Devon Hamilton Winters
Actor History
Bryton McClure (April 2004 to Present)
Lifeline
Celebrated his 18th birthday on air in February 2006
Occupation
Attends Genoa City University as a Music Major
Working part time as a rising Intern at Newman Enterprises
Graduate of Genoa City High
Resides At
Lives with his sister Lily in rent house owned by Jack Abbott
Relatives
Yolanda Hamilton (biological mother)
name unknown(biological father)
name unknown (grandmother, deceased)
Tyra Hamilton (aunt)
Ana Hamilton (cousin)
Neil Winters (adopted father)
Drucilla Barber (adopted mother) (presumed dead)
Lily Winters (adopted sister)
Children
None
Flings & Affairs
Roxanne [last name unknown]
Crimes Committed
Arrested for assault at age 14 for breaking the nose of a guy named Tyrone with a wrench for taunting him about his druggie mother.
Brief Character History
Lily Winters spent the summer of 2004 as a volunteer working on Victor Newman's Community Service project to turn a vacant factory into a Rec Center for the tough neighborhood it was in. Lily met troubled teen Devon, who was belligerent and just hung around watching and resenting the rich kids helping the neighborhood kids fix up the place. Lily's attempts to befriend him were rebuffed at every turn as Devon did not trust anyone - especially an obviously rich kid. To get her off his back, he made up answers to her questions, telling her how he went to a school in the rich part of town and was part of a big happy family. Later when Lily realized he was lying, Devon told her how he'd been shuttled from group home to group home since he was taken from his crackhead mother, and that his father was dead. He was currently living in a foster home, but was about to be kicked out for his behavior. Just as the bubbly and sweet Lily was finally getting through to Devon, and he started helping out and treating everyone better, he was told by his social worker, Lorena Davis, that there was no group home available so he'd have to be sent to a Level 12 facility which sounded more like jail.
Lily's mother Drucilla got to know the boy and saw herself at that age. Remembering how she had gone down the wrong road until Nathan had rescued her and taught her to read, she wanted to give back by helping Devon in the same way. So Dru convinced Neil and Ms. Davis to allow them to be temporary foster parents. Devon was blossoming once he knew someone cared, and he and Lily became very close. During this time, Devon told Lily he'd once seen his father hanging out in front of a convenience store.
Devon became part of the family, learning table manners, reading books, and such. Neil was hesitant, but Dru plotted to make the arrangement permanent, and was lying to Ms. Davis that Neil was on board with permanent fostering of Devon. When it was discovered that Neil knew nothing about it, Devon was scheduled to be sent to a Level 12 facility, but he ran away with Lily instead. Devon was found, and Victor Newman, whose probation officer was also Ms. Davis, volunteered to take him until a group home could be found. Victor and Devon bunked together at the Rec Center in sleeping bags for a few weeks. The day he was to leave with Ms. Davis, Neil finally gave in and agreed to permanent foster care of Devon.
Devon was taken from his mother at the age of 6 when she OD'd and he went to live with his grandmother who is now deceased. It seems she was the only person who ever cared about Devon. He has fond memories of baking cookies with her and celebrating birthday picnics with her at the zoo watching the seals. He commemorated one of these memories by baking cookies for his new family for Christmas rather than spend the cash he was given by them for presents.
Devon's 17th birthday came around, but no one remembered it. Disappointed, but unwilling to tell anyone but his friend Sierra, he skipped school and headed for the zoo. Later that night when he was discovered missing, Sierra tipped them to check the zoo. Dru, Neil, Lily and Malcolm found a terrified Devon marooned in the lion habitat, eye to eye with a lion! Malcolm climbed down into the pit and used skills apparently learned in Africa to distract the lion while Devon climbed out with the help of Neil, followed by Malcolm. Lily and Devon brought around the SUV to pick them up, but she lost control when it skidded on the ice and struck Neil. Neil was taken to the hospital, and made amends with Malcolm, asking him to take care of his family in case he didn't make it through surgery. He relieved guilt from Devon and Lily, and said goodbye to Dru. In the waiting room, Lily blamed Devon, so when Mrs. Davis arrived, he asked be put into a group home. Dru intervened and assured Devon that families were all about love and forgiveness. Neil needed blood, and Lily wanted to donate, but Malcolm insisted he be the one. Devon helped Lily see that Malcolm needed to give back to his brother to mend the relationship, but Malcolm was really more interested in the possibility that Neil was not Lily's father. Neil came through the surgery fine.
