Sheila Carter is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, American soap operas on the CBS network.

A significant portion of Sheila's history on both soaps revolves around her long-running conflict with Lauren Fenmore, whom she has attempted to kill on multiple occasions.

[1] Despite being a regular cast member on The Bold and the Beautiful, Brown returned to The Young and the Restless for several guest appearances beginning on October 27, 1992 and departed on November 5, 1992.

"[7] Stafford only portrayed the role for two months until February 9, 2007,[8] when Sheila was shot by her longtime enemy Lauren Fenmore and presumed dead.

"[16] Discussing Brown's portrayal of Sheila, The Bold and the Beautiful showrunner Bradley Bell stated: "Kimberlin has a gravity and an intensity and a fierceness that few actors are able to bring to the screen.

Sheila is a nurse who works at Genoa City Memorial Hospital and immediately falls in love with the married Dr. Scott Grainger (Peter Barton).

(Attorney, John Silva, expresses an interest in a relationship with Sheila)At the same time, Lauren also becomes pregnant by Scott but doesn't tell him.

The corpse turns out to be that of a meter man that had visited the house just before the fire started; Sheila later escaped from the burning building.

Picking up a discarded newspaper in an area diner, Sheila reads about an opening working as a company nurse for the Forresters in Los Angeles.

Security guard Mike Guthrie (Ken Hanes) catches her in the act and after threatening to blackmail her with the details, Sheila sets loose a vicious dog to attack him.

After a one-night stand with former rival Connor Davis (Scott Thompson Baker), Sheila goes to Eric claiming she is pregnant with his child.

After attempting to drown Lauren in a hot tub, Sheila kidnaps James with the help of her new partner-in-crime, the security guard Mike.

Having survived, Sheila is placed in a psychiatric hospital, under the care of Dr. Brian Carey (Kin Shriner), but does not remain there for long, despite Stephanie's attempts to keep her there.

After Sheila hands her baby, Mary, over to the Warwicks, she relocates to Death Valley, where she meets Amber Moore (Adrienne Frantz).

With the help of Mike and his brother Martin, a desperate Maggie captures Sheila and holds her prisoner, appropriately, in the house from Psycho at Universal Studios Hollywood.

Sheila returns to Los Angeles four years later to find her now-teenage daughter Mary (whom she had renamed Erica Lovejoy) (Courtnee Draper).

Massimo Marone (Joseph Mascolo), who had been romantically involved with Sheila for a short time, gets a call from her, and Stephanie recognizes her voice.

Sheila returns to Genoa City (on The Young and the Restless) after being unseen for ten years, and begins terrorizing Lauren Fenmore once again, by indirectly turning her now-adult son Scott (Blair Redford) against her under the alias of "Brenda Harris".

Sheila then disguises herself as a British woman named "Jennifer Mitchell" by putting on a fake accent and donning a wig, prosthetic nose, and dentures to change her appearance.

As Jennifer, she allies with Tom Fisher (Roscoe Born), who helps her in her scheme to poison Lauren with a necklace that Scott offers to his mother as a gift.

In exchange, Tom has Sheila manipulate his estranged wife Gloria Abbott (Judith Chapman) into giving him money and later bailing him out of prison.

When Lauren plans a rooftop dinner with her fiancé Michael Baldwin (Christian LeBlanc), Sheila surprises her and persuades her to commit suicide by jumping off of the roof.

Later, it is revealed that Sheila is still alive, having undergone months of plastic surgery to look like Phyllis Summers Newman (Michelle Stafford), and that Paul Williams had been hiding the fact that he had been keeping her locked in a cage she had constructed in an abandoned warehouse (Paul had lied to Lauren and Michael, telling them Sheila had got hit by a car and died after her surgery).

Posing as an elderly woman named Betsy, Sheila takes Phyllis, Summer, and Fen to a nearby retirement home to hide out.

Sarah devises a plan with Daisy Carter (Yvonne Zima) and Ryder Callahan (Wilson Bethel), Sheila's twins with Tom Fisher, to take over Lauren's life and riches.

In 2012, a woman claiming to be Daisy's mother checks her out of the Fairview mental institution, signing the name "Sheila Carter" on the release form.

Introducing herself as a friend of the Logan family, Sheila reveals herself to Katie, asking for her assistance in making amends with those she had wronged in Los Angeles.

Jack later comes to visit Sheila in her hotel room and attempts to convince her to leave town so that she stays away from Finn, Steffy and their son, Hayes.

[12] The Bold and the Beautiful showrunner Bradley Bell highlighted the character's ability "to have viewers care about her and root for her", but also "invoke true fear in the audience".

Kimberlin Brown's baby-swapping man-stealer was so rotten to the core that she couldn't be contained by one soap opera; nope, the lovelorn psycho crossed over to sister show The Bold and the Beautiful and wound up being killed off more often than nemesis Lauren Fenmore's been married!