The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera. It was first broadcast on March 23, 1987 and airs on CBS. The following is a list of characters that first appeared or will appear in the soap in 2015, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the series' executive producer and head writer Bradley Bell.
Nicole Avant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Portrayed by | Reign Edwards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Duration | 2015–2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First appearance | January 16, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last appearance | January 18, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification | Past; recurring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Introduced by | Bradley Bell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nicole Avant, played by Reign Edwards, first appeared January 16, 2015. [1] The character and casting was announced on December 2, 2014. [2] Edwards auditioned for the part and noted that she was the youngest there. Despite feeling good about her audition, she did not expect to be cast. [2] As of May 2018, Edwards is on recurring capacity with the soap. [3]
Nicole is the younger sister of established character Maya Avant (Karla Mosley). [2] Edwards said the sisters share a few similarities, but they would "have their differences". [2] She added "I think Nicole is going to bring something pretty cool to the table for everybody." [2]
Nicole turns up at Forrester Creations looking for her older sister, Maya. She later finds her at the house, and explains she is now living in LA and attending UCLA. Weeks later, Nicole returns and asks Maya if she can stay with her, as she has lost her apartment. Maya's partner, Rick Forrester (Jacob Young), tells her she can stay with them, but Maya says Nicole is fine and sees her out. Nicole later returns and Rick invites her to move in, after learning she is staying on a friend's couch. Nicole and Maya talk and attempt to reconcile their differences. During a confrontation, Nicole tells Maya that she knows she was born a boy named Myron and has transitioned.
Sasha Thompson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Bold and the Beautiful character | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Portrayed by | Felisha Cooper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Duration | 2015–2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
First appearance | December 14, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last appearance | February 15, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification | Past; recurring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Introduced by | Bradley Bell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sasha Thompson, played by Felisha Cooper, first appeared December 14, 2015. [4] In January 2017, Cooper was put on recurring status with the show. [5]
Sasha arrives in Los Angeles and is reunited with the Avant family. While Vivienne Avant (Anna Maria Horsford) is delighted to see her, Julius Avant (Obba Babatundé) seems bothered that she unexpectedly shows up. When Vivienne leaves for a job interview at the DMV, Sasha and Julius have a somewhat awkward yet very tense conversation. Julius countless times tells Sasha to go back home to Chicago, but Sasha insists she stay in town. Soon, Sasha is reunited with her childhood best friend, Nicole Avant (Reign Edwards). Nicole brings Sasha over to Forrester Creations to give her the tour and to introduce to her boyfriend Zende Forrester Dominguez (Rome Flynn). Nicole also reveals to Sasha that she is pregnant, serving as the surrogate for Rick Forrester (Jacob Young) and Maya Avant (Karla Mosley).
When Nicole leaves for a moment, Sasha eyes an elegant dress and decides to try it on. While she begins changing, Zende walks in and believes Nicole is behind the changing wall but is stunned to see Sasha wearing only her bra and underwear. Sasha begins showing interest in Zende, not knowing that who he is and he is dating Nicole.
Later on, Sasha arrives at the Forrester mansion and is reunited with the entire Avant family, including Maya. Julius continues to show disgust that Sasha is in town and once again tells her to leave and go back home, but Sasha refuses every time. Sasha then reveals that she and Julius share a secret of which the rest of the family isn't aware.
Sasha stops by the motel to visit Vivienne, but she has to run out to the store. While alone, Sasha and Julius continue their bickering. On December 21, during another argument, Sasha reminds Julius that they are father and daughter.
Sasha gets involved with Zende after he leaves Nicole, but no one accepts their relationship. After a confrontation with Nicole about Zende, Sasha reveals to her that they are half-sisters. Nicole refuses to accept her into the family, and Julius and Vivienne split up for a while when she realizes he had an affair with Sasha's mother.
When Nicole gives birth Rick and Maya's daughter, Lizzy, Zende decides to reunite with her. Knowing that Zende and Nicole are getting to back together, Sasha tells them that she is pregnant. She then confesses that she was lying and Zende dumps her. After a family meeting and much soul-searching, Nicole, Vivienne and Maya forgive Julius and Sasha for their lies.
Sasha continues her work at Forrester Creations and she gets closer to Thomas Forrester (Pierson Fodé) when he defends her from Julius' verbal attack and Sasha thanks Thomas with a kiss. Sasha and Thomas start to dating, but Nicole thinks Thomas still has feelings for his babymama, Caroline Spencer (Linsey Godfrey). When Caroline returns in town with Thomas' son, Douglas Forrester, wanting the three of them to be a family, Sasha ends things with Thomas, not wishing to stand between him and his child.
Sasha returns in Zende's orbit again when Maya and Rick want Nicole to carry a baby for them a second time. Sasha supports Zende, who doesn't approve at the idea of coming in second to Nicole's surrogacy again. Sasha gets a surprise trip to Hawaii when a drunk Zende whisks her away upon hearing that Nicole is going through with the surrogacy. On the plane ride home, Sasha and Zende kiss and then make love; but Nicole, who has changed her mind, catches them together. Sasha apologizes but defends Zende's position; when Nicole refuses Zende's repeated marriage proposals, Sasha tells Nicole she still wants Zende and asks him where things stand between them, but Zende clarifies his heart is with Nicole.
