Kimberlin Ann Brown (born June 29, 1961)[1] is an American actress, business owner, and politician. She portrayed Sheila Carter on the CBS daytime soap operas The Young and the Restless (1990 to 1992, 2005 to 2006) and The Bold and the Beautiful (off and on from 1992 to the present). She received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her role as Sheila on The Young and the Restless in 1993 and was nominated in the same category for The Bold and the Beautiful in 2022.
In 1979, Brown entered the Miss La Mesa pageant on a dare. To her surprise, she won. She was named first runner up in the Miss California pageant later that year.[4] 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.[5]
Brown had a short term role on Santa Barbara in 1990.[6] She was then cast 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.[7] She continued to play the role on The Bold and the Beautiful until 1998.[8]
Brown had a short term role as Shelly Clark on the NBC soap opera Another World in 1999.[1] She then joined the cast of the ABC soap opera Port Charles as Rachel Locke, from July 1999 to November 2000.[9] She made return appearances to the show in 2001 and 2002.[10] Brown and her Port Charles co-star, Nolan North, guest starred in two episodes of Six Feet Under, playing soap opera actors.[6]
In 2003, Brown appeared in the film Becoming Marty.[1] She then returned to The Bold and the Beautiful, once again playing Sheila Carter.[8]
2004-2008: One Life to Live, Return to Y&R
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 was asked to return to The Young and the Restless early in 2010 for a storyline that was subsequently dropped.[15] 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.[16]
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.[17] She starred in a short film, The Necklace, and co-starred with Tom Sizemore in the 2013 film Five Hour Friends.[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.[21] 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.[22][23] It was soon announced that Sheila was still alive, because Steffy had stabbed her look alike, Sugar, instead.[24]
Politics
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.[25] 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.[26]
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.[27] She lost the election, receiving 41% of the vote to Ruiz's 59%.[28][29]
Personal life
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.[2][3] They have a daughter and a son.[5] They became grandparents in 2024.[30]
Brown and Pelzer are small-business owners; they own and run an avocado farm in California.[32] Brown also has a design business, K. Brown Design, which she launched in 2006.[18]
She is a skier and an avid golfer. In 2014, Brown became an International Ambassador for Project Golf, a non-profit that helps underprivileged youth play golf.[33][34]
