List of Shameless (American TV series) characters

During season 8, he spends more time with his father, who decides to change his ways and sees Liam as his last chance to be a proper father to one of his children.[18] Liam is shown to not mind Frank. Liam enjoys school, although his education is hindered by his school constantly taking him out of class to promote diversity, causing him to fall behind in his classes until Frank steps in and tells the school to stop taking Liam out of class and educate him, causing his grades to improve. Eventually, Frank hits rock bottom and Liam is now used as a lookout for Frank to steal from the rich parents but they still bond.

In season 9, Liam is expelled from his school as a result of Frank giving various STDs to the mothers of the school, who then passed it to their cheating husbands. Liam is sent to public school and is picked on for his upper-class education. However, he uses his new intellect to help a classmate with schoolwork for protection from a bully. Liam's intellect lets him be placed in sixth grade. Liam proves to be the most intelligent, emotionally stable, and mature out of his siblings, who all note he is the only one who is not self-destructive and does not possess any abandonment issues.

Frances "Franny" Gallagher

Frances "Franny" Harriet Gallagher is played by actress Paris Newton. She is Debbie's daughter, the niece of the other Gallaghers and the granddaughter of Frank and Monica. She was conceived in the middle of Season 5 and born towards the end of season 6. When her water broke, Debbie gave birth to her child on the kitchen table, whom she named Frances after her grandfather for his support. During season 7, she went by her middle name when Debbie and her siblings became estranged from Frank temporarily, as Debbie changed her name back after going to Frank for help. She meets her paternal relatives, who take her away from Debbie, though her maternal grandmother returns and takes her back after being excited at having a granddaughter. At a CPS meeting, Franny is returned to her mother while her paternal family is allowed visiting rights, although both families are warned to get along, lest they lose Franny to the system. Franny is often seen in the Gallagher household being tended to by her mother, aunt, and uncles. In season 9, Franny begins to talk and declares that she is a "good girl" to Debbie when she tries to convince her to misbehave as part of a scheme. In season 11, we see much more of this second generation Gallagher. We witness her fifth birthday party, in which Mickey surprises her with a gun, something Franny is much more interested in than a princess party. We also witness her first haircut, which was given to her by herself with scissors and super glue. Debbie has to figure how to fix it for the "Little Miss Southside" competition, and resolves it by covering her hair with a very large wig. In season 11, we also see Frank bonding with his granddaughter on the south side streets. To commemorate their day together, he gets a very large tattoo that says "I heart Franny" on his arm in a very touching bonding scene. Through this, we learn that Franny is not a girly girl, because she has mainly been tended to by her uncles while Debbie served time. She is also a big wrestling fan and gets to meet her idol Queen Justice in which Franny repeatedly says her tag line "You've been served!"

Other Gallaghers

Margaret Gallagher

Margaret "Peggy" Deborah Gallagher (Louise Fletcher), also known as "Grammy", is the mother of Frank and his brothers and the Gallagher family matriarch. She is largely responsible for Frank's bad parenting due to her negligence and abuse towards him as a child. She ran numerous meth labs and was sent to prison after causing a meth lab explosion that killed two college students. She debuts in season 1 when she is visited by her grandsons Lip and Ian. Peggy is happy to meet them before they inquire about their uncles, as they learned that one of them is Ian's biological father. In season 2, she is sent home from prison on a medical furlough after lying about her health and moves in with Frank and his kids. She bonds with the younger Gallaghers. Peggy seeks retaliation on a retired meth dealer who profited from her arrest. Despite her hostile nature to Frank, she is proud of him when she learns of his scams and tries her best to reach out to the Gallagher children by giving Fiona money and showering Carl and Debbie with gifts. She ignores Frank's attempts to reconcile with her and continues to mistreat him, causing Frank to briefly contemplate killing his mother in her sleep but changes his mind. Frank continues to assist her in her deteriorating health while trying to find ways to get rid of her. At the end of season 2, she is kicked out of the house by Fiona after Carl causes an explosion in a meth lab she built in the basement. Peggy sends money to her other sons while leaving Frank with nothing before she allows Sheila to euthanize her by sitting on her face on a pillow. She is cremated and her ashes are sent to Frank.

Monica Gallagher

Monica Jean Gallagher (May 1, 1961 – December 18, 2016), portrayed by

Jerry Gallagher

Jerry Gallagher (William H. Macy) is Frank's twin brother who is introduced in season 1. After visiting their grandmother Peggy, Ian and Lip learn his name and visit Jerry who owes money to her. Jerry is initially unaware of who they are, but immediately shuts the door in their faces when he learns they are Frank's children. Lip reveals they are trying to determine if he is Ian's biological father; however, Jerry forces them to leave at gunpoint. Before she dies, Peggy leaves an unknown amount of money to him.

Clayton Gallagher

Clayton Gallagher (Kristoffer Ryan Winters) is Frank's brother who is introduced in season 1. After Ian learns he is not Frank's biological child, he and Lip visit their grandmother Peggy to track down their uncles. Unlike Jerry, Clayton is friendly and shares family photos with them. Given their physical similarities, it is likely Clayton is Ian's biological father. Clayton mentions having a fallout with his brother and wanting to make amends. His wife notices the similarities between him and Ian, which causes a fight. Ian takes Lip outside and tells him that it does not matter to him who his biological father is—his real family is his siblings. Clayton overheard all of this and did not seem to protest Ian's choice. Clayton reappears in season 2, when Frank and Monica visit him to get the money that Peggy sent him and the other brother before her death. Clayton does not seem pleased to see his brother and tries to send him off, but Frank tries to guilt him into giving him some of the money left by Peggy. Clayton explains that he did not know she was released and spent the money to pay his mortgage. He resists Monica's advances and sends them off.

Wyatt Gallagher

Wyatt Gallagher is Frank's brother who is mentioned in season 1. Lip and Ian learn about him when they visit their grandmother Peggy in prison while searching for Ian's biological father. Peggy refers to him as her baby, implying he is the youngest. She later scratches him off as a candidate for Ian's father, stating his testicles were blasted off in the navy.

Ginger Gallagher

Ginger Gallagher is Frank's deceased aunt who is mentioned in season 1. As her last name was Gallagher, she was presumably the sister of Frank's father. She was revealed to have been the owner of the Gallagher house but died of a drug overdose twelve years prior to the start of the series. She was buried in the backyard by Frank, who uses her identity to claim her checks from the state. Frank is eventually forced to tell his kids the truth after the family is visited by social workers. Using a senile woman from a retirement home, the Gallaghers impersonate Ginger to claim the check and avoid being arrested for fraud. In season 2, Peggy learns of the scheme and compliments her son on impersonating Ginger, but told him that she would take over the scheme. In Season 3, the family digs up Ginger's body after they learn their backyard will be dug up by the city and give her a proper burial in a cemetery. When the Gallaghers try to file a fake will for Ginger, they learn their cousin, Patrick, had already filed a death certificate and will for her, making him the legal owner.

Patrick Gallagher

Patrick "Pit Bull" Gallagher (Brent Sexton) is Frank's cousin who is introduced in season 3. Due to his last name being Gallagher, he is the nephew of Frank's father from an unknown sibling. He antagonizes the family by claiming the Gallagher house by using a fake will of his late Aunt Ginger before the rest of the family could do so. Frank remarks Patrick was called Pit Bull as he never gives up. Carl tries to kill him by poison, but fails, which leads Patrick to threaten to have the family arrested for this; the police back off when Debbie claims Patrick molested her which results in his near arrest. The family offers to drop the charges if he agrees to let them stay in the house in exchange for rent. Reluctantly, he agrees to the terms. In season 6, he appears again and is not pleased to see his extended family. He reveals that because he failed to pay back a loan, the bank is going to repossess the house, leaving the Gallaghers homeless. The family buys back the house by using Carl's drug money.

