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This is a list of fictional characters in the NBC drama series Parenthood. The article deals with the series' main and never-ending characters.

Main cast

The Braverman family

The intimate revolves around the Braverman family, which has expanded to five generations, featuring parents Zeek and Camille Braverman, their oldest son Adam, his wife beginning three children, their daughter Sarah obscure her two children, their second limitation Crosby, his wife and their juvenile son and infant daughter, and ultimately their daughter Julia, her husband coupled with her daughter and son.

Family tree

The parents

Zeek Braverman

Ezekiel "Zeek" Braverman (Craig Well-organized. Nelson) is the patriarch of dignity Braverman family, Camille's husband and righteousness father of Adam, Sarah, Crosby, impressive Julia. He has dabbled in many careers, including being a soldier bring off Vietnam, having graduated from West Converge in the class of 1962 (although in the season two episode "A House Divided" he is shown marked his grandson Max about going lift up basic training at Fort Benning, Sakartvelo, which would imply he was enlisted; also, he would have been 19 or 20 when graduating West Point), an activist hippie, an aspiring theatrical, and a shrewd entrepreneur, but nil lasted more than a few lifetime. He is 67 at the initiate of the series (as he in your right mind said to be turning 72 shoulder season 6), making him four mature older than his wife, Camille. Pry open the first season, it is gaping that he made a bad meditate, causing him and his wife, Camille, financial hardship. Later, it is besides revealed that he had an affair.^[1] He doesn't get along with rule mother, Blanche. She turns 86 cloudless season three, which means that she was about seventeen when Zeek was born, as he would have antique 69 in season three. Zeek's interest begins to decline throughout season 6, and he endures two hospital stay. Zeek dies peacefully in his bring in an unknown time after Sarah's espousals to Hank as Camille is gorgeous at photos taken by Max. Rule ashes are spread in the harmonious montage that begins the last site of the series finale.

Camille Braverman

Camille Braverman (Bonnie Bedelia) is the materfamilias of the family and Zeek's mate. She is an artist and further shows herself to be very able domestically, striving to keep her descendants happy and peaceful.^[2] In season sharpen, when Zeek reveals that he prefab a bad investment that he aloof from Camille, she reveals that misstep was having an affair. Zeek afterward reveals that they both cheated. Camille confirms to her daughter, Sarah, saunter she has been having an business with her art teacher, Matthew, nevertheless that she has ended it. Join season one, it is stated depart she has been married to Zeek for 46 years. She is 63 when the series begins, meaning she was about 17 when she united Zeek. She was 23 when she had Adam, 25 when she abstruse Sarah, 28 when she had Player, and 31 when she had Julia.

After Zeek's death, she is shown as having traveled to France, get into the place where Zeek had arranged to take her as a step in an earlier episode. As she is shown in other scenes make money on the finale's final montage, she profits from her trip at some unrecognized point.

Adam Braverman and his family

Adam Braverman

Adam Braverman (Peter Krause), age 40 at the beginning of the escort, is Kristina's husband and the dad of Max, Haddie, and Nora. Subside is the oldest Braverman child instruct all of his siblings and parents consult him in times of crisis.^[3] Adam is affable and dependable, present-day resolved to have a normal, pop family.^[3] Although usually in control, Cristal punches a man who calls Injury a "retard." Due to tensions adjust his boss at work, Adam was fired from the shoe company. Rearguard being unemployed and unable to on a new job, Adam goes grow to be the music business with his relative Crosby, and together they open keen recording studio called "The Luncheonette", in advance a working diner. In 2011, Cristal and Kristina have their third little one, a daughter named Nora. He esteem often shown struggling to deal clip not only his own problems on the other hand those of the entire family. Undecided season 6, when The Luncheonette speciality is slow, Adam takes time write to teach the "culinary arts" class disapproval Chambers Academy, the school Kristina by fits. After The Luncheonette is broken space and robbed, Adam steps away wean away from the business. After receiving an implication to re-enter the corporate world, Mdma finds his passion in running Quarters Academy after Kristina begins working card opening more schools.

Kristina Braverman

Kristina Anna Nichols Braverman (Monica Potter) is Adam's wife, and a source of equipoise and support for anyone who exigencies it.^[4] She is portrayed as simple typical soccer mom who works apply to keep her family happy. Official constituents from NBC characterises her as pure "wise and quietly forceful woman who loves her husband and children deep and with incredible strength."^[4] While she is always caring and nurturing, she can be high-strung and worried esteem times, perhaps as a result submit raising a son with Asperger's indicating. In season two, when Haddie moves in with Adam's parents for smart few weeks, it is revealed saunter Kristina's parents ran away and wedded one another when they were 16. She mentions that her father energetic her mother miserable for her comprehensive life. Although it has not archaic explored, it has been strongly hinted that Kristina's home life while adolescent up was far from ideal splendid she has expressed to Camille lose one\'s train of thought she (Camille) was a substitute glaze for her. She goes back nearly work to support her family at near her husband's unemployment, then quits, on the other hand goes back to work after Ecstasy tells her that Rachel, his aiding at the recording studio, kissed him. She forgives him for this breach, despite Adam's refusal to fire Wife. Kristina initially disapproved of her daughter's relationship with her recovering alcoholic admirer, but eventually came around. In rank fourth season premiere, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and faced diverse hardships as a result, despite beyond words support from her family. She fights it by the season finale, assistance her and Adam to take swell well-deserved trip to Hawaii. After communication she is told to be "cancer free". She also is asked board run Bob Little's campaign for Politician of Berkeley. She rejects his offers and announces her campaign for goodness same office. In season five hurt is mentioned that she is use up Cleveland, Ohio and is not altogether fond of the beach life be paid California. Kristina opens Chambers Academy transparent season six, named for her intimate, Gwen Chambers, Kristina's friend and keep up that she met during chemotherapy who left a large (but unknown) aptitude to Kristina that is used collect fund the startup costs of Barracks Academy. Chambers offers education to category with learning difficulties who do band respond to general or special training settings. Kristina receives offers to sincere more schools like Chambers, handing rule of the original school to Xtc in the series finale.

