Oona, Lady Chaplin (née O’Neill) (May 14, 1925 – September 27, 1991) was the daughter of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill and writer Agnes Boulton, and the wife of British actor, director and producer Charlie Chaplin.
Oona was born while her parents were living in Bermuda, during a period of heavy drinking by Eugene O’Neill.[citation needed] She was two years old when he left the family for actress Carlotta Monterey who became his third wife. Oona and her brother Shane (born in 1919) rarely saw him afterward.[citation needed]
Oona spent her summers in the Boulton family’s rambling Victorian house in Point Pleasant, New Jersey; the rest of the year she lived in Manhattan with her mother, where she attended the Brearley School. In 1942, seventeen-year-old Oona was named “Debutante of the Year.”[citation needed] When asked by a reporter whether she considered herself “lace curtain” Irish or “shanty” Irish, she replied, “Shanty Irish!” Deciding to pursue an acting career instead of attending Vassar, she got a part in a stock company stage production of Pal Joey and formed close friendships with Carol Grace Saroyan and Gloria Vanderbilt, later chronicled by Aram Saroyan in the book Trio: Portrait of an Intimate Friendship.
Oona dated cartoonist Peter Arno, director Orson Welles, and author J. D. Salinger.[citation needed] To Salinger’s disappointment, however, their relationship ended when she met Charlie Chaplin, after having been suggested to him for a part in one of his films. Despite the 36-year age difference, Chaplin wrote in his autobiography that he was instantly smitten by Oona’s “luminous beauty and sequestered charm.”
Eugene O’Neill was outraged at the news of his daughter’s affair with Chaplin and refused to give his consent so that she could marry him before her eighteenth birthday.[citation needed] After their marriage in June 1943, he cut Oona out of his life, refusing her attempts at a reconciliation. According to her biographer Jane Scovell, playwright Clifford Odets “saw something vindictive in O’Neill’s behaviour and thought that O’Neill could not forgive Oona perhaps because he had abandoned her.” Her half-brother, Eugene O’Neill Jr., was the son of a woman to whom his father had reneged on a promise to marry before attaining success as a writer; the younger O’Neill later suffered from alcoholism and committed suicide in 1950 at the age of 40. Oona’s brother Shane became a heroin addict and moved into the family home in Bermuda, Spithead, with his new wife, where he supported himself by selling off the furnishings. He was disowned by his father before also committing suicide (by jumping out a window) a number of years later.
When Oona saw Jack Nicholson in the 1981 film Reds, where he portrayed her estranged father, she wrote him a letter saying “Thanks to you, I now can love my father”. Nicholson has said that “that is the best compliment I ever got”.[citation needed]
Chaplin and Oona maintained a close relationship for 35 years. Because of his age and renown, biographers have suggested that Chaplin was a paternal figure in their relationship.[citation needed]
While attending the London premiere of his film Limelight in September 1952, Chaplin was accused of “Communist sympathies” and denied re-entry into the United States. Because of the tax laws in England, the family (which by then included four children), chose to relocate to Switzerland.[citation needed] Oona returned to the United States by herself to close their California house and to surreptitiously collect all Chaplin’s assets from safe deposit boxes, even as the FBI was questioning the members of their staff. She later admitted to sewing $1,000 bills into the lining of her mink coat, thereby saving the Chaplin fortune. Oona renounced her American citizenship shortly after returning to Europe. She and Chaplin settled permanently with their family in Vevey, Switzerland, where they spent the majority of their thirty-five year marriage, visited by Hollywood friends.
They had eight children: actress Geraldine Chaplin (b. July 31, 1944, who married Spanish film director Carlos Saura); Michael (b. March 7, 1946); Josephine (b. March 28, 1949, mother of Julien Ronet (b. 1980) by Maurice Ronet); Victoria (b. May 19, 1951, married to Jean-Baptiste Thieree, parents of Aurelie and James (b. May 2, 1974, in Lausanne)); Eugene Anthony (b. August 23, 1953); Jane (b. May 23, 1957, unmarried); Annette (b. December 3, 1959, unmarried); and Christopher (b. July 6, 1962, unmarried). Despite his large family, the demanding and temperamental Chaplin insisted on being put first, often to the detriment of the children who were sent off to boarding schools at the age of ten. Most rebelled in various ways as they grew older, but all retained a loving relationship with Oona until reaching adulthood.
In March 1975, three years after briefly returning to the United States to receive a special Academy Award, Chaplin was knighted. His health declined rapidly afterwards, however, and he died on Christmas Day 1977 at the age of eighty-eight.
Following Chaplin’s death, Oona moved to New York where she attempted to build a life of her own. But after years of being on call to an aging husband, Oona–who had given up the promise of an acting career when she was 18–could not find the emotional resources to do so.[citation needed] She retreated to the manor in Switzerland where she became a recluse, and struggled with alcoholism. She ultimately died of pancreatic cancer on September 27, 1991, in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.
Geraldine thought very highly of her mother, and when she was cast in Doctor Zhivago (1965), she decided to base her performance as the title character’s wife on her mother, whom she described as “a woman who was willing to give her life to an artist.”
In 2006, Chaplin’s granddaughter, model and actress Kiera Chaplin (daughter of Eugene Chaplin), visited Tao House, where her maternal great-grandfather lived. She has announced that she would like to play her grandmother in a film. The same year, daughter Jane Chaplin announced that she had written a memoir entitled “Seventeen Minutes with my Father,” which she said would not be easy on her mother.
Oona was a fan of Arsenal FC (The club that Charlie had supported all his life) and described their 1989 League Championship victory as ‘One of the greatest moments of my life.’
Donna, played by Lara Flynn Boyle in the series and by Moira Kelly in the prequel, was the best friend of Laura Palmer, and after her death she was obsessed with finding out who killed her and why, with the help of James Hurley, Laura’s secret boyfriend and Donna’s new love interest, and Madeleine Ferguson, the look-a-like cousin of Laura.
At the end of season two, it is strongly suggested that Doc Hayward might not be Donna’s biological father after all, and that she is in fact the daughter of Benjamin Horne and half-sister to Audrey Horne. However, due to the series’ cancellation, this theory has not been elaborated upon. In the final episode, Doc Hayward attacks Benjamin and although it seems that Ben has been seriously injured, Doc Hayward shows up at the end of the episode relatively back to his normal temperament.
Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic convert. In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker movement, a nonviolent, pacifist, movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.
A revered figure within segments of the U.S. Catholic community, Day is being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church.
Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in San Francisco and Chicago. She was born into a family described by one biographer as “solid, patriotic, and middle class”. Her father was a Southerner of Scotch-Irish background, while her mother, a native of upstate New York, was of English ancestry. Her parents were married in an Episcopal church located in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood where Day would spend much of her young adulthood.
In 1914, Day attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on a scholarship, but dropped out after two years and moved to New York City. Day was a reluctant scholar. Her reading was chiefly in a radical social direction. She avoided campus social life and insisted on supporting herself rather than live on money from her father, a characteristic she was to maintain for the rest of her life, to the point of buying all her clothing and shoes from discount stores to save money. Settling on the lower east side, she worked on the staffs of Socialist publications (The Liberator, The Masses, The Call) and engaged in anti-war and women’s suffrage protests. She spent several months in Greenwich Village, where she became close to Eugene O’Neill.
Initially Day lived a bohemian life, with two common-law marriages and an abortion, which she later described in her semi-autobiographical novel, The Eleventh Virgin (1924)—a book she later regretted writing. With the birth of her daughter, Tamar (1927–2008), she began a period of spiritual awakening which led her to embrace Catholicism, joining the Church in December 1927, with baptism at Our Lady Help of Christians parish on Staten Island. In her 1952 biography, The Long Loneliness, Day recalled that immediately after her baptism, she made her first confession, and the following day, she received communion. Subsequently, Day began writing for Catholic publications, such as Commonweal and America.
The Catholic Worker movement started with the Catholic Worker newspaper, created to promote Catholic social teaching and stake out a neutral, pacifist position in the war-torn 1930s. This grew into a “house of hospitality” in the slums of New York City and then a series of farms for people to live together communally. She lived for a time at the now demolished Spanish Camp community in the Annadale section of Staten Island. The movement quickly spread to other cities in the United States, and to Canada and the United Kingdom; more than 30 independent but affiliated CW communities had been founded by 1941. Well over 100 communities exist today, including several in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, and Sweden. She was also a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (‘Wobblies’).
By the 1960s, Day was embraced by a significant number of Catholics, while at the same time, she earned the praise of counterculture leaders such as Abbie Hoffman, who characterized her as the first hippie, a description of which Day approved. Yet, although Day had written passionately about women’s rights, free love and birth control in the 1910s, she opposed the sexual revolution of the 1960s, saying she had seen the ill-effects of a similar sexual revolution in the 1920s. Day had a progressive attitude toward social and economic rights, alloyed with a very orthodox and traditional sense of Catholic morality and piety.
Her devotion to her church was neither conventional nor unquestioning, however. She alienated many U.S. Catholics (including some clerical leaders) with her condemnation of Falangist leader Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War; and, possibly in response to her criticism of Francis Cardinal Spellman, she was pressured by the Archdiocese of New York in 1951 to change the name of her newspaper, “ostensibly because the word Catholic implies an official church connection when such was not the case”.
In 1971, Day was awarded the Pacem in Terris Award. It was named after a 1963 encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII that calls upon all people of good will to secure peace among all nations. Pacem in Terris is Latin for ‘Peace on Earth.’ Day was accorded many other honors in her last decade, including the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame, in 1972.
She died on November 29, 1980, in New York City.[19]
Day was buried in Cemetery of the Resurrection on Staten Island, just a few blocks from the location of the beachside cottage where she first became interested in Catholicism. She was proposed for sainthood by the Claretian Missionaries in 1983. Pope John Paul II granted the Archdiocese of New York permission to open Day’s “cause” for sainthood in March 2000, thereby officially making her a “Servant of God” in the eyes of the Catholic Church.
Her autobiography, The Long Loneliness, was published in 1952. Day’s account of the Catholic Worker movement, Loaves and Fishes, was published in 1963. A popular movie called Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story was produced in 1996. Day was portrayed by Moira Kelly and Peter Maurin was portrayed by Martin Sheen, actors later known for their roles on The West Wing television series in the United States. Fool for Christ: The Story of Dorothy Day,a one woman play performed by Sarah Melici, premiered in 1998. A DVD of the play has been produced and Melici continues to do live performances in the United States and Canada. The first full-length documentary about Day, Dorothy Day: Don’t Call Me a Saint, by filmmaker Claudia Larson, premiered on November 29, 2005 at Marquette University, where Day’s papers are housed. The documentary was also shown at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and is now available on DVD. Day’s diaries, The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, edited by Robert Ellsberg, were published by the Marquette University Press in 2008.
Day has been the recipient of numerous posthumous honors and awards. Among them: in 1992, she received the Courage of Conscience Award from the Peace Abbey, and in 2001, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.
Day’s accomplishments have been memorialized in a variety of ways. A dormitory at Loyola College in Maryland was named in her honor; and a dormitory at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois, will soon be named after her. In addition, a named professorship bears the name of Dorothy Day at the School of Law of St. John’s University, a Catholic university in Queens, New York; the position is currently occupied by labor law scholar David L. Gregory.
Meanwhile, Broadway Housing Communities, a supportive housing project in New York City, opened the Dorothy Day Apartment Building in 2003. Dorothy Day Apartments supports The Dorothy Day After-School Program and The Dorothy Day Early Childhood Center. Several Catholic Worker communities are also named after Dorothy Day. At Marquette University, a floor bearing Day’s name has been reserved for those drawn to social justice issues. In the fall semester, students in the program are expected to take Philosophy of the Human Nature, and in the spring Christian Discipleship. Throughout the year, students are also expected to take part in a service learning site of their choice; choices include the Milwaukee Detention Center, the International learning center, and various other sites in the Milwaukee area.
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller’s teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become known worldwide through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.
A prolific author, Keller was well traveled and was outspoken in her opposition to war. She campaigned for women’s suffrage, workers’ rights, and socialism, as well as many other progressive causes.
