Kristoff St. John (July 15, 1966 – February 3, 2019) was an American actor best known for playing Neil Winters on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1991 until his death in 2019.

Kristoff St. John was born July 15, 1966, in New York City and grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Los Angeles.

[2] He also made a small appearance as Booker Brown on the ABC sitcom Happy Days,[3] as well as a boyfriend of Denise Huxtable on an early episode of The Cosby Show.

After the show's cancellation in 1991, he originated the role of Neil Winters on The Young and the Restless, and played the character for 28 years;[6] no African American actor had appeared on the series more frequently than St. John.

In 1992, he won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series for his role.