| Brock Reynolds | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Beau Kazer as Brock Reynolds (2008) | |||||||||||||||||||
| The Young and the Restless | |||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Beau Kazer | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1974–1980, 1984–1986, 1990–1992, 1999–2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | April 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | February 11, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cause/reason | Returned home to New Orleans | ||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | William J. Bell | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Gender | Male | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Residence | New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||||||
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Brock Reynolds is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by Beau Kazer, from 1974 to 1980, 1984 to 1986, 1990 to 1992; from December 24, 1999 to August 2003, briefly in July 2004 and in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
When Brock Reynolds was first mentioned on Y&R, he was nothing like the person he would become in the future. Experimenting with sex and drugs, Brock was always looking for a way to disobey his mother Katherine (Jeanne Cooper) after her husband Gary had died and she remarried. Brock would often show up in Genoa City but disappear just a few days later until 1974, when he returned home a totally different man, a man with a completely new life devoted to helping the needy. He had become a lawyer, and when he returned he found his mother Kay ("The Duchess", as he frequently referred to her) in very bad health but tried to convince her to get help for her alcoholism.
With his mother's orders, Brock married Jill Foster (then played by Brenda Dickson), but their marriage was never real because Jill was attracted to and pregnant with Kay's husband Phillip. It was later revealed that their marriage wasn't even valid since they were brother and sister (however it has recently been revealed that Jill is not Katherine's daughter and therefore their marriage was valid.) Kay wanted Jill's baby for herself and Brock was stuck having to choose between the two women, not only then, but at various times in the future. Later on Brock found romance in a number of other women in Genoa City including Lorie Brooks and Casey Reed
By 1980, Kay was getting help at Chancellor Industries from businessman Victor Newman, who just moved to town with his young wife Julia. Julia, longing for something to do, ended up building a close friendship with Brock, and things nearly turned romantic. However, Brock and Julia never had a sexual relationship, despite Victor's fears that it was. Out of jealousy, Victor had an affair with his secretary, Eve Howard. Julia admitted she was falling in love with Brock, but they were not lovers, and she agreed to break if off if Victor would commit completely to their marriage. But Victor was not convinced and turned to Lorie Brooks for attention. Brock caught Victor and Lorie kissing, so he tried to resume his romance with Julia, but he finally left town because of Julia's inability to end her marriage to Victor. Thinking it would convince Victor of her love for him, Julia told him that she wanted to have a baby. Victor responded by having a vasectomy without telling her. In the end, Julia ending up having an affair and Victor's extreme response caused their divorce in 1981.
In 1989, Kay married Rex Sterling, a bum that spent some time in prison, his former cellmate Clint Radison finds Marge Cotrooke, a diner waitress and realizes that she looks the same as Katherine. He decides to use her in his plan to replace Kay with Marge and get to her fortune. His friends get jobs at the Chancellor mansion, while Marge is taught to act like Kay. Kay Chancellor and her housekeeper Esther Valentine are held captive while Marge replaces Kay. Marge immediately changes things from Katherine's life, starting from unintentionally pushing Rex away into the arms of Jill Abbott, to selling Chancellor Industries. When Brock returns from India, he realizes that someone has replaced Kay. Marge later helps Kay catch Clint and his friends and get them in jail, before returning to her life as a waitress.
On the verge of losing her life in 1999, Kay befriended a teenager at a homeless shelter named Mackenzie Browning, who coincidentally ended up being Brock's daughter with Amanda Browning, a woman that Brock had a relationship with in India years ago. Kay decided to inform Brock of the baby he never knew he had. Brock and Mackenzie built a father-daughter relationship and lived with Kay. Brock eventually left town again to work in India, but reappeared in town from time to time. He was involved in the intervention that Kay's close friends held to make her stop drinking. He eventually relocated to New Orleans to assist in cleanup following Hurricane Katrina.
In 2008, Brock returned to Genoa City to deliver the eulogy at Kay's "funeral". When Kay's will was read, Brock learned that he got one percent of a billion-dollar estate to continue his charity work and was named chairman of the Chancellor Foundation. However, it was Marge, Kay's look-alike who had died so Brock returned again in April 2009 to take a DNA test to confirm his mother's identity. He comes back to Genoa City to take another DNA test with Tucker claiming to be Katherine's son and asked Mac if she was willing to carry Lily and Cane's twins and if she would help raise them if Lily did not make it.
Since then, Brock has visited for large family events, included the "Funeral" for Chance Chancellor.