Sheila Carter
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| Sheila Carter | |
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| Date of birth | unknown |
| Gender | female |
| Parents | Molly Carter |
| Married | Scott Grainger (deceased) Eric Forrester(divorced) James Warwick (divorced) |
| Children | Mary Margaret Warwick AKA: Erica Lovejoy Diana Carter with Massimo Marone |
| Romantic Entanglements | Connor Davis Grant Chambers Ziggy Deadmarsh Massimo Marone Tom Fisher |
| Occupation | Nurse Nanny Waitress |
| Portrayer | Kimberlin Brown |
Sheila Carter Grainger Forrester Warwick is a fictional character who has appeared on both The Young and the Restless and its "sister soap" The Bold and the Beautiful. Actress Kimberlin Brown played the character on Y&R from 1990 to 1992 and from August 5th, 2005 to to January 2006 and on B&B from 1992 to 1998, with appearances in 2002 and 2003.
[edit] Aliases
- Sara
- "Imaginary" (used exclusively with Bridget Forrester)
- Ms. Lovejoy
- Brenda Harris
- Jennifer Mitchell
- Phyllis Summers Abbott
[edit] Character
Sheila was a nurse who worked at Genoa City Memorial Hospital and immediately fell in love with the married Dr. Scott Grainger (Peter Barton). In order to steal him away from his wife Lauren (Tracey E. Bregman), Sheila drugged him and slept with him, ending up pregnant. At the same time Lauren also became pregnant by Scott but didn't tell him. When the truth about the father of Sheila's baby came out, Scott felt obligated, divorced Lauren and married Sheila.
Sheila's baby died, unbeknownst to Scott, and she secretly switched Lauren's newborn with a black market baby, which Lauren named Dylan. Sheila began passing Lauren's baby off as her own, and Dylan eventually died from SIDS. Lauren eventually found out about the baby switch, but not before Sheila kidnapped both Lauren and her own mother, Molly Carter (Marilyn Alex), who knew too much, and attempted to kill both women by setting the farmhouse they were imprisoned in on fire. Lauren was reunited with her real son, Scott Jr.
Lauren reunited with Scott, who died shortly after in Catalina Island, and when Sheila moved to Los Angeles, Lauren followed her and they once again fought over a man - fashion CEO Eric Forrester (John McCook). Sheila quickly wormed her way into Eric's life by becoming the company nurse at Forrester Creations, and later working as Rick Forrester's nanny (after threatening the former nanny, Judy, and her family). Lauren threatened to expose Sheila to the Forrester family, but Sheila, always two steps ahead, turned the tables on Lauren by blackmailing her with pictures she took of Lauren sleeping with Brad Carlton (Don Diamont). Sheila eventually married Eric, much to the anger of his ex-wife Stephanie (Susan Flannery), but she soon showed her true colours (by manipulating Bridget's paternity test, holding the Forrester family hostage and attempting to drive Stephanie insane by way of mercury poisoning) and he divorced her.
Sheila was later placed in a mental institution, but did not remain there for long, despite Stephanie's attempts to keep her there for good. Sheila tried to develop a friendship with Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang), who wanted nothing to do with her. This left Sheila feeling hurt and betrayed, as Brooke was Stephanie's only other enemy who had experienced the same harsh treatment from the Forrester matriarch. She found a new partner-in-crime in security guard Mike Guthrie (Ken Hanes), who assisted her in abducting psychiatrist James Warwick (Ian Buchanan), and later his other on/off love interest, Maggie Forrester (Barbara Crampton), who Mike held prisoner at an oceanside amusement park. Later, Maggie would give Sheila a dose of her own medicine by keeping her locked up, appropriately, in the house from Psycho, at Universal Studios.
She then married James and they had a daughter, Mary. James would later divorce Sheila and begin another relationship with Maggie. James and Maggie pressured Sheila into giving them custody of Mary, and she eventually did before leaving for Death Valley. There, she met Amber Moore (Adrienne Frantz), who she recommended to babysit for James and Maggie, so she could secretly visit Mary in LA. Amber was hired and kept her alliance with Sheila secret, although it wasn't long before Sheila took matters into her own hands and confronted Maggie directly. Maggie later left LA. When a friendship began between James and Stephanie, a paranoid Sheila became jealous and threatened to kill Stephanie's grandson, Thomas Forrester, later shooting Stephanie, kidnapping baby Mary and leaving town.
Sheila returned to L.A. four years later to find her now-teenage daughter Mary (whom she had renamed Erica Lovejoy). Erica (Courtnee Draper), who was completely unaware of her mother's past or her own real name, had traveled to L.A. to meet her idol - Amber Forrester. She soon developed a crush on Amber's husband, Rick (Justin Torkildsen), although she never intended to act on her feelings. Sheila convinced Erica to seduce Rick, saying that a Forrester man would never abandon the woman carrying his child. She then paid off a man named Lance to drug Amber and take her to bed. When Lance threatened to go to the police, Sheila killed him by releasing a tank of bees into his apartment.
As a reluctant Erica was about to carry out her mother's plan, Rick's brother Ridge (Ronn Moss) burst in and exposed Erica's true identity, which Erica was previously unaware of herself. Rick kicked Erica out and helped rescue Amber, who had been kidnapped by Sheila. Sheila then held Eric and Taylor (Hunter Tylo) hostage before shooting and "killing" Taylor (she was revealed to still be alive three years later). Sheila was jailed for her crimes but soon escaped with the help of a sympathetic warden named Sugar (Robin Mattson).
In late 2003, she kidnapped Ridge and Brooke, while on their South American honeymoon. Soon Ridge's brother Nick Marone (Jack Wagner) arrived to rescue Ridge and Brooke but he was soon captured by Sheila as well. When Ridge and Nick's father, Massimo Marone (Joseph Mascolo) arrived to deliver the ransom, Sheila revealed that she had a baby daughter, Diana, whom she claimed to be the result of a brief fling she had with Massimo during her previous trip to L.A. When Massimo tried (unsuccessfully) to trick Sheila into handing over the infant, she and Sugar ran away. Brooke and Nick were soon rescued; however, it was believed that Ridge had been burned alive in the foundry Sheila stashed him in. Soon after, it was revealed that Ridge had survived, and he reunited with Brooke on the island.
Sheila returned to Genoa City in August 2005 and began terrorising Lauren once again, by indirectly turning her now-adult son Scott (Blair Redford) against her, under the alias "Brenda Harris". It was soon revealed that the woman in the mental institution who was believed to be Sheila (having turned herself in) was actually Sugar - Sheila had tricked her into having plastic surgery in order to look just like Sheila, and then turned Sugar in to the police. Meanwhile, Sheila developed another persona, "Jennifer Mitchell," by wearing a fake nose, wig, and speaking in a British accent. She allied with Tom Fisher (Roscoe Born), who helped her in her scheme to poison Lauren with a necklace that Scott would offer his mother as a gift. In exchange, Tom had Sheila manipulate Gloria Abbott (Judith Chapman) into giving him money and later bailing him out of prison.
After kidnapping Lauren, with the help of Tom, Sheila found herself trapped in a bomb shelter with her nemesis. Lauren was astonished when Sheila saved her life! Sheila escaped and was last seen in the plastic surgeon's office, asking for a new face.
In October 2006, it was revealed that Sheila's face had been (supposedly) reconstructed to look like Phyllis Summers Newman (Michelle Stafford); however, she had (supposedly) died in a car accident following the surgery. Whether Sheila is dead or still alive is yet to be revealed.
