Guiding Light

When She Was On: 1991

Who She Played: Julie Camalletti, whom she was offered three-year contract to portray (Sorvino said no)

Since Seeing the Light: Sorvino short stint on the soap proved a good move, because prostitution was in her acting future. Four years later Sorvino won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Woody Allen’s for playing a loopy hooker in Mighty Aphrodite and charmed everyone in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion.