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17	This is a character sheet for ''Series/{{Weeds}}''. It contains major unmarked spoilers for the whole series.
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19	[[foldercontrol]]
20
21	[[folder:The Botwin Family]]
22	!'''Nancy Botwin'''
23	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/MaryLouiseParker
24	Nancy is a widow who turns to drug dealing when she can't support her family on her own. Then things get worse...
25
26	%% * AffablyEvil
27	* AntiVillain: Flip-flops between this and being an AntiHero - she is a drug dealer, yes, but a lot of the people she's in opposition against are much worse and she's only really in this for the money.
28	* CartwrightCurse: If you marry Nancy you will die, simple as that.
29	%% * TheChessmaster: at least she wants to be
30	* EveryoneHasStandards: She makes it clear that her product will never be sold to children.
31	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Subverted. She keeps ''saying'' she wants a normal life for her family but does nothing to achieve it. In fact, she plunges back into the drug dealing life at the first opportunity whenever she's pushed away from it.
32	%% * IneffectualSympatheticVillain
33	* MamaBear: Flawed she may be, but hurt her kids and she will end you.
34	%% * [[MsFanservice Ms. Fanservice]]
35	* {{Pornomancer}}: Sometimes, her life is like a gender-reversed Axe commercial. In season 7, [[GirlOnGirlIsHot she has sex with her old cell-mate]], then has sex with her cell-mate's brother in the next room.
36	* ThrillSeeker: Not your typical example in that she’s not really the extreme sports type. Her occupation on the other hand... Best typified when Esteban asks in Season Four what scares her, and she replies “quiet.”
37	%% * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Develops into this as the series progresses.
38	* VillainProtagonist: Comes with the territory of being a drug dealer.
39
40	!'''Silas Botwin'''
41	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/HunterParrish
42	Nancy's eldest son.
43
44	* AloofBigBrother: To Shane and especially Stevie.
45	* BigBrotherInstinct: He does love them when the chips are down and will protect them when he has to.
46	%% * BreakTheCutie
47	* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: He finds out Judah isn't his biological father in season six, but his feelings for him don't change.]]
48	* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: The series finale shows him married to his high school girlfriend, Megan.]]
49	* HighSchoolSweethearts: He dates Megan in series 1 when they are in high school. She's one year older than him.
50	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Played straight, especially in later seasons. He's tired of their family drug business. Part of why he's attracted to Megan is he needs a stable family like hers.
51	%% * Jerkass: Can be a big one at times.
52	%% * OnlySaneMan: From about Season 4 onwards.
53	%% * TroubledButCute
54
55	!'''Shane Botwin'''
56	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/AlexanderGould
57	Nancy's second son.
58
59	%% * BewareTheNiceOnes
60	* BreakTheCutie: Losing his father, being bullied, his mother's increasingly distant behavior, his brother's troubles, and everything else that happens is bound to wear a kid down.
61	%% * CallingtheOldManOut
62	* ChildProdigy: He's very smart for his age, and is the one who set up the security cameras around the home in the third season.
63	* ChildrenAreInnocent: Has no idea of his mother's double life initially. He begins growing out of it more in the second season.
64	* DeadpanSnarker: Don't let his age fool you; he has a pretty sharp wit.
65	* {{Kidanova}}: Gains a girlfriend in the second season.
66	* OddFriendship: Develops one with Isabelle in the third season.
67	%% * SociopathicHero
68	%% * TookALevelInBadass
69	%% * TroubledButCute
70
71	!'''Andy Botwin'''
72	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JustinKirk
73	Nancy's brother-in-law.
74
75	* AgonyOfTheFeet: Loses two toes to a dog bite.
76	%%* BrilliantButLazy
77	* CoolUncle: Tries to be this to Silas and Shane. He's fun at least.
78	* TheCasanova: Manages to bed quite a lot of women.
79	* TheChewToy: If something embarrassing, painful, or weird is about to happen, expect Andy to suffer.
80	%% * DeadpanSnarker
81	* DoggedNiceGuy[=/=]LoveMartyr[=/=]HopelessSuitor: To Nancy.
82	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He genuinely cares about his family and wants to help. He's just very bad at it.
83	* OnlySaneMan: He and Silas take turns being this.
84	* SupremeChef: He is shown to be a good cook, even doing odd jobs on porn sets cooking food for the cast and crew.
