This is a list of fictional characters in the television series Parenthood. The article deals with the series' main and recurring.
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The show revolves around the Braverman family, which has expanded to three generations, featuring patriarch Zeek Braverman and matriarch Camille Braverman, their oldest son Adam, his wife and three children, their daughter Sarah and her two children, their second son Crosby, his ex-girlfriend Jasmine and their young son Jabbar, and finally their daughter Julia, her husband and her young daughter.
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Adam Braverman |
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Seth Holt |
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Joel Graham |
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Max Braverman |
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Nora Braverman |
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Amber Holt |
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Drew Holt |
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Sydney Graham |
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Zeek Braverman (Craig T. Nelson) is the patriarch of the Braverman family, Camille's husband and the father of Adam, Sarah, Crosby, and Julia. He has dabbled in various careers, including being a soldier in Vietnam, an activist hippie, an aspiring actor, and a shrewd entrepreneur, but none lasted more than a few years.[1]
Camille Braverman (Bonnie Bedelia) is the matriarch of the family and Zeek's wife. She is an artist and also shows herself to be very capable domestically, striving to keep her family happy and peaceful.[2]
Adam Braverman (Peter Krause), age 40 at the beginning of the series, is Kristina's husband and Max's and Haddie's father. He is the oldest Braverman child and all of his siblings and parents consult him in times of crisis.[3] Adam is affable and dependable, and resolved to have a normal, happy family.[3] He was recently fired from his shoe company job of 15 years due to tensions with his new boss. After being unemployed and unable to find a new job, Adam goes into the music business with his brother Crosby, and together the open a recording studio called "The Luncheonette"; formerly a working diner. Adam and Kristina in 2011 have their third child, a daughter named Nora.
Kristina Anna Nicholas Braverman (Monica Potter) is Adam's wife, and a source of stability and support for anyone who needs it.[4] She is a typical soccer mom. Official material from NBC characterises her as a "wise and quietly forceful woman who loves her husband and children deeply and with incredible strength."[4] While she is always caring and nurturing, she can at times be high-strung and a worrier. She goes back to work to support her family during her husband's unemployment, then quits, but then goes back to work after Adam confesses that he shared a passionate kiss with Rachel, his assistant at the recording studio. She forgives him for this transgression, despite Adam's refusal to fire Rachel. Kristina constantly worries about Max, regarding his social deficits due to his Aspergers. She has shown her disapproval of her daughter relationship with her alcoholic boyfriend.
Haddie Braverman (Sarah Ramos) is Adam's and Kristina's 16-year-old daughter.[5] She is a straight-A student who plays soccer and has several friends; she aspires to be the quintessential "good girl" in order to compensate for her brother's behavioral problems. As the show progresses, however, she begins to assert her independence and experiment with boys and drugs. In Season 2, she volunteers in a soup kitchen where she meets Alex. They become romantically involved, but her parents object to their relationship because they feel Alex is too mature for her, with too many "grown-up" problems (he is a recovering alcoholic who left an abusive home and lives alone). Her parents' opposition to their relationship causes Haddie to move out to live with her grandparents. The conflict is eventually resolved when she returns home and Adam and Kristina grant her permission to date Alex. They decide to have sex after prom night. Her parents find out when she misdials them while she is having intercourse. Haddie is now in her senior year of high school. She is currently dealing with Alex's charges of assault and battery. After the charges were droped alex dumped her as they were not the same.
Max Braverman (Max Burkholder) is Adam's and Kristina's 11-year-old son who is diagnosed with Asperger syndrome at the beginning of the first season.[6] His struggles and triumphs with this syndrome affect much of what happens in his family. Max is unaware of his diagnosis in the early episodes, but during the second season he learns about it after witnessing a fight between Adam and Crosby. His parents decide to transfer him to a mainstream school after being told that Max is very intelligent. In the season 2 finale, while at the hospital Max becomes very angry saying that he wants pancakes more than he cares about Amber, even going as far as saying that doesn't care about her. Adam scolds Max for his hurtful comments. But Max believes he didn't do anything wrong and continues to have no empathy for anyone but himself. At the end he apologizes to Sarah for what he said but to the viewer he doesn't look like he really meant it. Max has recently been mainstreamed into normal school's in order to challenge him academically. He is trying hard to make friends, though it proves difficult. It is also discovered that Max is academically enriched. Though socially behind others his age, he is academically far above most others his age and older.
The youngest of Adam and Kristina's 3 children, Nora was born in late 2011. It is yet to be determined what gifts or challenges she will obtain.