Samantha Slott

Samantha "Sammi" Slott (

Charles Slott

Charles "Chuckie" Nevins Slott (Kellen Michael) is a recurring character in seasons 4–6. Chuckie is Sammi's son, making him the grandson of Frank and the nephew of the Gallagher children. He has an IQ of 71, making him borderline intellectually disabled. Chuckie is naïve to the intentions of others. He ends up in prison along with Carl for being a drug mule. He is later released and stays with the Gallaghers despite their previous tension with Sammi. Although Carl threatens to hurt Chuckie while the two are in juvenile detention, Carl does not follow through. Before leaving for juvie, his mother tattoos a swastika on his forehead to ensure that he is protected by neo-Nazis. In season 6, he is suspended from school after writing a book report on Mein Kampf, having been brainwashed by the neo-Nazis while in juvie. The school threatens to expel him, but Frank fights for his freedom of speech, and Chuckie is allowed to read the essay in class. When the Gallaghers lose their home, they forget to inform Chuckie, who is left to camp under the porch alone until Frank arrives and keeps him company. Eventually, Sammi calls her mother Queenie to look after him and she takes him to live at her Eco Village. While there, he works tending to poppy plants and survives a mountain lion's attack after being physically scarred. Chuckie is presumed to be taken care by his grandmother when Frank and Debbie leave the commune.

Kassidi Gallagher

Kassidi Gallagher (Sammi Hanratty) is a recurring character in season 8. She is introduced as one of the addicts living in the Gallagher basement as part of Carl's makeshift detox business. She ran away from her wealthy family and convinces Carl to write her family a ransom note to help him make money. Carl gets the money from her father, who asks Carl to send her home. Carl tries to do so before Kassidi bribes him with oral sex, and the two begin dating. Kassidi soon becomes possessive, demanding, and slightly unhinged. She displays a morbid obsession with South Side life, even going so far as to pose with a corpse. Due to a misunderstanding with a promise ring, she believes Carl proposed to her and forbids him from leaving for military school unless he marries her. Carl agrees, and the two use fake IDs to get married. In the season 8 finale, she tries to prevent Carl from going to military school by handcuffing him to a bed. Carl breaks free and makes it on the bus with Kassidi watching, begging him not to go as he ignores her. She follows him to military school in season 9 and camps outside the school gates. Carl is annoyed by her presence as it jeopardizes his chances for a promotion. One of Carl's cadets "takes care" of Kassidi, implying that he had killed her.

Freddie Gallagher

Freddie Gallagher (Grayson Hill) is the newborn son of Lip and Tami. He is conceived in season 9, with Tami assuring Lip that he is the father. Tami initially had concerns about whether she should have the baby, although she eventually comes around. In season 10, Tami goes into labor and gives birth by way of a Caesarean section. Tami goes into critical condition and is rushed to surgery, while the Gallagher family and friends gather to celebrate the birth of her son. Lip initially struggles to adapt to fatherhood but is supported and encouraged by his family. Freddie is named after Lip's late mentor, Clyde Frederick Youens.

Other main characters

Jimmy Lishman

Jimmy Lishman (Justin Chatwin) is a main character in seasons 1–3, a guest star in season 4 and a recurring character in season 5. He is also known as Steve Wilton and Jack. Jimmy is a young man who courts Fiona, going to great lengths to win her over because she is his "dream girl". He has expensive possessions and spends money liberally. Fiona finds this off-putting until she discovers that he is a professional car thief. He later reveals that his real name is Jimmy and that he comes from a wealthy family who presumes he is in medical school.

In season 2, he returns to Chicago after fleeing the United States to escape arrest. Fiona learns he married Estefania, the daughter of Nando, a Brazilian mafia mob leader, as a marriage of convenience to pay off a debt Jimmy owed Nando. He threatens to kill Jimmy if the latter does not play the part of devoted husband for Immigration Services. Jimmy and Fiona resume their relationship at the end of season 2, although he keeps his continued involvement with Estefania a secret.

In season 3, Jimmy goes back and forth between Fiona and Estefania. When Jimmy does not answer a phone call, Estefania faces immigration officers on her own and is deported after she cannot prove the marriage is real. Nando then takes Jimmy on a boat, presumably to murder him. In a post-credit scene in the season 4 finale, he is revealed to still be alive and started going by "Jack".

In season 5, Fiona encounters Jimmy at her diner job. Although she is angry at him for leaving her, she sleeps with him and cheats on her husband, Gus. Fiona later confesses to Gus, and all three agree to meet at the diner to discuss the affair. Gus immediately punches Jimmy in the face. Fiona talks to Jimmy and he offers to whisk her away to Dubai, but she decides it is better to end their relationship as she is still unsure of his true identity. Jimmy's business partner Angela tells Fiona that their deal in Dubai had been cancelled earlier that day.

In the series finale, Jimmy briefly reappears in a flashback to a dinner that he had attended with the Gallaghers as a dying Frank's life flashes before his eyes.

Veronica Fisher

Veronica "V" Fisher (Shanola Hampton) is the Gallaghers' neighbor and Fiona's best friend and confidante.^[19] She often gives Fiona advice concerning relationships, caring for her siblings, and caring for herself. Veronica pursued a hospital medical career until she was fired for stealing medical supplies, and works at a nursing home at the beginning of the series, while moonlighting as a cam girl. In season 1, she and Kevin get married, although the marriage is not valid since Kev is still legally married to his first wife.

In season 3, Vee and Kev are heartbroken to learn they are unable to conceive. Veronica's mother Carol offers to act as a surrogate. However, Vee finds herself miraculously pregnant with triplets (one of which is non-viable), and she gives birth to twin girls. When Carol wishes to keep her baby, Vee and Kev agree, unable to financially support three children. In season 5, Veronica struggles to adjust to motherhood and is jealous that Kevin pays more attention to their daughters than her, resulting in the two becoming temporarily separated. During this time, she contacts an old high school acquaintance and agrees to go out on a date with him, though she is unable to commit to him. She and Kev eventually reconcile. In season 6, Vee marries Svetlana to prevent her from being deported, and their friendship evolves into something more. Vee's attraction to Svetlana initially causes tension between her and Kev, but the three eventually work out a solution, and by season 7, they are in a polyamorous relationship and raising their children together. They attempt to adopt each other's children, only for Kev and Vee to find out they signed ownership of the Alibi over to Svetlana. Kev and Vee end their relationship with Svetlana.

In season 8, Vee takes revenge on Svetlana by having her arrested by immigration. She makes a deal with her to reclaim part of the bar in exchange for getting out of jail. She fails to resist Svetlana's seductions, much to her annoyance. Thanks to Fiona, Vee realizes that her attraction to Svetlana stems from a desire to be dominated, which allows her to break free from Svetlana's control. She and Kev get rid of Svetlana by getting her married to a wealthy, senile man.

In season 9, she juggles between motherhood and running the Alibi. She continues to help the Gallaghers, including getting a letter of recommendation from a congressman for Carl. She and Kev try to find a nursery school for their two girls, but because there is only one spot available, they have the girls impersonate one another. When Kev proposes that they have another child, Vee refuses. She gives in and agrees to adopt a child, while ordering Kev to get a vasectomy.

Kevin Ball

Kevin "Kev" Ball (Steve Howey) is Veronica's husband.^[20] He is separated from his first wife, whom he left after she abused him. Kev is the owner of the Alibi Room and is the Gallaghers' neighbor and friend. Though frequently annoyed by Frank's lifestyle, he gives Frank drinks on credit at his bar and cashes his disability checks for him.