85	%% * TeamChef
86
87	!'''Judah Botwin'''
88	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffreyDeanMorgan
89	Nancy's deceased husband.
90
91	* GoodParents: From the home video clips we see of him, he was a loving father.
92	* PlotTriggeringDeath: His sudden and unexpected death is what makes Nancy sell pot in the first place.
93	* PosthumousCharacter: His death kicks off the series. His widow Nancy turns to selling weed to maintain their living standard.
94
95	!'''Lenny Botwin'''
96	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/AlbertBrooks
97	Andy and Judah's father.
98
99	* AbusiveParents: Of the emotional kind towards Andy. He was also a frequent gambler and it seemed even Judah wasn't very fond of him despite (or even perhaps ''because'' of) the obvious ParentalFavoritism going on.
100	* {{Jerkass}}: Towards Andy (see Parental Favoritism below) and Nancy (he always wished Judah married someone else).
101	* MamasBoy: He still changes his ''very'' old and bedridden mother's diapers and feeding tubes. Nancy remarks that Lenny ought to just spare the old woman some dignity and let her die in peace.
102	* ObnoxiousInLaws: He calls Nancy "Not Francie" because she's not the woman he wanted Judah to marry.
103	* ParentalFavoritism: He clearly favored Judah over Andy. He claims he always suspected Andy was not actually his son, and thus kept an emotional distance from him.
104	[[/folder]]
105
106	[[folder:The Hodes]]
107	!'''Celia Hodes'''
108	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/ElizabethPerkins
109	Nancy's on-again, off-again RichBitch friend.
110
111	* AbusiveParent: Isabelle gets the worst of it. Celia's own mother was not very great either.
112	* TheAlcoholic[-/-]LadyDrunk: Shane points this out during her campaign to make Agrestic a drug-free neighborhood.
113	* ButtMonkey: A cheating husband, getting cancer, going to prison, being openly hated by her kids. Things rarely go right for Celia. She'd be sympathetic if she weren't such a colossal {{Jerkass}}.
114	* DeadpanSnarker: Passive-aggressively snarks at her own daughter for her weight and everyone else for whatever else she feels a need to comment on.
115	%% * DepravedBisexual
116	* {{Jerkass}}: Celia is a bitch, plain and simple. Yet she manages to be one of the show's most popular side characters due in no small part to how horrible she is.
117	* PutOnABus: Never seen again after the fifth season. WordOfGod on the final episode commentary says that Celia went down to Mexico for a drug deal after Season 5 and was killed, however they didn't include it in the finale episode due to the darker tone. [[spoiler:This death is purported to have been RetConned for the sequel series, as Elizabeth Perkins is confirmed to be returning.]]
118	* RichBitch: She's clearly well-off, and she is the show's biggest Jerkass.
119	* ScarsAreForever: Has scars on her breasts from where she had surgery for her cancer. It's shown to be a source of insecurity for her, but Sullivan doesn't mind.
120	* SmugSnake: Seems to believe she's better and smarter than everyone else, and ''by God, does it show.''
121	* StepfordSmiler: She lives a shallow and materialistic life that has led to some feelings of deep unhappiness for her.
122	* TookALevelInKindness: When she thinks she's dying of cancer. When she learns otherwise though, [[StatusQuoIsGod she returns to her horrible jerk ways]].
123	* TheTopicOfCancer: Had breast cancer in the first season.
124	* VitriolicBestBuds: With Nancy. Emphasis on ''vitriolic'' here.
125
126	!'''Dean Hodes'''
127	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/AndyMilder
128	Celia's husband. Works with Nancy and separates from Celia early on.
129
130	* ButtMonkey: His wife is a domineering ControlFreak, his oldest daughter doesn't appear to respect him, his younger daughter is constantly being abused by said wife, and that's not even getting to his life outside of his home!
131	* ChewToy: As detailed above, Dean gets abused a lot. He even got peed on by wild animals in the third season after trying to take his new motorcycle out for a spin!
132	* ExtremeDoormat: Sometimes. He tries not to fuss too much, even when he's in pain (be it physical or emotional). Isabelle even calls him out on this in the third season finale.
133	* HeterosexualLifePartners: He and Doug may have their spats, but they're friends through and through.
134	* MidlifeCrisisCar: Buys himself a nice motorcycle after receiving a hefty check from Isabelle's modeling contract.
135	* PetTheDog: He might not be the nicest guy out there, but he is disgusted with Celia's fixation on Isabelle's weight and calls her out on putting laxatives in Isabelle's food.
