Line #173 Characters/OceansEight


1	Character sheet for ''[[Film/OceansEight Ocean's Eight]]''. For the original ''[[Film/OceansEleven Ocean's]]'' trilogy, see [[Characters/OceansEleven here]].
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3	For an index of the actresses and actors who have their own page on this wiki, see [[UsefulNotes/OceansElevenActors here]].
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5	'''Beware of spoilers.'''
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7	[[foldercontrol]]
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9	!!Ocean's Eight
10	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oceans8_8.jpg]]
11
12	The eight-women crew Debbie Ocean assembled for a heist at the Met Gala.
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14	[[folder:In General]]
15	* AntiHeroTeam: To an even greater degree than previous movies in the ''Ocean's'' franchise, since the Eight are all [[AntiHero anti-heroes]], being thieves and con-artists that the audience are expected to root for; unlike Danny and company, the target of their theft is not a millionaire {{jerkass}} or competing thief, but a museum, a jewelry company, and a double-crossing art dealer.
16	* CaperCrew: Of course. See the individual character folders below for each team member's role in the central heist.
17	* ConMenHateGuns: They don't use any firearm for the heist.
18	* DistaffCounterpart: The basic premise of the film is an all-women team of robbers led by an Ocean family member rather than men as was previously the case. Not all roles of the Eleven are filled, however, as the Eight's heist differs from those of the Eleven in its nature.
19	* ImprobablyFemaleCast: This is likely the first live-action film ''ever'' centered around a highly skilled gang of career criminals and hackers pulling off a massive heist that are ''all'' female. [[spoiler: Except when [[TheOneGuy Yen]] helps Lou pull off the theft of the crown jewels in the exhibit that is.]] Slightly lampshaded by Debbie herself when she comments that she specifically wants a female team because women go BeneathNotice more than men do.
20	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler: Debbie, Lou, and Amita are the only ones to know that the heist is also about stealing ''the other jewels'' at the gala, with some help from a veteran of the Eleven, Yen. Amita is seen helping to create fake jewels in the OnceMoreWithClarity sequence so she knew from the start.]]
21	* LovableRogue: Each member of the team is a lovable rogue to varying degrees. They are all portrayed as likable and sometimes funny characters that the audience can root for, despite the fact that each one of them is willingly taking part in a serious crime.
22	[[/folder]]
23
24	[[folder: Debbie]]
25	!!Deborah "Debbie" Ocean
26	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/o8_1.png]]
27	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SandraBullock
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29	The leader and the mastermind of the Met Gala heist, as well as the younger sister of Danny Ocean. Debbie has been planning the heist for five years during her imprisonment caused by the treacherous Claude Becker.
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31	* AmbiguouslyBi: She was definitely into Claude, but her relationship with Lou raises more than a few eyebrows. They apparently went through a 'rough patch', according to Debbie, which is the reason why she became romantically involved with Claude in the first place. Not to mention that Debbie is much more touchy-feely with Lou than she is with anybody else, calls her 'babe', jokes about proposing to her, and often engages in a lot of lingering, subtext-heavy looks with her. Much of their interactions imply that they're majorly into each other.
32	* BestServedCold: She used her five years sentence in prison to both plan the heist and plan to frame Claude Becker for it, as it was because of him that she ended up jailed.
33	* ComplexityAddiction: Just like her brother. She's back at it after being in prison for five years and, from the sound of it, spending most of her time behind bars plotting this movie's heist. She says herself that after three years, she wasn't getting caught when she ran the plan in her head. After five years, she's got it down to a science. Lampshaded by Frazier's question about if the whole Ocean clan is genetically predisposed towards thievery and revenge schemes.
34	-->'''Lou:''' Why do you need to do this?
35	-->'''Debbie:''' Because it's what I'm good at.
36	* ConMan: She is a consummate con woman who learned from the best, being the younger sister of none other than Danny Ocean, the ultimate con man.
