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Miguel

Miguel Guerrero

Portrayed By: Gabriel Chavarria

A US Marine who returns home on Purge Night after receiving a cryptic message from his sister, Penelope.

Big Brother Instinct: He is extremely protective of his little sister Penelope, to the point that he joined the Marines to avoid prison after brutally attacking her abusive boyfriend.
The Determinator: He spends much of the series trying to find Penelope before something terrible happens to her.

Jenna

Jenna Betancourt

Portrayed By: Hannah Anderson

An anti-Purge proponent and devoted to charitable causes who is accustomed to locking down on Purge Night. Her choice to venture out for the first time leads to an encounter with violence that forces her to deal with deep truths about herself and her marriage.

Penelope

Penelope Guerrero

Portrayed By: Jessica Garza

A member of a Purge-worshiping cult who pledges to be sacrificed but her faith is tested when exposed to the realities. She's also Miguel's sister.

Broken Bird: Willingly joins the purge sacrifice cult because she wanted to reunite with her murdered parents. Granted she was still grieving as was taken advantage of by a cult leader, who is later revealed to be an agent of NFFA.
Cult Defector: Penelope starts off the series as a misled cultist who beleives that dying on Purge night is a way to martyr herself and keep society stable. Witnessing the senselesness and sadism of Purge killings up close shakes her faith and makes her try to escape. When she learns that the cult is a Scam Religion being sponsored by those who want to make money and Kill the Poor at the same time, she sets out to expose the cult leader and save the remaining cultists.
Took a Level in Badass. Goes from being someone who wants to die, into a fighter who helps stop Joe from completing his purge night plans. And she confronts her cult leader, possibly saving the lives on the remaining teens on the blue bus. A year later shows her joining her brother and helping purge victims survive the night.

Lila

Lila Stanton

Portrayed By: Lili Simmons

A young, rich, and rebellious woman who refuses to fit in with the pro-Purge socialite crowd. Her confidence and charm mask a vulnerability that will be exposed as she attempts to deal with unfinished business before the sun rises.

Insane Equals Violent: Downplayed. Lila implies that she sometimes questions whether she can accurately perceive reality and is willing to kill people to get her way. However, she shows guilt after killing people and tries to warn the wife of a purger to run away from an attacker moments after insulting the woman.
Lipstick Lesbian: She is probably closer to this. She has feelings for Jenna and wants to build a life with her.
In the Back: Is stabbed in the back by Jenna after she snaps and tried to kill Rick.
These Hands Have Killed: A flashback shows that she went through the family ritual of committing her first murder on purge night, making it clear that she is capable of doing so like her parents, and then looked conflicted. And this was shown after she killed Rick and Jenna's next door neighbor to save Jenna's life.
Yandere: Decides to murder Rick once it became clear she couldn't separate him from Jenna, and Jenna refusing to leave him.

Jane

Jane Barbour

Portrayed By: Amanda Warren

A dedicated and hardworking finance professional who is convinced that she has hit an insurmountable glass ceiling at her firm, so she hires a Purge-assassin.

Black Dude Dies First: Is the first main character to die during the series by Joe's hands.
Disproportionate Retribution: Her boss passes her up for promotion, so she hires a Purge-assassin to kill him on Purge Night. She eventually comes to regret the decision.
Hypocrite: Calls out a co-worker for killing a colleague who was up for the same promotion, when she herself has hired a Purge-assassin to kill her boss because he passed her up. Subverted when has a Heel Realization soon afterward.
My God, What Have I Done?: As soon as she realizes that she is no better than the co-worker who killed her colleague to ensure her promotion, she leaves the safety of her office building to try and stop the assassin she hired.
"Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Joe about how childish and pathetic he's acting after he kidnapped her over a bad date. He strangles her to death after she tries to fight for her life soon afterwards.

Rick

Rick Betancourt

Portrayed By: Colin Woodell

After a lifetime of bootstrapping, he is finally climbing the social ladder, but currying favor with the pro-Purge elite presents unexpected challenges to his marriage, as he and his wife must agree on what moral price they'll pay to achieve the American dream.

