Jonathan Randall
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| Jonathan Randall | |||||
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| Portrayed by | Tom Pelphrey (2004-2007) (2008 - presently) | ||||
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| Gender | Male | ||||
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Jonathan Randall is a fictional character on the television soap opera Guiding Light.
He is portrayed by actor Tom Pelphrey, who has been nominated several times for the Outstanding Younger Actor Daytime Emmy, and has won the award once, in 2006.
[edit] Overview
Jonathan is the son of the show's leading lady, Reva Shayne, and the late Prince Richard Winslow. He was first seen on the show in 2004.
His existence was revealed to the audience in 1999, when Reva's life in San Cristobel came to light. Reva landed in San Cristobel after her 1990 automobile accident, where she drove off of a bridge in the Florida Keys and was presumed dead. When she landed in San Cristobel, she met Prince Richard Winslow, and she (as "Catherine") married Richard and gave birth to Jonathan.
Richard and Reva visited Jonathan after Reva recalled her life in San Cristobel, but Richard's brother Edmund was a danger to Jonathan. Marissa, Olivia's sister, had been caring for Jonathan, and to protect him from Edmund, Richard and Reva allowed Marissa to adopt him. Richard was killed in an automobile accident in 2001.
Jonathan's adoptive father Alfred was abusive, and made Jonathan's life in San Cristobel a living hell. He eventually came to Springfield, angrily confronted Reva, and created a big controversy when he seduced his first cousin, Tammy Layne Winslow. (The show referred to Tammy as his "half-cousin".) Although his original seduction was out of anger and manipulation, he and Tammy eventually fell in love.
He married Lizzie Spaulding after their one-night stand resulted in a pregnancy. They eventually broke up and he married Tammy, but their happiness was short lived; she was killed on January 24, 2007, shortly after their wedding; Alan Spaulding was responsible for her death.
The character of Jonathan departed from the show shortly afterwards; he faked his and his daughter's death to get away from Alan. In January 2008, the character returned to the show with his daughter in tow.
Unable to work things out with Lizzie due to her grandfather's control of her life, and basically the entire town, Jonathan was forced to flee town with his daughter again (with his former wife's blessing).
