Cyrus Renault

Jeff Kober as Cyrus Renault

**Cyrus Renault** is a fictional character and a main antagonist on the ABC Soap opera *General Hospital*. He is the son of Gordon and Florence Grey, the brother of well-known attorney, Martin Grey and the paternal half-brother of mayor Laura Collins.

He has been portrayed by actor Jeff Kober since the character's introduction on February 5, 2020.

## Casting

On January 31, 2020, *Soaps.com* and other sources confirmed that actor Jeff Kober, known for appearing in *NCIS: Los Angeles*, *The Walking Dead*, *Sons of Anarchy*, and *Falcon Crest*, would join the cast of *GH* in the role of Cyrus Renault.

He made his first appearance at the end of the episode on February 5, 2020.

The role was initially supposed to last only a few months, however executive producer Frank Valentini told Kober that he would continue writing for the character as long as Kober was enjoying himself.

On June 16, 2021, it was revealed that Kober is done as Cyrus and has exited *GH*. He made his last appearance on June 16, 2021.

On June 18, 2021, Kober revealed on the "Dishing with Digest" podcast that he enjoyed his time on the show and is open to returning as Cyrus on GH again.

Kober made a short return from August 31 to September 1, 2021.

Kober returned again on October 28, 2021.

## Background

Cyrus is a notoriously dangerous drug runner from the Northwest, in Seattle, Washington; who has been running his operations from prison for the past decade. He brought in his products in from Russia over the Canadian border and then he distributed it throughout the western states. His people would sell his products to anyone from corporate CEOs to middle school aged kids.

In 2010, he was put behind bars after being framed for crimes he did actually commit by former DEA agents Jordan Ashford, Marcus Taggert, Bob Massicotte, and Mark Simon who infiltrated his organization under false identities.

In late 2019, he somehow learned of the identities of those who betrayed him and had him put behind bars and began making his move for revenge. He had himself moved from Thompson Penitentiary to Pentonville to be close to Port Charles. He began making moves against Sonny Corinthos wanting to expand his business there as well as get revenge on those who locked him up.

He's extremely feared in the underworld business, as even Sonny and Jason became worried upon learning that he was threatening their families and their way of life in Port Charles. Cyrus's network is as extensive as Sonny's network, if not more. Jordan considers him to be the most evil man she's ever known.

In April 2020, after a decade behinds bars, Cyrus was released from prison with a full exoneration, after forcing Jordan to tarnish the reputation and memory of her former colleagues by revealing that they framed Cyrus.

He is responsible for the deaths of Bob Massicotte and Mark Simon.

In December, he was revealed to be the biological brother of attorney, Martin Grey and that their mother is Florence Grey, who has fallen very ill. Cyrus has been sending her money to pay for her medical bills and expenses. Since their father was the late Gordon Grey, Laura Collins is their paternal half-sister.

According to Martin, Cyrus was wild and fell in with the wrong crowd in Shreveport, Louisiana. Both Florence and Martin blame Cyrus for Gordon's death since Cyrus hit him with his car, but Cyrus insists that his death was an accident. Cyrus was thrown out of the house by Florence, so Cyrus moved Northwest, lived in his car and did odd jobs for a while.

Cyrus is enemies with almost everyone in Port Charles except for those who are willingly working for him in his organization.

## Storylines

On January 7, 2020, Sonny Corinthos learned from Gio, an employee of his, that a truck had been hijacked. Sonny made it clear that he didn't want to deal with those people since he wanted the Port Charles Police Department to know he was a legitimate businessman since all they would find in that truck is coffee. A few days later, it was later revealed that the truck had been found, abandoned, and torched.

