Neil Winters
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| Neil Winters | |||||||||||
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 Kristoff St. John as Neil Winters (2006) |
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| The Young and the Restless | |||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Kristoff St. John | ||||||||||
| First appearance | 1991 | ||||||||||
| Created by | William J. Bell | ||||||||||
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| Gender | Male | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Executive President of Newman Enterprises Newman Enterprises Board Member Owner of Indigo Jazz Club Former Chief Operating Officer of Newman Enterprises Former Acting CEO of Newman Enterprises Former Corporate Liaison for Newman Enterprises Former Executive Trainee at Jabot Cosmetics |
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| Residence | 345 Ashland St., Apt. 321 Genoa City, Wisconsin |
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Neil Winters is a fictional character in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by actor Kristoff St. John since 1991.
[edit] Character
Neil is an Executive at Newman Enterprises. He is also the widower of the late Drucilla Barber (Victoria Rowell). The couple have a teenaged daughter, Lily (Christel Khalil), and an adopted son named Devon Hamilton (Bryton).
Much of Y&R's drama over the past decade centered around the question of Lily's paternity. At the time of her conception, Dru had slept with both Neil and his brother, Malcolm (Shemar Moore). In 2005, Dru and Malcolm ran a paternity test, which named Malcolm as Lily's biological father. In early 2006, Lily and Neil both discovered the truth. Neil was furious with his wife, while Lily was slightly more forgiving.
During the period when he and Dru were separated (from 1998 to 2003), Neil had affairs with Alex Perez (Alexia Robinson) and Dru's sister Olivia (Tonya Lee Williams). He was also briefly engaged to Victoria Newman (then played by Heather Tom, now Amelia Heinle). Victoria had become pregnant with the baby of Cole Howard, her former husband. Neil and Victoria decided to raise the child together, but tragically, Victoria went into an early labor and gave birth to a premature baby, Eve, who died shortly after birth. It was after this difficult time that they decided to end their engagement.
Neil has also battled alcoholism. Recently, he and Carmen Mesta (Marisa Ramirez) fought romantic feelings for each other. However, Dru became more and more unreasonable over this and terrorized Carmen by breaking into her hotel room and cutting her clothes up with scissors, which caused her to be arrested and ordered into therapy.
Neil soon realized that Carmen was not what she seemed to be. As it turned out, she was quite a manipulative woman, who had an extramarital affair at her previous job with married executive David Chow (Vincent Irizarry). She asked for a huge settlement to stop her inevitable firing. Now, Carmen is dead, (she was killed outside of Neil's new jazz club, Indigo) and now Neil and his whole family are persons of interest in this case.
In April 2007, Dru and Sharon (Sharon Case) fell off a cliff during a photo shoot into the cold waters below. When Dru's body was not recovered, Neil briefly turned to alcohol once again, but stopped when he saw the effect it was having on Lily.
Neil began a flirtation with Karen Taylor (Nia Peeples) in July 2007 and she moved in with him in early 2008. However, after it was found that Lily was pregnant with the child of her boyfriend, Neil offered to have Lily return to living at his home and he would help support her and participate in the raising of the child, should she wish. This caused tension between Karen and him and Karen decided to move back out. Sadly, Lily suffered a miscarriage, but Karen reiterated her wish to be apart from Neil. Their relationship seems to be on hold if not actually ended.
Neil has over the years become perhaps the most trusted and valued employee of Victor Newman and was Co-CEO, along with Nick Newman and Victoria Newman before they both left the company due to conflicts with their father Victor. With their departure, Neil has become the sole CEO of Newman Enterprises.
Victor has entrusted Neil with the mentoring of Adam Wilson (real name Victor Junior) who has recently joined Newman Enterprises following the death of his mother Hope from cancer. Before her death, Hope revealed to Adam that Victor Newman, not the deceased Cliff Wilson, was his biological father. She expressed regret for hiding the truth for so long and forcing Victor to stay out of their lives so she could raise their son on her farm. Just before her passing, Hope made a deathbed request of both men that they work to get to know each other better and establish a true father-son relationship. Neil initially expressed a slight hesitation when asked to mentor Adam, citing the negative experience he had in trying to mentor Nick Newman. However, Victor made it clear that he trusts and values Neil and feels very confident that his son Adam will benefit from the mentoring. Neil then accepts the responsibility and pledges to do his best.
The charactor of Neil Winters, as played by Kristoff St. John, is often cited as one of the most positive and long-lasting African-American role models on network television.
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