Mackenzie Browning
Actor History
Ashley Bashioum (February 1999 to 15 February 2002; April 20, 2004 to March 10, 2005)
Nicole Tarantini (2001; temporary replacement)
Kelly Kruger (February 19th, 2002 - July 1st, 2003)
Rachel Kimsey (March 25th, 2005 -May 17, 2006)
Nicknames
Mac
Occupation
Working with her father Brock Reynolds on New Orleans reconstruction
Co-owner Crimson Lights Coffee House
Supervisor at Market Street Recreation Center and attending GCU
Taught pre-school and kindergarten on an Indian Reservation in the Southwest
Attended Genoa City University one semester while working part time at the Glow By Jabot Boutique
Attended Northwestern University for one semester
Graduate of Walnut Grove Academy
Former "Glo By Jabot Kid" for Jabot Cosmetics
Former part-time waitress at Crimson Lights Coffeehouse
Former Volunteer at the local homeless shelter
Resides At
New Orleans
Marital Status
Single
Past Marriages
William "Billy" Abbott (annulled)
Relatives
Brock Reynolds (father)
Amanda Browning (mother)
Gary Reynolds (grandfather)
Katherine Chancellor (grandmother)
Jill Foster (half-aunt)
Phillip Chancellor III (half-cousin; deceased)
William "Billy" Foster Abbott (half-cousin)
Children
Miscarriage by JT Hellstrom
Flings & Affairs
Raul Guittierez
Billy Abbott
Daniel Romalotti
Kevin Fisher
J.T. Hellstrom
Crimes Committed
Runaway.
Underage drinking; charges were dropped.
Brief Character History
Mackenzie and Katherine Chancellor where both were staying and at the Genoa City homeless shelter, where they met and became friends. Mac had run away from St. Louis and her mother Amanda and step father Ralph. Later, Mac trusted Kay enough to show her a letter from Mac's mother Amanda, so Kay learned of the involvement of her son Brock with Mackenzie's mother. Kay later told Mackenzie that she is her grandmother.
They left the homeless shelter with another friend, Birdie, and returned to the Chancellor Estate together to face new co-owner Jill Abbott, known as "the witch from hell" to Mac. Jill's teenage son Billy Abbott returned to Genoa City, making things easier for Mackenzie. The two didn't exactly hit it off right away after Billy threw a wild party in his mother's absence to get back at her for grounding him. Mac was almost arrested and accused of stealing. She got out of both with the help of Attorney John Silva and Billy s persuasion with Jill.
Kay returned alone from her search for Brock in India where he was a missionary. Shortly afterward, Kay received a call that Brock was presumed dead. So of course, Brock shows up and they are reunited after many years. Mackenzie, dejected by her father's "death", is missing, while Mac's new friends Billy and his friend Raul, search for her. Mac shows up at Crimson Lights Coffeehouse, meets Nina McNeil, and Nina persuades her to stay the night with her. Next morning Mackenzie is gone when Nina returns with Billy and Raul. Mackenzie shows up at the Estate to get her things, intending to leave town, when her father walks in and they are finally united.
Raul and Mackenzie became close while Billy looked on, dealing with his own feelings for Mac which she did not realize. One evening J.T. invited everyone to a party at a house he was house-sitting. Raul showed up in time to save best friend Billy's life when he suffered alcohol poisoning and collapsed in the snow, as Brittany nor JT were willing to call 911 and get themselves in trouble. At that time, MacKenzie and Billy did not get along at all. But she stayed at his bedside and prayed that he would be alright. Then came the Jr. Prom. Billy and Brittany were supposed to be a shoe-in, but when the votes were counted, Billy and Mac were crowned King and Queen. Only then when they danced together at the prom, did they realize how much they cared about each other. Unfortunately Jill noticed too, much to her horror, that her son could be smitten with Kay's granddaughter. Billy showed up at the Chancellor's later and he and Mac told each other how they felt, and kissed. Jill began threatening to find runaway Mac's mother if she became involved with Billy. So Mac and Billy began meeting in secret in the Abbott children's old playhouse. He gave her an opal ring to seal their love.
