Cole Thornhart
Actor History
Brandon Buddy (October 10th, 2006 to Present)
Lifeline
Born in Ireland in 1998.
Was approximately 16 in 2006.
Occupation
Student at Llanview University
Resides At
Llanview (with roommate, Markko Rivera)
Formerly in San Diego
Marital Status
Engaged to Starr Manning [Engaged: Jun 18, 2009]
Past Marriages
None
Relatives
Patrick Thornhart (father; deceased)
Marty Saybrooke (mother)
Brendan Thornhart (paternal half-brother; deceased)
David Saybrooke (maternal grandfather; deceased)
Samantha Saybrooke (maternal grandmother; deceased)
Ian Thornhart (paternal uncle)
Granya Thornhart (paternal aunt)
Daniel Thornhart (paternal cousin)
Kiki Saybrooke (maternal great-aunt; deceased)
Children
Hope Manning Thornhart (daughter; with Starr; born Nov 6, 2008)
Flings & Affairs
Brittany
Starr Manning (lovers)
Crimes Committed
Took steroids to try to improve his performance on the football team. [Fall 2006]
Attacked Starr Manning at a party during a case of 'roid rage. [Nov 2006]
Began taking illegal drugs bought from a dealer at school [2008]
Drove while under the influence of drugs and crashed into another car [Mar 2009]
Violated his probation after being caught with drugs [Jun 2009]
Maladies & Hospitalizations
Hospitalized after crashing his car while under the influence of drugs [Mar 2009]
Brief Character History
Cole arrived in Llanview in the fall of 2006. He began attending Llanview High School and became the school's star football player. He soon befriended Starr Manning, despite the fact that the popular girls didn't like her. Shortly after Starr and Cole began dating, Cole began using steroids. One of Starr's classmates, Brittany, was jealous of Starr's relationship with Cole and set out to cause them trouble. Brittany encouraged a fellow classmate to slip Cole drugs. At a party, Cole was high on drugs and attacked Starr when she refused to have sex with him. In the ensuing fracas at the school, Cole learned that his mother, Marty Saybrooke, was the woman that Starr's father Todd Manning had raped years earlier when the two were in college together. Marty was shocked to discover that her son was being accused of attacking Starr and explained to Starr's parents that the source of Cole's problems stemmed from the mysterious death of his father, Patrick Thornhart.
Todd forbade Starr from seeing Cole again, but Starr and Cole refused to stop seeing one another and even attempted to run away together. Their parents begrudgingly allowed them to date again. Starr and Cole encountered several setbacks. Cole had a difficult time dealing with the fact that Todd raped his mother in college. Once Starr and Cole's relationship was back on track, Cole and Marty were kidnapped by an enemy of Cole's father and taken to Ireland. Police detective John McBain, who had begun dating Marty, tracked them down in Ireland and was about to broker their freedom when a rogue FBI agent, Lee Ramsey, fired shots into the van that Marty and Cole were in. The van rolled down a cliff into a quarry. Cole was thrown from the van, but Marty was trapped inside. Before being rescued, the van exploded and Marty was believed dead. John and Cole returned to Llanview, where Cole was taken in by Marty's good friend Nora Gannon. Cole had a difficult time accepting his mother's death and began shutting Starr out of his life. As Cole and Starr began growing apart, he and Langston Wilde (who also had lost her parents a couple of years ago) began bonding over their losses. Starr was suspicious and jealous of Cole and Langston's relationship but then realized they were just friends, and she and Cole began dating again.
Starr and Cole then faced being separated forever when Todd announced he was moving the family to Hawaii. Starr and Cole decided to spend one last night together before the big move and went to Langston's old house, where they slept together for the first time. Todd walked in on them and nearly beat Cole to death. Todd forbade Starr to see Cole or get anywhere near him, even though she falsely assured him that they hadn't had sex. Todd took Starr out of school and decided that she should be home schooled to prevent her from seeing Cole. Langston walked in on Starr while she was holding a pregnancy test. Todd eventually decided to trust Starr and put her back in school, as long as she agreed not to talk to Cole. Starr found out that she was pregnant and did not want to tell Cole. She contemplated having an abortion so that her father would never find out about the pregnancy.
