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Meet the Stars of Loveuary

Get ready for a February filled with love, romance and friendship on Hallmark Channel. Find out more about the cast of the all-new original movies including Eloise Mumford, Alexandra Turshen, Aaron O'Connell, Alexa PenaVega and more! Be sure to tune in Saturday nights at 8/7c all month long.

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Alexandra Turshen

Alexandra Turshen stars as Rachel in "Made for Each Other."

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Made for Each Other is Alexandra's debut role on Hallmark Channel!

More about Alexandra

Alexandra was born in Washington, D.C. and began performing with local ballet companies at age five, joining the Washington Ballet Company after high school. At Mount Holyoke College, Alexandra pursued her passion for History, Politics, and International Human Rights, played club ice hockey and performed in school theatre productions.

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Alexandra has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Matt Cohen, Aaron O'Connell and Illeana Douglas


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Matt Cohen

Matt Cohen stars as David in "Made for Each Other."

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Matt played a recurring role in The CW’s “90210” as Jeremy in 2011!

More about Matt

South Florida native Matt Cohen spent his high school years excelling in sports as well as academics and attended Florida State University to pursue a business degree. At FSU, he decided to include some theatre classes into his curriculum. Within a short time, Cohen decided to plunge head first into his newfound passion for the arts.

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Matt has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Alexandra Turshen, Aaron O'Connell, Illeana Douglas and Brittany Bristow.


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Aaron O'Connell

Aaron O'Connell stars as Clay in "Made for Each Other."

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Aaron is multi-talented and is a musician as well as an actor, and grew up playing football, basketball and baseball.

More about Aaron

Aaron has appeared in several Hallmark movies including “My Christmas Love,” “12 Gifts of Christmas” alongside Katrina Law, as well as “With Love, Christmas” opposite Emilie Ullerup. Of English and Irish ancestry, Aaron John O’Connell was born in Dayton, Ohio, where he grew up with his sisters Amy, Abby and Anna. Their parents, Mark Alan O’Connell, a former player for the Cincinnati Bengals and current President of ChemStation of Indiana, and Kathryn (Deeble) O’Connell, met during college in Ohio.

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Aaron has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Alexandra Turshen, Matt Cohen, Illeana Douglas, Katrina Law and Emilie Ullerup.


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Illeana Douglas

Illeana Douglas stars as Doris in "Made for Each Other."

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Did You Know?

Illeana appeared in her first Hallmark movie, "Just One Kiss" as character Marlene in 2022! In addition to acting, llleana is an author who wrote her memoir entitled, “I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from A Life Lived in and Out of the Movies.”

More about Illeana

Illeana Douglas recently starred in “Goliath” for Amazon, “Search Party” on HBO Max and “Shrill” for Hulu. Some of her memorable film roles include "She’s Funny That Way," "Ghost World," "Stir of Echoes," "Happy, Texas," "Picture Perfect," "Message in a Bottle," "Grace of My Heart," "To Die For," "Cape Fear," "Alive" and "Goodfellas."

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Aaron has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Alexandra Turshen, Matt Cohen, Aaron O'Connell, Krysta Rodriguez, Santino Fontana, and Aida Turturro.


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Kathryn Davis

Kathryn Davis stars as Olivia in “Welcome to Valentine.”

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Did You Know?

Though this is Kathryn's first time starring in a Hallmark Channel romance, she is no stranger to television Christmas movies and has starred in several, including "Christmas on 5th Avenue" and "A Christmas Exchange." She was also featured in the Hallmark Channel movie, "A Christmas Carousel."

More about Kathryn

Kathryn Davis is a British-Canadian actress who most recently starred in UPtv’s “Santa’s Got Style,” Citytv’s “Six Degrees of Santa” and “Planes, Trains, and Christmas Trees.” Davis played superhero Phaseout in Netflix’s “Jupiter’s Legacy” and had a recurring role in “The Wedding Planners.”

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Kathryn has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Markian Tarasiuk, Rachel Boston and Neal Bledsoe.


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Markian Tarasiuk

Markian Tarasiuk stars as George in “Welcome to Valentine.”

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Did You Know?

Markian appeared as Blake in the Hallmark Channel ensemble family Christmas movie, "Christmas at the Golden Dragon" in 2022. In the same year, on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries he played Dr. Greg in the heartwarming movie, "Our Italian Christmas Memories."

More about Markian

Markian Tarasiuk started taking acting classes when he was six years old and performed in his first play at the age of 14 in Winnipeg. It was then he knew he wanted to be an actor. Since that time, his acting career has taken him all over Canada and he has starred in multiple films such as "There’s Someone Inside Your House" (UBCP/ACTRA Awards nomination, Best Supporting Actor) and "Christmas Jars" (Canadian Screen Awards nomination, Best Actor).

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Markian has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Kathryn Davis, Sarah Power, Beau Bridges, Kara Wang and Osric Chau.


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Brenda Strong

Brenda Strong stars as Helen in “Sweeter Than Chocolate.”

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Did You Know?