Helen Adams Keller was born on a plantation called Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880, to Captain Arthur H. Keller, a former officer of the Confederate Army, and Kate Adams Keller, a cousin of Robert E. Lee and daughter of Charles W. Adams, a former Confederate general. The Keller family originates from Switzerland. Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf; it was not until she was nineteen months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as “an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain,” which could possibly have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind. At that time, she was able to communicate somewhat with Martha Washington, the six-year-old daughter of the family cook, who understood her signs; by the age of seven, she had over sixty home signs to communicate with her family. According to Soviet blind-deaf psychologist A. Meshcheryakov, Martha’s friendship and teaching was crucial for Helen’s later developments.
In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens’ American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind child, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice. He subsequently put them in touch with Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell advised the couple to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the school where Bridgman had been educated, which was then located in South Boston. Michael Anaganos, the school’s director, asked former student Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired and then only 20 years old, to become Keller’s instructor. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship, eventually evolving into governess and then eventual companion.
Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller’s house in March 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with d-o-l-l for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present. Keller’s big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of “water”; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.
As a young woman, Keller’s eyes were replaced with glass replicas for “medical and cosmetic reasons”, according to Keller biographer Dorothy Herrmann.
Starting in May, 1888, Keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1894, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf and Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College. Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife, paid for her education. In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Anne Sullivan stayed as a companion to Helen Keller long after she taught her. Anne married John Macy in 1905, and her health started failing around 1914. Polly Thompson was hired to keep house. She was a young woman from Scotland who didn’t have experience with deaf or blind people. She progressed to working as a secretary as well, and eventually became a constant companion to Keller.
Keller moved to Forest Hills, Queens together with Anne and John, and used the house as a base for her efforts on behalf of American Foundation for the Blind.
After Anne died in 1936, Keller and Thompson moved to Connecticut. They traveled worldwide and raised funding for the blind. Thompson had a stroke in 1957 from which she never fully recovered, and died in 1960.
Winnie Corbally, a nurse who was originally brought in to care for Polly Thompson in 1957, stayed on after Thompson’s death and was Keller’s companion for the rest of her life.
Keller suffered a series of strokes in 1961 and spent the last years of her life at her home.
On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Helen Keller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States’ highest two civilian honors. In 1965 she was elected to the National Women’s Hall of Fame at the New York World’s Fair.
Keller devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968 at her home, Arcan Ridge, located in Westport, Connecticut. A service was held in her honor at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and her ashes were placed there next to her constant companions, Anne Sullivan and Polly Thompson.
Mandy Hampton received a Bachelor’s degree in art history, a master’s degree in communications, and a Ph.D. in Political science.[1]
Little is known about Mandy’s career before she joined Bartlet’s Presidential campaign, which she joined sometime in 1998 as its media director. During the campaign, she had a relationship with fellow campaign worker Josh Lyman. She was considered a valuable member of the team but was not hired.
Instead, she was given a job with Lennox-Chase, making $900,000 a year. After Josh Lyman made a major gaffe in 1999, Leo McGarry briefly considered her as a possible replacement for Josh.
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In 1999, she left Lennox-Chase to start a consulting firm with her assistant, Daisy, and begin working on a Presidential bid for Senator Lloyd Russell. Around this time, she started dating Russell.
Her choice to return to Washington and work for Russell quickly made the West Wing aware of Russell’s intention to run for the 2002 Presidential Election against President Bartlet. When Mandy tried to use a piece of legislation as the way Russell would make a name for himself, Josh Lyman negotiated a deal with Russell that would shelve the legislation until after the Midterm Elections in exchange for a chance to make a speech at the 2002 Democratic Convention, possibly even Keynote speaker. This infuriated Mandy and her contract with him was soon dissolved.
Mandy and Daisy discussed possible employers to replace the loss of their only client when they were informed by Josh Lyman that the White House was willing to hire them as the media director to be paid by the Democratic National Committee. She worked under both Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman, and White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler.
Karen Roe became pregnant with Dan Scott’s child when she was 17. After Dan abandoned her to take a basketball scholarship to college, where he met Deb Lee and fathered his child with her (Nathan Scott), Karen raised their son Lucas Scott alone, although Keith, Dan’s older brother, took over the role of father figure. Karen also started her own business: Karen’s Café.
Season 1
Karen and her son Lucas are very close and she has always been supportive of his dreams. She was the one to push him to play basketball, for instance, when the opportunity (triggered by Keith) came up. However she is always afraid of the past and is initially against Lucas joining the school basketball team as it brings him into contact with his half-brother Nathan and their father Dan. However, Karen begins to grow in confidence and let go of the past and to follow her dreams she goes to Italy to take cooking lessons, a dream she always had. She becomes good friends with Dan’s wife Deb Scott, who becomes a partner in Karen’s Café. She also grows ever closer to Keith Scott. It seems certain that Karen and Keith are going to become romantically involved after she kisses him before she leaves to go to Italy, but on the night of her return, she finds Lucas on the brink of death due to a car crash caused by Keith’s drunk driving. This drives the couple apart for a long time as she feels she trusted Keith with the one person she loved the most and he let her down. Karen is grateful to Dan for pulling Lucas from the car and giving consent for the doctors to operate on him, and on seeing Dan for the first time since the accident she hugs him, although they soon become hostile again. While Lucas is in the hospital Karen meets his girlfriend Brooke, and after a shaky start they find they have a lot in common. Karen, like Brooke, was Prom Queen and captain of the cheerleaders. When Lucas tells Karen that Brooke is pregnant, Karen slaps her son, feeling that history is repeating itself. However, it turns out that Brooke in not pregnant after all. Karen begins seeing Larry Sawyer after they meet on a school trip, causing Keith to become very jealous. In a moment of desperation Keith proposes to Karen, but she declines. As a result of this Keith decides that there is nothing for him in Tree Hill and he wants to leave. Unfortunately for Karen, Lucas feels the same. He doesn’t like the person he is becoming and wants to make a fresh start, by leaving Tree Hill with Keith. Karen reluctantly lets him go at the end of the season, stating that there is only one Tree Hill and it is his home.
