Billie Reed
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Billie Reed is a fictional character
from the NBC
soap opera
Days of our Lives
. The character is no longer used in the current storylines. Created by writer Sheri Anderson
, the role was originated by actress Lisa Rinna
on September 21, 1992. Krista Allen stepped into the role from 1996-1999. Lisa Rinna returned for a short stint as Bille in 2002. In 2004, the role of Billie was recast to actress Julie Pinson
after Lisa Rinna
declined to return to Days. Pinson played the role from 2004-2008. Billie's storylines focus on everyday life in the fictional town of Salem. The daughter Kate DiMera, and Curtis Reed
affected the character in many ways. Billie didn't even know her mother was Kate until a court hearing after being accused of murdering her father Curtis Reed
. Billie's relationship with Bo Brady
was famous to the character, and was a key reason she became such a popular character. The two share one daughter, Chelsea Brady
.
Also, Billie and Chelsea once reside at 890 Whitley Street in Salem, USA (zip code 06642). The mother and daughter now move into Billie's brother, Lucas Roberts' apartment after Bonnie Lockhart throws them out after her son Patrick Lockhart
goes to prison and Conner Lockhart returns to town. Despite being evicted from this apartment, by Victor, Billie continues to live in it, until leaving for London. Chelsea moves in with Bo and Hope, after learning of Nick and Billie's one-night stand.
. Luckily, Carrie Brady
befriends her and gives Billie a place to stay. It took a while before Billie can get clean and rid her life of past demons.
Eventually, Billie decides to turn her life around and starts her own cosmetics company, Countess Wilhelmina. Kate Roberts buys out Countess Wilhelmina to spite Billie. Later that year, Billie befriends Tony DiMera
. He brings up 49% of Titan Industries and then brings Billie in to run the Countess Wilhelmina division.
Billie's father Curtis Reed
, who had been presumed dead, returns. Curtis, who got Billie addicted to drugs as a young girl and rape
d her, is eventually murdered, and Billie is arrested for killing him. However, Billie refuses to tell Bo Brady
how she knows Curtis and she makes her brother, Austin, keep quiet. Billie thinks that if Bo learns the truth, he won't love her. Nevertheless, Bo falls in love with Billie and is determined to prove that she is innocent.
Billie and Austin are both shocked when they learn Kate was married to Curtis Reed. Eventually Billie admits that Curtis is her father. Stefano DiMera
had killed Curtis in self-defense and framed Billie. Billie is let go and Bo tells her that he loves her no matter what. Billie and Austin are also reunited with Kate, the mother they thought abandoned them. Kate tells them that Curtis had taken them from her and she believed they had all been killed in a car crash.
Bo and Billie try to marry on New Year's Day, but the "Desecrator" struck and a falling chandelier almost kills them. They try again, but learn that they could not marry if there was any chance that a lady by the name of Gina turns out to be Hope Brady. In order to help them, Gina signs a paper declaring that Hope is dead and Bo and Billie are finally married. When Gina is eventually proven to be Hope, Billie realizes that Bo had not given his marriage to Hope a fair shot, so she leaves Salem in 1995 to let them be together.
Billie, meanwhile, discovers that she is pregnant with Bo's child. Bo tells her that he will be there for her and the baby. She follows Bo and Hope to New Orleans and then into the bayou where she goes into labor. Her baby girl, who she names Georgia, is stillborn. Bo helps Billie get over the loss of their baby; however, he tells her that he still loves Hope and wants to make a life with her. Billie is outraged and leaves town again and head for Paris in January 2000.
Billie and Bo's older brother, Roman Brady (who later marries Billie's mother Kate Roberts), also begin to date after the loss of her baby with Bo.
that never really gets off the ground. However her real reason for returning is to cause more problems for Bo and Hope. She assists Larry Welch in kidnapping Hope and Zack because she believes Larry is working for the ISA
. However, she can't stand seeing what this was doing to Bo and when she goes to stand up against Larry, he shoots her. Fortunately she survives and leaves Salem when she is released from the hospital in early 2003 to join the ISA in London.
When the Salem stalker murders began she has a message for Bo saying she knows who the killer is but she goes missing along that same time.