Brenda is well known to television audiences for her eight seasons as Mary-Alice Young, the departed narrator of ABC’s smash hit “Desperate Housewives.” Brenda has also been featured in the Hallmark movie “Ice Sculpture Christmas” and can also be seen in “Love by Chance” on Hallmark Movies Now.

More about Brenda

Elegant and timeless, two-time Emmy nominee Brenda Strong was most recently seen in the feature film "The Leisure Class," produced in conjunction with HBO's behind-the-scenes documentary series "Project Greenlight." She also recently ended a three-season run as Ann Ewing in TNT’s continuation of the classic series “Dallas.”

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Brenda has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Beau Garrett, Benjamin Ayres, Rachel Boston, David Alpay, Eloise Mumford and Dan Jeannotte.


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Alexa PenaVega

Alexa PenaVega stars as Anna in “A Paris Proposal.”

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Did You Know?

Alexa has appeared in many Hallmark movies, some opposite her husband Carlos PenaVega. The two recently starred in the Fall Into Love 2022 movie, "Love in the Limelight."

More about Alexa

A Miami native, Alexa PenaVega is an actress and a singer. Her career began as a young girl in 1996, when she starred as Jo Harding in the hit film "Twister." After that, she guest-starred in various television shows and films such as “The Bernie Mac Show,” “ER” and “Ghost Whisperer.” The movie that catapulted her to worldwide fame was the 2001 film "Spy Kids," in which she starred as Carmen Cortez.

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Alexa has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Nicholas Bishop, Luke Macfarlane, Shawn Roberts, Jonathan Bennett


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Nicholas Bishop

Nicholas Bishop stars as Sebastian in “A Paris Proposal.”

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This is Nicholas' first Hallmark movie! In addition to films, the actor has appeared in many stage productions.

More about Nicholas

Nicholas can most recently be seen on the second season of “Industry” for HBO in which he has a leading role, as well as in a supporting role in the film "Lady Chatterley’s Lover," alongside Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell. He also starred in "Pretty Red Dress" directed by Dionne Edwards and the Starz series “Becoming Elizabeth,” directed by Justin Chadwick.

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Nicholas has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Alexa PenaVega


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Eloise Mumford

Eloise Mumford stars as Lucy in “Sweeter Than Chocolate.”

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Did You Know?

Eloise starred in the classic Hallmark Hall of Fame movie “Christmas with Holly” opposite Sean Faris!

More about Eloise

A 2009 graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Eloise Mumford understudied Elisabeth Moss in Speed-in-the-Plow on Broadway while still in school, ultimately performing opposite William H. Macy and Raul Esparza. She made her TV debut as one of the female leads on Kyle Killen’s Fox series “Lone Star” with Jimmy Wolk and Jon Voight. Other Hallmark movies include "The Presence of Love," "One December Night" and "The Baker's Son."
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Eloise has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Julian Morris, Brett Dalton, Bruce Campbell, Peter Gallagher, Brant Daugherty, Sean Faris, Dan Jeannotte and Brenda Strong.


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Dan Jeannotte

Dan Jeannotte stars as Dean in “Sweeter Than Chocolate.”

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Dan starred opposite Rachel Skarsten in the 2022 hit Countdown to Christmas movie, "The Royal Nanny." Dan received the 2015 ACTRA Montreal Award for Outstanding Performance in a Video Game for his work in “Assassin’s Creed: Unity.”

More about Dan

Award-winning actor Dan Jeannotte is best known to TV viewers for his role as James Stuart, the Earl of Moray in The CW’s “Reign” and Hallmark Channel viewers will recognize him as Brandon Russell from “The Good Witch” series.

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Dan has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Rachel Skarsten, Jen Lilley, Eloise Mumford and Brenda Strong


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Lacey Chabert

Lacey Chabert stars as Avery in The Wedding Veil.

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Lacey made her feature film debut as Penny Robinson in "Lost in Space" opposite Matt LeBlanc.

More about Lacey

She is well known for her role as Claudia on the television series “Party of Five” with Scott Wolfe and Gretchen in the hit comedy "Mean Girls" opposite Hallmark star Jonathan Bennett ("The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls").

Lacey has starred in a number of Hallmark romance movies including "Winter in Vail," “All of My Heart" and "Love, Romance & Chocolate.” Her most recent Christmas movie for Hallmark was fan favorite "Haul out the Holly."

She also headlined the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ movie series Crossword Mysteries with Brennan Elliott and Barbara Niven.

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Lacey has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Alison Sweeney, Autumn Reeser, Kevin McGarry, Stuart Townsend, Brennan Elliott, Tyler Hynes, Barbara Niven


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Kevin McGarry

Kevin McGarry stars as Peter in The Wedding Veil.

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Kevin appeared opposite Annie Murphy on the wildly popular sitcom “Schitt’s Creek.”

More about Kevin

Kevin stars in Hallmark Channel's flagship series “When Calls the Heart” as Nathan Grant. He also starred in the Hallmark romance movies, “Winter Love Story” and "Winter Castle" with fellow New Year New Movies 2022 stars Jen Lilley and Emilie Ullerup.

