In 1954,
17-year-old Alexis Morrell glanced up from a table and saw
Blake Carrington across the room talking with Cecil Colby. As
she watched them she took a deep breath and by the time she
exhaled, she was completely in love. Blake asked her dance
and as the band played "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered",
Blake fell for the English beauty. When they finished dancing
Blake went to get them drinks. Alexis looked at her cousins
and sister and said, “I have just danced with the father of my
children.” Three days later Blake proposed. Within a month
Alexis Morrell was Mrs. Blake Carrington.
In the
beginning Alexis wanted nothing more than to be Blake’s
adoring wife and mother to their first child Adam Alexander
Carrington. Alexis reveled in motherhood and was very
protective of her darling baby. On the morning of September
29, 1957 her happy existence was shattered when Adam was
kidnapped. She reached out for Blake for support but was met
with coolness. When she couldn’t lean on him she turned to
others. Cecil Colby was willing to lend an ear and before
they knew it, they were having an affair. Feeling incredibly
guilty about the fling with Cecil, Alexis devoted herself to
being the doting wife Blake wanted her to be. She became
pregnant again and gave birth to a baby girl. When Fallon was
born she became jealous of the attention that Blake showered
on his daughter. That jealousy remained even after giving
birth to Steven because in the back of her mind, Alexis was
upset with Blake for calling off the search for Adam and he
was now trying to replace their first son with this one.
During their
marriage Blake went on several business trips often leaving
Alexis alone for weeks on end. She became lonely and looked
for attention outside of their marriage. She had a few more
affairs with Jimmy Decker and Sam Dexter among others. The
final blow to Blake and Alexis’ troubled marriage came when
Blake found her in bed with Roger Grimes. After beating
Grimes senseless, he threw Alexis out of the house. They
attempted a reconciliation but it only lasted three months.
Blake discovered that Alexis had seen Grimes again and exiled
her from Denver for good. Giving in to his threats, Alexis
left Blake and her children in 1965 with a $250,000 a year
trust fund and the secret that she was pregnant with their
fourth child.
Upon her
return to Denver, Alexis had mixed feelings about Blake. On
one hand she absolutely hated him for banishing her from her
children. On the other hand she wanted nothing more than to
hear him say that he loved her and wanted her back. Alexis
married Cecil Colby and after his death a few minutes later,
found herself one of the richest women in the world. She used
the money and position to lash back at Blake as revenge for
everything he had done to her throughout the years and God
help anyone who tried to stand in her way.
Alexis was
overjoyed when a young man named Michael Torrance presented
her with a silver rattle and announced that he was Adam.
Fallon and she haven’t always seen eye to eye but they have
forged a loving relationship. Steven was and still is his
mother’s favorite child. Although horrified when Amanda
arrived in Denver and publicly announced that she was Alexis’
youngest child, Alexis reluctantly gave in and adjusted to the
fact that Blake had learned the truth.
Alexis has
had more than her fair share of men in her life. After luring
Mark Jennings to Denver to break up Blake and Krystle’s
marriage, she ended up sleeping with him instead then hired
him to be her bodyguard. She dallied with Rashid Ahmed
whenever they were in the same city. She met and married
Farnsworth “Dex” Dexter. When she found Dex in bed with
Amanda, she immediately divorced him. She was being wooed by
the King of Moldavia but got rid of him when she discovered he
was using her for her money. Then there was an innocent
flirtation with Blake’s brother Ben and finally the
unfortunate marriage to Sean Rowan. Even with the array of
men there was always something holding her back. Although she
did truly love Dex and later Sean, Alexis’ heart and soul
would always belong to Blake.
