Nina Webster
Actor History
Tricia Cast (1986 to 2000 [contract]; November 14 to 20, 2008; April 30, 2009 to present [recurring]
Lifeline
Born in 1970 since she arrived in Genoa City as a 16-year-old in 1986.
Occupation
Novelist and Screenplay Writer
Former researcher for novelist Cole Howard
Resides At
Chancellor Estate, 12 Foothill Road
Marital Status
Single
Past Marriages
Phillip Chancellor III (presumed dead)
David Kimball (deceased)
Ryan McNeil (divorced; deceased)
Relatives
Florence Webster (mother)
Father unknown
Children
Unnamed son (unknown father; stolen at birth by Rose Deville)
Phillip Chancellor IV (son; with Phillip III)
Flings & Affairs
Chase Benson
Derek Stuart
John Silva
Charles 'Cole' Victor Howard
Kyle (computer date)
Brett (soccer coach)
Tomas Del Cerro (engagement broken)
Crimes Committed
Shot David Kimball five times - jury found it was self-defense
Brief Character History
Nina grew up poor in Detroit, raised by her mother Flo, a former prostitute who never knew who Nina's father was, just that he had a certain scar on his neck. As a teenager, Nina got pregnant, ran away from home, and was found on a park bench in Genoa City by Cricket Blair. They became best friends. Nina moved into a home for unwed mothers run by Rose DeVille, who, unbeknownst to Nina, headed a black-market baby ring. Just before her son was born, Nina had a change of heart about the adoption. So Rose abandoned Nina on the delivery table, and kidnapped her new son. Cricket and Nina were unsuccessful in locating Rose or Nina's baby.
Cricket and Nina became roommates, and Cricket and Danny worked with her to polish her rough edges. Then Nina set her sights on Cricket's boyfriend, Phillip Chancellor III, heir to the Chancellor fortune. Nina got Phillip drunk, seduced him, and ended up pregnant. Phillip's mother, Jill, and Katherine Chancellor, disapproving of Nina, tried but failed to buy her off. Nina had a son, Phillip IV, and she and Phillip married. Jill and Kay set Nina up by hiring handsome Jabot employee, Chase Benson, to seduce Nina and prove her an unfit mother. Their plan backfired. But Phillip's drinking problem soon led to his death when his sports car slammed into a tree.
David Kimball showed up in Genoa City as the hot new Assistant to Jill Abbott, who was in charge of the Men's Line at Jabot Cosmetics. David romanced Jill, knowing that she was connected to the Chancellor fortune, and hoping to get his hands on it. But Jill moved on to Attorney Michael Crawford, and fired David. Once David realized that Jill's daughter-in-law Nina had just inherited a sizable fortune from her deceased husband, Phillip, he was intent on getting it instead. Nina fell for David despite the warnings of her best friends Cricket Blair, Danny Romalotti, and Chase Benson who were suspicious of David's motives. David threatened Cricket that he would cut up her face and she would never model again if she didn't stay out of his business. Cricket told Nina, but Nina was so in love she didn't believe her. David and Nina shocked everyone by quickly eloping, and he signed a prenuptial agreement to prove his love. Nina set up David in a company named David A. Kimball Investments, but he really had no clients, just sat at a desk in an office reading the paper, and faked business calls whenever Nina would drop by. It didn't take long before he began an affair with the mailroom attendant, Diane Westin. David soon realized that all of Nina's inheritance was in a trust for her son Phillip IV, so the only way he could get his hands on the Chancellor fortune was to adopt her son. David pressured Nina to agree to the adoption, but Jill and Katherine Chancellor helped her resist.
David's lover Diane came across a New Jersey newspaper clipping about heiress Rebecca Harper who had been murdered by her husband, Tom. The photo of Tom and Rebecca showed a man who looked like David, and she was wearing a brooch like the one David had given to Diane to wrap as a present for Nina. David discovered that Rebecca's friend Vivian was in Genoa City intent on finding the brooch to prove that David murdered Rebecca, but it wasn't long before her body was discovered electrocuted in her bathtub. While digging into David's background, Cricket also found the photo of Rebecca with David and recognized the brooch. Cricket broke the news about him to Nina, but she had already learned about it from Diane, and also that David was plotting to murder both Nina and Phillip. While she was with Danny in New Jersey, Cricket found a jeweler who identified the brooch as belonging to Rebecca Harper. So David framed Danny for cocaine possession to get them off his tail, but all charges where eventually dropped. Soon after, Danny and Cricket married.