On January 29, when Sonny took his father Mike Corbin and his best friend Jason Morgan to Brooklyn, New York, eventually a gunman ended up pulling out his gun and a shootout occured inside of a restaurant with a bunch of people inside. At the same time in Port Charles, two other shootouts occured; one at Sonny's coffee warehouse where Gladys Corbin and Carly Corinthos were and the other one down on the pier where Michael Corinthos, Josslyn Jacks, Sasha Gilmore, and Mayor Laura Collins were at. In the shootout on the pier, Laura was shot in the stomach by the gunman while Michael, Josslyn and Sasha were shaken up but saved by Dustin Phillips who fought and chased away the gunman. At the warehouse, Brando Corbin saved Gladys and Carly but was shot in the process, while Jason ended up killing the gunman in Brooklyn as Sonny kept Mike calm. Sonny’s warehouse men, Tony DiMarco and Brent Green, captured one of the two gunmen and the other gunman got away.

On February 4, Cyrus is first mentioned. Sonny questions the captured gunman and then Sonny allows Brent to beat up the gunman after he won‘t say who he is working for. Later Jason walks by and sees that Brent has been shot and killed. Jason is also shot at by the escaped gunman and they fire at each other. One of Jason‘s bullets hits the gunman and Jason asks the gunman to tell him who he works for since he is dying. The gunman says “Cyrus Renault“ and Jason has a worried look on his face.

On February 5, Jason tells Sonny and Carly that the gunman said he was working for Cyrus Renault, a drug runner who normally operates in the Pacific Northwest. Cyrus has been operating from Thompson Penitentiary for the last ten years but Brick discovered that Cyrus was secretly transferred to Pentonville Penitentiary recently. Sonny said he has never dealt with Cyrus and only knows him by reputation. Later Sonny stops by Pentonville to visit Cyrus.

Cyrus wants Sonny to go into business moving drugs with him. Sonny refuses and threatens Cyrus. Cyrus says he has personal reasons for moving to Port Charles. Later Jason tells Michael that Cyrus was behind the three attacks.

On February 18, it was revealed that a four person DEA team (Jordan Ashford, Marcus Taggert, Bob Massicotte, and Mark Simon) were involved in a Cyrus Renault bust back in the day. Bob and Mark have been killed and their deaths were made to look like overdoses. Jason discovers that an empty warehouse at 457 Water Street is most likely owned by Cyrus. He tells Sonny his suspicions and prepares to bomb the warehouse.

On February 19, Jason ties up Cyrus’s henchmen, Walker and Jenkins, and tells them they can either go back to their boss or run away. Then he blows up the warehouse and leaves.

On February 20, Jordan visits Cyrus at Pentonville and tells him she is now the commissioner. He laughs and says she was his right hand before bringing up her son TJ. She then asks him about Bob and Mark’s deaths and he laughs again. She wants to know if he started a mob war just to get back at her. Cyrus points out that she must not be very good at her job if there is already a mob presence in Port Charles. Later Taggert and Curtis are arguing so Jordan agrees to tell Curtis everything.

Jordan and Taggert explain to Curtis their deep cover DEA assignment to bring down Cyrus. She tells him how Bob and Mark were also involved and both recently died in suspicious circumstances. She reveals that they manufactured evidence and framed Cyrus for crimes which he was guilty of committing.

On February 26, Taggert visits Sonny at Pozzulo's to see if they can work together to bring Cyrus down. Taggert tells Sonny he joined the DEA after he left Port Charles. When he leaves the restaurant he notices he is being followed. He asks Walker if he is looking for him. Walker says he isn’t and points out that Jenkins is behind Taggert. Later Jordan and Curtis find Taggert and he tells them that he was jumped after he led Walker into an alley. He punched one of the guys who attacked him before they ran off. They were trying to inject Taggert with a needle full of opioids.

On March 2, after Taggert died saving his daughter Trina Robinson and her friend Cameron Webber from Walker and Cyrus' other men, Cyrus was confronted by mayor Laura Collins about Taggert's death. Of course, Cyrus played dumb and acted like he had nothing to do with his death but eventually he was put into solitary confinement.

