Kate Roberts (fiction)
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| Kate Roberts | |||||||||||
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 Lauren Koslow as Kate Roberts |
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| Portrayed by | Deborah Adair (1993-95) Lauren Koslow (1996-present) |
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| First appearance | 1993 | ||||||||||
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| Occupation | Business Executive | ||||||||||
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Katherine Elizabeth "Kate" Roberts (formerly Brown, Kiriakis and Brady) is a fictional character on the soap opera Days of our Lives. Kate is portrayed by Deborah Adair from 1993 to 1995, and Lauren Koslow since January 25, 1996.
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[edit] Fictional character history
[edit] Before Salem
Before arriving in Salem, Kate was married to the abusive Curtis Brown. While married to Curtis, Kate had two children. Kate had an affair with Bill Horton and became pregnant by him. When Curtis found out about her affair and pregnancy, he beat her and took their children. He changed his name to Reed and told Kate the children were dead -- in reality he had changed their names to Austin and Billie Reed. (The birth names of Kate's children have never been revealed.)
Needing to survive, and provide for her son Kate became Stefano DiMera's high priced call girl. Stefano, in turn, took care of her and Lucas. Kate was eventually able to succeed on her own and became a powerful business woman, she is one of the few in Salem to have university education.
[edit] Arrival in Salem
Kate arrived in Salem with son Lucas Roberts in 1993. Kate had established a new and very successful life for herself and her son, she returned to Salem to set up and run Victor Kiriakis new business Titan Publishing. They married. Soon, Kate discovered that the journal she had written while in therapy with Dr. Marlena Evans several decades ago had fallen into Jack Deveraux's hands. Jack submitted the journal to Titan Publishing where Kate nabbed it and quickly locked it away. Still, her past came back to haunt her again when the presumed dead Curtis reappeared. He tried to blackmail her and then turned up dead -- for real this time. And Billie Reed, Curtis's daughter, was the prime suspect.
During Billie Reed's trial for murder, much came out about Curtis' links to Kate -- their former marriage and the fact that Billie and Austin were actually Kate's children. The fact that Curtis had been alive when Kate married Victor Kiriakis invalidated that union, and made Kate a target for Vivian Alamain who wanted Victor back.
Vivian made certain that all of Salem knew that Lucas was Bill Horton's illegitimate son. Vivian had herself in vitro fertilized so that she, not Kate, would carry to term the baby Victor wanted. As if that wasn't enough, after Vivian drugged an airplane pilot's coffee, Kate's plane went down and she was presumed dead for about a year. During that time, Kate was actually on a fishing boat.
After a year, Kate made a returned to Salem, arriving in time to see Victor and Vivian together in bed. Kate immediately became enmeshed in a love triangle and a power struggle at Titan with Vivian. When Vivian tried to get custody of the baby she had carried, her biological son Philip Kiriakis Victor suffered a stroke. He could no longer intervene between the two women. Victor's second stroke, and Vivian's arrest due to her being caught up in DiMera's schemes, put Kate in control. Eventually, she threw Vivian out.
However, Kate's secrets weren't secure. Sami had uncovered blackmail material on Kate. Sami promised to stay silent for as long as Austin stayed with her. Kate was forced to help, while Sami kept her on a short leash, unable to do more than small favors for Austin and Carrie. Austin and Carrie married on the heels of the revelation that Will was really Lucas' son. Sami has been able to manipulate Kate by threatening to reveal that she was once a high-priced call girl and that she hired Franco to destroy Hope and Bo's relationship.
The truth finally came out about Franco, and, needless to say, created tension among many people in Salem. But there was still a secret Sami knew about Kate. And when Victor saw mysterious photos of his wife, he collapsed and was sent to a nursing home. Kate was furious with Sami and blamed her for Victor's condition. Loyal Kate visited Victor at the nursing home. With ambition of rekindling his life with Kate and their children he slowly recovered and eventually returned to Salem.
Meanwhile Payback time. Sami got a taste of her own medicine when Kate framed her for Franco's murder. Sami was sent to prison and ultimately ended up on death row. Throughout this time, Kate felt little sympathy for Sami. But Lucas, the real murderer, felt guilty. He didn't want Sami to be put to death for something she didn't do.
It's no secret that Kate would do anything to make her children happy. So when Will's custody hearing was on the horizon, Kate paid Nicole- a porn star five million dollars to marry Lucas. Nicole agreed and Lucas won custody of his son over Austin and Carrie. However, when it was time for Sami to be put to death, Kate convinced a dying Reburto to confess to shooting Fraco, in exchange for her taking care of his family back in Italy. Unfortunately not in enough time cause Lucas ran in shouting "I shot Franco!", eventually thanks to Ruburto's confession Sami was released. but she was suspicious of Lucas and his Mother and was now set on revealing the truth.