As time went on, Devon became very protective of Lily, and he appeared to have more than a sisterly interest in her, but she was too busy chasing after Daniel Romalotti to notice. After their friend Cassie Newman was killed in a tragic accident, and Daniel thought to be at fault, Daniel and Lily ran off together and became fugitives from the police. After Neil and Dru took out their frustrations over Lily on Devon, he admitted to Sierra that although he hadn't seen her in several years, he might know where is mother could be found, but was afraid of the probable rejection if he did. After Neil joined the search for Lily and Daniel in LA, and Dru was too busy obsessing over the missing Lily to be interested in Devon's welfare, he finally visited the park where his homeless mother Yolanda was living. Devon was disturbed to see how raggedy and skinny she was, and told her how well he was doing in school and was living with a rich family now. Devon tried to give her some cash, but she admitted she was still a crackhead and would only spend it on her habit. Yolanda encouraged Devon to forget her and his old life and take advantage of what the Winters had to offer him. Devon left the cash on the bench beside her, and said goodby. But he returned several times to see her, and once saw Yolanda dragged into the police station.
Lily was out on bail, and Daniel went on trial for vehicular manslaughter where Christine and Paul failed to prove that Cassie was driving the car. But in a last minute save, Nick Newman turned over the evidence he'd been withholding - the clothes Cassie was wearing that fateful night. The boot she was wearing matched a piece of a heel found under the accelerator, the judge determined that Cassie was driving and let Daniel go free. Lily's parents made a deal to send her away to boarding school in New Hampshire and have no contact with Daniel to get the DA to drop the charges against her. Lily and Daniel vowed their undying love and were torn apart at the airport. Lily's school strictly kept them from contacting each other until they began communicating as Romeo and Juliet via a study website. But they got caught and that was stopped too. Then Lily's parents made her write a letter to Daniel dumping him, and Devon was asked to deliver it. Lily got a second letter to Devon telling Daniel that the first was a fake, but Devon kept it. .
Now alone with Neil and Dru after Lily has left for boarding school, Devon tried to talk Yolanda into going into a free state rehab facility. She refused but claimed she was off the drugs. So Devon took her home to the Winters', let her clean up, and she left with Neil's expensive watch. She used the watch to buy enough drugs to overdose, and was found unconscious in the park by Devon. Yolanda recovered and went into rehab. She came to live with the Winters family getting her act together, got a nice job in the Jabot mailroom, then blew it all by coming on to Neil. Neil shot her down, Devon walked in on them, so Yolanda explained to Devon. He turned down the offer to leave with her, so she packed and left for her sister's in Seattle. Devon hasn't been in touch with her for years, but she is back on drugs and living in Los Angeles.
Lily arrived home for a long-weekend visit, popping out of a present for Devon's 18th birthday. But all Lily was thinking about is finding Daniel. Once Lily informed Daniel of the deception, they let everyone believe they no longer cared about each other and Lily was allowed to stay in town. Colleen helped them by faking a romance with Daniel but Lily and Daniel never stopped their affair. Eventually both sets of parents found out. Tho Phyllis was more understanding, Neil and Dru were livid and threatened exposure of Lily to the police that she had violated her probation. So Lily and Daniel eloped to Las Vegas and began living in the former Abbot children's playhouse on the Abbott estate thanks to Jack's generosity. Devon began working part time as an intern at Newman Enterprises and attending GCU.
