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This article contains character information for the American teen drama/mystery neo-noir series Veronica Mars.
[edit] Main characters
- Dick Casablancas (Ryan Hansen) (Season 2–3) (recurring previously) — 09er friend of Logan, a womanizer and former high-school bully turned obnoxious frat boy.
- Eli “Weevil” Navarro (Francis Capra) — Former leader of the PCH Biker gang and current maintenance worker at Hearst College. Friend of Veronica, but often suspected by her of various crimes.
- Don Lamb (Michael Muhney) (Season 3) (recurring previously) — Balboa County Sheriff, who won the office from Keith in the recall election spearheaded by Jake Kane. Is generally condescending and abrasive towards Veronica and Keith Mars.
[edit] Recurring characters
[edit] Family
- Kendall Casablancas (Charisma Carpenter) — Beaver and Dick's gold-digging stepmother. Ostensibly an airhead, but revealed later to be a shrewd con woman. Has done time in jail to protect her lover, Cormac Fitzpatrick (Jason Beghe). However, Cormac apparently shoots her dead at the behest of his brother, Liam (Rodney Rowland), in the Season Three premiere.
- Richard Casablancas (David Starzyk) — Beaver and Dick's father; adoring toward Dick but neglectful of Beaver, the latter who exposes his real-estate fraud.
- Terrence Cook (Jeffrey Sams) — Ex-major-league baseball player, gambler and Jackie's formerly estranged father.
- Aaron Echolls (Harry Hamlin) — Oscar-winning A-list actor. Logan and Trina's father. Easily angered, he physically abuses Logan when Logan misbehaves, but tolerates Trina. He retired from acting in the middle of season one in order to spend more time with his family.
- Lynn Echolls (Lisa Rinna) — Logan's mother and Trina's stepmother. An actress, she apparently committed suicide in season one by jumping off the Coronado Bridge after finding out her husband was chronically unfaithful and would leave her destitute if she sought a divorce. However, her body was never recovered.
- Trina Echolls (Alyson Hannigan) — Logan's stepsister, Aaron's adopted daughter and Lynn's stepdaughter. An attention-seeking would-be actress.
- Celeste Kane (Lisa Thornhill) — Lilly and Duncan's mother. Loathed Veronica, partly out of the fear that Jake Kane was Veronica's biological father and partly because of Jake's relationship with Veronica's mother.
- Jake Kane (Kyle Secor) — Lilly and Duncan's father, and a software billionaire. Lianne Mars's sweetheart in high school and beyond; was having an affair with her at the start of season one.
- Lilly Kane (Amanda Seyfried) — Duncan's older sister, Veronica's best friend, and Logan's girlfriend. Had a secret sexual relationship with Eli Navarro and Aaron Echolls. The story of her murder is shown in flashback in the pilot episode.
- Nathan Woods (Cress Williams) — Wallace's biological father with a shady past as an undercover cop.
[edit] Residents of Neptune
- Steve Batando (Richard Grieco) — Struggling actor and drug addict as well as Mindy O'Dell's ex-husband. Killed Lamb with a bat then was shot and killed by Sacks.
- Lloyd Blankenship (Steve Rankin) — Newspaper reporter and ally of Keith.
- Danny Boyd (Tayler Sheridan) — Liam Fitzpatrick's dim-witted cousin and accomplice.
- Harmony Chase (Laura San Giacomo) — Married woman whose attraction to Keith leads him to commit adultery.
- Woody Goodman (Steve Guttenberg) — Owner of the Sharks baseball team and Balboa County Executive. More commonly known as the "Mayor of Neptune", although the position is actually "County Supervisor." Revealed at the end of season two to have molested boys through his involvement with Little League teams. Woody was killed when his private plane was blown up by explosives planted by Cassidy Casablancas.
- Tom Griffith (Rick Peters) — Plastic surgeon and coke-addict who was asked by the Fitzpatricks to testify that Logan killed Felix. Logan retaliated by dating his daughter Hannah until he dropped his charges.
- Mindy O'Dell (Jaime Ray Newman) — Dean O'Dell's wife (later his widow); is having an affair with Hearst professor Hank Landry in season three. Mindy is eventually killed by Landry, though he claims it was an accident.
- Jerry Sacks (Brandon Hillock) — Sheriff Lamb's right-hand man.
- Vinnie Van Lowe (Ken Marino) — Keith's rival private investigator. Announced his intentions to run for Sheriff against Keith in the special election.
[edit] Neptune High
- Van Clemmons (Duane Daniels) — Vice Principal turned Principal of Neptune High. Enlists Veronica's help on various matters.
