Kristoff St. John

Kristoff St. John was an American actor who began as a child performer, with a featured role at ten on the NBC comedy Big John, Little John and Alex Haley as a young man in Roots: The Next Generations, the 1979 ABC miniseries. After small parts on Happy Days and The Cosby Show, his first major job came as Charlie Richmond Jr. on CBS's Charlie & Co. in 1985. He went on to play Adam Marshall in NBC's Generations, which brought him two Daytime Emmy nominations, then, after that soap ended in 1991, took the part of Neil Winters on The Young and the Restless and stayed with it for 28 years. Nominated eleven times for a Daytime Emmy, he won twice, in 1992 and 2008, and also received ten NAACP Image Awards. He hosted CBS Soap Break and was a special host for the TV Guide Channel, and in 2014 co-directed the documentary A Man Called God.