When Nicolas Alamain came to town, he set his sights on Kate, falling madly in love with her and tried to get her to do the same. When Victor came back to Titan and the mansion he was hostile to his loyal fiance, pushing her into Nicholas arms. The two came close to making love, but she was devoted to Victor, heart broken Nicholas left town.
After Nicholas revealed his close encounters with Kate to Victor, he was even more distant and reneged on his marriage proposal and insisted on separate bedrooms, Kate vowed to win back Victors love. After Victor discovered a letter in which Nicholas mentioned that Kate wouldn't betray his love, he was somewhat forgiving. Unfortunately for Kate; jelious man eater Nicole set her sights on rich Victor.
In Italy Kate had caught the attention of widower Vincent Moroni. He is now set on winning her away from Victor and making her his wife.
Upon Victor and Kate returning from their trip to Italy, Victor in the back of his Limo betrays Kate and Nicole succeeds in her pursuit to seduce him. Later that night he finally makes love to Kate.
In order to get Victors territory and Kate, Vincent tries to convince her to let him kill Victor. Kate reluctantly agrees after Victor tells her he would not marry her or support her in getting the tape so she and especially Lucas could escape a prison sentence. Kate and Vincent have sex and thanks to Sami Philip walks in on them. Poor Phillip believes Kate betrayed victor. Right up to the moment victor is shot, Kate begs Victor to support her, so she wouldn't be forced to have him killed.
At Greta's Coronation, Kate tried to stop the massacre that she had helped put in motion, but failed when she was drugged and wacked. Much to her horror and delight, Victor was shot and, presumably, killed. This meant Titan was all hers. Unfortunately, Angela Moroni was also killed and, per her dying wish, her father gave Roberto's confession tape to Sami. Using this tape, Sami regained custody of Will.
Kate returned to Salem the queen of Titan, but that didn't last long. Victor returned, at first haunting her as a ghost, after Nicole drugged her. Whilst drugged and not in the right state of mind; attempted to kill Victor with a fire poker, then set her beloved mansion a lite. After Victor and Kate's mansion was burned, he came out of hiding and kicked Kate out -- of Titan and his life. Lucas was severely burned in the fire and was sent out of state for care, while Kate was forced to get a job at a diner and used Philip to get money out of his father so she could get back on her feet. Eventually, this ultimate survivor did get back on her feet and got a job at Titan's competition, John Black's new company Basic Black.
Not long after Kate started working there, Lucas came out of his coma and returned to Salem. His return helped soften the blow she felt after Austin's aborted wedding to Sami, when he felt compelled to leave Salem for good. Kate was glad Austin hadn't married Sami, but her problems were far from over. Nicole was determined to make Kate's life a living hell, stealing clients out from under her and ultimately getting a promise from Victor that both Kate and Sami would be destroyed. Ultimately, Kate was forced to team up with another enemy, Sami, to try to bring Nicole down. Then, Billie returned to Salem. Kate had mixed feelings about her daughter's return. First, Billie was working in the dangerous occupation of law enforcement and second, Kate feared Billie had returned to try to get Bo back. Billie convinced her mother otherwise.
Kate's life took a surprising turn when she began a relationship with Roman Brady. He certainly didn't seem her type, but he seemed to be exactly what Kate needed, even if Sami wasn't too happy about it. Their relationship took many turns as they grew closer and farther apart. It was also during this time that Kate and Roman discovered that they were the parents of Rex and Cassie, the gemini twins that arrived in Salem a year earlier. Stefano's henchman, Dr. Rolf, had harvested Kate's eggs and Roman's sperm, creating the twins. Kate was afraid to tell Roman about her past; she didn't come out with it until she had been arrested as the Salem Stalker, ironically, for murdering her daughter, Cassie. She had to tell him what her argument with Abe had been about; to her surprise, he forgave her. Once she had been cleared of all charges, they started planning their wedding. They exchanged vows on New Year's Eve, only to have Roman struck by the Stalker that very night.
Kate was understandably devastated by Roman's murder. She barely managed to hold herself together and was horrified when the identity of the Stalker was revealed. Marlena was responsible for Roman's murder and she said she had done it all out of love for him. Little did any of them know at the time that all the murder victims -- and Marlena -- were alive and living on an exact replica of Salem on a tropical island.
