Cait Fairbanks

Caitlin Elizabeth Baunoch known professionally as Cait Fairbanks is an American actress and singersongwriter She plays Tessa Porter in the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless for which she was nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards As a musician she performs as Cait Fairbanks and Ginesse Fairbanks started performing on stage at the tender age of eight and has since performed in over 20 professional regional and community theatre productions Among them the critically acclaimed OffBroadway production of Heathers The Musical in 2014 she played Veronica and 13 musical she played Lucy Fairbanks also played Young Mindy in CSINY and Gabby Walsh in Untold Stories of the ER Since 2017 Fairbanks has been playing Tessa Porter a singersongwriter on The Young and The Restless Portraying Tessa Porter allows Fairbanks to perform her own compositions on the daytime soap opera