1. Sharon Newman is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network, currently portrayed by Sharon Case.
99 Facts About Sharon Newman
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Nick and Sharon Newman married, had a son named Noah, and later won custody of Cassie, the daughter she had as a teenager.
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Faith was kidnapped by Adam Newman, Nick's half-brother, who married Sharon after leading her to believe Faith had died.
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Sharon Newman then altered DNA test results to make Nick believe his daughter Summer was fathered by Jack.
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The supercouple pairing of Nick and Sharon Newman attracted a large fan following.
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Sharon Newman became pregnant by high-school boyfriend Frank Barritt, but gave the child up for adoption.
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In 1994,18-year-old Sharon Newman arrives in Genoa City and begins attending a local high school.
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Sharon Newman meets Nick Newman, who is dating Amy Wilson.
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Sharon Newman is convicted and acquitted several months later, when Amy confesses to the shooting.
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Nick complains that he is unready for fatherhood; Sharon Newman nearly has an abortion, but he stops her.
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Sharon Newman becomes pregnant, with Matt possibly the father of her child.
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Nick later sees Sharon Newman kissing Victor, which leaves Sharon Newman humiliated and depressed.
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Sharon Newman briefly believes that she killed him, but he is later tracked down and jailed for his crimes.
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Sharon Newman becomes restless as a housewife, and wants to become a stripper; Nick gives her a job at spokesperson for Jabot Cosmetics to occupy her.
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Jack, Phyllis, Nick and Sharon Newman develop a magazine, Restless Style; however, clashes among the four drive Jack and Sharon Newman from the company.
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Sharon Newman becomes pregnant; Nick goes back and forth between her and Phyllis, choosing Phyllis when Sharon Newman lies about Jack being the father of the child.
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Sharon Newman gives birth to a baby girl, Faith, who is stolen by Adam Newman and given to Jack's sister Ashley after he caused her miscarriage and hysterical pregnancy.
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Nick and Sharon Newman briefly reunite, but break up again when she cheats on him with Adam.
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Sharon Newman tries to help him, but is arrested for murder after finding Skye in Hawaii.
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Sharon Newman then dedicates herself to Victor, who is in jail protecting Nikki from a murder charge.
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Adam is believed to be permanently blind after an attack by Patty Williams, and Sharon Newman helps him recover.
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Phyllis hears Sharon Newman confessing to this at Cassie's grave, resulting in an altercation between the two and ending with Phyllis falling down a flight of stairs, and into a coma.
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Noah discovers that Sharon Newman is off her medication, attributing to her erratic behavior.
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Sharon Newman realizes that she needs help, and soon begins taking new medication.
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Sharon Newman is hired by Jabot Cosmetics to mentor younger models.
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Sharon Newman later undergoes electroconvulsive therapy to stop experiencing visions of Cassie; which in reality is a Cassie lookalike named Mariah Copeland hired by Victor to haunt her.
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Simultaneously, Nick does some investigating and discovers that Mariah is Cassie's twin sister, and Sharon Newman had no knowledge of giving birth to twins.
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Soon, Nick and Sharon Newman are engaged; but their wedding is interrupted by a now awakened Phyllis, who walks in and collapses.
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Later, Phyllis makes Sharon Newman remember switching the test, and her engagement to Nick ends.
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In 2015, Sharon Newman is framed and arrested for the murders of Austin Travers and Noah's fiancee Courtney Sloane, but acquitted due to lack of evidence.
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Sharon Newman becomes pregnant with Dylan's child but suffers a miscarriage, and attempts to conceive again rather than tell him.
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In 2018, Sharon Newman learns that Christian is actually Adam's son, a fact Chelsea Lawson and Victor had kept hidden.
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Sharon Newman assumes a maternal role in Christian's life, but Victor uses her history of mental illness to win temporary custody of Christian.
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Nick is briefly under the impression that Sharon Newman ended their engagement, and sleeps with Phyllis.
