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| Cassie Brady | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Days of Our Lives character | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Alexis Thorpe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 2002–2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | July 8, 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | June 7, 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; recurring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Peter Brash andPaula Cwikly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Ken Corday and Stephen Wyman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cassie Brady is a fictional character from theNBC, daytime,soap opera, andDays of Our Lives. Cassie and her twin brother,Rex, first appeared in Salem on theFourth of July formeteor shower in 2002. They believed in the story of being aliens and were later revealed to be the children ofRoman Brady andKate Roberts.
Created byPeter Brash and Paula Quickly, the role of Cassie was cast withAlexis Thorpe, who had previously portrayedRianna Miner onThe Young and the Restless. Thorpe appeared as a contract player from July 8, 2002,[3] to December 1, 2003, at which point the character was believed to have been murdered. However, she reappeared on April 27, 2004, alive and well, making infrequent appearances until June 7, 2005, without a proper exit.
Cassie and her twin brother,Rex, crash-landed inSalem during a meteor shower and were originally believed to be aliens. The twins had matching tattoos resembling the Phoenix, which called their connection toStefano DiMera andJohn Black into question. As time went on, they were believed to be the children ofTony DiMera andMarlena Evans, who were taken away as toddlers and genetically manipulated by Stefano's scientific genius,Wilhelm Rolf. However, this was proven false. In reality, asperm sample had beenstolen fromRoman Brady during his years as Stefano's captive and was combined with eggs taken fromKate Roberts.
At first, Cassie pursues and eventually kissesShawn-Douglas Brady, unaware that he is her cousin. Cassie then becomes involved withLucas Roberts, also unaware that he is her half-brother, almost sleeping with him before learning of their relationship. The twins keep their true parentage secret for a while in hopes of joining theDiMera family. Soon after their secret is revealed publicly, Cassie is killed by the "Salem Stalker" and her stabbed body is staged inside a Thanksgiving piñata. Kate is arrested after being found holding a bloody knife, but the real killer was a mind-controlled Marlena. Months later, Cassie and the other victims are found alive on a remote island, "Melaswen," in a recreation of Salem. Shortly after returning to the real Salem, Cassie is last seen leaving the main floor of the Brady Pub to go upstairs. It is later revealed that she has moved to Chicago.
In 2020, Belinda Jepsen fromMamamia put Rex and Cassie's introduction on her list of the five "most ridiculous storylines" that occurred onDays of Our Lives, calling the pair "two ridiculously attractive youths".[4]
In 2021, Richard Simms fromSoaps She Knows put Cassie on his list of the most hated soap opera characters, commenting that "Maybe it was that she and brother Rex were introduced as aluminum-foil-wrapped aliens. Maybe it was that she very nearly bedded half brother Lucas Horton. Whatever the reason, by the time Cassie's supposedly dead body fell out of a pinata, viewers were pretty much over her. Though she — like the other Salem Stalker victims — later turned up alive, the character's days were numbered, and she left town soon after."[5]
