Character page for characters from Amazon Prime's Tales from the Loop television series adaptation.
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Loretta and George's family
Loretta
Played by: Rebecca Hall, Abby Ryder Fortson (young)
You'll wonder if this really happened, or if it was a dream.
A researcher at, and eventually the head scientist of, the Loop.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: In the finale, after Cole returns after being missing for decades, he asks her if she missed him. After having spent most of the series as The Stoic, she sheds a Single Tear before breaking down into tears, answering yes, she did, "more than anything."
- Freudian Excuse: Her aloofness is a result of her issues with her Parental Abandonment.
- Future Self Reveal: Episode 1 introduces us to young Loretta as well as Cole and his family before revealing that Loretta had accidentally traveled into the future and Cole's mother is her older self.
- Not So Stoic:
- She falls to the floor in shock after Gaddis calls her to tell her that a little girl is looking for her mother, a scientist named Alma — …And That Little Girl Was Me.
- During the flashback montage in the finale, she appears troubled when dealing with the reality that her youngest has suddenly disappeared, her eldest is a stranger, and seeing her husband collapse and die at work.
- Also in the finale, she sheds a Single Tear then breaks down crying when Cole asks her if she missed him while he disappeared for past few decades.
- Like Parent, Like Child: She followed her mother's footsteps in becoming a scientist at the Loop. Unfortunately, this means she also became a workaholic that's distant to her children.
- She also shares (or at least did in childhood) Alma's habit of throwing or kicking a nearby inanimate object when frustrated.
- My God, What Have I Done?: a very low-key version of this when, after she tells young Loretta that she thinks Alma didn't really want to be a mother, young Loretta tells her that Cole thinks Loretta doesn't like being a mother either.
- Parental Abandonment: Her Workaholic single mother suddenly disappeared when she was a young girl. It's implied that her father was never a part of her life.
- Parents as People: Despite seeming unemotional and aloof, she does love her children and tries to reach out to them whenever she can (which seems mostly limited to talking at the dinner table, but points for effort). After her past comes up, she promises Cole afterwards that unlike her own mother, she'll always be there for them, or at least she wants to.
- The Stoic: She doesn't wear her emotions on her sleeve and any emotion she does show looks forced. It's not so much that she doesn't care for emotions, but more because she's too wrapped up in her own issues to properly convey her emotions.
- Workaholic: As a scientist of the Loop, she evidently has her hands too full with her work to properly reach out to her family.
George
Played by: Paul Schneider
See? There's nothing to be afraid of. It's just different.
Loretta's husband, a researcher at The Loop, and the son of its founder Russ.
- Parental Abandonment: has a very strained relationship with his father, who did not come to George and Loretta's wedding. It's reflected, in part, by the sharp tone he tends to adopt when addressing his two boys.
Cole
Played by: Duncan Joiner, Dylan Bodner (20s), Shane Carruth (40s), James Janssens (89s)
Everything's changed, . . . but you didn't. Why?
George and Loretta's younger son.
Jakob
Played by: Daniel Zolghadri, Shaun McComb (adult)
I want to be me again.
George and Loretta's oldest son, who is in high school.
- Character Death: Dies in the last episode after the robot breaks from a fall.
- Downer Ending: Jakob never recovers his body, and dies shortly after reuniting with Cole.
- Forced Transformation: Jakob tried to use the sea mine on his own to recover his body. Unfortunately, it instead swapped his mind with that of the robot walker that resided near the mine, trapping him inside it and leaving Danny's body in a coma. As the mine was dismantled later that night, Jakob was permanently trapped in the robot body.
Russ
Played by: Jonathan Pryce, Toby Hughes (younger)
You know when someone says something's impossible? . . . I prove it's possible.
The founder and first head scientist of the Loop.
- Cessation of Existence: Confides to Cole that he doesn't believe in an afterlife.
Klara
Played by: Jane Alexander, Daria Puttaert (40s), Jodi Lynn Thomas (20s)
Russ' wife.
Alma
Played by: Elektra Kilbey
I didn't steal it. . . . I, um . . . I obtained it.
Loretta's mother, a researcher at the Loop in its early days.
- Parental Hypocrisy: see the quote above.
- Workaholic: so much so that her 10-year old daughter does all the cooking and household chores.
The Jansson family
Danny
Played by: Tyler Barnhardt
I told you, I'm not going to crush rocks for the rest of my life.
Ed and Kate's teenage son.
- Lovable Jock: he's an accomplished athlete and popular with his classmates.
- My God, What Have I Done?: when Jakob-in-Danny's-body gets badly injured enough that he falls into a coma. Jakob's parents ask him why he seems despondent at dinner, and he answers that he misses his friend.
Beth
Played by: Alessandra de Sa Pereira
Ed and Kate's daughter, who is deaf.
- Secret-Keeper: she's the only one other than Danny who knows that Danny and Jakob have switched bodies.
Others
May
Played by: Nicole Law
That moment, that wonderful feeling of excitement . . . why does it always pass?
The teenage daughter of a high school teacher, and the object of Jakob's crush.
- Secret-Keeper: she doesn't tell her father about her mother's infidelity, but she does let mom know that she knows.
- Wrench Wench: she fixes the stasis machine and Gaddis' tractor.
Miss Sarah
Played by: Stefanie Estes
Change is part of nature. And I'm not.
The middle school teacher. An android built by Russ Willard.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: The first android Russ built was the Vagabond, but the project was a disaster in that everyone feared it and he had to send it off to an island to live alone. He built the next one, Sarah, to look and sound completely human on the outside.