Ambition Is Evil: Determined not to a live a life of poverty like how he grew up, he does whatever it takes, including willing to kill on Purge night to please a rich investor, only stopping from doing it because of his wife. And its later revealed that he used a loophole to screw Joe out of a contract not paying him for his work.
The Atoner: Spends Purge night trying to make things right with his wife for some of the selfish things that he done.
Redemption Equals Death: is killed just when it seemed like he made things right with his wife.

Joe

Joe Owens

Portrayed By: Lee Tergesen

An armored, masked, and seemingly ordinary man who drives through town, intervening acts of Purge violence while listening to the taped lectures of Bobby Sheridan, a motivational life coach.

Angry White Man: Is mad at the world for taking away what he believes are his rights as a "true" American, often making statements you'd hear on extreme right-wing platforms.
Bad Samaritan: Throughout the series, he seems to be intervening to rescue people from the Purge. In reality, he's just kidnapping people who he feels have wronged him in some way so that he can kill them at his leisure.
Bait the Dog: Throughout most of the episodes, it seems like he is a masked vigilante saving people from getting purged. Turns out he targeted those people to purge himself, for various reasons ranging from petty slights, to being genuinely wronged.
Disproportionate Retribution: He kidnaps Penelope because he held the door for her while she was carrying a heavy bag and she didn't thank him. He also kidnaps Jane because she rightfully abandoned him on a date, after undermining her accomplishments to say the least.
Freudian Excuse: His back story shows how he was a hardworking man who gets screwed over by the system when the company he works at laid off the whole work force and shipped the jobs to Mexico. And its later revealed that Rick took advantage of him and screwed him out of paying him. And he was bullied as a kid.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: For all his hardships, it eventually proves to hold no weight as Joe proved himself to be a racist, entitled, Psychopathic Manchild with a fragile ego. And he is called out as such by Jane.
I Gave My Word: He keeps his agreement to let Jenna go after she tries to shoot her husband (with a secretly unloaded gun) to comply with a Sadistic Choice Joe gave her to save the lives of herself and her unborn child.
Kill It with Water: Miguel shoots him in the kneecaps and kicks Joe into an abandoned swimming pool to drown.
Made of Iron: Being stabbed in the eye, shot in the chest while wearing a bulletproof vest and kneecapped have little effect on Joe, whereas in real life most people would be incapacitated by the pain.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Makes clear that he believes the country is being taken away from good hardworking American's to please the unworthy minorities. He accused Jane of getting by off affirmative action, while on a date with her, which is why she ditched him. And he accused Penelope of being a leech sucking the life out of America, because she is a Latina, and uses her not thanking him for holding the door for her one day as proof.
Psychopathic Manchild: At heart, he's an overgrown little boy with massive entitlement issues.
Too Dumb to Live: Telling a protective former Marine you'll "take care" of him and his sister next Purge probably wasn't the smartest idea. It gets him knee-capped and kicked into a pool to drown.

Marcus

Marcus Moore

Portrayed By: Derek Luke

A doctor with a distant relationship with his son and traumatized from an attack during Purge Night.

But for Me, It Was Tuesday: He is being targeted for death because he once failed to save a patient and then failed to recognize her husband after moving next door to him a few years later.
Martial Pacifist: Marcus is a diplomatic man who refuses to kill anyone (or even pull a Failure-to-Save Murder) even in self-defense, but is willing to injure or incapacitate people while fighting defensively or threaten enemies with torture.
Obnoxious In-Laws: During a conversation where he needs some Casual Danger Dialogue, he admits to his wife that he feels unnerved whenever he even hears her mother's voice.
The One Who Made It Out: His career as a doctor has caused him to leave the middle or working class black neighborhood where he was born for a more affluent community that was more vulnerable to the Purge. Marcus remains friendly with his old neighbors and is disappointed that they forgot to tell him about one old friend’s death.

Ryan

Ryan Grant

Portrayed By: Max Martini

A police officer planning to commit a bank robbery on Purge Night with some fellow officers.

