Alicia Coppola Joins 'The Young and the Restless' as Dr. Meredith Gates

Alicia Coppola

Alicia Coppola has joined the cast of CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless as Dr. Meredith Gates, according to Soap Opera Digest.

"They explained a little bit about it and who I would be working with and sent me some material,” Coppola tells the magazine. "In those 10 pages that I read, it was a really fully fleshed-out female character. I haven’t really read something like that in a long time, something that was so dynamic and interesting that I automatically saw a backstory. She reminds me of Lorna. She feels things very deeply, and I just think there’s a lot more going on than what’s on the surface. I like that.”

Coppola is scheduled to debut on Y&R in the April 13th episode. Daytime fans will remember her as the original Lorna Devon on NBC's Another World from 1991-1994.

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