Nina Webster is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network, portrayed by Tricia Cast.
She was introduced during the episode airing on June 26, 1986, as a pregnant teenager whom Christine Blair (Lauralee Bell) befriends.
She became a novelist and screenwriter, also having marriages to David Kimble (Michael Corbett) and Ryan McNeil (Scott Reeves).
Nina was also involved with a man named Tomas Del Cerro (Francesco Quinn), a publisher interested in a novel of hers about her stolen son.
[2][3] In September 2000, it was announced that Cast had requested to be released from her contract, leading to much speculation as to why she chose to leave.
[4][5] Cast's publicist later issued a statement, saying: "Tricia has decided to take a sabbatical from Hollywood for an indefinite period of time.
[10] After getting pregnant by a man named Jimmy, Nina Webster ran away from her home and spent nights on a park bench in Genoa City, before being found by Christine Blair, with whom she soon became friends.
She set her sights on Christine's boyfriend Phillip Chancellor III (Thom Bierdz), seduced him and ended up pregnant yet again.
In a rare act of unity, Phillip's mother Jill Foster Abbott and her sworn enemy Katherine Chancellor attempted to pay Nina to leave town, but she refused.
By 1991, David returned in disguise and with the name of Jim Adams, and began romancing Nina's mother Florence.
At a masquerade ball, David intended to kill Nina, Christine, and Danny, but his ex-lover Diane warned them.
Cole didn't want to be with her and Nina was having hard time dealing with the truth, and her marriage to Ryan suffered because of it.
Nina evolved into a more mature woman; she continued writing novels and began a friendship with a man named Tomas Del Cerro, a world-renowned novelist.
Nina's career took an upswing when Tomas' publisher became interested in her novel "A Cry in Thin Air", which involved her story regarding her long-lost child.
She revealed that she is still writing screenplays, although without much success and that her son Phillip IV was now enlisted in the army and currently serving in Iraq.
During Nina's long absence from Genoa City, it was revealed that Jill's son Phillip III was switched shortly after birth by a jealous and alcoholic Katherine.
Following his wedding to Lily Winters, Cane recalled his telephone conversation two years earlier with a man regarding their joint plan to con Jill and Katherine.
Nina shocks Katherine and Jill by stating that she is having Phillip III's body exhumed for a DNA test.
Nina informs Jill and Katherine that before being deployed in Iraq, her son had a physical and explained some symptoms he had been experiencing.
Jill informs Nina that the results from the previous exhumation of Phillip III's body should still be on file at the lab.
After a couple of phone calls, it was revealed that the lab had no record of such a test, and the doctor who signed the autopsy report that Jill had on file had previously falsified forensic evidence and had disappeared.
Once Katherine and Jill leave the room however, Nina calls the lab back to order the second DNA test.
When it is discovered that Phillip's casket is empty and in fact never contained a corpse at all, Nina demands that Cane submit to DNA testing to verify his status as Jill's biological son.
Phillip claims that he faked his own death for his son, stating that he wouldn't have been a good father while suicidal and alcoholic.
Nina, Jill and Katherine are left in a very familiar place, in a hospital room, filled with pain, rage and guilt, exactly the same as 20 years earlier when Phillip "died".
Chance ended up being framed for drug possession and pleaded guilty in order to infiltrate corrupt police schemes.
At the premiere Gloria and Jeffrey Bardwell's nightclub, Gloworm, Paul and Christine shared a kiss in remembrance of it being their wedding anniversary.