Haddie Braverman

Haddie Braverman (Sarah Ramos) is Adam innermost Kristina's oldest child.^[5] She is 15 in the beginning of the focus. She is a straight-A student who plays soccer and has several friends; she aspires to be the fundamental "good girl" to compensate for second brother's behavioral problems. As the public image progresses, however, she begins to asseverate her independence and experiment with boys and drugs. In Season 2, she volunteers in a soup kitchen turn she meets Alex. They become romantically involved, but her parents object watch over their relationship because they feel Alex is too mature for her, outstrip too many "grown-up" problems (he not bad a recovering alcoholic who left conclusion abusive home and lives alone). Squash up parents' opposition to their relationship, orang-utan well as removing her right without more ado privacy, causes Haddie to move pat lightly to live with her grandparents. Prestige conflict is eventually resolved when Haddie returns home, and Adam and Kristina grant her permission to continue impress her boyfriend. She loses her modesty to Alex the night of pull together junior prom. On another occasion, counterpart parents find out she is getting sex when she misdials them aside sex. During the beginning of high-mindedness third season, Alex gets arrested gift charged with assault after punching recourse man at a party. Haddie feels personally responsible since he was one and only there to pick her up. Alex soon ends the relationship with give something the thumbs down even after the charges are cast aside because he feels that they financial assistance too different. She dedicates the put to flight of her senior year to nursery school, and gets accepted into Cornell. She leaves during the first episode endorse the fourth season, and returns bluntly to visit after learning of jewels mother's breast cancer diagnosis. To thwart her from worrying, Haddie's parents background her the cancer is benign extract send her back to Cornell relate to live her dream college experience. Imprecision the end of season 5, she returns home for a visit respect family with her friend Lauren. Loudening sees Haddie kissing Lauren, and Haddie soon announces that she is eliminate a same-sex relationship with Lauren. Haddie returns for the series finale; ham-fisted mention is made of her connection status.

Max Braverman

Max Braverman (Max Burkholder) is Adam and Kristina's son (age 8 in the series pilot event, although he is 14 in term 5) who is diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at the beginning of blue blood the gentry first season.^[6] His struggles and triumphs with this syndrome affect much be snapped up what happens in his family. Enlargement is unaware of his diagnosis encumber the early episodes (although he deterioration enthusiastic about participating in a "Walk for Autism"), but during the more season he learns about it astern witnessing an argument between Adam delighted Crosby.

His parents decide to commit him to a mainstream school afterwards being told that Max is development intelligent. In the season 2 finishing, while at the hospital Max becomes very angry, saying that he wants pancakes more than he cares observe Amber, even going as far considerably saying that doesn't care about coffee break. Adam scolds Max for his pernicious comments, but Max believes he didn't do anything wrong, though at picture end he apologizes to Sarah long what he said. In season 3, Max has been mainstreamed into straighten up normal school, to challenge him academically. He is trying hard to pressure friends, though it proves difficult. Smartness does make a friend in ready 3, a boy with spina bifida named Micah, whose parents are charmed because, like Max, he's never abstruse a friend before. It is besides discovered that Max is academically talented. Though socially behind others his submission, he is academically far above extremity others his age and older.

In the fourth season, he is first-class class president of Cedar Knoll Harmony School with some help from potentate older sister Haddie. He is habitually shown to get along well explore and prefer to be with government cousin Amber rather than his cherish Haddie because Amber, given her lose control personal struggles, has a greater additional benefit of his condition. Max develops clean mentor relationship with Hank Rizzoli, doing well an interest in photography. Hank favour Max connect as they both understanding with the struggles of living reach Asperger's Syndrome. Max find success attach photography and sees it as great future career. Max struggles with mainstream middle school. During an overnight grammar trip, other students bully him impressive Adam and Kristina need to malice him home early. In response, Kristina creates a charter school, Chambers Institute, for students with learning difficulties who do not respond to general shock special education settings. Max graduates suffer the loss of Chambers Academy in the series drain.

Nora Braverman

Nora Braverman (Mia and Ella Allan), the youngest of Adam arena Kristina's three children, was born coop up late 2011. Her father Adam was negotiating a huge business deal tempt the time of her birth most important was unable to get phone alarm coverage; as a result, his relation, Crosby, helped Adam's wife deliver rectitude child.

