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5!!The Gray Family
6
7[[folder:Amy Gray]]
8->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/AmyBrenneman
9Amy Gray, the heroine of the show. Divorced with a daughter, she becomes a judge and moves in back home with her mom.
10
11* BrainyBrunette: She has long brown wavy hair and she's a top-notch lawyer who becomes a respected judge.
12** Also {{deconstructed}}. As a child, Amy was jealous of her younger brother Vincent being in the Gifted program, so her father enrolled her in a regular after school program and told her it was for gifted kids. While she doesn't have Vincent's natural aptitudes, she's ultimately much more intelligent and successful than him because of hard work and determination.
13%%* ParentsAsPeople
14* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: To the kids and parents whose fates she decides in court. Amy's mom Maxine is a social worker who once encourages a lawyer to stick with Amy rather than seek out another judge as Amy will be sure to rule a fair verdict. Another case that stands out is a desperate single mother who stole food to feed her three children. Her kids are supposed to be put to foster care. The mother argues that it's unfair because foster parents receive generous financial benefits which would help her to care for them, too. Amy commits the kids to the kid's aunt's care (she's a sister of the desperate woman) and advises them to move in together. That way the kids' aunt will receive the benefits and they can share expenses and help each other.
15%%* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Amy regularly puts down unruly lawyers and the like in court. She often utterly destroys them with her disgust or contempt.
16%%* [[SociallyAwkwardHero Socially Awkward Heroine]]: Amy, as lampshaded jokingly by David: "No, it's because you're crazy."
17%%* {{Tsundere}}: Poor David...
18[[/folder]]
19
20[[folder:Maxine Gray]]
21->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/TyneDaly
22Amy's no-nonsense mother. She's a social worker.
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24%%* BrutalHonesty
25* CoolOldLady: She's a cool grandma to Lauren and she's fond of the kids from foster care. She's fun to be around.
26* GoodIsNotNice: She's good, competent social worker but she's often very tough on most people. It includes her boss and co-workers, her foster parents, the kids she's in charge of in foster care, her own kids and family (Amy, Paul and his wife Gillian, Vincent, her nephew Kyle), her love interests and random people. She's so exasperated with her hard work that she develops anger issues.
27%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
28%%* ParentsAsPeople
29* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Maxine is a very competent social worker with deep understanding of her clients, including abused kids and troubled teens, struggling parents or foster parents.
30[[/folder]]
31
32[[folder:Peter Gray]]
33->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MarcusGiamatti
34Amy's older brother. Married to Gillian.
35
36* LawOfInverseFertility: He and his wife want to have kids. They can't. They decide to adopt. After couple of seasons, Gillian becomes unexpectedly pregnant once they stopped trying.
37[[/folder]]
38
39[[folder:Gillian Gray]]
40->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JessicaTuck
41Paul's rather neurotic wife.
42
43* LawOfInverseFertility: She ''longs'' to have kids. She can't get pregnant and with her husband, they decide to adopt. After couple of seasons, Gillian becomes unexpectedly pregnant once they stopped trying.
44%% CloudCuckooLander: So... Maxine's wedding isn't about herself and her fiance? It's about ''society'' and social statements?
45%%* TheResenter: Has definite shades of this around the fifth season.
46[[/folder]]
47
48[[folder:Vincent Gray]]
49->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DanFutterman
50Vincent is Maxine's youngest child and Amy's "baby brother". He was a gifted child.
51* PursueTheDreamJob: He wants to be a writer. He's writing but struggling in the first episodes, but lands a publishing deal for his book of short stories. He also teaches a creative writing class.
52%%* PutOnABus
53%%* TheBusCameBack
54[[/folder]]
55
56[[folder:Lauren Cassidy]]
57->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/KarleWarren
58Lauren Cassidy is Amy's daughter and Maxine's granddaughter. She's six years old at the start of the series.
59
60* CheerfulChild: She's a happy kid from a loving family. She's satisfied with her mom moving back home to her grandmother's house. Her father regularly takes her for weekends and holidays. She's a well-adjusted girl, she is going through the pains of childhood and preadolescence with divorced parents who are both reasonable.
61* LittleMissSnarker: She's about six when the series start likes to make fun of things and she's often sarcastic -- about school, homework, her mom, her father, her stepmother. She's not overly cynical though.
62[[/folder]]
63
64[[folder:Kyle McCarty]]
65->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/KevinRahm
66Amy's cousin. They're fairly close.
67
68%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
69%%* LoveMakesYouCrazy
70%%* TheResenter: Especially when Lily does not consider him at all as her replacement.
71* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Kyle is PutOnABus to Minnesota to help take care of his son while his ex-girlfriend, Heather is in rehab and we never hear from him again.
72[[/folder]]
73
74!!Supporting Characters
75
76[[folder:Bruce van Exel]]
77->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/RichardTJones
78Amy's court services officer who becomes her close friend. Very professional and competent.
79
80* TheConfidant: For Amy, to the point where he sometimes gets more information than he wants (particularly regarding her boyfriends).
81%%* TallDarkAndSnarky
82[[/folder]]
83
84[[folder:Donna Kozlowski]]
85->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JillianArmenante
86Amy's court clerk. She's an eccentric woman from a wealthy family, but estranged from them. Marries a convicted murderer and divorces him once he admits he's guilty.
87
88%%* CloudCuckoolander
89* GeniusDitz: She's very eccentric and clumsy. Some of her ideas are downright weird. Donna is a genius (for example, she finishes her law degree in one and a half years) and socially awkward. She gives birth in a plastic pool in Amy's (her boss!) living room.
90%%* HypercompetentSidekick
91%%* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Vincent.
92[[/folder]]
93
94[[folder:Sean Potter]]
95->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/TimothyOmundson
96Maxine's boss
97
98%%* BeleagueredBureaucrat:
99%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
100%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's a good boss who is willing to look the other way or bend the rules a little.
101%%* VitriolicBestBuds: With Maxine.
102[[/folder]]
103
104
105[[folder:Lily Reddicker]]
106->'''Portrayed by:''' Kristin Lehman
107
108%%* DefrostingIceQueen
109%%* HospitalHottie
110%%* PutOnABus: Takes a new job working at Sloan Kettering in New York.
111%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
112[[/folder]]
113
114[[folder:Stu Collins]]
115->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ReedDiamond
116
117* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:After Amy leaves him at the altar in the 5th season, it is later revealed that Stu married a 22-year-old Polynesian woman that he met on the trip that was would've been their honeymoon.]]
118[[/folder]]
119
120
121
122[[folder:Ignacio Messina]]
123->'''Portrayed by:''' [[CreatorCheechAndChong Cheech Marin]]
124Maxine's love interest from later seasons.
125
126* InsistentTerminology: He's a ''landscape designer''. As opposed to a ''gardener''.
127%%* NiceGuy
128[[/folder]]
129
130[[folder: Eric Black]]
131!!'''Eric Black'''
132->'''Played By''': Creator/BlakeBashoff
133
134* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: After Eric is found not guilty of stabbing Amy's stalker, Jason Lobdel in the 4th season, he decides to move to Canada with his boyfriend, Mark.]]
135[[/folder]]
136
137
138[[folder: Graciela Reyes]]
139!!'''Graciela Reyes'''
140->'''Played By''': Creator/TaraCorreaMcMullen
141
142* ParentalAbandonment: Graciela's mother took herself and Graciela's younger brothers to Guatemala, leaving Graciela in Connecticut with her aunt and cousins.
143[[/folder]]

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