Kev is dyslexic and grew up in foster care. When Kev and Veronica take in a girl named Ethel, Kev takes it upon himself to make her feel as comfortable as possible; she runs away and leaves them devastated. Kev inherits the Alibi from its previous owner, Stan. To keep his bar afloat, Kev partners with Mickey and runs a brothel from the apartment above the bar.

In season 5, Kev takes to parenthood easily to V's annoyance. His devotion to his daughters and his inattentiveness to V results in the two of them being briefly separated. During this time, Kev lives in Lip's dorm and sleeps with multiple college students. He ultimately realizes how much he cares for V and the two reconcile.

By season 7, Kev is in a polyamorous relationship with Svetlana and Veronica. Tensions arise when Kev fears V loves Svetlana more than him; the three of them attend couples' counseling to resolve these issues. He and Veronica are betrayed when they learn Svetlana tricked them into signing ownership of the Alibi over to her. Refusing to work for Svetlana, Kev takes a job bartending at a gay nightclub. Kev and V rid themselves of Svetlana and resume ownership of the bar.

During season 8, he has a brief health scare, which leads to him getting genetic testing, which reveals the location of his biological family. He, V, and their daughters travel to Kentucky to meet his family, who reveal that his birth name is Bart. Although Kev is initially overjoyed to finally have a family, he is heartbroken when he learns he was intentionally abandoned at a gas station as his family was unable to care for him. He forgives them when they reveal that he is the only successful member of the family.

In season 9, when an online critic rates the Alibi the "rapiest" bar on the South Side, Kev takes it upon himself to make the bar safe for women. He later tries to convince V to have another child; she refuses, and demands that he get a vasectomy. She finally agrees to adopt a child, and they eventually take in Santiago, a Guatemalan immigrant. Kev is ecstatic to finally have a son, but is heartbroken when Santiago returns to Guatemala to be with his family.

At the end of season 10, he proposes to Veronica, which she accepts. They get married in season 11 and decide to sell the Alibi and move to Louisville, Kentucky where V's mom is moving to.

Sheila Jackson

Sheila Jackson (Joan Cusack) is a regular character from seasons 1–4, and for the first three episodes of season 5. She is Karen's mother, Eddie's widow, and an on and off love interest to Frank. Sheila is a kind and caring person, if a bit empty-headed. She has agoraphobia and a fear of germs that developed when Karen was young. Although she appears to be a seemingly mild mannered housewife, she reveals to Frank that she is secretly very sexually dominant and owns a vast collection of sex toys, which surprises Frank after he attempts to seduce Sheila in order to take advantage of her disability. Sheila eventually overcomes her agoraphobia and continues to spend a great deal of her time with Frank.

Toward the end of Season 2, Sheila meets Frank's mother Peggy, and the two initially despise each other. Peggy is then diagnosed with terminal cancer, and moves into Sheila's home after starting a fire in the Gallagher's basement from a meth lab. Sheila quickly develops sympathy for Peggy after seeing her struggle with her illness. Peggy convinces Sheila to euthanize her. After Karen gives birth, Karen does not want the baby, nor do the adoptive parents after learning the baby has Down syndrome, and Sheila steals the baby from the hospital. When Karen forces her to choose between her or the baby, Sheila chooses the baby, whom she names Hyram ("Hymie") after her father.

By season 3, Sheila starts a relationship with Jody and the two of them raise Hymie together. Sheila is dissatisfied by their vanilla sexual relationship and convinces Jody to experiment with sex toys, which causes his sex addiction to relapse much to Sheila's dismay. When Karen has an accident, Sheila breaks things off with Jody and encourages him to take care of Karen and Hymie, and the three head west for treatment.

In season 4, Sheila starts internet dating. She meets a Native American man with five nieces and nephews. She wants to adopt the children but is required to be married, so she marries Frank while he is unconscious in the hospital. Her request for adoption is denied.

In season 5, Sheila becomes eager to explore the country, and after Frank's home brewing venture accidentally blows up her house, she decides to leave Chicago behind and takes off in an RV to never be heard from again.

Karen Jackson

Karen Jackson (Laura Slade Wiggins) is a regular character in seasons 1 and 2 and a recurring character in season 3. Her mother is Sheila and her father is Eddie.

At the start of the series she is tutored by Lip and the two have a friends with benefits relationship. Both initially fine with the other seeing others, they eventually take turns wanting to be more exclusive.

When Eddie invites Karen to his church's purity ball as a trade for a car, Karen is humiliated over her past sexual escapades. Eddie calls Karen a whore in front of everyone else and she responds by dyeing her hair black, gets Whore tattooed on her arm, and eventually sexually assaults Frank when he is on pain medication which she displays via webcam to her father, leading to his eventual suicide.

In season 2, Karen attends Sex Addicts Anonymous and dates a fellow addict named Jody and eventually marries him, though she continually cheats on him with Lip. She becomes pregnant and attempts to sell the baby to a childless couple. At the end of season 2, Karen gives birth to a baby with Down syndrome. The baby is Asian, indicating that neither Lip nor Jody is the father. The couple who planned to adopt the baby back out due to his genetics and Sheila insists on raising him, naming him Hymie. When Sheila refuses to send the baby away, Karen runs away.

Later in Season 3, Hymie's paternal grandmother shows up and takes the baby. Karen returns after calling the baby's paternal relatives and convinced them that Sheila was not capable of raising Hymie. Karen tries to make amends with Lip, but he turns her away as does her mother. She sleeps with Lip after he has a falling out with Mandy, though he rejects her later for Mandy. She finds solace when her mother makes amends with her. She is then run over by Mandy and suffers frontal-lobe brain damage with anterograde amnesia. Jody takes Karen and her baby to Arizona to be with faith healers to tend her condition. They are briefly mentioned by Sheila in season 5.

Mickey Milkovich

Mikhailo Aleksandr "Mickey" Milkovich (

In season 4, Mickey becomes a pimp with Russian prostitutes and persuades Kev to allow him to use the upper floors of the Alibi Room. Ian is now working in a strip club where Mickey finds him. At his son Yevgeny's christening party at The Alibi Room, Mickey comes out to salvage his relationship with Ian. Mickey, Ian, and Terry fight, resulting in Terry's incarceration. At the end of season 4, Mickey notices that Ian is depressed and asks Debbie and Carl for help. Debbie tries to talk to Ian and quickly identifies the symptoms. Fiona thinks he may have bipolar disorder, like their mother, and suggests that he should be hospitalized. Mickey strongly disagrees and says he will take care of Ian himself.

In season 5, Ian cheats on Mickey twice. Mickey and Ian make a plan to destroy a homophobic church. Ian's mania increases as he shoots a porno and runs away with Yevgeny. After Ian is hospitalized, he and Mickey reunite. They get into a fight because Ian does not like Mickey nursing him and accuses him of going soft; they make up immediately as Ian says the fight is the first time he has felt something since he started taking his medication. As they go home, Sammi notifies the army's MPs of Ian's whereabouts and Ian is arrested. Mickey and Debbie take revenge by "roofie"-ing Sammi, who they thought had died as a result. In the season finale, Ian breaks up with Mickey after admitting he no longer wants to take his medication; Mickey is heartbroken but has to run away as Sammi appears and starts shooting at him.

In season 6, he is incarcerated once again and appears only in the first episode. When Ian comes to visit him, Mickey asks if he will wait for him. Ian appears to be uninterested and Mickey asks him to lie if he has to. Ian promises to wait.

In season 7, Mickey escapes prison while serving a fifteen-year sentence. He returns to Chicago and through proxies sees Ian to let him know that he is going to go to Mexico. Ian, despite having started a new relationship with Trevor, goes with Mickey to the Mexican border in Texas. At the last moment, Ian realizes that he is not the person he used to be, and that he cannot be with Mickey despite loving him. Upset, Mickey says goodbye and crosses the border while dressed up in drag.

