Nadine Crowell

Infobox soap character
series = General Hospital
name = Nadine Crowell
series = General Hospital



caption1 = Claire Coffee as Nadine Crowell.
first= October 5 2007
creator = Robert Guza Jr.
portrayer = Claire Coffee
gender = Female
occupation = Nurse at General Hospital and at Emily Bowen Quartermaine Clinic
residence = Port Charles, New York
siblings = Jolene Crowell
(sister; comatose)
Unnamed Crowell
(brother)
[Nadine mentions having a brother in a conversation with Nikolas Cassadine. air date:09/18/2008]
spouse =
aunts/uncles= Raylene
(aunt; deceased)

romances= Damien Spinelli
(kissed/one date)
Matt Hunter
(one date)

Nikolas Cassadine
(kissed/dating/lovers)

Nadine Crowell is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, "General Hospital". She is portrayed by Claire Coffee on contract status.

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Fictional character history

Nadine, who is a nurse, shows up at GH requesting to see her comatose sister Jolene. Spinelli then fills her in on all of Jolene's nefarious activities at GH. Nadine is shocked at her sister's behavior, and explains why the two decided to become nurses and that their father died on the operating table during a routine surgery.

She has become friends with Spinelli, and accompanied him to Nikolas Cassadine's Black & White Ball. At the ball Nadine and Lulu are wearing the same gown and Nadine is mistaken for Lulu by Logan Hayes and Johnny Zacchara. Nadine later agrees to pretend to be Lulu so that Lulu can go face Johnny's deranged father, Anthony, who mistakes Nadine for Lulu and captures her. He tosses her into a room threatening to kill her and saying how all women are the same. Spinelli comes to her rescue, throwing a vase at Zacchara so they could run. They are found by Jason Morgan who takes them to the barn so they can remain safe. Spinelli starts putting himself down because Jason didn't want his help and she comforts him by telling him how great he really is and how the Jackal saved her. She also tells him the only good thing about Jason is that he has Spinelli as a friend. When one of Zacchara's men dies, Nadine runs off to another part of the barn pondering how people could hurt each other like that, obviously thinking of her sister. Spinelli and Elizabeth give her words of comfort.

Apparently, she and Spinelli still keep in contact via the phone.

Nadine works with Nikolas Cassadine on his brain tumor. She is also the only one who knows that Nikolas sees Emily's ghost. She provides a unique understanding on his situation and offers him someone to talk to about what he is going through.

Nadine was drugged and kidnapped by Diego Alcazar after she saw who he was while at his warehouse but she survived.

After learning that someone in Port Charles has been messing with the prescription drugs, Nadine, Nikolas, Lucky, and Sam begin to investigate who is behind the counterfeit drug ring. Nadine believes that new doctor Matt is behind the counterfeit drug ring since she's overheard many suspicious phone calls made by Matt. Nikolas thinks otherwise and believes Nadine is going to end up getting hurt.

After many warnings by Nikolas, Nadine storms off and confides in friend Leyla about what's happening between her and Nikolas. Leyla gives her some advice but she misunderstands and storms off to see Nikolas and kisses him. Afterwards, she's embarrassed and tells Nikolas she doesn't want to hear the "friend" speech out of him. Then, Elizabeth walks in and gives Nikolas advice regarding his love life. He tells Elizabeth he is still mourning Emily's death and he will always love Emily no matter what. Elizabeth tells him she understands, but that he should also see what's out there and Nadine is a beautiful girl. Nikolas admits he's attracted to Nadine but if he were to date Nadine he would feel like he was going to somehow ruin Emily's memory but also thanks Elizabeth for helping him clear everything out. As Elizabeth and Nikolas give each other a friendly kiss, Nadine walks in and misinterprets the situation thinking that Nikolas does want to move on from what happened to Emily, just not with her.

Falling For Nikolas Cassadine

When she first meets Nikolas Cassadine he is coming onto the ER. She helps him throghout his tough times and ends up falling for him.. Nikolas finally realizes that she has feelings for him and he has feelings for her as well but is afraid to act on them. Elizabeth talks to Nikolas and says Emily would have wanted him to move on and fall in love again. Prior to this development, Nikolas and Nadien have kissed in total, twice, once per Nadine and the other sparked by Nikolas. Afterwards, Nikolas turned her down, giving Nadine the idea that Nik would never be compatible with anyone else since Emily had died. However on August 21st, Nikolas invited Nadine over to the castle and they have a beautiful dinner together, as his way of apologizing for his earlier lapse of manners. They sum up the evening with a clumsy but loving waltz around the grounds. When Nikolas reels in to kiss Nadine, she is paged by the GH operating room when Damien Spinelli was the victim of a near-deadly hit and run accident. He offers to ride her to the hospital, but frantically Nadine rushes off not hearing what Nikolas said and leaving Nikolas with a mount of frustration.

However, Nadine isn't the only woman he's feels attracted to. Claudia Zacchara, daughter of mobster Anthony Zacchara and Nik have met early this year when Claudia came to town. Starting off on shaky grounds at first, and they grew closer when Nik found Claudia washing up at shore, after being stabbed by Jerry Jacks. He took care of her and she revealed her deep secret, which is that she was responsible for the comatose state of Michael Corinthos, the son of Port Charles' mobster Sonny Corinthos. Nik kept her secret, but thought it was better to keep his distance from now on. They did share a kiss once, though, and Nik can't help himself but helping out Claudia whenever she's in trouble.

Nikolas seems to be leaning more towards the lovely nurse. Only sharing scenes with the seductress Claudia Zacharra whenever her brother and his sister are involved. Although Nik showed affection towards Claudia early on, she has moved closer towards Ric Lansing, brother of Sonny Corinthos. Nikolas however has started to fall in love with Nurse Crowell, which is obvious when he becomes worried for her health. In September 2008, when the Emily Quartermaine ward is burned down by Jerry Jacks, leaving Nadine and the intended victim Matt Hunter, he is vigil by her side until she wakes up. Although Nadine swears that she is fine and just suffers from smoke inhalation, he insists that she should come to Wyndemere Castle to recuperate fully. It is there that Nikolas tells Nadine, in not so many words, that he starts to fall in love with her. To finish off the evening, he kisses her.

After Kate's shooting, Nikolas takes Nadine back to Wyndermere. They start to kiss but Nik freaks out a bit and leaves. Nadine waits. He comes back and they make love for the first time.

References

External links

* [http://www.soaps.com/generalhospital/cast/603/Nadine_Crowell Soaps.Com - General Hospital - Nadine Crowell]
* [http://www.soapcentral.com/gh/whoswho/nadine.php Nadine Crowell profiles] at soapcentral.com