Chantal Marshall

&nbsp Chantal Marshall is a fictional character on the daytime soap opera Generations.

After being originated by Sharon Brown on March 27, 1989 to 1990, she was lastly portrayed by Debbi Morgan from 1990 until the show's cancellation on January 25, 1991.

Background
She was born to Peter Whitmore and Ruth Potter, as a result of a one-night stand.

She was raised to believe that Henry Marshall was her father.

She attended Howard University, a historically black college in Washington, D.C.

Generations
By 1989, Chantal was the aggressive and ambitious Assistant District Attorney of Chicago, Illinois. Her work is interfering with personal life, especially her relationship with her boyfriend, Elliot Hunter.

She constantly fights with Elliot over her career and after one big fight, Ruth urges her make up with Elliot.

Ruth and Chantal are concerned that Adam may have feelings for Sam Whitmore. But later, Chantal realizes that Adam is seeing someone. Chantal is stunned to find out that Doreen Jackson was having an affair with her brother! Doreen convinced her to talk to Adam, who later consented to have a test for sickle cell anemia. After Chantal told Adam that Doreen sinsited he have the test for sickle cell, he confronts Doreen and forces her to admit she is carrying his baby.

Chantal begins to recieve threats from a mysterious person and looks to police lieutenant Kyle Masters to investigate.

A man by the name of Jimmy was caught trying to set fire to Chantal's office files.

Chantal takes on a case involving Eric Royal, a football player accused of running over a homeless woman while intoxicated. She doesn't belive his alibi and she is still convinced that she will convict Eric. Dr. Daniel Reubens agrees to help Chantal find a man who was a friend of the homeless woman Eric ran over and killed.

Chantal lays into Eric for letting Maya Reubens, who came on to Eric after being nixed by Adam, for letting her get drunk and taking her home. At the fundraiser for Dr. Reuben's clinic, she suspects Eric is trying to spruce up his image after bringing former Miss America Suzette Charles.

She looks for Red in hopes will testify at Eric's trial.

At Eric's hit-and-run trial goes underway, Chantal vows to prove to the jury that he was drunk at the time he ran down Margeret, the homeless woman, but Eric's lawyer insisted his client used cough medication that affected his breathalyzer test. On the stand, Chantal forces Eric to admit he phone his agent before he phoned the police after he suspected he struck someone with his car but he continues to insist that he wasn't drunk when he ran down Margaret.

On a TV interview, Chantal says that she will see that Eric receives the maximum sentence for his negligent homicide conviction. She later has an encounter with Eric at Johnny's Hideaway and when she leaves the bar she is cornered by three men who has harassed her for prosecuting Eric.

Eric rescues her from the three men and escorts her home. Chantal insists to her mother that despite the fact Eric helped her, she is still pushing for him to receive the maximum sentence for his negligent homicide conviction.

Chantal convinces Eric to let Dr. Reubens do some medical tests on him to determine if he has an illness that makes him appear to be drunk. Daniel gives Eric a physical and learns he suffers from hypoglycemia, which would have caused him to appear drunk at the time he ran down Margaret. Armed with the new evidence, Chantal vows to get Eric's conviction overturned.

She eventually has to resign as assistant district attorney to continue to help Eric and she is comforted by Henry. Chantal later gets Eric's conviction overturned and is thanked by him.

Eric kisses Chantal, who nixed helping him celebrate his release from prison. Eventually, they begin dating. She feels as if she doesn't fit in with Eric's friends and his former girlfriend, Wendy, warns Chantal to stay away from Eric.

Chantal, now with her own private practice, agrees to take on Sean Masters's probation hearing.

Eric proposes to Chantal, who later returns his engagement ring after his ex, Brandy Alexander, comes to Chicago and announces she and Eric are married. Eric swears to Chantal he though Brandy had divorced him years ago. They later reconcile.