List of Supergirl characters

Supergirl is an American television series developed for CBS by Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler and Andrew Kreisberg based on the characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in Superman Franchise and Al Plastino and Otto Binder character Supergirl (Kara Zor-El). The series stars Melissa Benoist as title role of Kara Zor-El / Kara Danvers / Supergirl, as well as Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Jeremy Jordan, David Harewood and Calista Flockhart. In addition to original characters, several other characters from DC Comics universe along with other characters, also appear throughout the series.

Main characters

Kara Zor-El / Kara Danvers

Kara Zor-El / Kara Danvers "Supergirl " (portrayed by Melissa Benoist) a 24-year-old Kryptonian living in National City, who must embrace her powers after previously hiding them. She assists her adoptive sister as part of the Department of Extranormal Operations (DEO) as she discovered the truth that her foster father also worked for the DEO so they would not take her, while Alex's co-workers at the DEO help her perfect her powers.^[1][2] Kara works as Cat Grant's assistant at CatCo.^[3] Benoist expressed her excitement over portraying the character, and being able to "(tell) a story about a human being really realizing their potential and their strength".^[4] Claire Holt and Gemma Atkinson were considered for the role.^[5][6][7] Malina Weissman portrays a young Kara.^[8]

James Olsen

A former Daily Planet photographer (portrayed by Mehcad Brooks), James moved to National City and became the new art director for his former colleague, Cat Grant's media company, CatCo Worldwide Media. He is a potential love interest for Kara.^[2][3][9] Among his reasons for moving across the country include his breakup with his fiancée, Lucy Lane (with whom he has since reconciled),^[10] and keeping an eye on the newly-revealed Supergirl for Superman. While working at the Daily Planet, James received the Pulitzer Prize for taking the first photograph of Superman.

Alex Danvers

Kara's adoptive sister (portrayed by Chyler Leigh). She is a doctor and scientist who works for Hank Henshaw at the DEO.^[3][11] Jordan Mazarati plays a young Alex.^[12] Having been trained in extensive combat after joining the DEO, Alex tasked herself in providing rigorous training to Kara in order to decrease her reliance on her powers. Initially, like Kara, she becomes suspicious of the DEO and thus her own role upon learning of their father having worked there in order to protect Kara, but Alex ultimately learns that Henshaw is the Martian survivor J'onn J'onzz in shape-shifted disguise, whom her late-father had rescued before his and the real Henshaw's deaths.

Winslow "Winn" Schott, Jr.

A tech expert who works alongside Kara at CatCo (portrayed by Jeremy Jordan), who serves as one of her allies, helping her develop her costume and aiding her in her adventures. Winn has an unrequited crush on Kara and is rivals with James for her affection. In the series, he is the son of Toyman.^[13][3][14]

Hank Henshaw / Martian Manhunter

A former CIA agent and current head of the DEO (portrayed by David Harewood), who goes on high alert when Supergirl reveals herself, worried that her otherworldly abilities pose a threat to humankind.^[3] However, the "real" Henshaw died with Jeremiah Danvers in Peru while hunting the alien J'onn J'onzz. After Henshaw died, J'onzz, who has shape-shifting abilities, took Henshaw's likeness in order to reform the DEO from within as well as to watch over Alex and Kara, whom each subsequently trust him as a mentor after learning his true identity. The evolution of Henshaw was discussed during the filming of the pilot, with the executive producers jokingly saying that Harewood would be a good actor to play the Martian Manhunter in a potential television series, to which DC Comics' Geoff Johns asked why it could not be done in Supergirl. Harewood reflected that he had a difficult time "find[ing] an angle to play Hank Henshaw" in the pilot, and became excited when he was told about the change for his character's backstory.^[15]

Cat Grant

The shallow and superficial founder of the media conglomerate CatCo (portrayed by Calista Flockhart) Worldwide Media, who feels, since she "branded" Kara as "Supergirl", that she has proprietary custody over the new hero.^[3][16] Formerly a gossip columist at the Daily Planet (and before that, the personal assistant to the Daily Planet's Editor-in-Chief, Perry White) prior to founding CatCo, Cat investigates and reveals that Supergirl is Superman's cousin, which then causes her to become a target for some of Superman's enemies. She also serves as a mentor to Kara, dispensing advice about being a woman in a man's world. In the episode "Hostile Takeover", she suspects that Kara is Supergirl.

Recurring characters

• Laura Benanti as Alura Zor-El and Astra In-Ze:

Kara's biological mother and aunt, who are twins. Alura's guidance (both in flashbacks, and as a Kryptonian Artificial Intelligence which acts as Kara's holographic virtual "mother", whose advice Kara can access in the present day) proves invaluable in Kara's journey,^[17] while Astra plots to rule the Earth and targets Kara for revenge against Alura, who was the judge who sentenced her to imprisonment at Fort Rozz, despite claiming that she wanted to save Krypton and Earth.^[18]

• Helen Slater as Eliza Danvers:

A scientist and Kara's foster mother, who is more protective of Kara than with Alex. She was the one who told Kara and Alex about her husband working with the DEO in order to protect Kara and warns them about Hank as he is not to be trusted because of his involvement in Jeremiah's death.^[19] Slater portrayed Supergirl in the 1984 film ^[20][21] and Lara-El in the television series Smallville.

• Dean Cain as Jeremiah Danvers:^[20]

A scientist and Kara's foster father, who offered his services to the DEO by working with Hank in order to protect Kara, but later died under mysterious circumstances, when he and Hank went to South America to capture J'onn J'onzz, but died while trying to keep Hank from killing J'onzz. Before he died, he asked J'onzz to watch over his daughters.^[19][15] Cain portrayed Superman in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.^[20][21]

• Peter Facinelli as Maxwell Lord:^[22]

A tech mogul who is fascinated by Supergirl.^[23] Lord deduces that Supergirl has a secret identity and is determined to learn it at any cost, becoming her enemy in the process, eventually using Supergirl's connections to Alex and eavesdropping on the latter.