Defector from Decadence: He and his partners turned to bank robbery due to being disillusioned by other members of the department being involved with a drug cartel.
Genius Bruiser: Ryan is a muscular gunman who plans bold bank robberies every year. In the last two episodes, he tops himself by planning a way to steal $100,000,000, get several enemies killed, rescue a friend from being executed, and help Esme break into a broadcasting station to denounce the NFFA, all in one night.
Perma-Stubble: Ryan is never shaven, but rarely has quite enough facial hair for a full beard.
The Spook: He carries around fake IDs and devotes a lot of energy to avoiding encountering the authorities or being recorded on surveillance cameras.
Token White: Ryan is the only Caucasian member of his crew. Tommy and eleventh hour recruit Esme are Hispanic, Doug is a African-American, and Sara is of mixed Asian and European descent.

Esme

Esme Cardona

Portrayed By: Paola Núñez

An NFFA surveillance agent investigating Ryan’s heist and Drew’s murder.

Big Brother Is Watching: A government surveillance monitor.
Heel Realization: She's a faithful servant of the Purge system until seeing a friend die on one of her monitors one Purge night,
Heroic Sacrifice: She exposes the truth about the NFAA to the public but at the cost of her own life.

Ben

Ben Gardner

Portrayed By: Joel Allen

A college student out for the first time in Purge Night.

Serial Killer: He develops a bloodlust on his first purge that causes him to keep killing even when it's not purge night.

Recurring

David

David Ryker

Portrayed By: William Baldwin

The Managing Partner at Jane’s investment firm, and her boss. Handsome, confident, and powerful, David leads his team with alacrity and intelligence. He appears to be a big Jane supporter but in fact may be standing in the way of her career advancement. David also harbors a Purge night secret.

Asshole Victim: Is shot dead by Jane after she is rescued from his Purge party were women are used as art displays.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He has a family who he sends out of the country on Purge night rather than victimize them or corrupt them as part of his Purge atrocities (although this may just be for the sake of appearances).
Freudian Excuse: Admits to Jane that his father was even worse than him when it involved dealing with women, and was racist on top of it, something he claims he's not.
He-Man Woman Hater: While it's made clear he is sexist towards women, it is not until the reveal during purge night that you realize how little he thinks of them, seeing women as nothing more than objects and not even human beings.

Albert

Albert Stanton

Portrayed By: Reed Diamond

One of the New Founding Fathers of America's key members.

Affably Evil: Albert is a polite host, loving father, and fairly non-aggressive businessman who enjoys the killing that comes with the Purge and encourages other people to participate in the night's violence. He seems to be a Famed In-Story Villain of Another Story, as people from all classes of life know who he is, and he has a heavily-guarded compound that no lone gunman can get through, but a resistance group takes the trouble to attack.
I Want Grandkids: Albert doesn't seem to know that his daughter is a lesbian and talks to Rick (who he thinks Lila loves) about how nice it would be to have a grandson.
Villain of Another Story: Albert kills someone every Purge night and is a major backer of an evil regime, but he is not directly involved in any of the threats a single main character faces. He is even friendly with Rick and Jenna (although they are terrified of him).

Tavis

Portrayed By: Fiona Dourif

The much-adored, charismatic cult leader, dispensing blessings to her fawning followers.

Asshole Victim: She is shot dead by Joe as she is giving another one of her manipulative speeches to try and regain control over Penelope.
Killed Mid-Sentence: She gets shot dead in the middle of her speech to Penelope.
Manipulative Bastard: Targets weak minded and traumatized teens and convinces them that sacrificing their life on Purge night is a divine and beautiful thing.
The Sociopath: Willingly leads teenage children to get sacrificed on Purge night for the NFFA, and shows not one bit of remorse for it. The only emotion she shows is anger, if she feels something is getting in the way of her completing the job for money.

Curtis

Portrayed by: Connor Trinneer

Esme’s boss.

Everyone Has Standards: He loyally carries out invasive surveillance in support of a cruel regime (albeit seemingly because he is misled by their Propaganda Machine). However, he loathes Purgers who model themselves after a Serial Killer who has been committing murders year-round, and hopes that someone will kill those people on Purge night.

Bobby Sheridan

Portrayed by: Dermot Mulroney

A pro-Purge radio host and life coach that Joe listens to.

The Corruptor: For people like Joe and Ben, who get further warped by his encouraging the Purge lifestyle.
Karma Houdini: Never suffers for his actions.
Smug Snake: He's an unapologetic pro-purger who basks in his famed influence and is contemptuous toward a rational anti-Purge guest on his show.

