List of The O.C. characters
The O.C. is an American Television series created by Josh Schwartz for the FOX Network in 2003. Schwartz serves as executive producer while also writing and directing for the show, including the premieres and finales of all seasons.
The show began with seven main characters which eventually became 9 by the end of the first season. Since then, characters from that first season have left the show, with new main characters having been both written in and out of the series. Originally, it follows the life of Ryan Atwood, a troubled but tough young man from a broken home who is adopted by the wealthy and philanthropic Sandy and Kirsten Cohen. Ryan and his surrogate brother Seth, a socially awkward yet quick-witted teenager, deal with life as outsiders in the high-class world of Newport Beach. Ryan and Seth spend much time navigating their relationships with girl-next-door Marissa Cooper and Seth's childhood crush Summer Roberts.
Main characters
The following is a list of series regulars from The O.C..
Actor | Character | Seasons | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||
Peter Gallagher | Sandy Cohen | Main | |||
Kelly Rowan | Kirsten Cohen | Main | |||
Ben McKenzie | Ryan Atwood | Main | |||
Adam Brody | Seth Cohen | Main | |||
Mischa Barton | Marissa Cooper | Main | |||
Chris Carmack | Luke Ward | Main | Guest | ||
Tate Donovan | Jimmy Cooper | Main | Recurring | Guest | |
Melinda Clarke | Julie Cooper | Main | |||
Rachel Bilson | Summer Roberts | Main | |||
Alan Dale | Caleb Nichol | Recurring | Main | ||
Willa Holland | Kaitlin Cooper | Recurring[a] | Recurring | Main | |
Autumn Reeser | Taylor Townsend | Recurring | Main |
- ^ Shailene Woodley portrayed Kaitlyn Cooper on a recurring basis during the first season.
Sandy Cohen
Portrayed by Peter Gallagher, an idealistic public defender who takes in Ryan Atwood in the pilot episode, much to the dismay of his wife, Kirsten. He is the husband of Kirsten, the father of Seth Cohen, and the legal guardian of Ryan Atwood. Although he lives in a large upper-class house, his politics are left-leaning and open-minded, causing friction between himself and the community. Peter Gallagher described the character as a "leftie Jewish guy from the Bronx".[1] Sandy deals with many conflicts throughout the series, such as trying to gain acceptance from his father-in-law while being financially supported by his wife, and raising two teenagers in a (sometimes) corrupt environment.
Kirsten Cohen
Portrayed by Kelly Rowan, she is the wife of Sandy Cohen, the mother of Seth, adoptive mother of Ryan, and former CFO of her father's (Caleb Nichol) real estate company, the Newport Group. Before she met Sandy she dated and grew up with Jimmy Cooper father of Marissa Cooper, with whom she remains friends. Kirsten was very suspicious of Sandy's decision to bring Ryan into her home in the pilot episode, but in the third episode, she and Seth take Ryan back home after he is beaten in the juvenile detention center. By the end of the episode, Ryan's biological mother, Dawn Atwood, asks Kirsten to adopt Ryan, figuring he is better off in Newport than returning to Chino. She has had trouble with alcohol, which was triggered by the failing deteriorating relationship between her and her father, and had an abortion early in her life, which belonged to Jimmy. Kirsten continues to open a dating service with Julie, and becomes a mother of three at the end of the fourth season. The character's politics and lifestyle are more conservative than her husband's. Kelly Rowan described the character as seemingly more "together" than herself during an interview.[2]
Ryan Atwood
Portrayed by
Marissa Cooper
Portrayed by Mischa Barton, throughout the series Marissa is frequently battling with drugs and alcohol, including nearly killing herself on a trip in Mexico with her friends. Marissa's relationships with her parents, boyfriends, and classmates are often tumultuous. She is Summer's best friend and Ryan's on-and-off love interest. Marissa is portrayed as a "spoiled girl who adjusts to being poor".[6] The casting director referred to Marissa as "a girl stuck in the trappings of her life who seemed older than her actual age."[4] Mischa Barton left the series at the end of season three when her character was subsequently written off by being killed in a car accident. Commenting on her departure, Barton said, "My character has been through so, so much and there's really nothing more left for her to do."[7]
Seth Cohen
Portrayed by
Luke Ward
Portrayed by Chris Carmack, Marissa's first boyfriend and regular cast member for most of the first season. Luke is initially the main antagonist of the series, coining the series famous "Welcome to the O.C., bitch!" line during a fight with Ryan in the premiere episode. However, he later becomes the main "comic punching bag" for the other characters after he and Ryan are begrudgingly paired together for a school project. They bond over cars when Luke takes him to his father's dealership to see the latest sports car models but catch Luke's father Carson kissing another man. When his father comes out, the once popular Luke falls out of favor with his clique and finds himself on the bottom of the social ladder for the first time. Ryan, Seth and Marissa then take him in as one of their own.
