Paige Turco

Jean Paige Turco is an American actress, best known for her role as April ONeil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II The Secret of the Ooze and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. Other notable roles include Melanie Cortlandt on the ABC soap opera All My Children, Terri Lowell in the CBS series The Agency, and appearances in American Gothic, NYPD Blue, Party of Five and Person of Interest. Since March 2014, she has starred as Abigail Griffin in the postapocalyptic drama series, The 100.

Turco was born to Joyce Jean and David Vincent Turco, in Springfield, Massachusetts, where she was raised. She took ballet lessons as a little girl and planned to become a classical ballerina. She attended the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts, and performed as a soloist at the New England Dance Conservatory, the Amherst Ballet Theatre Company, and the Western Massachusetts Ballet Company. An ankle injury ended the possibility of professional ballet. She remarked that after that, I couldnt even go to the ballet anymore. It was too painful. Paige graduated from Bay Path College in Longmeadow, Massachusetts and majored in drama at the University of Connecticut.

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