Who did Jossara Jinaro play in The Young And The Restless?

Jossara Jinaro died Wednesday, 27 April 2022, age 48 – the Y&R actress “bravely fought cancer”, her husband wrote on Facebook the following day. Who did she play in The Young And The Restless, and which episodes did Jossara Jinaro appear in?

Who did Jossara Jinaro play in The Young And The Restless?

Jossara Jinaro played Rosa in The Young And The Restless, but you’d be forgiven for not being able to remember her character.

She appeared in just one episode, in 2006. Episode 8,405 aired on 7 June 2006. Sally McDonald directed it – she’s directed more Y&R episodes than any other individual (928, to date); Kay Alden, Lynn Marie Latham and John F Smith co-wrote.

Jinaro is far from alone in having only appeared in one episode of the long-running soap opera – hundreds of actors have passed through its doors.

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Where can you watch the Y&R episode featuring Jossara Jinaro?

The Young And The Restless has been running since 1973. It’s now into its 49th season. In that time, to date, it’s run over 12,352 episodes, with episode number 12,353 due to air later today (Monday, 2 May 2022).

With such a mammoth back catalogue, it can be tricky knowing where to look to watch previous episodes, especially from a decade and a half ago.

Arguably the easiest way to dip into the Y&R archive is to subscribe to the Paramount Plus streaming service. It requires a monthly payment, but you’ll get access to their full archives.

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However, as of this time last year, there were only 100 episodes of The Young And The Restless on Paramount Plus – according to Soap Opera Network.

Right now, it looks like only seasons 47 and 49 are available to watch on Paramount Plus. But that’s not to say that more from the Y&R archive won’t become available to view in due course.

Alternatively, for viewers in Canada, Global TV has a strong archive of The Young And The Restless clips – not full episodes – going back at least as far as 2016.

How did she die?

Jossara Jinaro died on Wednesday, 27 April 2022, after a battle with cancer. She was 48 years old, and died “surrounded by family”, her husband wrote on Facebook the following day.

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Born in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in 1973, Jinaro began dancing at the age of five, according to her IMDB bio. She could speak English by the age of 15, and earned her first television credits in the late 1990s.

Jinaro’s early breakthrough roles included Virginia Bustos in ¡Viva Vegas! (2000-2001), Courtney Messina in Judging Amy (2004) and Andrea Clemente in ER (2005). She was also in 13 episodes of American Family in 2004.

Her husband Matt confirmed her death on 28 April, via her Facebook account. He did so “with great sorrow”, describing Jossara as “an amazing wife, mother, artist, and friend”.

Friends and fans took to other social media platforms to pay tribute to the late actress.

Bruno Cooke

Bruno is a novelist, amateur screenwriter and journalist with interests in digital media, storytelling, film and politics. He’s lived in France, China, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, but returned to the UK for a degree (and because of the pandemic) in 2020. His articles have appeared in Groundviews, Forge Press and The Friday Poem, and most are readable on Medium or onurbicycle.com.