After that, Luke becomes a member of the group, more friendly and carefree than he had been earlier, becoming known for his lovable goofiness and love of beer.[6] Josh Schwartz characterised the later Luke as "strumming a guitar being a goofball".[10]
Jimmy Cooper
Portrayed by Tate Donovan, Marissa and Kaitlin's father (and Julie's ex-husband). He gets in trouble for embezzlement and must face the consequences of his actions and its effect on his reputation and personal life. After his divorce from Julie, he pursues Hayley Nichol, Kirsten's younger sister, who eventually leaves him to further her fashion career in Japan. He was a regular cast member for Season 1 and the beginning of Season 2. Jimmy's character made a brief appearance on season 3, but was quickly left when Jimmy is forced to leave town, the morning of his wedding to Julie, due to money problems. One interviewer characterised Jimmy as a "lovable deadbeat dad".[11] Josh Schwartz has referred to the character as a "cat" in the DVD commentaries. The character is portrayed as flighty and perpetually in financial debt, despite warm relationships with his daughters. The character was ranked eighth by Entertainment Weekly on a list of the worst dads in television history.[citation needed]
Julie Cooper Nichol
Portrayed by
Summer Roberts
Portrayed by Rachel Bilson, Summer is, throughout the first few episodes, portrayed as a shallow, materialistic gossip who is ditzy and can have an occasional bitchy nature. Spoiled by her divorced father, she considers him to be her best friend, and his opinion matters as much, if not more than her own. Summer was unusual in combining the qualities of a conventionally attractive and desirable character with a tough, outspoken, "take-charge" attitude. She is portrayed as highly sexualised and initially appears stupid; later she undergoes something of a transformation and becomes far more intelligent and concerned about environmental issues, a change possibly due to her relationship with the geeky Seth Cohen. Initially Summer was only intended as a small supporting character, only there as an object of fantasy for Seth and a friend for Marissa Cooper, while Ryan Atwood and Marissa were the lead couple. However, due to Bilson's performance, Summer became an increasingly important character.
Caleb Nichol
Portrayed by Alan Dale, Kirsten's businessman father and later Julie Cooper's husband. His character recurs throughout the first season, and he becomes a regular during the second season, but comes to a sudden stop when his character suffers from a fatal heart attack during the season 2 finale. The Chicago Tribune characterised Caleb as a "gruff, uncompromising Newport Beach, Calif., real-estate developer". When asked by the Tribune about the character, Dale said, "The thing that's lovely about this character is that there's so much to do with him. His relationships are so complicated, and once the marriage happened, everyone was related in the show. That means he's got all these people to relate to, and he relates so badly with everyone."[12]
Taylor Townsend
Portrayed by Autumn Reeser, introduced in the third season as a neurotic perfectionist student. Her character's initial personality was referred to by many critics as similar to the character Tracy Flick from the film Election.[13][14][15] Taylor begins the series as a recurring villain before eventually becoming the second female lead in the fourth season. Autumn Reeser's performance was critically acclaimed. She reflected back on the character during a 2010 interview, saying "I feel like there's a lot of girls out there who could really relate to her, who hadn't seen themselves on TV in that way. I loved that about her. I loved that she made no apologies for who she was even though she wasn't what all the magazines said was OK. She was like, "I'm still valid. And I'm awesome. And I know I'm odd, and that's OK."[16]
Kaitlin Cooper
Portrayed by Willa Holland in seasons 3 and 4, the role of Kaitlin Cooper was originated by Shailene Woodley on a recurring basis during season 1. Kaitlin spends much of the series at boarding school before returning on a recurring basis in season 3 (now played by Holland) and finally becoming a regular character in season 4. The daughter of Jimmy Cooper and Julie Cooper-Nichol and sister to Marissa Cooper. Her personality is more similar to her mother's rather than her father's, and she is portrayed as a regular pot smoker and occasional dealer. Holland observed that "no one can control her" but that her arc in Season 4 finds the character maturing.[17] When asked about any disappointment over the recast, Shailene Woodley responded that, "I was 11 and I was on as a guest, recurring character, or whatever. My character went to boarding school and when they decided to bring her back, they actually re-auditioned me to bring her back. But I didn't go through puberty until late [...] So, there was no weirdness when Willa Holland got it because she was so obviously right for the role... and I was so obviously not [laughs]."[18] In the series, Willa Holland's character dates a character played by the popular music star Chris Brown in the fourth season of the show.
