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The lovers, business associates, clients, neighbors, estranged relatives, and other miscellaneous characters of Mad Men. Beware of spoilers.


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    Carla 
Played By: Deborah Lacey
The Drapers' housekeeper and sort-of nanny. The show's most prominent black character in the first four seasons, not that that's saying very much.
  • Kindly Housekeeper: Very kind. She takes care of what Betty needs during the divorce and whenever Betty is hungover after a party where Don humiliated her.
  • Only Sane Woman: Served as this to Bobby and Sally, being the only adult in their household who isn't having an affair, an alcoholic, depressed, narcissistic, childish, nor possessing any other dysfunctional behavior.
  • Parental Substitute: To Sally and Bobby, often. Especially during Betty's brief collapse during season 2, where Carla would take virtually complete care of the kids with Betty only bothering to say goodbye to them on their way to school. And during season 3 when she is shown to take care of the kids for 6 weeks while both parents are away.
  • Put on a Bus: Betty fired her at the end of the fourth season for letting Glen come to see Sally, though it's strongly implied that Betty just used it as a convenient excuse to get rid of what she saw as both a challenge to her authority as a mother, and one of the last major remnants of her marriage to Don.
  • Satellite Character: We never see any of her life outside the Draper household, and she rarely discusses it. When she starts to, Betty usually changes the subject rather abruptly.

     Bobbie Barrett 
Played By: Melinda McGraw
Jimmy Barrett's wife, and one of Don's many lovers.
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: She seems to enjoy it when Don dominates her. Plus, she's married to a Jerkass.
  • Chained to a Bed: Don leaves her tied to a bed after she reveals that she's been discussing his sexual prowess with some of his other lovers.
  • Gossipy Hens: Bobbie likes to talk about Don with some of his other lovers. He's horrified.
  • Lady Macbeth: She manages her husband's career. The "Grin and Barrett" TV pitch (an idea for a Candid Camera-type show, to be fronted by Jimmy) is her idea, and she even got him to change his (somewhat Jewish-sounding) surname.
  • Parenting the Husband: She seems to be used to dealing with the fallout from Jimmy's immature behaviour.

     Jimmy Barrett 
Played By: Patrick Fischler
A stand-up comedian who appears in a Sterling Cooper TV advert for Utz potato chips.
  • Ambiguously Jewish: His wife says she got him to change his surname from "Bernstein".
  • Insult Comic: It's what he does.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He's very good at pulling off the Jerk with a Heart of Gold act whenever the need arises, but privately confides to Betty that he can't recall ever giving an apology and actually meaning it.
  • Karma Houdini: Played with. He insults the wife of the man who's paying for the advert he stars in, potentially jeopardising the entire project, and his only punishment is that he has to give a somewhat insincere apology. On the other hand, his wrecking of the Drapers' marriage ultimately leads to a well-deserved punch in the face from Don, although he seems to brush this off.
  • Motor Mouth: Seeing how he's a comedian, and an acerbic one at that, this is to be expected. Especially after he's been drinking.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: While he has less screen time than his wife does, he's important because he is the person who tells Betty that Don is cheating on her. Previously the Drapers had been to all intents and purposes a Happily Married couple, but their relationship never really recovers from this revelation, and it leads to their eventual divorce.

    Ed Baxter 
Played By: Ray Wise
Ken Cosgrove's father-in-law. Senior executive with Dow Chemicals.
  • Brutal Honesty: At the American Cancer Society dinner, he tells Don that while lots of execs like him, none of them want to work with him because of that ad.
  • Obnoxious In-Laws: Averted. Ken deliberately avoids roping Ed in with business. They end up forming a friendly bond with one another, in stark contrast to Pete and his own father-in-law.