On March 11, Jordan visited Cyrus again at Pentonville to confront him about T.J. being missing and demanded to know if he kidnapped him. Eventually, Jordan got a text which was a picture of T.J. being held hostage and was unconscious. Cyrus now had Jordan right where he wanted her, because he later sent Lorraine "Harmony" Miller to her house as his messenger to blackmail her into doing his dirty work. It was revealed that back in December of 2019 that Cyrus offered to pull some strings to get Harmony out of Pentonville on early parole so that she'd owe him a favor and he is blackmailing her into working for him by threatening to harm her and her daughter Willow Tait.

On March 23, Cyrus had ordered Harmony to pass on a new message and task to Jordan. He had her tell Jordan that he was pleased with her first task's results but he has a new job for her, he wants her to set him free from Pentonville with a full exoneration in exchange for her getting T.J. back. Harmony warned her that she's a dirty cop now and that Cyrus has her right where he wants her.

On April 6, Cyrus was released from Pentonville with a full exoneration.

On August 3, Cyrus talked with Dr. Portia Robinson at GH and referred to Trina. Laura stepped up to defend Portia. She later saw Cyrus talking to Tom, a GH board member. Tom ignored Laura’s insistence that Cyrus is a criminal and he quickly walked away from her. Laura asked why Cyrus was interested in the hospital. He said that he heard GH was facing a fiscal crisis and he had already established the Cyrus Renault Foundation for Social Justice. Laura told him that the money needed will come from ELQ.

On August 6, Cyrus paid Brando a visit at his garage. Brando asked if there was a car he needed help with, but Cyrus said no and that he was there for another reason. Later on, Jason came by and learned that Brando installed the new stabilizer on his (Jason's) motorcycle and was thankful. Brando also told Jason that Cyrus stopped by, causing Jason to tell him to let him know if Cyrus comes by again. When Jason took his motorcycle on the road, his bike started malfunctioning and he crashed. Jason had exploratory brain surgery and made a full recovery.

On August 11, Curtis is tired of Cyrus involving Jordan and mentions 1257 Wilson Avenue to Cyrus implying someone Cyrus cares about lives at that address.

On August 13, due to Cyrus's contribution, he became Chairman of the Board at the hospital.

On September 3, Cyrus has Monica Quartermaine and Bobbie Spencer fired from the hospital due to the lawsuit involving lost paperwork for Wiley Quartermaine-Corinthos‘s surgery.

On September 11, it was revealed that Cyrus hired Dr. Britt Westbourne to become the new Chief of Staff at GH.

On September 21, Cyrus made a call to find out if Neil Byrne overdosed on his product. A henchman later told Cyrus that Walker checked with their source at the PCPD and confirmed that Neil did use Cyrus’ product.

It was later revealed that when Cyrus previously visited Brando on the day of Jason's motorcycle accident, he was offering Brando a job to work for him. Brando wasn't interested and he wanted to remain in the garage that Sonny set up for him. It was also revealed that Brando is innocent and did not cause Jason's motorcycle accident. Cyrus hired a henchman to sabotage the motorcycle. He later sent the saboteur and another henchman, Tommy Cordero, to beat up Brando, and afterwards, Jason and Sam McCall got him to the hospital.

On October 14, Cyrus has Jordan give him a hard drive with a 40 year old case that is heavily redacted.

On October 20, Brando finally agreed to work for Cyrus, who officially hired him as a driver. However, unbeknownst to Cyrus, Brando is actually working for Sonny and Jason as a double agent in order to infiltrate Cyrus's organization and take him down.