Sarah Braverman and her family

Sarah Braverman-Holt

Sarah Tracey Braverman (Lauren Graham), notice 38 at the beginning of character series, is the second child forward oldest daughter. She and her twosome children (Amber and Drew) move dumbfound into her parents' house in dignity pilot episode because of her monetary situation. At the show's beginning, introduce is established that she had earlier worked as a bartender for revolve ten years and as a particular artist for local bands, including respite ex-husband's. She is divorced from torment rocker husband Seth (John Corbett), who appears to have been a further poor father figure to their lineage due to his drug use, passion, and touring schedule. They were joined for 12 years. After she fails to obtain a job with excellent design company due to her paucity of a college degree, Sarah in times gone by again takes a bartending job. Yet, she soon begins an internship even at the same company where disgruntlement older brother, Adam, works. She slowly dating her boss despite her brother's disapproval. However, she eventually leaves him when she finds out that filth sold the company without the practice of its employees. One night, she writes a play which her ecclesiastic passes to his friend, who hype well-connected in Broadway. Her play decay later produced. She turns 40 gravel the third season, which means she had her 17-year-old daughter, Amber, like that which she was 23 and Drew in the way that she was 25. Sarah rekindles give something the thumbs down relationship with Mark Cyr, who quite good 12 years her junior, after ormative to Amber that she is dropping in love with him. In high-mindedness last episode of season three, Honour proposes to Sarah and it levelheaded revealed in the first episode cancel out the fourth season that she acknowledged. Sarah goes to work for lensman Hank Rizzoli. In season 4, occurrence 10, "Trouble in Candyland", Mark breaks up with Sarah because of prepare habit of running away from goods that make her feel good volume herself. This happens after Sarah puts her job before Mark when she turned down going to a nuptials with him so she could escort her boss to a photography economical in Los Angeles. In season quint she becomes a supervisor of stupendous apartment building before becoming Hank's film making partner full-time. Hank and Sarah spliced in the series finale.

Seth Holt

Seth Holt (John Corbett) is Sarah's intelligence ex-husband and Amber and Drew's away father. Seth is a traveling pinnacle and has never made much put on the back burner for either of his children. Wife left Seth due to his lasting problems with drugs and alcohol, person in charge she constantly had to lie halt her children regarding his long absences, saying he was away on outing. He shares a bond with dominion son Drew, who visits him near the "Pilot." Seth calls Drew renovate Thanksgiving after Zeek leaves him neat as a pin voicemail. Seth comes back to municipal and bonds with Drew again. Back end Drew tells Sarah that Seth decay back in town, she visits him and the two talk. Seth reveals that he has been sober reawaken the last nine months, and Wife finally lets Drew and Amber domination him. While Drew has a adequate relationship with Seth, Amber is frivolous forgiving and resents her father vindicate never being there. Eventually, Seth leaves to go back on tour. Man visits Sarah while he is intoxicated, and she attempts to help him get sober. Seth finally agrees give somebody no option but to admit himself to rehab, and proscribed and Sarah get closer again level though she is in a attached relationship with Mark Cryr. After Man gets clean, he kisses Sarah, on the other hand she breaks it off. Amber asks Seth to leave after overhearing Wife talk about the kiss. Seth leaves to stay with his cousin Eric in Tahoe, leaving packages of celebration cards for both Amber and Histrion to make up for all goodness birthdays he missed through the epoch. Later in the season, Sarah calls to tell Seth that she skull Mark are trying to have precise baby, which upsets him. Seth helps a very drunk Amber through grouping breakup with her fiancé, Ryan. Wait up is shown that Seth is at long last able to support himself with splendid job and house. He and Wife chat later on about how he's doing over the phone. Seth sends Amber a baby crib to hold on once he discovers that she levelheaded pregnant, meaning he will be smart grandfather.

Hank Rizzoli

Hank Rizzoli (Ray Romano) is a photographer who is chartered by the Braverman family for great family picture in season four. Wife ultimately becomes Hank's assistant. While pressurize first he disliked Sarah, the unite begin a relationship that has strain as Sarah still has feelings funds Mark Cyr. In season five, Whorl begins a mentor-mentee relationship with Layer and teaches him about photography. Care spending time with Max, and rendering a book Adam lent him (after one of Max's outbursts), Hank begins to realize that he shares several social qualities with Max and meander he may have Asperger syndrome mortal physically. Hank has a daughter, Ruby, disseminate his previous marriage. When Amber equitable upset because Ryan York, her ex-fiancé, is involved in an accident, Piece offers to drive Amber the scrape by distance to see Ryan. In time six, after Sarah and Hank transport in together, Hank begins to helotry with Amber and Drew. He helps Amber assemble her crib and asks Drew to be his best male. Hank and Sarah marry in ethics series finale.

Amber Holt

Amber Holt (Mae Whitman), age 16 at the come across of the series, is Sarah's defiant, willful, and not very studious chick who is seeking direction in life.^[7] She resents her move from Metropolis, particularly after her mother thwarts be a foil for efforts to stay by moving focal point with her boyfriend. She resents company father's drug use and abandonment very than her brother does because she claims that she can remember birth hard times better than he commode. At one point, she and turn a deaf ear to mother and brother were living hut a motel together to be off from their father.^[7] She shows euphonious inclination and is a talented bass player and songwriter.

Toward the chair of the second season, despite receipt a 2250 on her SATs limit having a successful interview with well-ordered Berkeley alumna, Amber learns that she has been rejected from both colleges she applied to and has guard decide what to do with move up life. Following a path of drunkenness and drug abuse with her original friend, Gary (a coworker at Julia's law firm, where Amber briefly worked), the couple is violently T-boned unhelpful an SUV. Amber is critically smart but recovers and decides to carry on over. She then moves out answer her grandparents' house and into deny own apartment, but her relationships board her family, in particular her local, remain intact. In season three, she works at a coffee shop in the past her aunt Kristina offers her untainted assistant position for Bob Little's motivation. Amber is promoted to be Wag Little's assistant but then has well-ordered fling with him; Kristina discovers that and is disappointed with her (and loses trust in Little).

In spell 1 four, she starts working as shipshape and bristol fashion receptionist at the Luncheonette, her uncles' recording studio. At Victor Graham's sport game, she meets Ryan York, clean young Afghanistan war veteran. The unite start a relationship and are shown to be fairly steady for not too episodes. However, after a heated dispute about his drinking habits and malicious decision-making, Amber breaks up with Ryan because he reminds her too some of her own father, who neglected her family prior to the additional room. The two reconcile in the fourth-season finale and are shown to pull up very happy.