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Sharon Newman then begins a romance with Rey, though her renewed closeness with Adam causes them to break up.
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In 2020, Sharon Newman is diagnosed with breast cancer, and later marries Rey.
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Sharon Newman was created and introduced by William J Bell, with the character making her first appearance June 27,1994.
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Sharon Newman confessed years later, "I was fired because I was terrible".
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Sharon Newman was selected from a group of six other possible recasts after a screen testing with co-star Joshua Morrow, and began airing on September 7,1994.
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Case recognized that Sharon Newman has "always been kind of off" and "experienced these weird jags", which would eventually be addressed by the character's bipolar disorder diagnosis.
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Case described Sharon Newman as being insecure and feeling unworthy of being in a happy relationship, and would later criticize the writers for pairing Sharon Newman with "too many men" because it "waters her down".
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The character often sees visions of her deceased daughter Cassie, with Case stating that Sharon Newman believes "she is connected to the spiritual world".
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Case has stated that the character's main drive is searching for love, which to Sharon Newman is "her survival".
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Sharon Newman described Sharon as having "so many different layers to her" and one of the more complex characters on The Young and the Restless.
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The actress further opined that Sharon Newman was initially a damsel in distress and "wasn't very colorful", which is why the writers chose to have her do "bad things" over the years.
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Since her debut on the series, Sharon has had an on-again, off-again relationship with her high-school sweetheart, Nicholas "Nick" Newman.
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Nick, who believed Sharon Newman was a virgin, briefly breaks up with her but they reunite.
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Nick and Sharon Newman are briefly engaged, but break up again when she sleeps with his brother Adam, and their relationship becomes bitter.
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In late 2013, the couple begin to reconnect romantically despite Sharon Newman having secretly switched the paternity test results of Nick's daughter Summer; Case stated in an interview that Sharon Newman is in "constant turmoil" regarding her secret, and Morrow stated that he believed a reunion was a possibility given Nick's vulnerability.
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Smith stated that the story with Cameron and Sharon Newman would be one that "builds quickly into a lot of drama".
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Australian magazine TV Soap noted that "sweet, demure" Sharon Newman had become a murderer.
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Sharon Newman begins "hallucinating" with visions of Cameron's "ghost".
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Case noted that Sharon Newman was getting into deeper trouble by making mistakes "trying to do the right thing".
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Sharon Newman had murdered Sharon's ex-boyfriend Frank Barritt, who was visiting town, and hid the body in Sharon's car trunk.
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Sharon Newman was in this love story with Nick and nothing really happened to her.
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In 2005, good-girl Cassie becomes a rebellious teenager; Nick and Sharon Newman have a difficult time dealing with her.
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Daniel is cleared of all charges and Nick and Sharon Newman begin Cassie's Foundation, a movement to prevent teenage drinking and driving.
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The actress believed that Sharon Newman lost her identity after Cassie's death.
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Years before marrying Jack, Sharon Newman had a brief affair with Brad Carlton.
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Case stated that Sharon Newman was guilty over Brad's tragic death.
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Unlike Nick's mother Nikki Newman, his father Victor Newman adored Sharon and maintained a paternal relationship with her over the years.
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The actress was unfavorable of Sharon Newman marrying Victor in August 2012, believing the writers could have handled the storyline other ways.
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The short-lived marriage between Victor and Sharon Newman was considered an "inside joke" for the actors.
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In January 2011, Sharon is arrested for the murder of Adam's ex-wife, Skye Newman, and sinks into a state of depression.
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Sharon Newman had previously traveled to Hawaii to find Skye, who fell into an active volcano.
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CBS Soaps In Depth reported that a distraught Sharon Newman might commit suicide.
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Sharon Newman overcomes an officer with chloroform, and escapes through a window.
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Sharon Newman stops at a gas station, where she dyes her hair brunette and changes into a revealing outfit.
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Later, Sharon Newman is carjacked and her possessions stolen; the female carjacker dies after the car crashes.