Billy, Brittany, Raul and Rianna were chosen as the Glow by Jabot Kids as a promotion for the new Jabot teen line. Mac assisted Phyllis Summers running the website featuring the kids. Brittany discovered that her boyfriend Billy was involved with Mac, so arranged for Mac to walk in on her and Billy "making love." Billy was drugged and Britt was faking it, but Mac believed what she saw and it broke her heart. Billy tried to defend himself, but couldn't remember what happened. Local bad boy, JT, spilled it that it was setup for Mac to see, but no one realized that Billy was drugged. Brittany was hurt, but eventually took Billy back. Raul found out, and split up with Mac, moving on to Rianna.
Mac and Billy began being drawn to each other again, but it wasn't until Jack arranged for Billy and Mac to be trapped in an elevator at Jabot that they realized that they truly belonged together. Although Billy did his best to be a jerk to turn Mac away "for her own good", they eventually reconciled and became a couple again. Jill made peace with it, once she realized what a bad choice Britt was for Billy.
Afraid that Mac's mother Amanda would show up in Genoa City and take her back, Katherine petitioned and was awarded legal custody of Mac. That eased Mac's fears of discovery, and she agreed to join the on-screen Glow By Jabot Kids. When Amanda did show up, Mac rebuffed her and sent her away. But Amanda had divorced and run away from her husband Ralph too, and is living at the same homeless shelter where Mac and her father were volunteers. With her boyfriend Billy's help, Mac and her mother are accepting each other in their lives again. Enter abusive husband Ralph, who tracked Amanda to Genoa City and is blackmailing her into stealing from the Chancellor's for him.
Things went fine for Billy and MacKenzie for several months. He helped her admit that she ran away from St. Louis because her step father Ralph had molested her, and her mother wouldn't believe it. Senior year began, and a holiday series of the Glow By Jabot website added J.T. and Mac to the Glow Kids. The scene changed to Jabot where a boutique opened which was run by the kids. Phyllis had taken a job with Brash & Sassy, so new webmaster Sean Bridges was hired. Mac is in her Senior year of high school, and is sending out college applications.
After the holidays, Billy realized that he was ready for more from his relationship with MacKenzie. When he shared his feelings with her, he tried to avoid pressuring her, but couldn't accept her insistence that she was not ready and should wait. As a result, the two of them broke up. They got over the trauma became friends. Then Mac's Step-Father, Ralph, showed up in Genoa City and began stalking her. He coerced Mac's Mom, Amanda, into helping him steal from the Chancellor Estate. Amanda let him into the mansion while all were at the prom, but Mac returned home unexpectedly and much to her horror, was met by Ralph. Billy arrived on the scene as Ralph was about to molest Mac again, confronted him, and whacked Ralph over the head with a fireplace poker. Thinking he had killed Ralph, Billy took Mac to hide out in their special place, the old Abbott playhouse. Thinking they were doomed, Billy and Mac realized they still loved each other. Ralph kidnapped Kay after she returned from chaperoning at the prom, and tied her up in a motel room. Ralph, disguised as a cop, talked Raul into telling him places where he might find them. Meanwhile Larry Warton found and rescued Kay. Ralph showed up at the playhouse, too late, but found them at a campsite where Raul and Billy used to play as kids. Ralph knocked out Billy by whacking him over the head with a rock and grabbed Mac, but our hero Larry showed up in time to rescue her. Larry and Ralph fought, and just before the police arrived, both ended up going over a cliff to the lakeshore below. The next morning Ralph came to and tried to kill an unconscious Larry with a rock. Scared away by the arrival of the police, Ralph disappeared into the bushes. Larry recovered with minor injuries and major thanks from Billy's mother Jill for saving her son's life. Because Jill had video evidence that Amanda had stolen her jewels, and after nearly getting both her own daughter and Jill's son killed, Amanda agreed to leave town if Jill would drop the charges.