Season 2
Although Lucas soon returns to Tree Hill, Karen decides to go to college to obtain a qualification in business, and she falls in love with her younger business teacher, Andy Hargrove. She also opens the TRIC nightclub with Deb and Peyton, which offers alcohol-free parties for the underage. Dan, however, won’t let Karen be happy and manages to get Andy fired and Lucas to move in with him. This leads Karen to investigate him, to discover anything she can use to get her son back. She discovers that Dan hired Keith’s new girlfriend Jules to break his heart. Karen confronts Jules, which leads to her leaving Keith at the altar. Keith then leaves town, leaving Karen worried about him. While Lucas is living with Dan, Brooke needs a place to stay and Karen offers to take her in. They become close and Karen becomes the only real mother figure in Brooke’s life, as Brooke’s biological mother doesn’t seem to care about her. Andy meanwhile is forced to leave the country as Dan is having him deported. When Karen confronts Dan, he grabs and kisses her before laughing at her. Enraged, Karen throws a chair through Dan’s office window. At the end of the season, Lucas moves back home and Karen goes to visit Andy in New Zealand.
Season 3
Karen is one of the many people suspected by Dan of starting the fire at the dealership that nearly killed him. When Dan finds evidence which points towards Keith as the firestarter, Karen calls Keith and he returns to Tree Hill. Karen and Keith finally begin dating and become engaged. Keith also makes plans to adopt Lucas. Keith and Karen’s happiness is short-lived, however, when just days after getting engaged, Keith is secretly killed by Dan (who blames the murder on Jimmy Edwards, a Tree Hill High student holding kids hostage in the school). Karen goes through a period of shock where she doesn’t talk to anyone, even her own son. She even blames Lucas for Keith’s death when she finds out that Lucas saved Dan in the fire, saying that if Lucas hadn’t tried to be a hero and gone back in that school then Keith wouldn’t have been killed. She also blames Dan for letting Keith go into the school and smashes up his office, unaware just how responsible Dan is. Karen gets past her grief when Lucas tells her about his heart condition, which he has spent months hiding from her. At Keith’s grave, she reveals to Dan that she is pregnant with Keith’s baby. Dan then holds her in his arms and promises to be there for her this time.
Season 4
Karen breaks off her partnership with Deb when she finds out that she took a gun to her Café and is back on pills. Deb, who was the legal owner of TRIC, then fires Karen from the club, although she is eventually forced by Dan to sign the club over to Karen. Karen and Dan get closer as he tries to make up for killing his brother by helping her with her pregnancy, but Karen does not know he killed Keith. Lucas finds out that it was Dan and tells Karen. The distress causes Karen to collapse. Karen has to have an emergency c-section. During the surgery Karen flatlines and dreams of being in a beautiful place. (It’s assumed that it’s Heaven since she had flatlined). There is also a little girl there running around and playing. Karen hears someone call her name and she turns to see Keith. Happy to see him, Karen hugs him and they share a kiss. She asks him about the little girl that is playing and Keith tells her that it’s their daughter. Karen tells Keith that she’s beautiful to which Keith replies, “Just like her mother.” They walk over to her where Karen hugs her daughter. Keith and Karen talk some more and Keith’s final words to her are, “Look for me in the lilies.”, which gave Karen a hint on what to name her daughter. Karen then recovers and gives birth to her daughter. While visiting Keith’s grave with their daughter, she says “Hi, Keith. It’s us. Her name is Lily. Lily Roe Scott.” She also visits Dan in jail, telling him that one day, Lily was going to ask where her father is. Karen tells him that she will look into her eyes and say “Your father loved his little brother very much and he took him away from you. He made sure that he was never going to be in your life.” Dan’s eyes start to tear up and when Dan says, “Karen..” she angrily spits at his cell and walks away. During the final moments of the finale, Karen is feeding Lily and beside her is a table with a picture of Keith and pot of lilies which ironically symbolizes Keith’s words: “Look for me in the lilies.”
Season 5
Four years since the events of season four, Karen has been traveling the world with Lily, and it is unclear as to whether Andy has been with her whilst she has traveled. She returns to Tree Hill on the day of Lucas’s wedding to Lindsay with Andy and Lily in tow. With the ceremony only a few hours away, Karen uses the little time she had to visit Keith’s grave where she lays flowers to remember her one true love. Then, at her former Café, which is now Clothes Over Bros, she offers Brooke and Peyton advice on how their lives will turn out. When Dan appears at Haley and Nathan’s house, Karen looks shocked to see him.
Season 6
In the season finale Karen gets her first granddaughter when Peyton gives birth to a baby girl in which they named Sawyer Brooke Scott
Abby Collins is an agent of the Department of Homeland Security who served as one of the President’s representatives to the Building 26 task force, and was granted authority over Senator Nathan Petrelli. Initially skeptical of the existence of evolved humans, Abby has now been swayed to aid Petrelli’s plans.
Character History
Building 26
Abby Collins meets Nathan and Danko in Building 26. She informs them that their operation is worrying the President’s handlers, and Homeland Security are now overseeing their team. Danko resents the intrusion of another bureaucrat, while Nathan suggests a tour and explains that his funding request is to be spent on a reinforced prison for their highly dangerous inmates. She responds mockingly, calling evolved humans “magic” and doubting the existence of time travel and mind reading. Nathan says he would prefer to speak to the President directly, but she tells him that she’s his new boss and demands to see the prisoner that Nathan is keeping without warrant. She is taken to meet Tracy Strauss, who is shackled to a chair in a room full of heaters. Abby knows Tracy as a lobbyist and is shocked to see her in chains. She storms out, declaring that his operation will be shut down and that she is filing a complaint against Nathan for human rights violations. Nathan protests and tries to talk her round, then an alarm sounds: Tracy has escaped and taken a hostage. Abby watches in horror as Tracy freezes him and he shatters against the wall. After Tracy is recaptured, Abby tells Nathan he can have all the funding he needs.
Mary Maglidori Oliveri took charge of the family business, Maglidori’s Creative Masonry, eight years after her father, Gio, died. Her twin brother, Mags, squandered the opportunity of a partnership, so Mary rebuilt the company with her husband, Iggy. Although petite in stature, like her father, Mary is a hard-nosed negotiator, who has no problem keeping her grizzly, beer-drinking husband on top of his work load. When a conflict arises, personal or professional, it becomes quite clear who wears the pants in this family. A chipette-off-the-old-block, she inherited her father’s bravado, but, along with her tattoos, keeps this well concealed under her cashmere sweater. Mary can be panicky at times, and, more often than not, puts her Christian values aside to express her innermost beliefs. Self-motivated, gregarious, and, some would even say, abrasive, Mary still finds herself vulnerable to the same kind of random and unfortunate events that haunted her father.
