Hope Williams Brady
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| Hope Williams Brady | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Kristian Alfonso as Hope Williams Brady |
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| Days of our Lives | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Kristina Osterhaut (1974) Kimberly Weber (1974 - 1975) Natasha Ryan (1975 to 1980) Tammy Taylor (1981) Kristian Alfonso (1983-1987, 1990, 1994-present) |
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| First appearance | 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | William J. Bell | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Fancy Face | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | Onscreen December 24, 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Stay-at-home mom, Salem police officer | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hope Alice Williams Brady (born onscreen December 24, 1974) is a fictional character on the television soap opera Days of our Lives. She is portrayed by Kristian Alfonso and has been since her return as a young adult in 1983.
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[edit] Fictional character history
Hope was born in 1974 to Addie Horton and Doug Williams. Shortly after Hopes birth, her mother died. Doug was unable to care for his daughter and left her in the care of her grandparents, Tom and Alice Horton. Eventually Doug returned to be a parent but fell in love with Hope’s half-sister, Julie Olsen. They were married and Hope was shipped off to boarding school.
In 1983, a SORAS'd Hope returned as a feisty and rebellious teenager. Almost immediately she developed a serious crush on Roman Brady and tried to get him by unsuccessfully seducing him. Unbeknownst to Hope, Roman’s brother Bo Brady was falling for her and he became very jealous of Hope’s attempts to be with Roman. Eventually, they found themselves in love, continually fighting and always making up. Their love story was the beginning but Hope’s father had other plans.
Doug wanted Hope to marry Larry Welch, a politician with high aspirations and no conscience. He manipulated Hope into agreeing to marry him. At their first wedding, Bo stormed the church and kidnapped Hope. Eventually, Hope was forced to marry Larry but faked a pregnancy to avoid consummating the marriage. Hope eventually managed to get out of her marriage to Larry Welch when he learned of her deception.
Bo and Hope eventually married in a beautiful ceremony. Having little money, and Bo having a desire to get to know his biological father, Victor Kiriakis, the newlyweds moved into the Kiriakis mansion. Shortly after, Hope became pregnant with their first child. The stress of how Bo was changing and becoming more and more like his father eventually caused Hope to miscarry the child. The miscarriage and Hope’s feelings toward Victor caused a rift in their marriage and they separated but were still deeply in love. During the time of their separation, Hope once again found herself to be pregnant. Hope gave birth to Shawn-Douglas Brady in 1987. Wanting a change, Bo and Hope boarded the “Fancy Face,” a sailboat Bo named after Hope, and sailed around the world, leaving Salem for three years.
Hope's return to Salem was short lived. She and Bo got involved with the vengeful Ernesto Toscano. In a storyline dubbed the Cruise of Deception, Hope was separated from Bo. Bo had been kidnapped by Ernesto and Hope was lead to believe he wanted a divorce rather than live a quiet life in Salem. Eventually Bo and Hope were reunited and Hope vowed to work out the problems in her marriage. Ernesto, however, was seeking revenge for the events that occurred on his ship. He kidnapped Hope and several Salemites. He put Hope into a cage and held it over a vat of acid. Ernesto set off an explosion and made it appear Hope's cage had gone into the vat of acid. No body was recovered but it was believed Hope perished in the acid.
[edit] 1994
Four years passed, and Bo tried to move on. First he tried to be with Carly, but that ended badly (with her being buried alive- long story), then he found the possibility of love in Billie Reed.
In the Spring of 1994, the citizens of Salem found themselves at Maison Blanche, an eerie, mysterious mansion, owned by Stefano Dimera. While there, Bo proposed to Billie. Moments later, John carried an unconscious woman into the room, laying her on the bed. It was Hope!
She didn't know she was Hope, though. She believed her name was Gina. Alice Horton immediately took to her, knowing in her heart that this was her precious granddaughter. Unfortunately for everyone else, Bo refused to believe "Gina" was Hope. He wouldn't even let her go near Shawn-D.
[edit] 1995
A year came and went, and "Gina" got used to life in Salem. She had made some great friends, including Billie.
Alice found a puzzlebox that only Hope knew how to open. When "Gina" opened it, there was a note inside that Hope had written to Bo on their wedding day. He started reading it aloud, and "Gina" finished it, word-for-word, without looking. It was undeniable, now: Gina was Hope!
