Andrea Evans

Andrea Evans was an American actress best known as Tina Lord in the ABC soap One Life to Live. Born in Aurora, Illinois, she began as a child in beauty pageants, regional theater and commercials, then studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There she was an extra in Brian De Palma's The Fury and appeared in the miniseries The Awakening Land. Casting director Mary Jo Slater helped her land the role of Tina Clayton on One Life to Live, playing it from 1978 to 1981, then again from 1985 to 1990, with returns in 2008 and 2011. A 1988 Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Ingenue followed. She later played Patty Williams on The Young and the Restless, Tawny Moore on The Bold and the Beautiful and Rebecca Hotchkiss on Passions. Her films included Ice Cream Man (1995) and Hit List (2011), and she executive produced the 2018 documentary Rocking the Couch. She died in 2023.