| Sofia Dupre Winters | |||||||||||
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| Julia Pace Mitchell as Sofia Dupre Winters (2010). | |||||||||||
| The Young and the Restless | |||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Julia Pace Mitchell (2010-) |
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| First appearance | July 20, 2010[1] | ||||||||||
| Created by | Maria Arena Bell, Hogan Sheffer and Scott Hamner | ||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Sof (by Tucker) | ||||||||||
| Gender | Female | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Chief Financial Officer at McCall Unlimited | ||||||||||
| Residence | Neil Winters' residence | ||||||||||
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Sofia Dupre Winters is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless originated by actress Julia Pace Mitchell on July 20, 2010.
Sofia arrives in Genoa City working on business for Tucker McCall.[2] Sofia meets with Katherine Chancellor and Neil Winters in Tucker's place. The meeting leads to a confrontation between Sofia and Neil. Later, Sofia is revealed to be the fiancée of Neil's brother Malcolm Winters. When Neil is unhappy about this, which causes friction between him, Sofia, and Malcolm. Despite tensions there, Sofia has positive relations with the rest of the Winters family. In January 2011, she became aware of and involved with the problem Cane Ashby had been having with the men from Australia. While furious with him at first, she later decides to help him. Tucker finds out about her and Cane's cover up of some bad reports supposedly done by a new contractor named Blake that Cane claimed had a good reputation in business. In reality, Blake is one of the Australian men after Cane, and has been blackmailing him the whole time. This turns ugly and Tucker fires both Cane and Sofia. Malcolm is furious that Sofia did not tell him any of this, since Cane is married to his legal niece (and biological daughter) Lily. He breaks their engagement, within a few weeks of their scheduled Valentine's Day wedding.
Shortly thereafter, Cane is murdered. The entire Barber/Winters family comes together to support Lily and her twin babies with Cane, Charlie and Matilda. Impressed with how Sofia has taken great pains to support Lily (and with Sofia estranged from Malcolm), Neil allows his deep-seated attraction to Sofia to surface. The two have sex, just before Malcolm decides to repair his fractured relationship with Sofia.
As Malcolm and Sofia repair their relationship, Neil seems worried over the relationship and confronts Sofia about it. She claims that she loves Malcolm and wants to be with him. On April 13, 2011, Sofia and Malcolm married. During the honeymoon, Sofia learns that she is pregnant. While Malcolm is thrilled, Sofia wonders to herself if Neil is the baby's father.
In October 2011, the baby -- named Moses after her father -- is born, and DNA testing reveals that Neil is the father. Malcolm leaves Genoa City and promptly divorces Sofia, who moves in with Neil when she and Moses are discharged from the hospital. A month later, Sofia and Neil agree to get married -- for the baby's sake.