After all he went through that summer, Billy decided he needed to do more with his life than go to college, so he left for Louisiana to help Mac's father, Brock, build houses for the poor. He and his mother Jill shared a tearful parting although Jill felt he was making a mistake. Mac and Billy parted tearfully as well, declaring their love and promising each other this is not the end of them. Mac left Genoa City that fall to attend Northwestern University. Both Billy and Mac returned to Genoa City for Christmas, and decided to attend GCU and now share a loft apartment with Raul and Brittany. By spring Billy had proposed and Mac and Billy were to be married with Raul Gutierrez as best man and Colleen Carlton as maid of honor. But with the reveal that Billy's mother Jill's actual birth mother was Katherine Chancellor, their lives were shattered when they realized they were cousins. Mac and Billy both left town on their own, devastated by the news.
Mac has returned to Genoa City after spending time in the Southwestern US helping out teaching kindergarten and preschool children on an Indian Reservation. Her grandmother Katherine, who had fallen off the wagon, was thrilled to see her. Mac found it difficult to live in the same house as a drunken Katherine and Jill, who hates her, so she moved back into the loft apartment with JT, Brittany and Raul. (Kay has since become sober again.) Victor Newman, as part of his community service sentence for commercial bribery, is restoring an old building into a Rec Center in a seedy part of town. He hired Mac as his Supervisor on the project. 20 year old Mac began to get close with Daniel Romalotti who had a similar parent-less background. But JT was only too glad to spill Daniel's secret that he was only 16 to Mac, and Mac called it quits. Mac began dating JT, and Raul moved out of the loft to attend Pemberton University in Boston.
Mac convinced JT that he really loved Brittany, but he wasn't able to tell her before Brittany married Bobby Marcino, so he reverted to his playboy past. Mac was able to get Kevin Fisher to open up to him, and convinced him to go to a psychiatrist. Kevin appears to be learning how to deal with his past and handled it well when he realized that Mac was not interested him as more than a friend. JT has been assisting Paul Williams with his detective work on various cases while attending Genoa City University. Meanwhile, Mac and JT got closer, and she has finally lost her virginity to him. But in an intricate plot to keep the mob away from Brittany and her unborn baby, they set it up to look like JT was the father, and Bobby and Brittany staged a split. Mac wasn't included in the plot for her safety, and this "revelation" broke her heart. Nikki started nosing around and uncovered the plot, ending up getting kidnapped by Vinny's goon Luca. Paul, Victor, and Bobby rescued Nikki while JT took a distraught Britt to the Newman Ranch. Luckily Mac showed up as Brittany went into labor, and Mac delivered the 2 month's premature baby, Joshua. Vinny, Angelo, and his goon ended up in jail, Brittany and the baby in the hospital, and Bobby turned over his evidence on the mob and went into the witness protection program, leaving Brittany and Joshua behind. JT confessed to Mac this was all a hoax, that he really loved her, but Mac was reluctant to trust him again. Katherine Chancellor convinced JT, Brittany and her baby to come live at the Chancellor Estate with Mac, as it would be the most secure for all of them. Months went by, and finally Brittany shared a short visit with the heavily-guarded Bobby. Not long afterward, she received word that Bobby had been killed by a hit & run driver. Brittany was devastated, and she and Joshua ending up moving to New York City with her parents. Mac and JT have since moved into the loft apartment with roommates Kevin and Scott Grainger. Kevin became close friends with MacKenzie again, and they decided to go into business together. They convinced Nick and Sharon to sell Crimson Lights and began running it together.
About the time Colleen returned to Genoa City intent making her jealous, Mac discovered she was pregnant with JT's baby. She couldn't bring herself to tell him, but she told her grandmother Kay and Kevin. It wasn't until she miscarried that JT found out and was livid that she hadn't told him and confided in Kevin instead, so JT had a one night stand with Victoria Newman. Mac & JT broke up, and Mac moved out of the loft and back into the Chancellor Estate. She was getting closer and closer to Kevin, then suddenly took off back to the Indian Reservation. Mac later returned to tell Kevin she was going to go to New Orleans to work with her father Brock and signed a power of attorney over to Kevin for the coffee house. JT is now involved with Colleen again, and she has moved into another bedroom in the loft apartment.
