Billie Holliday Reed (formerly
Brady) is a
fictional characterA character is the representation of a person in a narrative or dramatic work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr through its Latin transcription character, the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its...
on the
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television drama
Days of our LivesDays of our Lives is an American soap opera which has aired nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965 on the NBC network in the United States, and has since been syndicated to many countries around the world. It also broadcasts on SOAPnet weeknights at 11PM ET/PT...
. Billie was most recently portrayed by actress
Julie PinsonJulie Pinson is an American soap opera actress best known for playing the role of Billie Reed on Days of our Lives. Julie is currently on As The World Turns in the role of "Juicy" Janet Ciccone....
beginning in 2004. Actress
Lisa RinnaLisa Deanna Rinna is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Billie Reed on Days of our Lives, Taylor McBride on Melrose Place, and most recently as the host of SoapNet's Soap Talk.-Acting:...
is most identified with the character, having originated her in 1992.
Krista AllenKrista Allen is an American actress and model. She is best known for her roles as Billie Reed on Days of our Lives from 1996–1999, as Jenna Avid on Baywatch Hawaii from 2000–2001, and as Bridget on What About Brian from 2006–2007...
played Billie from 1996 to 1999.
Billie's real name is not Billie Holliday Reed. When Curtis took the children, he changed their names to prevent Kate from finding them.
Billie Holliday Reed (formerly
Brady) is a
fictional characterA character is the representation of a person in a narrative or dramatic work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr through its Latin transcription character, the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its...
on the
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
television drama
Days of our LivesDays of our Lives is an American soap opera which has aired nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965 on the NBC network in the United States, and has since been syndicated to many countries around the world. It also broadcasts on SOAPnet weeknights at 11PM ET/PT...
. Billie was most recently portrayed by actress
Julie PinsonJulie Pinson is an American soap opera actress best known for playing the role of Billie Reed on Days of our Lives. Julie is currently on As The World Turns in the role of "Juicy" Janet Ciccone....
beginning in 2004. Actress
Lisa RinnaLisa Deanna Rinna is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Billie Reed on Days of our Lives, Taylor McBride on Melrose Place, and most recently as the host of SoapNet's Soap Talk.-Acting:...
is most identified with the character, having originated her in 1992.
Krista AllenKrista Allen is an American actress and model. She is best known for her roles as Billie Reed on Days of our Lives from 1996–1999, as Jenna Avid on Baywatch Hawaii from 2000–2001, and as Bridget on What About Brian from 2006–2007...
played Billie from 1996 to 1999.
Fictional character history
Billie's real name is not Billie Holliday Reed. When Curtis took the children, he changed their names to prevent Kate from finding them. All that is known is that her original surname was Brown.
Also, Billie and Chelsea once resided at 890 Whitley Street in Salem, USA (zip code 06642). The mother and daughter have now moved into Billie's brother,
Lucas RobertsLucas Desmond Horton is a fictional character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives. He is portrayed by Bryan Dattilo.-Fictional character history:...
' apartment after
Bonnie LockhartBonnie Maureen Lockhart was a fictional character on the American soap opera, Days of our Lives, played by actress Judi Evans from 2003 to 2007. She is the mother of three children: Patrick, Mimi and Conner Lockhart...
threw them out after her son
Patrick LockhartPatrick Brian Lockhart was a fictional character on the television drama Days of our Lives.The character of "Patrick" was played by actor Brody Hutzler from 2004 to 2007.-Character history:...
went to prison and
Conner LockhartConner David Lockhart is a fictional character on the American soap opera, Days of our Lives. He is the youngest child of David and Bonnie Lockhart. The character was played by Austin Wolff as a child during the summer of 1999, and Noah Segan took over the role on a temporary basis on January 8,...
returned to town. Despite being evicted from this apartment, by Victor, Billie continued to live in it, until leaving for London. Chelsea has moved in with Bo and Hope, after learning of Nick and Billie's one-night stand.
Lisa Rinna (1992-1995)
Billie Reed first came to Salem in 1992 as a professional singer, but her cocaine addiction ruined that opportunity. Billie believed her father as dead and had never known her mother. Her only relative in Salem was her brother
Austin ReedAustin Reed is a fictional character in the soap opera Days of our Lives portrayed by Patrick Muldoon from 1992 to 1995 and Austin Peck from 1995 to 2002 and 2005 to 2006. Austin's birth name is unknown, when his father, Curtis, took the children, he changed their names to prevent Kate Roberts from...
