Cherie Jimenez has quickly become a standout on Days of our Lives, but there\u2019s much more to the actress than her role in Salem. From her early audition journey to surprising personal tidbits, we\u2019ve rounded up five fun facts fans may not know about Jimenez.<\/p>\n
Cherie is married to actor Sean Faris and the couple just celebrated their 8th wedding anniversary on August 31. They were married at Burning Man in 2017. They are parents to Phoenix, who was born in March of 2022, a day shy of Sean\u2019s 40th birthday.<\/p>\n
Jimenez shared that her journey to playing Days of our Lives<\/a>\u2019 Gabi Hernandez has been a long one, revealing she first auditioned for the role back in 2009, making her casting now a full-circle moment. The actress also noted that she auditioned again in 2023, though at the time she didn\u2019t realize she was even being considered for the part.<\/p>\n Although their characters were often at odds \u2013 ok, let\u2019s be blunt \u2013 Gabi was almost killed by Connie \u2013 Cherie and Julie Dove are actually good friends in real life. Jimenez told Soap Opera Digest <\/a>that, \u201c\u201cJulie has actually become one of my really good friends,\u201d reports Jimenez. \u201cWe have lunch at least once a month and just catch up on life. She\u2019s absolutely wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n The actress was born and raised in New York City and went to SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory.<\/p>\n Jimenez started out her career going by the professional name of Cherie Daly. She has appeared on Pretty Little Liars, The Newsroom and Banshee.<\/p>\n Soap Hub had the pleasure of sitting down with Cherie which you can watch here<\/a>.<\/p>\n This story was originally reported on Soap Hub<\/a> on September 6, 2025. Add Soap Hub as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what’s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key Takeaways Cherie Jimenez has quickly become a standout on Days of our Lives, but there\u2019s much more to the actress than her role in Salem. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2001458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[363920,363918,341935,309475,363919,363921],"class_list":["post-2001457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-8th-wedding-anniversary","tag-cherie-daly","tag-cherie-jimenez","tag-days-of-our-lives","tag-gabi-hernandez","tag-sean-faris"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-Fast-Facts-About-Days-of-Our-Lives-Star-Cherie.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n
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