The Young and the Restless Comings and Goings

By Janet Di Lauro Sep 11, 2016 1:56 p.m. ET

The Young and the Restless coming and going

Who’s coming and who’s going from The Young and the Restless? Here’s the latest casting news from the CBS soap.

The week of September 12, 2016
Veteran actress Nichelle Nichols has wrapped up her two-day stint as Neil’s estranged mother, Lucinda.

She first appeared on the soap’s 11,000 episode, which aired September 1, and died on the show’s September 5 episode. Nichols is best known for her role as Lieutenant Uhura on the 1960s series, Star Trek, as well as its succeeding films. She also played a nurse on another soap, the 1966 series, Peyton Place.

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Janet Di Lauro

Sep 11, 2016 1:56 p.m. ET 3,593 articles

Janet Di Lauro is a contributing editor at Soap Opera Digest and a writer at Cynopsis.com and Soap Hub.com.
She has been writing about daytime and primetime television for over 30 years.
Prior to her current gigs, Janet ran ThoughtCo.com’s Days of our Lives website. She has built a career in daytime television coverage that has spanned over 30 years and includes a stint as the West Coast editor of Soap Opera Weekly magazine from the publication’s debut in 1989 through 2010. In addition, she was the features editor of Daytime TV magazine and editor of Soap Opera Stars magazine during her publishing years working in New York.
Based in California, Janet has interviewed daytime’s biggest stars, past and present, from Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso (Bo and Hope, Days of Our Lives”) to Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, All My Children) to Maurice Benard (Sonny, General Hospital) to Peter Bergman (Jack, The Young and the Restless). In addition to her daytime work, she served as a contributing editor on the tween publication Pixie and was a feature editor on Reality Check magazine.