Feeling betrayed and infuriated, a crazed Nina welcomed David home by shooting him five times. David survived, but pretended to be paralyzed, and Nina was arrested for attempted murder. While on the witness stand, Nina testified that she shot David out of self-defense because she was convinced that he wanted to kill her and Phillip. Her emotional testimony moved the jury and she was found not guilty. Meanwhile, David stole a body from the morgue, planted it in his hospital bed, and set it on fire to fake his own death. David coerced a plastic surgeon to make him look like David Hasselhoff. (Joke: A formerly Y&R actor.) Instead, the surgeon carved the word KILLER on his forehead and fled while David was under anesthetic.
David returned to Genoa City as "Jim Adams" with makeup on his forehead, hair dyed gray, a mustache and a southern accent. He romanced and married Nina's mother, Flo, and manipulated Nina into changing her will so that he and Flo would be co-beneficiaries in the event of Nina's death. Nina, Danny and Cricket attended a masquerade ball charity event, and David showed up dressed in the same costume as Danny (a wolf) intending to kill them all. But David's former mistress, Diane, learned of his plan and replaced the bullets in his gun with wax ones. When David cornered the trio in a maze outdoors, unbeknown to the audience, they were in on it, and convinced David, and us, that he had shot and killed all three. While David was being pursued by the police and Detective Paul Williams, he ducked into a garbage chute and was crushed to death by the trash compactor.
Nina began an affair with Ryan McNeil, showering him with gifts, including an expensive sports car. Even after Ryan married Victoria Newman, Nina gave Ryan the sex life that Victoria could not. When their marriage ended, Ryan moved in with Nina and young Phillip. Nina became pregnant, and he married her out of obligation. After Nina's miscarriage, Ryan realized he truly did love her, became a devoted father to Phillip, and encouraged Nina to get her college degree. Years later, Nina began doing research for, and fell in love with, novelist Cole Howard, who was Victoria Newman's husband at the time. Cole's rejection caused Nina to suffer a nervous breakdown. She alienated Ryan, who then became infatuated with the young nubile Tricia Dennison, and after Ryan foiled Nina's suicide attempt, they were divorced.
Nina Webster began emerging as a strong, confident, independent woman, a more refined version of the feisty young Nina of the past. She began working on her first novel-the story of her youth and her stolen baby. Nina met Tomas Del Cerro in a Genoa City restaurant, and recognized him from the photo on the dust jacket of his novel, which she happened to be reading. She hesitantly approached him and asked for an autograph. Tomas smiled and Nina told him what a fabulous writer he was, and wished she were as good. Tomas thanked her, but let her know that the life of a writer was not all fame and happiness. Further encounters turned into hours of writing together, then romantic dates. Although Tomas was apparently falling in love with her as she was with him, there was always a wall hiding his thoughts. Nina finally discovered a closet full of unfinished manuscripts in his apartment. Tomas was experiencing writer's block and was convinced he was washed up. Tomas became her mentor, friend, and lover. When Nina wrote a happy ending to her book, Tomas knew it didn't ring true, and helped her realize the only way to end her book, "A Cry In Thin Air," was with the truth-that she never found her baby. But finally getting it out and putting it into print helped Nina to move on.
Tomas' publisher loved her book, and agreed to publish it. Tomas proposed, but Nina hesitated, knowing that Tomas was never open with her, and was not dealing with his own demons. He convinced her to accept his ring, and they became engaged. Then a movie producer became interested in Nina's book, and wanted Nina to go to Los Angeles to become the screenwriter. Tomas' old insecurities surfaced, he became jealous and nasty, and was often drunk, which shocked Nina. In the end, Tomas convinced Nina to leave without him, and let her know that he would not be there when she returned. Nina left for L.A. brokenhearted, hoping to return to Genoa City one day. Her teenage son Phillip later joined her in L.A. Tomas left Genoa City for parts unknown.
In 2006 we learned that Phillip III was switched at birth by his grandmother Katherine Chancellor, thus was no longer the biological Chancellor heir, but Katherine still considers him her grandson.
In November 2008, Nina returned to Genoa City from her home in LA to attend the funeral of Katherine Chancellor (who was not really dead, it was her doppelganger, Marge). Nina admitted that she writes a lot of screnplays of books that never get made into movies. Danny mentioned that it was like a reunion tour to be there with Gina, Paul, Nina, and his son Daniel. He said that Christine was in Europe and could not attend. Nina remarked, when asked by Gina why she was not sitting with the Chancellor family, "I thought I'd sit with the people who LIKE me?" She asked Esther who was the cutie with Brock. Esther said Cane, to which Nina replied, "Well, he's no Phillip!" Cane and Nina later met and Nina called him Jill's real son. Cane corrected, Jill's other son - that Jill will always think of Phillip as her son. When Cane asked about Nina's son Phillip IV, she said he was unable to attend, being in the Army in Iraq. Phillip inherited one quarter of one percent in trust, as did each of Kay's grandchildren.