    Glen Bishop 
Played By: Marten Weiner
The son of Helen Bishop, a divorced woman who moves into the Drapers' neighborhood in season one. Betty develops a rapport with him due to their mutual loneliness. We don't see him again until after Betty has divorced and remarried; he befriends Sally.
  • '70s Hair: Has curly Greg Brady hair in the last season.
  • Creepy Child: He purposely walks in on Betty in the bathroom when she's babysitting him. After she gets him to apologize, he asks for a lock of her hair, and it's a mark of how twisted the basis of their friendship is that she agrees to it. By the time of Season 5, he has a much more normal personality, though he is still a little socially awkward. He still has his creepy crush on Betty, though.
  • Forbidden Friendship: With Betty, and later in season 4 with Sally. Ironically, it's Betty who forbids Sally to be friends with him.
  • Gorgeous Period Dress: Averted(!) in Commissions and Fees - he manages to look both awkwardly adolescent and rumpled in his prep-school uniform. Picture Ethan Morgan in one of Andy Rooney's suits.
    • Though by season six, he seems to have grown a bit out of his awkward phase, and his teenage jacket covered in buttons is a pretty impressive display of "cool kid" fashion.
    • In season 7B, he's 18 and has hair and wears clothes that make him resemble Greg Brady. Betty doesn't even recognize him at first.
  • He Is All Grown Up: He returns in Season 7 all slimmed down and Greg Brady-esque, Betty couldn't recognize him.
  • Informed Attractiveness: While clearly in much better shape than he was before, Glenn is still pretty average looking in the final season, which is not represented by the sexual tension between him and Betty there.
  • Intergenerational Friendship
  • Just Friends: He seemed to have a bit of a crush on Sally, and in season five tells guys in school he's dating her. But he claims it's just so they won't bully him more than they already do for being friends with a girl, and Sally says she doesn't see him that way.
  • Like Brother and Sister: He says it himself that he considers Sally a sister to him.
  • Lonely Together
  • Off to Boarding School: His fate in Season 5. He and Sally maintain a long-distance relationship via secret phone calls late at night.
  • Put on a Bus: In "The Forecast", we learn that he has enlisted in the army and is about to be sent to Vietnam.
  • Precocious Crush: On Betty. He tries to act on it once he turns 18, but Betty turns him down.

    Manolo Colon 
Played By: Andres Faucher
Bob Benson's associate, who becomes Dot Campbell's nurse ... and possibly more.
  • Gold Digger: It's implied that he is this, although the Campbells — an 'old money' family who have fallen on (relatively) hard times — aren't as rich as he presumably thinks.
  • Latin Lover: Dot thinks so. Subverted, though, as his actual name is revealed to be the distinctly un-Latino Marcus Constantine.
  • Likes Older Women: According to Dot, he's her lover — although Bob denies this, telling Pete that Manolo is in fact gay. Either way, he marries Dot shortly before she dies.
  • Mistaken for Murderer: Pete thinks he murdered Dot. We never know whether he did or not.

    Midge Daniels 
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Played By: Rosemarie DeWitt
The very first woman we see Don sleep with, a commercial artist with a circle of racially mixed, pot-smoking, counterculture friends. Don stops seeing her when he comes to believe that she's in love with one of them.
  • Beatnik: She lives in Greenwich Village and is of that set, and dresses unconventionally for a woman of her age and generation.
  • The Bus Came Back: She's another character who reappears in season four, now a heroin addict.
  • Drugs Are Bad: Well, heroin is, anyway.
  • Starving Artist: By 1965, she is a lot scrawnier and strung out on heroin, far from the more comfortable artist she was in 1960.
  • Too Much Alike: Aside from her disregard for him and their differences (he an Ad Man and her a bohemian artist), she and Don are both self-centered (she doesn't care to hear about his wife because it makes her feel bad)in contrast to the other women who cared for him.

    Lieutenant Donald Draper 
Played By: Troy Ruptash
The real Don Draper, a soldier who served in the Korean War with Dick Whitman, until being killed in a bombing raid. Following a chance misunderstanding, Dick assumes his identity.
  • Body Horror: His body is absolutely mutilated by the blast that kills him. It's no wonder that his corpse was mistaken for Dick's.
  • Identical Stranger: Downplayed; he and Dick don't really look all that much alike, but their height, build and hair color are all similar enough that his body is mistaken for Dick's after his face gets blown off.
  • Posthumous Character: He is killed a decade or so before the series gets underway.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite clearly being annoyed at only being assigned one soldier instead of an entire unit, he doesn't take it out on Dick, and shows himself to be a reasonable man.
  • Retirony: He mentions he only has a few months left in the service. Shortly afterwards, he gets blown up.
  • With This Herring: He and Dick are assigned to set up a field hospital with just a few tents and shovels.