Recurring characters
The following is a list of characters that were recurring guests on the series; they are listed in the order that they first appeared on the show. Many characters have had storylines that have spanned multiple seasons, while the others are restricted to arcs that occurred during a single season of the show.
Overview
Actor | Character | Seasons | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||
Daphne Ashbrook | Dawn Atwood | Guest | Recurring | ||
Bradley Stryker | Trey Atwood | Guest | |||
Logan Marshall-Green | Recurring | Guest | |||
Ashley Hartman | Holly Fischer | Recurring | Recurring | ||
Kim Oja | Taryn Baker | Recurring | Guest | ||
Samaire Armstrong | Anna Stern | Recurring | Guest | ||
Bonnie Somerville | Rachel Hoffman | Recurring | |||
Rosalind Chao | Dr. Kim | Recurring | Recurring | ||
Navi Rawat | Theresa Diaz | Recurring | Guest | Recurring | |
Brian McNamara | Carson Ward | Guest | |||
Wayne Dalglish | Brad Ward | Guest | Recurring | ||
Corey Price | Eric Ward | Guest | Recurring | ||
Taylor Handley | Oliver Trask | Recurring | |||
Amanda Righetti | Hailey Nichol | Recurring | Guest | ||
Linda Lavin | Sophie Cohen | Guest | |||
Michael Nouri | Dr. Neil Roberts | Guest | Recurring | ||
Nicholas Gonzalez | D.J. | Recurring | |||
Michael Cassidy | Zach Stevens | Recurring | |||
Olivia Wilde | Alex Kelly | Recurring | |||
Shannon Lucio | Lindsay Gardner | Recurring | |||
Kathleen York | Renee Wheeler | Recurring | |||
Kim Delaney | Rebecca Bloom | Recurring | |||
Billy Campbell | Carter Buckley | Recurring | |||
Johnny Messner | Lance Baldwin | Recurring | |||
Marguerite Moreau | Reed Carlson | Recurring | |||
Nikki Griffin | Jess Sathers | Recurring | Guest | ||
Jeri Ryan | Charlotte Morgan | Recurring | |||
Eric Mabius | Jack Hess | Recurring | |||
Ryan Donowho | Johnny Harper | Recurring | |||
Johnny Lewis | Dennis Childress | Recurring | |||
Kayla Ewell | Casey | Recurring | |||
Erin Foster | Heather | Recurring | Guest | ||
Jeff Hephner | Matt Ramsey | Recurring | |||
Paula Trickey | Veronica Townsend | Recurring | |||
Cam Gigandet | Kevin Volchok | Recurring | Guest | ||
Nikki Reed | Sadie Campbell | Recurring | |||
Shaun Duke | Henry Griffin | Recurring | |||
Chris Pratt | Che Cook | Recurring | |||
Gary Grubbs | Gordon Bullit | Recurring | |||
Brandon Quinn | Spencer Bullit | Recurring | |||
Kevin Sorbo | Frank Atwood | Recurring |
Taryn Baker
Taryn Baker is one of the "Newpsies;" wealthy, bored women who live in Newport Beach and spend their days lunching, shopping, and gossiping. Many of her appearances centered on her sexually adventurous side. In the first-season episode ("The Countdown"), she attended a swingers' party, claiming that such events had "saved [her] marriage." Later, she helped spread the rumour that Luke Ward's father had been having an affair with his male business partner ("The Secret"), and that this was why he had turned her down when she propositioned him. In the fourth season, it was revealed that swinging eventually did not save her marriage, which ended in divorce. Since her divorce, she had been sleeping with as many young men as possible, and goes out clubbing most nights, inviting Julie Cooper to come with her on one occasion. ("The Metamorphosis"). She also appeared in flashback, in the fourth-season episode ("The Case of the Franks"), where it was revealed that she attended high school with Kirsten Cohen and Jimmy Cooper.
