Jean Passanante was born on June 26,1953 and is an American television screenwriter, best known for her work in daytime soap operas.
11 Facts About Jean Passanante
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Jean Passanante was born on June 26,1953, in St Louis, Missouri, one of three daughters born to Bart, a physician, and Alberta Jean Passanante.
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Jean Passanante graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1971.
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Jean Passanante was in Return of the Secaucus 7 and Lianna, both John Sayles films.
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Jean Passanante got her start on soaps working as a staff writer on the ABC Daytime drama One Life to Live from 1992 to 1996.
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Jean Passanante remained as a staff writer until 1998, at which time she was made co-Head Writer of the ailing soap opera Another World.
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Jean Passanante wrapped up the show's 35-year run in June 1999.
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Jean Passanante was then hired by CBS' As the World Turns in 2001, where she served as co-Head Writer until she was promoted to Head Writer in early 2005; she continued in that role through the show's 2010 cancellation.
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Jean Passanante was one of the writers who followed Ron Carlivati to General Hospital as breakdown writer from May 3,2012, until November 25,2013, when Jean Passanante was named head writer of The Young and the Restless, working alongside Shelly Altman.
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Jean Passanante's tenure was from December 23,2013, to March 18,2015, Jean Passanante was a breakdown writer for the show under Charles Pratt, Jr.
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Jean Passanante's retirement was reported in 2017, but in 2020 she was one of the recruits for a fiction app named "Radish" which had $63m of funding and it was opening an office in LA.