Characters of Moonlight

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The main cast of Moonlight; from left to right: Jason Dohring as Josef Kostan, Shannyn Sossamon as Coraline Duvall, Alex O'Loughlin as Mick St. John, and Sophia Myles as Beth Turner.
The main cast of Moonlight; from left to right: Jason Dohring as Josef Kostan, Shannyn Sossamon as Coraline Duvall, Alex O'Loughlin as Mick St. John, and Sophia Myles as Beth Turner.

This article contains character information for the American supernatural television drama television series Moonlight.

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[edit] Main characters

[edit] Mick St. John

Mick St. John is a private investigator who was turned into a vampire over fifty years ago. As a private investigator, he is a shrewd planner and remarkably honorable.[1] His wife, Coraline, sired him on their wedding night in 1952, when he was thirty. After she taught him the basics of vampire life, they came to be estranged. During their separation, he appeared to have taken up with Josef and shared quite a few of the other's hedonistic tendencies, especially regarding human women. Then in 1985 he was approached by a mother desperate to find her kidnapped daughter Beth. Mick rescued the child from the kidnapper, his ex-wife Coraline, who he then killed.[2] He has continued to keep track of Beth over the years and they soon grow close after a string of "vampire" murders. Though he realizes that Beth means quite a bit to him, he is reluctant to continue a romantic, and at times any sort, relationship with her, knowing that his being a vampire would hinder any sort of normal life.[3] Unlike most vampires, he is conscientious and principled, reluctant to let go of his humanity, even when keeping it only means emotional pain.[1] As of 2007, he claims to be eighty five years old and to have fought in World War II in the Battle of the Bulge.[citation needed] Mick meets a photographer who works with Beth in Buzzwire who closely resembles his ex-wife, Coraline.[4] After he discovers it really is her, and she has turned back into a human, he pleads with her to find the 'cure'. Mick and Coraline become attracted toward each other again, and Beth, who realizes who Coraline truly is takes matters into her own hands and stabs Coraline in the chest thinking she's a vampire.[5] Afterwards, Mick and Beth come to have a strained relationship, further strained as Mick finds out about Josef's "death," but as they finally come to amends as they figure out the mysteries of Josef's past.[6] Even as Mick forgives Beth for stabbing Coraline, he soon becomes desperate in obtaining Coraline's secret to becoming mortal, to his ex-wife's amusement.[7] Mick is once again a vampire, having been sired by request by Josef so he could save Beth from a trio of vampires, saying that giving up his humanity is worth saving Beth.

[edit] Beth Turner

Beth Turner is an internet reporter, and St. John's love interest. Beth was rescued by Mick 22 years ago (Los Angeles 1985) after being kidnapped by his ex-wife Coraline. Inquisitive and intelligent, she is a fairly successful reporter and steadily dating an attorney. In the first episode, she meets Mick over a dead body and is curiously drawn to him,[1] only to find out that he is a vampire.[8] Though he occasionally has to bail her out of trouble, she soon becomes invaluable to him as backup and emotional support, going as far as to feed him her blood to help him regain his strength.[9] This intimacy starts to form a rift between Beth and her long-term boyfriend, a district attorney.[10] The longer she knows Mick, the more she starts to remember about the fateful night when she was a child and Mick rescued her, until she finally realizes that he was the one who saved her.[11] When Beth gets jealous toward a photographer and Mick working together on a case, she investigates the photographer's background. She finds out she's actually Mick's wife, Coraline. She seeks out Coraline's old party house to find the room she was held in long ago when Coraline kidnapped her as a child. Along with that she finds pictures proving Coraline has been stalking Mick and her for the last few weeks. After finding the room she snaps off part of one of the chairs and seeks out Coraline to exact her revenge, not realizing that somehow Coraline has become human.[5] Aghast at what she had done, she attempts to make amends with Mick and eventually does so while finding about Josef's past.[6]

[edit] Josef Kostan

Josef Kostan is a centuries old vampire (he was four years old in 1603, therefore making him 409 years old), and St. John's mentor and perhaps the closest he has to a friend.[1] [4] Not much is known about his past and he doesn't reveal anything of it unless prompted. He claims to have gone insane when first turned into a vampire, [2] was chased by a mob, [1] and has known Coraline for roughly a hundred years before she met Mick.[citation needed] A hedonist to the utmost, he is a shrewd businessman who doesn't stint himself in luxuries, from an expensive house to the company of numerous beautiful women who are more than happy to sate his desire for blood. Cynical and wry, he humors what he calls Mick's sentimentality regarding humans, from aiding them to only drinking dead or donated blood. However, he rebukes Mick rather harshly from time to time, especially concerning Mick's growing affection for Beth.[citation needed] Aside from his affairs with mortal women, he dallies with vampires, most notably Lola, the oldest vampire he personally ever met, though these liaisons never seem to end well.[3] Later on, a 93 year old man sends a mercenary to kill Josef, on the grounds that Josef killed his daughter, Sarah, 50 years ago. Mick and Beth find out that Josef was in love with Sarah, and tried to turn her into a vampire but something went wrong in the process, resulting in leaving her comatose for fifty years. Curiously, she hasn't aged.[6] Josef has shown several times how close a friend he is to Mick, persuading Mick to go after Beth once he became human. After Mick wanted to save Beth from a trio of vampires as a human, Josef showed him how weak he is, saving his life. Josef then became Mick's second sire, but did it reluctantly, not wanting Mick to give up what he waited so long for, showing he accepts Mick as human or vampire. Josef sired him after Mick told him he needed to save "his Beth" and then accompanied Mick where the two easily defeated the vampires.