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The body is identified as Sharon Newman's, leaving her family and friends believing she died.
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In July 2011, Sharon Newman is arrested in New Mexico, and returned to Genoa City to serve her life sentence.
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Sharon Newman's actions do have repercussions: Nick is immensely angry with her, and Adam dumps her for sleeping with Sam.
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In 2009, Sharon Newman suffers from kleptomania, causing her to steal items from people and stores.
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In 2012, after Victor disappears following his wedding to Sharon Newman, she realizes she must be married to Victor for more than eight days to obtain his money.
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Case thought a scene where Sharon crashed a Newman board meeting was fun and different, confessing that she had wanted to play "this version of Sharon for years".
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The stock price for the company drops, and Sharon is labelled "Newman's Grim Reaper" by the media of Genoa City, leaving Nick and Victoria to regain the company from her clutches.
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Sharon Newman continues behaving out of character; when she discovers that Victor is alive, she tells everyone he died after identifying a burned body which was not his.
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At Victor's funeral Sharon Newman wears white, nearly marrying Tucker afterwards.
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Sharon breaks down at the main house of the Newman ranch, burning it down while under the influence of alcohol.
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Griffith stated that the damage Sharon has done to the Newman family is "physical, professional and emotional".
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Sharon Newman feels that Summer's birth and the affair between Nick and Phyllis ruined her destiny with him, so she makes the decision to change the results of another test undertaken by Nick; which revealed that he was in fact Summer's father.
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Phyllis overhears Sharon Newman confessing to altering the test results; a fight between the two women in a stairwell results in Phyllis falling down the stairs and slipping into a coma.
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Camryn Grimes stated that Victor and Fake Cassie's "initial plan" was to make Nick believe Sharon Newman was "nuts and seeing ghosts" so that he would not reunite with her.
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In 2015, Sharon Newman begins a relationship with Nick's other brother, Dylan McAvoy, and becomes pregnant with his child.
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Sharon Newman suffers miscarriage but does not tell Dylan, instead checking into Fairview Sanitarium; Case was disappointed when she heard Sharon Newman would be institutionalized again.
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Sharon Newman was trying to build her relationship with Dylan and wasn't sure if he really wanted to be with her or if it was just because of the baby.
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Sharon Newman, who had been trying to conceive again, is drugged by Anderson into experiencing a phantom pregnancy.
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Sage discovers the truth herself and confronts Sharon Newman, but ends up dying in a car accident.
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Sharon Newman then decides to continue raising "Sully" as her own, not wanting to destroy her family with Dylan.
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Sharon Newman has nightmares of Sage and begins seeing her ghost, and briefly decides to stop taking her medication in order to "stay in control".
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Sharon Newman tells nobody else besides Mariah the truth; Case enjoyed building Sharon Newman and Mariah's relationship in the process of the storyline, observing that "they are each others confidantes".
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Sharon Newman ultimately confesses the truth about Christian in November 2016.
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Case noted that the fallout to Sharon Newman's lies are "even bigger than she fears", with Sharon Newman wanting to protect Mariah who has become "guilty by association".
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Sharon Newman was just trying to adjust her mind and heart to the inevitability, even though she was only making things worse.
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Furthermore, a September 2012 scene in which Sharon Newman wore white to her husband Victor's funeral was described by co-star Joshua Morrow as "one of the best and funniest scenes" in the show's history.
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Case has received a number of honors for her portrayal of Sharon Newman, including Daytime Emmy Award nominations in 1996 and 1997 for Outstanding Younger Actress.
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In December 2015, Soap Opera Digest praised her portrayal of the character's "emotional roller coaster" and remarked, "Sharon Newman Case has a knack for bringing emotional depth and reality to even the most outrageously soapy situations".
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Case especially shines when Sharon Newman stands toe-to-toe with rival Phyllis, played by Michelle Stafford.
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Sharon Newman is featured on the cover of the book You Know Your Life is a Soap Opera If.