A soap opera hunk who successfully made the transition to primetime television while testing the feature film waters, Eddie Cibrian perfectly fit the tall, dark and handsome cliché. He proved more than just a pretty face, though, displaying an equal ease at playing a working class hero or a privileged playboy and stood apart from his boyish contemporaries with a decidedly mature masculine image. Encouraged by his parents, Cibrian began acting at age 12 and landed some commercial roles but quit working before long, bored and dissatisfied with the way show business cut into his adolescent