37	* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: An Ocean and a CaperCrew leader, like Danny, but she's a woman, and primarily targets highly-priced jewelry instead of Las Vegas casinos. Danny's and Rusty's bromance becomes AmbiguouslyBi between her and Lou, and she has StickyFingers unlike Danny.
38	* JustGotOutOfJail: The film opens with Debbie being released on parole after a 5-plus year prison sentence for fraud.
39	* TheLeader: The leader of the Met Gala heist crew.
40	* LegacyCharacter: Ladies and gentlemen, meet the new bold heist mastermind named "Ocean".
41	* OlderThanTheyLook: As a result of being played by Sandra Bullock, who was 52 when the movie started filming, but looked at least ten years younger.
42	* PhantomThief: She also has shades of the ClassyCatBurglar being an ultra-slick, stylish, attractive, and competent professional thief, but her crimes are much larger, more complex, and more elaborate than your average cat burglar. She plans the central heist to the letter to ensure that there's absolutely no way that she or the rest of her team can possibly be incriminated.
43	* RedOniBlueOni: With Lou. Being the more impulsive and fearless of the two, she's the red oni, though her calm manner might suggest otherwise.
44	* RefugeInAudacity: How does she ensure that she can't possibly be the prime suspect for the theft of the Toussaint necklace? Not by hiding in the shadows but by making sure that she gets noticed at the gala as much as possible and is in plain sight of the security camera the whole time that the theft is taking place to give herself the perfect alibi.
45	* RememberTheNewGuy: Nothing ever hinted at her existence in the ''Ocean's'' trilogy, although Danny never said anything about his family in them anyway.
46	* ShouldntYouStopStealing: The first things she does after being released from prison? Shoplifting and preparing a big heist that would make her late brother proud (and worried), of course.
47	* StickyFingers: She prefers shoplifting goods to paying for them. Then again, she gets out of prison with only about $40 in her pocket.
48	* TheStrategist: She spent her whole prison sentence planning the Met Gala heist.
49	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Again with Lou, Debbie being the more traditionally girly girl and Lou being the more tomboyish of the two.
50	* TalkingToTheDead: Twice, when at Danny's grave. The first time, she says it'd better be him in there, and the second time, she tells him that he would have loved the con.
51	* VillainousLineage: She's a con artist like her father and brother before her.
52	[[/folder]]
53
54	[[folder: Lou]]
55	!!Lou Miller
56	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/o8_2.png]]
57	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/CateBlanchett
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59	Debbie's long-term best friend and [[NumberTwo partner in crime]]. Lou runs a trendy New York nightclub and has the kind of underground contacts needed to pull off the heist.
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61	* AmbiguouslyGay: She's heavily implied to be Debbie's ex, even kissing her at one point, and she never displays any kind of romantic interest in men. The way that she dresses and her general demeanor seem to support the fact that she is a lesbian.
62	* BadassBiker: She's a leather-clad and velvet-clad, super slick, super confident criminal who owns a nightclub and rides a motorcycle.
63	* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: She's very much a DistaffCounterpart to Rusty Ryan, being an Ocean's NumberTwo, owning a legal business (a nightclub instead of a hotel) and perfectly knowing who to recruit for the heist. Danny's and Rusty's bromance becomes AmbiguouslyBi between her and Debbie.
64	* CoolestClubEver: Lou owns an ultra-trendy New York nightclub which is huge, vintage in style, and projects French new wave art films onto the walls.
65	* TheFixer: She has shades of this for the team, along with Tammy. She seems to have plenty of shady contacts in the criminal world, as she finds and (with Debbie) recruits both Nine Ball as the team's hacker and Constance as their pickpocket. Her massive New York loft space home also serves as the gang's HomeBase when planning the heist.
66	* HatesWearingDresses: Certainly implied as the rest of the gang wear [[PimpedOutDress pimped out dresses]] to the gala at the end whereas Lou is the only one to subvert the trend, wearing a glamorous sparkly jumpsuit instead.