136
137	!'''Isabelle Hodes'''
138	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/AllieGrant
139	Dean and Celia's daughter.
140
141	* DaddysGirl: She gets along with her father far better than she does with her mother. It helps that Dean doesn't put Isabelle down as Celia does.
142	* HollywoodPudgy: {{Invoked}}. Celia constantly puts her on diets and makes passive-aggressive remarks about her weight on a constant basis, even though Isabelle at best is just a little pudgy and can grow out of it.
143	%% * LipstickLesbian
144	* LittleMissSnarker: She's had to develop quite the wit thanks to her screwed-up home life.
145	* OddFriendship: Develops one with Shane during the third season while they're stuck attending the same Christian summer school together.
146	* OnlySaneMan: Only Sane Girl more accurately, but she definitely is far more down-to-earth than both of her parents, if not most of the other adults in Agrestic.
147	* WeightWoe: Thanks to her vain and superficial mother.
148
149	!'''Quinn Hodes'''
150	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/HaleyHudson
151	Dean and Celia's eldest daughter. Was dating Silas at the start of the series until her mother shipped her off the a reform school in Mexico.
152
153	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She actually is briefly mentioned during Celia's City Council bid, but doesn't physically appear again. Reappears in Season 5 having kidnapped Celia.
154	* FaceHeelTurn[-/-]HazyFeelTurn: Perhaps not as nice as she first appears originally; but, after four seasons of ChuckCunninghamSyndrome she’s most definitely switched to evil, kidnaping her mother and holding her for ransom, with the very real threat that she will kill her and try to sell her organs.
155	* PutOnABus: To boarding school.
156	* OffToBoardingSchool: In Mexico no less.
157	[[/folder]]
158
159	[[folder:Other Agrestic Residents]]
160	!'''Doug Wilson'''
161	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/KevinNealon
162	Nancy's accountant. Works with her selling drugs.
163
164	%% * CasanovaWannabe
165	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He does a lot of idiotic things, from stealing, committing fraud, etc. However, when he gets dangerous, [[LetsGetDangerous he gets dangerous]].
166	* GeniusDitz: He may make a lot of stupid decisions, but he's a very competent accountant.
167	* IncompatibleOrientation: Quite possibly. His wife Dana supposedly hated sex but loved him as a person, implying she may be asexual.
168	* {{Jerkass}}: Like many of his neighbors, he's pretty smug and can be mean-spirited.
169	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Occasionally will show a nicer side every once in a while.
170	%% * TheSlacker
171	%% * TooDumbToLive
172
173	!'''Sanjay Patel'''
174	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/MaulikPancholy
175	The final member of Nancy's initial operation. Began the series harboring a crush on Nancy only to come out as gay early in the third season.
176
177	* BollywoodNerd: Is of Indian descent and is skinny and awkward.
178	* CampGay: After coming out.
179	* NiceGuy: One of the nicest people in this whole series.
180
181	!'''Megan Graves'''
182	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/ShoshannahStern
183	Silas' deaf girlfriend and later wife.
184
185	* OfficialCouple: With Silas.
186	[[/folder]]
187
188	[[folder:Miscellaneous characters (seasons 1-3)]]
189	!'''Conrad James'''
190	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/RomanyMalco
191	Nancy's supplier. Worked with her as a grower in series 2.
192
193	* OnlySaneMan: He sometimes plays this role to the other characters.
194	* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Constantly had to tell U-Turn and his cronies that he was not in a relationship with Nancy.
195	* {{UST}}: Quite often with Nancy, culminating with them kissing at one point and later on, [[spoiler: starting a relationship in season 3]].
196	* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: He slept with Celia once and has a lot of chemistry with Nancy.
197
198	!'''Heylia James'''
199	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/TonyePatano
200	-->'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/PerrettePradier (European French)
201
202	Conrad's aunt and Nancy's chief supplier.
203
204	* ApronMatron: She's held the fort down herself for years and is tougher than nails.
205	* TheChessmaster
206	* SassyBlackWoman: One of the snarkiest characters in the series.
207
208	!'''Vaneeta James'''
209	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/{{Indigo}}
210	Heylia's daughter.
211
212	* SassyBlackWoman: She doesn't take kindly to being patronized by Heylia's conservative Muslim date.
