Biography

Cynthia J. Popp is a producer and director of The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), having worked on the show since its beginnings and risen through the ranks of the production company.

Popp is a native Californian, who grew up watching TV & films, always with an interest in this field. While in college, she majored in communications with an emphasis in radio, television & film and volunteered for as many hands-on internships as she could. For almost three years, Popp drove from Orange County to Lake Arrowhead every Saturday to work as a camera operator and later to direct, edit and produce a church mass which aired on four cable companies for their shut-in viewers. After completing college, Popp worked at CBS for 1 1/2 years before becoming the first person hired by the Bell family to work on the new daytime drama, The Bold and the Beautiful (1987).

In agreeing to take the job of office manager with the fledgling production company, Popp asked that she also be given the opportunity to train as a production assistant in the director's control booth. She eventually held almost every job in the company, becoming an associate director in the mid-1990s before rising to the level of producer (2000) and director (2001) of the long-running series. Popp has also produced music videos for John McCook, Bobbie Eakes & Jeff Trachta and helped launch the newest soap opera Passions (1999) in 1999, directing the second show plus four other full episodes and parts of fifteen others - this being her debut as a director. Popp has also directed in prime-time for the award winning sitcom Frasier (1993). Popp enjoys traveling and spending time with friends and family, especially her daughter Nicole.

- IMDb mini biography by: Torsten B. Tomaschek