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Oona O’Neill
Oona, Lady Chaplin (née O’Neill) (May 14, 1925 – September 27, 1991) was the daughter of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill and writer Agnes Boulton, and the wife of British actor, director and producer Charlie Chaplin.
Oona was born while her parents were living in Bermuda, during a period of heavy drinking by Eugene O’Neill.[citation needed] She was two years old when he left the family for actress Carlotta Monterey who became his third wife. Oona and her brother Shane (born in 1919) rarely saw him afterward.[citation needed]
Oona spent her summers in the Boulton family’s rambling Victorian house in Point Pleasant, New Jersey; the rest of the year she lived in Manhattan with her mother, where she attended the Brearley School. In 1942, seventeen-year-old Oona was named “Debutante of the Year.”[citation needed] When asked by a reporter whether she considered herself “lace curtain” Irish or “shanty” Irish, she replied, “Shanty Irish!” Deciding to pursue an acting career instead of attending Vassar, she got a part in a stock company stage production of Pal Joey and formed close friendships with Carol Grace Saroyan and Gloria Vanderbilt, later chronicled by Aram Saroyan in the book Trio: Portrait of an Intimate Friendship.
Oona dated cartoonist Peter Arno, director Orson Welles, and author J. D. Salinger.[citation needed] To Salinger’s disappointment, however, their relationship ended when she met Charlie Chaplin, after having been suggested to him for a part in one of his films. Despite the 36-year age difference, Chaplin wrote in his autobiography that he was instantly smitten by Oona’s “luminous beauty and sequestered charm.”
Eugene O’Neill was outraged at the news of his daughter’s affair with Chaplin and refused to give his consent so that she could marry him before her eighteenth birthday.[citation needed] After their marriage in June 1943, he cut Oona out of his life, refusing her attempts at a reconciliation. According to her biographer Jane Scovell, playwright Clifford Odets “saw something vindictive in O’Neill’s behaviour and thought that O’Neill could not forgive Oona perhaps because he had abandoned her.” Her half-brother, Eugene O’Neill Jr., was the son of a woman to whom his father had reneged on a promise to marry before attaining success as a writer; the younger O’Neill later suffered from alcoholism and committed suicide in 1950 at the age of 40. Oona’s brother Shane became a heroin addict and moved into the family home in Bermuda, Spithead, with his new wife, where he supported himself by selling off the furnishings. He was disowned by his father before also committing suicide (by jumping out a window) a number of years later.
When Oona saw Jack Nicholson in the 1981 film Reds, where he portrayed her estranged father, she wrote him a letter saying “Thanks to you, I now can love my father”. Nicholson has said that “that is the best compliment I ever got”.[citation needed]
Chaplin and Oona maintained a close relationship for 35 years. Because of his age and renown, biographers have suggested that Chaplin was a paternal figure in their relationship.[citation needed]
While attending the London premiere of his film Limelight in September 1952, Chaplin was accused of “Communist sympathies” and denied re-entry into the United States. Because of the tax laws in England, the family (which by then included four children), chose to relocate to Switzerland.[citation needed] Oona returned to the United States by herself to close their California house and to surreptitiously collect all Chaplin’s assets from safe deposit boxes, even as the FBI was questioning the members of their staff. She later admitted to sewing $1,000 bills into the lining of her mink coat, thereby saving the Chaplin fortune. Oona renounced her American citizenship shortly after returning to Europe. She and Chaplin settled permanently with their family in Vevey, Switzerland, where they spent the majority of their thirty-five year marriage, visited by Hollywood friends.
They had eight children: actress Geraldine Chaplin (b. July 31, 1944, who married Spanish film director Carlos Saura); Michael (b. March 7, 1946); Josephine (b. March 28, 1949, mother of Julien Ronet (b. 1980) by Maurice Ronet); Victoria (b. May 19, 1951, married to Jean-Baptiste Thieree, parents of Aurelie and James (b. May 2, 1974, in Lausanne)); Eugene Anthony (b. August 23, 1953); Jane (b. May 23, 1957, unmarried); Annette (b. December 3, 1959, unmarried); and Christopher (b. July 6, 1962, unmarried). Despite his large family, the demanding and temperamental Chaplin insisted on being put first, often to the detriment of the children who were sent off to boarding schools at the age of ten. Most rebelled in various ways as they grew older, but all retained a loving relationship with Oona until reaching adulthood.
In March 1975, three years after briefly returning to the United States to receive a special Academy Award, Chaplin was knighted. His health declined rapidly afterwards, however, and he died on Christmas Day 1977 at the age of eighty-eight.
Following Chaplin’s death, Oona moved to New York where she attempted to build a life of her own. But after years of being on call to an aging husband, Oona–who had given up the promise of an acting career when she was 18–could not find the emotional resources to do so.[citation needed] She retreated to the manor in Switzerland where she became a recluse, and struggled with alcoholism. She ultimately died of pancreatic cancer on September 27, 1991, in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.
Geraldine thought very highly of her mother, and when she was cast in Doctor Zhivago (1965), she decided to base her performance as the title character’s wife on her mother, whom she described as “a woman who was willing to give her life to an artist.”
In 2006, Chaplin’s granddaughter, model and actress Kiera Chaplin (daughter of Eugene Chaplin), visited Tao House, where her maternal great-grandfather lived. She has announced that she would like to play her grandmother in a film. The same year, daughter Jane Chaplin announced that she had written a memoir entitled “Seventeen Minutes with my Father,” which she said would not be easy on her mother.
Oona was a fan of Arsenal FC (The club that Charlie had supported all his life) and described their 1989 League Championship victory as ‘One of the greatest moments of my life.’
Donna Hayward
Donna, played by Lara Flynn Boyle in the series and by Moira Kelly in the prequel, was the best friend of Laura Palmer, and after her death she was obsessed with finding out who killed her and why, with the help of James Hurley, Laura’s secret boyfriend and Donna’s new love interest, and Madeleine Ferguson, the look-a-like cousin of Laura.
At the end of season two, it is strongly suggested that Doc Hayward might not be Donna’s biological father after all, and that she is in fact the daughter of Benjamin Horne and half-sister to Audrey Horne. However, due to the series’ cancellation, this theory has not been elaborated upon. In the final episode, Doc Hayward attacks Benjamin and although it seems that Ben has been seriously injured, Doc Hayward shows up at the end of the episode relatively back to his normal temperament.
