Hope Williams Brady
Actor History
Kristina Osterhaut (1974)
Kimberly Weber (1974 to 1975)
Natasha Ryan (1975 to 1980)
Tammy Taylor (1981)
Kristian Alfonso (1983 to 1987; 1990; 1994 to present)
Sara Rose Johnson (1990; flashbacks)
Joanna Wexler (1994 to 1995; flashbacks)
Bluejean Seacrist (1997; flashbacks)
Other Names
Gina Horton (amnesia name)
Hope Alice Williams (full name)
Lifeline
Born 10 January 1974 (original).
Born 24 December 1963 (later).
Occupation
Police Officer (again)
Former Bounty Hunter
Former Police Officer
Former Private Eye
Former Model
Resides At
House on Copper Lantern Drive in Salem
Marital Status
Married/Bo Brady (Married: June 9th, 2000)
Past Marriages
Larry Welch (1984 to 1985; divorced)
Bo Brady (1985 to 1995; divorced)
Relatives
Doug Williams (father)
Addie Horton (mother; deceased)
Douglas LeCleir (paternal half-brother)
Steven Olson (maternal half-brother)
Julie Olson (maternal half-sister)
Tom Horton Sr. (maternal grandfather; deceased)
Alice Grayson (maternal grandmother)
Tommy Horton Jr. (maternal uncle)
Mickey Horton (maternal uncle)
Bill Horton (maternal uncle)
Marie Horton (maternal aunt)
Byron Carmichael (paternal half-uncle; deceased)
Sandy Horton (maternal cousin)
Melissa Horton (maternal cousin; via adoption)
Sarah Horton (maternal cousin; via adoption)
Mike Horton (maternal cousin)
Jennifer Horton (maternal cousin)
Lucas Roberts (maternal cousin)
Jessica Blake (maternal cousin)
Spencer Olson (maternal half-nephew)
David Banning (maternal half-nephew)
Scott Banning (maternal half-grand-nephew)
Jeremy Horton (maternal first cousin once removed)
Abigail Deveraux (maternal first cousin once removed)
Jack Deveraux Jr. (maternal first cousin once removed)
Will Roberts (maternal first cousin once removed)
Alice Caroline Horton (maternal first cousin once removed)
Nick Fallon (maternal first cousin once removed)
Children
Shawn Douglas Brady (son; with Bo)
Beauregard Isaac Theo Brady (son; with Bo; deceased)
Claire Kiriakis (granddaughter; via Shawn)
Flings & Affairs
Jake Kositchek
Franco Kelly
Stefano DiMera
John Black
Crimes Committed
While as Princess Gina, she committed art theft and forgery.
Brief Character History
Hope was born in 1974 to Addie and Doug. Addie died soon after that in a tragic accident. She grew up with her maternal grandparents until her father felt sturdy enough to take her back. He married her half sister Julie not long after. Then, Hope was shipped off to boarding school. We didn't see her again until the early 80s.
Hope returned and developed a serious crush on Roman Brady, and tried her best to get him. She tried to seduce him, but that attempt failed. Roman realized this was nothing by a schoolgirl crush, but Bo got very jealous. He wouldn't admit to himself that he had feelings for Hope. Soon, they found themselves in love, continually fighting and always making up. They intended on marrying, but Doug, her father, had other ideas. He pushed the idea of Hope marrying someone like Larry Welch, a politician with high aspirations. also lacking a conscience. They married at their second attempt. At the first ceremony Bo stormed in and took the bride away from the church.
Bo and Hope eventually married and moved into the Kiriakis Mansion, home of Bo's natural father, Victor Kiriakis. Hope didn't like the way Bo was changing to please his father, and as a result, miscarried their unborn child. This caused a serious rift in their marriage. They pretended to separate, but all the while were deep in love. Soon, Hope found herself pregnant with their second child, a son, who was named Shawn-Douglas after both of their fathers. ( Bo regards Shawn Brady as his father.) Not long after, they set out on a boat trip around the world. For a while, three years to be exact, they stayed away from Salem.
Bo, Hope, and a toddler Shawn-D. returned to Salem, much to happiness of Caroline and Alice. They soon got entangled in the dealings with Ernesto on the ship Loretta. Ernesto, seeking some kind of revenge, took Hope captive in a cave. The cave then exploded, and Hope was assumed dead. No body was ever found. Bo, stricken, returned to Salem, to somehow piece together a life for Shawn-D. without Hope.
