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Sam Gibson is a fictional character from the American soap opera The Young and the Restless portrayed by Sean Patrick Flanery. He made his first on-screen appearance on April 18 2011. Introduced by head writer Maria Arena Bell Sam was created as a love interest for long-running Sharon Newman while she was a fugitive. A rural veterinarian Sam takes Sharon posing under the name ‘Sheri Coleman’ into his barn. They eventually fall in love; but she is found and arrested.