The Hotchkiss family is a wealthy family living in the fictional town of Harmony

Harmony (passions)

Harmony is a fictional town and the setting for the NBC/DirecTV soap opera Passions, which ran from 1999 through 2008. A coastal New England town founded in 1646 with a small population, Harmony features a large fishing industry...

 on NBC

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/DirecTV

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's soap opera

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 Passions

Passions

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. The Hotchkiss family is not one of the four main families on the show.

First generation

• Jonathan Hotchkiss
  Jonathan is the never-seen father of Gwen Hotchkiss. He married Rebecca for her money after having been seduced by her; to his vocal dismay, their only child was a girl, though he still loved his daughter. Jonathan agrees to divorce Rebecca in 2001 so that she can marry Julian, but only if she leaves him with her inheritance. Gwen later names her son Jonathan in honor of her father. According to comments made by both Gwen and Rebecca, Jonathan is also a crossdresser.
  • Rebecca
    Rebecca Hotchkiss
    Rebecca Hotchkiss is a fictional character on the NBC/DirecTV daytime drama Passions. Rebecca has been played by both Maureen McCormick and Andrea Evans , neither of whom was ever on contract...
    
    
    (Maureen McCormick
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    , 2000; Andrea Evans
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    , 2000–08)
    Rebecca seduced Jonathan as a young woman, stealing him away several other socialites. Rebecca arrives in Harmony in 2000 to help plan her daughter's upcoming nuptials to Ethan, and, ever the social climber, eventually divorces her husband so that she can marry the much wealthier Julian Crane.

Second generation

• Gwendolyn "Gwen" Hotchkiss
  Gwen Winthrop
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  (Liza Huber
  Liza Huber
  Liza Victoria Huber is an American actress best known for her role as Gwen Hotchkiss on the daytime soap Passions.-Personal life:...
  
  , 1999–2000, 2002–08; Natalie Zea
  Natalie Zea
  Natalie Zea is an American actress known for her roles as Gwen Hotchkiss on the NBC daytime soap Passions, socialite Karen Darling on Dirty Sexy Money on ABC and Winona Hawkins on Justified on FX.-Career:...
  
  , 2000–02)
  Gwen moves to Harmony in the series premiere with her long-time boyfriend, recent Harvard Law School
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   graduate Ethan Crane. They soon become engaged, but Ethan breaks things off the night before their wedding, leaving her for Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald. With her mother's help, Gwen reveals Ethan's true paternity and frames Theresa for the deed. Gwen and Ethan are married in December 2002; the split up briefly in October 2003, after the stillbirth of their daughter, Sarah, and again in 2007 after Gwen discovers Ethan cheating on her with Theresa. They have a second child in 2007 and renew their wedding vows in 2008, but her misdeeds are soon exposed, and upon Rebecca's revelation that Gwen married a stranger while drunk in Las Vegas
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  , her marriage to Ethan is invalid.
  • Ethan Winthrop
    Ethan Winthrop
    Ethan Winthrop is a fictional character on the NBC/DirecTV daytime drama Passions. Ethan is played by both Travis Schuldt and Eric Martsolf...
    
    
    (Travis Schuldt
    Travis Schuldt
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    , 1999–2002; Eric Martsolf
    Eric Martsolf
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    , 2002–08)
    Ethan is Gwen's childhood sweetheart and quickly becomes her fiancé when they move to Harmony. After a brief break-up and some scheming, Gwen and Ethan are married in December 2002, and they have two children: Sarah, who is stillborn, and Jonathan. In addition, Ethan and Gwen serve as adoptive parents for Little Ethan in 2004, and they raise Ethan and Theresa's daughter Jane as their own until they separate in 2007. The couple renews their vows in 2008, but after discovering that Gwen was drunkenly married in Vegas seven years ago, their marriage is invalid and Ethan marries Theresa.

Third generation

• Sarah Winthrop
  Sarah is the daughter of Ethan and Gwen. After an altercation, Sarah is stillborn in Los Angeles
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   in October 2003. Her death is the catalyst for many new stories in the Gwen/Ethan/Theresa triangle, including half-brother Little Ethan's adoption and the conception and birth of younger half-sister Jane.
• Jonathan Winthrop
  (Jack and Nathan Ecker)
  Jonathan is the son of Ethan and Gwen and is born off-screen in May 2007, despite the fact that Gwen is believed to be barren. Jonathan becomes deathly ill late in 2007 but survives after older half-brother Little Ethan donates part of his liver
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  . His father Ethan married his step-mother Theresa on the series finale and his mother Gwen went to prison.

Extended family

• Jonathan's mother
  Jonathan's late mother lived to be ninety-seven years old. Her daily care eventually fell to Rebecca, who did a poor job of caring for her ailing mother-in-law.

Hidden Passions

In the novel Hidden Passions

Hidden Passions

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Rebecca's mother's name was Pamela Osburn. However, the show (which has never mentioned Rebecca's mother's name) states that Rebecca came from a long line of Osborn women.

Family tree

Jonathan Hotchkiss

m. Rebecca

Rebecca Hotchkiss

Rebecca Hotchkiss is a fictional character on the NBC/DirecTV daytime drama Passions. Rebecca has been played by both Maureen McCormick and Andrea Evans , neither of whom was ever on contract...

 (divorced 2001)

c. Gwendolyn Hotchkiss (born 1975)

m. unknown man (married 2001)

m. Ethan Winthrop

Ethan Winthrop

Ethan Winthrop is a fictional character on the NBC/DirecTV daytime drama Passions. Ethan is played by both Travis Schuldt and Eric Martsolf...

 (2002–08; invalid)

c. Sarah Winthrop (2003; stillborn)

c. Nathan Winthrop (2004; medical abortion)

c. Jonathan Winthrop (born 2007)

Note: the letter "m" indicates a marriage, "a" an affair, "r" a rape, and "c" a child resulting from one of those unions.