Gina was found at Maison Blanche in 1994. Bo refused to believe who she was. This woman had amnesia, but looked exactly like Hope. Earlier that night, Bo had proposed to his fiancee, Billie Reed. There were plastic surgery marks, so this could have been another fishy dealing with Stefano. For months, Gina thought she was Hope but had no memories to back it up. Alice truly believed this woman was her granddaughter and she was right. Amnesiac Gina's fingerprint samples matched Hope's exactly. Hope resumed her life as Hope, but that was no easy task. She wanted her husband back, but he was in love with Billie. Dutifully, Hope granted Bo a divorce, and Billie and Bo married until Billie realized that Bo had unresolved feelings. She left Salem for Paris and stayed there for a year or two.
Hope, after being spurned for all those years, closed off to Bo in every way. They didn't get back together for a long time. On the day they were supposed to get remarried, Hope found Bo and Billie in a compromising position, assumed the worst and called off the wedding. Hope then became involved with Franco Kelly.
Stefano, while she was at Maison Blanche for four years, had given Hope Princess Gina's memories which were installed on a chip. Princess Gina had been an art thief who had died in a car crash. She also painted over them, and Stefano had more masterpieces that needed to be worked on. He transformed Hope into Gina, and for four years, she lived the regal life of Gina. Stefano, in order to get his art treasures back from Vivian, transformed Hope back into Gina.
Under Stefano's influence, Hope kidnapped John and turned him evil before the two made love on the yacht. After Stefano found them and got rid of John, he and 'Gina' made love. 'Gina' planned to go to Paris to get the letter that would bring her and John back together, but she and Stefano managed to be held hostage in the real Gina's castle while Gina took over her life. When they finally rescued Hope she was pregnant with a child she believed to be Bo's, until she found out that there was no way she could have become pregnant with Bo's child.
After DNA tests, Hope was led to believe that the baby belonged to John. Unbeknownest to her, the baby didn't even belong to her...the child belonged to Marlo, a niece of Stefano's henchman Rolf, and had been switched at birth via Stefano's instructions. The boys were over a year old when they learned that Bo and Hope were raising Marlo's son with Glen Reiber, and Abe and Lexie had Bo and Hope's son. Bo and Hope immediately demanded that Lexie return her son, and also started proceedings to keep Glen and Marlo's son. Eventually they lost custody of little J.T. to his natural father, and Abe relinquished custody of little Isaac (renamed Zack) to Bo and Hope.
Not long after, Bo and Hope were thrilled to learn that John wasn't really the father after all; Bo was. It turned out neither one recalled sleeping together, but they had, and Zack was biologically both of theirs. After a brief stint as bounty hunters, and after Larry Welch came back from the dead to temporarily kidnap Hope, Bo and Hope both rejoined the police force to investigate the Salem Stalker case. Hope hurt for Jennifer when Jack was the second victim, but was utterly devastated when Maggie Horton was the third.
With each victim, Hope's pain got worse, but nothing was as bad as watching Bo suffer through the loss of not only his mother, but also his father and half-brother Roman as well, then Hope's own grief when two of the final victims were her father, Doug, and lastly her beloved gran. Hope ended up going after Patrick Lockhart, and the two ended up trapped on the island of Melaswen. Although desperate to get back to her husband and sons, Hope was thrilled to be reunited with loved ones she thought were dead. She managed to get away from the compound and meet up with Jack Deveraux, but it wasn't long before they were separated. Once Bo ended up on the island he and Hope were determined to get off, but there was a new problem. One of the island residents was Billie Reed, the only other woman Bo had truly loved.
After getting off the island and getting back to Salem, Hope was determined to put what happened on the island (including Billie coming back) behind her, but when Bo and Billie learned their long-believed dead daughter Georgia was really alive and well, Hope found herself sitting on the sidelines as Bo moved heaven and earth to help Billie find their lost little girl. Once the search for Georgia stagnated, Bo and Hope worked on getting their relationship back together, and Bo bought the two of them a new boat, Fancy Face III. Everything seemed to be getting better, and Hope was even trying to work on accepting Bo's long-lost daughter Chelsea, but her world fell apart when Zack died after being the victim of a hit and run on New Year's Eve. Hope was shocked and furious when Billie confessed to the crime.
Bo and Hope were unable to reconcile after Hope learned that he was responsible for Chelsea having the car that night, and the two separated. When Hope learned she was pregnant, Bo was devastated when paternity tests proved that Patrick Lockhart was the father of her unborn baby, but he was still determined to be part of Hope's life. Despite numerous warnings that he was going to far in his quest to bring Patrick down, Bo continued his investigations, and was briefly kicked off the force as a result. It all proved to be worth it to him when Patrick confessed, as Hope was giving birth in a warehouse, that the baby was actually his. Weeks later, Bo and Hope finally chose a name for their newest daughter -- Ciara Alice Brady.