• Jenna Dewan-Tatum as Lucy Lane:

The younger sister of Lois Lane and James' ex-fiancée.^[24][25] In addition to her duties as trial counsel (prosecutor) for the Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army (where she held the rank of major), Lucy is a legal attaché on her father's staff, though she resigns her commission in order to remain in National City.^[26] She later accepts a job as general counsel for CatCo. In that episode, it is mentioned that she graduated from the United States Military Academy and earned her J.D./M.B.A. from Harvard Law School.^[27]

• Glenn Morshower as Sam Lane: A powerful military general and overprotective father to both Lucy and Lois whose arrival in National City stirs up trouble for Supergirl when he enlists her in a dangerous government initiative.^[28]
• Chris Vance as Non:

A former scientist in league with the House of El and a brutal Kryptonian military officer who is sinister, powerful and angry – the antithesis of all things Supergirl stands for and becomes her greatest threat.^[29][30][31] Despite being a subordinate of Astra, Non is also her husband and thus Supergirl's uncle.

• Emma Caulfield as Cameron Chase:^[32] A stern, no holds barred FBI agent dedicated to law enforcement following her father's violent murder.
• Blake Jenner as Adam Foster:^[33] Cat's older son and thus Carter's half-brother. He will serve as Kara's potential love interest and thus another rival for James and Winn.^[34]
• Italia Ricci as Siobhan Smythe: A new hire at CatCo Worldwide Media who clashes with Kara and later Supergirl.^[35]
• Laura Vandervoort as Indigo: A living computer sentenced to Fort Rozz for turning against the people of Krypton, but now unstoppable on Earth. Vandervoort portrayed Supergirl in the series Smallville.^[36]
• Jeff Branson as Master Jailer: The relentless jail guard of Fort Rozz bent on capturing all the escapees and bringing them to justice.^[36]
• Daniel DiMaggio as teenage Clark Kent: Kent will be shown in flashbacks that will establish his cherished bond with Kara.^[37][38]

Guest stars

• Robert Gant as Zor-El: Kara's biological father.^[12]
• Faran Tahir as The Commander: An alien military expert who leads the forces aligned against Supergirl.^[39]
• Owain Yeoman as Vartox: An alien convict who has been hiding on Earth for the past twelve years and seeks a battle with Supergirl after she emerges, using the attempted plane crash that Kara aborted in order to draw her out. He commits suicide after Kara defeats him in their rematch before he could destroy National City.^[40]
• Justice Leak as Hellgrammite: An alien escapee from Fort Rozz who feeds on DDT, and is later killed by Alex. Based on the DC Comics character of the same name.^[41]
• Chris Browning as Ben Krull / Reactron: A former nuclear physicist and a enemy of Superman who decides to get revenge on him by trying to kill Supergirl as payback for his wife's death.^[42]
• Brit Morgan as Leslie Willis / Livewire: A confident, abrasive and funny shock-jock who works for CatCo and becomes as dangerous and shocking as her words following an accident^[23][29] in which Supergirl rescues her from a potential helicopter crash during a lightning storm.^[43][44] The rescue backfires when Supergirl gets struck by lightning while pulling Leslie out of the helicopter—electrocuting them both and giving Leslie electrical powers. She is captured and given over to the D.E.O.
• Levi Miller as Carter Grant: The son of Cat Grant, he is sensitive and shy and has a crush on Supergirl, which he confesses to Kara when she babysits him.^[45]
• Iddo Goldberg as T. O. Morrow and Red Tornado: A brilliant scientist, and his android designed as the ultimate super-weapon that gains sentience. Morrow later reprograms Red Torando to kill Kryptonians, and both are defeated by Alex and Kara, respectively.^[30][46]
• Joan Juliet Buck as Katherine Grant: Cat Grant's mother, whom Cat has despised due to her failure to recognize her daughter's success.^[47]
• Charles Halford as Jemm: An alien prisoner who uses the gemstone embedded in his forehead to manipulate people's emotions and behavior. He is a conqueror of 12 planets, for which he was also convicted.^[48]
• Hope Lauren as Bizarro: A mirror image of Supergirl, loosely based on the Bizarro Superman.^[49][50] She is a comatose Jane Doe whom Lord creates through the infusion of Kara's DNA and black blood cells, and orders to destroy Supergirl after learning her true identity. She is defeated by Kara after the DEO injects her with blue kryptonite and placed back in a comatose state at the DEO HQ.
• Henry Czerny as Winslow Schott, Sr. / Toyman: A mad criminal genius and Winn's estranged father who weaponizes toys to wreak destruction, as he seeks revenge against his former boss for stealing his ideas, which led Winslow to send a bomb to his workplace that led to the death of six people, except his boss, who survived.^[13][51][52]
• Tawny Cypress as Miranda Crane: A senator who uses her anti-alien beliefs to gain votes, but is forced to turn to Supergirl for help when her visit to National City is interrupted by an alien attack. She is kidnapped by the White Martian, who poses as Crane in order to kill the Martian Manhunter until Supergirl helps the latter avert it before it goes further. The real Crane apologizes and vows to help make peace with humans and aliens.^[53]
• Grant Gustin as Barry Allen / Flash: A forensic scientist from Central City who gains super speed after an accident, becoming a superhero. Allen hails from an alternate Earth, finding himself in National City after crossing the dimensional barrier. Gustin stars as the character on The Flash.^[54]

See also

• List of DC Comics characters

References

External links

• Full cast and crew of Supergirl at IMDb