In season 9, Ian is sent to prison for two years and discovers that Mickey is his new cellmate. Mickey explains that in exchange for turning on the Mexican cartel he was working for, Mickey was allowed to choose which prison he would serve his time in. Ian and Mickey begin kissing and resume their relationship.

In season 10, the two remain in a relationship while in prison, but often argue about their differing views on their situation. When Ian tries to sabotage his parole meeting, Mickey stops him and having been advised by older prisoners to let Ian go, tells him they will find a way to make it work. He tries to escape but is caught by guards. Mickey is told by the warden because of his work as an informant he was scheduled for early release but is warned that the cartel are looking for him. Mickey makes it to the Gallagher house, reunites with Ian, and moves in with him. Ian and Mickey get into a dangerous scam by their parole officer Paula (Rachel Dratch), who gets murdered by defenestration, with Ian and Mickey suspecting that the other one is Paula's murderer and Ian wants to marry Mickey for the purpose of not being able to testify against each other. When they know that the other is innocent, Ian backs out of the marriage, and Mickey punches Ian in retaliation. Ian, with the advice of his family, goes and buys Mickey a promise ring and gives it to him, which he refuses and tells Ian to call him when he gets over his feelings of self-worthlessness. In "Now Leaving Illinois," things between Ian and Mickey become strained when Mickey has a new boyfriend, Byron. Ian beats Byron up after he overhears the latter badmouthing Mickey. Ian proposes to Mickey on the spot who interrupts his speech and they get engaged.

In "Gallavich!," Ian and Mickey attempt to get married; it is implied that Mickey committed several armed robberies to earn the money for the wedding. Their plans are interrupted when Terry burns down their wedding venue. Ian's friends and family come together to plan a new ceremony on short notice at a polka hall owned by one of Frank's ex-lovers. Though Terry again tries to interrupt, Ian's former Gay Jesus followers step in to keep Terry from succeeding. Ian and Mickey drive off for their honeymoon. Terry follows them and shoots up their honeymoon suite, although neither Ian or Mickey are hurt.

In season 11, Mickey and Ian struggle to adapt to a married life during the COVID-19 pandemic and Mickey's family moving in next door. After Terry is accidentally shot and paralyzed by Liam, Mickey and Terry make some amends shortly before Terry is murdered by a nun that was hired to be his caretaker. Mickey is shown to be struggling with his father's death despite their antagonistic relationship and learns more about Terry's past with Ian's help. After Lip decides to sell the Gallagher house, Ian and Mickey move to the West Side of Chicago where Mickey has trouble adjusting to the changes.^[22]

Mandy Milkovich

Mandy Milkovich (Jane Levy season 1, Emma Greenwell season 2–6) is a recurring character in season 1, 2 and 5, a regular character in seasons 3 and 4, and a guest character in season 6. Mandy is Mickey's sister and has a reputation at school for her sexuality. She originally wanted to date Ian but was humiliated when he rebuffed her advances. She sent her brothers to beat him up but he confessed to her that he is actually gay. She offers to be his beard and they become close friends.

In season 2 she starts dating and sleeping with Lip. Mandy was raped and impregnated by her intoxicated father, who had mistaken her for her dead mother. She aborted it in "A Great Cause". In season 3 she moves in with the Gallaghers when her father mixes drugs and alcohol, to Fiona's chagrin. While living with the Gallaghers, Mandy and Lip frequently have sex. Though their romantic life is passionate, Lip starts to feel that Mandy is too clingy and wife-like and says their relationship was never "official".

Mandy loves Lip and secretly sends his applications to colleges when she sees he is wasting his potential. After she tells him he should be grateful for how hard she worked to get him into universities, he ends his affair with Karen. Mandy objects to Karen's advances on Lip and

In season 4, Mandy's live-in boyfriend is Kenyatta. He physically abuses Mandy and Ian tries to help her. At the end of season 4, Mandy works as a waitress at the Waffle Cottage. Lip is served by Mandy and suspects something is wrong but she won't talk to him about anything other than the menu items.

In season 5, in contrast to her previously moody behavior, Mandy is dressed demurely and is good natured. In episode 3, Mandy considers leaving for Indiana with Kenyatta to "clean port-a-potties". Ian and Lip try to convince her not to go. During sex, Lip tells Mandy she is "gorgeous, sweet, funny, very smart, and a good person". She admits to Lip that she loves him but he is unable to say it back, so she goes with Kenyatta.

In season 6, it is revealed that she left Kenyatta and works as an escort. She enjoys her profession as her clients treat her well. She calls Ian for help when a client dies during an appointment and almost manages to avoid Lip before she leaves again.

Molly Milkovich

Molly Milkovich' (Madison Rothschild) is a guest character that appeared in episodes 4 and 5 of season 3, the son of Terry and of an unnamed woman, raised to be a girl. Molly calls Terry claiming that her mother has died, so Lip and Mandy come by with Molly claiming no other contacts. She starts to befriend Debbie and when they change together, Debbie realises Molly is a boy with Molly claiming it's; "my girl penis", forcing Fiona to confront Molly explaining, "You're not a girl, honey. You're a boy who was raised by a jacked up meth head of a mom, who made you think you are a girl, because she hates men", actually shocking Molly. When the Gallagher children are taken into foster care, Molly unexplainedly disappears with Mandy telling Lip that Molly's mother had turned up. A deleted scene with Molly's mom implies that Molly was abused as she is scared to go with her. In later seasons, Mandy reveals that Molly’s mom was arrested for child abuse, and that Molly is living with their aunt.

Jody Silverman

Jody Silverman (

Mike Pratt

Mike Pratt (Jake McDorman) is a recurring character in season 3 and a regular character in season 4. Mike is a responsible and good-natured yuppie. He is Fiona's corporate boss and in season 4, becomes her boyfriend. The two hit it off well, until Fiona lies about an incident involving the company car. Mike then tells Fiona he values honesty and trust in a relationship. He soon learns that Fiona cheats on him with his brother Robbie. Although hurt by Fiona's betrayal, he does not fire her and bails Fiona out of prison, but makes it clear that he never wants to see her again. At the end of season 4, Fiona is having a hard time finding a job because of her felony conviction. She asks Mike's sister to lie and say that she was not fired because of her drug and child neglect arrest but because of downsizing. Mike's sister berates Fiona for taking advantage of someone as nice as Mike, asking the company to lie to the federal government for her and causing a rift in their family.

Svetlana Yevgenivna

Svetlana "Suka" Yevgenivna (Isidora Goreshter) is a Russian prostitute hired by Terry to have sex with Mickey to "cure" his homosexuality. She becomes pregnant and claims the father is Mickey. In season 4, Svetlana lives with other prostitutes in the Milkovich house. She threatens Ian when he returns because she fears he will distract Mickey from his duties as her child's father. After her son's birth, Svetlana threatens to tell Terry that Mickey and Ian's relationship continues and demands Mickey give her money to keep quiet. In season 5, Svetlana is a softer and more comical character. She becomes a surrogate mother to the twins. She moves in with the Fisher/Balls and performs oral sex on them both as part of her "wifely" duties. In season 6 she regularly visits Mickey in prison and works as a bartender at The Alibi. When Kev accidentally reveals Svetlana came to America illegally to Immigration, V and Svetlana pretend to be married to keep her here, but fall in love in the process. In season 7, she lives with Kev and V in a polyamorous relationship. Her father (later revealed to be her husband) comes to America and stays with the family until Svetlana "gets rid of him". She later takes ownership of the Alibi behind their backs, to bring them out of debt, but ruins the relationship. She is later married off to a senile wealthy man.

