Rebecca Hotchkiss

Rebecca Hotchkiss Crane is a fictional character on NBC's daytime drama Passions. Rebecca has been played by both Maureen McCormick (2000) and Andrea Evans (2000-present), neither of whom was ever on contract. The character's maiden name has never been revealed, although Tabitha has referred to Rebecca being an Osborn woman.

Character history

Rebecca Hotchkiss grew up as a shy, conservative young woman bathed in riches, and beauty, and was descended from a wealthy respected family. However, Rebecca's ancestor's were very manipulative, and cunning women. One even arranged for John Wilkes Boothe to assassinate Abraham Lincoln just for spiting her. Rebecca favored these ancestor's, and was very eye-catching toward the men in her day. During her teens she fell for a local boy in her hometown, but was unable to be with him due to their different social stratas. At age 17, she was a bridesmaid to her friend Ivy Winthrop's wedding, she slept with the groom's father, Alistair Crane. It was Alistair who introduced Rebecca to "satisfy the appetite of men."

Rebecca had her sights on a rich man and married wealthy Jonathan Hotchkiss. Jonathan was looking for a rich wife in order to save his family from distatution. He was engaged to socialite Clarissa Morton. Then he met Rebecca. Jonathan soon ended his engagement with Clarissa because she was "new money" where as Rebecca was "old money" and the two quickly wed. Jonathan and Rebecca had only one child together, a daughter named Gwen Hotchkiss. Their marriage was a sour one, and Rebecca's eye wandered. She commited adultry with tabloid editor J.T. Cornell.

Rebecca was thrilled when Ethan Crane and Gwen met and fell in love, because she always wanted her daughter to be rich and powerful. When she found out that Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald and Ethan were involved, she immediately warned her daughter. Rebecca recognized the same lies and manipulations from what she herself had done as a younger woman...feigned friendship to steal another woman's man.

Rebecca's warnings didn't help, because Ethan postponed the wedding and began seeing both woman. After Gwen returned her engagement ring, Rebecca was determined to get not only her daughter, but also herself in the Crane house, and get revenge on what she believed to be gold-digger for scheming to break up Gwen and Ethan's relationship in the first place. It's possible Rebecca saw her husband in Theresa, as he had once married her for her considerable fortune.

She began an affair with Julian Crane, the plan to eventually get him to ask her to marry him. Then she found the proof of Ethan's paternity on Theresa's laptop, and she and Gwen used Theresa's e-mail to send it to the tabloids. She set up a plan, filed for a divorce from her husband so she could have Julian for herself. She married Julian in a quick wedding ceremony after he signed the annulment papers with Theresa, but when it was discovered that Julian and Theresa had supposidly consumated their marriage, that nullified the documents, so Rebecca had no cent to her name. Although it was eventually discovered that Julian and Theresa's marriage was invalid, there was no mention of the fact that Rebecca's marriage to Julian was therefore valid, and Rebecca had to blackmail Julian to marry her by threatening to expose Eve Russell to her family.

Blackmailing Julian wasn't her only plan though. Rebecca decided to turn the tables on Theresa and make Theresa pay for everything she had done to Gwen over the years by taking her son away. She had an even deeper motive; she planned to arrange for Ethan and Gwen to adopt Theresa's son, to replace the child Sarah Winthrop that they had lost. Although Rebecca came to care deeply about her step-son, she firmly believed he was better off without Theresa in his life, and knew that Gwen and Ethan could provide him with both love and stability. After child protective services deemed Theresa an unfit mother and the courts terminated her parental rights, Rebecca used her influence to get Julian to sign away his rights to his son and to convince Judge Reilly to approve Ethan and Gwen's adoption of the boy. When she learned that the baby Theresa was carrying for Ethan and Gwen could be the result of Theresa's rape of Ethan, Rebecca swore to finally get her vengeance on the girl who had caused her daughter so much pain. At the same time, Rebecca, desperate to keep her husband, decide to poison Eve Russell.

Rebecca never did get caught for poisoning Eve. When the case went to trial, with Eve accused of poisoning Alistair, Julian and Liz Sanborne (who had drank the poison Rebecca had intended for Eve), Rebecca manipulated Julian into signing a document that promised he would never divorced her -- then took the stand and pointed the finger at Liz. Julian kept his promise to stay married to her, but still have Eve. When Gwen became worried that J.T. Cornell would tell Theresa the truth about the tabloid article, Rebecca used her past with J.T. to keep him quiet -- until Theresa offered him money. She was hoping that since Eve is getting closer to TC so that Julian would leave Eve and get back together with her. Eve eventually broke off their engagement, however he didn't go back to Rebecca.

Family

Spouse(s)

Julian Crane (husband; married January 2, 2004)
Julian Crane (never referenced; married December 7, 2001)
Jonathan Hotchkiss (ex-husband; married mid-1970s divorced 2000)

Parents

(Pamela Osborn)mother

Children

Gwen Hotchkiss (daughter, with Jonathan)

Grandchildren

Sarah Winthrop (granddaughter, via Gwen; stillborn)
Jane Winthrop (step-granddaughter, via Gwen)

Other Info

In the book Hidden Passions Rebecca's mother's name was Pamela Osborn.

In her kinky sex games with Julian, Rebecca would often use a donkey named Edgar, to, how shall we say, spice things up!

She often stuffs things (photos, computer discs, etc.) into her bra for so called safe-keeping.

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