Nicole Forrester

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Nicole Forrester is a Soap Opera veteran who recently replaced Laura Wright in 2005 in the role of Cassie Rae Layne Winslow on the CBS Soap, Guiding Light. She left the soap in 2008 when her contract expired. Unlike most other recasts, she was accepted and remained on.

She left the show to start her family with her husband and she was pregnant with her child which she announced was due in Febrary 2009.