. Luckily,
Carrie BradyCaroline Anna "Carrie" Reed is a character on the television drama Days of our Lives. She has been played by actresses Christie Clark, Tracy Middendorf, and Andrea Barber ....
befriended her and gave Billie a place to stay. It took a while before Billie could get clean and rid her life of past demons.
Eventually, Billie decided to turn her life around and started her own cosmetics company, Countess Wilhelmina. Kate Roberts bought out Countess Wilhelmina to spite Billie. Later that year, Billie befriended
Tony DiMeraCount Antony "Tony" DiMera is a fictional character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives, played by actor Thaao Penghlis from 1981 to 1985 and 2007 to 2009. In 2007, Penghlis also played the role of Andre DiMera. He had previously played Andre from 1993 to 1995 and again from 2002 to 2005...
. He bought up 49% of Titan Industries and then brought Billie in to run the Countess Wilhelmina division.
Billie's father
Curtis ReedCurtis Brown was a fictional character in the soap opera Days of our Lives-Character History:The deadbeat father of Austin and Billie Reed, Curtis Brown and Kate Roberts married in the early 1970s. They had a son and daughter...
, who had been presumed dead, returned. Curtis was no father of the year. He had gotten Billie addicted to drugs as a young girl and raped her. He was eventually murdered and Billie was arrested for killing him. However, Billie refused to tell
Bo BradyBeauregard Aurelius "Bo" Brady is a fictional character on the television soap opera Days of our Lives. The role has been played by Peter Reckell and Robert Kelker-Kelly . Roman and Kayla first mentioned their younger brother during the Salem Strangler storyline in the early 80s. His name was not Bo...
how she knew Curtis and she made her brother, Austin, keep quiet. Billie thought that if Bo learned the truth, he wouldn't love her. But Bo had fallen in love with Billie and was determined to prove that she was innocent.
Billie and Austin were both shocked when they learned Kate was married to Curtis Reed. Eventually Billie admitted that Curtis was her father.
Stefano DiMeraStefano DiMera is a fictional character, a villain on the American soap opera Days of our Lives, played by Joseph Mascolo...
had killed Curtis in self-defense and framed Billie. Billie was let go and Bo told her that he loved her no matter what. Billie and Austin were also reunited with Kate, the mother they thought abandoned them. Kate told them that Curtis had taken them from her and she believed they had all been killed in a car crash.
Bo and Billie tried to marry on New Year's Day, but the "Desecrator" struck and a falling chandelier almost killed them. They tried again, but learned that they could not marry if there was any chance that a lady by the name of Gina turned out to be Hope Brady. In order to help them, Gina signed a paper declaring that Hope was dead and Bo and Billie were finally married. When Gina was eventually proven to be Hope, Billie realized that Bo had not given his marriage to Hope a fair shot, so she left Salem in 1995 to let them be together.
Krista Allen (1996-1999)
Billie returned a year later in 1996 and moved into the Kiriakis Mansion. She began to date Franco Kelly, which upset Bo. Bo insisted Franco was dangerous, but Hope accused him of being jealous. Hope grew fed up with Bo's obsession with Franco and told Bo that she couldn't marry him if he still had feelings for Billie.
Billie, meanwhile, discovered that she was pregnant with Bo's child. Bo told her that he would be there for her and the baby. She followed Bo and Hope to New Orleans and then into the bayou where she went into labor. Her baby girl, who she named Georgia, was stillborn. Bo helped Billie get over the loss of their baby; however, he told her that he still loved Hope and wanted to make a life with her. Billie was outraged and left town again in 1999.
Lisa Rinna's return (2002-2003)
Hope's disdain for Billie only grew over time. When Billie returned to Salem in 2002 and joined the police force, it only got worse. Billie swore her motives were pure and not to create more trouble for Bo and Hope. She had a short-lived relationship with
Jack DeverauxJack Harcourt Deveraux is a fictional character on the soap opera Days of our Lives. He is most famously played by Matthew Ashford.-Character Overview:...
that never really got off the ground. However her real reason for returning was to cause more problems for Bo and Hope. She assisted Larry Welch in kidnapping Hope and Zack because she believed Larry was working for the
ISAISA is an initialism for International Security Alliance, a fictional intelligence agency on the soap opera Days of our Lives. A highly secretive organization, its agents have been operating in the small Midwestern town of Salem at least since the early 1980s...
