Grace Turner
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Grace Turner is a fictional character in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. She was played by Josie Davis from 1996 to 1997. She was then replaced by Jennifer Gareis from 1997 to 2000. Gareis returned briefly in 2001 and 2002, and on a recurring basis from January to August 2004.
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Grace was first introduced as Sharon Newman's (Sharon Case) best friend, who had moved from Madison to Genoa City (where Sharon also now lived) with her boyfriend Tony Viscardi (Nick Scotti).
Upon learning that Sharon and Nick's (Joshua Morrow) newborn baby, Noah, was at death's door, Grace and Tony decided to track down Sharon's first child, a daughter she had given up at birth, to ease Sharon's pain. They finally tracked down the now-5-year-old girl, who had been renamed Cassie Johnson (Camryn Grimes) by her adoptive mother, Alice (Tamara Clatterbuck). Alice had abandoned Cassie and left her with her elderly mother, Millie (Ernestine Mercer). Realizing that she was barely able to take care of herself, let alone a young child, Millie eventually let Grace and Tony take Cassie back with them. Noah unexpectedly survived, so Grace decided to keep Cassie's identity a secret from Nick and Sharon. Tony reluctantly agreed to help her.
Although Cassie missed Millie, she grew to think of Tony and Grace as her parents. Grace introduced Cassie to Nick and Sharon as Grace's "niece from out of town". After a year, Grace finally told Sharon the truth about Cassie being her daughter. While Sharon was furious with Grace for keeping the secret, she was ecstatic to have her daughter back. Cassie, on the other hand, was at first devastated, and angry at Sharon for giving her up at birth. Though, after spending time with the Newmans, Cassie came to think of Nick and Sharon as her parents.
One night, while babysitting Cassie and Noah, Grace plotted to steal Nick from Sharon. Nick arrived home drunk, and thinking Grace was Sharon, slept with her. The following morning, Nick was furious with Grace and swore her to secrecy. Grace blackmailed Nick into giving her a job at Newman Enterprises. She constantly tried to get Nick alone so that she could seduce him, but didn't succeed. Grace's obsession with Nick caused Tony to leave her. One night, while on a business trip, Nick finally gave into temptation and slept with Grace again. The next morning, Sharon, who had come to surprise Nick, overheard Nick and Grace talking about the night before, and devastated, she wandered out onto the road and was hit by a car. When Sharon recovered, she and Nick reunited. After a short-lived affair with Michael Baldwin (Christian LeBlanc), Grace left town.
In late 2003, Sharon was mortified to realize that software tycoon Cameron Kirsten (Linden Ashby) was in town to make a business deal with Newman Enterprises, and Nick was handling the deal. It was soon revealed that Sharon had, during her recent absence from Genoa City (and Y&R), slept with, and been beaten by, Cameron. When Cameron attempted to rape Sharon, she knocked him out with a wine bottle, thinking she had killed him. After dragging the body behind a dumpster, Sharon asked Larry Warton (David "Shark" Fralick) to dispose of it for her. At a bar, Sharon ran into Grace, who told her that she had been dating Cameron and accused her of murdering her lover.
Sharon began having what she thought was paranoid delusions of Cameron's rotting body appearing in her living room. Desperate to find out for sure if Cameron was dead, Sharon and her mother-in-law, Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott), went into the sewer, where Larry had dumped the body. They found a body that was wearing Cameron's clothes, but had decomposed beyond recognition. It was revealed leter that Cameron was still alive. The "hauntings" had been a trick set up by Cameron and Grace, and the body Sharon and Nikki had found was actually that of Frank Barritt (Phil Dozois), Cassie's biological father, who Cameron had killed himself.
Nick and Sharon convinced Grace to testify against Cameron, and he was jailed for his crimes. The Newmans were grateful to Grace for saving Sharon, and Grace now works for a Newman Enterprises subsidiary in New York City.