    Suzanne Farrell 
Played By: Abigail Spencer
Sally's teacher in Season 3. After an extended period of flirtation, she becomes another of Don's lovers. Notably, she's the last person Don has an affair with while married to Betty.
  • Hot Teacher: The reason why so many of the dads (Don included) suddenly take an interest in what their kids are doing at school.
  • Put on a Bus: We see no more of her after her plans to strengthen her relationship with Don are scuttled by Betty returning home unexpectedly and confronting Don about his past.

    Lee Garner, Jnr. 
Played By: Darren Pettie
The boisterous, boorish and quite possibly insane member of the family that owns North American Tobacco, which owns Sterling Cooper's most lucrative account, Lucky Strike. At first, he's seemingly a friend of Roger's — they're certainly rather similar — but his behaviour, which is only tolerated because of Lucky Strike's importance to SC/SCDP, ultimately proves to be too much for everyone.
  • The Bully: To Roger, often. Taken up to 11 at the Christmas party (which only becomes a full-on party after he demands an invitation), where he forces Roger to dress up as Santa and makes everyone pose for pictures with Roger-as-Santa. After hitting on his wife.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: More in his private life than in his professional capacity; the former bleeds over into the latter, however, so it counts.
  • Depraved Bisexual: He hits on both men and women to exercise his power and humiliate his business partners. Such is his influence that Sal Romano is fired for rejecting his advances. Later, he starts hitting on Jane Sterling (never mind that her and Roger's marriage isn't a good one, it's still insulting) and gropes several female employees at the SCDP Christmas party. Long after Lucky Strike drops SCDP, Roger says that at one point, Garner forced him to hold his testicles.
  • Good Ol' Boy: He's the scion of a Southern family that's made a fortune from tobacco.
  • Jerkass: So. Very. Much. It eventually becomes clear that Roger's chief contribution to Sterling Cooper and SCDP is his ability to put up with Lee's abuse.
  • Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: He's a spoilt, rich idiot. Early on, it's made clear that he knows very little about how tobacco is processed, despite this being the product responsible for his family's fortune; his father is not impressed.

    Fr. John Gill 
Played By: Colin Hanks
The young priest at the Catholic church in Brooklyn that Peggy's family attends. Becomes friends with Peggy after asking her for advice on public speaking and help with advertising youth events at the church, although their friendship becomes strained after Anita tells him about Peggy having a child out of wedlock and giving it up for adoption.
  • Good Shepherd: Does his best to be this by getting Peggy to give him public speaking advice so that he can do a sermon that's more accessible to his (mostly blue-collar) congregation. Also tries to get Peggy to be more involved with the church, although she's not so keen.
  • Sexy Priest: Peggy's mother and sister find him very charming.
  • Vow of Celibacy: He's a Catholic priest, so he's taken one of these. He sometimes vents his frustration by playing his guitar.