Pete

Pete The Cop

Portrayed By: Dominic Fumusa

A former soldier and cop turned anti Purge bar owner.

The Bartender: He owns Pete's Cantina and allows locals to hide in it during the Purge
Defector from Decadence: Pete once worked with in the system, doing things like keeping route cops from slaughtering people on Purge night and building a case against NFFA flunky Tavis, but his efforts were often undermined by his pro-Purge superiors and he left the police force at a relatively young age to open a private Truce Zone.
Good Samaritan: He joins Miguel in trying to rescue Penelope and various others.
The Last DJ: When Pete was still a cop, he fought hard against the pro-Purge attitude of his superiors and most of his rank-and-file colleagues and tried to limit the slaughter of the lower class. He stopped other cops from engaging in Knight Templar Vigilante Man activity on Purge night and tried to build a case against the leader of a Scam Religion who was tricking people like Penelope into letting themselves be murdered on Purge night. Eventually, however, he left the police force and chose to oppose the Purge in other ways.
Living Legend: He's a respected figure among his own generation for proving a Truce Zone in his bar for people to hide in, as well as having once stopped a group of Dirty Cops from using the Purge for their own sleazy goals.
Sidekick: He joins in Miguel's efforts on Purge night, (initially just with information in exchange for his car but later more willingly and actively) although he although he carries his own just as well in a fight, organizes rides, and tracks down lots of valuable information.
Restrained Revenge: When a man taking refuge in the bar tries to kill him (Pete arrested his brother once back in his cop days) Pete chooses not to exercise his right to kill the guy but does kick him out of the bar.
Token Good Cop: An ex-policeman with a strong moral compass: before he quit the force, he was one of the only officers who opposed the Purge, trying to stop his colleagues from engaging in Vigilante Man behaviour: but after being constantly stymied by his pro-Purge superiors, he eventually left to open up a safe-haven bar.

Catalina

Portrayed By: Paulina Galvez

The Stanton's maid and an agent of an anti-NFFA resistance group.

Because You Were Nice to Me: Catalina helps Jenna and Rick escape from the anti-NFFA group because Jenna treated her better than the other Stanton guests ever did.
The Mole: It's implied she was the one who let an anti-NFFA resistance group in the Stanton estate with the intention of killing everyone inside.
The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Catalina more or less invokes this when asked why she's part of an anti-Purge group intent on slaughtering a large number of NFFA members and donors at the manor she works in.
Catalina: Sometimes, revolution is the only way to make the world a better place.

Rex

Portrayed By: Christopher Berry

A rancher and associate of Pete who is secretly working with a pro-Purge crowd.

Affably Evil: A very charming guy who kidnaps people and sells the man to be killed and tortured on a Purge night.
From Nobody to Nightmare: A Verizon call manager before he reinvented himself as a rancher and purge collector.
Only in It for the Money: His actions are done to fund his lifestyle.
Rex: Living the dream ain't cheap.

Allison

Portrayed By: Jessica Miesel

A good-natured but ambitious co-worker of Jane who is unfortunately inspired by her when she finds out Jane is trying to kill David.

My God, What Have I Done?: Gets upset after considering the ramifications of killing Mark and seeing Jane's reactions.

Mark

Portrayed By: Adam Stephenson

A coworker of Jane.

Nice Guy: He tells Jane that he's happy for Allison being promoted instead of him and is willing to keep working for the next opportunity.
Poor Communication Kills: Jane not telling Allison about her decision to promote her (or Mark's acceptance of that) in time cause Allison to stab Mark for a promotion she already had.

Madelyn

Portrayed By: Sabrina Gennarino

The leader of the Matron Saints, a group of vigilantes who protect women and punish men who harm them during Purge Night.

Action Mom: She tells Jane she has four daughters and she's a well-armed fighter who along with her friends is willing to brave danger on Purge night.
Badass Teacher: The rest of the year, she teaches self-defense classes.
Braids of Action: She's a heroic vigilante with braided hair.
The Leader: Madelyn is clearly the shot-caller of her group.
Mark of Shame: Madelyn and the other Matron Saints brand the foreheads of abusers.
Mr. Exposition: Madelyn and her group reveal more about the darkness and inequality of Pruge night the NFFA try to hide by talking about how three women die for every man on Purge night and every year the night sees untold thousands of rapes.
My Card: She gives a card with a phone number to Jane after she insists on leaving the Saint's refuge, in case she gets in danger later on.
Vigilante Militia: She leads a group of vigilantes who work to save innocents and punish those who hurt women under the cover of the Purge.
Wife-Basher Basher: The matron saints brand "pig" on the forehead of men who hurt women on Purge Night.