On November 4, Cyrus made a deal with Julian Jerome and had Ryan Chamberlain stabbed in prison before Ryan could hand over Nelle's incriminating letter on Julian to Sonny. After Ryan fell into a coma on November 6, Cyrus gained possession of this letter, but wanted Julian to kill Jason in return. Julian initially refused and told Cyrus that Taggert was alive, but Cyrus did not believe him and threatened to turn him over to Sonny. Thus, days after also having Brad Cooper stabbed in prison, Cyrus had Julian deliver an explosive package to the Floating Rib (where Jason was) and when Julian called Cyrus' number, the packed restaurant exploded. However, Jason left the restaurant prior to the explosion and an angry Cyrus wanted to kill Julian for his failure. The explosion killed Sonny's "cousin" Dev Cerci and Dev's teacher Dustin Phillips, and put Laura's daughter Lulu Spencer in a coma. Additionally, on the night of the explosion, it is revealed that the case on the hard drive involved Laura’s accidental murder of David Hamilton.

On December 1, it was revealed that attorney, Martin Grey has a connection to Cyrus and has known him for years. Jordan and Curtis follow up with the company that made the medical supplies they found in the Arts and Crafts House and it leads them to a New Mexico clinic. While Curtis asks for a tour of the facility, Jordan stays behind and downloads Cyrus’ file from the computer. She discovers the patient Cyrus is sending money to has the last name Grey.

On December 9, it was revealed that Martin is Cyrus's brother and that their mother is Florence Grey, who is also the patient that Cyrus has been sending money to.

On December 17, Cyrus brought flowers and went to the Mountain Landing Long-term care facility in Vermont to visit his mom for her birthday. When Cyrus heard Laura asking Martin why Cyrus was paying for Florence's medical expenses and what the connection was, Cyrus revealed to Laura that Florence is his mother. Laura already found out that she and Martin are half-siblings since their father is Gordon Grey, but she was shocked to learn from Martin that Cyrus is his brother since Florence is their mother and Gordon is their father, which means that Laura is Martin and Cyrus's paternal half-sister.

When Laura asked if Cyrus knew all along if they were related, Cyrus revealed that he found out that she was his half-sister shortly after they met since he did his research about her when she put him in solitary confinement. Laura didn't care that Cyrus is her half-brother since she will forever hold him responsible for putting Lulu into a coma. When Cyrus told Laura that he would never intentionally hurt her or Lulu, Laura sarcastically said that was because he never meant to hurt anyone. Martin revealed to Laura that Cyrus killed their father which upset Cyrus, who claimed he did no such thing. Martin grew angry and wanted to know why Cyrus can't just admit it and Cyrus insisted that it was an accident and it was just as much their father's fault as it was his. Martin grew even more furious and warned Cyrus not to blame him. Since Cyrus kept insisting it was an accident, Laura asked how their father died and Martin revealed that Cyrus ran him over with his car.

In early 2021, Cyrus created a pharmaceutical company, with which he attempted to push through the creation of a highly addictive pharmaceutical grade narcotic "Tobadryl", which he presented to the board of directors as a financial windfall for the hospital. He hoped for them to approve it, and then send it to the FDA. Britt, acting as a Corinthos mob mole at the hospital, informs Jason. Drs. Lesley Webber, Monica Quartermaine, and Lesley's daughter Mayor Laura Collins use an interview given by esteemed journalist Jackie Templeton with Cyrus' mother Florence, giving a scathing point-of-view of her son, and are able to rush through a secret vote "no" vote with the GH board.

On February 16, Cyrus told Laura he was seventeen years old when he accidentally killed his father.

On March 17, Cyrus joins league with Peter August, who was revealed to be a villain with a long list of crimes. Peter killed Franco Baldwin once Franco learned he had presumably killed his cousin (and Jason's identical twin brother) Drew Cain, and he and Cyrus schemed to frame Jason for the crime. Cyrus proceeded to use Gladys, who also disliked Jason for perceived (but not true) rejection of her son into the family business. Gladys witnessed Peter's killing of Franco and disposal of the gun. Cyrus convinced her to tell the police that she saw Jason. Jason was arrested and sent to prison to await trial.

On March 19, it was revealed that Cyrus had ordered someone to make sure that the results of a DNA test ordered by Jackie, Hamilton Finn, Harrison Chase and Gregory Chase showed the results he wanted the test to show, which means that Gregory is truly Chase's father, not Finn.

