List of characters in Pushing Daisies
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This is a list of fictional characters in the ABC dramedy Pushing Daisies.
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[edit] Main characters
| Name | Portrayed by | Age | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ned | Lee Pace Field Cate (at age 9) |
29 | A pie maker who can return the dead to life with one touch. If the dead person stays alive for more than 60 seconds, someone else has to die. If he touches the dead person again, they return to being dead permanently. |
| Charlotte "Chuck" Charles | Anna Friel Sammi Hanratty (at age 8) |
28 | Ned's childhood neighbor and boyhood crush. She was murdered on a cruise ship under mysterious circumstances. Ned brings her back to life, and has to be very careful not to touch her again. She has a wealth of information on odd and uncommon topics due to reading a large variety of books while growing up in a relatively repressed environment. |
| Emerson Cod | Chi McBride | Late 30s-Mid 40s | A private investigator who becomes Ned's business partner. Never fails to voice his own opinion out loud. He enjoys relaxing with arts and crafts hobbies, especially knitting. He may also have a daughter who is not on speaking terms with him. Emerson is often seen driving his like-new 1960s Lincoln Continental sedan. |
| The Narrator | Jim Dale | An omniscient voice that puts the "fairy tale" in Pushing Daisies' description as a "forensic fairy tale", commonly beginng the expositions about case information with the phrase "The facts were these:". | |
| Vivian Charles | Ellen Greene | unknown | Chuck's aunt who was part of a synchronized swimming duo with her sister, Lily, who shares her personality disorder and love for fine cheese. However, unlike her sister, Vivian is more positive toward life. She is good with taxidermy. |
| Lily Charles | Swoosie Kurtz | unknown | Chuck's other "aunt" who lost her right eye when cleaning the litter box. Like her sister, Vivian, she shares her personality disorder and love for fine cheese. However, unlike her sister, Lily is more of a sourpuss. She is also a heavy drinker. While hallucinating under the influence of a heavily-dosed homeopathic mood-enhancing pie, she reveals to Olive that she is actually Chuck's mother (episode Corpsicle). |
| Olive Snook | Kristin Chenoweth | mid 30s | The waitress at Ned's Pie Hole who also lives next door to the Pie Maker. She is romantically interested in being touched by the Pie Maker, but due to Chuck "faking her own death" and coming out of nowhere, finds it hard to do so. She developed a relationship with Chuck's aunts when she began delivering pies to them, but has not told them of Chuck's continued presence to avoid hurting them. |
| Digby | Orbit, Orion |
3 (or 23) | Ned's Golden Retriever, the first creature that he brought back to life when he was hit by an 18-wheeler truck; the fact that Digby is still alive despite his great age would seem to suggest that the resurrection suspends the aging process, but this has yet to be confirmed. The Pie Maker currently pets Digby with a fake arm, and Digby spends a significant amount of his time with Olive. |
[edit] Recurring characters
[edit] The Coroner
The Coroner (Sy Richardson) works at the City Morgue where Ned, Emerson, and Chuck inspect (and secretly interrogate) dead bodies. He is often suspicious of all three of them and voices it by simply saying, "Mmmmmm-hmmmm." He has started hitting up Emerson for bribe money to keep quiet about his inspections. Emerson reluctantly pays him, but only because he believes it's simply for business.
Bryan Fuller recently revealed that the coroner is homosexual and is secretly in love with Emerson.[1]
[edit] Alfredo Aldarisio
Alfredo Aldarisio (Raúl Esparza) is a homeopathic salesman who has a fear that Earth's atmosphere could be sucked away from space and treats himself with his own herbal wares. He secretly admires Olive Snook and gave Chuck a sample pack of antidepressants. Olive also secretly admires him, even though she still longs for the Pie Maker, but she has not yet had a chance to tell him this due to him going away on a trip.
[edit] Oscar Vibenius
Oscar Vibenius (Paul Reubens) is an olfactory expert who works for the Department of Water and Power. He was almost framed by his former partner, Napoleon LeNez, for attempting to kill him, when in fact LeNez was staging his own attempts to try to publicize his latest book. He becomes intrigued with Chuck after noticing something slightly different in her scent, and he stole her mother's sweater to further investigate his suspicions. In Corpsicle, Chuck gave him a sample of her hair so that he could continue his investigation into her scent, but he returned it to her without testing it in an effort to gain her trust. Beforehand, he had also shaved Digby's behind, as he was also interested in his peculiar scent.
[edit] Dilly Balsam
Dilania "Dilly" Balsam (Molly Shannon), with her brother Billy Balsam, is the owner of Balsam's Bitter Sweets, a saltwater taffy emporium that opens shop right across the street from the Pie Hole. She is not a lover of competition, being determined to make sure that competition becomes eliminated in any way possible. When her brother is murdered by a crooked health inspector, she takes justice into her own hands and kills him for revenge.
ABC originally announced that Dilly would appear in three episodes, but because of the writers' strike, only one was shot. It was recently reported that, depending on the length of the strike, Shannon could become a regular on the show.
[edit] Lawrence Schatz
Lawrence Schatz (Brad Grunberg) was one of the funeral directors of the Schatz Brothers Funeral Home in Coeur d'Coeurs, where the once-dead body of "famed" lonely tourist Charlotte Charles was once kept. He was made infamous for stealing heirlooms off of dead bodies and selling them on the Internet. He died when Ned failed to touch Chuck a second time after sixty seconds. He was briefly revived by Ned so that Ned can apologize, Chuck can thank him, and Emerson can find out where he hid the stolen heirlooms. (Pie-lette, The Fun in Funeral)
[edit] Louis Schatz
Louis Schatz (also Brad Grunberg) was the twin brother of Lawrence Schatz and the other funeral director of the Schatz Brothers Funeral Home in Coeur d'Coeurs. Unlike his brother, he dresses informally, has a moustache, lies a lot more, and doesn't smoke. It is revealed that he was actually an associate of Lawrence's in the grave robbing scandal. He died when he choked to death on some food. His body was later deposited in The Pie Hole's freezer by Wilfred Woodruff, but Ned was able to get Louis out of the freezer under his own volition. (The Fun in Funeral)
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