European Corespondent

Portrayed By: Mark Ashworth

A British journalist seeking Purge stories along with an American coulleague.

Good Samaritan: He briefly gived Miguel a ride in looking for Penelope.
Intrepid Reporter: While he doesn't take too many risks he is trying to document the horrors of the purge to keep his own nation from adopting it for themselves.
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: When Miguel accused him of having a Holier Than Thou attitude about the Purge in his efforts to keep it out of Europe, he digresses, making it clear he does not consider his own culture as holding the moral high ground.
Corespondent: Have you ever heard of the Congo? The Atlantic slave trade? Europeans invented the purge.
No Name Given: He's only known by his job title.
Properly Paranoid: The correspondent wants to expose the evils of the Purge as a warning to Europe. In the season finale, European politicians do consider implementing their own Purge (although based on the murder tourists in the fourth film, they fail).

Bracka

Portayed By: AzMarie Livingston

A mercenary who operates on Purge Night without fear of arrest and is hired to kill David Ryker.

Affably Evil: Despite being an unrepentant assassin, Bracka does advise her employer to think about her decision before committing to the contract and says that she understands how Jane is nervous about purging for the first time.
Only in It for the Money: Bracka interrupts Jane talking about why David deserves to die to tell her employer that this is just a job as far as she is concerned.
Tattooed Crook: She is a professional assassin with barely an un-tattooed inch on either of her arms.

Lee and Anna

Played by: Billy Slaighter and Stacie Davis

The driver and medic of a triage van, who briefly encounter Miguel.

Good Samaritan: They are a claims adjuster and a history teacher 364 days out of the year but spend Purge night driving around to act in the stead of emergency services with their transport services and limited medical training.
Hero of Another Story: They spend the Purge night helping injured people but only about two minutes of their efforts are shown onscreen.
Small Role, Big Impact: They only get one scene, but they are the ones who put Miguel in touch with Hyper-Competent Sidekick Pete the cop.

Eileen, Paige, and Charlie

Portrayed By: Allison King, Kelly Murtagh, and Garrett Kruithof

Three people who Joe encounters while Purging, all of whom have important ties to his past.

Action Survivor: Paige, who lasts the longest of the three, manages to keep a cool head throughout the show trials Joe conducts and teams up with Penelope to escape. She is Blown Across the Room after triggering a mine near the end of the season finale, though.
Horrible Judge of Character: Eileen thinks that Joe is a reasonable man who has no intention of really hurting any of his captives. He executes Charlie very quickly after she says that.
Reformed Bully: Possibly Charlie. He is a former Barbaric Bully who has grown up to be a homeless man who has barely survived years of Purge nights and shows remorse for his past misdeeds. He seems sincere, but he is saying that to try to save his life.
Sacrificial Lamb: Charlie and Eileen only get a few scenes before being killed to show that Joe means business.
Shoot the Messenger: Joe puts Eileen and Paige on trial (planning to kill them afterward) for firing him and his coworkers and turning down an insurance claim, respectively. They point out that Eileen was only relaying the decision of her bosses and Paige was restricted by how Joe’s father had a pre-existing health condition, but Joe doesn’t care.

Otis

Portrayed By: Lance E Nichols

The owner of a classic car lot. His annual Purge Publicity Stunt is to kidnap people and force them to run a televised gauntlet of armed killers, with the rare survivors (such as Miguel) getting one of his cars as a prize.

Karma Houdini: He regularly has his goons kill innocent people, but suffers nothing worse than the loss of a few seemingly expendable enforcers and seeing Miguel get one of his many cars for free.
Large Ham: His voice is softer than many examples of the trope, but he invokes being a combination of a Smarmy Host and fast-talking used car salesman to boost his publicity stunt.
May–December Romance: His romantic partner looks ten or fifteen years younger than him.

