Colleen Carlton
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| Colleen Carlton | |||||||||||||||
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 Tammin Sursok as Colleen Carlton (2007) |
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| Portrayed by | Lyndsy Fonseca (2001 - 2004, 2004 - 2005) Adrianne Leon (2006 - 2007) Tammin Sursok (2007 - ) |
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| First appearance | 1992 | ||||||||||||||
| Created by | William J. Bell | ||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Coll (by friends) CC (by Billy) |
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| Gender | Female | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 1992 (revised to 1986) |
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| Occupation | Art history major at Genoa City University Part-time waitress at the Genoa City Athletic Club |
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| Residence | Genoa City, Wisconsin | ||||||||||||||
 Adrianne Leon as Colleen Carlton (2006) |
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 Lyndsy Fonseca as Colleen Carlton (2004) |
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Colleen Cecile Carlton is a fictional character from the American soap opera The Young and the Restless. She is currently played by actress Tammin Sursok, who joined the cast in July 2007 and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for the role in 2008. Previous actresses in the role were Lyndsy Fonseca (from 2001 to 2004, reappearing briefly from 2004 to 2005) and Adrianne Leon (from January 2006 to July 2007). Colleen is the daughter of Brad Carlton (Don Diamont) and Traci Abbott Connolly (Beth Maitland).[1]
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[edit] Character biography
Expelled from school in New York for marijuana use in 2001, Colleen is sent to live with her grandfather in Genoa City. She attends school at Walnut Grove Academy with her cousin Billy. While there she continues using drugs and is caught by Billy's nemesis, J.T. Hellstrom (Thad Luckinbill), who plans on using this information against Billy. He changes his mind when he sees how upset Colleen is and the two start a friendship. She doesn't stop her drug use until her carelessness while intoxicated nearly results in the death of her adopted sister, Abby (Darcy Rose Byrnes), whom she is supposed to be babysitting.
Colleen soon makes friends with local girls Lily Winters (Christel Khalil) and Sierra Hoffman (Asia Ray Smith), and begins a romance with older rebel J.T. At first, Colleen's family is wary of J.T. as he has a bad track record with women, but they eventually accept the relationship. Sex becomes a major stumbling block for the couple. Surprisingly, it is not the sexually active J.T. who makes it an issue. Colleen makes sexual overtures to J.T. and he turns her down because he doesn't believe she is ready. Not long afterwards, he gives in to the advances of an older woman, Anita Hodges. When Colleen finds out she is devastated and the two break up. They soon reconcile.
When Lily begins dating Kevin Fisher (Greg Rikaart), Colleen tells her parents when the relationship turns sexual, which is statutory rape. In retaliation, Kevin traps Colleen in Gina Roma's (Patty Weaver) restaurant and starts a fire. Colleen survives after J.T. goes into the building and carries her out. She remains distrustful of Kevin, who expertly hid his crimes.
In 2004, Colleen leaves Genoa City for New York because she feels she is getting in the way of J.T.'s budding music career. She returns in early 2006 expecting to reunite with him, but he has moved on with Mackenzie Browning (Rachel Kimsey). She is also shocked to learn that Kevin has now been accepted by most of the community, Lily included.
After Mac leaves town, Colleen and J.T. reconcile. She is soon devastated by the death of her grandfather John Abbott (Jerry Douglas), who dies of a massive stroke. She is further rocked by the revelation that her father has assumed the name of Brad Carlton, and is in fact the son of Holocaust survivor and art historian Rebecca Kaplan (Lorna Raver). The majority of the Kaplan family had been killed because Rebecca had made it her life's work to return artwork stolen by the Nazis.
