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List of The Wonder Years characters
List of The Wonder Years characters covers both series versions: the 1988-1993 ABC original (Kevin Arnold, the Arnold family, Winnie Cooper, Paul Pfeiffer, narrator Daniel Stern) and the 2021-2023 reboot (Dean Williams, the Williams family of Montgomery, Alabama, narrator Don Cheadle), with actors and recurring roles.
List of Wednesday characters
Wednesday characters: Netflix series by Gough and Millar, Tim Burton-directed, set at Nevermore Academy, Jericho, Vermont. Cast includes Jenna Ortega (Wednesday), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Morticia), Emma Myers (Enid), Hunter Doohan (Tyler, the Hyde), Christina Ricci (Thornhill), plus Season 2 and 3 newcomers.
Logan Roy
Logan Roy is the fictional media magnate of HBO's Succession, played by Brian Cox, who built Waystar Royco, a Murdoch-like empire with the ATN network, and died in Season 4 Episode 3.
Louis Litt
Louis Litt is the fictional lawyer played by Rick Hoffman in Suits (2011–2019), a tax-law partner who manages the associates, rivals Harvey Specter, marries Sheila Sazs, and returns in Suits LA.
Luca (The Bear)
Luca (The Bear): fictional Copenhagen pastry chef in FX's The Bear, played by Will Poulter; first appears in S2E4 "Honeydew", mentors Marcus, returns in seasons 3 and 4, Emmy-nominated.
Lurch (The Addams Family)
Lurch is the towering, mostly silent butler of Charles Addams' Addams Family, famous for "You rang?", first played by 6'9" Ted Cassidy on the 1964 ABC series, later by George Burcea and Joonas Suotamo in Netflix's Wednesday.
Marie Moreau
Marie Moreau is the hemokinetic protagonist of Gen V, the college spin-off of The Boys, played by Jaz Sinclair; her blood powers emerged at her first period, and she later appeared briefly in The Boys season 5 after Gen V's cancellation.
Mel King (The Pitt)
Mel King (Dr. Melissa King) is a fictional second-year, later third-year, emergency medicine resident on HBO Max's The Pitt, played by Taylor Dearden. A neurodivergent doctor and caregiver for her autistic twin sister Becca, she is The Pitt's acclaimed portrayal of workplace neurodivergence.
Mike Ross (character)
Mike Ross (Michael James Ross) is the fictional lawyer played by Patrick J. Adams in Suits (2011–2019): a college dropout with a photographic memory hired by Harvey Specter despite lacking any law degree, later imprisoned for fraud, then married to Rachel Zane and leading a Seattle legal clinic.
Mike Wheeler (Stranger Things)
Mike Wheeler, played by Finn Wolfhard, is the de facto leader of the Party in Netflix's Stranger Things (2016–2025); friend of Will, Dustin, and Lucas, love interest of Eleven, Dungeon Master, returning leader in season 5.
Mikey Berzatto
Michael "Mikey" Berzatto is Jon Bernthal's character in FX's The Bear: the eldest Berzatto sibling and owner of The Original Beef of Chicagoland, whose suicide before Season 1 leaves the shop to Carmy and drives the series, depicted in "Fishes" and the 2026 prequel "Gary".
Miranda Hobbes
Miranda Hobbes, played by Cynthia Nixon, is the cynical lawyer of HBO's Sex and the City and its sequel And Just Like That..., wife of Steve Brady, mother of Brady, and later divorced with a queer awakening.
Philippa Georgiou
Philippa Georgiou, also Emperor Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centaurius, is a Star Trek character played by Michelle Yeoh: Prime Universe USS Shenzhou captain, Mirror Universe Terran Emperor, and Section 31 operative.
Preston Burke
Preston Burke is a fictional cardiothoracic surgeon on Grey's Anatomy, played by Isaiah Washington in seasons 1-3 and 10. He left Cristina Yang at the altar, won a Harper Avery, founded the Klausman Institute in Zurich, and exited when Washington was fired in 2007.