Michelle

Portrayed By: Rochelle Aytes

Marcus's second wife.

Silk Hiding Steel: She dresses and acts like an affluent housewife who hasn't had many difficulties in life, but she picks up a gun to help defend Marcus and also helps him kidnap and question the main suspect behind the bounty on his head.

Vivian Ross

Vivian Ross.

Portrayed By: Charlotte Schweiger.

Esme's surveilance trainee and later ally in her new agenda.

Sidekick: Vivian is the only other surveillance monitor to help Esme investigate the death of Professor Adams and escape the authorities and does so dutifully.Darren also helps, but gets involved later.
Taking the Bullet: Vivian is wounded after jumping between Esme and a bullet.

Kelen Stewart

Portrayed By: Danika Yarosh

Ben's girlfriend and a fellow student who makes some unsettling discoveries about his activities.

Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She is a fairly nice blonde whose clearly disturbed by talk of The Purge.

Darren

Portayed By: Denzel Whittaker

Marcus's son and a classmate of Ben's. He also becomes involved in Esme's investigation of his teacher's death.

Black and Nerdy: He is an unathletic African-American college student who is pretty tech savvy and easily understands notes about brain functions and social science.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When he first learns that Esme, who he is helping investigate the death of Professor Adams, is an NFFA surveillance tech, he starts to flee the room until she persuades him of her sincerity.

Tonya

Portrayed By: Devyn Tyler

Marcus's ex-wife and Darren's mother.

Afro Asskicker: Tonya has an Afro that is about as big as her head itself, and she comes from a community that requires firearms and survival skills to survive the Purge night. In the penultimate episode of season 2, she and her new husband act as backup for Marcus and Michelle.

Turner

Portrayed By: Matt Shively.

A friend and fraternity brother of Ben.

Absurdly Ineffective Barricade: When he tries to block the frat house against Ben's return.
Actual Pacifist: He won't shoot Ben with a crossbow even when Ben isn't making it clear he'll come back after him and refuses to kill another prisoner of Ben in exchange for his own life, causing Ben to duct tape a machete into his hands and shove it into the victim personal
Villainous Rescue: He escapes from Ben in the confusion when another crowd of purgers pick his captor as their target.
We Used to Be Friends: He and Ben are close until Ben gets obsessed with killing. Turner is at first worried by the strange changes in Ben, then is horrified and disgusted by the truth. For his part Ben tries to get Turner to join him but after being refused is prepared to kill Turner.

Tommy

Tommy Ortiz

Portrayed By: Jonathan Medina

Ryan's former cop colleague turned fellow bank robber. Tommy spends most of the season as a prisoner after surveillance monitors prove he remained at a crime scene just past the end of the Purge and the immunity coming with it.

Fire-Forged Friends: With his fellow prisoners, who he encourages to wait for rescue with.
Happily Married: He and his wife Lisa have a son together and she shows a lot of concern for his predicament.
Heroic Sacrifice: When the police come to arrest Tommy, he insists on turning himself in rather than try to escape and risk getting his friends arrested for aiding a fugitive.
Informed Flaw: Several lines in the first two season 2 episodes suggest that Tommy has always been The Load of the bank robbery crew, and he does make several mistakes. However, it is later established that he is responsible for getting security information about targets and is usually steady under pressure.
Safecracking: Tommy is their expert at getting into vaults.

Sara

Sarah Williams

Portrayed By: Chelle Ramos

Another member of Ryan's group.

The Lancer: She is both the most capable member of Ryan's crew and his main confidant.
What You Are in the Dark: In the series finale, she has moved to a country without the Purge and no one else knows that how she, Doug, and Tommy have Ryan’s unspent share from the final heist. However, she is the first one to propose donating Ryan’s cut to the resistance that Ryan died helping and that is trying to save a country she no longer lives in.

Doug

Doug Vargas

Portrayed By: Jaren Mitchell

Another ex-cop working with Ryan, Tommy and Sara.

Non-Action Guy: Doug is seen taking part in a vigilante raid in a flashback set before Ryan and his team quit the police force, but he never shoots his gun in that scene and only acts as a lookout and spy for the bank robbery crew, while his partners take more active roles.

Skye

Portrayed By: Tyler Rushing

An anti-Purge hacktivist.

