Kate Roberts (fiction)

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Katherine Elizabeth "Kate" Roberts Reed (Winograd?) Kiriakis Brady is a fictional character in the soap opera Days of our Lives. Originally played by Deborah Adair from 1993 to 1995; the role has been played by Lauren Koslow since 1996.

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Kate was introduced with her son Lucas. She was the whiz kid brought in to head Titan Publishing. A relationship with Victor Kiriakis soon came to be. He asked her to marry him. Lucas pursued the identity of his father, later revealed to be Bill Horton, much to Kate's dismay. Years earlier, she had lived in Salem, had an affair with Bill and concieved Lucas. Knowledge of the affair caused Bill's wife Laura to have a nervous breakdown and she was commited to an asylum. (The affair was actually depicted onscreen in 1977, but Bill was having an affair with a woman named Kate Winograd. This character was retconned into Kate Roberts in the 1990's, but the name difference was never addressed.) Soon, Billie was put on trial for her father Curtis Reed's murder. During the trial, Laura Horton unexpectedly appeared and revealed Kate's marriage to Curtis. It was revealed that both Billie and Austin were Kate's long-lost children, and eventually that Bill was Lucas' father. Lucas became embittered, and Billie hated her mother because she had taken Countess Wilhemina away from her. Austin wasn't so hard on his mother. Kate had been unaware that Austin and Billie were even alive, as her abusive husband Curtis told her that they were dead after she returned to get them. Austin grew close to his mother eventually, but due to other circumstances Billie left Salem for Europe some time later.

Kate, to ensure her place in the Kiriakis legacy, wanted to give Victor another son. He was estranged from his adult son Bo at the time. They pursued in vitro fertilization, and through some shrewd trickery, Vivian Alamain had their embryo implanted in her. She gave birth to Philip, and while pregnant, drove a wedge between Kate and Victor, who was supposedly married to Kate. Not to be, because Victor was married to Vivian, who had tricked him months before. Vivian then sent Kate on a plane and sabotaged it, causing it to crash somewhere over the ocean.

Kate was assumed dead, leaving Victor with a new son and no wife. Kate arrived back about a year later, and Vivian wasn't very happy. She was finally breaking into Victor's heart. Vivian was kicked out of the Kiriakis mansion after her machinations came to light. Kate got involved with Titan again. Soon after, Billie returned from Paris. Franco Kelly came to town also. Victor had a heart attack and was placed in a nursing home. Kate had hired Franco to break up Bo and Hope, so Billie could be happy with Bo. Sami started blackmailing Kate with her past as a prostitute.

Franco was murdered by Lucas and Kate framed Sami Brady. Kate also knew Franco was involved with the mob, and held it over his head. He courted Sami to get a green card, and Kate knew it, but didn't let Franco marry Sami. So right now, Kate is trying to keep her family together without going to jail for conspiracy to murder. Sami was convicted and sentenced to death, Kate said that Roberto confessed to Franco's murder and Sami was freed at the last minute. Kate is now still trying to keep the secret of Franco's murder and battle with Vivian over control of Titan. Kate is also on the brink of an affair with the much younger Nicholas Alamain.

Kate and Nicholas had a torrid affair. Kate's involvment with Nicholas was pure based on lust, and in the beginning, Nicholas was simply helping his Aunt Vivian get Victor back. Kate denied her feelings for Nicholas, encouraging him to take her daughter, Billie out. However, Billie noticed the jealously in her mother's eyes and questioned Kate, encouraging her to go on a date because of Victor's illness. As the months went by, Nicholas began to fall for Kate, even offering to be her lover if they could never be. After numerous close encounters and fantasies, Kate was finally exposed when Nicholas went to Victor and told him he was in love with Kate. Soon after, Victor caught them kissing outside of the Blue Note.

Nicholas left Kate a note saying he was leaving town, and she attempted to get Victor to marry her once again. She blew her chances, though, when she was caught in flagrante delicto with mob boss Vincent Moroni. She conspired with him to kill Victor at the coronation, and her plan set a horrible gun play in motion that killed Vincent's only child, Angela, and prompted Vincent's suicide. Victor realized her plan, and escaped with his life (after faking his death). He revealed himself to her the night she set the house on fire and attempted to murder him with a poker. Luckily, Victor got out, but Lucas wasn't so lucky...he was in the house that night, drunk, and ended up with severe burns.

Victor exposed Kate and kicked her out on her rear, forcing her to find work at a diner. Out of respect for their son, Victor didn't tell Philip that Kate had attempted numerous murders and was the reason that Lucas nearly died. Thanks to Philip's pleas, Victor finally agreed to provide Kate with a small allowance. She got a job at Basic Black, and began dating Roman Brady, terrified that at any moment, her secret could come out and destroy their relationship. Kate became one of the top suspects in Abe's murder because he knew her secret, but Kate finally broke down and confessed to Roman, which ended their relationship. When Lucas overheard Sami and Kate talking about Kate's past, he turned his back on her.

Kate and Roman were able to work their way back to each other because their love was just too strong to deny. Roman asked Kate to marry him, and she happily accepted. They had a beautiful wedding, with all of their friends and family in attendance, but Kate was shattered when, at the wedding reception, she found Roman's dead body. She mourned him deeply, but that didn't stop her from doing her best to destroy her son Lucas' newfound relationship with Roman's daughter Sami, who she swore she would try to get along with. She threw herself into her work (and destroying Sami), and the closer Sami and Lucas got, the more convinced Kate was that her only hope for happiness lay with Philip, and she began 'encouraging' him to spend more time with Belle. When Lucas and Sami got engaged, it took everything Kate had not to lose it.

Kate also moved on in her personal life, becoming engaged to John Black after months of helping him deal with a drug addiction. They turned to each other after John's wife, Marlena was presumed dead along with Roman. But just as the two were planning their lives together, their presumed dead spouses returned to Salem. Roman soon washed his hands of her, and she didn't help her situation by "exposing" Sami's infidelity -- even Lucas turned his back on her. Alone again, Kate invited John Black to move in with her after Marlena kicked him out of the penthouse in favor of her returned-from-the-dead husband Alex North, but her attention was soon snapped up by a different matter -- Kate realized that there was no way Philip could be baby Claire's father and that the father had to be Shawn, and was determined to keep everyone from finding that out.

Currently, Kate is in cahoots with newcomer EJ Wells. Under orders from Kate, he is seducing Sami away from Lucas, a task that has yet to be completed. Kate and EJ's relationship was taken to the next level when they slept together in her office. EJ has been revealed to be not who he claims, is working alongside Patrick Lockheart, and is possibly part of the DiMera family.

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