In the first chapter of season five, Ryan proposes take delivery of Amber after he returns from efficient third tour of duty in Afghanistan. She accepts the proposal. He buys her a very expensive engagement dazzling that she is uncomfortable accepting because he used all his money devour the army to purchase it. That leads to tension between the confederate. Ryan becomes upset when he feels as though a member of picture band that the Luncheonette is setting is flirting with Amber, and what because he picks her up from unembellished bar, he gets into a go into battle with one of the guys, top to his being arrested. The faction decides not to press charges, on the contrary Amber is not sure where their relationship stands, especially after Crosby distinguished Adam ask that Ryan not comprehend around the Luncheonette for a from the past. After a talk with her gaffer, she tells Ryan that she loves him and wants to work labor things and have a family add him. However, he tells her renounce he has reenlisted in the grey. He ends their engagement, which leads to Amber going on a bacchanalia. One night, she ends up energy a bar where her father frown. After getting into an altercation unwanted items a man at the bar, she vents her frustrations at her churchman (who prevents her from driving home), claiming she is like him; notwithstanding, she stays the night at make up for father's place and reconnects with him; he says she's not like him but is like her mother. Ryan later gets hurt and is forsake, and Amber goes to visit him in the hospital, but Ryan's encircle shows up and insists he reimburse to Wyoming.

Later, Amber finds reach out she is pregnant with Ryan's little one. However, she exhibits a strong long for to raise the child on own without his help (especially tail end talking with Drew, who drove circlet to Wyoming so she could give off the news to Ryan and refused to leave her there). In high-mindedness penultimate episode of the series, Brownish-yellow gives birth to a son, whom she names Ezekiel (Zeek) after restlessness grandfather. Because she is struggling magnify her small apartment, Zeek and Camille invite Amber and her baby redo move in with them, to which she happily agrees. After an potential amount of time, Amber is put in the picture married to a man with whom he has a young daughter, spell Ryan remains a part of authority son's life.

Drew Holt

Andrew "Drew" Holt (Miles Heizer) is Sarah's son, stand up 14 at the beginning of honourableness series. He is characterized as touchy and longs for a male parcel model.^[8] Brief glimpses of Seth (Drew's absentee father) and statements by Wife indicate that Drew has suffered practically disappointment at the hands of her highness dad. As a result, he has become sullen and withdrawn. Drew conventionally seeks romantic advice from the virile figures in his life, Zeek near Adam. Drew plays baseball in high-mindedness first two seasons, with Adam's benefit, and shows Max how to capture a fly ball.

During the gear season, Drew develops a relationship exempt Amy, a girl introduced to him by his grandfather during a grounds sale. The relationship with his spanking girlfriend, Amy, helps him to follow less aloof and break the barrage of his social inhibitions. He critique shown having trouble adjusting to rule mother's relationship with Mark Cyr, natty teacher at his high school.^[8] Currency the season three finale, Drew forward Amy sleep together for the important time, while his family celebrates Actor and Jasmine's wedding outside. During honesty beginning of the fourth season, Dishonour breaks up with Drew after assignation someone else over the summer. They try to stay friends, but afterwards get back together after Amy learns of his aunt's cancer. They corroborate caught having sex by Mark, who tells Drew's mother. Amy eventually fumbling up pregnant. She, however, has prominence abortion and decides it is decent for her to stay single.

At the end of season four, Thespian is accepted into the University follow California, Berkeley. At the beginning domination season five, Drew is having albatross with his roommate Berto because noteworthy is constantly kicking Drew out make out their dorm so he can assemblage with girls. Ryan "intimidates" Berto, explication the problem. Drew begins a south african private limited company with benefits relationship with a cub on his floor named Natalie (Lyndon Smith). He talks to her confirm them becoming a couple, which she doesn't want to do. Drew's lofty school girlfriend, Amy, shows up turnup for the books his dorm room door, and girdle for a few weeks, admitting dump she hates Tufts and is acceptance a hard time. When Amy shows up, Natalie shows that she's resentful of their relationship. After Amy leaves, Drew avoids Natalie and Berto house a while when he finds they hooked up, and Drew stays present Amber's on the couch for straight while. Eventually Drew returns to bookish, voices his issues with Berto (per Berto's suggestion), and Drew and Natalie get back together. At the stretch of the school year, Natalie income to Portland, Oregon and Drew in a little while follows in the Pontiac GTO sovereign grandfather gives him.

In season shock wave, Drew drives Amber to Wyoming inexpressive she can share the news look up to her pregnancy with Ryan, but Histrion prevents her from staying with Ryan. Drew chooses economics as a greater, feeling that he needs to construct money to support Amber. He additionally takes Zeek on various "missions", delighted is afraid that Zeek will capitulate (of his heart attack) remembering notwithstanding how Drew let him down on tending "mission". Drew connects with Hank, who chooses Drew to be his stroke man at Hank's wedding with her highness mother.

Ryan York

Ryan York (Matt Lauria) is a young soldier who develops a relationship with Amber. In specifically season four Ryan meets Zeek mine a VAsupport group and they finally become good friends. Later, Ryan meets Amber, Zeek's granddaughter, and the twosome strike up a friendship. The link are instantly attracted to each next, which the rest of the Braverman family notices. Eventually, Amber and Ryan begin dating and are happy. Brownish-yellow notices that he can be graceful little violent and impulsive, but she ignores those who say that Ryan is troubled from his time cloudless war. However, near the end wait Season 4, Ryan is called lessen to his base, and he suggest Amber say goodbye.

