The characters from the American drama television series Lost were created by Damon Lindelof and J. J. Abrams. The series follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet from the fictional Oceanic Airlines crashes somewhere in the South Pacific. Each episode typically features a primary storyline on the island as well as a secondary storyline, a flashback from another point in a character\'s life.
Out of the 324 people on board Oceanic Flight 815, there are 71 initial survivors (70 humans and one dog) spread across the three sections of the plane crash.
Naveen Andrews
Sayid Jarrah
Main
Emilie de Ravin
Claire Littleton
Main
Stand-in
Main
Matthew Fox
Jack Shephard
Main
Jorge Garcia
Hugo \"Hurley\" Reyes
Main
Maggie Grace
Shannon Rutherford
Main
Special Guest
Main
Josh Holloway
James \"Sawyer\" Ford
Main
Malcolm David Kelley
Walt Lloyd
Main
Special Guest
Daniel Dae Kim
Jin-Soo Kwon
Main
Yunjin Kim
Sun-Hwa Kwon
Main
Evangeline Lilly
Kate Austen
Main
Dominic Monaghan
Charlie Pace
Main
Main
Terry O\'Quinn
John Locke / Man in Black
Main
Harold Perrineau
Michael Dawson
Main
Main
Guest
Ian Somerhalder
Boone Carlyle
Main
Special Guest
Main
Michelle Rodriguez
Ana Lucia Cortez
Guest
Main
Special Guest
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Mr. Eko
Main
Cynthia Watros
Elizabeth \"Libby\" Smith
Main
Guest
Main
Henry Ian Cusick
Desmond Hume
Recurring
Main
Michael Emerson
Benjamin Linus
Recurring
Main
Elizabeth Mitchell
Juliet Burke
Main
Kiele Sanchez
Nikki Fernandez
Main
Rodrigo Santoro
Paulo
Main
Jeremy Davies
Daniel Faraday
Main
Ken Leung
Miles Straume
Main
Rebecca Mader
Charlotte Lewis
Main
Néstor Carbonell
Richard Alpert
Recurring
Main
Jeff Fahey
Frank Lapidus
Recurring
Main
Zuleikha Robinson
Ilana Verdansky
Recurring
Main
Sam Anderson
Bernard Nadler
Recurring
Guest
Recurring
Main
L. Scott Caldwell
Rose Nadler
Recurring
Guest
Recurring
Main
François Chau
Pierre Chang
Guest
Recurring
Main
Fionnula Flanagan
Eloise Hawking
Guest
Recurring
Main
John Terry
Christian Shephard / Man in Black
Recurring
Guest
Recurring
Main
Sonya Walger
Penny Widmore
Guest
Recurring
Main
Recurring cast
William Blanchette
Aaron Littleton
Recurring
Julie Bowen
Sarah Shephard
Guest
Recurring
Beth Broderick
Diane Janssen
Guest
Recurring
Guest
Byron Chung
Woo-Jung Paik
Guest
Recurring
Guest
Mira Furlan
Danielle Rousseau
Recurring
Guest
Andrea Gabriel
Nadia Jazeem
Guest
Recurring
Guest
Recurring
M. C. Gainey
Tom Friendly
Guest
Recurring
Neil Hopkins
Liam Pace
Guest
Recurring
Kimberley Joseph
Cindy Chandler
Recurring
Recurring
Fredric Lehne
Edward Mars
Recurring
Guest
Guest
William Mapother
Ethan Rom
Recurring
Guest
Recurring
Guest
Kevin Tighe
Anthony Cooper
Guest
Recurring
Guest
Michael Bowen
Danny Pickett
Recurring
Clancy Brown
Kelvin Inman
Recurring
Brett Cullen
Goodwin Stanhope
Recurring
Guest
Alan Dale
Charles Widmore
Guest
Recurring
Kim Dickens
Cassidy Phillips
Guest
Recurring
Guest
April Grace
Bea Klugh
Recurring
Guest
Mickey Graue
Zach
Guest
Recurring
Recurring
Kiersten Havelock
Emma
Guest
Recurring
Recurring
Tony Lee
Jae Lee
Recurring
Guest
Adetokumboh M\'Cormack
Yemi
Recurring
Guest
Tania Raymonde
Alex Rousseau
Recurring
Guest
Recurring
Katey Sagal
Helen Norwood
Recurring
Recurring
Teddy Wells
Ivan
Recurring
Blake Bashoff
Karl Martin
Recurring
Andrew Divoff
Mikhail Bakunin
Recurring
Guest
Brian Goodman
Ryan Pryce
Recurring
Jon Gries
Roger Linus
Guest
Recurring
Guest
Doug Hutchison
Horace Goodspeed
Guest
Recurring
Paula Malcolmson
Colleen Pickett
Recurring
Tracy Middendorf
Bonnie
Recurring
Lana Parrilla
Greta
Recurring
Marsha Thomason
Naomi Dorrit
Recurring
Guest
Robin Weigert
Rachel Carlson
Recurring
Anthony Azizi
Omar
Recurring
