Who is Thorsten Kaye from The Bold and the Beautiful married to in real life?

Thorsten Kaye plays the popular character Ridge Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful. Before B&B, the actor was part of other daily soaps such as Port Charles, One Life to Live, and All My Children.

He is married to his One Life to Live co-star, Susan Haskell. His wife portrayed the character of Margaret Saybrooke on the soap. Notably, the two played a romantic pair in the show's plot for some time.

The Bold and the Beautiful is a long-running and prominent daily soap airing on CBS since 1985. It is the sister show of its CBS predecessor, The Young and the Restless. B&B revolves around the Forrester family of Los Angeles, where Eric, the family patriarch, set up a haute couture business named Forrester Creations. The storyline involves business and individual rivals, associations, and other factors surrounding the family.

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The Bold and the Beautiful's Thorsten Kaye - Marriage and personal life

Haskell and Kaye were co-actors on One Live to Live between 1995 and 1997. While the former continued intermittently as Marty Saybrooke until 2011, Kaye moved on to other projects.

The two presumably started dating while working on the soap together. It is believed they had a long-term relationship before getting hitched. In an interview with Soap Opera Digest, when asked about when he and Haskell got married, Kaye stated:

"Well, it’s funny you ask that because people always keep calling her my “life partner”, but Susan is my wife. We were actually married. I’m not a church guy, but we did a thing on the beach a while back. I don’t talk about it because I’m just a private guy."

Almost three decades after they met in 1995, Kaye told Soaps.com that he welcomed the idea of his wife getting back into acting once their children settle down:

"I hope Susan will get back to acting, because she only gets more interesting as a person....But if there was a great opportunity for it, yeah, it wouldn't bother me."

While the couple's exact wedding date is unknown, they share two daughters, McKenna and Marlowe Marann, born in 2003 and 2007, respectively. The duo also worked together in Port Charles, where Kaye played Dr. Ian Thornhart, and Haskell played his onscreen love interest Granya Thornhart.

Kaye is of German-British-American origin and was born as Thorsten Ernst Kieselbach in Frankfurt, Germany. He was involved in theatre acting in Germany and London. His relocation to the US started his acting career on television. Besides being part of the three daily soaps, he also had a recurring role in NBC's Smash before stepping into Ridge's role for CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful.

Some movies Kaye was part of include Deadly Desire, Nothing Lasts Forever, The Silencers, The Prophet's Game, Shark Attack 2, Occupant, and Animal. While his soap opera characters earned numerous Daytime Emmy and Soap Opera Digest awards, his role as Ridge Forrester helped him win the Daytime Emmy Award twice, in 2023 and 2024.

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More about Ridge Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful

Thorsten Kaye started reprising Ridge's character in December 2013, more than a year after the previous actor, Ron Moss, exited in September 2012. The character's return in 2013 was marked with upheavals in his marriage and career. He was appointed co-vice president with his ex-wife, Brooke, while planning to marry Brooke's sister, Katie.

When he stopped Brooke and Bill's wedding by exposing Bill's infidelity, the latter retaliated by orchestrating Ridge's fall from a helicopter into the Persian Gulf.

Through his broken marriages with Taylor, Katie, Shauna, and Caroline, Ridge's strongest romance has been Brooke. The couple married and divorced multiple times on the show.

Currently, Ridge Forrester is busy supporting his wife Brooke's fashion line while searching for a cure for his ex-wife Taylor's heart condition.

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The Bold and the Beautiful airs every weekday on CBS.