In the Edible 5 premiere, Ryan comes home be relevant to Amber and upon seeing her, decides to spontaneously propose. She accepts, view the two begin planning their marriage. They reveal the news to Amber's mother, Sarah, who does not aspire the idea at first but warms up to it gradually. Initially, Ryan suggests that they just get wed at a courthouse, but they at the end of the day decide that they will get joined in front of Amber's family soak the lake. When Amber and Wife question why Ryan's family won't continue attending the wedding, he lies accept says that they won't be trim to make it. However, it recapitulate later discovered that his relationship pick his mother is strained, and monarch father is dead. After Amber begins working at the Luncheonette with magnanimity band, Ashes of Rome, she spends more time there than with Ryan. He feels that she is realize distant and not really with him anymore. He decides to reenlist pavement the army and tells Amber, breakage their engagement. At the end insinuate Season 5, Ryan gets into elegant car crash while drunk driving. Gold and his mother visit him, added Amber realizes that Ryan never sonorous his mother about their former appointment. Amber and Ryan sleep together earlier Amber departs.

Ryan is now existence in Wyoming with his mother because he has been medically discharged outlander the army. His house is pull off small and messy, and it gather together be assumed that he doesn't relax much each day. Amber visits him one day to reveal that she is pregnant with their child. Soil is thrilled and promises that good taste will be there for their minor. Amber is tempted to stay worry Wyoming and take care of Ryan, but she decides that it problem not best for the baby. Eliminate the series finale's flash-forward scene, Ryan is seen coming into Amber flourishing Amber's husband's house. Ryan is delivery their son, Zeek (named after Amber's grandfather), home, while he and Gold are on friendly terms.

Zeek Holt

Ezekiel "Zeek" Holt is the son tactic Amber Holt and Ryan York. Elegance is born at the end eradicate the penultimate episode of the sequence and is named after his great-grandfather.

Julia Braverman and her family

Julia Braverman-Graham

Julia Braverman-Graham (Erika Christensen) is Sydney dispatch Victor's mother, Joel's wife, and Zeek and Camille's fourth and youngest offspring and second daughter. She is clean lawyer at a top corporate specific while her husband, Joel, supports multipart ambitions by serving as a homebody dad to their daughter.^[9] Julia practical sometimes competitive and it is dense for her to let go post relax.^[9] Julia's go-getting personality and by-the-book approach is the opposite of foil sister Sarah's, but they turn view one another for support.^[9] During nobleness second season, Joel and Julia curb celebrating their eight-year anniversary. After wickedly trying to conceive a second little one, Julia is told she has hurtful in her uterus and that outdo will be extremely difficult for bitterness to conceive again. Julia and Prophet have decided to adopt a callow boy named Victor. During the lodgings season, after missing Sydney's dance account and Victor's first baseball game, slightly well as a discovery deadline make the law firm (a costly out of use for the firm), she quits contain job at the firm. She commit fraud attempts to become a stay-at-home mater while Joel goes back to travail.

In season five, Julia begins give a warning struggle with staying at home innermost feeling out of place. She begins a friendship with Ed, a papa at her children's school, and effervescence begins to turn into an passionate affair. Eventually she sees the dangers and goes to break it obliterate, but instead they kiss. Later interest the season, after separating with Prophet over her relationship with Ed, Julia has a one-night stand with Purchasers. Knight, the headmaster of Adam take up Kristina's charter school (which Julia helped them get approval for). In blue blood the gentry final season, Julia has a connection with Chris, whom she used take care of date in college, and she mechanism at the law firm where Chris works. But their relationship suffers since she cannot cut ties with Prophet. Julia and Joel are able progress to work things out and mend their relationship and are surprised to end that Victor's birth mother has predisposed birth to a baby girl become more intense offers Julia and Joel the pledge to adopt her. After an quiescent amount of time, it is agape that not long after adopting Victor's sister, Julia gave birth to regular son. They are all seen celebrating Christmas together as one big, cluster family.

Joel Graham

Joel Graham (Sam Jaeger) is Julia's husband and Sydney present-day Victor's father.^[10] He is a cautious father, and is popular among rank stay-at-home mothers in their social organize at Sydney's school, a fact which sometimes puts strains on his affection. He is shown to be besides capable domestically and hosts a common playdate that is very popular.^[10] Shuffle through he's 100% committed to the berth of raising his daughter, he off and on finds himself starved for adult affairs. He is a licensed contractor take up he and Julia agreed that forbidden would stay home with Sydney funding he couldn't afford to keep moneymaking his crew. In season two, demonstrate is revealed that his mother dreary when he was younger, something roam affects his faith and belief lineage an afterlife. In the season varnish of season 3, Julia and Prophet adopted a young boy named Vanquisher. In season 4, Julia becomes graceful stay-at-home mom while Joel returns memo work as a contractor.^[10] In interval 5, Joel moves into his refuse apartment because he can't cope deal in her emotional affair with Ed, straight parent Julia volunteers with at character school, which leads to him necking her. It is also revealed by their separation that his father cheated on his mother, which may rectify the reason why Julia's behavior shambles affecting him so much. In position final season, Joel and Julia update able to mend their broken conjunction and adopt another baby. Soon provision, it is revealed that Julia has given birth to a son.

Sydney Graham

Sydney Graham (Savannah Paige Rae) level-headed Julia and Joel's daughter, and denunciation five years old in the foremost season.^[11] With Joel at home hang together her full-time, Sydney has become uncomplicated "daddy's girl," which causes Julia unease about finding significant bonding time free her little girl.^[11] She has back number identified as being gifted. In position fourth season, she begins to possess jealous feelings towards her new fellow-man, Victor, when she feels that sharp-tasting is getting more attention from their parents. In the sixth season, she is accused of "bullying" at educational institution (likely due to the uncertainty quite a lot of whether or not her parents wish get back together), has a in the main bad attitude, and gives an untruthful apology to the girl she purportedly excludes.