Hope is not thrilled by yet another link between Billie and Bo, but tries to remain supportive. However, when Bo and Hope's son Zack is killed in a car accident, everyone soon learns that Chelsea was the driver, and thus responsible. Billie is desperate to protect Chelsea and Bo is torn between the two women in his life. At one point, Chelsea manipulates Billie into making it appear that Bo has slept with her in a hotel and arranges for Hope to discover this truth. Billie deeply regrets this and admitted to it in court when Hope tries to divorce Bo.
Billie has repeatedly stated she believes Bo and Hope belong together and will not try to get back with Bo, against Chelsea's wishes. Recently, she finds herself involved with another man who is not exactly available: Steve "Patch" Johnson. Steve feals very pressured by Kayla's hopes that he will remember their past, and he rebels by starting to see Billie.
While she is drunk, she has sex with Nick Fallon, who has developed strong feelings for her daughter Chelsea. Her falls from the wagon didn't last long. She makes amends with Chelsea and is working at Salem University as head of security. She uses her connections to help her younger half brother Philip Kiriakis
find his missing son, Tyler. She works on finding the campus rapist. Unbeknown to her, Ford Decker is already dead.
Billie leaves town in the wake of the death of Ford Decker. Victor gives her a job at Titan in England, after she is fired from the university. Billie is in a car accident, and has to have her mom, Kate and her daughter, Chelsea come over to London to help her recover. Chelsea stays with Billie while Kate goes back home. Chelsea then returns home to Salem and reunites with Max. They get engaged and leave the show with the storyline of living in London with Billie, helping her to get better. No word has been spoken on her condition since.
Fictional character
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from the NBC
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soap opera
Soap opera
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Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
. The character is no longer used in the current storylines. Created by writer Sheri Anderson
Sheri Anderson
Sheri Anderson is an American television writer and producer who is the author of the new fiction novel series, Salem's Secrets, Scandals and Lies, based on the television series Days of our Lives and being released in conjunction with their 45th Anniversary. She previously worked primarily on...
, the role was originated by actress Lisa Rinna
Lisa Rinna
Lisa Deanna Rinna is an American television host and actress. She is known for her roles as Billie Reed on Days of our Lives, Taylor McBride on Melrose Place, and most recently as the host of SoapNet's Soap Talk.-Acting:...
on September 21, 1992. Krista Allen stepped into the role from 1996-1999. Lisa Rinna returned for a short stint as Bille in 2002. In 2004, the role of Billie was recast to actress Julie Pinson
Julie Pinson
Julie Pinson is an American soap opera actress who portrayed the role of Billie Reed on Days of our Lives. Julie most recently appeared on As the World Turns in the role of "Juicy" Janet Ciccone....
after Lisa Rinna
Lisa Rinna
Lisa Deanna Rinna is an American television host and actress. She is known for her roles as Billie Reed on Days of our Lives, Taylor McBride on Melrose Place, and most recently as the host of SoapNet's Soap Talk.-Acting:...
declined to return to Days. Pinson played the role from 2004-2008. Billie's storylines focus on everyday life in the fictional town of Salem. The daughter Kate DiMera, and Curtis Reed
Curtis Reed
Curtis Brown is a fictional character in the soap opera Days of our Lives. He was played by Nick Benedict.-Character history:...
affected the character in many ways. Billie didn't even know her mother was Kate until a court hearing after being accused of murdering her father Curtis Reed
Curtis Reed
Curtis Brown is a fictional character in the soap opera Days of our Lives. He was played by Nick Benedict.-Character history:...
. Billie's relationship with Bo Brady
Bo Brady
Beauregard Aurelius "Bo" Brady is a fictional character on the NBC Soap Opera, Days of our Lives, the youngest of the series' Brady family. Created under head-writer Margaret DePreist, the role was originated by actor Peter Reckell on May 2, 1983. Robert Kelker-Kelly briefly stepped into the role...
was famous to the character, and was a key reason she became such a popular character. The two share one daughter, Chelsea Brady
Chelsea Brady
Chelsea Benson Brady is a fictional character on the NBC Soap Opera Days of our Lives. Created by head writer Sally Sussman Morina, the role was originally played by Mandy Musgrave. The role was recast to Rachel Melvin in 2005. Melvin portrayed the character from 2005 to 2009, after the character...
.
