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| Jaime Lyn Bauer as Lorie Brooks | |||||||||||||||||
| The Young and the Restless | |||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Jaime Lyn Bauer (1973-82, 1984, 2002, 2018) Victoria Thompson (Temp. 1978) Wesley Pfenning (Temp. 1980) | ||||||||||||||||
| Current status | Former, Recurring | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1973–82, 1984, 2002, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | December 20, 1973 | ||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | March 27, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | William J. Bell | ||||||||||||||||
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| Family | Brooks | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Lorie | ||||||||||||||||
| Gender | Female | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Novelist, Author | ||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Chicago, Illinois | ||||||||||||||||
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Lauralee "Lorie" Brooks (formerly Prentiss) was a fictional character on The Young and the Restless, portrayed by Jaime Lyn Bauer from December 20, 1973 until her exit on August 6, 1982. Bauer later made guest appearances from April 11 to April 13, 1984. Beginning July 30, 2002, Bauer returned for a short stint before exiting on September 3, 2002. Bauer returned for a guest appearance on March 27, 2018.
Biography[]
Lorie Brooks was the birth daughter of Bruce Henderson and Jennifer Brooks. Stuart Brooks was her legal father.
In December 1973, Lorie arrived in Genoa City from college in Europe. Lorie was jealous of her older sister, concert pianist, Leslie Brooks, who she felt got all the attention from her parents. Determined to make her life miserable, Lorie found out that Leslie had a budding romance with new man in town, Brad Elliot, and schemed to get him for herself. When the plan worked, Leslie had a nervous breakdown and ended up in hospital. She eventually accused Lorie of causing her breakdown. Brad, who founded out about Lorie’s scheme, dumped her and married Leslie. After losing Brad, Lorie dated her publicist Jed Andrews. When she discovered he was married, she pushed him away and helped him reconcile with his wife. Lorie then began a romance with medical intern Mark Henderson, the romance was serious and they became engaged. Mark was the son of Bruce Henderson.
Little did anyone know that Lorie was the result of an affair Bruce and Lorie's mother Jennifer Brooks had years before. When Jennifer admitted the truth, Lorie and Mark split and Mark left town. At the same time Lorie decided to write a thinly disguised autobiography about her life about being in her sister Leslie's shadow, which included details about Leslie's breakdown. She eventually shelved the book when she and Leslie became close. After Leslie became friends with a very wealthy fan of hers, Lance Prentiss, who ran his mother's company, Prentiss Industries, she pushed Lorie to date him. Although the pair traded barbs, they also fell in love; though Lorie knew she was second choice. She also had to contend with Lance's mother Vanessa Prentiss, a vailed recluse, scarred in a house fire while saving Lance whose guilt made him indebted to her. Lorie managed to hold her own and ended up marrying Lance. The news of their marriage, however, made Vanessa furious, and she tried to shoot Lorie but hit Lance instead. Later, Lorie found Lance's brother Lucas Prentiss and returned him to Genoa City. Vanessa was grateful to Lorie and the pair began to get along, until Lorie accused Vanessa of faking her injuries to hold onto Lance and even going as far as to rip Vanessa’s veil off.
Furious with Lorie, Vanessa found a copy of Lorie's unpublished book and paid someone to publish and distribute it. The book caused a scandal and Leslie refused to perform in public again. Lance rushed to comfort Leslie and they made love, and Leslie became pregnant with his child. When Lucas found out, he married Leslie and the pair moved to Europe so as not to raise suspicion. When Leslie returned to Genoa City for family reasons, Vanessa took the opportunity to make sure Lorie saw her sister naked in the shower. Lorie soon realized Leslie was too far along to be pregnant by Lucas and she confronted her sister who admitted the truth. Leslie rushed back to Europe with Lucas and had her son, Brooks Prentiss. Shortly after, Leslie's marriage to Lucas fell apart and she moved in with Lance and Lorie. Lorie was extremely unhappy with her sister living in her home and after a confrontation Leslie tried to kill herself. The stress caused another breakdown and she went missing. Meanwhile, Vanessa stripped Lance of all duties at Prentiss Industries and put Lucas in charge in the hopes of once again destroying Lance and Lorie's marriage. Lance fell into a depression and began gambling. Lorie begged Vanessa to reinstate Lance, Vanessa agreed, on the condition that Lorie divorce Lance. At the same time Lucas decided he wasn't meant for the boardroom and handed back responsibility of Prentiss to Lance. Vanessa managed to keep this a secret from Lorie and made her think Lance's return to the company was because of her. She pushed Lorie to divorce Lance and flew her to Haiti for a quickie divorce. Lance assumed now that he had his life back on track, he and Lorie would reconcile, but was stunned when he discovered Lorie went through with the divorce. Heartbroken, Lance fled to Paris. Making only a brief return a few months later to visit Lucas in the hospital after he was shot. Meanwhile, Lucas had found Leslie who had amnesia and eventually brought her back to Genoa City. That same year Victor Newman took an interest in Lorie and the pair began a mild flirtation but it ended in friendship.
The following year Lance returned to Genoa City, around the same time Leslie regained her memory and fought Lorie for custody of Brooks, though Lorie won. Meanwhile, Victor began buying shares of Prentiss Industries. He just needed Lorie's to secure control, but Lorie and Lance reconciled and she refused to sell. Meanwhile, Vanessa discovered she was dying, and determined to rid Lorie who had recently become engaged with Lance, jumped off the balcony of Lorie's penthouse and framed her for murder. Lucas believed Lorie guilty, while Lance thought her innocent, though soon after seeing all the evidence against her, Lance walked out on her. Lorie took solace in the arms of her lawyer Robert Laurence, while Victor, disgusted by Lance's actions, vowed to take control of Prentiss. Lance began to realise Lorie was innocent and worked to help her, though it was revealed during the trial that Lance is Brooks father, Lance once again turned his back on Lorie, until Brooks reveals information about Vanessa that led to proving Lorie innocent. Meanwhile, Victor managed to gain control of Prentiss through Lorie. Lance realising he can never be a father to his son and unable to truly forgive Lorie, left town. Regretting her decision to give Victor control of Prentiss, Lorie began a romance with Victor and under the guise of writing a novel about him gained access to business files which allowed her to return control of Prentiss to Lance. Though she was to marry Victor, she left town and a heartbroken Victor behind.
In 1984, Lorie returned to town on invitation from Victor for his wedding to Nikki Reed. Lorie reunited with her sisters for the big event and was even able to reconcile with Leslie. Lorie left town again after this.
In 2002, Lorie returned to Genoa City, hoping to official divorce from Maxwell Hollister whom she had married sometime after Victor’s first wedding to Nikki. While in town, Max convinced Lorie to seduce Victor as a way of getting back at him for a previous business deal and so that he could have Nikki who Victor was to remarry. Max planned to have cameras one Victor as Lorie seduced him and have Nikki watch, however, the plan fell through when Lorie had a change of heart. Lorie, ashamed of what she had done, apologized to Victor and left town.
Lorie returned to Genoa City once again in 2018 with Leslie for the Walnut Grove centennial celebration. Both sister were there as a new journalism lab was to be named in their late father, Stuart Brooks’, name. While in Genoa City, both sisters exchanged barbs with their former step mother, Jill Foster Abbott. Lorie and Leslie left town soon after.