Lily Winters Ashby (formerly Romalotti) is a fictional character, a resident of Genoa City in the soap opera The Young and the Restless. Starting off as a rebellious yet naive teenager, the character has become one of daytime's favorite women.. The character made up one half of two popular pairings. One was a young love story with Daniel Romalotti and the other was a more mature relationship with Cane Ashby. Khalil received Daytime Emmy nominatio...
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Lily Winters Ashby (formerly Romalotti) is a fictional character, a resident of Genoa City in the soap opera The Young and the Restless. Starting off as a rebellious yet naive teenager, the character has become one of daytime's favorite women.. The character made up one half of two popular pairings. One was a young love story with Daniel Romalotti and the other was a more mature relationship with Cane Ashby. Khalil received Daytime Emmy nominations for the role in 2004 and 2006. She also won an NAACP Award for the part in 2008. The portrayal of Lily also earned Khalil to be named one of the Top 5 Actresses in Soaps for the year of 2008.
The character has been portrayed on contract by Christel Khalil from 2002 to September 2, 2005, when the actress decided to pursue a career in movies. Her departure forced the writers to change her storyline, while they looked for a recast. Several months later, Khalil was replaced by Davetta Sherwood, who played the role 2006 before being replaced by...
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