Eric Braeden, whose real name is Hans-Jörg Gudegast, has played powerful patriarch Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless for over 40 years. While Victor has romanced plenty of women in ...

Before Victor Newman, before Eric Braeden, there was Hans-Jörg Gudegast. That is Braeden’s given name when he was born in 1941 in the northern German city of Bredenbek, where his dad was once ...