[edit] Coraline Duvall

Coraline Duvall is St. John's ex-wife and sire. A courtesan in early 18th century France, she is approximately 300 years old. She turned Mick into a vampire on their honeymoon and eventually became estranged. She was presumed dead for 22 years after Mick rescued Beth and set the building on fire, trapping Coraline within.[1] Cool, collected and sophisticated, Coraline never lacked male attention, favoring musicians, which led to a fateful encounter with Mick and his band in the 1950's at a garden party. Despite driving Mick nearly insane with obsession, she grew to love him or perhaps obsess about him, leading to his fateful turning on their wedding night. She introduced Mick to Josef, to both men's profound irritation.[citation needed] Later on, Mick meets a human photographer named Morgan. Both Mick and Josef see Coraline's mannerisms and style in Morgan, yet she is human, not a vampire. Mick tried to force her to reveal herself, looking for the fleur de lis tattoo that his former wife had on her right shoulder, but Morgan's shoulder was bare. The last scene of the episode shows Morgan wiping makeup from her shoulder, revealing the tattoo. Morgan herself shortly later confirmed she is Coraline and comes to taunt Mick with the hope of a cure for vampirism.[4] In the episode fleur de lis, the tattoo is shown as being a brand.[5] It is later shown that Coraline is not really cured of vampirism, but had somehow managed to suppress it. After being stabbed in the chest with a piece of wood by a furious Beth, Coraline is taken to the hospital, where her vampiric traits start to exhibit themselves as her condition worsens. When her heart stops and the doctors run in to help, her bed is empty.[6] Two episodes later, Coraline turns up again, and gives Mick the cure, which he finds out is from a royal bloodline of Louis XVI, which she is a part of.[7]

[edit] Supporting

  • Jacob Vargas as Guillermo, a morgue worker who steals blood from dead bodies for himself and other vampires, informs Mick when something is wrong in the vampire world.[1]
  • Brian J. White as Lieutenant Carl Davis, one of Turner's contacts and a friend to Mick.[1]
  • Jordan Belfi as Josh Lindsey, Beth's boyfriend who works in the DA's office.[9] He was killed by a member of the MS-13 gang.[10]
  • Kevin Weisman as Steve Balfour, friend of Beth and co-worker at BuzzWire.[1]
  • David Blue as Logan Griffen, a vampire computer hacker and technology-obsessed recluse who Mick often goes to for help.[7][10]
  • Eric Winter as Benjamin Talbot, an ADA first introduced in "Fated to Pretend". When Beth’s boss, Maureen, is killed, Talbot investigates the murder. He is kidnapped, along with Beth, by a vampire surgeon. Mick eventually saves both without Talbot realizing Mick is a vampire.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "No Such Thing as Vampires". Trevor Munson, Ron Koslow (writers) & Gerard Bocaccio, Rod Holcomb (directors). Moonlight. CBS. 2007-09-28. No. 1, season 1. 42 minutes in.
  2. ^ a b "Dr. Feelgood". Gabrielle Stanton, Harry Werksman (writers) & Scott Lautanen (director). Moonlight. CBS. 2007-10-12. No. 3, season 1. 42 minutes in.
  3. ^ a b "B.C.". Erin Maher, Kathryn Reindl (writers) & Paul Holahan(director). Moonlight. CBS. 2007-11-02. No. 6, season 1. 42 minutes in.
  4. ^ a b c "The Ringer". Josh Pate (writer) & Chris Fisher (director). Moonlight. CBS. 2007-11-09. No. 7, season 1. 42 minutes in.
  5. ^ a b c "Fleur de Lis". Gabrielle Stanton, Harry Werksman (writers) & James Whitmore, Jr. (director). Moonlight. CBS. 2007-11-23. No. 9, season 1. 42 minutes in.
  6. ^ a b c d "Sleeping Beauty". Trevor Munson, Ron Koslow (writers) & John Kretchmer (director). Moonlight. CBS. 2007-12-14. No. 10, season 1. 42 minutes in.
  7. ^ a b c "The Mortal Cure". Chip Johannessen (writer) & Eric Laneuville (director). Moonlight. CBS. 2008-01-18. No. 12, season 1. 42 minutes in.
  8. ^ "Out of the Past". David Greenwalt (writer) & Fred Toye (director). Moonlight. CBS. 2007-10-05. No. 2, season 1. 42 minutes in.
  9. ^ a b "Fever". Jill Blotevogel (writer) & Fred Toye (director). Moonlight. CBS. 2007-10-19. No. 4, season 1. 42 minutes in.
  10. ^ a b c "Love Lasts Forever". Josh Pate (writer) & Paul Holahan (director). Moonlight. CBS. 2008-01-11. No. 11, season 1. 42 minutes in.
  11. ^ "12:04 AM". Jill Blotevogel (writer) & Dennis Smith(director). Moonlight. CBS. 2007-11-16. No. 8, season 1. 42 minutes in.