Starr and Langston snuck Starr out of the house so that Starr could take a bus to Atlantic City to get an abortion. Cole got wind that Starr had gone to Atlantic City, and was given the address where Starr had gone by Langston, unknowing that he was heading to an abortion clinic. Cole showed up and came face to face with Starr, who decided to return to Llanview without having an abortion. Cole then told Starr he wanted them to run away to Virginia Beach and raise the baby together. Cole obtained fake IDs for both him and Starr and they run off into the night. Blair and John, who found out that Starr was pregnant, tracked Cole and Starr down in Virginia Beach, along with Todd. Back in Llanview, Starr told Blair she wanted to have the baby and give it up for adoption. She then decided to give her baby to Marcie McBain, who had adopted Todd's son Sam and had to give him up when his identity was discovered. Heartbroken and then angry that Starr did not want to raise their child together, Cole threatened to sue for custody of his child before later deciding to give up his parental rights and to break up with Starr. When school resumed in the fall, classmates made fun of a very pregnant Starr and Cole came to her defense. They began to mend their relationship and consider each other friends as Starr prepared to deliver their child.
Starr went into labor while visiting Cole at his mother Marty's gravesite. Cole took Starr to the hospital and stayed there as Starr prepared for the delivery, with Blair and Marcie by her side. On Nov. 6, 2008, Starr gave birth to a healthy baby girl, whom Marcie named Hope. But Starr's father Todd had put in motion a plan to steal the baby and raise it on his own with Marty, who had actually survived the van explosion but was suffering from amnesia. Todd had kept Marty in his home for months, lying to her about their past and the fact that she had a child, and the two eventually declared their love to each other and had sex on the night that Starr delivered the baby. Todd changed his mind about stealing the baby, but by that time the baby had been switched out with a stillborn baby born to Jessica Brennan, who was under the influence of an alternate personality named Bess. Starr was told her baby was dead, and she broke the news to Cole.
Cole was heartbroken about losing the only link to his supposedly dead parents, but then in the hospital he came face to face with Marty, who had just been rescued from Todd's home. Cole could tell instantly that something wasn't right with Marty, and she confessed that she had no memory of him except for a fleeting memory of an infant boy. Cole was certain that she would remember him soon, but he grew frustrated as weeks turned to months and Marty still had not regained her memory.
Cole soon began to feel that his mother was still dead, since Marty wasn't acting like the mother he remembered. To deal with the loss of his child and frustrations over his mother's increasingly erratic behavior, Cole began to take illegal drugs that he purchased from a drug dealer at school named Asher. Starr found the drugs and confronted Cole, who lashed out at her. Cole continued to take the drugs, and even took a joint from freshman Matthew Buchanan and smoked it in front of the Buchanan mansion one morning before school. When Bo and Nora found the remains of the joint, they accused Matthew of smoking it. Matthew, eager to fit in with the popular kids in school and distance himself from his law-abiding parents, lied and said he smoked the joint. Cole stood by and said nothing. Starr confided in a new teacher at school, Schuyler Joplin, that she had a friend who was having a drug problem. Mr. Joplin figured out it was Cole and confronted him and urged him to get help. Cole accused Starr of ratting him out, but Starr said she never told "Mr. J" who she was talking about. She told Cole that Mr. Joplin was a recovering drug addict, so he knew the signs of abuse.
Hoping to reconnect with her son, Marty went to see Cole and discovered his stash of drugs and a letter addressed to her that said Cole was flunking out of school. She confronted Cole, who angrily lashed out at her. Cole went to see Todd and accused him of ruining his life. Todd could tell that Cole was on drugs and, after Cole left, tried to reach Starr and Blair to tell them. Cole, meanwhile, went to the school where a dance was going on and saw Starr and Mr. Joplin kissing. He threw Mr. Joplin up against the lockers and accused him of taking advantage of Starr, but Starr confessed that she was the one who kissed him. When the assistant principal arrived, Cole told her that Mr. Joplin was an ex-drug addict and left the school. Cole got into his car and was joined by Matthew, who had just been embarrassed during the school dance. As Cole and Matthew were headed home, Cole began to space out and crashed into an oncoming car that was driven by Gigi Morasco, who was taking her son Shane to a sleepover. Cole was rescued from the crash by Marty and John and got a clean bill of health after having his stomach pumped. But Matthew wasn't so lucky: he was paralyzed from the waist down. Nora let out her rage at Cole and Marty and decided to press felony charges against Cole. Marty hired Téa to represent Cole. But after Matthew told Nora he forgave Cole, Nora decided not to press charges against Cole so long as he entered a drug treatment program.
Cole found it hard to stay straight. He continued to pop pills and faked his drug tests, first with drug dealer Asher's help and then by an unsuspecting Markko. He continued to spiral as it seemed that Starr was continuing to pine after her teacher, who was suspended from school following the incident. Cole found Starr coming out of Mr. J's apartment, buttoning her blouse, and told Todd about the relationship. Cole began to turn around with the help of his new counselor, Nora's daughter Rachel Gannon, who preached a tough love approach. Cole found himself gravitating back toward Starr, who had finally gotten over her schoolgirl crush. With Starr's help, Cole acknowledged that he was a drug addict. During a harrowing night in Starr's bedroom, Cole faced his addiction head-on and began to recover.
