Kimberly Shaw

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Kimberly Shaw
Melrose Place character
Portrayed by Marcia Cross
First appearanceSeptember 30, 1992
(episode 1.11; "A Promise Broken")
Last appearanceApril 7, 1997
(episode 5.27; "The Dead Wives Club")
Created by Darren Star
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Occupation Doctor of Medicine Psychologist

Dr. Kimberly Shaw, M.D., is a character from the hit television series Melrose Place . [2] She was portrayed by Emmy-nominated actress Marcia Cross for the first five seasons from 1992 to 1997. [3]

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Storylines

Season 1

Kimberly first appears in the first season as a Resident Doctor at Wilshire Memorial, as a colleague of Michael Mancini. The two become friends, and later begin to have an affair. Michael's wife, Jane, finds out and files for divorce.

Season 2

Kimberly and Michael move in together after she finds a beach house to rent. They break up after Jane's sister, Sydney, seduces a drunken Michael, but later reconcile and become engaged. A drunken Michael loses control of the car and they suffer a terrible car accident. Kimberly slips into a coma, while a grief-stricken Michael is paralyzed from the waist down. Kimberly's mother, Marion Shaw comes to take Kimberly back to Cleveland, Ohio to be near her family. Kimberly recovers, but her mother tells informs the Wilshire staff Kimberly has died. Michael reunites with Sydney. Kimberly returns to confront Michael. Michael explains his unique situation with Sydney, but Kimberly says she will take care of things. Kimberly lets Sydney in on her plan to kill Michael and they plot together on how to achieve this. After one failed attempt, Kimberly steals Jane's car and disguises herself as Jane and runs Michael down.

Season 3

Kimberly frames Sydney for the attempted murder. Sydney is arrested and charged. Michael and Kimberly reunite and Kimberly then learns she is barren as a result of the accident. They try to adopt, but the cost and time is too much for Kimberly. Instead, she kidnaps Jo's baby, who Jo was being forced to adopt out. While Kimberly is at work on Christmas Day, Michael returns the baby to Jo. Kimberly's obsession with having a baby drives Michael away and he begins a romance with Amanda.

A psych evaluation reveals Kimberly is a ticking time bomb, with no threshold for dealing with stress. Michael serves Kimberly with divorce papers and she attempts suicide. Kimberly attends camp "No More Victims", a popular camp for abused women to find inner and outer strength, but the camp does no good. Her mental health continues to deteriorate and she begins to see hallucinations of a demonic man, who urges her to destroy her enemies. Kimberly decides to blow up Melrose Place with all her enemies inside. Sydney tries to stop her, but Kimberly catches her. That night, everyone arrives at Melrose Place apart from Matt and Jake. Michael and Sydney manage to knock Kimberly out and attempt to clear the building but Kimberly regains consciousness and tells everyone "it's not what it looks like....it's worse".

Season 4

Kimberly presses the detonator and the building explodes. Kimberly is taken to the psychiatric ward of the hospital under tough surveillance. A judge declares her insane. Kimberly receives treatment and is soon let out into Peter's custody. She is given a monitoring belt, ensuring she is only at Peter's or the mental institution. Upon completion of her treatment, Kimberly moves into Melrose Place and begins a string of one-night stands, eventually remarrying Michael.

Kimberly realizes she has Dissociative Identity Disorder. One of her alters, "Betsy," takes over and kidnaps Peter. As Betsy, Kimberly had recently taken charge of a mental institution. Betsy takes Peter there and when Amanda and Michael arrive looking for Peter and Kimberly, Betsy has them locked up with Peter, revealing they will all have lobotomies. Kimberly manages to break through Betsy, but an orderly believes Michael has brainwashed Betsy. He struggles with Michael and Kimberly intervenes, resulting in her tumbling over the railing, unconscious. At Wilshire, she is in a coma and flatlines.

Season 5

Kimberly recovers and gives up her medical license. She goes to work for Peter and Michael as their receptionist till they find a replacement. Kimberly learns from her doctor she has a brain tumor and is given three months to live. She decides not to tell Michael.

Kimberly loses her sex drive and hires a prostitute, Megan, to service Michael. She decides to commit suicide, disguising it as an accident so she can leave him with accidental death money. She tells Megan this but Megan tries to stop her. In order to do this, Megan tells Michael of Kimberly's tumor and all her plans. They manage to stop Kimberly but Michael is devastated to learn she is dying. Michael tells Peter he feels responsible because of the car accident three years earlier. He refuses to leave Kimberly in her final weeks. Kimberly finally accepts and decides to make the most of her time with Michael.

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