Virginia Harrison is a fictional character from the American television soap opera Sunset Beach, played by Dominique Jennings.

Virginia was supposed to feature in ten episodes but producers offered Jennings a permanent contract to join the show's regular cast.

In the plot, Virginia uses a sperm laced turkey baster to assault her love rival, Vanessa Hart (Sherri Saum).

[1] Writers created a love-triangle story-arc for Virginia, Michael Bourne (Jason Winston George) and Vanessa Hart (Sherri Saum).

[2] George told Seli Groves from Times-News that Michael has an "overdeveloped sense of responsibility" to care for Virginia and Jimmy, to make amends for Jackson's death.

Unlike Vanessa, she knows the "violent world" they came from, he thinks Virginia is "beautiful" and he "cares for" Jimmy, which gives him "a ready-made family.

"[2] Virginia is subject to a storyline in which she drugs and impregnates love rival Vanessa with Tyus Robinson's (Russell Curry) sperm, using a turkey baster.

[4][5] Carolyn Hinsey from New York Daily News reported that Sunset Beach writers caused controversy with the storyline and annoyed viewers.

A NBC publicist defended the storyline and explained to Hinsley that it was supposed to be "outrageous like many stories on daytime dramas today.

"[6] Hinsley added that Virginia, Vanessa and Michael's love-triangle plot made them some of the most popular African-American characters featured in US soap operas.

[6] In another part of the storyline Virginia dresses up as her alter-ego "Nurse Jones" in an attempt to fool and run Vanessa's stay in the hospital.

[8] In February 1999, it was announced that Sunset Beach had decided to end Jennings' contract with the serial, after they axed Virginia from the series.

[11] Sally Stone of the Portsmouth Daily Times said that Virginia delivered "a nasty Kodak moment" when she manipulated pictures of Vanessa and Tyus.

[18] A reporter from Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph opined that "Virginia inseminated Vanessa with stolen sperm using a turkey baster" was an example of Sunset Beach's "bizarre storylines" that kept viewers watching.

[19] In a Time Out feature profiling "best soap opera moments", British playwright Bola Agbaje chose the turkey baster plot as the most memorable.

[20] A reporter from All About Soap branded the turkey baster plot as one of the show's "classic moments", noting the "strange nature" of the conception.

"[8] The critic concluded that it was unsurprising that the "claws were out" once the truth was revealed, adding that Virginia is a "scheming" character and her admission to a psychiatric hospital "serves her right".

[21] Seli Groves from The Jersey Journal wrote that Virginia's departure shocked "her many fans who liked the idea of having a black actor play a villain."