Bryan Dattilo plays the mischievous Lucas Horton on NBC's "Days of our Lives."

When Dattilo walked onto the playground of his Beverly Hills grade school for the very first time, all the kids wanted to know who his agent was. To Dattilo's surprise, his mother informed him that only kids who were actors had agents. Within a few weeks Dattilo and his sister, Kristin, decided that if they were to fit in at school, they also needed an agent. Dattilo began acting classes and within a year had his Hollywood agent.

Although Dattilo was born in Kankakee, Illinois, his ...