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic convert. In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker movement, a nonviolent, pacifist, movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.
A revered figure within segments of the U.S. Catholic community, Day is being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church.
Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in San Francisco and Chicago. She was born into a family described by one biographer as “solid, patriotic, and middle class”. Her father was a Southerner of Scotch-Irish background, while her mother, a native of upstate New York, was of English ancestry. Her parents were married in an Episcopal church located in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood where Day would spend much of her young adulthood.
In 1914, Day attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on a scholarship, but dropped out after two years and moved to New York City. Day was a reluctant scholar. Her reading was chiefly in a radical social direction. She avoided campus social life and insisted on supporting herself rather than live on money from her father, a characteristic she was to maintain for the rest of her life, to the point of buying all her clothing and shoes from discount stores to save money. Settling on the lower east side, she worked on the staffs of Socialist publications (The Liberator, The Masses, The Call) and engaged in anti-war and women’s suffrage protests. She spent several months in Greenwich Village, where she became close to Eugene O’Neill.
Initially Day lived a bohemian life, with two common-law marriages and an abortion, which she later described in her semi-autobiographical novel, The Eleventh Virgin (1924)—a book she later regretted writing. With the birth of her daughter, Tamar (1927–2008), she began a period of spiritual awakening which led her to embrace Catholicism, joining the Church in December 1927, with baptism at Our Lady Help of Christians parish on Staten Island. In her 1952 biography, The Long Loneliness, Day recalled that immediately after her baptism, she made her first confession, and the following day, she received communion. Subsequently, Day began writing for Catholic publications, such as Commonweal and America.
The Catholic Worker movement started with the Catholic Worker newspaper, created to promote Catholic social teaching and stake out a neutral, pacifist position in the war-torn 1930s. This grew into a “house of hospitality” in the slums of New York City and then a series of farms for people to live together communally. She lived for a time at the now demolished Spanish Camp community in the Annadale section of Staten Island. The movement quickly spread to other cities in the United States, and to Canada and the United Kingdom; more than 30 independent but affiliated CW communities had been founded by 1941. Well over 100 communities exist today, including several in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, and Sweden. She was also a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (‘Wobblies’).
By the 1960s, Day was embraced by a significant number of Catholics, while at the same time, she earned the praise of counterculture leaders such as Abbie Hoffman, who characterized her as the first hippie, a description of which Day approved. Yet, although Day had written passionately about women’s rights, free love and birth control in the 1910s, she opposed the sexual revolution of the 1960s, saying she had seen the ill-effects of a similar sexual revolution in the 1920s. Day had a progressive attitude toward social and economic rights, alloyed with a very orthodox and traditional sense of Catholic morality and piety.
Her devotion to her church was neither conventional nor unquestioning, however. She alienated many U.S. Catholics (including some clerical leaders) with her condemnation of Falangist leader Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War; and, possibly in response to her criticism of Francis Cardinal Spellman, she was pressured by the Archdiocese of New York in 1951 to change the name of her newspaper, “ostensibly because the word Catholic implies an official church connection when such was not the case”.
In 1971, Day was awarded the Pacem in Terris Award. It was named after a 1963 encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII that calls upon all people of good will to secure peace among all nations. Pacem in Terris is Latin for ‘Peace on Earth.’ Day was accorded many other honors in her last decade, including the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame, in 1972.
She died on November 29, 1980, in New York City.[19]
Day was buried in Cemetery of the Resurrection on Staten Island, just a few blocks from the location of the beachside cottage where she first became interested in Catholicism. She was proposed for sainthood by the Claretian Missionaries in 1983. Pope John Paul II granted the Archdiocese of New York permission to open Day’s “cause” for sainthood in March 2000, thereby officially making her a “Servant of God” in the eyes of the Catholic Church.
Her autobiography, The Long Loneliness, was published in 1952. Day’s account of the Catholic Worker movement, Loaves and Fishes, was published in 1963. A popular movie called Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story was produced in 1996. Day was portrayed by Moira Kelly and Peter Maurin was portrayed by Martin Sheen, actors later known for their roles on The West Wing television series in the United States. Fool for Christ: The Story of Dorothy Day,a one woman play performed by Sarah Melici, premiered in 1998. A DVD of the play has been produced and Melici continues to do live performances in the United States and Canada. The first full-length documentary about Day, Dorothy Day: Don’t Call Me a Saint, by filmmaker Claudia Larson, premiered on November 29, 2005 at Marquette University, where Day’s papers are housed. The documentary was also shown at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and is now available on DVD. Day’s diaries, The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, edited by Robert Ellsberg, were published by the Marquette University Press in 2008.
Day has been the recipient of numerous posthumous honors and awards. Among them: in 1992, she received the Courage of Conscience Award from the Peace Abbey, and in 2001, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.
Day’s accomplishments have been memorialized in a variety of ways. A dormitory at Loyola College in Maryland was named in her honor; and a dormitory at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois, will soon be named after her. In addition, a named professorship bears the name of Dorothy Day at the School of Law of St. John’s University, a Catholic university in Queens, New York; the position is currently occupied by labor law scholar David L. Gregory.
Meanwhile, Broadway Housing Communities, a supportive housing project in New York City, opened the Dorothy Day Apartment Building in 2003. Dorothy Day Apartments supports The Dorothy Day After-School Program and The Dorothy Day Early Childhood Center. Several Catholic Worker communities are also named after Dorothy Day. At Marquette University, a floor bearing Day’s name has been reserved for those drawn to social justice issues. In the fall semester, students in the program are expected to take Philosophy of the Human Nature, and in the spring Christian Discipleship. Throughout the year, students are also expected to take part in a service learning site of their choice; choices include the Milwaukee Detention Center, the International learning center, and various other sites in the Milwaukee area.
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller’s teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become known worldwide through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.
A prolific author, Keller was well traveled and was outspoken in her opposition to war. She campaigned for women’s suffrage, workers’ rights, and socialism, as well as many other progressive causes.
Helen Adams Keller was born on a plantation called Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880, to Captain Arthur H. Keller, a former officer of the Confederate Army, and Kate Adams Keller, a cousin of Robert E. Lee and daughter of Charles W. Adams, a former Confederate general. The Keller family originates from Switzerland. Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf; it was not until she was nineteen months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as “an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain,” which could possibly have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind. At that time, she was able to communicate somewhat with Martha Washington, the six-year-old daughter of the family cook, who understood her signs; by the age of seven, she had over sixty home signs to communicate with her family. According to Soviet blind-deaf psychologist A. Meshcheryakov, Martha’s friendship and teaching was crucial for Helen’s later developments.
