Kimberlin Brown

Kimberlin Ann Brown Pelzer (born June 29, 1961) is an American television actress, best known for her role as Sheila Carter in the CBS daytime soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.

She has received two Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her role as Sheila on The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.

Brown was born in Hayward, California and raised in La Mesa, near San Diego. Her parents divorced when she was in junior high school. She enjoyed spending summers at her grandparent's ranch in Northern California.

She attended Grossmont High School and Grossmont College.

In 1979, Brown entered the Miss La Mesa pageant on a dare - and won. She was named first runner up in the Miss California pageant later that year. Brown caught the attention of Nina Blanchard, a modeling agent who judged the pageant. Blanchard signed her as a client and soon after, she was modeling in Tokyo, Milan, and Paris.

Unsatisfied with modeling, Brown became interested in acting. She made her television debut in an episode of the ABC series Fantasy Island. She then went on to guest star in Matt Houston, T.J. Hooker, and Hawaiian Heat. Her early film credits include Eye of the Tiger, Who's That Girl and 18 Again! Brown's first soap opera roles were on Capitol and Santa Barbara.

In 1990, Brown began starring as Sheila Carter on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless (after originally auditioning for the role of Cassandra Rawlins). In 1992, it was announced that her character, Sheila, would move to The Bold and the Beautiful. She received a 1993 Daytime Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actress for playing Sheila on The Young and the Restless. She continued to play the role on The Bold and the Beautiful until 1998.

Brown portrayed Rachel Locke, mother of Livvie Locke (Kelly Monaco) on the ABC soap opera Port Charles from July 1999 to November 2000. She made return appearances to the show in 2001 and 2002.[10]

In 2003, Brown returned to The Bold and the Beautiful, once again playing Sheila Carter.

After a brief return to B&B, she was cast in the recurring role of Dr. Paige Miller on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live in October 2004. The role was originally intended for Mary Beth Evans, who turned it down when she decided to stay on As the World Turns. When Brown was offered a contract, she decided to leave, not pleased with the salary offered or the possibility of relocating to New York. She continued to air on One Life to Live until July 2005.[11]

In 2005, Brown returned as Sheila on The Young and the Restless after a long absence from the show.[12] In early 2006, she was released from her contract on The Young and the Restless. When her character returned later that year, the role was played by Michelle Stafford, because Sheila had undergone plastic surgery to look like Stafford's character, Phyllis Summers.[13]

Brown had been asked to return to The Young and the Restless early in 2010 for a storyline that was subsequently dropped.[14]

She took on a short-term role on All My Children in October 2010, playing the Judge who presided over David Hayward's murder trial.[15]

In 2011, Brown was cast in Gregori J. Martin's web-series The Bay. She first appeared in a summer special, Far From The Bay, and continued on in the series' second season.[16]

In June 2017, it was announced that Brown would return to The Bold and the Beautiful as Sheila.[17]

Also in 2017, she joined the cast of The Rich and the Ruthless, a comedic series written and produced by her former The Young and the Restless co-star, Victoria Rowell.[18]

After departing The Bold and the Beautiful in 2018, Brown returned once again as Sheila in 2021. She received a 2022 Daytime Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actress for her role as Sheila.[19] Her storyline seemed to reach a final conclusion in 2024, when Sheila was stabbed to death by Steffy Forrester. Brown confirmed that Sheila was really dead.[20][21] It was soon announced that Sheila was still alive, because Steffy had stabbed her look alike, Sugar, instead.[22]

Brown is a Republican. In 2016, Brown was a speaker at the 2016 Republican National Convention on the night Donald Trump was officially nominated as the party's candidate for President of the United States.[23] After her speech, Brown got extremely emotional to Fox Business Network over what her vocal support for Donald Trump and his policies might do to her career and the treatment she had received since it was announced she would be a speaker at the convention.[24]

In October 2017, Brown formally announced her candidacy as a Republican for California's 36th congressional district, challenging Democrat Raul Ruiz in the November 2018 election.[25] She lost the election, receiving 41% of the vote to Ruiz's 59%.[26][27]

Brown met her husband, Gary Pelzer, when she was thirteen and he was twenty-two. They began a relationship when she was eighteen, but eventually broke up. They reunited in 1990 and married on May 11, 1991. They have two children, Alexes Marie and Nicholas. They will become grandparents in 2024.[28]

Her daughter, Alexes Marie Pelzer, guest starred on The Bold and the Beautiful in 2022.[29]

Brown and Pelzer are small-business owners; they own and run an avocado farm in California.[30]