Grace Standish
| Grace Bennett | |||||||||||
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| Passions character | |||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Dana Sparks | ||||||||||
| Duration | 1999–2007 | ||||||||||
| First appearance | July 5, 1999 | ||||||||||
| Last appearance | January 30, 2007 | ||||||||||
| Created by | James E. Reilly | ||||||||||
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| Residence | Harmony (1979–2004) Italy (2004–07) |
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| Siblings | Faith Standish (deceased) |
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| Spouse | Sam Bennett (1979–2007;her death) |
| Children |
Noah Bennett Kay Bennett Jessica Bennett |
| Grandchildren |
Maria Lopez-Fitzgerald Sam Bennett III |
| Nieces and nephews | Charity Standish |
Grace Bennett is a fictional character from the NBC/DirecTV soap opera, Passions. Grace had been played by Dana Sparks from 1999–2004 and 2006–2007. Unknowingly gifted with supernatural powers, Grace is presented early on as the ideal wife, mother, and homemaker; however, Grace's perfect family life begins to noticeably fall apart in 2001, when her husband Sam, is revealed to have fathered a son with another woman, and a mysterious man arrives in Harmony claiming to be her husband from her pre-amnesia days. Grace's Roman Catholic faith leads Grace to choose a life with David instead of Sam, and Sam and their children, hurt, turn their backs on her. Grace moves to Italy with David in mid-2004 and is not seen on-screen again until late in 2006, when her daughter Kay admits that Sam's ex, Ivy, had hired David to pretend to be Grace's husband in a ploy to win Sam for herself. While in London awaiting a flight back to the United States on January 4, 2007, Grace is killed in a bus explosion engineered by Vincent Clarkson.
Grace has no memories prior to Sam rescuing her from a Boston fire in the late 1970s. It is said that the evil witch Tabitha set the fire due to Tabitha not wanting the Standish women coming into their full powers. He got her name from a piece of paper he found in her pocket. They married soon after, and he brought her home to Harmony, to live in the house where he grew up. Over the years they had three children, and Grace helped Sam raise his much younger brother Hank. Grace and Sam looked for her family, but after the births of their children, Grace decided that she didn't need to know her past. That worked until after their oldest, Noah, left home for university. Grace started wondering about her family, so Sam started using the Internet to search for them. He found a woman, "Seeker", in a chat room, and managed to realise that she was a member of Grace's family. Grace was thrilled to learn that she had a twin sister. Over the years Faith tried to find her sister but due to the evil witch Tabitha Lenox, who was also Grace's next door neighbor, she couldn't do so. She didn't realise that her own children had met her niece, Charity, and that her daughter, Kay, was keeping the two apart in the hopes that Charity and Faith would leave, and she would get Miguel.
Grace and Faith managed to connect once, via their computers, but then couldn't. Faith was the victim in a fire set by an ancient enemy of the Standish family (the Bennetts next door neighbor, Tabitha). Her twin sister was dead, but Grace had something to hold on to. Her niece, Charity. Once Charity was out of the hospital, Grace and Sam moved her into the Bennett home. Grace soon realised that, like her, Charity has something special about her. While Grace received visits from a little angel girl, Charity had premonitions. She never realised that her premonitions were warning her about a new friend of hers, Ivy Crane.
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