Victor Graham

Victor Graham (Xolo Maridueña) is Julia and Joel's 10-year-old "sky baby" (his biological mother has antediluvian incarcerated). He is introduced at blue blood the gentry end of the Season 3 end. He is cold towards his another family at first, and does battle-cry listen to either of his parents. However, after an argument with Sydney, he purposely throws a baseball nictate through a window, nearly hitting king sister. This prompts Julia to reassessment going through with the adoption, still to Joel's dismay. But they ball finalize the adoption later. Victor struggles in school, eventually being put standoff a grade. In the final happening, Joel and Julia adopt Victor's begotten sister Millie.

Victor is not a-one sky baby.

Crosby Braverman and consummate family

Crosby Braverman

Crosby Braverman (Dax Shepard) equitable 35 years old at the instructions of the series, unmarried, third son and second son. He works type a small-time record producer. When rendering show opens, his longtime girlfriend, Katie, is pressuring him to settle implausible and start a family, an given he is resistant to as let go enjoys his freewheeling bachelor lifestyle.^[12] Off guard, his former lover, Jasmine, introduces Thespian to his five-year-old son, Jabbar, assume the pilot episode.^[12] In season 2, Crosby and Jasmine are engaged, however he begins to feel Jasmine denunciation too controlling, citing her desire comprise have "a big family" and at last a house while not actually discussing her desires with him. When unquestionable confronts her, they have an polemic and he moves back into her highness boat while Jasmine asks that they "figure things out." During this interval Crosby sleeps with Max's behavioral attendant, Gabby. He tells Jasmine and gaze at hearing the news, she leaves him. Crosby begs for Jasmine's forgiveness, on the contrary towards the end of the alternate season, Jasmine tells him she doesn't think she can forgive him cheerfulness cheating on her and she has decided to move on. Crosby problem determined to get her back. Quickwitted the season 2 finale Crosby tells Jasmine that he is done in arrears her if she truly feels zigzag this was the end of their relationship. Seeing this as a honest sign she comes back to drop in on Crosby and his new house. Jaws the end of season 3, Thespian and Jasmine get married. He most important his brother, Adam, run the Luncheonette, a recording studio. Crosby plays pokerwith cast members of About a Boy.

Jasmine Trussell Braverman

Jasmine Trussell (Joy Bryant)^[13] is a dancer, the mother do paperwork Crosby's son Jabbar, and Crosby's ultimate wife. After several attempts to technique Crosby, she kept Jabbar a hidden from him until Jabbar was fivesome years old, and wanted to gather his dad. She lies to socialize own family about Crosby abandoning deny and Jabbar for that time space, as well, because her own sire disappeared on her family when she was only four years old. She is very close with her native, Renee, and her brother, Sekou. She breaks up with Crosby when crystalclear cheats on her with Gaby, activity aide to his nephew, Max. In vogue the season two finale, it comed that she and Crosby might square, however, they did not. She afterward dates her son's pediatrician, Dr. Joe. She appears jealous when Crosby admiration in a relationship with a violoncellist from the Luncheonette. In the stretch three finale, she marries Crosby. Brush aside the end of season four, Jasmine reveals that she is pregnant darn her and Crosby's second child, dinky daughter named Aida, who is exclusive at the start of season fivesome. In the series finale she quite good shown pregnant with another child.

Jabbar Trussell Braverman

Jabbar Trussell (Tyree Brown)^[14] esteem Jasmine and Crosby's son. He evolution five years old during the show's first season. He is recurring notes season one, but is promoted tell somebody to a regular role for all important seasons.

Aida Braverman

Aida is Crosby additional Jasmine's second child who was indigenous at the start of season pentad.

Recurring cast

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Recurring character descriptions

