The Bold And The Beautiful's 10 Best Characters, Ranked
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7. Amber Moore
"Scheme the impossible scheme" had to have been the motto of this troublemaking gold digger. She slept her way from Furnace Creek to the lap of luxury, pausing only long enough to occasionally ask "Who's the daddy?" or stir the pot on The Young and the Restless.
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2. Sally Spectra
They don't make 'em like this anymore — and couldn't. A real broad's broad, Darlene Conley's character was one of a kind, an off-the-rack scrapper trying to make it in a designer world. And she was so much larger than life that the show couldn't bring itself to kill her off following her portrayer's passing.
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3. Bill Spencer
Y&R's loss was most definitely B&B's gain. After the former killed off MVP Don Diamont as Brad Carlton, the latter struck pay dirt by hiring him to play Dollar Bill, an unrepentantly manipulative tycoon with so much giddy-up in the bedroom, his nickname is Stallion!
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5. Caroline Spencer
You might argue that Ridge's virginal first wife wasn't on long enough and wasn't colorful enough to merit such a high ranking. We'd counter that she was so iconic, B&B was simply called Caroline in some countries. Plus, after her death, Joanna Johnson returned as her twin.
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8. Maya Avant
Though the Forrester Creations model isn't daytime television's first transgender character — that would have been The City's Azure (also a model, coincidentally) back in 1995 — Maya is the longest-lasting one and certainly the most beloved.
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4. Brooke Logan
Played since the sudser debuted by Katherine Kelly Lang (one of only two original cast members left), "the slut from the Valley," as arch-frenemy Stephanie Forrester loved to call her, remains passion's plaything, a hopeless romantic who's often altered, but never given up on, her "destiny."
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6. Sheila Carter
B&B fans went crazy when Y&R's most notorious psycho crossed over in 1992 to start anew... by getting up to her old tricks! Despite being given a new face and declared dead by Y&R in 2007, the villainess and her original face resurfaced on B&B a decade later for a nutty Summer of Sheila.
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9. Deacon Sharpe
Like a bad penny, the sexy conniver who infamously arranged for Bridget Forrester's family to listen in on the phone as he deflowered her, then knocked up her mother to boot, turns up every few years to make sure that he hasn't been out-scoundrelled by an even bigger cad.
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10. Ridge Forrester
Since the soap's premiere, the Speedo-lovin' ladies' man has alternately fascinated and infuriated viewers as he's ping-ponged between bedmates —usually (but hardly exclusively!) his favorite wives, Brooke Logan and Taylor Hayes — and clearly inspired subsequent waffler Liam Spencer.
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1. Stephanie Forrester
Susan Flannery won three Emmys — and deservedly so! — for her portrayal of the Forrester family's indomitable matriarch, a human steamroller who hid beneath her vast assortment of brooches a heart that at times was even colder than the temperature at which she preferred her martinis!