. However, she couldn't stand seeing what this was doing to Bo and when she went to stand up against Larry, he shot her. Fortunately she survived and left Salem when she was released from the hospital in early 2003 to join the ISA in London.
When the Salem stalker murders began she had a message for Bo saying she knew who the killer was but she went missing along that same time.
Julie Pinson (2004-2008)
When Bo helped rescue the victims of the Salem Stalker, he bumped into Billie on the mysterious island. Together they helped rescue the others, and upon their return to Salem, Billie made the shocking discovery that their daughter Georgia, whom she thought had died in childbirth, was still alive. In fact, she was Chelsea Benson, one of
Abby DeverauxAbigail Josephine "Abby" Deveraux is a fictional character on the television drama Days of our Lives.As a teenager the role of Abby was played by Ashley Benson from 2004 to 2007...
's friends. When Chelsea's adoptive parents were killed in a car accident, Billie revealed the truth and had Chelsea move in with her.
Hope was not thrilled by yet another link between Billie and Bo, but tried to remain supportive. However, when Bo and Hope's son Zack was killed in a car accident, everyone soon learned that Chelsea was the driver, and thus responsible. Billie was desperate to protect Chelsea and Bo was torn between the two women in his life. At one point, Chelsea manipulated Billie into making it appear that Bo had slept with her in a hotel and arranged for Hope to discover this "truth." Billie deeply regretted this and admitted to it in court when Hope tried to divorce Bo.
Billie has repeatedly stated she believes Bo and Hope belong together and will not try to get back with Bo, against Chelsea's wishes. Recently, she found herself involved with another man who was not exactly available: Steve "Patch" Johnson. Steve felt very pressured by Kayla's hopes that he would remember their past, and he rebelled by starting to see Billie.
While she was drunk, she had sex with Nick Fallon, who has developed strong feelings for her daughter Chelsea. Her fall from the wagon didn't last long. She is making amends with Chelsea and is working at Salem University as head of security. She used her connections to help her younger half brother
Philip KiriakisPhilip Robert Kiriakis is a character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives He has been portrayed by Brandon Tyler in 1999, then by Jay Kenneth Johnson from 1999-2002 and Kyle Brandt from 2003-2006, Jay Kenneth Johnson currently portrays Philip having returned to the role in 2007.Born...
find his missing son, Tyler. She is working on finding the campus rapist. Unbeknown to her, Ford Decker is already dead.
Billie left town in the wake of the death of Ford Decker. Victor gave her a job at Titan in England, after she was fired from the university. Bille was in a car accident to have her mom and daughter come help her heal. Chelsea stayed with Bille while Kate went back home. Chelsea returned back home to salem and reunited with max and they got engaged and they are now living in london with billie, helping her get better.
Other relationships
- Curtis Reed
Curtis Brown was a fictional character in the soap opera Days of our Lives-Character History:The deadbeat father of Austin and Billie Reed, Curtis Brown and Kate Roberts married in the early 1970s. They had a son and daughter...
(incestuous rape)
- Jack Deveraux
Jack Harcourt Deveraux is a fictional character on the soap opera Days of our Lives. He is most famously played by Matthew Ashford.-Character Overview:...
(dated)
- Bo Brady
Beauregard Aurelius "Bo" Brady is a fictional character on the television soap opera Days of our Lives. The role has been played by Peter Reckell and Robert Kelker-Kelly . Roman and Kayla first mentioned their younger brother during the Salem Strangler storyline in the early 80s. His name was not Bo...
(married)
- Nicholas Alamain
- Steve Johnson aka Nick Stockton
Steven Earl "Patch" Johnson is a fictional character on NBC's daytime drama Days of our Lives. He has been portrayed by Stephen Nichols from June 13, 1985 to October 23, 1990 and from June 9, 2006 to February 17, 2009.-Fictional character history :...
(dated)
- Nick Fallon
Nicholas Fallon is a fictional character on the American soap opera, Days of our Lives. The role was played by Blake Berris from November 7, 2006 to January 15, 2009.-Fictional character history:...
(one-night stand)
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