In May 2009, eighty year old Katherine married Patrick “Murph” Murphy in the Chancellor garden in a service officiated by her son Brock. Nina showed up in time to catch Jill arriving drunk, and locked her in a closet before she could make a scene. Lauren arrived soon after, and let Jill out, but Cane made her sit down and shut up during the ceremony. But afterward Billy and Cane had to drag Jill out while she raved at Kay. Nina Webster decided to stick around awhile after attending Kay and Murphy's wedding to write a screenplay of Katherine's book "Live Until I Die" and collaborating with Amber. Nina felt the movie should focus on Kay’s evil deeds like the feud with Jill and baby switch, but Amber feels it should on her goodness. Kay felt that if Nina thought it was important to the script, to put it in. Amber gave Nina some background on how the baby switch came about and how they found Cane, but Nina of Cane's story and questioned him about it. Cane called "his uncle Langley" in Australia saying, "Phillip, your wife is going to find out you're still alive", but he told Cane not to worry, it would lead nowhere and blow over. Paul found out that Violet was in a hospital in Arizona at the time of the baby switch, so that part of Cane's story was a lie. Kay refuses to believe that Cane was on any lies. Nina was anxious to identify her son's father to find out if he had the gene to confirm or rule out her son's possible diagnosis of Huntington's disease. Nina was anxious to identify her son's father to find out if he had the gene to confirm or rule out his possible diagnosis of Huntington's disease. So she had the body exhumed again, opened the coffin and found it empty! Further tests showed there had never been a body in that coffin, just the bags of sand to give it weight. Meanwhile Cane was frantically trying to get hold of "Langley. Jill reluctantly requested another DNA test, and Cane was seen pulling a vial of blood from a freezer of dry ice marked “Langley”. The blood test was done at the Chancellor estate, but Cane distracted everyone while he substituted the blood vials. The results came in, and all but Nina were thrilled that Cane proved to be Jill’s son. Then Paul delivered more news to Nina; tests showed the blood had been frozen, so Nina confronted Cane asking where he got the blood to pass the test. Cane admitted to Nina that he was a fraud in front of Kay, Jill, Murphy, Chloe, Neil and Lily, saying it was not for the money, he never wanted to hurt anyone, only meant to heal them, and they became family to him. When asked how Cane could do this to the people who gave him nothing but love, Jill’s son Phillip emerged say that he did it, it was his doing. All were aghast to see Phillip again, still alive! Katherine had another mini-stroke and was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Murphy, Jill and Nina were with her when Phillip arrived and assured everyone he was very much alive, explaining that at 19 he found himself overwhelmed with responsibilities as a young executive at Chancellor and a new father, an alcoholic in depression attempted suicide by crashing his sports car. When he awoke still alive in the hospital, he managed to pay off a doctor and a policeman to aid in faking his death, then escaped to Australia and began a new life as Langley. Five years ago he met Cane who came to work for Phillip as a bartender in Phillip’s bar, and they became friends. Cane had grown up alone without a family and helped Phillip realize what he had must have put everyone through with his death. So they concocted the plan to give Jill and Kay a new son in Cane, making them all happy. He told Nina that he justified leaving her and their son because they would both be better off without him. Meanwhile back at the Chancellor Estate, Lily was crushed that Cane had lied to her for years, Neil told him to stay away from Lily, and Billy arrived in time to punch him out. Then Phillip dropped the bomb on Nina, telling her that another reason he was so desperate to die or to leave was that he was, and is, gay!
A few days later, Cane came to the Chancellor Mansion to say goodbye and apologize to Kay and Jill. Phillip tried to get them to stop Cane from leaving, reminding them didn't they love him just a few days ago? But Cane slipped out while they were welcoming Nina's son Phillip I (who now is called Chance) who returned from Iraq unexpectedly finding his supposedly dead father as part of his welcome home. Chance's reaction was abnormally calm as he shook his father's hand, saying he was relieved, that dead people never came back where he'd just been. Phillip gave them all some relief by announcing the results of his blood test, that he was not a Huntington's carrier. Chance told Phillip he was not interested in his explanation, that Ryan was the only father he ever knew. Chloe and Chance began getting to know each other, and Chance admitted that he had been discharged from the Army, lonesome for his mother and grandmother, intended to stay, and was still a virgin. Nina convinced Chance to meet with his father and get to know him. Phillip explained to him that he was gay and why he left, but Chance failed to see it as anything but irresponsible, though he appreciated his coming back to take the Huntington’s test for him. Phillip offered to stay in town, and they shook hands. Phillip went home and commiserated with Jill about what lousy parents they both were, but he offered forgiveness, knowing she did the best she knew how. And in exchange Jill forgave him for faking his death. Nina admitted to Chance that despite it all, she still loved his father Phillip. Chance admitted that he was falling for Chloe, but Nina disapproved, calling her a gold-digger only wanting a Chancellor, to which Chance countered that she reminded him of Nina!
