The Bold and the Beautiful Comings & Goings: Y&R and GH Alum Kelly Sullivan Cast as Dylan’s Mom
The Bold and the Beautiful is adding Kelly Sullivan, known to soap fans for runs on General Hospital and The Young and the Restless, to its cast. The actress is set to play the role of Darcy Dylan, the mom of Melissa Dylan, played by Sydney Bullock.
Kelly Sullivan Joins B&B as Darcy
According to TV Insider, which broke the news of Sullivan’s hiring, the actress has already begun taping and is set to make her B&B debut on Thursday, August 27. The outlet reports that Darcy “arrives in Los Angeles as her daughter finds herself caught in the increasingly tense conflict between the Forrester and Spencer families.”
Sullivan’s career in daytime television began in 2011, when she was tapped by GH to replace Megan Ward as Kate Howard, also known as Connie Falconeri, Sonny Corinthos’ (Maurice Benard) psychologically troubled love interest and Crimson‘s editor. She exited the show in 2013, when Connie was shot dead by Ava Jerome (Maura West).
From 2014-16, Sullivan starred on Y&R as Sage Warner, who was introduced as Adam Newman’s (then-Justin Hartley) co-conspirator and went on to have a son, Christian, with Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow) before dying in a car crash.
Sullivan spoke highly of her experience on Y&R, B&B’s sister show, in her exit interview with Soap Opera Digest, noting, “There is so much love in that Y&R building… I will miss all of the people that I came in contact with every single day I worked on Y&R. It is a very special thing to go to work and feel like you are a part of a family. I will always treasure that.”
The actress earned Daytime Emmy nominations for both soap roles, Outstanding Supporting Actress for her work on GH in 2014 and for her Y&R work in 2017.
Sullivan began her career as a musical theater actress, making her Broadway debut in Contact in 2000 and going on to appear in Bells Are Ringing and Young Frankenstein.
She has built a diverse television credit list outside of her work in soaps. She starred as Bonnie Hayes on TLC’s Tyler Perry-produced drama, Too Close to Home, for two seasons beginning in 2016. Between 2014 and 2020, she played the recurring role of Kris Hart on the Nickelodeon series Henry Danger, and she appeared as June Hall-Yoshida on two seasons of Netflix’s Never Have I Ever between 2021 and 2023. Other episodic work includes The Morning Show, The Winchesters, Chicago P.D., Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
In 2017, the actress played the role of Kathryn in the Denzel Washington drama Roman J. Israel, Esq. and will be seen in a lead role in Ethan Almighty: Ethan’s Law, starring opposite Kelsey Grammer (ex-Dr. Canard, Another World), Selma Blair, Brandon Routh (ex-Seth, One Life to Live), and Trevor Donovan (ex-Jeremy, Days of Our Lives).
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