67	* HellBentForLeather: She rides a motorcycle and her dress sense is akin to a modern-day [[Music/{{Blondie\|Band}} Debbie Harry]], Music/JoanJett or Music/SuziQuatro. She is near enough constantly wearing black or red leather of some description, whether it be leather pants or leather jackets.
68	* HiddenDepths: She dresses like a hot-blooded glam rock chick, but her personality is surprisingly more reasonable, cautious and restrained than Debbie's. At first, she is constantly trying to get Debbie to reconsider pulling off the heist, afraid that they'll slip up and Debbie will end up back inside.
69	* TheLancer: To Debbie, as her foil personality-wise and her partner in crime.
70	* NumberTwo: She's Debbie's long-term best friend and partner in crime. The two used to run jobs together before Debbie was sent to prison, and even though Lou has apparently since 'gone straight' (while watering down vodka at her club to make profit), she still maintains all manners of valuable contacts for shady figures in the criminal underworld that she and Debbie use to pull off their heist.
71	* RedOniBlueOni: Between her and Debbie, as the one pulling back and trying to get Debbie to see reason, she's the blue oni.
72	* ReformedCriminal: It's implied that she's mostly gone straight since Debbie went to prison, although she has no problem watering down the vodka being served at her club for profit and she sure seems to maintain many shady contacts.
73	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Part of her role at the heist includes posing as a caterer in order to tamper with Daphne's food.
74	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is the tomboy to Debbie's more traditionally girly girl. However, she is a pretty feminine tomboy in that she does wear makeup and lots of jewelry.
75	* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: As mentioned above, Lou is definitely a tomboy in that she prefers traditionally masculine clothing and rides a motorcycle, but she also has a noticeably girly streak. She wears her platinum blonde hair longer and more styled than a traditional tomboy, and she also always wears makeup and a ''lot'' of jewelry.
76	* WaistcoatOfStyle: As well as her tendency to wear leather, Lou also wears a lot of ultra-stylish pantsuits and waistcoats.
77	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Lou has what can only be described as some sort of an Australian/American hybrid accent, and the film has Tammy introduce Lou as a caterer who's recently returned from Australia. Cate Blanchett herself is a dual citizen of both Australia and the US, having an Australian mother and American (Texan) father.
78	[[/folder]]
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80	[[folder: Daphne]]
81	!!Daphne Kluger
82	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/o8_3.png]]
83	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/AnneHathaway
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85	A spoiled and vain actress with HiddenDepths who becomes the unwitting mule of the Toussaint necklace and the mark of the heist.
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87	* AlphaBitch: She's very mean and bitchy to her poor, beleaguered PA who she openly mocks at one point, and in general she is quite dismissive of others unless they're constantly showering her with compliments.
88	* BrainlessBeauty: What she comes across as for much of the movie. [[spoiler: Amusingly while Daphne is revealed to be very sharp her actress also [[AdamWesting cameoes as the 'real' Anne Hathaway]] who ''is'' apparently this trope in the filmverse.]]
89	* TheCon: She is the one from whom Debbie Ocean's crew is directly stealing the Toussaint.
90	* DramaQueen: When Rose is fitting her for her Met Gala gown, she has a hilariously over-the-top panic attack, exclaiming dramatically about how 'huge' she is until Rose manages to calm her down, by lavishing her with praise and compliments of course.
91	* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler: Seduces Becker so she can incriminate him with the piece of the Toussaint he unwittingly smuggled out.]]
92	* GreenEyedMonster: The crew convinces her to ask Rose to dress her for the gala by planting stories in the news that Rose will be dressing an upcoming, much younger starlet.
93	* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler: She's a lot smarter than she seems, able to piece together that something weird was going on with the gala. She actually dreams of becoming a filmmaker, and fulfills that wish with her share of the money the crew got from the stolen jewels.]]