213
214	!'''Sullivan Groff'''
215	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/MatthewModine
216	Corrupt real estate developer who had pursued Celia and Nancy at the same time.
217
218	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He goes around communities to set up useless buildings and homes and whatnot, then leaves once he gets what he wants.
219	* TheCasanova: Beds Celia and Nancy at the same time.
220	* PetTheDog: He does occasionally have his moments of showing genuine kindness, such as soothing Celia's insecurities over her surgical scars and giving Nancy a job because he can see she needs it really badly.
221
222	!'''Lupita'''
223	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/ReneeVictor
224	Nancy's housekeeper.
225
226	* DemotedToExtra: Granted, she wasn't exactly a central character to begin with, but as Nancy gets deeper into the drug world and the plot focuses on the other characters' relationships, Lupita gets pushed further and further into the background.
227
228	!'''U-Turn'''
229	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/PageKennedy
230	Rival dealer who trained Nancy to be his enforcer.
231
232	* BadBoss: He treats his employees like utter crap. It comes back to bite him in the ass big time.
233	* EvilMentor: Tries to train Nancy to be his enforcer.
234	* FauxAffablyEvil: He can crack a joke here and there, but he's also a ruthless gangster.
235	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Dies from his high blood pressure becoming a problem and Marvin smothering him as payback for treating him badly all the time]].
236
237	!'''Marvin'''
238	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/FatsoFasano
239	U-Turn's overweight and incompetent enforcer.
240
241	* FatIdiot: He's pretty rotund and isn't the brightest crayon in the box.
242	* PunchClockVillain: He's really not a bad guy, but he will still do his job.
243	* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:He smothers U-Turn while the latter is keeling on the ground from a high blood pressure problem and Nancy is away trying to get help]].
244
245	!'''Peter Scottson'''
246	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/MartinDonovan
247	DEA agent who Nancy married.
248
249	* BitchInSheepsClothing
250	* DatingCatwoman: He's a DEA agent who genuinely likes Nancy and even gets into a business arrangement with her. Then it all goes south.
251	* DespairEventHorizon: Upon finding out Nancy is using him and doesn't return his feelings.
252	* DirtyCop
253	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Is killed by the Armenians to stop him from exposing Nancy and Conrad]].
254	* NiceGuy: He's an earnest, if bumbling man at times.
255	** BewareTheNiceOnes: Keep in mind, he is a trained federal agent.
256
257	!'''Valerie Scottson'''
258	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/BrookeSmith
259	Peter's ex-wife, a radiology technician. Befriends Nancy after Peter's death.
260
261	* BitchInSheepsClothing: She's pretty funny and nice when you're on her good side. If you're not, watch out.
262	* DoctorJerk: A downplayed example, but it's clear her problems have worn her down a bit.
263	* LaserGuidedKarma: Instead of trusting Nancy to pay her back Peter's pension, she hires a private investigator that Nancy's forced to pay off, depriving Valerie of her own money.
264	* TheWoobie: InUniverse for Nancy, who takes sympathy upon Valerie after Peter's death and reaches out to her with a sympathetic hand.
265
266	!'''Kat Wheeler'''
267	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/ZooeyDeschanel
268	Andy's mentally unstable ex-girlfriend.
269
270	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Frequently does odd and irrational things, hooks up with strange men and loves the strange.
271
272	!'''Tara Linderman'''
273	-->'''Played by:''' [[Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen Mary-Kate Olsen]]
274	Silas's fundamentalist girlfriend.
275
276	* EruditeStoner: Often talks about religion and God while she's high.
277	* TheFundamentalist: She's a devout Christian and as a result, has views that Shane personally finds ridiculous.
278	* GranolaGirl: She smokes pot plenty herself and has a very relaxed view of the world.
279	* NiceGirl: She's is generally sweet and well-meaning.
280	[[/folder]]
281
282	[[folder:The Cartel]]
283	!'''Estaban Reyes'''
284	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/DemianBichir
285	Leader of the local cartel, Mayor of Tiajuana and Nancy's third husband
286
287	* AffablyEvil
288	* BigBad: In Season 6.
289	* BusCrash: He's KilledOffscreen in jail during the TimeSkip between Seasons 6 and 7.
290	* SleazyPolitician: He's the mayor of Tiajuana and also a drug dealer.
291	* WickedCultured
292
293	!'''Cesar'''
294	-->'''Played by:''' Creator/EnriqueCastillo
295	Estaban's right hand man
296
297	* TheDragon: He's Reyes' right hand man.
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