Following Cole's accident, Starr and Cole learned that their baby couldn't have died from RH disease as they were told because they both have the same blood type. They had the baby's hair, kept in a locket Starr wore around her neck, analyzed to see if there was any genetic reason for the baby's death. But the results showed that the hair couldn't have come from their baby. Confused, Starr and Cole, with Marcie and Michael's blessing, agreed to have Hope's body exhumed so an autopsy could be performed to establish the true cause of death. Natalie Buchanan and her fiancé, Jared Banks, had stumbled upon the truth on their own and realized that the truth was about to come out. They finally admitted to Viki, Clint and Charlie that the baby Jessica believed was hers was in fact Starr and Cole's child. At the same time, Todd and Marty learned from Powell Lord that DNA tests had been performed that proved the baby was their grandchild. As Jessica began to realize the truth, her alter Bess emerged and kidnapped baby Chloe and took her to Nash's parents' home in West Virginia. Todd, Blair and Marty all agreed to keep the truth about the baby from Starr and Cole until they knew that the baby was safe. Once Jessica had re-emerged and was headed back to Llanview with the baby, Starr and Cole learned that their baby was in fact alive and had been with Jessica the whole time. Starr quietly debated keeping the baby instead of giving her to Marcie and Michael, and Blair urged her daughter to do what was in her heart and not be afraid of hurting Marcie and Michael's feelings. But in the end, Starr signed the adoption papers with Cole's support. She and Cole shared a bittersweet reunion with their believed-dead baby and then handed her over to the McBains.
Giving up the baby was too much for Cole to handle and he went to the docks to get away from everyone for a while. There he ran into Asher, who tried to get Cole to start using again. Asher even gave Cole a free bag of pills and put them in his pocket. Just as Cole went to throw them in the water, a cop spotted him and arrested him for drug possession. Cole told everyone what had happened, but details of the arrest were provided to the judge before Bo and Nora could do anything to make the charges go away. For violating his probation, Cole was sentenced to two years in Statesville Prison. When Cole went to tell Starr that he was going to jail, he was shocked to learn that Marcie had decided to give the baby back to Hope and Cole to raise. Cole told a heartbroken Starr that he was headed to prison. He then got on one knee and proposed to her, saying he wanted to have a wife and baby to come home to once he was released from jail. Starr said yes, and both were shocked when Todd didn't fight their decision to get married. Later it came out that Todd wanted to force Blair to say no to the wedding, but Blair spited Todd by agreeing to the nuptials. On July 6, as the Justice of the Peace prepared to announce that Starr and Cole were husband and wife, John McBain interrupted the ceremony to announce that he had worked out a deal with the judge that would keep Cole from going to prison. Cole told Starr he still wanted to go through with the wedding, but Starr said there was no reason for them to get married now that Cole wasn't going to prison. Starr said she'd rather wait until they could have the wedding of their dreams at the right time, and Cole agreed.
Cole then learned that instead of going to prison, he would be going undercover on a dangerous assignment to help expose the people who were allowing drugs to infiltrate Llanview. Marty was worried for Cole's safety, but John assured her that he would keep an eye out for him. The night before his assignment was to begin, Cole and Starr made love for the first time since she had gotten pregnant. Cole was set up in his own apartment and quickly talked Asher into letting him in on the drug-selling racket, explaining that he needed the cash to help take care of Starr and his baby. Cole had to cut off all phone conversations with Starr after learning from John that his apartment had been bugged by Serge, the man Asher worked for. Cole's successful undercover work helped John discover that Mayor Stanley Lowell was behind the drug smuggling operation. Cole's cover was blown after Todd saw Cole selling drugs to Justin Lowell, the mayor's son, and Starr was forced to tell her father that Cole was working undercover. Dorian overheard the conversation and told Mayor Lowell, who put out a hit on Cole. Todd also went to the mayor, asking him to fire John because of the danger he had put his daughter and granddaughter in. Cole was nearly killed by a dirty cop, but John killed the cop first. After the botched attempt to kill Cole, Lowell told Serge to kidnap Starr and baby Hope and then was arrested after being exposed by John. Shaun Evans tried to stop the kidnappers and was shot multiple times, while Todd was severely beaten up. Starr and Hope were held in a warehouse but eventually escaped unharmed thanks to a rescue operation headed by undercover officer Brody Lovett. Cole was able to return to civilian life, earning his GED and enrolling in Llanview University along with his new roommate, Markko.
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