Faye Brown

Eric Connolly isn't very good at being sad. He chalks it up to his eternal belief that no matter how much today stinks, tomorrow will be a new day. On the day his grandma died, Eric was the first one to bring up all the good times they'd had together. On the day he divorced Ava Hartmann, he asked her to go to lunch with him. He's a manager to several big stars in Hollywood, including Vincent Jones and Sophie Parker, and maintains an interesting working relationship with talent agent Ari Cook.

Born to a middle class family in Staten Island, New York, Thomas is often described by his younger brother Jim as the boy who always wanted to grow up. Thomas knew from very early on exactly what he wanted in life, and by the time he entered New York University along with high school sweetheart Faye Brown the two were already in a serious relationship. Thomas and Faye agreed that while they didn't want to get married, they did want to have children as soon as possible. However, because Faye had been through chemotherapy to treat cancer as a child, IVF and the use of an egg donor was ultimately necessary in order for Faye to give birth to Nadia Collins when Thomas was nineteen, and he has always maintained his daughter was the best thing that ever happened to him. When Nadia was sixteen, however, Faye confessed that she'd fallen in love with another man and eventually moved away to Ottawa, Canada, taking Nadia with her. Thomas, on the other hand, decided to join his younger brother Jim in Boston, Massachusetts, where it didn't take long for the two to resume their once strong friendship and for Thomas to join Jim in working for Kitty Stewart on David O'Brien's political campaign. He has recently been promoted to Communications Director for the newly elected state senator.