Sam

Sam Tucker

Portrayed By: Jay Ali

One of Marcus's neighbors.

Hazy-Feel Turn: He and the others are trying to kill Marcus but respect his decision to spare Clint when he has a chance to kill him, and draw the line at Clint trying to kill Marcus's family instead of him, purging Clint instead.

Clint

Portrayed By: David Maldonado

A neighbor of Marcus.

Crusading Widower: He has it in bad for Marcus due to the death of his wife in Marcus's operating room.

Andrea Ziv

Captain Andrea Ziv

Portrayed By: Christine Dunford

Ryan's old boss.

Dirty Cop: She is unrepentantly in bed with a drug cartel.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Ziv starts protecting drug dealers to put her child through college, but doesn’t care one bit about the children whom the drugs will kill.
Evil Is Petty: After Ryan quits the police force out of anger about Ziv smuggling drugs, she is so annoyed at this sign of disapproval that she smugly vows to blackball him from any legitimate job more prestigious than strip club security. This leads to him starting a bank robbery crew.

Andre

Portrayed By: Damien D. Smith.

An old friend of Marcus and Tonya's new husband.

Manly Facial Hair: Andre has a prominent beard and has wielded a gun to hold off Purgers for over a decade.

Sofia

Portrayed By: Mariano Tejada

Esme's younger sister.

Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: After being missing and assumed dead for years, she returns at the end of the season.
The Runaway: She fled her troubled home ten years ago.

Isabel

Isabel Shaw

Portrayed By: Jen Kobler

A detective hired by Marcus to investigate who tried to Purge him.

Butch Lesbian: She has a very masculine appearance and appears to like girls.
Entertaingly Wrong: She falsely suspects Michelle.
Private Investigator: She's a detective working for Marcus.

Professor Adams

Professor Drew Adams

Played By: Alvis-Marie Barnes

A college professor and former friend of Esme's after Sofia disappeared.

Cool Teacher: She was a caring woman respected by her students.
He Knows Too Much: The NFFA killed her because of a study she did gathering interviews of purgers who said the Purge Night didn't vent their impulses and they wanted to keeep killing year round.

Sydney

Sydney Rivera

Portrayed By: Hannah Alline

A reporter critical of the purge and guest speaker on Bobby Sheridan's show.

Ignored Expert: She correctly argues that killing once a year during the Purge inspire some people to continue killing the rest of the year and that those crimes are being covered up. Sheridan and the NFFA aren't interested in hearing it.

Scott

Portrayed By: Peyton Wich

One of Ben's fraternity brothers.

Batter Up!: Scott carries a baseball bat while patrolling the frat house for intruders, although it is insufficient for defense against Ben.
Remember the New Guy?: He is a fraternity brother and housemate of Ben, but is never seen or mentioned until the eighth episode of the season.

Andy

Andy Tran

Portrayed By:' Lawrence Kao

A slimy, pro-Purge classmate of Ben.

Even Evil Has Standards: He may have been a Purger, but he was disturbed that Ben continued murdering even outside the Purge.
He Knows Too Much: Killed because Ben confided his murders in him and Andy's reaction made him afraid he'd talk.
Not Good with Rejection: He fantasizes about killing girls who reject him for the Purge night.
Not Quite Dead: Ben stabs him and then tries to cover it up with a fire, but Andy survives long enough to stagger to an elevator, where his body is found, exposing his death by violence to the Campus (although the government tries to pretend it was a suicide).

Anti-Purge Co-ed

Played By: Hayden Guthrie

A student at Ben's college who antagonizes him at a fateful time.

Killed Offscreen: Ben is seen following her in a mask at the end of the episode and the next episode mentions a girl being killed on the campus.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She shows up at a party with a t-shirt saying "Remember: Say NO to the Purge" and talks back to a couple pro-Purge kids. As a result, she ends up targeted by a Serial Killer.
Small Role, Big Impact: She's only in a couple scenes of one episode and doesn't even have a name, but is the first person Ben puts a pre-meditated effort into targeting, helping cement his new bloodlust and emphasize his journey toward being a Serial Killer. This public murder also makes concerns about people killing outside of the Purge Night more publicized.

Characters / The Purge (2018)

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