Ford Kellogg

Ford Kellogg (Richard Flood) is a recurring character in season 8 and a regular character in season 9. He is one of Fiona's boyfriends. He is revealed to have a wife and son in season 9, but claims that he and his wife are separated and getting a divorce and are only keeping up appearances for the sake of their son. The Gallaghers and Fiona take their revenge on him.

Tami Tamietti

Tami Tamietti (Kate Miner) is the sister of Brad's wife Camile. She meets Lip at Brad's wedding and they have a sexual encounter. When Lip asks her out on a date, she rejects him and treats him with hostility. She reappears at the baptism of Brad's baby and at first treats Lip badly but then invites him to eat and they start a relationship. Tami becomes pregnant by Lip and decides to have the baby. At the end of season 11 it was revealed Tami was pregnant with baby number two.

Recurring cast

Tommy

Tommy (Michael Patrick McGill) is a heavyset, cheery regular at The Alibi Room (a drunk). He is an acquaintance of Frank's. He is divorced and has children. He often proudly expresses his conservative views and is shown to be somewhat misogynistic. He works as a construction crew manager and takes Lip on as a summer temporary employee.

Kash

Kash (Pej Vahdat) is the owner of the grocery store Kash and Grab, where Ian works. He has an affair with Ian despite being Muslim, married with children and Ian being underage. When his wife Linda learns of his sexuality, she allows it as long as he gives her another child. Kash is unable to stand up to Mickey who constantly steals from the store. When Linda becomes pregnant, he tries to restart his affair with Ian and is shocked to find him with Mickey. Kash shoots Mickey in the leg. Kash continues to feel trapped in his marriage and has an affair with an unknown Muslim man. He eventually leaves his family without a word.

Tony Markovich

Tony Markovich (Tyler Jacob Moore) is a police officer and the Gallaghers' neighbor who lives with his overbearing mother. Tony courts Fiona and learns of the Gallaghers' illegal activities. In Season 1 while angry at Jimmy/Steve, Fiona sleeps with Tony. The next day, Tony tells Fiona she took his virginity, and becomes clingy. When he learns that Jimmy/Steve is stealing cars, he gives him the choice of turning himself in or leaving town. Steve then leaves Tony the house he bought next door to the Gallaghers in an attempt to get Fiona to flee with him. He tried to get back with Fiona on multiple occasions in season 1–2, but failed to do so. During Seasons 2 and 3, Tony becomes more accepting that he is not Fiona's type. In Season 6, Tony facetiously identifies as gay to a confused Ian, claiming that it is a consequence of his failed relationship with Fiona.

Eddie Jackson

Eddie Jackson (Joel Murray) is a season 1 character. He is Sheila's husband and Karen's father. He is religious and has an obsession with clowns, and is stuck in an unhappy marriage. He catches Karen giving oral sex to Ian and becomes enraged. At first he takes his anger out on Frank, but then buys him a drink and explains he believes it is his own fault for Karen's behavior and that he is unhappy with his marriage to Sheila. He bribes Karen into attending a Purity Ball in exchange for his car. While at the ball, he breaks down when he learns of Karen's promiscuity and calls her a whore, publicly humiliating Karen. Sheila becomes furious and kicks him out of the house. After discovering a public video of Karen having sex with an intoxicated Frank, he becomes humiliated and commits suicide, believing he failed as a father.

Linda

Linda (Marguerite Moreau) is Kash's wife, a business-minded busybody. She is a Muslim convert and a proud mother but treats everything like a business, including her marriage. When Linda discovers her husband and Ian were having an affair, she accepts it but only on the basis he gives her another child and he does not touch Ian until she is pregnant. She becomes pregnant but Kash leaves. In a deleted scene, Linda finds out about Kash leaving and cries.

Kermit

Kermit (Jim Hoffmaster) is one of Frank's acquaintances at The Alibi Room. Despite saying he hates Frank, he often listens to Frank's rants and stories along with his other friend Tommy. Sometimes he sees Frank as a friend. He is quick to defend his name when people compare it to Kermit the Frog. He mentions having a sister who suffers from gout and mother who live elsewhere. He reveals in Season 9 that he is a Type 1 diabetic, when he asks Frank to buy him Canadian insulin. Kermit has an extensive collection of firearms. His motto is, "Prepare and prevent, not repair and repent."

Kate

Kate (Kerry O'Malley) is a fiery redhead. She works with Kev as manager of The Alibi Room. When Kev inherits the bar, she tells him that the bar is not profitable. Kate witnesses Frank calling Children's Services on his family and says "That is a whole new low even for you, Frank." Frank often reminds her that they have slept together during his comebacks.

Terry Milkovich

Terry Milkovich (Dennis Cockrum) is Mandy and Mickey's father. Because he has evaded arrest numerous times, Frank turns to him for an alibi. After Mandy gets pregnant, he initially hunts down Ian, believing he is the father due to Mandy posing as his girlfriend to cover his homosexuality. When he catches Ian and Lip invading his home, Mandy reveals that Terry is the one who got her pregnant. She tells Ian this is due to Terry getting drunk and blacking out, mistaking Mandy for her mother. He is very homophobic, and when he sees Ian and Mickey having sex, he beats them. He then hires Svetlana to "fuck the faggot" out of Mickey and forces him to marry her after Svetlana becomes pregnant with Yevgeny. When Mickey comes out as gay at Yevgeny's christening, Terry and his brothers get into a massive fight with Ian and Mickey. The fight breaks Terry's probation and he is imprisoned while Mickey taunts him relentlessly.

In season 9, he is released from prison and called on by Frank who enlists his aid in getting Mo White elected as congressman. Ian later goes to visit him; unlike before Terry bears no ill will towards him and tells him that Mickey is in Mexico. He also gives Ian some advice about prison.

He appears in season 10 to give advice to Mickey after his parole officer is killed. He begrudgingly comes to terms with his son's sexuality. When Ian and Mickey get engaged, Terry goes ballistic and attempts to prevent the wedding by burning down the venue. When that fails, Terry tries to interrupt the reception with a gun, but Ian's old Gay Jesus followers form a human blockade to prevent Terry from getting in. Terry later shoots up Ian and Mickey's honeymoon suite, though neither are harmed.

In season 11, Terry moves in next door to the Gallaghers and continues to maintain an adversarial, although no longer homicidal, relationship with the family. While shooting a gun Carl gave him into the air, Liam accidentally shoots and paralyzes Terry, who becomes a

In the aftermath of Terry's murder, the Milkoviches move away and Mickey experiences mixed feelings about his father's death. Mickey implies that he doesn't know who his mother is. Mickey and Ian track down Terry's first love Rachel who reveals that Terry wasn't always such a bad person, having once had a great sense of humor and gone so far as to try to convert to

Carol Fisher

Carol Fisher (Vanessa Bell Calloway) is Veronica's mother. She is the owner of a beauty salon. Carol acts as Veronica and Kevin's traditional surrogate. While initially skeptical of the idea, due to her age, she agrees to the request and has Kevin's sperm inseminated into her. When it does not work Veronica suggests that Kevin and Carol actually have sex, something they do not find enjoyable. Miraculously, Kevin and Carol successfully conceive and she gives birth to their baby. After giving birth, Carol wishes to raise Dominic and Veronica allows her.

In season 11, Carol decides to move to Louisville, Kentucky with Dominic and V tries and fails to persuade her to change her mind. After seeing Louisville for themselves, Kev and V ultimately decide to sell the Alibi and move in next door to Carol.

Jasmine Hollander

Jasmine Hollander (Amy Smart) is a married mother of three with a free-spirited approach to parenting. Jasmine is Fiona's friend and tries to help by inviting her to parties and setting her up with different men. After Fiona explains her complications with Jimmy, Jasmine tries to get romantic with Fiona, only for Fiona to leave awkwardly. Jasmine cheats on her husband and is kicked out by him. She then attempts to stay at the Gallaghers’, and leaves angrily after Fiona declines. She is never heard from again.

