Caroline Spencer Forrester is a fictional character from the American soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful. The role was played by Joanna Johnson from March 23, 1987, to early July 1990. She returned as a vision in 1992 and as a ghost in 2001. Johnson also plays Caroline's identical twin sister, Karen Spencer. The character is introduced as a sweet and virginal young woman who becomes strong-willed and even self-serving as she is betrayed by the men in her life and by her best friend, Brooke; but she finds true compassion and selflessness as she dies from leukemia.