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John "Jagger" Cates (July 22, 2008 to Present)

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A leap year baby, Sabáto was born in Rome, Italy, on February 29, 1972. His father, Antonio Sabato Sr., a veteran Italian actor with credits in dozens of spaghetti Westerns and his mother, Yvonne, a real estate agent, moved Sabato and his sister to Beverly Hills in 1984. Knowing very little English, Sabato spent his time watching American television and taking ESL courses. He attended Beverly Hills High, where he took acting classes as a way to practice his new language and make friends. At 16, Sabato left school and temporarily moved to New York in an effort to experience life on his own.

In 1989, after earning his G.E.D., Sabato decided to concentrate on acting. With his father's help, he secured a role in the 1990 Italian film Karate Rock. That same year, he appeared stateside as the topless hunk in Janet Jackson's video for "Love Will Never Do Without You." This led to Sabato's television debut as Jagger Cates, a good-hearted, hash-slinging boxer on General Hospital. For his performance in one of daytime's most memorable and brooding roles -- Jagger's moody leitmotif was Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" -- Sabato earned Soap Opera Digest Award nominations for Hottest Male and Outstanding Newcomer. Banking on his newfound fame, the actor began moonlighting in movies of the week, starring opposite Dallas' Linda Gray as a deadly Casanova in Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter? (1993) and Beverly Hills 90210's Shannon Dougherty as an escaped convict in Jailbreakers (1994).

Sabato shocked fans when he abruptly left General Hospital in 1994 (though they did temporarily forgive him when he returned to the show for a brief cameo a year later). He subsequently joined the cast of NBC's Earth 2, a prime-time science fiction series about a group of humans who must flee Earth when it becomes uninhabitable. Developed by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and produced by Michael Dugan (Law & Order), Carol Flint (China Beach), and Mark Levin (The Wonder Years), the show had an impressive pedigree and was expected to be a smash hit. Yet, audiences did not buy into its futuristic premise, which featured Sabato as a rocket pilot; NBC canceled Earth 2 after only one season. Hesitant to commit himself to another series, Sabato signed on to appear as Amanda's (Heather Locklear) abusive ex-husband in six episodes of FOX's Melrose Place before starring in a succession of television films. In Her Hidden Truth (1995), he played a smitten cop who helps wrongfully convicted Kellie Martin clear her name. In If Looks Could Kill: From the Files of America's Most Wanted (1996), he portrayed real-life con artist and murderer John Hawkins. In Thrill (1996), he starred as an engineer who must put aside his fear of heights to rescue his daughter from a roller coaster that is rigged with a bomb.

Meanwhile, fashion designer Calvin Klein saw If Looks Could Kill on television and personally requested to meet with Sabato. By the summer of 1996, the actor was the spokesperson for Calvin Klein Underwear, the company's first celebrity model since Mark Wahlberg four years earlier. During his tenure with Calvin Klein, Sabato appeared in a campaign photographed by Herb Ritts and on a 90-foot billboard in the middle of Times Square.

In 1998, Sabato made his big-budget American debut opposite Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Bokeem Woodbine as a hired gun in The Big Hit. The following years saw Sabato headlining several low-profile television movies and independent films in the United States and Italy. He also guest starred on FOX's Ally McBeal and landed a recurring role on the WB's Charmed.

Acting and modeling are not Sabato's only claims to fame. A fitness enthusiast, he published the best-selling exercise book No Excuses: Workout for Life in 1999. Sabato also owns his own production company, NAMTAB Productions (Batman spelled backwards), and is the celebrity spokesperson for the SAP United States Grand Prix Formula One race.

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Acting Portfolio

General Hospital: Night Shift
John "Jagger" Cates
July 22, 2008 to 2008

The Bold and the Beautiful
Dante Damiano
June 16, 2005 to November 20, 2006 Final Ascent
David
November 2000

The Outer Limits - Skin Deep
Chad Warner
2000

Charmed
Bane Jessup
2000

Wasteland
October 1999
Jack

Ally McBeal
Kevin Wyatt
May 10, 1999

Tribe
Jack Osborne
1999

Fatal Error
Dr. Nick Baldwin
March 28, 1999

Daydreaming [Music Video]
1998

The Perfect Getaway
Randy Savino
February 12, 1998

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales For Every Child / Thumbelina
Mario Mariposa
April 20, 1997

Lay's Baked Potato Chips [Commercial]
January 26, 1997

Code Name: Wolverine
Harry Gordini
December 3, 1996

The New Adventures of Superman
Bob Stanford/Deathstroke
Sunday, November 17, 1996

Padre papŕ [Italian miniseries]
Don Giuseppe
1996

Thrill
Jack Colson
May 20, 1996

If Looks Could Kill
John Hawkins
February 1996

Her Hidden Truth
Matt Samoni
November 1995

Melrose Place
Jack Parezi
September/October 1995

EARTH 2
Alonzo Solace
1994 - 1995

Jailbreakers
Tony
1993

Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?
A.J. Treece
1993

General Hospital
John "Jagger" Cates
1992 - 1994; Fall 1995


Malcolm Takes a Shot

Love Will Never Do (Without You) [Music Video]
1990

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Acting Portfolio

Director's Cut
Sgt. Dan De Sousa
2001

Mindstorm
Dan Oliver
2001

The Base II
Lt. John Murphy
December 2000

Jack of All Trades
Tommy
July 1999

The Chaos Factor
Jack Poynt
July 1999

Women of a Certain Distinction
Mel
1999

Goosed
Dr. Steven Stevenson
1998

The Big Hit
Vince/Vinnie
April 24th, 1998

Circles
Jeremy Bonner
September 1998

High Voltage
Johnny Clay
1997

If I Didn't Have Love
1991

Karate Rock [Italian Film]
Kevin Foster
1990

Arizona Road [Itlaian Film]
Emiliano
1990

Born to Race
Enrico Lombardo
1988

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DATE OF BIRTH: February 29, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH: Rome, Italy
PARENTS: Antonio Sabáto, Sr. and Yvonne Kabouchy
SIBLINGS: Sister, Simonne Sabáto
CHILDREN: Jack Antonio, born August 6, 1994 (son with Virginia Madsen); Mina Bree, born August 29, 2003 (daughter with Kristin Rosetti); Antonio Kamakanaalohamaikalani Harvey Sabáto III, born May 1, 2011 News Archives

News Archive: Former GH star, model to join cast of B&B. [May 9, 2005]
News Archive: Sabáto, B&B agree to part ways. [Nov 15, 2004]
News Archive: Sabáto to reprise role as Jagger Cates -- on Night Shift. [Jul 7, 2008]
News Archive: Sabáto welcomes third child, Antonio III. [May 3, 2011]

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