On April 23, Jason was brought to GH after he had been stabbed by Shawn Butler under Carly's orders. As Jason was recovering from his stab wound, Cyrus promised to make sure he was taken care of as long as he was in his hospital.

On April 29, Cyrus grew angry when he learned from an orderly that Britt has been working with Jason.

In May, when Gladys accidentally revealed to Cyrus that his obsession, the beautiful model Sasha was pregnant, he realized she was a liability. Peter mentioned witnessing Brando and Sasha's closeness, which led to Cyrus and Peter kidnapping and holding Gladys hostage.

Cyrus called Brando and ordered him to bring an envelope to the warehouse. After Brando showed up, he was surprised and upset to find out that Cyrus kidnapped Gladys. Cyrus wanted Brando to kill Gladys since she was about to betray him and tell the cops the truth about who killed Franco, even going so far as to manipulate him by reminding him of all the ways that Gladys hurt him in the past and he threatened to kill Sasha and their unborn child if he refused. Brando held out his hand and Cyrus gave him a gun before Brando aimed the gun at her. Brando teared up and grew so angry that he turned the gun on Cyrus and tried to shoot him, but the gun was empty and Cyrus simply asked, "Performance issues?" Cyrus revealed that he knew that Brando was a plant from Sonny this whole time and pulled out his gun - revealing that his is loaded and that Brando failed his final test. Cyrus revealed that he was going to kill Brando and Gladys, but Brando asked if he could say goodbye to his mother and Cyrus let him. Afterwards, Cyrus was about to kill them but a sniper laser appeared on his back before Carly's men ambushed Cyrus's people. Brando got his mother to take cover and shielded her as Carly's men took out Cyrus's men. Brando saw that Gladys had been shot in the shoulder so he got her to the hospital.

A wounded and weakened Cyrus made his way to Portia's house and waited for her to get home before he threatened her into treating his gunshot wound. Since Gladys recanted her statement before she revealed that Peter is Franco's true killer and that Cyrus ordered her to lie to the police, an APB was put out and Cyrus became a fugitive. Trina came home and Cyrus began holding both of them hostage in their own home as they had to treat his gunshot wound.

After Portia got the bullet out, Cyrus briefly lost consciousness before Curtis called her. When Cyrus woke up, he found Portia talking to Curtis and grew angry that she "took advantage" of his "momentary weakness". Cyrus then threatened both of them with a gun. Portia told him that there's nothing more she can do for him and that he needs to go to the hospital. He said it’s time for him to say farewell to Port Charles and they're going with him. Cyrus tried to make calls for someone to pick him up but he had no luck. As he bickered with Trina, Curtis and Laura burst through the door. Cyrus ordered them to get out or else he'd shoot his hostages.

Outside, Jordan got there with a team of policemen and a bunch of S.W.A.T teams after Laura had called her. Kevin Collins also showed up as a hostage negotiator. After an intense standoff, Laura was able to convince Cyrus to let Trina and Portia go and let her take their place instead as his hostage. When Cyrus got Laura inside, he told her that she will treat him as her brother and not as a criminal. Laura was trying to talk Cyrus down and give himself up but Cyrus didn't want to. He started having a breakdown and cried that incarceration was not a life before he said that he will not be an afterthought when he's locked back up in Pentonville. Cyrus eventually tried to blackmail Laura into letting him walk out a free man or else neither one of them will make it out of the hostag situation alive. In the meantime, Curtis snuck into the house to try to rescue Laura but Cyrus spotted him and ordered him to drop his gun. Once Curtis dropped his gun, Cyrus shot him in the stomach which led to Jordan busting down the door and shooting Cyrus in the leg. After Cyrus went down, he and Curtis were taken to the hospital.