94	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[spoiler: Badly enough to join the heist.]]
95	* LonelyAtTheTop: She admits that she has no real friends.
96	* OnlyChildSyndrome: When self-absorbed actress Daphne admits that [[spoiler: she wants to join the crew because she's lonely]], Debbie asks if she's an only child. Her hesitant face suggests that she is.
97	* ThePrimaDonna: Wealthy, famous, spoiled, and demanding. However, she's not stupid (though this is not evident at first glance).
98	* SixthRanger: [[spoiler: She becomes part of the con after realizing what went on at the Met Gala.]]
99	* SmarterThanYouLook: Oh, definitely. [[spoiler: She realizes Rose is up to something due to the latter's bad acting during the con and tracks the crew up to their hideout, then blackmails her way in.]]
100	* TokenEvilTeammate: In a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed way]]. She is definitely the main character portrayed with the most negative personality traits and while [[spoiler: her motive for joining the gang is quite sympathetic - boredom and loneliness - she basically blackmails her way in at the 11th hour, taking a full cut.]]
101	[[/folder]]
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103	[[folder: Nine Ball]]
104	!!Nine Ball (Leslie)
105	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/o8_4.png]]
106	!!!'''Played by:''' Music/{{Rihanna}}
107
108	An incredibly talented young hacker who is brought on board to hack the MET's security systems.
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110	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Jokey, stoner demeanor aside, she is a ''very'' competent hacker.
111	* TheCracker: She's happy to hack her enemies' computers, for fun and profit.
112	* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Her role fits that of Livingston Dell from the Eleven in a DistaffCounterpart way, although their personalities couldn't be more different.
113	* DistaffCounterpart: A hacker like Livingston Dell was for the Eleven.
114	* EmbarrassingFirstName: Leslie.
115	* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: She poses as a janitor (using a pass stolen by Constance) at the Met's security firm headquarters, successfully managing to sneak in a listening device.
116	* MissionControl: Her job in the actual heist is hijacking the museum's security cameras and guiding the team from a van.
117	* PlayfulHacker: She's very laid-back and fun-loving, and takes great pride in her work.
118	* SheCleansUpNicely: Like Constance, she spends the whole movie wearing casual street clothes until the Gala where she stuns in an ultra-glamorous [[LadyInRed red dress]].
119	* TheStoner: Happily lights up during jobs and while she's being interviewed.
120	[[/folder]]
121
122	[[folder: Rose]]
123	!!Rose Weil
124	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/o8_5.png]]
125	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter
126	!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/LaurenceBreheret (European French)
127
128	A fading fashion designer, recruited to be TheFace by Debbie and Lou. She joins the gang willingly due to her crippling debts and near bankruptcy.
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130	* BadBadActing: She can't act at ''all''. But it's justified since she's not a con woman or an actress, she's a fashion designer.
131	* ComfortFood: After her fashion show flops, Debbie and Lou find her eating Nutella out of the jar with a spoon.
132	* GloryDays: She was big in the 90s but since then has been coasting on her name and goodwill from celebrities, with her newer creations finding few, if any, fans.
133	* HiddenDepths: She's bad at following scripts, but managed to convince Cartier to let the Toussaint out of the vault for the gala with a spontaneous speech in French, and also managed to record the [[spoiler: clasp of the Toussaint being removed, so the team could find a way around it]].
134	* RichesToRags: She managed to blow over fifteen million dollars in a couple of years. By the start of the film her passport has been confiscated, and she's facing bankruptcy and possibly imprisonment for tax evasion.
135	* WhiteSheep: Of the main characters (minus Daphne), she's the only one with no known history as a criminal, minus possible tax evasion.
136	[[/folder]]
137
138	[[folder: Amita]]
139	!!Amita
140	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/o8_6.png]]
141	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MindyKaling
142
143	A friend of Debbie's and a jewelry maker who is desperate to get out from under her mother's hypercritical thumb.
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145	* BeneathNotice: [[spoiler: She's the only person on the team who knows Debbie and Lou's real plan: swiping all of the jewels from the Met's new Elizabethan Collection. Since she's so sweet and kind, the rest of the crew--and the audience--never suspect that she might know more than she appears.]]
