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Josh Kelly as Cutter Wentworth
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One Life to Live character | |||||||||
Portrayed by | Josh Kelly | ||||||||
Duration | 2010–11, 2013 | ||||||||
First appearance | December 29, 2010 | ||||||||
Last appearance | August 19, 2013 | ||||||||
Created by | Ron Carlivati | ||||||||
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Classification | Final, regular | ||||||||
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Residence | Llanview, Pennsylvania | ||||||||
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Siblings | Kimberly Andrews |
Spouse | Jessica Buchanan (2011 as Tess) |
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Cutter Wentworth is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live. He was portrayed by Josh Kelly from December 29, 2010 to December 29, 2011. Kelly reprised the role when new daily episodes of OLTL began airing on Hulu via The Online Network from April 29, 2013 to August 19, 2013, until the show (along with All My Children) were both put on indefinite hiatus due to Prospect Park's lawsuit against ABC.
Kelly was cast in the long-time role of Joey Buchanan, a character that was returning to the show as a permanent contract role after six years. However, producers later decided that Kelly was a better fit for the newly created character Cutter, who, like Joey, would also serve as a love interest for both Terri Conn's Aubrey Wentworth and Gina Tognoni's Kelly Cramer. The role of Joey would be taken by Tom Degnan.
Cutter's father Billy Joe Wentworth grew up poor and worked three jobs while putting himself through school. When Billy Joe successfully invested his money in the stock market after getting a job as a , he became very wealthy, changing his name to William J. Wentworth Jr. He married Alex Olanov with whom he had two children: Cutter and Aubrey (who later changed her name to Kimberly Andrews). Eventually, Alex abandoned her family and took off with a piece of her husband's fortune, and a depressed, heartbroken William alienated his friends and family, and lost his entire fortune that he spent trying to track down his missing wife. A young Cutter found William dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and he and his sister were separated from each other and placed into the foster care system, because they couldn't get any money from their father's insurance because of his suicide. Cutter ran away from every foster home he was put into so that he could search for his sister. Cutter eventually found his sister and both became con artists in an attempt to regain the wealth and happiness from their childhoods.