Deidre Hall at 75 Trains Every Day & Cooks for Her Kids – Men Call Her ‘Beautiful’ Yet She’s Still Single after 17 Years

Deidre Hall from “Days of Our Lives” was born on October 31, 1947, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up in Lake Worth, Florida.

She revealed that her parents had a great level of integrity and hard work, which rubbed on her. Hall was one of the five children in her family. The actress added that they all had a responsibility, which they took seriously, leading to her strong sense of family and fairness.

Hall’s dream career wasn’t to become an actress, but she ended up being one and was named Best Television Role Model and won five best actresses awards from Soap Opera Digest.

The actress revealed that she wanted to be a hairdresser, but life had other plans for her as she tried her hand at acting to make more money and became a soap opera legend:

“When I came to California to visit friends, I enrolled in college out here, and then I thought I needed to support myself somehow, so I thought I’d try modeling here, I did, and it worked.”

After modeling was successful, Hall tried doing commercials to add to her income, and soon she ventured into acting. The actress noted:

“I thought if you’re going to do this even for fun, you need to study, So I studied for nine to ten years, everything from dance to voice to movement to comedy, all of it, and then I ended up on a soap opera…and I’ve been here ever since its destiny, I couldn’t have stopped it.”

After putting in the work, Hall landed a role in the iconic soap opera “Days of Our Lives.” She auditioned for the role with several other popular actresses.

When her agent told her she got the role, Hall turned it down because she thought the other famous actress did not want the part. However, she accepted it when it turned out she was their first choice.

Hall made her debut on “Days of Our Lives” in 1979 as Dr. Marlena Evans, a psychiatrist at University Hospitals in fictional Salem, III.

She has played the role for four decades and counting, a period in which her character was possessed by the devil twice, kidnapped several times, and mind-controlled into believing she was a serial killer.

The actress found it funny that she studied psychology in college and took classes to become a therapist, only to end up being a therapist on TV.

“I hear it all the time from fans, I watched the show with my grandmother when she was babysitting for me, it’s sweet.”

The actress has also been in several relationships throughout the time she has portrayed Dr. Evans in “Days of Our Lives.”

Hall’s third marriage was in 1987 to film producer Michael Dubelko. The two kept their marriage lowkey and divorced in 1989.

The soap opera’s star’s fourth marriage was to Steve Sohmer, an author and Shakespearean scholar. The two tied the knot in 1991 and divorced in 2006. The couple had two children, David Atticus Sohmer and Tully Chapin Sohmer. When Sohmer and Hall divorced, the actress released a statement which read:

“My primary concern is for my children and their well-being. I am deeply grateful for the sensitivity I have seen in many of your comments. Thank you for your caring and for continuing to respect our privacy.”

Hall struggled with infertility over the years and was open about her journey. For 20 years, during two of her marriages, the actress tried to have kids via artificial insemination, surgery, and in-vitro fertilization.

Her attempts to have children caused her physical and emotional side effects, that eventually, Hall and Sohmer chose to use a surrogate. The couple hired a surrogate named Robin.

When the actress turned 48, Robin gave birth to Hall’s first child David on August 23, 1992, and on January 19, 1995, she gave birth to the actress’s second child Tully. Hall said the experience of having her first child was life-changing:

“In the moment that baby is placed in your arms, it doesn’t matter how they got there… When a life comes into this world, the air in the room changes.”

After Hall and Sohmer divorced, the actress did not marry again, and she said she had no interest in being married again.

She said the secret to her beauty is doing an hour every day on her treadmill, staying out of the sun, and never going to bed with makeup.

At First, She Became a Mom, Then – A Single and Fired Mom

Hall opened up more about her infertility when she played herself in the film “Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story.”

The actress was the executive producer of the film, and Sohmer wrote the script under the pseudonym Bill Tyndale.

Hall had been unwilling to play herself in the film but was persuaded by Sohmer. She revealed that she wasn’t sure she could reenact or recreate the moments of her life. Hall also said casting another actress would have complicated the movie:

“The film was a great joy, but casting was too hard. We had footage of when my son was born that we wanted to use, and it wasn’t going to work having another actress play me and then have ‘the real’ me in the birth room.”

After the movie was released, Hall revealed intricate details of her surrogacy journey on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” She noted that Sohmer was cool when she asked him if they could have their baby via a surrogate.

The mother of two also said she knew immediately when she met Robin that she was going to be their surrogate. As per Hall, the first insemination wasn’t successful, but the second one worked as Robin got pregnant.

The “Lucky In Love” star dotes on her sons, and in 2022, she shared a picture of her kids as boys. The picture featured the boys’ faces touching inside a heart.

Hall said in the caption that she had taken an echocardiogram, which showed the pictures of his son inside a heart. She said the picture showed that her children live in her heart.

“A friend of mine says, you’ve got a bad picker, and I think that’s not entirely untrue. But when I look at the growth in my life, everything got me to where I am.”

Hall said that one of her marriages got her to move from Florida to California, which opened for her a thousand doors. She added that she had taken great lessons from her previous marriages and made some great friendships from them.

Aside from her marriages, Hall also went through great changes in her career when the executives of “Days of Our Lives” cut her from the show. The executive announced that due to budget cuts, they had to let go of Hall and Drake Hogestyn:

“The couple will be happily reunited after a long period of angst and separation and will be off-screen after January for an unknown period of time.”

At this time, the show was also at the risk of being canceled. Hogestyn and Hall’s last episode aired in January 2009, and the couple returned in September 2011 as the executive noted that they wanted to return to the core values of the show in response to viewers’ demands.

The “My Christmas Dream” actress still enjoys her time on “Days of Our Lives” after she was reinstated. She has starred in the soap opera for more than 45 years. She noted that the thing she was most proud of in her career was its longevity:

“…that is such a gift in any field, but in television, to have been around this long, doing it this long, is extraordinary.”

“I joke with my castmates that whenever I pull up to the studio security gate with my key card, I hold my breath for a moment, and think, Oh, it opened — I guess I get to come in today!”

The actress added that she would only retire when the keys to the gate do not work anymore.

At 75, a working Hall still looks stunning. She said the secret to her beauty is doing an hour every day on her treadmill, staying out of the sun, and never going to bed with makeup.

Hall’s beauty is recognizable to her fans, especially male online users who never cease to compliment her looks. In one picture shared by the actress online, male online users flocked to the comments to praise her.

One user said Hall was “so beautiful,” while a man called Larry also complimented Hall’s beauty. “You are sexy as ever. Omg,” another man commented.

Another man told Hall that she looked “smashing,” while another noted that the actress was “as beautiful as ever.” A man named Jonathan said the actress was “beautiful and distinguished.” More men commented that Hall was beautiful even in her 70s.

The actress also revealed in an interview that she doesn’t really like cooking, but she makes for her sons brisket and barbeque sauce.

The actress added that one time she and Tully were on the subway, and her son ordered extra subs for a guy who didn’t have food. Hall said her sons were:

“…empathic, and that’s a source of great pride for me… I’m always moved by the little things. They’re always giving, being conscious, and invested with the people they love.”

“I love my garden. I plant everything. I like to experiment, and whatever isn’t producing, I make something else out of it.”

Hall said she was grateful where she is in life as her kids and family are doing well, she is healthy, and her garden is thriving.