Fictional character history
Billie's real name is not Billie Holliday Reed. When Curtis takes the children, he changes their names to prevent Kate from finding them. All that is known is that her original surname was Brown.Also, Billie and Chelsea once reside at 890 Whitley Street in Salem, USA (zip code 06642). The mother and daughter now move into Billie's brother, Lucas Roberts' apartment after Bonnie Lockhart throws them out after her son Patrick Lockhart
Patrick Lockhart
Patrick Brian Lockhart was a fictional character on the television drama Days of our Lives.The character of "Patrick" was played by actor Brody Hutzler from 2004 to 2007.-Character history:...
goes to prison and Conner Lockhart returns to town. Despite being evicted from this apartment, by Victor, Billie continues to live in it, until leaving for London. Chelsea moves in with Bo and Hope, after learning of Nick and Billie's one-night stand.
Lisa Rinna (1992-1995)
Billie Reed first comes to Salem in 1992 as a professional singer, but her cocaine addiction ruins that opportunity. Billie believes her father is dead and has never known her mother. Her only relative in Salem is her brother Austin ReedAustin Reed (fiction)
Austin Reed is a fictional character in the soap opera Days of our Lives portrayed by Patrick Muldoon from July 7, 1992 to April 4, 1995 and September 26, 2011 to present. The role was also portrayed by Austin Peck from April 7, 1995 to May 31, 2002, June 29, 2005 to November 3, 2006...
. Luckily, Carrie Brady
Carrie Brady
Caroline Anna "Carrie" Reed is a fictional character on the NBC soap opera, Days of our Lives, a long-running serial about working class life in the fictional town of Salem. Created by head writer Margaret DePriest, the role of Carrie was originated by child actress Andrea Barber, known for her...
befriends her and gives Billie a place to stay. It took a while before Billie can get clean and rid her life of past demons.
Eventually, Billie decides to turn her life around and starts her own cosmetics company, Countess Wilhelmina. Kate Roberts buys out Countess Wilhelmina to spite Billie. Later that year, Billie befriends Tony DiMera
Tony DiMera
Count Antony "Tony" DiMera is a fictional character from the American soap opera Days of our Lives, played by actor Thaao Penghlis on and off from 1981 until 2009. One of the character's main storylines includes being impersonated by fellow character André DiMera, at various points in the...
. He brings up 49% of Titan Industries and then brings Billie in to run the Countess Wilhelmina division.
Billie's father Curtis Reed
Curtis Reed
Curtis Brown is a fictional character in the soap opera Days of our Lives. He was played by Nick Benedict.-Character history:...
, who had been presumed dead, returns. Curtis, who got Billie addicted to drugs as a young girl and rape
Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The...
d her, is eventually murdered, and Billie is arrested for killing him. However, Billie refuses to tell Bo Brady
Bo Brady
Beauregard Aurelius "Bo" Brady is a fictional character on the NBC Soap Opera, Days of our Lives, the youngest of the series' Brady family. Created under head-writer Margaret DePreist, the role was originated by actor Peter Reckell on May 2, 1983. Robert Kelker-Kelly briefly stepped into the role...
how she knows Curtis and she makes her brother, Austin, keep quiet. Billie thinks that if Bo learns the truth, he won't love her. Nevertheless, Bo falls in love with Billie and is determined to prove that she is innocent.
Billie and Austin are both shocked when they learn Kate was married to Curtis Reed. Eventually Billie admits that Curtis is her father. Stefano DiMera
Stefano DiMera
Stefano DiMera is a fictional character, a villain on the American soap opera Days of our Lives. Created by head writer Pat Falken Smith, he is portrayed by Joseph Mascolo...
had killed Curtis in self-defense and framed Billie. Billie is let go and Bo tells her that he loves her no matter what. Billie and Austin are also reunited with Kate, the mother they thought abandoned them. Kate tells them that Curtis had taken them from her and she believed they had all been killed in a car crash.
Bo and Billie try to marry on New Year's Day, but the "Desecrator" struck and a falling chandelier almost kills them. They try again, but learn that they could not marry if there was any chance that a lady by the name of Gina turns out to be Hope Brady. In order to help them, Gina signs a paper declaring that Hope is dead and Bo and Billie are finally married. When Gina is eventually proven to be Hope, Billie realizes that Bo had not given his marriage to Hope a fair shot, so she leaves Salem in 1995 to let them be together.
