Rebecca Gold (Krista Bridges) was a hidden villainess from the 2018 Lifetime film Her Stolen Past, which was adapted from Lynette Eason's 2014 novel of the same title (airdate February 2, 2018). She was introduced as the nanny for the wealthy Bradley family, with Johns Hopkins medical student Sonya Daniels (the film's protagonist) and private detective Brandon Hicks stumbling upon her corpse at her house.
The film's climax also revealed that Rebecca was a villainous conspirator who was involved in the abduction of Heather Bradley—the love child of Olivia Bradley and her childhood sweetheart/illicit lover Mark Green. Infuriated by their affair, Don Bradley (who was slowly unveiled as the film's main antagonist) instructed his henchman Buddy Reed to murder Mark, along with paying Rebecca to take baby Heather from Olivia's church and sell her to an adoption agency represented by Joseph Coyle. Heather was then adopted by Janet and Terrence Daniels, who renamed her Sonya.
Olivia was despondent over losing her daughter, and she had eventually suspected Rebecca's collusion, going as far as to attack the villainess. In response, Don had his wife declared mentally unstable and kept her medicated with antidepressants, resulting in Rebecca's role remaining a secret. The film's prologue saw Janet being killed under Don's orders in a parking garage, and after her funeral, Sonya eventually learned of her closed adoption. Throughout the film, she worked with Brandon after realizing that she could have been Heather all along. Furthermore, Rebecca was called by Hicks; she seemed to set up a meeting for them, but after their conversation ended, the evil criminal phoned Don and stated that "we have a problem." Before Brandon and Sonya/Heather could reach the Gold residence, she was shot to death offscreen by Buddy; just like with Janet, Don had her murdered as part of his efforts to keep his criminal past hidden.
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- Krista Bridges previously portrayed an unnamed villainess on The Hitchhiker, Kelly Raskin on The Dresden Files, Mary Jacobson in 2012's House at the End of the Street, Sister Nora in 2016's Sometimes the Good Kill, and Mary Hofstedter on Ransom.
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