| Cassie Newman | |||||||||||||
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| Camryn Grimes as Cassie Newman (2004). | |||||||||||||
| The Young and the Restless | |||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Camryn Grimes | ||||||||||||
| Duration | 1997-2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 | ||||||||||||
| First appearance | March 19, 1997 | ||||||||||||
| Last appearance | May 24, 2005 (alive) March 15, 2010 (ghost) |
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| Cause/reason | Died from injuries from a fatal car accident | ||||||||||||
| Created by | William J. Bell | ||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Cassie | ||||||||||||
| Aliases | Cassidy Johnson (adoptive name) |
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| Gender | Female | ||||||||||||
| Occupation | Student | ||||||||||||
| Title | Heiress to the Newman fortune | ||||||||||||
| Residence | Genoa City, Wisconsin | ||||||||||||
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Cassidy Ann "Cassie" Newman was a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless.Camryn Grimes originated the role on March 19, 1997 until the character's death on May 24, 2005, and appearing in a few separate occasions since 2005 as a ghost. Camryn's performances made her winning a Daytime Emmy for her work in 2000, becoming the youngest winner to get a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series, at age 10, beating Kimberly McCullough who won at age 11.[1][2] Grimes was credited in 2009 as the medium's most talented younger actresses right up until the end, and her character's death is named no.41 in the list of The 100 Most Memorable Moments In Soap History, both recognitions by Soaps Hunks.[3]
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Cassie was born in January 1991 and died on May 24, 2005, at the age of 14.
Cassie is the daughter of Sharon Collins and Frank Barritt, and was given up at birth as Sharon was only 17 at the time. When Cassie was six years old, Sharon's friend Grace Turner (Jennifer Gareis) decided to track Cassie down, as it was believed that Sharon and Nicholas Newman's (Joshua Morrow) newborn son, Noah was going to die. Cassie had been adopted by a woman named Alice Johnson (Tamara Clatterbuck), who had abandoned Cassie, leaving her with her frail, elderly mother, Millie (Ernestine Mercer). Grace pleaded with Millie to let her return Cassie to her birth mother, Sharon. Millie reluctantly agreed, realizing that Sharon could give the child a better life than she ever could.
However, Noah survived, and Grace decided to keep Cassie and raise her indefinitely with her boyfriend Tony (then played by Nick Scotti). Sharon met Cassie, but was unaware that she was her daughter. After well over a year, Tony pressed Grace to tell Sharon the truth. She did, and Cassie was eventually returned to Sharon and adopted by Nick. Cassie had a relatively normal, happy childhood, with the exception of almost drowning in a frozen pond at age eleven.
In 2003, when Cassie was twelve, her biological father, Frank Barritt showed up out of the blue. At Fenmore's boutique, Sharon was caught by surprise by him and he then saw Cassie. Frank smiled and politely said hello to Cassie and said she was a very pretty girl. Cassie ran into Frank again at the Crimson Lights and Frank politely asked her how her life was going. Cassie, getting creeped out, left. Nick, believing Frank might be after money(on account that Cassie was part of a wealthy family)went to Crimson Lights and confronted him. Nick pointed out that Frank never wanted anything do with Cassie before. Frank said that he was concerned when he read about Cassie almost drowning in that frozen pond and insisted that he didn't want money. Frank insisted that he was not the same guy he was when he walked out on Sharon and just wanted to get to know his daughter. Nick gave Frank a strong warning to stay away from Cassie. Cassie constantly asked Nick and Sharon who Frank was, but all they would tell her was Frank was someone Sharon knew a long time ago. It had later been discovered that Frank had been murdered by a man named Cameron Kirsten. Cameron had killed Frank and tried to make it look like Sharon had done it. It was all a plot of Cameron's to put Sharon in prison. However, it was proven that Cameron, not Sharon had murdered Frank. Nick and Sharon learned that on the night Frank was murdered, Frank had an appointment with a lawyer to discuss his rights about having a relationship with Cassie, but never showed up. Nick and Sharon finally told Cassie that Frank was her biological father. It really upset Cassie because it now made sense to her why Frank was being so nice to her that day at Crimson Lights and why he was looking at her so strange, he was looking at her the way a FATHER would! Cassie(with tears in her eyes) knew that Frank didn't want anything to do with her at first but it seemed to her that Frank may have changed his mind. Cassie was upset knowing that now she'll never get to know him or if she's anything like him. Nick and Sharon apologized to Cassie for keeping her father away from her. Although, Cassie was upset about Frank, she said that Nick would always be her REAL father.
In 2005, Cassie turned fourteen, developed a crush on Daniel Romalotti (Michael Graziadei) (who was two years her senior) and yearned to be one of the "popular kids" at school, so she began to socialize with the older teens; Daniel, Lily Winters (Christel Khalil), Colleen Carlton (then Lyndsy Fonseca), Devon Hamilton (Bryton James), and Sierra Hoffman (Asia Ray Smith). All five of them laughed behind Cassie's back at her attempts to act "mature" (drinking coffee; skipping classes; being rude to her mother). Cassie sneaked out to a party late at night, under the pretense of going to a movie with her friend Ali (Agina Alvarez). There, she found a drunken Daniel passed out in the back of his car and clearly unable to drive home. She then got into his car and decided to drive him home herself (despite being under-age and without a license)and having little driving experience. She crashed the car, injuring herself and, to a lesser extent, Daniel. The two were rushed to hospital with no memory of the crash, and it was believed that Daniel had been driving drunk. A severely injured Cassie remembered that she had been driving and staggered out of the hospital to find him. She found him with Lily at Crimson Lights, but was barely able to speak. She collapsed and was rushed back to hospital, where she later died after whispering the partial truth about the accident to Nick.
After her death, Cassie appeared on multiple occasions to Nick (and once to Sharon) as a hallucination or spirit. During one of his visits to his son Jack, the late John Abbott relayed a message from Cassie for Sharon as well—confirming that Cassie's spirit was alive and well. Years later, she visits Sharon in a dream, who was pregnant. She told her mom that she would have faith during the pregnancy and it would all turn out good. However in a twisted way her mom's future boyfriend Adam made Sharon and everyone else believe the baby was stillborn when he gave her to Ashley Abbott. Sharon and Nick hoped she is looking after her baby sister in heaven. Several episodes later, she returns to Sharon admitting that Faith Newman was alive and that her uncle, Adam fooled her into believing that Faith was stillborn and dead. While the baby was in fact with Ashley Newman. Adam had blackmailed the doctor into lying to both Ashley and Sharon. Cassie pays Sharon a visit Once again. After Cassie Telling her that she will have her daughter in her arms, Sharon is reunited with Faith, but Ashley is devastated. Cassie's spirit hasn't appeared since 2010.