Rassilon
Rassilon is a Doctor Who character, one of the founders of Time Lord society on Gallifrey and its Lord President. First mentioned in The Deadly Assassin (1976), seen in The Five Doctors, The End of Time (Timothy Dalton) and Hell Bent (Donald Sumpter).
Raymond Reddington
Raymond "Red" Reddington, played by James Spader, is the criminal-mastermind protagonist of NBC's The Blacklist (2013–2023), an FBI informant whose true identity, including the Katarina Rostova implication, stays unresolved until his death in the 2023 finale.
Rebecca Howe
Rebecca Howe is the fictional manager of the Cheers bar in seasons 6–11 (1987–1993) of NBC's sitcom Cheers, played by Kirstie Alley; Alley won the 1991 Emmy and a Golden Globe for the role.
Robin Buckley
Robin Buckley is a fictional character from Netflix's Stranger Things, played by Maya Hawke; introduced in season 3 at Scoops Ahoy, the show's first openly gay character, later a Smith College student in the finale.
Rodney Trotter
Rodney Trotter (Rodney Charlton Trotter, "Rodders") is the younger brother of Del Boy in BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, played by Nicholas Lyndhurst 1981–2003 and 2014; married Cassandra, Trigger calls him Dave.
Sam Malone
Sam "Mayday" Malone is the fictional former Boston Red Sox relief pitcher and recovering alcoholic who owns the bar in NBC's Cheers (1982–1993), played by Ted Danson; he reappeared on Frasier in 1995.
Saru (Star Trek: Discovery)
Saru (Star Trek: Discovery), Kelpien Starfleet officer played by Doug Jones; first Kelpien in Starfleet, from Kaminar; chief science officer, first officer, captain, and later Federation ambassador who marries T'Rina.
Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane is the bumbling, corrupt sheriff of fictional Hazzard County, Georgia, played by James Best on The Dukes of Hazzard from 1979 to 1985.
Sonic screwdriver
The sonic screwdriver is the Doctor's multipurpose tool in Doctor Who, first seen in Fury from the Deep (1968). Powered by ultrasonic waves, it picks locks, scans, and repairs, but fails on wood and deadlock seals; at least ten Doctor-owned versions have appeared on screen.
Sookie St. James
Sookie St. James is the fictional chef from Gilmore Girls, played by Melissa McCarthy; best friend and later Dragonfly Inn co-owner of Lorelai Gilmore, married to Jackson Belleville, largely absent from the 2016 revival.
Sweeps (The Bear)
Gary "Sweeps" Woods, played by Corey Hendrix, is a supporting character in FX's The Bear; a utility player at the Original Beef who becomes its sommelier, with a backstory as a Cubs farm-team player.
Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
Ted Wheeler is a fictional character in Netflix's Stranger Things: the oblivious husband of Karen and father of Mike, Nancy, and Holly Wheeler in Hawkins, Indiana, played by Joe Chrest in all five seasons (2016–2025).
The Deep (The Boys)
The Deep (Kevin Moskowitz) is the Aquaman parody of The Seven in Prime Video's The Boys, played by Chace Crawford; gilled, fish-talking, disgraced for assaulting Starlight, and killed by sea creatures in the 2026 series finale.
The Doctor (Star Trek)
The Doctor is Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) in Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001), played by Robert Picardo. Created by Lewis Zimmerman, he gains a 29th-century mobile emitter, the ECH command role, and hologram rights.
The Frenchman (The Boys)
The Frenchman, called Frenchie (real name Serge), is a character from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic The Boys and its Prime Video adaptation, played by Tomer Capone; the team's chemist and weapons maker, killed by Homelander in the series' penultimate episode.
The Man from Another Place
The Man from Another Place is the red-suited dwarf figure of Twin Peaks' Red Room, played by Michael J. Anderson, who speaks backward-recorded dialogue and identifies himself in Fire Walk with Me as MIKE's severed arm.