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Kate Howard / Connie Falconeri
Played by Megan Ward / Kelly Sullivan
By
Laurie
 
Kate was first introduced as the editor in chief of Couture, a high-fashion magazine based
in Manhattan. Later, she lost Couture, so she started her own magazine, Crimson,
in Port Charles.
When we first met Kate, she barged into Sonny’s
office at home and asked to use the phone. She was pushy, arrogant, and a
bit rude. She was really full of herself. Kate definitely needed an
attitude adjustment.
On the outside, Kate Howard is self-assured, motivated, and
independent. She dresses beautifully and carries herself with poise and
confidence. There is never a hair out of place or a wrinkle in her
clothing.
We started to see that Kate has some vulnerability. We now know that
Kate has a number of insecurities and issues. First, she is embarrassed
about her family roots and her childhood. Kate is from Sonny’s hometown
of Bensonhurst, New York. Her real name is Connie Falconeri. She
didn’t grow up wealthy or privileged, but she always wanted to be
successful.
After she left
home, Kate went to college. She went to great lengths to reinvent
Connie and made a new life for herself by legally changing her name and
creating a fake background to hide her past.
Kate has been trying to come to terms with her former life.
She’s reconnected with her former love Sonny, but there are clearly some
unresolved feelings between them. It’s obvious that Kate really cares
for Sonny. She feels guilty about having left him to pursue her dreams,
and she often wonders if Sonny’s life would have been different if she
had stayed with him. Kate’s even started to bond with Sonny’s kids
and though she is unable to swim, she saved Morgan from drowning in her pond. As far as we know, Kate isn’t related to any other Port Charles residents.
It was revealed that she had a past love affair with Trevor Lansing,
Ric's
father and Anthony's lawyer.
Kate and Sonny grew close, and they were to be married. Sonny flew in her
old friend Olivia from Bensonhurst for the wedding. He was trying to
surprise her, but Olivia resented the fact that Kate left the old
neighborhood and rejected her family and friends from there. They have been
on-again, off-again friends.
Anthony Zacchara shot Kate, trying to hit Sonny, at the altar.
Sonny and Kate broke up while she was recovering from her gunshot. He was
angry and a bit unhinged for a while.
When Jax left town, he sold his half of the Port Charles Hotel to Kate.
She already has her Crimson offices there. She and
Carly don't get
along. Maxie works for Kate at Crimson.
Lulu used to work for her as
well. Kate is apparently a very tough and demanding boss.
Kate's only other romantic relationship on the show was with
Coleman, a
local bar owner. He was the last person anyone thought she would date, but
they made it work for a while.
Kate became involved with Sonny again in 2011. The pressures of dating
the mobster again made her alternate personality, "Connie", come out. Connie
is the way Kate acted when she was a teen, only worse. She doesn't
want Kate and Sonny together, since she keeps getting shot at, so she is
trying to break them up. Connie got Johnny to
sleep with her so that
Sonny would break up with Kate.
Kate was getting therapy from a doctor in Chicago for a while. Now she is
seeing local shrink Ewen Keenan. He wants her to commit herself to
Shadybrook. At first only he and Johnny knew about her problem.
Jason
and Spinelli knew that she had some sort of
mental problems. Others, such as Olivia, suspected that something was not right.
Connie ended up hitting Ewen over the head, and he almost died. Jason stopped
Connie from leaving town, and she was committed and arrested. Sonny doesn't want
to believe that Kate had a split personality.
Proofread by Laura on
11/23/10
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