Get to Know a Soap Opera Star: Tina Sloan

fans know that actress Tina Sloan portrays Lillian on their favorite series.

But what else do you know about this daytime television stalwart? Here are few tidbits about Sloan:

• Has run marathons in New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Honolulu, London and Paris

• Hiked Mount Kilimanjaro in 1988

• Never cooks

• Grew up a few doors down from Joan Kennedy

• Lauren Bacall once filmed a Fortunoff ad in Sloan's ritzy Park Avenue home in N.Y.C.

• Is terrified at the sight of blood and needles

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