Krista Allen (1996-2000)
Billie returns a year later in September 1996 and moves into the Kiriakis Mansion. She begins to date Franco Kelly, which upsets Bo. Bo insists Franco is dangerous, but Hope accuses him of being jealous. Hope grows fed up with Bo's obsession with Franco and tells Bo that she can't marry him if he still has feelings for Billie.Billie, meanwhile, discovers that she is pregnant with Bo's child. Bo tells her that he will be there for her and the baby. She follows Bo and Hope to New Orleans and then into the bayou where she goes into labor. Her baby girl, who she names Georgia, is stillborn. Bo helps Billie get over the loss of their baby; however, he tells her that he still loves Hope and wants to make a life with her. Billie is outraged and leaves town again and head for Paris in January 2000.
Billie and Bo's older brother, Roman Brady (who later marries Billie's mother Kate Roberts), also begin to date after the loss of her baby with Bo.
Lisa Rinna's return (2002-2003)
Hope's disdain for Billie only grew over time. When Billie returns to Salem in 2002 and joins the police force, it only gets worse. Billie swears her motives are pure and not to create more trouble for Bo and Hope. She has a short-lived relationship with Jack DeverauxJack Deveraux
Jack Harcourt Deveraux, Sr. is a fictional character on the soap opera Days of our Lives. He is the most prominent member of the Johnson family and is most famously played by Matthew Ashford. After a four-year absence, the character has recently returned to "Salem" to reconnect with his estranged...
that never really gets off the ground. However her real reason for returning is to cause more problems for Bo and Hope. She assists Larry Welch in kidnapping Hope and Zack because she believes Larry is working for the ISA
ISA (Days of our Lives)
ISA is an initialism for International Security Alliance, a fictional intelligence agency on the soap opera Days of our Lives. A highly secretive organization, its agents have been operating in the small Midwestern town of Salem at least since its first appearance on the show in the early 1980s...
. However, she can't stand seeing what this was doing to Bo and when she goes to stand up against Larry, he shoots her. Fortunately she survives and leaves Salem when she is released from the hospital in early 2003 to join the ISA in London.
When the Salem stalker murders began she has a message for Bo saying she knows who the killer is but she goes missing along that same time.
Julie Pinson (2004-2008)
When Bo helps rescue the victims of the Salem Stalker, he bumps into Billie on the mysterious island. Together they help rescue the others, and upon their return to Salem, Billie makes the shocking discovery that their daughter Georgia, who she thought had died in childbirth, is still alive. In fact, she is Chelsea Benson, one of Abby Deveraux's friends. When Chelsea's adoptive parents are killed in a car accident, Billie reveals the truth and has Chelsea move in with her.Hope is not thrilled by yet another link between Billie and Bo, but tries to remain supportive. However, when Bo and Hope's son Zack is killed in a car accident, everyone soon learns that Chelsea was the driver, and thus responsible. Billie is desperate to protect Chelsea and Bo is torn between the two women in his life. At one point, Chelsea manipulates Billie into making it appear that Bo has slept with her in a hotel and arranges for Hope to discover this truth. Billie deeply regrets this and admitted to it in court when Hope tries to divorce Bo.
Billie has repeatedly stated she believes Bo and Hope belong together and will not try to get back with Bo, against Chelsea's wishes. Recently, she finds herself involved with another man who is not exactly available: Steve "Patch" Johnson. Steve feals very pressured by Kayla's hopes that he will remember their past, and he rebels by starting to see Billie.
While she is drunk, she has sex with Nick Fallon, who has developed strong feelings for her daughter Chelsea. Her falls from the wagon didn't last long. She makes amends with Chelsea and is working at Salem University as head of security. She uses her connections to help her younger half brother Philip Kiriakis
Philip Kiriakis
Philip Robert Kiriakis is a character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives He has been portrayed by Brandon Tyler from October 21, 1999 to December 24, 1999, then by Jay Kenneth Johnson from December 27, 1999 to December 25, 2002 and Kyle Brandt from May 14, 2003 to October 12, 2006,...
find his missing son, Tyler. She works on finding the campus rapist. Unbeknown to her, Ford Decker is already dead.
Billie leaves town in the wake of the death of Ford Decker. Victor gives her a job at Titan in England, after she is fired from the university. Billie is in a car accident, and has to have her mom, Kate and her daughter, Chelsea come over to London to help her recover. Chelsea stays with Billie while Kate goes back home. Chelsea then returns home to Salem and reunites with Max. They get engaged and leave the show with the storyline of living in London with Billie, helping her to get better. No word has been spoken on her condition since.
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