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Kevin has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Lacey Chabert, Alison Sweeney, Autumn Reeser, Jen Lilley, Erin Krakow, Emilie Ullerup, Becca Tobin, Kim Shaw


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Autumn Reeser

Autumn Reeser stars as Emma in The Wedding Veil Unveiled.

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Autumn is well known for her roles on HBO’s “Entourage” and as Taylor Townsend on FOX’s “The O.C.”

More about Autumn

In addition to TV, Autumn has appeared in feature films including Clint Eastwood’s "Sully" with Tom Hanks and on stage in performances such as Nicky Silver’s "Too Much Sun."

Autumn has also starred in many romantic dramas for Hallmark Channel, including "A Country Wedding" with Jesse Metcalfe, "The 27 Hour Day" with Andrew Walker and "Midnight Masquerade" with Christopher Russell ("Where Your Heart Belongs") and Barbara Niven ("North to Home").

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Autumn has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Lacey Chabert, Alison Sweeney, Kevin McGarry, Barbara Niven, Christopher Russell, Andrew Walker, Kavan Smith, Jesse Metcalfe


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Paolo Bernardini

Paolo Bernardini stars as Paolo in The Wedding Veil Unveiled.

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Paolo is multilingual and is also a musician and singer!

More about Paolo

Paolo Bernardini is an Italian actor born in Belgium. After his first acting experiences in the theatre, he made his on-screen debut in 1999 with Martin Scorsese’s film "Gangs of New York." This single experience was enough to convince him to pursue an acting career. He graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 2005, and soon began working in television and cinema, taking on roles in Italian as well as international projects.

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Paolo has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Autumn Reeser, Lacey Chabert, and Alison Sweeney.


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Alison Sweeney

Alison Sweeney stars as Tracy in The Wedding Veil.

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Alison joined the cast of “Days of Our Lives” at just 16 years old.

More about Alison

Alison co-created and stars in “Chronicle Mysteries” for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and headlined “Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery” based on the popular book series.

Alison recently starred in the Hallmark Christmas movie Open by Christmas” with Brennan Elliot and the romantic movies “Love on the Air” and “The Irresistible Blueberry Farm."

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Alison has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Lacey Chabert, Autumn Reeser, Kevin McGarry, Erica Durance, Brennan Elliot, Michael Karl Richards, Marc Blucas


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Victor Webster

Victor Webster stars as Nick in The Wedding Veil Legacy.

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The actor is passionate about martial arts, and holds a black belt and undefeated record in tae kwon do, and a black belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu!

Like costar Alison Sweeney, Webster discovered his passion for acting when he made his television debut on the NBC daytime drama “Days of Our Lives.”

More about Victor

Victor can be spotted in numerous Hallmark Channel movies including “Five Star Christmas,” “Homegrown Christmas,” “Love Blossoms,” “Summer Villa,” “Hearts of Winter”and “A Harvest Wedding.” He also stars opposite Danica McKellar in the "Matchmaker Mysteries" movie series on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.

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Victor has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Bethany Joy Lenz, Jill Wagner, Shantel VanSanten, Alison Sweeney,
Lacey Chabert and Autumn Reeser.


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Melanie Scrofano

Melanie Scrofano stars as Amy in Welcome to Mama's.

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In addition to acting, Melanie has directing credits as well for episodes of “Wynonna Earp,” “SurrealEstate” and most recently, “The Hardy Boys” for Hulu.

More about Melanie

Melanie is an accomplished and established Canadian actor. Best known for playing the title role in SYFY’s “Wynonna Earp” for 4 seasons, she has also recurred on the hit comedy series, “Letterkenny.” Scrofano’s other credits include “Bad Blood,” “Designated Survivor,” “Star Trek,” and Fox Searchlight’s studio film, "Ready or Not."

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Melanie has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Daniel Di Tomasso and Lorraine Bracco


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Daniel di Tomasso

Daniel di Tomasso stars as Frank in Welcome to Mama's.

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Daniel was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and young son.

More about Daniel

Daniel is perhaps best known for his series regular role on “Witches of East End,” based on the popular novel by Melissa de la Cruz, starring alongside Julia Ormond, Mädchen Amick, Jenna Dewan and Rachel Boston.

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Daniel has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Melanie Scrofano and Lorraine Bracco


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Lorraine Bracco

Lorraine Bracco stars as Mama in Welcome to Mama's.

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As well as acting, Lorraine has been a professional model and is the author of two books! She recently embarked on a dramatic home-renovation journey after purchasing two properties in Sambuca di Sicilia, depicted in the series "My Big Italian Adventure" on HGTV.

More about Lorraine

Lorraine's remarkable performances in all arenas have earned her a global fan base. She is perhaps best known for her role as psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Melfi, who treated New Jersey Mafia heavyweight Tony Soprano on HBO’s hit series, “The Sopranos.” For this role, she earned multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Additionally, Bracco is an Academy Award nominee for her performance as Karen Hill in Martin Scorsese’s "GoodFellas."

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Melanie has also appeared alongside these Hallmark stars:

Daniel Di Tomasso and Melanie Scrofano


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