The Russell family is a fictional family depicted on the American soap
opera Passions, which aired on NBC (1999â€"2007) and later on DirecTV
(2007â€"2008). The family was created by the soap's founder and head
writer James E. Reilly; it originally consisted of four
charactersâ€"the married couple Eve and T. C. Russell, and their
children Whitney and Simone. The Russells are one of the four core
families in the fictional town of Harmony, and are characterized by
their friendship with the Bennetts and Lopez-Fitzgeralds and their
feud with the Cranes.The Russell family is a fictional family depicted
on the American soap opera Passions, which aired on NBC (1999â€"2007)
and later on DirecTV (2007â€"2008). The family was created by the
soap's founder and head writer James E. Reilly; it originally
consisted of four charactersâ€"the married couple Eve and T. C.
Russell, and their children Whitney and Simone. The Russells are one
of the four core families in the fictional town of Harmony, and are
characterized by their friendship with the Bennetts and
Lopez-Fitzgeralds and their feud with the Cranes.As the series
progressed, four more characters were added to the family: Eve's
vengeful, adoptive sister Liz Sanbourne; Eve's child with Julian
Crane, Vincent Clarkson; Whitney's husband and Liz's son, Chad
Harris-Crane; and Eve's aunt Irma Johnson. Most of the characters left
during the show's transition from NBC to DirecTV, leaving Eve and
Vincent as the only representatives of the Russell family in the
series finale.The characters initially received negative feedback for
their representation of an African-American family. They were praised
by cast members, but Rodney Van Johnson, who played T. C., felt they
were not used to their full potential. Despite the criticism, the cast
was frequently nominated for NAACP Image Awards and featured
prominently in a series of public service announcements for Black
History Month in 2003. The Russell family also drew media and critical
attention for storylines involving various LGBT topics: Chad
Harris-Crane's affair with Vincent and subsequent confusion about his
sexual orientation, Simone's coming out as lesbian to her family, and
the revelation that Vincent was intersex. While the show's treatment
of sexual and gender identity has received mixed feedback from
critics, Passions won the award for Outstanding Daily Drama at the
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