral.com/>

On April 14, 2009, the 13th Annual Webby Award Nominations were announced. Riegel was nominated for her work on Imaginary Bitches in the Best Individual Performance category.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Andrew Miller received an Official Honoree Selection for Best Writing.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Riegel was announced on May 5, 2009, as the winner of the Best Individual Performance People's Voice Award.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her acceptance speech, which was limited to five words, was: "I'm sleeping with the director."

See also

• Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone
• Lena Kundera and Bianca Montgomery
• Reese Williams and Bianca Montgomery
• Supercouple

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