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Margot Robbie and 10 superhero actors you didn’t know were soap stars

By Michael Patterson

MARGOT ROBBIE as Harley Quinn in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “BIRDS OF PREY (AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN),” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures/ & © DC Comic
MARGOT ROBBIE as Harley Quinn in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “BIRDS OF PREY (AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN),” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures/ & © DC Comic /
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The Flash — “The Present” — Image FLA309a_0182b.jpg — Pictured: John Wesley Shipp as Jay Garrick — Photo: Katie Yu/The CW — © 2016 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved. /

5. John Wesley Shipp

John Wesley Shipp is undoubtedly a pop-culture icon. Renowned for his legendary leading performance on the brilliant-but-short-lived 1990s TV series The Flash, he was the first actor to really bring Barry Allen to life on-screen. He’s also known to modern audiences for his recurring roles as both Henry Allen and Earth-3 Flash, Jay Garrick, on The CW’s Flash TV series, and he even reprised his role as the ’90s Scarlet Speedster during last season’s Arrowverse crossover.

A veteran of film and TV, he’s also known for his roles on Dawson’s Creek and Teen Wolf. However, before all of those well-remembered offerings, Shipp was a soap opera veteran.

First appearing in 10 episodes of CBS’ record-breaking Guiding Light (across a four-year period), he went on to play the villainous Doug Cummings in As The World Turns – a role for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award.

He would then appear in 11 episodes of NBC soap Santa Barbara as Martin Ellis – a role which won him another Daytime Emmy Award- before appearing in other legendary daytime soaps like One Life To Live and All My Children.

A career to admire before he became The Flash, John Wesley Shipp has been amazing us for decades.

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