Paige Turco

Jean Paige Turco's birthdate is May 17, 1965. She is a well-known American actress who played April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. Turco was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Joyce Jean and David Vincent Turco. Her mother moved them to Springfield, Massachusetts, where she was reared. When she was one year old, she suffered the death of her father. Her ancestors are Italian, French-Canadian, and English. She began taking ballet classes as a child and aspired to be a classical dancer. She was a soloist at the New England Dance Conservatory, the Amherst Ballet Theatre Company, and the Western Massachusetts Ballet Company after attending the Walnut Hill School, in Natick, Massachusetts.An ankle ailment ruled off the option of pursuing a career in ballet.

Turco earned a bachelor's degree in theatre from the University of Connecticut after graduating from Bay Path College in Longmeadow, Massachusetts in 987. Turco got her CBS debut as Dinah Marler on Guiding Light in 1987, and also acted as Melanie Cortlandt on All My Children She took up the role of April O'Neil from Judith Hoag in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) and later in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993). Turco appeared in another short-lived series the following season, CBS's cult classic American   Sullivan in NYPD  Blue, and Annie Mott, a single mother suffering from alcoholism, in Party of Five. In Episode 15 of Life on Mars, she played the romantic interest of her real-life husband, Jason O'Mara.  Turco played graphic artist Terri Lowell in the CBS drama series The Agency from 2001 to 2003.

She had a recurring role as science teacher Mrs. Nell Turbody in the third season of Rescue Me, and she was a regular cast member in the ABC sitcom Big Shot as Lisbeth in 2007. In 2006, Turco appeared in the Invincible movie as Carol Vermeil. She also had a recurring role as Zoe Morgan on Person of Interest. Turco debuted as a series regular on The CW's post-apocalyptic drama series The 100 in March 2014. She was also cast as the protagonist character's wife in CBS's NCIS: New Orleans the same year. Turco is a devout Roman Catholic. She married Jason O'Mara, an Irish actor, in 2003. The couple has a boy named David. Turco filed for divorce on June 19, 2017, after the pair announced their separation on May 1, 2017. She also requested shared custody of their son David, as well as spousal maintenance.