Rachel Hoffman
Rachel Hoffman is a former colleague of Sandy Cohen in the district attorney's office. She invites him to work with her in a private firm called Partridge, Savage and Kahn. Sandy takes the offer, and later Sandy's wife, Kirsten, finds Rachel and Sandy enjoying a drink, causing tension between Sandy and Kirsten. Rachel shares the case of Balboa Heights with Sandy, because the plaintiff is Caleb Nichol's company. While negotiating with Caleb, Caleb accuses Sandy and Rachel of having an affair. Some time afterwards, when Sandy and Rachel work until late in Rachel's apartment, Rachel flirts with Sandy but he rejects her advances. When the chemistry between the two fizzles out, Sandy and Kirsten attempt to set her up with Jimmy Cooper, but fail.
Dr. Kim
Dr. Kim is the Dean of the Harbor High School. She gives Ryan Atwood a chance to enter Harbor if he passes an admission exam, which he does, although he leaves halfway through the exam when Seth Cohen and Summer Roberts barge into the room and beg Ryan to come with them to help Marissa Cooper, who is recovering from her drug overdose in Tijuana. She persuades Marissa to continue her role as social chair despite Marissa's tarnished reputation after overdosing on painkillers. She later returns to have a meeting with Kirsten, Sandy and Ryan, after Ryan reads Oliver Trask's files in the file storage room. In 2005, she was confronted by Julie Cooper and Sandy, claiming that she does not have the power to decide to expel Marissa and Ryan, after the gunshot incident, deferring to the new Dean of Discipline, Jack Hess. However, she assists in re-admitting Marissa into Harbor by revealing a precedent in 1996, in which a similar incident to Trey's shooting had occurred with a formerly suspended student. At Harbor's 2006 graduation, Summer spontaneously leaps into Dr. Kim's arms.
Rosalind Chao, who portrayed Dr. Kim, was born in Orange County's largest city, Anaheim.
Carson Ward
Carson Ward, portrayed by
Brad and Eric Ward
Brad and Eric Ward are
Cindy
Cindy, played by Holly Fields, is the younger sister of Julie and is also the aunt of Marissa and Kaitlin Cooper.
D.J.
D.J. played by Nicholas Gonzalez is described by creator Josh Schwartz as "the yard guy who works at Caleb's mansion".[19] Later, however, it is revealed that Marissa Cooper has struck up a relationship with him after Ryan Atwood left Orange County. Marissa and DJ kept their trysts secret to prevent Marissa's mother Julie from finding out and firing D.J. When Ryan returns to Newport and asks Marissa if she was seeing anyone, Marissa lies to him and says she's single. However, Ryan discovers the truth when he finds Marissa and D.J. kissing. D.J. is angry with Marissa when he finds out about her lie, saying he felt like a back-up she only came to when Ryan was not around. Marissa apologizes and the two reconcile shortly afterward, with Marissa revealing their relationship to her mother by announcing that as he was her boyfriend, D.J. should appear with them in family portrait photographs to be taken with Caleb Nichol. As expected, this enrages Julie, who felt D.J. was socially beneath her daughter. Arranging a secret meeting with him, Julie gives D.J. a check for $5,000 to leave Marissa. D.J. does so, but first gives the check to Marissa, suggesting she go on a spending spree. He then leaves her, saying he had no regrets about their relationship, but he feels Marissa was with him only to spite her mother.
