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Robert Sosebee Woods (born March 13, 1948) is an American actor best known for playing Bo Buchanan on the ABC soap One Life to Live, a role for which he won the 1983 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
In 1966 Woods graduated from Lakewood High School in Lakewood, California, where he served as senior class president, and a cheerleader. He later joined the U.S. Armed Forces and fought in the Vietnam War. Woods ultimately graduated from California State University, Long Beach where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Woods began portraying Bo Buchanan – a Vietnam War veteran – on the ABC soap One Life to Live in 1979, winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1983. He left the series in 1986 and returned 1988, and continued the role until the series cancellation in 2012. Woods also earned Daytime Emmy nominations in 1986, 1993, 1994, 1999, and 2000, multiple Soap Opera Digest Award nominations, and four MVP trophies from Soap Opera Update.
Woods has also appeared on television series such as Roseanne and the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives. He appeared in eight episodes…
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