    Francine Hanson 
Played By: Anne Dudek
Don and Betty's gossipy neighbor in Ossining who is openly judgmental and has her own marital issues.
  • '60s Hair: She usually wears her hair in a Prim and Proper Bun that would soon take on a appearance similar to a Beehive hairdo.
  • Awful Wedded Life: She and Carlton have this, he doesn't respect her and resents her after she punishes him for his implied infidelity and she also shows a great resentment for his lack of attention to her.
  • Career Versus Family: After time as an unhappy housewife who can only demand her previously unfaithful husband to spend money on her, she ends the series as a happy part-time travel agent who feels rewarded by the pay and praises of her clients and gracefully shuts down Betty when the latter tries to shame her about working outside the home as a mother.
  • The Confidant: Sometimes Betty confides in her about how her day is going, just to compare her choices and experiences to Francine's, but Betty doesn't entirely trust to be truly vulnerable about what is bothering her (aside from confiding in a understanding Francine about her unwanted pregnancy).
  • Deadpan Snarker: She always has some snide and amusing lines on hand, especially when it regards her neighbors and even her best friend Betty's own behaviors (note the following exchange is after Betty has married her second husband).
    Betty: (smirking after trying to scold Francine about working) Well, maybe I'm old-fashioned.
    Francine: Betty Draper, that is indeed how I would describe you.
  • Foil: To Betty. Francine was a schoolteacher before she married (in contrast to Betty being a glamorous model) and she starts the series more dowdy in comparison to Betty's Housewife perfection, both are annoyed by their children, they are both narrow-minded and gossipy WASPS from privileged households but Francine shows more initiative in improving her life and doesn't repress her anguish as much. She is also actively involved in her community compared to the isolated Betty, she even reads books about child-rearing, and ends the series having her own rewarding job while Betty waits another year to start her graduate studies.
  • Fashionista: For most of her appearances in the show, she is used to illustrate the sort of fashions worn by affluent housewives like herself, who keep up with the times (unlike Betty who maintains a classic look a la Grace Kelly). She makes a big splash wearing bright colored, body hugging pants.
  • Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Zig-zagged, like most women of her era, she has had at least one unplanned pregnancy and "it worked out" but also gives Betty advice about where she can obtain the then-illegal procedure.
  • Gossipy Hens: She always shows up to gossip with Betty about their neighbors and vent about who is being annoying.
  • Hidden Depths: Just a few.
    • Her opening lines in the series reveal that she is an active participant in their community (square dancing lessons and PTA meetings) and that she has interests in organization politics, which come into fruition when she is revealed to be a Junior League member.
    • Her intelligence, often used for PTA politics and gossip, is given a productive outlet when she starts working as a travel agent.
    • Rather than being judgmental of Betty's "party girl" former roommate, Francine shows a curiosity about what life as a sex worker is like, only having the movies to go by.
  • Hot Teacher: According to Carlton, she used to be a Kindergarten teacher before their first child was born and he said she looked very attractive surrounded by all those little kids, as attractive as the sexy Miss Farrell.
  • Nosy Neighbor: She brings Betty a lot of gossip from their community and pokes her nose into the Helen Bishop for being a divorcee who takes long walks.
  • Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: Nosy, gossipy, judgmental, prejudiced (of Jewish and Japanese people), a member of the Junior League and PTA, insensitive, and outright demands the local "scandalous" divorcee on why she takes long walks by herself.
  • One Drink Will Kill the Baby: Averted. We are first introduced to her smoking and drinking coffee over gossip with Betty and then see Francine's protruding belly.
  • Parents as People: She is a flawed person with a miserable marriage who isn't attentive to her children, but unlike her best friend, she does try her best to be understanding of them and doesn't hold them to impossible standards of perfection.
  • Parental Neglect: Her first appearance shows she isn't so attentive to her young son Ernie and admits to finding him a nuisance in Season Two. She is a little better in Betty in that she actually does do her reading on how to rear children correctly and spot age-appropriate behavior.
  • Significant Wardrobe Shift: She goes from dowdy 1950s maternity wear in the first season to becoming fully fashionable in Season Two wearing pants (!) and colorful shift dresses and even ends the series as a working woman in a pantsuit.
  • Sour Prudes: She is openly disdainful of the divorced Helen Bishop, who takes long walks and has her own job, perhaps projecting her misery in her marriage to Carlton onto a woman who initiated a divorce from an unfaithful husband.
  • Troubled Sympathetic Bigot: She is prejudiced against Japanese and Jewish people, disdains divorced women, and is very judgy of others but it's soon revealed that her husband Carlton has likely been cheating on her, she has little power in her household, complains about being treated like a idiot when she visits Carlton's workplace, and has a mental breakdown in the Season One finale.

    Conrad "Connie" Hilton 
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Played By: Chelcie Ross
Real Life hotelier who befriends Don in Season 3.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: He calls Don up at odd hours and is genuinely upset to learn that Sterling Cooper can't literally put an ad on the moon.
  • Cool Old Guy: Despite being a client from hell, Connie has Don's back, and he alerts Don to the upcoming sell-off of Sterling Cooper early enough that Don and the others are able to strip-mine the agency and set up SCDP.
  • Mistaken for Servant: The first time we see him is during a wedding, where he is standing behind a counter at the bar. It wasn't until later that Don realized the old man he was chatting up with who he thought was the bartender was actually one of the wealthiest potential clients they've had.
  • Nouveau Riche: How he sees himself compared to his other professional cohorts. One of the main factors that helps him bond with Don.