In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens’ American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind child, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice. He subsequently put them in touch with Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell advised the couple to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the school where Bridgman had been educated, which was then located in South Boston. Michael Anaganos, the school’s director, asked former student Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired and then only 20 years old, to become Keller’s instructor. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship, eventually evolving into governess and then eventual companion.
Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller’s house in March 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with d-o-l-l for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present. Keller’s big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of “water”; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.
As a young woman, Keller’s eyes were replaced with glass replicas for “medical and cosmetic reasons”, according to Keller biographer Dorothy Herrmann.
Starting in May, 1888, Keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1894, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf and Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College. Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife, paid for her education. In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Anne Sullivan stayed as a companion to Helen Keller long after she taught her. Anne married John Macy in 1905, and her health started failing around 1914. Polly Thompson was hired to keep house. She was a young woman from Scotland who didn’t have experience with deaf or blind people. She progressed to working as a secretary as well, and eventually became a constant companion to Keller.
Keller moved to Forest Hills, Queens together with Anne and John, and used the house as a base for her efforts on behalf of American Foundation for the Blind.
After Anne died in 1936, Keller and Thompson moved to Connecticut. They traveled worldwide and raised funding for the blind. Thompson had a stroke in 1957 from which she never fully recovered, and died in 1960.
Winnie Corbally, a nurse who was originally brought in to care for Polly Thompson in 1957, stayed on after Thompson’s death and was Keller’s companion for the rest of her life.
Keller suffered a series of strokes in 1961 and spent the last years of her life at her home.
On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Helen Keller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States’ highest two civilian honors. In 1965 she was elected to the National Women’s Hall of Fame at the New York World’s Fair.
Keller devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968 at her home, Arcan Ridge, located in Westport, Connecticut. A service was held in her honor at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and her ashes were placed there next to her constant companions, Anne Sullivan and Polly Thompson.
Mandy Hampton
Mandy Hampton received a Bachelor’s degree in art history, a master’s degree in communications, and a Ph.D. in Political science.[1]
Little is known about Mandy’s career before she joined Bartlet’s Presidential campaign, which she joined sometime in 1998 as its media director. During the campaign, she had a relationship with fellow campaign worker Josh Lyman. She was considered a valuable member of the team but was not hired.
Instead, she was given a job with Lennox-Chase, making $900,000 a year. After Josh Lyman made a major gaffe in 1999, Leo McGarry briefly considered her as a possible replacement for Josh.
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In 1999, she left Lennox-Chase to start a consulting firm with her assistant, Daisy, and begin working on a Presidential bid for Senator Lloyd Russell. Around this time, she started dating Russell.
Her choice to return to Washington and work for Russell quickly made the West Wing aware of Russell’s intention to run for the 2002 Presidential Election against President Bartlet. When Mandy tried to use a piece of legislation as the way Russell would make a name for himself, Josh Lyman negotiated a deal with Russell that would shelve the legislation until after the Midterm Elections in exchange for a chance to make a speech at the 2002 Democratic Convention, possibly even Keynote speaker. This infuriated Mandy and her contract with him was soon dissolved.
Mandy and Daisy discussed possible employers to replace the loss of their only client when they were informed by Josh Lyman that the White House was willing to hire them as the media director to be paid by the Democratic National Committee. She worked under both Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman, and White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler.
Karen Roe became pregnant with Dan Scott’s child when she was 17. After Dan abandoned her to take a basketball scholarship to college, where he met Deb Lee and fathered his child with her (Nathan Scott), Karen raised their son Lucas Scott alone, although Keith, Dan’s older brother, took over the role of father figure. Karen also started her own business: Karen’s Café.
Season 1
Karen and her son Lucas are very close and she has always been supportive of his dreams. She was the one to push him to play basketball, for instance, when the opportunity (triggered by Keith) came up. However she is always afraid of the past and is initially against Lucas joining the school basketball team as it brings him into contact with his half-brother Nathan and their father Dan. However, Karen begins to grow in confidence and let go of the past and to follow her dreams she goes to Italy to take cooking lessons, a dream she always had. She becomes good friends with Dan’s wife Deb Scott, who becomes a partner in Karen’s Café. She also grows ever closer to Keith Scott. It seems certain that Karen and Keith are going to become romantically involved after she kisses him before she leaves to go to Italy, but on the night of her return, she finds Lucas on the brink of death due to a car crash caused by Keith’s drunk driving. This drives the couple apart for a long time as she feels she trusted Keith with the one person she loved the most and he let her down. Karen is grateful to Dan for pulling Lucas from the car and giving consent for the doctors to operate on him, and on seeing Dan for the first time since the accident she hugs him, although they soon become hostile again. While Lucas is in the hospital Karen meets his girlfriend Brooke, and after a shaky start they find they have a lot in common. Karen, like Brooke, was Prom Queen and captain of the cheerleaders. When Lucas tells Karen that Brooke is pregnant, Karen slaps her son, feeling that history is repeating itself. However, it turns out that Brooke in not pregnant after all. Karen begins seeing Larry Sawyer after they meet on a school trip, causing Keith to become very jealous. In a moment of desperation Keith proposes to Karen, but she declines. As a result of this Keith decides that there is nothing for him in Tree Hill and he wants to leave. Unfortunately for Karen, Lucas feels the same. He doesn’t like the person he is becoming and wants to make a fresh start, by leaving Tree Hill with Keith. Karen reluctantly lets him go at the end of the season, stating that there is only one Tree Hill and it is his home.