146	* {{Fangirl}}: Of Music/TaylorSwift, to the point that she asks if they can just abandon the con and go to the Gala instead after learning that Swift will be there.
147	* MasterForger: Why Debbie brings her into the crew--there's no one better at making replicas of jewels, and she can do it in a matter of hours. Amita creates a perfect copy of the Toussaint necklace [[spoiler: ''and'' every single gem--from earrings to bracelets to a full-on tiara--in the Met's Elizabethan Collection.]]
148	* MyBelovedSmother: At the start of the film, she's stuck living with her overbearing mother, who constantly belittles her and asks why she can't be like her sister.
149	* NiceGirl: She only wants enough money to move out from her mother's place.
150	* SociallyAwkwardHero: Amita is friendly and earnest, but somewhat awkward around others. Constance has to help her use Tinder, and she's still living with and under the thumb of her domineering mother at the start of the movie. [[spoiler: The end of the movie shows she's improving.]]
151	* TokenGoodTeammate: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Amita definitely has a criminal past, as she's helped Debbie on jobs before, but she's also the only member of the group who isn't currently involved in illegal activity. She's also the sweetest and kindest person in the crew, and has the most sympathetic motivation for wanting in on the heist: moving out of her overbearing mother's house and starting her own life.
152	[[/folder]]
153
154	[[folder: Tammy]]
155	!!Tammy
156	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/o8_7.png]]
157	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SarahPaulson
158
159	A friend and former fence of Debbie and Lou's. On the surface, she is the perfect housewife, whilst behind the scenes she is a consummate thief and con woman.
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161	* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: She does the InsideJob part at the Met Gala like the Eleven's Frank Catton did at the casinos. Their cover jobs differ in nature however, and she's a white woman whereas Frank was a black man.
162	* TheFixer: She seems to fulfill this role in the team, along with Lou. She is responsible for obtaining the 3D printing machine that they use to produce fake replicas of the Toussaint [[spoiler: as well as the other jewelry in the exhibit]] and she also infiltrates ''Vogue'' magazine as an employee and obtains designer gowns for the gang to wear to the Met Gala, among other things.
163	* HappilyMarried: She's married with children and insists that she 'doesn't do that anymore'.
164	* {{Housewife}}: Her outward appearance is a perfect housewife with a large suburban home and two darling children. She's clearly bored and unfulfilled with this lifestyle as it certainly hasn't stopped her criminal ways.
165	* ImplausibleDeniability: Tammy justifies the massive amounts of stolen consumer goods in her garage (e.g. a ceiling-high stack of Keurig machines) to her unknowing husband with "Ebay."
166	* InsideJob: Tammy infiltrates the gala by gaining employment at ''Vogue'' magazine as an events coordinator using a false identity and resumé. Through this she manages to gather useful info such as the gala seating chart, as well as also get Lou inside the event as a 'nutritional expert' and generally be the ground support during the actual heist, making sure everything runs smoothly.
167	* MissionControl: Fulfills this role during the actual heist. She is on the ground at the Gala (as a ''Vogue'' employee) ensuring that everything runs smoothly.
168	* ReformedCriminal: She has left the criminal life behind [[BlatantLies according to her]], even though her garage is stacked floor to ceiling with stolen goods.
169	* ShouldntYouStopStealing: She used to be a fence, but left the business, got married, and had children. But despite her insistence to the contrary, she became bored, using her skills to steal goods she didn't even have a use for. She jumps right in with Debbie once she's told about the job's payoff.