     Jim Hobart 
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The head of McCann Erickson.
  • Ascended Extra: He first appears in Season 1, trying to convince Don to join McCann by offering Betty a modelling job with Coca-Cola, as well as offering Don large accounts such as Pan Am and Esso. He doesn't appear again until the final season, where McCann plays a much larger role.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Initially appears to be very congenial when dealing with Don and the partners of SC&P, but he ultimately reveals himself as quite sexist and petty when dealing with Joan's frustrations. In addition, he acquires SC&P under false pretenses, assuring Roger that they will have independence within McCann and then liquidating the firm at first opportunity.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: He appears once in season one, then disappears from the show entirely for six seasons only to play a major role in season 7.
  • Determinator: Tries to get Don Draper to work in McCann over the course of a decade. He succeeds, but is frustrated with Don's tendency to leave the office without word. When he complains to Roger about it, Roger only shrugs and says "he does that". Then again, he does get Don to write one of the most succesful Coca-Cola commercials ever, so it paid off.
  • Karma Houdini: He never gets his comeuppance for his sexism. But then, McCann is a firm stuck in old attitudes at that point — who knows what The '70s hold?

     Stephanie Horton 
Played by: Caity Lotz
Anna Draper's niece. Don sees himself as an uncle to her, and tries to help her out when she's in trouble. Like Anna, she habitually addresses Don as "Dick".
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: When she turns up in Season 7A, she's pregnant by a man who's in jail for selling weed.
  • Did They or Didn't They?: When Megan meets Stephanie, she wonders if she was ever intimate with Don. Stephanie and Don both deny this, and they are telling the truth — he flirted with her, but no more.
  • Granola Girl: Has shades of this in Season 4 when she's a student at Berkeley, and has become a full-on hippie by Season 7A.
  • Secret-Keeper: Claims to know all of Don's secrets, which irks Megan.
  • She Is All Grown Up: We never see her as a child, but Don has this reaction when he sees her while visiting Anna in Season 4.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: While rare, her appearances usually have a big impact on Don.
    • In Season 4, she's the one who tells Don that Anna is dying of cancer (something of which Anna herself is unaware) and later informs him of her death.
    • In Season 7B, she's the one who takes Don to the commune, where he has his emotional experience which concludes the show.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Don after Anna dies. Don tries to treat Stephanie as a second platonic and supportive relationship, but their generation divide and backgrounds (Don is a self-made man from nothing; Stephanie is a California girl who ended up losing everything) don't mesh well.

     Mack Johnson 
Played by: Morgan Rusler
Abigail's whorehouse-owning brother-in-law, who took her and Don in after Archie's death.
  • Informed Attribute: Don describes him as having been "kind", but we do not see this in the few flashback scenes in which he is shown; it's possible that Don means that he was kind in comparison to Abigail, who was anything but kind towards the young Don.
  • Mean Boss: He expected Abigail to provide him with sexual favours in addition to earning her keep helping out at his whorehouse, even when she was heavily pregnant with Adam. He does not treat the whores who ply their trade in his establishment well, as exemplified by his willingness to kick Amy out for seemingly withholding money from him even before he learns that she took Don's virginity.
  • Parental Substitute: He was the nearest Don had to a father figure after Archie's death. Don refers to him as "Uncle Mack".
  • Posthumous Character: He's only seen in the flashbacks; in season one, Adam reveals that he died some years before the series began.

    Guy MacKendrick 
The British executive who is Lane's replacement until he accidentally gets run over by a lawnmower, resulting in him losing a foot. And his job.
  • An Arm and a Leg: Gets his foot run over by a lawnmower. What's left of it has to be amputated.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: He's only in one episode, and — if the above hasn't made it clear — it's the episode where a guy gets run over by a lawnmower. Guy is that, err, guy. And that incident sets up the chain of events that leads to Don, Roger, Joan and several others abandoning Sterling Cooper to form SCDP.
  • Smug Snake: He comes across as this prior to the accident.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After the accident, the PPL executives rather callously declare that they'll have to make Guy redundant, as they can't see how a man with just the one foot can be of any use in their business.