Season 2
Although Lucas soon returns to Tree Hill, Karen decides to go to college to obtain a qualification in business, and she falls in love with her younger business teacher, Andy Hargrove. She also opens the TRIC nightclub with Deb and Peyton, which offers alcohol-free parties for the underage. Dan, however, won’t let Karen be happy and manages to get Andy fired and Lucas to move in with him. This leads Karen to investigate him, to discover anything she can use to get her son back. She discovers that Dan hired Keith’s new girlfriend Jules to break his heart. Karen confronts Jules, which leads to her leaving Keith at the altar. Keith then leaves town, leaving Karen worried about him. While Lucas is living with Dan, Brooke needs a place to stay and Karen offers to take her in. They become close and Karen becomes the only real mother figure in Brooke’s life, as Brooke’s biological mother doesn’t seem to care about her. Andy meanwhile is forced to leave the country as Dan is having him deported. When Karen confronts Dan, he grabs and kisses her before laughing at her. Enraged, Karen throws a chair through Dan’s office window. At the end of the season, Lucas moves back home and Karen goes to visit Andy in New Zealand.
Season 3
Karen is one of the many people suspected by Dan of starting the fire at the dealership that nearly killed him. When Dan finds evidence which points towards Keith as the firestarter, Karen calls Keith and he returns to Tree Hill. Karen and Keith finally begin dating and become engaged. Keith also makes plans to adopt Lucas. Keith and Karen’s happiness is short-lived, however, when just days after getting engaged, Keith is secretly killed by Dan (who blames the murder on Jimmy Edwards, a Tree Hill High student holding kids hostage in the school). Karen goes through a period of shock where she doesn’t talk to anyone, even her own son. She even blames Lucas for Keith’s death when she finds out that Lucas saved Dan in the fire, saying that if Lucas hadn’t tried to be a hero and gone back in that school then Keith wouldn’t have been killed. She also blames Dan for letting Keith go into the school and smashes up his office, unaware just how responsible Dan is. Karen gets past her grief when Lucas tells her about his heart condition, which he has spent months hiding from her. At Keith’s grave, she reveals to Dan that she is pregnant with Keith’s baby. Dan then holds her in his arms and promises to be there for her this time.
Season 4
Karen breaks off her partnership with Deb when she finds out that she took a gun to her Café and is back on pills. Deb, who was the legal owner of TRIC, then fires Karen from the club, although she is eventually forced by Dan to sign the club over to Karen. Karen and Dan get closer as he tries to make up for killing his brother by helping her with her pregnancy, but Karen does not know he killed Keith. Lucas finds out that it was Dan and tells Karen. The distress causes Karen to collapse. Karen has to have an emergency c-section. During the surgery Karen flatlines and dreams of being in a beautiful place. (It’s assumed that it’s Heaven since she had flatlined). There is also a little girl there running around and playing. Karen hears someone call her name and she turns to see Keith. Happy to see him, Karen hugs him and they share a kiss. She asks him about the little girl that is playing and Keith tells her that it’s their daughter. Karen tells Keith that she’s beautiful to which Keith replies, “Just like her mother.” They walk over to her where Karen hugs her daughter. Keith and Karen talk some more and Keith’s final words to her are, “Look for me in the lilies.”, which gave Karen a hint on what to name her daughter. Karen then recovers and gives birth to her daughter. While visiting Keith’s grave with their daughter, she says “Hi, Keith. It’s us. Her name is Lily. Lily Roe Scott.” She also visits Dan in jail, telling him that one day, Lily was going to ask where her father is. Karen tells him that she will look into her eyes and say “Your father loved his little brother very much and he took him away from you. He made sure that he was never going to be in your life.” Dan’s eyes start to tear up and when Dan says, “Karen..” she angrily spits at his cell and walks away. During the final moments of the finale, Karen is feeding Lily and beside her is a table with a picture of Keith and pot of lilies which ironically symbolizes Keith’s words: “Look for me in the lilies.”
Season 5
Four years since the events of season four, Karen has been traveling the world with Lily, and it is unclear as to whether Andy has been with her whilst she has traveled. She returns to Tree Hill on the day of Lucas’s wedding to Lindsay with Andy and Lily in tow. With the ceremony only a few hours away, Karen uses the little time she had to visit Keith’s grave where she lays flowers to remember her one true love. Then, at her former Café, which is now Clothes Over Bros, she offers Brooke and Peyton advice on how their lives will turn out. When Dan appears at Haley and Nathan’s house, Karen looks shocked to see him.
Season 6
In the season finale Karen gets her first granddaughter when Peyton gives birth to a baby girl in which they named Sawyer Brooke Scott
Abby Collins
Abby Collins is an agent of the Department of Homeland Security who served as one of the President’s representatives to the Building 26 task force, and was granted authority over Senator Nathan Petrelli. Initially skeptical of the existence of evolved humans, Abby has now been swayed to aid Petrelli’s plans.
Character History
Building 26
Abby Collins meets Nathan and Danko in Building 26. She informs them that their operation is worrying the President’s handlers, and Homeland Security are now overseeing their team. Danko resents the intrusion of another bureaucrat, while Nathan suggests a tour and explains that his funding request is to be spent on a reinforced prison for their highly dangerous inmates. She responds mockingly, calling evolved humans “magic” and doubting the existence of time travel and mind reading. Nathan says he would prefer to speak to the President directly, but she tells him that she’s his new boss and demands to see the prisoner that Nathan is keeping without warrant. She is taken to meet Tracy Strauss, who is shackled to a chair in a room full of heaters. Abby knows Tracy as a lobbyist and is shocked to see her in chains. She storms out, declaring that his operation will be shut down and that she is filing a complaint against Nathan for human rights violations. Nathan protests and tries to talk her round, then an alarm sounds: Tracy has escaped and taken a hostage. Abby watches in horror as Tracy freezes him and he shatters against the wall. After Tracy is recaptured, Abby tells Nathan he can have all the funding he needs.
Mary Maglidori Oliveri
Mary Maglidori Oliveri took charge of the family business, Maglidori’s Creative Masonry, eight years after her father, Gio, died. Her twin brother, Mags, squandered the opportunity of a partnership, so Mary rebuilt the company with her husband, Iggy. Although petite in stature, like her father, Mary is a hard-nosed negotiator, who has no problem keeping her grizzly, beer-drinking husband on top of his work load. When a conflict arises, personal or professional, it becomes quite clear who wears the pants in this family. A chipette-off-the-old-block, she inherited her father’s bravado, but, along with her tattoos, keeps this well concealed under her cashmere sweater. Mary can be panicky at times, and, more often than not, puts her Christian values aside to express her innermost beliefs. Self-motivated, gregarious, and, some would even say, abrasive, Mary still finds herself vulnerable to the same kind of random and unfortunate events that haunted her father.
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