“ | Sutton, hard-working and diligent, would win a gold medal if the competition was Manhattan's best assistant. | ” |
— The Bold Type narrator
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Sutton Brady-Hunter is one of the main characters in the Freeform series The Bold Type. She is portrayed by Meghann Fahy.
Sutton started working at Scarlet magazine as a low-level assistant to Lauren Park for three years before moving to the Fashion Department to pursue her true passion, even if it meant taking a big risk. She recently was promoted to a Fashion Stylist in Season 4.
Biography[]
Sutton grew up in a small town with her mother and not a lot of money, consequently making her a very practical, but hard worker. She went to business school at Penn State but doesn't find that she is following her dreams just being an assistant at Scarlet, and therefore takes a leap of faith and decides to go for the fashion department, even though the pay would be much lower than a job in the Marketing Department, but ultimately ends up happily working as Oliver's assistant. She was promoted to a fashion stylist in the Season 4 episode "Some Kind of Wonderful."
Relationships[]
Sutton is best friends with Kat Edison and Jane Sloan. They know each other when they began working for Scarlet magazine as assistants before following different paths within the company. and always cares about them and is there for them
Sutton is also involved in an on-off quiet romantic relationship with Richard Hunter, in-house lawyer/attorney for Steinem Publishing. They met on accident, as Sutton was meant to be going on a Tinder date. Instead, she blew off the date and ending up spending her time with Richard.
Their relationship becomes complicated as more people find out about their secret.
She later becomes close with another co-worker, Alex Crawford and they have a fling until he realizes she's still in love with Richard and lets her go.
Sutton and Richard call their relationship off in the season 2 premiere, Sutton worried about the repercussions of them going public and what it would do with her career. Later, Richard gets back together with his law school girlfriend. They broke up because of distance but are back together now. Sutton also realizes that she truly loves Richard but he moved on and it's now dating a new woman.
At the end of Season 2, in Paris, the pair reconnect, sharing a magical kiss. He and Sutton got engaged in the Season 4 episode "#scarlet." She and Richard got married in the season 4 episode "Some Kind of Wonderful."
Trivia[]
- She once dated a guy that would yell "Cubs win!" during sex.
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