Ethel

Ethel (Madison Davenport), aged thirteen, is Veronica and Kevin's foster child. She was removed from a polygamist colony where her elderly husband, Clyde, was arrested for molestation. Ethel has a son, Jonah, by Clyde, who is also taken in by Veronica and Kevin. Initially, Ethel struggles to adjust to her new home but soon warms up to Kevin, Veronica, and the Gallaghers. In the middle of season 2, Ethel meets an African-American boy named Malik who has a daughter the same age as Jonah, and the two quickly fall in love. Clyde is murdered in prison by Malik's father. Ethel's sister wives break the news to Ethel and urge her to return to them. The following morning, Kev and V discover Ethel and Jonah have disappeared with all of their belongings, and find a thank you note from Ethel telling them not to worry. They indeed worry she had left with her sister wives but discover she had dug up two bags of marijuana Kev had buried in the backyard, assuring them that she left with Malik. Malik sells the drugs and the two leave town to elope.^[23]

Professor Hearst

Professor Hearst (Dennis Boutsikaris) is a college professor. He catches Lip trying to take someone else's exam. He tries to channel Lip's talents into worthwhile endeavors and supports him; however, in return, Hearst wants drugs and knowledge about contemporary youth and popular culture to bed his female students.

Jess

Jess (Missy Doty) is a lesbian and the bartender at The Alibi Room. She is witty with a dry sense of humor. When it becomes evident that Kev is dyslexic, she does the bar's books. When the bar's owner Stan starts mentally declining she and Kev argue over how to help Stan.

Little Hank

Little Hank (Nicky Korba) is Carl's sociopath friend. He often starts pranks and stunts that land him and Carl in trouble and tells Carl deliberately erroneous anatomical facts. Debbie crushes on Little Hank, while Little Hank crushes on Holly Hermiker. Holly rejects Little Hank, and he starts showing interest in Debbie. From season 4 onward he is never heard from again.

Adam

Adam (James Wolk) is a banker who courts Fiona while she works at a bar. Adam encourages Fiona in her track work and they begin dating. When Steve returns, Fiona, Adam, Steve and Estefania double date. When Adam notices chemistry between Fiona and Steve, he leaves heartbroken and humiliated.

Estefânia

Estefânia (Stephanie Fantauzzi) is the daughter of a Brazilian drug lord. She marries Jimmy despite her relationship with Marco. At the end of season 2, Marco abuses Estefania and she moves to the Gallagher household. She breaks up a fight between Ian and Frank and knocks Frank when the Gallaghers decide to throw him out for the night. In season 3, Estefania and Marco are living together. When Estefania's father, Nando, comes to the States he shoots Marco in the head and kills him.

Lloyd Lishman

Dr Lloyd "Ned" Lishman (Harry Hamlin) is Jimmy's father. He is a surgeon who has a brief sexual relationship with Ian. When Jimmy invites Fiona and her siblings to meet his family, both Ian and Ned are stunned to see each other again. Ned reveals to Jimmy that he and his wife are getting a divorce and he spends the night at the Gallaghers after drinking too much. Unfortunately, he accidentally climbs into bed with Lip and everyone is made aware of his relationship with Ian. Despite this, they continue seeing each other. Their relationship makes Mickey jealous and he beats Ned senseless when Ned calls himself Ian's boyfriend. Ian admits he likes Ned since he buys him things and is not afraid to kiss him, prompting Mickey to kiss Ian for the first time. He recruits Ian and Mickey to get some of his things back from the house, telling them they can help themselves to anything else. Ned rushes to the Gallagher house to remove the shrapnel from Mickey's wound when his ex-wife shoots him in the buttock. In the Hall of Shame during season 11, Ian learns that he died during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nando

Nando (Pêpê Rapazote) is Estefania's father and a Brazilian drug lord. He tells Jimmy that he can see Fiona as much as he wants but he wants Estefania to become a US citizen. Nando assigns Beto to watch over Jimmy and follow him wherever he goes. Nando tells Jimmy to get a job, stay out of trouble, and stop stealing cars. Near the end of the third season, Nando learns Estefania is being deported and takes Jimmy away on his boat with the intention of murdering him.

Robbie Pratt

Robbie Pratt (Nick Gehlfuss; season 4) is Mike's drug-addict brother. Fiona starts an affair with Robbie while dating Mike. Robbie is irresponsible and lives a careless life. He leeches off Mike and his parents and justifies his manipulative actions by saying that he cannot live a "normal, boring" life with a desk job like his brother.

While at their parents’ home, Robbie spitefully tells Mike of his relationship with Fiona, leading to Mike punching Robbie and dumping Fiona. When Fiona rejects Robbie, he leaves a bag of cocaine at Fiona's house that Liam ingests which leads to her arrest. Fiona tells Robbie he ruined her life as she can no longer get a job and violates her probation by getting intoxicated. The next day, she takes ecstasy, joyrides with Robbie's friends, and is abandoned at a gas station. Debbie angrily tells Robbie to stay away from Fiona.

Ron Kuzner

Ron Kuzner (Adam Cagley) is a regular character in season 4 and makes a cameo appearance in season 5. He is Lip's supportive college roommate. Lip steals from Ron and goes behind his back with his girlfriend Amanda. When Ron walks in on the two, he reacts rather calm, and thanks Lip for getting Amanda off his back, stating she was too demanding.

Amanda

Amanda (Nichole Sakura) is a recurring character in seasons 4 and 5 and a guest character in season 6. She is the rebellious adopted daughter of Jason and Sheryl, a wealthy white couple. In season 4 she is a friend with benefits of Ron and Lip. Amanda helps Lip care for Liam in his college room when Fiona is jailed, and she becomes attracted to Lip. She seduces Lip and reveals to him that she has never had vaginal sex and that she is saving herself for her husband. She begins organizing Lip's daily schedule and starts buying him suits and expensive jewelry. According to Amanda, she was rescued from a Subic Bay brothel. Her parents pay Lip $10,000 to stay away from Amanda but Lip and Amanda continue to see each other.

In season 5, Amanda invites Lip to spend a week in the summer with her and her family at their estate in Miami where Lip bonds with her father. In their second year of college, she invites Lip to move in with her at an off-campus apartment. She finds a roommate, Muff Bull Dagger, on Craigslist after Lip declines. Muff is a violent, sociopathic lesbian who stalks Amanda. She hides in Lip's room to avoid Muff and learns Lip is having sex with Helene. She becomes more attached and possessive of Lip as she falls in love with him while Lip distances himself as he falls for Helene, even going so far as to blatantly ditch Amanda. When she confronts him in the college library, Amanda punches Lip and accuses him of making her fall in love with him.

In season 6, Amanda returns and gets her revenge on Lip by posting a nude photo of Helene online, which results in the latter being fired the from the university. Her actions anger a group of the students and she is run off campus.

Bonnie

Bonnie (Morgan Lily) is a recurring character in season 4. She becomes Carl's friend and accomplice when they meet in detention after school. She lives in a van in a grocery store parking lot with her siblings. At the end of the season Bonnie disappears.

Jackie Scabello

Jackie Scabello (Alessandra Balazs) has a cameo appearance in season 4 and is a recurring character in season 5. She is one of Fiona's co-workers at Pasty's Pies. Jackie, similar to many of the other employees, is a recovering addict and is trying to make positive strides in her life in order to gain custody of her daughter. After her appeal for custody is denied, Fiona and Sean find her in her apartment unconscious after a heroin overdose. She recovered but Sean tells Fiona that he has no choice but to terminate her employment.