Renee Wheeler
Renee Wheeler once had an affair with
Rebecca Bloom
Rebecca Bloom is an ex-girlfriend of Sandy Cohen played by Kim Delaney, who is described as Sandy's "love of [his] life" by Kirsten Cohen. Twenty years ago, she was accused of burning down a lab and killing a man in the fire. Rebecca denies that and claims that she fled the site because she did not want to testify against her friends. Her father, Max, asks his former student Sandy to find Rebecca, as he is dying and wants to see his only daughter one last time before passing away. Rebecca shows up, and Max asks Sandy to clear her name; soon after this, he dies. Sandy continues to assist Rebecca, thus placing his marriage in jeopardy. Sandy and Rebecca finally realize that their love was a thing of the past, and Rebecca flees yet again.
Carter Buckley
Carter Buckley is introduced as a new editor of Newport Living. He has edited several magazines before, The Ugly American and
Lance Baldwin
Lance Baldwin is Julie Cooper's ex-boyfriend. Back in the 1980s, when she was in desperate need of money, she starred in a porn flick he directed, entitled "The Porn Identity". Although the film was never published, a desperate Lance suddenly shows up, and threatens Julie to pay $500,000 or else he would leak the film onto the internet. Julie asks her husband, Caleb Nichol, for help, but instead of paying Lance, Caleb sends two thugs to attack Lance. Furious, he sabotages the launch of Julie's new magazine, "Newport Living", by replacing the promotional video with archive footage from "The Porn Identity." A devastated Julie flees Orange County with Caleb Nichol and later returns after the controversy dies down. After Lance redeems himself, he and Julie reminisce over their past together, and share a kiss which is caught on camera. Caleb subsequently asks Julie for a divorce (and fires her from the newport group), and reveals to his wife that he has had people spy on her since before their marriage.
Jess Sathers
Jess Sathers was a student at Harbor who overdoses at
Charlotte Morgan
Charlotte Morgan is a con artist, posing as a recovering alcoholic. She met Kirsten in rehab and tried to get money from her. However, this failed and she moved on to Julie. The two planned to throw a fund-raiser, a ploy by Charlotte to steal all the donations, but she gets found out when Julie goes into her handbag at a restaurant and finds numerous credit cards in different names. Charlotte gets Julie in on the scam; however, Julie does the right thing and asks people to write checks to the charity so Charlotte could not steal the money. With her plan foiled, she departed from Newport.
In July 2005 it was reported that Jeri Ryan was joining The O.C. in a seven-episode arc as "a mysterious woman Kirsten Cohen (Kelly Rowan) befriends in rehab".[20] Later on Josh Schwartz said that "We were told to add this Jeri Ryan character to the show that we had no idea what to do with. We were just told we had to add an adult female character. It went nowhere, and we had no plan for it, and it just didn't fit the show."[21] Rob Lineberger of DVD Verdict "thought Jeri Ryan made a compelling bad girl".[22] Derek Hanson said that Ryan's addition was meant to get the "14–24 demographic excited", but stated that Charlotte Morgan had "a terrible storyline, that just didn't sit quite right."[23]
Reed Carlson
Reed Carlson is the Vice President of the graphic novel company Bad Science. She was an assistant of
Jack Hess
Jack Hess who has a master's degree in education and who taught six years at boarding schools, is the new dean of discipline at Harbor High and is responsible for the measures to be taken after the gunshot incident. He wishes to punish Marissa Cooper but is only able to expel her. When Ryan Atwood punches him in the face, Jack uses that to have expelled Ryan as well. He then gives Seth Cohen two months' detention when he and Summer Roberts steal a tiki hut, which was a prop in a school play, so Ryan and Marissa can have sex in the hut on the beach. He is also responsible for Summer losing the social chair to Taylor Townsend by tricking her to admit that she helped Seth steal the tiki hut. At the Summer Dance, Summer sees Taylor and Jack sharing an intimate tryst and Sandy uses the information to blackmail Jack into leaving Harbor to save his career and get Ryan back into Harbor.