In the middle of the Winter's marital problems, Devon went deaf after surviving meningitis. They reconciled, and the family bound together to support Devon by learning sign language and having their home equipped for the deaf. Devon was coping well considering he was a music major, but began looking into having a cochlear implant. He was being smothered by his over-protective foster parents, so he moved out to live with Lily and Daniel, but Jack Abbott ended up renting a house to all three to live together near the GCU campus. Neil gave Dru the job of decorating his jazz club Indigo and is hoping Devon will work there too. Indigo's successful grand opening featured Aaron Neville with a sign language interpreter just for Devon. But afterward, Carmen turned up bludgeoned to death in the alley behind the club. Dru, Neil, Devon and Lily all appeared before the Grand Jury to testify, and were among the murder suspects. But in a surprise turn of events, Devon was arrested for the murder of Carmen! While he was out on bail awaiting trial, his cochlear implant surgery was successful and he can hear again. Neil and Dru took this opportunity to legally adopt Devon once they heard that his mother was back on drugs. 3 months later, Carmen's former lover David Chow showed up in Genoa City, hell-bent on getting Dru convicted for Carmen's murder after he received a copy of the video of Dru and Carmen's altercation. After hooking up with Leanna Love, the video was aired on TV, and all eyes are again pointing at Dru as the murderer. Chow was confronting Dru everywhere, even turning up at her apartment door just after Dru found her own clothes shredded like she did Carmen's. Then Dru started seeing dead Carmen and ended up checked into the psych ward, though it turned out that Carmen's identical cousin Inez was in cahoots with Chow and gaslighting Dru. After Jana Hawkes confessed to being was the real killer, David and Inez appeared at Dru's competency hearing, vindicating her. However, he never revealed he was the one behind the gaslighting. Jana disappeared and both Dru and Devon were exonerated.
In April of 2007, Sharon told Drucilla she was being blackmailed by Phyllis over her affair with Brad Carlton. When Sharon and Phyllis began fighting on the edge of a cliff during a NVP photo shoot, Dru intervened. When all lost hold of the cell phone they were fighting over, they lost her balance and fell backward. Dru sailed off the cliff into the river below, and Sharon was left hanging onto the edge for her life. Phyllis tried to save her, but she lost her grip and also fell to the river below. Rescuers combed the area and found Sharon's lifeless body, but she was revived and lived. Dru was never found. Only the jacket she wore was found below the falls, so she was presumed dead. A prayer vigil was held at Indigo, where memories were shared by family and friends. Olivia remembered what a precocious child Dru had been, and how she had showed her love for Liv when she donated needed bone marrow when Liv was once on her deathbed. Sharon remembered her brutal honesty and her one-of-kind hats. Devon recalled that before Dru came into his life, no one had ever believed in him, and how she forced him through her love to believe in himself. Lily said Dru was the kind of woman who did it all - career and family, and was her role model. Neil believed Dru was still alive and was not going to give up looking for her, called her loyal and passionate about life. For a while Neil was turning back to the bottle in his despair over losing Dru, but his children seem to have gotten through to him.
New Co-CEO, Neil gave his son Devon a big project of his own to oversee with Kline Outdoor signs, and Brad was not confident in his ability to handle it. But Devon not only is getting kudos from Kline, but also was given a high profile account of Brad's and is becoming a serious up & coming businessman. When Devon discovered how badly Daniel had been treating his sister-by-his-adoption, Lily, he confronted Daniel and punched him out, then Lily tossed Daniel out and later divorced him. Devon has been dating a few girls, mostly one named Roxanne.
During a surprise 21st birthday party for Lily, Devon's Aunt Tyra and her precocious and talented 12 year old daughter Ana arrived from Seattle. Cane could see they didn't have money for a hotel, so paid for one, but Neil is highly suspicious of their motives for coming to town when Tyra admitted she gave up her job managing the Pembrooke Inn in Seattle to come there to visit Devon.