Following her grandmother's lead, Colleen begins to study art history in college under a professor named Adrian Korbel (Eyal Podell). It becomes apparent to both that this is more than a student/teacher relationship, much to the chagrin of the Kaplans, who are still in hiding, and her boyfriend J.T. Colleen uses Professor Korbel's knowledge to help solve the mystery of the Grudgeon Reliquary, the artifact that lead to the Kaplan family's murder. Despite her family's objections and a growing possibility that Korbel is involved in the murder of Newman Enterprises executive Carmen Mesta (Marisa Ramirez), Colleen cheats on J.T. with Adrian on Valentine's Day.
After the tryst, Colleen goes to get some water and finds Carmen's drivers license and some pink hair extensions and a necklace belonging to missing barista Jana Hawkes (Emily O'Brien). After running out of his home, Colleen is knocked out and taken to a room where Jana appears to be trapped as well. Jana tells her that Adrian is a murderer, and that he has an accomplice as well. After Colleen tells her of his involvement in the reliquary mystery and how to solve its code, Jana is taken from the room after offering to exchange the information for her freedom. After Jana manages to lure Kevin into the room, Jana reveals to the two enemies that she faked her death and killed Carmen Mesta, who knew of her earlier theft of art related documents. Jana and her father want the reliquary for themselves, and with Colleen's information, she believes they could have it. In an attempt to cover her tracks, Jana sets the building on fire in order to frame Kevin, her boyfriend, making it appear to be a reprisal of his original attempt on Colleen's life. As both Colleen and Kevin are succumbing to the smoke, J.T. and Adrian manage to save them both. When Colleen recovers, she clears Kevin's name and the two tentatively forgive each other.
After breaking up with J.T., Colleen tries to start a relationship with Adrian, but her family and J.T. threw up several roadblocks. After Adrian nearly looses his job, they attempt to feign a break-up and continue to see each other, but Sharon Newman (Sharon Case) discovers them and tells Brad (despite assuring Colleen that she would not). As a result, Brad cuts his daughter off financially, though Colleen soon overcomes this obstacle with a loan from her uncle Jack (Peter Bergman).
In August 2007, Colleen, furious with Brad, gives Adrian permission to use her family's story in his new book, Saved From the Ashes. In April 2008, Adrian gives Colleen an advanced copy of the book. Realizing she made a grave mistake in allowing the Kaplan family's story to be told and fearing for her family, Colleen tells Brad about the book. Brad then bribes the publisher into stopping publication of the book. Adrian is furious with Colleen for ruining his career opportunity. A devastated Colleen decides that she and Adrian need to take a break, and accepts an offer for a six-week work study program in Beijing, China.
[edit] Actress history
- Ashley, Kelly and Bobby Brown
- Recurring: 1992
- Caitlin and Jessica Miley
- Recurring: 1993
- Natalie and Victoria McCormick
- Recurring: 1993-1994
- Alanna Masterson
- Recurring: 1994-1995
- Lyndsy Fonseca
- Contract: 2001 - June 2004
- Guest: December 24, 2004 - February 9, 2005
- Adrianne Leon
- Contract: January 18, 2006 - July 16, 2007
- Tammin Sursok
- Contract: July 30, 2007 - present
[edit] Specific popularity
The character of Colleen became "wildly popular as one half of GC's sweetheart couple" J.T. and Colleen.[2] The pairing placed both portrayers, Fonseca and Luckinbill, into the top 5 actors and actress's lists [3][4] and reached the top five couples list.[5] Colleen and J.T. were also listed as the fourth most romantic couple of 2003 in Soap Opera Updates A Year in Soaps along with other prominant duos of that year Sonny and Carly, Nick and Sharon, Shawn and Belle, and Al and Marcie.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ "Tammin Sursok Bio", CBS.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-03.
- ^ "SID Ins and Outs: Lyndsy Fonseca" (jpg), Soaps In Depth'. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
- ^ "SID Top 5 Actors" (jpg), CBS Soaps Indepth. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
- ^ "SID Top 5 Actress's" (jpg), CBS Soaps Indepth. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
- ^ "SID Top 5 Couple's" (jpg), CBS Soaps Indepth. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
- ^ "Soap Opera Update 2003", Soap Opera Update.
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