Months later, hearing Nicole has finally agreed to marry Zende, Sasha asks Nicole for forgiveness, wanting to be a family again. Nicole forgives her and Sasha attends at Nicole and Zende's wedding, watching them exchanged vows and gives them her blessing. Sasha later gets a job promotion and moves to Paris.
Date(s) | Character | Actor | Circumstances |
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March 11–12 | Diane | Jill Whelan [6] | Diane is the group counselor conducts an AA meeting, that Brooke Logan attends when she believes she has developed a drinking problem. Deacon Sharpe also attends the meeting, and Diane invites him to speak. |
May 8–August 12 | Nick | Scott Turner Schofield [7] | Nick is Maya Avant's mentor and best friend. He supports her when the press and her partner Rick Forrester learns that she is a transgender woman. He makes the marriage officiant at Rick and Maya's wedding. |
June 9–19 | McCaffrey | Vincent Duvall | McCaffrey is a federal agent who comes to Forrester Creations to give Ivy Forrester deportation papers. He returns after learning that Ivy married Liam Spencer and tells her that he will be checking into the validity of her marriage. |
June 29– | Charlotte | Camelia Somers [8] | Charlotte is an intern at Forrester Creations. Briefly involved with Thomas Forrester and then interested in Wyatt Spencer, but he rejected her because he fell in love with Katie Logan. |
July 3– | Vivienne Avant | Anna Maria Horsford [9] | Vivienne and Julius are the parents of Maya Avant and Nicole Avant. While Vivienne is accepting of Maya being transgender, Julius is more critical with his comments bordering on transphobia. Secretly Julius has another daughter, Sasha Thompson, with his neighbor and friend Lucy. |
July 9– | Julius Avant | Obba Babatundé [9] |
Bridget Forrester is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network. She first appeared in 1992 as the infant daughter of Brooke Logan and Eric Forrester. The character was portrayed by actress Ashley Jones from December 2004 to January 2011 as a regular, but was dropped to recurring status and continued to make appearances up until February 29, 2012, when Bridget left for New York along with a few others. Since 2013, Jones has continued to make guest appearances on the soap.
Thomas Forrester is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network. Created and introduced by Bradley Bell, the role has been portrayed by multiple child actors. In 2004, the role was rapidly aged with actor Drew Tyler Bell, who remained in the role until 2010. That same year, Adam Gregory was cast in the role, and remained through his exit in 2014. The following year, Pierson Fodé was cast in the role. Fodé departed the role in September 2017; he returned for a one-month guest stint from March to April 2018. In February 2019, it was announced that Matthew Atkinson had been cast in the role; he debuted on March 15, 2019.
Rick Forrester is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network. He was born in 1990 as the son of Brooke Logan and Eric Forrester. Portrayed by several adult actors, he is currently portrayed by Jacob Young, who took claim of the role from 1997 to 1999, and returned from 2011 to 2018.
Steffy Forrester is a fictional character from the American CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Introduced by Bradley Bell, she is currently portrayed by Jacqueline MacInnes Wood. Steffy and her twin sister Phoebe were born onscreen as the daughters of supercouple Ridge Forrester and Taylor Hayes during the episode airing on September 21, 1999. For the character's first five-year period, she appeared as a minor. In 2005, Steffy was rapidly aged to a teenager, and in 2008 she appeared as an adult when Wood took over the role. Wood portrayed the role continuously until 2013, when she decided to leave her regular capacity with the series. Following a series of guest appearances, Wood returned as a series regular in 2015.
Hope Logan is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network. The character was portrayed by several child actors since Hope's introduction in 2002, most notably Rachel and Amanda Pace. In 2010, the role was rapidly aged and recast with actress Kim Matula, who made her first appearance in January 2010. Matula departed the serial as a series regular in December 2014, but she made guest appearances in 2015 and 2016. As of 2018, the role is portrayed by Annika Noelle.
The Forrester family is a family in the CBS Daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. The Forresters own and run the Los Angeles-based fashion house Forrester Creations.
The Logan family is a fictional family in the CBS Daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. The family debuted in the soap opera's first episode, and were a central family in the show's early years, but by the early 1990s, most of the family had departed. Between 1991 and 2006, the family was solely represented by Brooke Logan and her children, with her other family members making occasional guest appearances, usually at one of Brooke's weddings. Between 2006 and 2008, Brooke's parents, Stephen Logan and Elizabeth Logan, Brooke's sisters, Donna Logan and Katie Logan, and Brooke's brother Storm Logan, were all recast and reintroduced. The family is currently represented by Brooke, her daughter Hope Logan, Hope's daughter Beth Spencer, Brooke's sisters, Donna and Katie, Katie's son Will Spencer, and Storm's daughter Flo Fulton. This is a list of all known members of the Logan family, both past and present, deceased and living.
