Rae Thomas

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Rae Thomas is a fictional character on NBC's daytime drama Passions. She has been played on recurring status by Jossara Jinaro from August 31, 2005 to February 20, 2007.

[edit] Character History

Rae was introduced in August 2005. She was quickly established to be Simone Russell's girlfriend, which established to viewers that Simone was a lesbian. Simone declared to Rae that she loved her, but Rae said she was not interested in a steady relationship. Heart-broken, Simone left.

After not being seen for months, Rae resurfaced in December 2005. During a party where Alistair Crane planned to destroy the lives of many of Harmony's residents, Alistair "let it slip" that he paid Rae off to seduce a sexually confused Simone. T.C. Russell, Simone's father was enraged, and tried to convince Simone that Rae has just confused her about who she was. Simone told her father that even if Rae was one of Alistair's lackies, she knew who she was - a lesbian. It was revealed later that Rae had borrowed money from Alistair to start her lesbian club, and that she was not hired by Alistair to "turn" Simone gay.

Simone and Rae have been seen together on occasion following Simone's return home from Rome in July 2006. It's clear they have some kind of relationship, but the extent of it remains to be seen.

On Thanksgiving, Simone and Rae visited St. Mary Margaret's church to see Father Lonigan. Father Lonigan recognized Rae as one of his former parishoners and asked why she had stopped attending. Rae responded that her parents told her she wasn't welcome in the church due to her lesbian lifestyle. Father Lonigan admitted that according to the bible her actions were a sin but that church was welcome to everyone and that Rae's parents were wrong for shunning her.

On Monday, February 12, 2007, Rae was murdered by the Peeping Tom Rapist at the Blue Note Club in Harmony. She was stabbed to death and her body was soon discovered by Simone. "The Peeper" murdered Rae because she knew his/her identity and was about to tell Luis. On February 19, 2007, Rae's last name was revealed to be Thomas on the show during a radio news item about her murder.