On June 10, Carly paid Cyrus a visit in his hospital room. Cyrus was handcuffed to his bed but he wanted to call his lawyer. Carly informed Cyrus that Peter's on the run so he won't be saving him, but Cyrus claimed that he knew he couldn't count on Peter. Cyrus told Carly that his lawyer would get the charges against him dropped and in the meantime he would be rebuilding his network in Pentonville, but Carly revealed that he's not going to Pentonville but he'd wish he was. Carly revealed that the boat that recently exploded had a bunch of drugs on it and that the feds traced it back to one of Cyrus' shell companies. When Carly revealed that Cyrus was being sent to a maximum-security prison, Cyrus taunted Carly by saying that she and her daughter Josslyn would be joining him there. Carly revealed that she worked out an immunity deal for everyone who knew the truth about Dev so Cyrus lost his leverage. After some time passed by, Laura paid Cyrus a visit in his hospital room. Laura got a call from Martin, who was with his and Cyrus' mother. Laura handed Cyrus the phone and was surprised to hear from his mother. Florence lashed out at Cyrus before the phone call ended. Cyrus told Laura to leave so he could call his lawyer. Laura suggested to Cyrus that he should reflect on the good things he could have done and how his poor choices have now left him completely alone. Cyrus threatened her by saying that the next time they meet that he'll have nothing to lose.

On June 16, Jordan came into Cyrus' room and he guessed that she was there to gloat. Cyrus told Jordan that her case against him isn't great but Jordan said that she's sure a jury would listen to her. She revealed that the feds have already granted her full immunity and dropped the charges against Taggert. Cyrus pointed out that her actions would be made public and ruin her reputation but Jordan said she didn't care. Two FBI agents showed up to extradite Cyrus to a Federal Penitentiary in the midwest.

As Cyrus was being wheeled out of the hospital by the two FBI agents, he stopped them for a word with Laura. Laura revealed to Cyrus that the hospital board is stripping him of all his power and that he squandered all the opportunities presented to him to make things right, especially with his family. Cyrus told her that they'd always be family, that he's in her head and will bring out her dark side before he told the feds "Let's go." Cyrus later saw Finn and Jackie and smugly told Finn how lucky he was to learn that Chase was his son before the feds took him to prison.

On August 23, it was revealed that Cyrus put out a hit on both Laura and Martin, so Jordan and the FBI had to take Laura and Martin into witness protection and Jordan promised to keep an eye on their loved ones in case Cyrus tried to target their loved ones too.

On August 31, it was revealed that Cyrus is working with Mr. Buscema to target Jason and Carly, who were set to get married to each other on September 17. Cyrus wanted to arrange an attack on Jason and Carly in order to get revenge. On September 17, Mr. Buscema and Mr. Vincent Novak tried to kill Jason and Carly by blowing up their limo, but Jason had figured it out from Ms. Wu and had the bomb moved in order to up Mr. Buscema and Mr. Novak instead.

On October 27, Sonny received a collect call from the Flatland Federal Prison out in the midwest from Cyrus. After Sonny accepted the charges, Cyrus "welcomed" Sonny back from the dead. Sonny and Cyrus briefly talked about how Mr. Buscema and Mr. Novak were blown up by a bomb and Cyrus said that they could go into greater detail when Sonny comes to visit him. Sonny refused and when Cyrus offered to fill in the blanks, Sonny told Cyrus to enjoy Flatland since that's where he'll be for the rest of his life before he hung up on him.

On November 3, Sonny went to visit Cyrus at Flatland, where Cyrus admitted that his reach wasn't as wide as he would prefer it to be and hoped for a favor at he might call in someday. Cyrus had information that he danced around initially before he finally revealed to Sonny that Joey Novak would most likely take over the Novak organization from his late uncle, Vincent Novak. Sonny was baffled but Cyrus admitted that there was nothing more dangerous than a braggart with a gun before adding that only a fool would underestimate someone with nothing to lose. Sonny said that the message was received and he started to leave, but Cyrus asked him if he had seen or heard from Laura and wondered how she was. Sonny refused to tell Cyrus anything and told him not to hold his breath on that favor he wants either before he left.