Cress

Michelle Krusiec as Cressida Brinton

Cressida Janelle "Cress" Brinton is a 30-year old former model. She dreams of nothing more than being taken care of and maintaining her looks and lifestyle.  Cress is very smart with a head for business, but she plays the role that’s expected of her by her sponsors to ensure that she gets the life she wants. She's vain to a fault and can be very cold, calculating and strategic in order to get her way while keeping her hands clean.  Cressida prefers her solitude.
 
Cress is a kept woman with three "underwriters"--an architect, a politician, and a real estate developer--and she ends up in Atlantic Station because she convinced one of her sponsors who owns some property there to give her an apartment in the same building as the

Mocha Brinton

other girls.  Cressida is always flawless; she dresses to the nines and never leaves her apartment looking bad, beat down or busted.  Cress drives a S65 AMG Mercedes, a gift from one of her sponsors.  She has an exotic cat, a $22,000 Ashera named Mocha, a gift from a previous sponsor.  

Cressida doesn't work, but she is conscious of making the most of

the money she has saved.  She plays the stock market and, as a hobby, she crochets and embroiders.  She also rides horses and is the proud owner of a purebred Arabian named Cappuccino, another gift.

Cressida is wily and manipulative; she's chameleon-like in her dealings with others.  She maintains a strict diet and she goes out of her way to maintain her looks, as she intimately understands the power that a beautiful woman has. Cressida is always on the lookout for a new sponsor, as life has taught her that nothing lasts forever.

Cressida's sponsors are Devereaux Price, a well-known ambitious politician with a secret, Gervasi Renato, a real-estate mogul, husband and father of five, and Winston Chambers, an architect at Portman Architects.  She has a unique relationship with each man.

Devereaux Price...her main sponsor

Gervasi Renato...gave her Six-A

Winston Chambers...bangs her back out