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Lawrence Saint-Victor

American actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ6504561
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Lawrence Saint-Victor (born June 14, 1982) is an American actor and writer, who was on the cast of the soap opera Guiding Light, playing Remy Boudreau from April 2006 until the soap's ending in September 2009. Since January 2013, Saint-Victor has played attorney Carter Walton on the American CBS Daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, a role for which he received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2026. Saint-Victor also joined the show's writing team in 2021, earning three Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team in 2023, 2024, and 2026.

Early life and education

Born and raised in Rockland County, New York, Saint-Victor attended Ramapo Senior High School in Spring Valley, NY and later the State University of New York at Purchase. His mother is of African American origin and his father is of Haitian descent

Career

He portrayed Remy on Guiding Light between 2006 and 2009. Saint-Victor has been Carter on The Bold and Beautiful since 2013 and penned his first script for the soap that aired on January 16. Saint-Victor starred, wrote and co-produced the 2009 webseries, Wedlocked, alongside future The Bold and the Beautiful co-star Karla Mosley (Maya), who served as producer. He is in the 2015 film, Pass the Light.

Personal life

He married his college sweetheart, Shay Flake, on September 1, 2007.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lawrence Saint-Victor” as american actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 2006, 2009, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-06-14. The account is most persuasive where Lawrence, Saint-Victor and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american actor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6504561. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982, 2006, 2009 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from Lawrence Saint-Victor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.