Here's What Guiding Light Legend Kim Zimmer Is Doing Now

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Mark your calendars: February 16 is the day that Kim Zimmer returns to the screen — the big one, in fact. The four-time Emmy winner, now and forever Guiding Light’s scarlet woman Reva Shayne to soap fans, appears in Bleeding Love with Ewan McGregor and daughter Clara. And they’re not the only parent/child pair in the film: Zimmer’s son Jake Weary is in it, too — and, just to make the whole shebang that much more of a family affair, his wife, Vera Bulder helped craft the story.

Oh, and she’s in it as well.

Bleeding Love is about a father/daughter road trip that the duo undertakes following her overdose — kind of an apology for the addiction problem that she inherited from him. Weary, who was briefly Luke on As the World Turns, plays the daughter’s love interest. You probably recognize him as career criminal Deran from the entire run of TNT’s Animal Kingdom.

Over a year ago, Zimmer broke the news about the movie on her Instagram. “So excited to share that my daughter-in-law’s first produced film… has been selected into SXSW film festival!” she cheered. “I have a small but juicy role in it… Congrats, team!”

Zimmer is best known, of course, for her soap work. In addition to Guiding Light, she played the memorably named Echo DiSavoy on One Life to Live, Jodie Walker on Santa Barbara, and on The Doctors, she was brought in as a recast for Kathleen Turner as Nola Aldrich… which brings us to her most infamous silver-screen role. In 1981’s Body Heat, she was cast as a lookalike for — who better? — Turner.

Check out the below photo gallery to see gorgeous then-and-now photos of your favorites from Guiding Light.

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