Sean Pierce

Sean Pierce (Dermot Mulroney) appears in seasons 5 and 6. He is a heroin addict who struggles to quit. He has a son, Will, who was taken away to Pittsburgh by the boy's mother. Sean manages a diner and is Fiona's rehabilitation supervisor. The chemistry between the two of them is immediately apparent, but both resist for personal reasons. Fiona turns to Sean for help after her relationship with Gus fails along with other issues. They are in a relationship throughout season 6. Sean confesses to Fiona that his past includes murdering a fellow drug user while high, which she is unfazed by. He helps out Fiona and her siblings multiple times, letting Fiona stay when the Gallaghers lose the house and eventually asking her to move in, buying Gus' ring back from the pawn shop, and getting Carl out of the drug business. He and Frank hate each other. When Sean and Fiona are about to get married Frank reveals Sean's relapse to Fiona at the altar. Sean leaves to focus on Will, saying that Will is more important. In season 8, he asks her to meet him in a diner to tell her that he married someone else.

Gus Pfender

Gus Pfender (Steve Kazee) is a recurring character in season 5. Gus is a bass guitarist for an indie rock band who Fiona meets when she works in the diner; they marry on impulse. Gus goes on tour without Fiona because she cheats on him with Jimmy. He is infuriated when he returns when he learns Fiona moved on with Sean. When Fiona attempts to apologize and remain friends by going to his gig, he sings a humiliating song about her. Fiona pawns his grandmother's engagement ring in retaliation in order to get a mortgage to buy her home back. He returns some time later, asking for the ring and a divorce. Sean buys the ring back for him so Gus can finalize their divorce while he can propose to Fiona.

Derek Delgado

Derek Delgado (Luca Oriel, Seasons 5-6 and Damien Diaz, Season 8) is a recurring character in season 5 and is Debbie's boyfriend. He is an aspiring mixed martial artist who fosters Debbie's passion for fighting. Derek claims he placed third in a city championship. He is the father of Debbie's baby Franny.

In season 6, he moves to Florida with his grandmother after finding out Debbie is pregnant. At the end of Season 8, Derek returns and wants to share custody of Franny. In season 10, its revealed that Derek died having gotten "sideways drunk stole the tank, drove it into the Suez Canal" and had thought said tank was a submarine. According to the army, Derek's body is still beneath the sea. It is also revealed that he had children with his wife Peppa.

Bianca Samson

Bianca Samson (Bojana Novakovic) is a recurring character in season 5. She is a physician who examines Frank's gunshot wound and is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and decides her whole medical career was for nothing. She starts a freewheeling relationship with Frank to get away from her parents who want Bianca to treat the cancer. She buys Frank a $10,100 bottle of Macallan whiskey '39, which is destroyed when they make love on the train tracks. After smoking crack at the Gallagher house, while Bianca is sleeping, Frank sends a text message (posing as Bianca) to her family to come pick her up. Bianca feels betrayed, and Frank confesses he wants her to get treatment so the two can be together longer, and Bianca assures Frank she is not in love with him. The two then flee to Costa Rica, where Bianca purchases a revolver, and attempts to shoot herself twice in front of Frank, both resulting in blanks. Frank wakes up to find that Bianca has gone missing, leaving behind her clothes, a letter to her family and her pain medication, and Frank learns that she has gone off to die.

Helene Runyon

Helene Runyon (Wallace in season 5) (Sasha Alexander) is a recurring character in seasons 5 and 6. She is a highly respected Professor of Critical Theory at the college Lip attends. She and Lip have an affair throughout the last four episodes of season 5 and the first five episodes of season 6. Helene's husband, Theo, (Michael Reilly Burke), is aware of Helene and Lip's relationship. Helene's affair with Lip comes to an abrupt halt when Lip's ex-girlfriend Amanda posts a nude photo of Helene in Lip's room throughout the whole college.

In the sixth episode of season 6, Lip tries to protect her in front of the college board and help her keep her job. When Helene is summoned to the college board (with Lip remaining in attendance) she tells them that in addition to cutting off all ties with Lip, she will also be seeking a psychologist to help her with her sex addiction. Lip tries to talk to her one last time as she leaves the school grounds, having openly proclaimed his love for her in the college board meeting, but Helene looks him in the eye and tells him to never contact her again, to stay away from her and her family, and to keep out of her life as she tries to fix her own problems. Lip goes to her house drunk one night, and yells at her to talk to him, but she does not respond. In the tenth episode of season 7, he drunkenly breaks into her house. She tells him to move on and get help for his alcoholism.

Professor Youens

Professor Clyde Youens (Alan Rosenberg) is a recurring character in seasons 6–8. He is a professor at Chicago Polytechnic University and acts as a father figure, mentor, and drinking buddy to Lip, whom he employs as a teaching assistant. After a falling out with Lip towards the end of season 6, he bails Lip out of jail and encourages him to enter alcohol rehab. Youens has his own struggles with alcohol and has a strained relationship with his daughter. Lip goes out of his way to help Youens with a drunk driving case, only for Youens to lose due to being intoxicated during trial. Youens makes it clear to Lip he does not want his help, and has accepted his defeat to alcoholism for a long time. He dies while incarcerated due to a withdrawal-induced seizure.

Dominique Winslow

Dominique Winslow (Jaylen Barron) is a recurring character in seasons 6 and 7. At first, she rebuffs Carl because of his gangster-like ways even though he provides her a bike for transportation. After Carl's friend Nick murders someone, Carl decides that thug life is not for him and distances himself from Dominique, which causes her to gain an interest in him. She meets him and tells him to be real with her. She also tells him that her friends have lost their virginity and she wants to lose hers. Carl has sex with Dominique and they start a relationship.

In Season 7, she and Carl are still together with her defending him from her disapproving father, Luther (Peter Macon). She later convinces him to get circumcised which he finds extremely difficult to endure the healing process due to teenage hormones . Sometime later, she cheats on Carl and gets gonorrhea from an older man. Her father believes it was Carl, persecuting Carl with him stalking Dominique to discover that she is cheating on him with a frat boy so Carl enlists Luther's assistance as an officer to do a SWAT hit on the fraternity thereby busting Dominique, initiating a friendship between Carl and Luther who inspires Carl to become a police officer. Dominique becomes hostile to Carl after he bonds with her father, who is now much harder on her. When Carl decides to go to military school, Dominique apologizes for her actions and he considers getting back with her. Her father shows Carl that she is with a new boy who reveals he is not circumcised as Dominique states it did not bother her now. She is humiliated by Carl revealing her STD to her new boyfriend as revenge.

Luther Winslow

Luther Winslow (Peter Macon) Luther is a recurring character in seasons 6 and 7. He is Dominique's father who takes an immediate dislike to Carl because of his gangster-like ways when he tries to hit on his daughter. After Carl gives up being a gangster and gets into a relationship with his daughter, he disapproves of it.

In Season 7, Dominique defends Carl from him. When Dominique gets gonorrhea, Luther believes it was Carl and hunts him down before Carl reveals he was clean. He shows Luther that Dominique was with a college boy and the two of them join to get her back. Luther bonds with Carl and is now much harder on his daughter. Luther helps Carl get into military school. Luther learns of Carl's decision to go and shows Carl that Dominique is with a new boy, which causes Carl to set himself back on the path of military school and he thanks Luther for it.

Margo Mierzejewski

Margo Mierzejewski (Sharon Lawrence) is a recurring character. She is introduced in season 7 as a self-made real estate mogul, who is trying to gentrify some of the South Side neighborhoods. Her company also owns Patsy's Pies. After Fiona becomes the manager of Patsy's, she meets Margo and learns that she is also a high school dropout, but has amassed a net worth of $300 million. Eventually, Fiona decides to follow in Margo's footsteps and buys Etta's deteriorating laundromat to start building wealth. However, Margo owns the building that houses the laundromat, and wants to buy the lease from Fiona. When the latter refuses to sell it, Margo offers her $160,000—twice what Fiona paid for the lease—to get it, and Fiona agrees.