After Roman had been dead several months, Kate began to toy with the idea of finding a new love. She and John Black were both lonely and convinced themselves and each other that their loved ones would want them to move on, with each other. They shared some passionate kisses and were ready to make love with Bo burst in on them with the news that Roman and Marlena were alive.
At first, Kate refused to believe this news. She agreed to have Roman's coffin exhumed. Everyone was shocked to discover both it and Abe's coffin empty. Then Celeste put in her two cents; she thought all the "dead" Salemites were still alive!
The only thing distracting Kate from this turn of events was her son Lucas's engagement to Sami Brady. Kate was determined to do anything in her power to stop that wedding from taking place; she even brought Brandon Walker back to town to throw a wrench in the LUMI works.
After a daring rescue, many of the "dead" Salemites returned to town; unfortunately, her beloved Roman was not among them. On the bright side, her daughter Billie had been discovered on the island and came to town, as well. Kate was eager for Billie to renew a relationship with Bo and pushed them subtly together. She continued to fight Sami and Lucas and, with the help of Eugenia, eventually succeeded. Thanks to Kate, Lucas found Sami and Brandon in bed together on the morning of the wedding. The wedding was off and Lucas hardly suspected a thing. But Sami did.
Another feather in Kate's cap was the wedding of Philip and Belle. She believed these two belonged together and did everything in her power to make it happen. When Philip shipped out with his Marine unit the day after the wedding, Kate soon discovered that Belle still had feelings for Shawn. She accused Belle of trying to kill Philip; when he was taken hostage, she was even angrier with Belle.
Meanwhile, Kate was also helping John over his addiction to painkillers. As she did, the two of them grew closer, believing that Roman and Marlena were really dead this time. Little did they know, their loved ones were still being held hostage and were also growing closer. Both couples made love. As Roman and Marlena finally headed back to Salem, John proposed to Kate and she accepted! The engagement is off, but Roman and Marlena still have not told Kate and John the truth.
The truth, as it always does, came out when John and Marlena and Roman and Kate were trying to renew their vows. When Marlena fainted, Roman shouted out "be careful, she's pregnant!" At first, John thought the baby was his. Later that night, everyone learned the truth. When Marlena was trying to stop a fight between the two men, she took a tumble down the stairs at her penthouse and lost the baby. When she learned that truth, she developed amnesia. Roman divorced Kate after hearing a tape in which she drugged and made it look like Sami had slept with Brandon.
As is her nature, Kate turned her attention to trying to make the lives of her children perfect. One of her most important goals was to, once again, keep Lucas from marrying Sami. This time, with a little help from Nicole and Tony DiMera, she learned that Sami had been "Stan!" In a dramatic move, she exposed this truth at the wedding. Unfortunately, who was waiting to pick up the pieces of Sami's once-again tattered life? Austin. Now Kate had to keep those two apart.
Meanwhile, Kate also had two grandchildren to protect. She had insure that the truth about her son Philip's daughter Claire never came out (that Shawn was really her father) and she had to make sure Chelsea didn't go to jail for killing Zack Brady. How did she manage that one? She bribed Officer Eve Michaels for the videotaped evidence against Chelsea. Unfortunately, she never got the tape and when Eve was murdered, Kate became a suspect.
And Sami popped back up again. After Carrie chose Lucas, Austin decided to hook up with Sami. Kate did everything in her power to keep those two apart, including trying to get Salem newcomer EJ to seduce Sami. Kate was amazed (but delighted) when Sami did the leaving and refused to marry Austin. So Austin was hurt. He'd get over it and he wasn't married to Sami.
Kate and EJ became lovers, they created a company together. she hired EJ to seduce Sami away from Lucas, EJ embezzles from the company, Lucas turns him in to the SEC, kate sleeps with Stefano, Sami gives birth to Kate's forth grand child, Ally, after Tiler. Kate becomes more forgiving of Sami, especially after finding out that EJ coerced Sami into having sex to save her son's life while on the run for trying to kill Kate's ex fiance John. Kate tries to kill EJ on his forced wedding to Sami, Lucas goes to Jail, Kate focuses a lot of attention on her granddaughter Chelsea. Kate and the real tony have a past together. Billie leaves town.
Kate's fearful for Chelsea's health. Kate was devastated to learn that Chelsea couldn't have children. After this family matter is settled Kate strikes up a buisness parntership with Tony DiMera. They begin to work together very closely and Anna gets jealous. But after Tony and Anna are married the fued is offically over. Kate moves on to more business matters.