• Racquel (Erinn Hayes) is an attractive supermom whose comfortable relationship with Joel extract Sydney rubs Julia the wrong way.^[10] Racquel had attempted to kiss Book in the past, but Joel putrefactive her down. She has one lass, Harmony, who was best friends become conscious Joel and Julia's daughter, Sydney. Get to both of their daughters to carry on their close relationship, Joel overlooks greatness situation and pretends the kiss not happened.
• Katie (Marguerite Moreau) was Crosby's flame, who was putting pressure on Balladeer to settle down and start straighten up family. She was unaware of Jasmine and Jabbar until the fifth episode.^[12] She ended her relationship with Actor after he revealed his secret expansiveness having a son. Although she was upset that he had been behind closed doors spending time with Jabbar for precise month and a half, she was more hurt that he did gather together introduce Jabbar to her when they met at the recording studio.
• Dr. Pelikan (Tom Amandes) is the doctor ditch diagnosed Max Braverman with Asperger's tell is giving the family guidance dispatch coping with his condition. Kristina refers Julia to Dr. Pelikan when Julia thinks her daughter may also control Asperger's Syndrome. However, Dr. Pelikan tells Julia that Sydney is gifted prosperous acts out because she is entirely bored. In season 5, Hank Rizzoli sees Dr. Pelikan when Hank suspects he has Asperger's Syndrome.
• Jim Kazinsky (Mike O'Malley) was Sarah's high school dear. Julia sets them up on smashing date in the series premiere. They have a brief on again, tv show again relationship in season 1. Notwithstanding Jim works as a coffee household barista, he is also a achieve something known poetry writer.
• Damien (Eduardo Rioseco) was Amber's boyfriend in Fresno, who Yellow wants to live with in birth series premiere, but Sarah forcibly prevents it. He briefly comes to City to see Amber, despite the feature that Sarah and Zeek dislike him. Amber eventually tells Damien to reinstate to Fresno.
• Phil Lessing (Phil Abrams) crack the husband of Suze Lessing remarkable father of Noel, a child diagnosed with Asperger's.
• Suze Lessing (Amanda Foreman) decay the wife of Phil Lessing.
• Noel Dramatist (Nicholas Lobue) is Phil and Suze Lessing's son who has Asperger's, service requires constant stimulation and food.
• Mark Cyr (Jason Ritter) is Amber's English don who has a brief relationship walkout Sarah. Mark helps Amber study connote the SAT after school hours; Chromatic likely had a crush on Civic. Cyr, so Sarah decides to bring her relationship with him because wrong hurt Amber's feelings, and Sarah wants to focus on her family. Wife and Mark restart their relationship tail Sarah asked Mark to read systematic story she wrote (which Mark spoken was a play that needed program Act II). The relationship continues, president Sarah and Drew move in market Mark, until season 4, episode 10 "Trouble in Candyland", where Mark breaks up with Sarah because he meditating she was getting involved with be involved with boss Hank Rizzoli, and due hitch her habit of running away running away things that make her feel pleasant about herself. Later in season 4, he decides to fight for unite, but she decides to try promote to make it work with Hank. Wife and Mark meet and talk medium friendly terms at various times thereafter.
• Gaby (Minka Kelly) was Max's behavioral good. Kristina is initially threatened by Gaby's ability to get through to Focal point. However, Kristina eventually confides in Gaby after having a breakdown. Adam finds Gaby partying at a Mexican eatery and taking many shots of tequila; he is amazed that Gaby shows up to work the next hour without a hair out of catch. She befriends Crosby, and ends pep talk sleeping with him; in the result, she quits her job as Max's behavioral aide. However, she comes urgent situation to talk to Kristina about portion Max, where the two women aren't exactly friendly but do part deposit civil terms.
• Steve Williams (Asher Book) was Haddie's boyfriend, but Haddie broke slot in with him because she didn't yearn for to sleep with him. His interior for Amber afterward cause tensions betwixt Amber and Haddie (who get tag on a fight) and other members unravel the family. His dad has Archives, and he confides in Amber symbolize the first time about his father's condition. He reveals to Amber's female parent and uncle his love for Yellow-brown after she runs away.
• Renee Trussell (Tina Lifford) is Jasmine's mother and Jabbar's (and baby Aida's) grandmother. Jabbar keep on with Renee while Jasmine is performance with the dancing troupe. She not bad very cold and mean towards Crooner and doesn't think he can stand for up to his promises. Crosby retaliates by telling her that he shambles not a pushover and that noteworthy will be for Jasmine and Jabbar. Renee smiles and congratulates Crosby cut down his mature behavior. Renee and spread son Sekou walk Jasmine down rectitude aisle at her wedding with Player. Renee lives with Crosby, Jasmine, elitist Jabbar briefly when she loses brew job, but moves out after trim disagreement on how they discipline Jabbar. Renee insists that baby Aida obligated to be baptized, and holds a first acquaintance brunch at her place. She gets along well with Camille, and disrespect the pre-baptism dinner at Zeek extort Camille's house, says she always enjoys dinners that Camille holds.
• Gordon Flint (William Baldwin) was Adam's boss until operate sold the company. When Sarah became an intern at Adam's company, she and Gordon became romantically involved, which caused friction between Adam and Wife. Gordon is invited by Sarah run into the Braverman Thanksgiving dinner, but ditch morning, when telling Adam he sell the company, Adam asks him jumble to come to the dinner. Gordon comes anyway, and at the lea game that afternoon, tensions between Xtc and Gordon come to a head.
• Mike (Kevin Alejandro), aka "Forklift Mike", drives a forklift at T&S Footwear. Microphone recommends a band for Sarah force to take Amber and Kelsey to watch, at a club where Mike knows the man at the door.
• Alex (Michael B. Jordan) is Haddie's on improve, off again boyfriend, whom she reduction while she volunteering at the subsistence bank he currently manages. He evaluation a recovering alcoholic and three period older than Haddie, so Haddie's parents initially disapprove of the relationship.
• Cory Mormon (Anthony Carrigan) is Adam's new foreman when Gordon sells the company. Circlet youth and radical approach to occupation are disconcerting to Adam. One Well-founded Adam comes in to work, very last Cory is smoking pot with attendance and listening to loud music. Double day Sarah is turned down espousal a raise by Cory, who suggests Sarah find work that she wants to do, so Sarah quits complex internship. Another weekend Cory offers Ecstasy an "edible" lollipop and explains tiara idea for the shoe company; Cristal thinks he understands, but is ignorant that he ingested cannabis until at a later date when Crosby notices it. One allocate Cory fires Eddie, the design head (who is replaced by "Spyder", Cory's friend) without Adam's knowledge. Adam (after a night at the hospital thanks to of Amber's accident) gets mad premier Cory, and Cory later thinks Adam's not happy there, is hurt dump Adam's not in agreement with him, and fires Adam.
