Ridge Forrester is the golden heir of the Forrester dynasty and the emotional engine of The Bold and the Beautiful. Gifted, confident, and impossibly charismatic, Ridge grew up at the intersection of privilege and expectation, shaped by the creative brilliance of Eric and the commanding will of Stephanie.

As a designer at Forrester Creations, Ridge inherited his father’s artistic instinct and his mother’s appetite for power. His talent on the runway is matched only by the turbulence of his private life. At the center of that storm stands Caroline Spencer, the elegant and fragile woman who became his first great love and the emotional axis of his early years.

Their relationship — tender, complicated, and shadowed by family expectations — shaped the man Ridge would become. Torn between passion and responsibility, he learned through Caroline that love in the Forrester world is never simple and always political.

Ridge moves through life with the ease of a man who has always been admired, yet beneath the polish lives a restless soul. Loyal to family yet drawn to rebellion, he often finds himself divided between duty to the Forrester name and the pull of his own desires.

Passionate, impulsive, and fiercely protective, Ridge is neither hero nor villain but something far more human — a man forever chasing harmony between heart, legacy, and identity. In many ways, the story of The Bold and the Beautiful is the story of Ridge Forrester: the son, the lover, the rival, and the heir who could never escape the gravity of his own destiny.