Bo had a major decision to make, yet he couldn't bring himself to do it. It wasn't Billie's fault that Bo's presumed-dead wife returned. He rationalized staying with Billie, because he knew Hope was strong enough to handle the rejection, whereas Billie was not.
During a stake-out (gone wrong), Hope was taken hostage by two thugs involved in a computer heist. She tried to escape several times, unsuccessfully, but managed to get a call in to Abe's office, and leave a quick clue as to her whereabouts, before being knocked unconscious. Bo arrived just in time to rescue her from the burning warehouse, and while trying to revive her, he made his feelings quite clear to Billie. "Hope, please don't leave me. I need you. I love you. Come back to me. Please don't die again! I can't live without you this time," etc. Billie left town, and Bo and Hope began their timid process of reconciliation.
Before Bo could tell Hope his true feelings (while she was actually conscious), she was caught in an avalanche on a mountain in Aremid, and "rescued" by Jude St. Clair, who took her prisoner. His plan was to make her pay for gouging out his eyeball when he attempted to rape her a few months ago.
Months passed, and Bo thought Hope had perished in the avalanche. He knew that must have happened, but his heart couldn't let go, and against his own better judgement (and everyone else's in Salem), he returned to Aremid to search for her. Hope's fever and near-death kept Jude from harming her. When she was better, he did some threatening and inappropriate touching, but never actually raped her. After finding her badge, and realizing Hope was in law enforcement, Jude prepared to kill her. But Hope attacked him, and escaped. Jude caught up with her just as Bo was cresting the hill, and after a struggle, Jude knocked her out. Bo knocked Jude out and was reunited once again with his Fancy Face.
[edit] 2006
After Zack's death, Hope learned that it was not a drunk driver or a random hit and run that killed her son, it was Bo's daughter Chelsea Brady that had killed Zack while driving Bo's car and that Bo had known since the night it happened. Already grieving for her son, Hope kicked Bo out. Shortly after Zack's funeral, Hope received a call from the Salem Police that Bo was drunk and at a motel. She went to a motel where she was told Bo would be. Billie Reed, Bo's ex-wife, got there first and climbed into bed with a very drunk Bo and pretended to be making love to him. Furious, Hope left, never making her presence known to Bo or Billie, although Billie knew she had seen them.
Hope left Salem and went to Morgan Island where she ran into Patrick Lockhart, a man she believed to be her friend. It turned out the bungalow she had rented was Patrick's and he had gone there to also get away from Salem for a time. While Patrick and Hope were growing closer, Bo was doing everything he could to reach Hope, sending emails apologizing for everything that he had done that he was aware of doing. However, Chelsea was intercepting these emails and changing them so that they would say that Bo wasn't sorry and that he was in love with Billie. Hope was devastated by the emails and soon turned to Patrick for comfort and they then made love.
Hope returned to Salem and demanded a divorce from Bo who couldn't understand what was going on. Chelsea continued to break them up by having Billie get into bed with Bo while he was asleep so that Hope would see them together. Chelsea meanwhile went on trial for killing Zack, but because of a DVD that showed her driving Bo's car while talking on her cell phone went missing, she was only sentenced 200 hours of community service. The disc disappeared because Chelsea's grandmother Kate Roberts paid police officer Eve Michaels to steal it. Unfortunately for Bo, he was in the evidence room at the time the disk was stolen and he was blamed.
Angry, Hope filed for divorce. At the divorce hearing Billie rushed in and admitted to everyone that it was she and Chelsea that set Bo up for everything and that he was innocent. Very soon after, it was revealed that Bo didn't take the evidence disc. Bo and Hope grew close again and things were looking up.
At Jennifer Horton and Frankie Brady's wedding on June 27, 2006, Hope fainted and was rushed to the hospital were she learned that she was pregnant. Hope was overjoyed but one thing put a damper on the celebration, who was her baby's father? After tests were run, it was determined that the baby was Patrick's. What was unknown to Hope was that Patrick had paid off Dr. Bayder to fix the tests in his favor.
Even with this information Bo and Hope continued to grow closer and soon fell back in love over Christmas. Patrick realized this and soon kidnapped Hope and took her to an abandoned warehouse were he planned to take her out of town. Unfortunately for Patrick, Bo soon found them right as Hope's water broke. Bo busted in and helped her deliver the baby on December 29, 2006. Patrick then told Bo that he had bribed Dr. Bayder into changing the test results into showing that he was the father when Bo really was. Patrick eventually went to jail for a multitude of crimes and Bo and Hope went to the hospital with their new daughter.