Sarah Tracey Braverman (Lauren Graham), age 38 at the beginning of the series, is the second child and oldest daughter. She and her two children (Amber and Drew) move back into her parents' house in the pilot episode because of her financial situation. At the show's beginning, it is established that she had previously worked as a bartender for over ten years and as a graphic artist for local bands. She is divorced from her rocker husband Seth (John Corbett), who appears to have been a very poor father figure to her children. After she fails to obtain a job with a design company due to her lack of a college degree, Sarah once again takes a bartending job. However, she soon begins an internship position at the same company where her older brother, Adam, works. She starts dating her boss despite her brother's disapproval. However she eventually leaves him when she finds out that he sold the company without the knowledge of its employees. One night, she writes a play which her father passes to his friend, who is well-connected in Broadway. Her play is currently being produced. Sarah re-kindled her relationship with Mark Cyr, after revealing to Amber that she is falling in love with him.
Amber Holt (Mae Whitman), age 16 at the beginning of the series, is Sarah's rebellious, willful, and not very studious daughter who is seeking direction in life.[7] She resents her move from Fresno, particularly after her mother thwarts her efforts to stay behind, which she tried to do by moving in with her boyfriend in Fresno.[7] She shows musical inclination and is a talented guitar player and songwriter. Towards the end of the second season Amber learns she has been rejected from both colleges she applied to and has to decide what to do with her life. Following a path of drug abuse with her new friend, Gary, the couple is violently t-boned by an SUV. Amber is injured, but not critically. Amber has since moved out of her grandparents house, however her relationships with her family, in particularly her mom, have remained intact.
Drew Holt (Miles Heizer) is Sarah's son, age 14 at the beginning of the series. He is characterized as sensitive, and longs for a male role model.[8] Brief glimpses of Seth (Drew's absentee father) and statements by Sarah indicate that Drew has suffered much disappointment at the hands of his father. As a result, he has become sullen and withdrawn. Drew regularly consults the romantic advice from the male figures in his life, Zeek and Adam. As of late 2011, Drew has developed a relationship with Amy, a girl introduced to him by his maternal grandfather during a yard sale. The relationship with his new girl friend Amy is helping him to become less aloof, and break the shell of his social inhibitions. [8]
Julia Braverman-Graham (Erika Christensen) is Sydney's mother, Joel's wife, and Zeek and Camille's fourth child and second daughter. She is a lawyer at a top corporate firm while her husband, Joel, supports her ambitions by serving as a stay-at-home dad to their daughter.[9] Julia is sometimes competitive and it is difficult for her to let go and relax.[9] Julia's go-getting personality and by-the-book approach is the opposite of her sister Sarah's, but they turn to one another for support.[9] After unsuccessfully trying to conceive a second child, Julia is told she has scarring in her uterus and that it will be extremely difficult for her to conceive again. Julia and Joel have decided to adopt.
Joel Graham (Sam Jaeger) is Julia's husband and Sydney's father.[10] He is a stay-at-home father, and is popular among the stay-at-home mothers in their social circle at Sydney's school, a fact which sometimes puts strains on his marriage. He is shown to be very capable domestically and hosts a regular playdate that is very popular.[10] Though he's 100% committed to the job of raising his daughter, he sometimes finds himself starved for adult interaction. He is a licensed contractor and he and Julia agreed that he would stay home with Sydney after he couldn't afford to keep paying his crew.[10]
Sydney Graham (Savannah Paige Rae) is Julia and Joel's 5-year-old daughter.[11] With Joel at home with her full-time, Sydney has become a "daddy's girl," which causes Julia anxiety about finding significant bonding time with her little girl.[11] She has been identified as being gifted.
Crosby Braverman (Dax Shepard) is 32 years old at the beginning of the series, unmarried, third child and second son. He works as a small-time record producer. When the show opens, his longtime girlfriend, Katie, is pressuring him to settle down and start a family, an idea he is resistant to.[12] Unexpectedly, his former lover, Jasmine, introduces Crosby to his five-year-old son, Jabbar, in the pilot episode.[12] In season 2, Crosby and Jasmine are engaged, but he begins to feel Jasmine is too controlling, citing her desire to have "a big family" and eventually a house while not actually discussing her desires with him. When he confronts her, they have an argument and he moves back into his boat while Jasmine asks that they "figure things out." During this period Crosby sleeps with Max's behavioral aide, Gaby. He tells Jasmine and upon hearing the news, she leaves him. Crosby begs for Jasmine's forgiveness, but towards the end of the second season, Jasmine tells him she doesn't think she can forgive him for cheating on her and she has decided to move on. Crosby is determined to get her back. In the season 2 finale Crosby tells Jasmine that he is done pursuing her if she truly feels that this was the end of their relationship. Seeing this as a mature sign she comes back to visit Crosby and his new house. Crosby and Jasmine are not together, and though having numerous flings, he has not been involved in another serious relationship, unlike Jasmine who is dating.
Jasmine Trussell (Joy Bryant) is a dancer and the mother of Crosby's son Jabbar, Crosby's eventual fiancée. She broke up with Crosby when he cheated on her with Gaby, but in the season 2 finale it appeared that she and Crosby might reconcile, however they did not and she is now dating other men. She did not tell Crosby about his son until Jabbar was 5 years old.
Jabbar Trussell-Braverman (Tyree Brown) is Jasmine & Crosby's son; he is 5 years old during the show's first season.
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