170	[[/folder]]
171
172	[[folder: Constance]]
173	!!Constance
174	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/o8_8.png]]
175	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/{{Awkwafina}}
176
177	A savvy street hustler, recruited by Debbie and Lou due to her extreme pickpocketing skills.
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179	* AffectionatePickpocket: In her first scene she swipes a man's watch while hugging him.
180	* CardSharp: She is introduced hustling poor unsuspecting tourists out of their cash using the old [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-card_Monte Three-card Monte]] con.
181	* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: The DistaffCounterpart to Linus Caldwell from the Eleven. A pickpocket like him, but she has none of his clumsiness or anxieties.
182	* DistaffCounterpart: She's the team's pickpocket like Linus was for the Eleven.
183	* FiveFingerDiscount: She's an expert pickpocket, pretty much the DistaffCounterpart of Linus Caldwell.
184	* GiveMeBackMyWallet: Debbie asks for both her and Lou's watches back when recruiting Constance. Lou hadn't even noticed.
185	* PercussivePickpocket: Constance can easily swipe things from people by bumping into them.
186	* SheCleansUpNicely: She sticks to street outfits for the majority of the movie but as part of the heist, dons a stunningly gorgeous blue dress. She also looks equally good in a wait staff tux before the dress comes out.
187	* StickyFingers: She loves stealing, and she's ''good'' at it.
188	[[/folder]]
189
190	!!Other Characters
191
192	[[folder: Claude Becker]]
193	!!Claude Becker
194	[[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/o8claude.jpg]]
195	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/RichardArmitage
196
197	Debbie's ex, a treacherous art dealer who had a direct hand in her imprisonment.
198	----
199	* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's quite charming and is polite enough at first, but he's an utter slimebag.
200	* FallGuy: Deliberately chosen, being the man who put Debbie in prison.
201	* {{Jerkass}}: Once you scratch the surface. He and Debbie had a thing for several years, but he turned on her without a thought as soon as he was at risk of being sent to prison.
202	* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He's a wealthy, well-dressed urban sophisticate who owns an art gallery.
203	[[/folder]]
204
205	[[folder: John Frazier]]
206	!!John Frazier
207	[[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/o8frazier.jpg]]
208	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JamesCorden
209
210	An insurance agent who was brought in by Cartier to investigate the theft of the Toussaint necklace.
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212	* FriendlyEnemy: He has pursued members of the Ocean family several times, and offers to keep Debbie's name out of the matter if she just returns the Toussaint.
213	* NiceGuy: He tells Debbie that he just wants the necklace back, and if she gives it to him, he'll pretend he found it somewhere and leave her and her friends out of it.
214	* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Neither Debbie nor the audience can really dislike him for investigating the team since he's so darn nice about it.
215	* VagueAge: No onscreen age is given, but since he busted Debbie's father (twice!) and Danny and he and Debbie banter like old friends John is probably ''meant'' to be considerably older than James Corden (who is over a decade younger than either Sandra Bullock or George Clooney.)
216	[[/folder]]
217
218	[[folder: Penelope Stern]]
219	!!Penelope Stern
220	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/DakotaFanning
221	A young starlet who was approached by Rose (at the instigation of Debbie and Lou) as her initial client for the MET Gala.
222	----
223	* TheCameo: She's played by Creator/DakotaFanning, appearing in only one scene.
224	* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: {{Exploited}} by Debbie and Lou, who guess (correctly) that they can force this dynamic between her and Daphne Kluger. It works: Daphne is moved by jealousy and fear of becoming a WhiteDwarfStarlet when compared to the fresh-faced up-and-comer Penelope, and poaches Rose as her designer for the MET Gala.
225	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She's never seen again once Daphne hires Rose, not even appearing at the MET Gala (despite the fact that she presumably still went after finding another designer).
226	[[/folder]]
227
228	[[folder: Reuben Tishkoff]]
229	-->See Characters/OceansEleven.
230	[[/folder]]
231
232	[[folder: Surprise heist crew member]]
233	!!Yen
234	-->See Characters/OceansEleven.
235	[[/folder]]

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