Bond Gideon was born Donna Kathryn Hosack in Corpus Christi, Texas. Bond was a model in Dallas as well as a singer/guitar player and got her first taste of acting in Stepsisters, Slick Silver & Company, and Storyville and Texas and New Orleans before moving to Los Angeles in 1977 to act and model. Her first role in Hollywood was in Blanskey's Beauties with Nancy Walker and Scott Baio as Lovely Carson cast by Garry Marshall... She then landed a role in Season One of Operation Petticoat as Lt Claire Reid with John Astin, Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Gilliland. In 1980 she joined the cast of The Young and The Restless (Y&R) as bad girl Jill Foster in 1980. She moved back to her home state of Texas in 1986 and got married in 1988. Bond opened and ran an acting school in Corpus Christi and teaches private acting lessons now in Houston and has done some local theater. Bond has one daughter, Tory Taylor Tompkins, who is a singer and musician (Guitar and Piano/keyboards) and recording artist like her Mom as well as a SAG-AFTRA actress living in Los Angeles under the stage name Tory Taranova.