The Dean of Discipline position is filled by Dean Torres (Tia Carrere) in season 4 ("The Gringos").
Dennis Childress
Dennis "Chili" Childress is Johnny Harper's best friend and one of the kids
Heather
Heather attends Newport Union and disliked
In the third-season finale, Heather helps Volchok to leave Newport in a stolen car. She is in the car when Volchok drives into Ryan's car, leading Ryan to drive off a cliff, which results in Marissa's death. In "
Casey
Casey attends Newport Union and dates Johnny Harper. She befriends
Matt Ramsey
Matt Ramsey is a 26-year-old associate of the company that will take over the Newport Group. He convinced Sandy Cohen to keep the company so that they can run it as co-partners and is then named vice president and director of development. In the episode "The Disconnect", he takes Ryan Atwood as an intern due to Ryan's knowledge and experience in construction. Matt takes Ryan to a strip club and is fired by Sandy, but gets another chance when one of the dancers comes to Sandy and explains why he goes there. He doesn't have any trouble bribing to get green light for projects which are against Sandy's principles. Sandy tries to "do it his way" but has to give in to Matt's way as the latter has most of the board members on his side. Matt has a brief relationship with Maya, daughter of the head of the hospital's board,
Sadie Campbell
Sadie Campbell is Johnny Harper's cousin and comes to Orange County to help Johnny's mother Gwen after her son dies ("The Heavy Lifting").
It was reported that Nikki Reed would make her television debut in a four-episode arc,[24] which later became six. Reed stated that Sadie became "far from what I was originally pitched", suggesting that "glamming up the bohemian character" was to give the fans "someone who can give Mischa a run for her money."[25] It was also rumoured by Reed herself that Sadie would return for the fourth season.[26][27]
Henry Griffin
Henry Griffin is the Head of the Hospital Board. His daughter, Maya, dated
Unnamed Harbor School bully
Portrayed by Tyson Chambers, the unnamed student is very cruel to Seth and Taylor in season 3.
Che Cook
Winchester "Che" Cook (Chris Pratt), is a friend of
Gordon Bullit
Gordon Bullit, who refers to himself as "The Bullit", is a colorful oil merchant from Texas. Although he has been involved in bad deals, he is extremely wealthy. In prison, he met
Bullit has 12 sons, whom he jokingly introduced to Kaitlin Cooper as "A Buffet of Bullits", all of which are named after cities in Texas where he has oil refinery—Austin, Dallas, Houston, Lubbock, Odessa, El Paso, Amarillo, Texarkana, San Antonio and Corpus Christi—with the exception of Hanoi (named after Vietnam's capital), where he also has a refinery, and Spencer. Hanoi is Asian and presumably adopted. Amarillo is a "doctor for women's private parts" (i.e. gynecologist).
Spencer Bullit
Spencer Bullit is Kaitlin Cooper's tennis instructor and
Frank Atwood
Francis "Frank" Atwood initially appears as a business associate of
Later in Season 4, Frank begins a relationship with Julie Cooper which is broken off when she decides to date Bullit for her daughter's sake because she and Gordon develop a close relationship. She later decides that Frank is the one she wants to be with and they begin dating again. Their son whose name is unknown was born a few months after Kirsten and Sandy's daughter.
In season 1, it was revealed that Frank (he was still unnamed and known simply as "Ryan's father" at that time), Dawn and their sons : Trey and
Special cameo appearances
- Robert Schwartzman ("The Third Wheel")
- Rooney ("The Third Wheel")
- Paris Hilton ("The L.A.")
- Jem Griffiths("The Ties That Bind")
- Modest Mouse ("The Family Ties")
- The Thrills ("The Ex-Factor")
- Rachael Yamagata ("The Second Chance")
- Death Cab for Cutie ("The O.C. Confidential")
- T.I. ("The Return of the Nana")
- George Lucas ("The O.Sea")
- The Subways ("The Anger Management")
- Gisele Bündchen ("The Heavy Lifting")
- Lisa Tucker ("The Party Favor")
- Chris Brown ("The My Two Dads", "The French Connection", "The Dream Lover")
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