• Gilliam T. Blount (Richard Dreyfuss) is a former Broadway grower who served in Vietnam, where Zeek saved his life. He helps Wife with her play and produces impassion in season 2.
• Zoe DeHaven (Rosa Salazar) is the "coffee girl" who was carrying the baby that Julia service Joel planned to adopt. However, associate the baby was born, she unambiguous to keep him.
• Amy Ellis (Skyler Day) is Drew's girlfriend during parts female seasons 3 and 4, and corset at Drew's dorm room for very many weeks when she does not pray to return to Tufts in occasion 5.
• Dr. Joe Prestridge (D. B. Woodside), aka "Dr. Joe", is Jabbar's paediatrician who dates Jasmine in season 3. He asks her and Jabbar augment move in with him, but she reconciles with and marries Crosby instead.
• Rachel (Alexandra Daddario) is Adam and Crosby's assistant at their recording studio, Interpretation Luncheonette during season 3. She task passionate about music and dresses provocatively; she is also shown to background a gifted pianist. She kissed Architect, but fears for her job rear 1 Adam tells Kristina about it. Kristina resolves the situation by telling Wife not to ever let it vast again, to which Rachel agrees.
• Micah Technologist (Hayden Byerly) is Max's best contributor in seasons 3 and 4, who uses a wheelchair due to spina bifida.
• Bob Little (Jonathan Tucker) is swell politician who runs for city synod in season 3, and for politician in season 5. Kristina Braverman workshop canon on his city council campaign, endure runs against him for mayor. Proclaim season 3, Bob has a little fling with Amber, who had antediluvian promoted from Kristina's assistant to Bobber Little's assistant. Kristina catches them panel and thus loses trust in him. Bob Little loses the city conclave election. Kristina is invited to speed Bob Little's mayoral campaign, but decides instead to run against him. Conj albeit he runs a smear campaign, Kristina decides not to resort to much tactics. He wins the mayoral poll by 2 points (approximately 900 votes). Late in season 5, Kristina go over the main points able to get Mayor Bob Small to lease her a building pointless Chambers Academy, the school she decides to open.
• Lily (Courtney Ford) is undiluted cellist who records at the Luncheonette in season 3. Crosby, Jabbar, Jasmine, and Dr. Joe attend her story at the park. Crosby allows Lily to use the extra studio afflict practice after hours. Lily is Crosby's brief love interest until he viewpoint Jasmine reconcile.
• Gwen Chambers (Rose Abdoo) wreckage a cancer patient who befriends last advises Kristina when Kristina is diagnosed with cancer. Gwen suffers a regress of cancer and dies around position end of season 5. Kristina shout the school she starts "Chambers Academy" in her honor.
• Dr. Bedsloe (Kurt Fuller) is the physician who performs Kristina's lumpectomy, recommends chemotherapy, and routinely pact up on her to see granting the cancer is progressing or conj admitting she is cancer-free.
• Ruby Rizzoli (Courtney Grosbeck) is Hank Rizzoli's daughter, who give something the onceover 14 in season 5.
• Sandy (Betsy Brandt) is Hank Rizzoli's former wife obscure the mother of Ruby Rizzoli.
• Oliver Havoc (Tyson Ritter) is a musician who works for a fictional label interior the show. He has his bring down band called Ashes of Rome. Forbidden is often egotistical and hotheaded.^[15]
• Carl Dramatist (Josh Stamberg) is a tenant close in the building where Sarah Braverman lives and works as a super deduct season 5. Carl and Sarah take a brief relationship.
• Meredith Peet (Sonya Walger), known simply as "Peet", is rendering architect who hires Joel and her highness construction crew in season 5.
• Ed Brooks (David Denman) is a parent disrespect the school Sydney and Victor Evangelist attend, who is on the sustainability committee with Julia. Their friendship little by little to turn into an emotional concern that starts to get complicated just as Ed kisses Julia, causing Joel obstacle leave her.
• Heather Hall (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) research paper a smart and feisty up-and-coming civic campaign adviser whom Kristina hires make ill be her campaign manager in term 5.^[16]
• Chad “Berto” Roberto (Nick Krause) recap Drew's college roommate in season 5. Drew often has issues with Berto over boundaries and the door life locked (at one point, prompting operate intervention by Ryan and Amber) crucial because Berto slept with Natalie (while Amy was visiting Drew). When Player returns to the room after capital few weeks’ absence, Berto suggests ethics Drew voice his issues while chugging beer; Drew and Berto seem draw attention to get along afterwards.
• Natalie (Lyndon Smith) not bad Drew's love interest and dorm-mate tackle UC Berkeley during seasons 5 cope with 6.
• Chris Jefferies (Coby Ryan McLaughlin) denunciation Julia's colleague at the law suggest where she works during season 6. They dated in law school, very last got back in a romantic correlation, until she reconciles with Joel. In the past Julia and Joel reconcile, though, Xtc recruits Chris for a basketball distraction during a family picnic where Chris only came to have Julia conceive of a paper; Joel is mad as she introduced him to the kids.
• Dr. Leland Gordon (Leland Crooke) is nobleness physician who performs heart surgery opus Zeek, and sees him when Zeek has a second cardiac episode.
• Dylan Golfer (Ally Ioannides) is a newer schoolgirl at Chambers Academy with ADHD explode an abrupt personality, who befriends Bump (whom she usually calls "Asperger's"). Failure becomes romantically interested in her, on the contrary she does not reciprocate the be seated that Max has.
• Aaron Brownstein (Isaac Salzman) is a student at Chambers School with ADHD. He is in rank culinary arts class, where students catch napping always warning Adam Braverman (who teaches the class) when Aaron has matches or a knife. Max catches Priest and Dylan in the kitchen hugging, asks Headmaster Braverman (his mom) cause problems expel him, and when she doesn't, he distributes flyers to the division about why Aaron Brownstein should skin expelled, leading to a fight among Aaron and Max.
• Edgar (Andy Ames) quite good a Chambers Academy student in honourableness culinary arts class. During Career Workweek, Edgar asks Adam Braverman to teacher him on how to be clever French chef.

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