- Tommy "Lucky" Dohanic (James Jordan) — A janitor at Neptune High. Was wounded in Iraq. Previously acted as a bat boy for Woody Goodman's baseball team, the Sharks. Deceased.
- Molly Fitzpatrick (Annie Campbell) — Member of Fitzpatrick family and Felix's girlfriend until his death.
- Sean Friedrich (Kevin Sheridan) — 09er with a penchant for thievery and drug dealing.
- Gia Goodman (Krysten Ritter) — Woody Goodman's daughter, a student at Neptune High.
- Hannah Griffith (Jessy Schram) — An 09er student at Neptune High and daughter of the false witness to Logan killing Felix Toombs; Logan's girlfriend for several episodes.
- Deborah Hauser (Kari Coleman) — Divorced sex education teacher with a bitter approach to her students.
- Meg Manning (Alona Tal) — 09er cheerleader and the daughter of mentally abusive radical Christian parents; befriends Veronica halfway through season one. Dates Duncan late in season one, but is abandoned by him between seasons one and two. Survives the bus crash in the season two premiere, but is in a prolonged coma and later revealed to be pregnant with Duncan's child. Dies of a blood clot shortly after regaining consciousness. The child, a baby girl known at birth as Faith Manning and renamed Lilly Kane by Duncan after his sister, survives and Duncan flees to Australia with her to escape Meg's parents.
- Eduardo "Thumper" Orozco (James Molina) — PCH biker who betrays Weevil and starts dealing for the Irish gang the Fitzpatricks. Murdered deliberately by the Fitzpatricks and indirectly by Weevil and inadvertently but directly by Logan.
- Samuel Pope (Michael Kostroff) — Teacher of Future Business Leaders of America and one of the few ethical people of Neptune.
- Madison Sinclair (Amanda Noret) — Dick's ex-girlfriend and Neptune High's resident bitch. Also has had an illicit affair with Sheriff Lamb. Claims in season three to have had a sexual liaison with Logan while he and Veronica were broken up.
- Felix Toombs (Brad Bufanda) — Weevil's former right-hand man. Killed supposedly by Logan, but actually by Thumper, a fellow PCHer.
- Troy Vandegraff (Aaron Ashmore) — Childhood friend of Duncan's; Veronica's boyfriend for the early stretch of season one. He betrays Veronica and leaves town, but he is somewhat reformed by the time they meet again later in the series.
[edit] Hearst College
- Tom Barry (Matt McKenzie) — Wallace's basketball coach who was diagnosed with a terminal brain disease and allowed himself to be killed to save his family the suffering.
- Fern Delgado (Cher Ferreyra) — Disgruntled feminist and member of the Take Back the Night program.
- Chip Diller (David Tom) — President of the Pi Sig frat house. Veronica wrongly accuses him of rape in season two.
- Tim Foyle (James Jordan) — Teaching Assistant in Professor Landry's class; Veronica's self-described rival. Killed Dean O'Dell to frame Prof. Landry.
- Mason (Robert Ri'Chard) — Hot-tempered basketball jock and Wallace's new friend.
- Max (Adam Rose) — Geeky student who provides test answers for cash and once fell for a prostitute. Is now dating Mac.
- Mercer Hayes (Ryan Devlin) — Friend of Logan and Dick's, who runs an illegal casino out of his dorm room and has his own radio show. Uses GHB along with his associate Moe to rape Hearst girls.
- Hank Landry (Patrick Fabian) — Veronica's Criminology professor and admirer of Veronica. Is having an affair with Dean O'Dell's wife Mindy O'Dell. Accidentally kills Mindy when he is framed for the murder of the Dean by his TA, Tim Foyle.
- Claire Nordhouse (Krista Kalmus) — Feminist who tried to fake her own rape to help shut down the Pi Sig frat house.
- Cyrus O'Dell (Ed Begley, Jr.) — Dean of Hearst College. Initially Veronica's adversary, gradually becoming her ally. Employs Keith to help him out on a few occasions. Discovers his wife's infidelity and confronts her. He is killed by Tim Foyle during the last episode of the first mystery arc. His body is discovered by Weevil the next day.
- Bronson Pope (Michael Mitchell) — Animal rights activist and Mac's first post-Cassidy boyfriend.
- Moe Slater (Andrew McClain) — R.A. of the Hearst College dorms. Helps Mercer rape Hearst girls by giving him an alibi and drugging the girls for him.
- Nish Sweeney (Chastity Dotson) — Former Editor of the Hearst Free Press and feminist with a hatred of Dean O'Dell and the Pi Sigs. Has a tenuous relationship with Veronica.
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