Colleen Carlton

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Colleen Carlton, as played by Adrianne Leon.

Colleen Cecile Carlton is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. The role was played by actress Lyndsy Fonseca from 2001 to 2004 and briefly again in 2005. The character is now played by Adrianne Leon, who joined the cast in January 2006.

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Colleen is the daughter of Brad Carlton (Don Diamont) and Traci Abbott Connelly (Beth Maitland). She is currently dating J.T. Hellstrom (Thad Luckinbill).

When Colleen returned to Genoa City as a rebellious young teen in 2001, she began to develop a marijuana habit. She was given a wake-up call when it almost cost the life of her half-sister, Abby (Darcy Rose Byrnes), who almost choked on a button when Colleen went out to smoke while she was supposed to be babysitting.

Colleen soon made friends with local girls Lily Winters (then played by Christel Khalil) and Sierra Hoffman (Asia Ray Smith), and began a romance with J.T. Hellstrom. At first, Colleen's family was wary of J.T. as he had a bad track record with women, but they eventually accepted the relationship.

In 2004, Colleen left town because she felt she was getting in the way of J.T.'s budding music career. She returned in early 2006 expecting to reunite with J.T., but he had moved on with Mackenzie Browning (Rachel Kimsey). She also was shocked to learn that Kevin Fisher (Greg Rikaart), who had tried to kill her and raped Lily in 2003, had now been accepted by most of the GC community, Lily (now Davetta Sherwood) included.

Recently, Mac left town and Colleen and J.T. reconciled. Colleen, like most of the Abbott family, is reeling from the loss of John Abbott (Jerry Douglas), who had recently died of a massive stroke. His death, along with the discovery of her father and grandmother's Jewish faith, has led Colleen to more closely examine her own mixed heritage. She now celebrates the Jewish holidays.

Colleen is working as a research assistant to her art history professor, medievalist Adrian Korbel, and this stormy working relationship has led to several minor indiscretions; Korbel has fed the sexual tension between the two, preying on the weaknesses in her relationship with J.T., and is a bit too interested in Colleen's grandmother for the comfort of the Carlton (Kaplan) clan.