Eden Riegel

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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">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="www.washblade.com">Template:Cite web</ref> Nominated previously on multiple occasions, she received a Daytime Emmy Award for the role in 2005.<ref name="soapcentral.com">Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite 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">Template:Cite 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">Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2010, Riegel returned for a short-term stint for All My Children's 40th anniversary.<ref>Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite web</ref> She also guest-starred on ABC's Castle, portraying the distraught sister of a man who is killed in the episode.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2025, Riegel voiced Guinevere, an android princess, in Knights of Guinevere, produced by independent animation studio Glitch Productions.<ref name="knightsof" /> On social media she called the production "astonishing" and a "wild ride", and said it would "gonna knock your socks off!"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The pilot was co-created by Dana Terrace, Zach Marcus, and John Bailey Owen, who had worked together on The Owl House. In that series, she voiced Boscha and other characters, from 2020 to 2023.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

She also voiced characters in other Disney series, such as Amphibia,<ref name="btva" /> The Ghost and Molly McGee,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Hailey's On It!,<ref name="btva" /> Zombies: The Re-Animated Series,<ref name="btva" /> and Primos.<ref name="knightsof" /> She also was a voice director on Zombies: The Re-Animated Series,<ref name="edel2025">Template:Cite web</ref> Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures,<ref name="edel2025" /> five episodes of Kiff, and five other animated series: The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball, Hailey's On It!, The Ghost and Molly McGee, The Owl House, and Amphibia..<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Riegel has received nominations at the Children's and Family Emmy Awards for the "Outstanding Voice Directing for an Animated Series" category for Amphibia in 2022,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="emmy2022">Template:Cite web</ref> The Ghost and Molly McGee in 2023,<ref name="emmys2023">Template:Cite web see page 28</ref> and Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures in 2025.<ref name="emmys2025">Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite 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">Template:Cite 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 <ref name="btva">Template:Cite 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 		<ref>Template:Cite 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 <ref name="Tiger & Bunny Facebook">Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
2015 Sailor Moon R Kōan English dub
Viz dub; as Claudia Lenz 		<ref name="Sailor Moon">Template:Cite 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 <ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite 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 Trolls: 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 Zombies: The Re-Animated Series Razzy dialogue director
2024–2025 Primos N.K. Scheinhorn/Caroline Malfeo/Jaguar/Additional Voices dialogue director
2025–present The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball voice director: USA
The Sisters Grimm voiceover 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 <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Dead or Alive Paradise Hitomi<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Shared with Hynden Walch
Naruto Shippuden: Dragon Blade Chronicles Akari Tatsuhiro English dub
2010 Nier Devola / Popola Uncredited <ref name="NieR">Template:Cite 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 as Claudia Lenz<ref>Template:Cite 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 <ref>Template:Cite 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 <ref name="P5S">Template:Cite 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 <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Granblue Fantasy: Relink Additional voices <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2025 Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Additional voices <ref>Template:Cite 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 <ref name="CNBC March 2025">Template:Cite web</ref>
Knights of Guinevere Guinevere "Gwen" <ref name="knightsof">Template:Cite web</ref>


Awards and nominations

Template:Awards table |- ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2001 | Soap Opera Digest Award | Outstanding Female Newcomer for All My Children | Eden Riegel | Template:Won | <ref name="contemporaryentry" /> |- ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2001 | rowspan=2"|Daytime Emmy Award | rowspan=2"|Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for All My Children | Eden Riegel | Template:Nom | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2002 | Eden Riegel | Template:Nom | <ref name="contemporaryentry">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2004 | GLAAD Media Award | Favorite OUT Image of the Year Award for All My Children | Eden Riegel | Template:Won | <ref name="glaad.org" /> |- ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2004 | rowspan="2"|Daytime Emmy Award | rowspan="2"|Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for All My Children | Eden Riegel | Template:Nom | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2005 | Eden Riegel | Template:Won | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2005 | Soap Opera Digest Award | Outstanding Younger Lead Actress for All My Children | Eden Riegel | Template:Won | <ref name=soapcentral.com/> |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 2009 | Daytime Emmy Award | New Approaches - Daytime Entertainment for Imaginary Bitches | Eden Riegel | Template:Nom | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |- | Webby Awards | Best Individual Performance People's Voice Award for Imaginary Bitches | Eden Riegel | Template:Won | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |- ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2022 | Children's & Family Emmy Awards | Outstanding Voice Directing for an Animated Series for Amphibia | Eden Riegel | Template:Nom | <ref name="emmy2022" /> |- ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2023 | Children's & Family Emmy Awards | Outstanding Voice Directing for an Animated Series for The Ghost and Molly McGee | Eden Riegel | Template:Nom | <ref name="emmys2023" /> |- ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2024 | Children's & Family Emmy Awards | Outstanding Voice Directing for an Animated Series for Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures | Eden Riegel | Template:Nom | <ref name="emmys2025" /> |}

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