Brooke Logan is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network. She has been portrayed by Katherine Kelly Lang since the series's debut in March 1987. The character is part of the original four central characters and actors. Over the years, she has developed into a business woman working at Forrester Creations and a mother to five children: Rick, Bridget, Hope, Jack, R.J.. Her character is described as having "emerged as the show's quintessential vixen, always in turmoil and forever symbolic of true love and destiny prevailing." The character has also had long-time rivalries with Stephanie Forrester and Taylor Hayes. In addition to Ridge, Brooke has had marriages with Eric Forrester Ridge's father, Ridge's two half-brothers, Thorne Forrester and Nick Marone, her brother-in-law Bill Spencer, Jr., and several others, including marriages to Whip Jones and Grant Chambers for a total of 21 marriages. Had a relationship with her son-in-laws Nick Marone and Deacon Sharpe ,she also had a one night stand with Oliver her daughters boyfriend, who she thought was ridge on a masked graduation party.
Taylor Hayes is a fictional character from the American CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, currently portrayed by Krista Allen. The character was created by William J. Bell and originated by Hunter Tylo during the episode dated June 6, 1990. Tylo exited the series in 1994 but returned several months later. She exited again in 1996 after being cast on Melrose Place, but returned shortly after being fired from that show for being pregnant. After Tylo grew dissatisfied with her character's direction and agreed with executive producer Bradley Bell that Taylor was "played out", the character was subsequently killed off and last appeared in October 2002. Tylo reprised Taylor as a ghost in 2004 before returning as a regular in April 2005, with the character revealed to be alive. Tylo exited The Bold and the Beautiful again in July 2013, but returned for guest appearances in 2014. She returned again from April 2018 to March 2019 on a recurring basis. The role was later recast with Allen, who debuted as Taylor in December 2021.
Ridge Forrester is a fictional character from the CBS Daytime soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful. The character was introduced in the series premiere on March 23, 1987 and has been a regular fixture ever since. Ronn Moss played the role since the beginning, and was one of four remaining original cast members for 25 years, along with Susan Flannery, John McCook and Katherine Kelly Lang. During a leave of absence in 1992, Moss was briefly replaced by Lane Davies. The character's fate was uncertain when Moss departed the role in 2012, although head-writer Bradley Bell confirmed in an interview with Michael Logan of TV Guide that he had plans for a recast should Moss choose not to return to the series. In October 2013, TV Guide's Michael Logan reported that the role of Ridge was recast with former All My Children actor, Thorsten Kaye. Kaye made his first appearance as Ridge on December 13, 2013. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Denise Richards' husband Aaron Phypers has appeared as Ridge in love scenes with Shauna in 2020.
Amber Moore is a fictional character from the American soap operas The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless. Throughout the character's entire history, she has been portrayed by Adrienne Frantz, first introduced by Bradley Bell to The Bold and the Beautiful on July 18, 1997. She was a babysitter for Brooke Logan and Eric Forrester's children, but ended up having a romance with their son, Rick Forrester. As a young woman, she endured several challenges including being drugged and raped, having a relationship with a younger man and becoming an enemy of Sheila Carter, a psychotic criminal.
Liam Spencer is a fictional character The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network, played by Scott Clifton. He made his first appearance during the episode broadcast on July 19, 2010. Introduced as the long-lost son of business tycoon Bill Spencer Jr., he is recognized for his love triangle with Steffy Forrester and Hope Logan.
Dayzee Leigh is a fictional character from the American CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Portrayed by Kristolyn Lloyd, the character was introduced by head writer Bradley Bell on October 7, 2010. Lloyd played the character in a recurring status until she was promoted to contract status and became a series regular. Dayzee was initially a poor young woman, working and living on the streets of Skid Row, Los Angeles. She soon started a friendship with the show's matriarch Stephanie Forrester, who was diagnosed with lung cancer at the time. Dayzee gave her the incentive she needed to undergo treatment, which saved her life. Bell was highly involved in the making of the character and the Skid Row storyline, and Lloyd had a background knowledge of it because of her charity work in Los Angeles and overseas.
Caroline Spencer is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network. Created by producer Bradley Bell, she is portrayed by actress Linsey Godfrey. She is the daughter of media mogul Karen Spencer, niece of media mogul Bill Spencer Jr., and namesake of her aunt, Caroline Spencer Forrester (Johnson).
Maya Avant is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network, portrayed by Karla Mosley. Introduced as a series regular in 2013, ex-con Maya comes to town looking for her daughter who was put up for adoption by Dayzee Forrester. After the child is revealed to have died, Maya falls for fashion executive Rick Forrester when she mistakes him for a waiter. Discovering Rick's true identity scares Maya into the arms of attorney Carter Walton. Maya quickly rises to fame in the modeling world. After a failed engagement to Carter who realizes Maya loves Rick, Maya pursues Rick putting her at odds with Rick's then wife Caroline Spencer. After successfully breaking up the couple, Rick and Maya settle into their cushy new life ruffling quite a few feathers along the way as Maya supports Rick's ruthless business tactics.
Wyatt Spencer is a fictional character from the original CBS Daytime soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful, portrayed by Darin Brooks.
John Finnegan is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network, portrayed by Tanner Novlan.