In season 8, Margo is revealed to own an abandoned church in the neighborhood of Fiona's apartment building. When she loses interest in that place, she tries to sell it to two artists before agreeing to rent it to Trevor to house the kids from his youth center. Not knowing the shelter is supposed to be Trevor's, Fiona tries to convince the artists to buy the church, as the shelter would not raise the neighborhood's reputation. Margo loses interest in renting out the church, so Ian decides to get the money to buy it for Trevor. Margo chooses to finalize the deal with the artists which creates a rift between the Gallagher siblings. She later faces a lawsuit from her

In season 9, she briefly returns to fire Fiona from Patsy's after receiving numerous complaints for her drunken and erratic behavior.

In the series finale, Frank discovers that Patsy's has gone out of business, suggesting that Margo had to close it down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sierra Morton

Sierra Morton (Ruby Modine) is a recurring character since season 7. She is a new employee at Patsy's Pies who Lip starts dating. She is a single mother to a son named Lucas. Her brother is physically disabled and is briefly engaged to Debbie. Lip and Sierra have a casual sexual relationship and he is scared it will get too serious given his commitment issues; he starts panicking and she admonishes him, telling him that he is not the playboy he thinks he is. When Lip finally realizes that she is a good-hearted person and wants a deeper relationship she tells him she has her own issues to worry about and is not with him to be his support group. Sierra's baby daddy is a drug addict named Charlie. Lip drunkenly beats him up when he shows up to their job. Sierra tells Lip she cannot deal with two addicts in her life.

Near the end of the season, Sierra tries to reconcile with Lip once his parents stay with her brother and sees what he had put up with. When Monica dies in the finale, Sierra accompanies him and they finally make up and become friends.

In season 8, she and Lip are on better terms as friends and tells him that she gave Charlie another chance. However, her attempts end when she discovers he got another girl pregnant. Sierra turns to Lip which develops into a relationship. Sierra's father is released on parole for the death of her mother; she is worried but Lip helps her by secretly getting the man sent back. For the rest of the season, she and Lip are on better terms in their relationship though he sees himself as mostly a rebound to her. In the finale, Lip breaks up with her and tells her to give Charlie a chance. Even though he admits his love for her, he does not think he can love her like she does him.

Neil Morton

Neil Morton (Zack Pearlman) is a recurring character since season 7. He is Sierra's brother. He is a wheelchair user after a sports accident as a kid. He runs into Debbie at Patsy's Pie, as she starts to think he could give her a home to get her daughter back. They later attempt to marry to do so but are turned down by Frank and Fiona. While Debbie enjoyed being with him because of his honesty, she did not appear attracted to him.

In Season 8, Neil starts to notice Debbie is taking advantage of him for her own gratification and tries many things to change that but nothing works. When Debbie sends her friend who was a nurse to care for Neil, he falls for her and promptly dumps Debbie, while calling her an awful person who wanted him for his money. He also ignores her warnings that the nurse is probably doing the same.

Lucas Morton

Lucas Morton (Cooper J. Friedman) is Sierra's son. He finds Sierra and Lip having sex in season 7. She is very protective of him because his father Charlie is a drug addict. Lip offers to babysit him while Sierra goes to a date with Charlie in season 8.

Charlie

Charlie (Chet Hanks) is Sierra's ex-boyfriend and Lucas' father. Sierra tries to keep him out of Lucas' life because of his drug addiction. In season 8, she decides to give him a new chance but breaks up with him when she finds out he impregnated another girl.

Trevor

Trevor (Elliot Fletcher) is a transgender man who is an LGBTQ+ activist. Ian Gallagher falls for him over the course of the 7th season. Trevor does not like talking about his past. He introduces Ian to his friends, who are all part of the LGBTQ+ community, which prompts Ian to ask questions and learn more about it. After some reluctance due to their seeming incompatibility in the bedroom, Ian and Trevor start sleeping together and begin to form a strong relationship. Trevor meets and somewhat bonds with Monica and learns more about Ian. When Mickey drifts back into Ian's life, Trevor is left on the sidelines when Ian departs Chicago with Mickey. When Ian returns after being out of contact for more than a week, Trevor is sympathetic to his motivations and Monica's recent death, but makes it clear that their relationship is over.

In season 8, Trevor maintains firm boundaries with Ian, though obvious that a spark is still there. Ian, trying to work his way back into Trevor's good graces, spends much of his time and money at the LGBTQ+ center. Trevor begins to warm back up to Ian, and the two settle into a friendship, albeit one with much flirting. Trevor nearly ends things again when one of his kids loses a place in a shelter because Ian thoughtlessly helped her, but Ian responds by helping Trevor try and open a new shelter in an abandoned church. The added time together eventually leads to them again giving in to their simmering attraction. As Ian's Gay Jesus movement begins to build, Trevor disappears.

Nessa Chabon

Nessa Chabon (Jessica Szohr) is a tenant in Fiona's apartment building in season 8. She is a "tough and smart lesbian". She and Fiona become close friends throughout the season. She likes "blond and bitchy" girls like her actual girlfriend, Mel (Perry Mattfeld).

Brad Young

Bradley "Brad" Young (Scott Michael Campbell) works at Born Free Cycles fixing motorcycles and is married to Camile Young, whose sister Tami becomes Lip's wife. During the eighth season, he employs Lip at his workshop after meeting him at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and advises him about his feelings toward Sierra. When his baby is born, he relapses, assaults Lip, and runs away. Lip begins to look for him and is the only one who believes in him. He stands by his side and gets him to stop using and go back to his family. In season 9, Brad gets married and continues to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings with Lip. His sister-in-law Tami subsequently has a baby with Lip.

Ingrid Jones

Ingrid Jones (Katey Sagal) is a psychotherapist. She appears in season 9. When Frank meets her at the hospital, she has a psychotic break and tricks him into releasing her. Before running away, she pounces on Frank, slaps him several times and gives him a kiss, making him fall in love with her. He goes to look for her and persuades her to stop taking her medication. She tries to get pregnant with her frozen eggs and wants Frank to fertilize them, but the clinic warns him that he is not fertile, and he uses Carl's sperm instead. She gets pregnant with six babies thinking they're Frank's, although they're really Carl's. Ingrid talks to Frank's family and everyone tells her that he will not help her in the care of her children. She leaves with her ex-husband.

Mikey O´Shea

Mikey O´Shea (Luis Guzmán) appears in the Hobo Loco Contest. At first he proposes to Frank that they help each other, but when Frank refuses, he plays dirty. They both plea for money by pretending to be homosexual war veterans, going as far as kissing each other. Both Frank and he become finalists but neither of them win.

Kelly Keefe

Kelly Keefe (Jess Gabor) appears in season 9 and 10 and is Sergeant Major Keefe's daughter. She meets Carl at a cocktail party of West Point aspirants and ends up in a relationship with him. Debbie and Kelly's close relationship makes Carl suspect that she is a lesbian. When Carl threatens to leave for military school, Kelly returns to him and forces him to pursue his dream. While away at camp, Kelly is sleeping with another boy and contracts an STD. She returns to find Carl interested in another girl, and the two decide to break up.

Melinda

Melinda (Rebecca Metz) is a waitress at Patsy's Pies.

Officer Arthur Tipping

Officer Arthur Tipping (Joshua Malina) appears in season 11 as Carl Gallagher's partner in the Chicago PD. Initially, Tipping is conflict avoidant, which causes tension between him and Carl. After suffering a massive heart attack, he returns to the force much more willing to take on dangerous assignments. He becomes impressed with Carl's dedication to being a meter maid, and the two become good friends. In the season finale, they consider buying the Alibi Room and turning it into a bar for cops.

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