    Rachel Menken 
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Played By: Maggie Siff
The daughter of a Jewish department-store owner and heir to the business, who comes to Sterling Cooper in the first episode. She and Don have an affair, which she ends when she realizes he keeps coming to her when he's in trouble and wants to run away. Smart and self-possessed, making her one of his more interesting relationships.
  • Back for the Dead: She appears as an illusion to Don in the premiere of Season 7B. We then find out that she passed away shortly before the events of the episode. Given how this was the first time she was seen since the very beginning of Season 2, it's also an interesting case of Back for the Finale.
  • Career Versus Man: When she appears again in Season Two, she is seen married to a man named Tilden Katz and after she died, it is revealed she kept leading her store even during her marriage and while she had her children, only to quit because she had gotten sick.
  • Death by Childbirth: Her mother, one of the things that makes Don see her as a kindred spirit.
  • Lonely Together: With Don.
  • Missing Mom: She grew up without a mother. She is revealed to have died of leukemia in "Severence" and left behind a few young children.
  • Put on a Bus: She resurfaces in season two just long enough to let us know that she's married some guy named Tilden Katz, i.e. that we won't be seeing her anymore. Many fans were disappointed. (In a Brick Joke on the night of Freddy Rumsen's firing, Don uses "Tilden Katz" as his alias when the guys are trying to get into a seedy club.)
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She wants love, especially with a man that appreciates her as a person, and seems to get that with Tilden Katz.

    St. John Powell 
Managing Director of London-based Putnam, Powell and Lowe (PPL), which takes over Sterling Cooper.
  • Evil Brit: Most of the people who work for Sterling Cooper see him as a combination of this and Evil Overlord, although he's really just the man who runs the company that's bought their company, which he first plans to change, and then sell off.
  • Pointy-Haired Boss: Has shades of this; he enthusiastically promotes Guy MacKendrick as the man to lead Sterling Cooper, but is quick to sack him after he loses his foot, as he doesn't see how a man with one foot can forge a successful career in advertising. Then he plans to sell off the company.
  • Smug Snake: Him and the other British overlords.
  • You Have Failed Me: The reason why he fires Lane in the immediate aftermath of the SCDP breakaway; subverted, though, as that's exactly what Lane wanted him to do.

    Kitty Romano 
Played By: Sarah Drew
Sal's wife, who he marries between seasons 1 and 2.
  • Childhood Friend Romance: How she sees her marriage, given that she reveals to Ken that she and Sal grew up in the same neighbourhood and that she had a crush on him for many years before they got together.
  • Happily Married: The Romanos come across as this on the surface, although she does call him out for neglecting her, ah, needs.
    I don't require much, but I do need some tending.
  • Oh, Crap!: The look on her face when Sal's enthusiastic demonstration the song-and-dance routine for the Bye Bye Birdie Patio commercial causes her to realise that her husband is in fact gay.
  • Put on a Bus: After Sal gets fired, we see and hear no more of her.

    Dr. Arnold "Arnie" Rosen 
Played By: Brian Markinson
Cardiac surgeon. Don and Megan's neighbour in season six.
  • The Bus Came Back: Having been recurring characters in season six, Arnie and Sylvia do not appear in season 7A and make one appearance in 7B when they encounter Don and Diana in the elevator; by this point, they have evidently grown accustomed to encountering Don with a different woman every time they see him.
  • Cuckold: We don't know if he ever finds out about his wife's affair with Don.
  • Hero of Another Story: He's a top surgeon who served his country in Korea, saves the doorman's life, skis to work during a blizzard and almost got to perform the first heart transplant surgery in the USA.
  • Nice Guy: Affable and conscientious, he becomes good friends with Don although by the time of their encounter in season 7B their friendship seems to have cooled somewhat. He's also very concerned for his son's well-being when the latter is at risk of being called up for Vietnam.

    Sylvia Rosen 
Played By: Linda Cardellini
Arnie's wife, and another of Don's many lovers.
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: She rather likes it when Don makes her stay in a hotel room with no knowledge of when he'll be back.
  • Betty and Veronica: In a gender-flipped example, Sylvia is the Archie to Arnie's Betty and Don's Veronica. She ends up staying with the former.
  • Cheating with the Milkman: The man who lives upstairs, actually.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: She ends her affair with Don out of guilt, only to resume it, quite possibly intending for it to be a one-off lapse, after Don saves her son from the draft. Then Sally catches them, and she's visibly distraught about it.
  • Raised Catholic: Implied by a crucifix on the wall and her obvious guilt about her adultery.
  • Secret-Keeper: She's the first person Megan tells about her miscarriage.


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