Brad Carlton
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| Bradley Carlton | |
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| Birth name | George Kaplan |
| First appearance | 1985 |
| Address | 1185 Cottage Grove Rd. Genoa City |
| Date of birth | 1960s |
| Gender | Male |
| Parents | Arturo Kaplan (father, deceased) Rebecca Kaplan (mother) |
| Siblings | Stephanie Kaplan (sister, deceased) |
| Marriages | Lisa Mansfield (annulled) Traci Abbott (divorced, first time) Cassandra Rawlins (deceased) Traci Abbott (divorced, second time) Ashley Abbott (divorced) Victoria Newman (current) |
| Children | Unnamed Child (Sex Unknown, with Traci Abbott Connelly, deceased), Colleen Carlton (Daughter, with Traci Abbott Connelly, Abigail "Abby" Carlton (Adopted Daughter, with Ashley Abbott), Robert Carlton (Son, with Ashley Abbott, stillborn), Unnamed Child (Sex Unknown, with Victoria Newman) {Currently Expecting} |
| Occupation | Executive at Newman Enterprises |
| Portrayer | Don Diamont |
Bradley Carlton (born George Kaplan) is a fictional character on CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. Actor Don Diamont has played the role since 1985 (he departed the show in 1996 and returned in 1998). Diamont was temporarily replaced by Russell Todd in 1993.
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Brad is an executive at Newman Enterprises and currently married to Victoria Newman (Amelia Heinle).
Brad has been married to Lisa Mansfield (Lynne Harbaugh), Traci Abbott (Beth Maitland) (twice) (with whom he has a teenage daughter, Colleen (Adrianne Leon), Cassandra Rawlins (Nina Arvesen) and Traci's half-sister, Ashley (Eileen Davidson) (with whom he has an adopted daughter, Abby (Darcy Rose Byrnes)). He has also had flings with Lauren Fenmore (Tracey E. Bregman), Jill Foster Abbott (Jess Walton), Diane Jenkins (Alex Donnelley) and Olivia Winters (Tonya Lee Williams), and was briefly engaged to Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas Scott).
Brad's rivalries with Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) and Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman) have been key plot elements over the years. Brad's anger boiled over in 2005 when Jack refused to instate him as CEO of Jabot. Brad stormed out of the office and soon took a job at Newman.
In 2006, Brad married Victor's daughter, Victoria, to her father's anger. Meanwhile, Brad continues to fight his feelings for Victoria's ex-sister-in-law, Sharon (actress Sharon Case).
Upon Victor Newman's initiation of a background check on Brad, it was discovered (after 20 years on the show) that Carlton was not who he had initially claimed to be. Brad's real name is George Kaplan, and he assumed the identity of a friend who died in an accident in order to hide from the shadowy figures who killed his family. The current story arc involving Brad/George has his past catching up with him, as his mother, Rebecca Kaplan (Lorna Raver), has to help find an artifact that was stolen from its rightful owners by the Nazis, who had put Rebecca to work in a concentration camp cataloging stolen art. Brad and Victoria are now expecting a baby.
