*Ingo Rademacher*
					A heartthrob, thrill-seeking and all around a good looking, nice guy, the man known as Jax is internationally known for his unique ability to dismantle huge corporations as well as he usually gets what he sets out for. The Jack’s family are globe-trotting eccentrics who are wealthy beyond measure, who thinks ahead and refuses to think any objective is unachievable. Jax has taken this heritage to the extreme. Ingo first aired on General Hospital in January of 1996. Actor Ingo Rademacher manifests the spirit of Jax who is charming, approachable, has lots of charisma and with that Australian accent is wooing ladies all over the world. He has excelled in several professional sports, and having tasted careers in areas as diverse as farming, ranching, modeling and television. Jax inherited his parents spirit of adventure which has taken him from Europe to the small town of Port Charles. Born in the small village of Iserlohn-Letmathe, West Germany, Ingo lived on the European continent until his parents moved to New South Wales, Australia, when he was ten. Ingo and his sister, Anne, helped his parents work a 400-acre cattle and Angora goat station there. "I played rugby and worked the ranch," he says. "We didn't have a television for three-and-a-half years there." In 1984, the family took up vegetable farming in Queensland, where Ingo drove tractors and did other necessary jobs while attending high school. After graduation from High School, Ingo attended college. He entertained the idea of going into Hotel Management, and worked as a handyman at the hotel. He also played professional beach volleyball and began working for a modeling agency in Sydney, a move that would change the course of his life. He was cast as the lead character, Sean Hayden, in the popular primetime series, Paradise Beach, which aired for two years; before he came to America and moved to Los Angeles in 1994. In L.A. he became an overnight sensation. As an athlete, Ingo has amassed an extraordinary list of accomplishments. He was a West German ski champion at the age of eight. He was a professional equestrian in jumping, dressage and cross country from age 10 to 14. In Australia, Ingo was a professional beach volleyball player, an Ironman triathlete., raced motor bikes and sailboats and even sang the lead in a rock and roll band. Off the set the beach life of Southern California presently fulfills Ingo's spare time -- he surfs, trains for Ironman races, mountain bikes in the Santa Monica mountains, swims, kayaks, runs, skies and now, basketball. He is single and lives in the Pacific Palisades community of Los Angeles. His public appearances, both personal and for charitable organizations are too numerous to mention. Ingo never wastes a moment of life’s’ precious time. He truly adds a rainbow to the start of a new day. From soapcentral.com