{{short description|American actress (born 1990)}} {{Infobox person | name = Portia Reiners | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Portia Sullivan Reiners | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1990|03|8}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1997–present | spouse = }} '''Portia Sullivan Reiners''' (born March 8, 1990)<ref name="Gale 2011">{{cite news |title=Portia Reiners |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1609028923/BIC |access-date=30 May 2022 |work=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |publisher=Gale |date=2011}}</ref> is an American actress. She has worked in theater, television, and film. Her television career includes the role of Britney Jennings on ''One Life to Live''.<ref name="SheKnows 2019">{{Cite news|url=https://soaps.sheknows.com/one-life-to-live/news/24493/one-life-to-live-where-are-they-now-portia-reiners/|title=One Life To Live Where Are They Now: Portia Reiners|last=Mistretta|first=Amy|work=SheKnows.com|access-date=April 12, 2019|publisher=SheKnows Media}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://soaps.sheknows.com/one-life-to-live/news/1095/portia-reiners-leaves-oltl/|title=Portia Reiners Leaves OLTL!|work=SheKnows.com|access-date=April 12, 2019|publisher=SheKnows Media}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://soaps.sheknows.com/one-life-to-live/news/6302/one-life-to-lives-portia-reiners-and-jonathan-grof/|title=One Life to Live's Portia Reiners And Jonathan Groff In Twelve Thirty!|work=SheKnows.com|access-date=April 12, 2019|publisher=SheKnows Media}}</ref>

==Career== Reiners began her acting career in theater at age seven, appearing as Oliver in the musical ''Oliver!'',<ref name="Gale 2011"/> and then was signed to the Abrams Artists Agency at age ten.<ref name="SheKnows 2019"/> She began her television career in 2000 as Lily Benton Montgomery in ''All My Children'', then played Ada Dunne in ''As the World Turns'' in 2006 <ref name="SheKnows 2019"/> followed by Britney Jennings in ''One Life to Live'' from 2006 through 2007.<ref name="SheKnows 2019"/>

She continued in theater playing Annie in the musical ''Annie'', Catherine in ''The Children's Hour'', Baby June in the musical ''Gypsy'', and then starring as Jenny Litnov in ''The Notebook'' at the McGinn-Cazale Theatre in New York City.<ref name="Gale 2011"/><ref name="Gates 2002">{{cite news |last1=Gates |first1=Anita |title=A Puzzling Relationship Gilded by Poetry: [Review] |work=The New York Times |date=27 June 2002<!-- |via=ProQuest --><!-- needs URL -->}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cox |first1=Gordon |title=Too Many Pages Missing in This 'Notebook' |work=Newsday |date=26 June 2002<!-- |via=ProQuest --><!-- Needs URL -->}}</ref> In 2001, she played Kasia Gruszka in ''More Lies about Jerzy'' at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City.<ref name="Gale 2011"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gamerman |first1=Amy |title=Theater: Grappling With an Enigma – In Mr. Holmes's New Play, Fact and Fiction Tangle in a Tale Of Self-Invention and Deceit |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=24 January 2001<!-- |via=Proquest --><!-- needs URL -->}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Weber |first1=Bruce |title=The Painted Bird, Caged: What Is the Truth About Art?: [Review] |work=The New York Times |date=23 January 2001<!-- |via=Proquest --><!-- needs URL -->}}</ref>

She starred as Mel in the 2010 movie ''Twelve Thirty''.<ref name="SheKnows 2019"/>

==Filmography== * ''All My Children'' (7 episodes, 2000–2006) .... Lily Benton Montgomery * ''The Grey Zone'' (2001) .... Young Girl (voice)<ref name="Gale 2011"/> * ''Iron Jawed Angels'' (2004) (TV movie) .... 14-year-old Jenny Leighton<ref name="Gale 2011"/> * ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' (1 episode, "In the Wee Small Hours: Part 1", 2005) .... Nancy<ref name="Gale 2011"/> * ''Law & Order'' (1 episode, "Great Satan", 2009) ....Jill Sorenson<ref name="Gale 2011"/> * ''As the World Turns'' (13 episodes, 2006) .... Ada Dunne * ''One Life to Live'' (47 episodes, 2006-2007) .... Britney Jennings * ''Neal Cassady'' (2007) .... Cathy Cassady<ref name="Gale 2011"/> * ''Twelve Thirty'' (2010)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ebert |first1=Roger |title=Getting to know the whole family |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/twelve-thirty-2011 |access-date=29 May 2022 |work=RogerEbert.com |date=May 11, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Holden |first1=Stephen |title=In States of Undress, Mental and Physical |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/movies/14twelve.html |access-date=29 May 2022 |work=New York Times |date=January 13, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=John |title=One man, three women in 'Twelve Thirty' |url=https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/one-man-three-women-in-twelve-thirty-a56973 |access-date=29 May 2022 |work=Newsday |date=March 3, 2011}}</ref>

==Personal life== Her mother was an actress.<ref name="Gale 2011"/> Reiners was named after the character Portia from Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice''.<ref name="SheKnows 2019"/>

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=1264705|name=Portia Reiners}} * [https://twitter.com/PortiaReiners Portia Reiners] at [https://twitter.com/ Twitter]

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reiners, Portia}} Category:1990 births Category:Living people Category:American soap opera actresses Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:21st-century American women