Recurring
Zoë Bell
Regina
Recurring
Grant Bowler
Gault
Recurring
Susan Duerden
Carole Littleton
Guest
Recurring
Kevin Durand
Martin Keamy
Recurring
Recurring
Lance Reddick
Matthew Abaddon
Recurring
Guest
Fisher Stevens
George Minkowski
Recurring
Guest
Reiko Aylesworth
Amy Goodspeed
Recurring
Marvin DeFreitas
Charlie Hume
Recurring
Patrick Fischler
Phil
Recurring
Brad William Henke
Bram
Recurring
Guest
Leslie Ishii
Lara Chang
Recurring
Eric Lange
Stuart Radzinsky
Recurring
Molly McGivern
Rosie
Recurring
Marc Menard
Montand
Recurring
Mark Pellegrino
Jacob
Recurring
Saïd Taghmaoui
Caesar
Recurring
Titus Welliver
Man in Black
Recurring
Sean Whalen
Neil \"Frogurt\"
Recurring
John Hawkes
Lennon
Recurring
Fred Koehler
Seamus
Recurring
Sheila Kelley
Zoe
Recurring
Dylan Minnette
David Shephard
Recurring
Hiroyuki Sanada
Dogen
Recurring
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m The actor was credited along with the main cast members in the series finale.
^ Jeremy Shada also portrays a younger version of the character in seasons 2 and 3.
^ Credited as a regular up to the first episode of the fourth season.
^ Kolawolfe Obileye Jr. also portrays a younger version of the charactert in seasons 2 and 3.
^ Sterling Beaumon also portrays a younger version of the character in seasons 3 and 5.
^ Maya Henssens also portrays a younger version of the character in season 5.
^ Alexandra Krosney and Alice Evans also portray younger versions of the character in season 5.
^ Melissa Farman also portrays a younger version of the character in season 5.
^ Zack Shada also portrays a younger version of the character in seasons 2 and 3.
^ Tom Connolly and David S. Lee also portray younger versions of the character in season 5.
^ Olekan Obileye also portrays a younger version of the character in season 2 and 3.
Main characters
Characters are listed alphabetically. \"Starring season(s)\" refers to the season in which an actor or actress received star billing for playing a character. \"Recurring season(s)\" identifies a season in which an actor or actress appeared, but received guest star or special guest star billing.
Richard Alpert
Nestor Carbonell
6
3, 4, 5
Kate Austen
Evangeline Lilly
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
—
Juliet Burke
Elizabeth Mitchell
3, 4, 5
6
Boone Carlyle
Ian Somerhalder
1
2, 3, 6
Ana Lucia Cortez
Michelle Rodriguez
2
1, 5, 6
Michael Dawson
Harold Perrineau
1, 2, 4
6
Mr. Eko
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
2, 3
—
Daniel Faraday
Jeremy Davies
4, 5
6
Nikki Fernandez
Kiele Sanchez
3
4 (only footage)
James \"Sawyer\" Ford
Josh Holloway
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
—
Desmond David Hume
Henry Ian Cusick
3, 4, 5, 6
2
Sayid Jarrah
Naveen Andrews
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
—
Jin-Soo Kwon
Daniel Dae Kim
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
—
Sun-Hwa Kwon
Yunjin Kim
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
—
Frank Lapidus
Jeff Fahey
6
4, 5
Charlotte Staples Lewis
Rebecca Mader
4, 5
6
Benjamin Linus
Michael Emerson
3, 4, 5, 6
2
Claire Littleton
Emilie de Ravin
1, 2, 3, 4, 6
5 (only footage)
Walter \"Walt\" Lloyd
Malcolm David Kelley
1, 2
3, 4, 5, 6
John Locke
Terry O\'Quinn
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
—
The Man in Black
Titus Welliver; Terry O\'Quinn (in Locke\'s form); Ryan Bradford (young)
5, 6
1, 2, 3, 4
Charlie Pace
Dominic Monaghan
1, 2, 3
4, 6
Paulo
Rodrigo Santoro
3
—
Hugo \"Hurley\" Reyes
Jorge Garcia
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
—
Shannon Rutherford
Maggie Grace
1, 2
3, 6
Jack Shephard
Matthew Fox
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
—
Elizabeth \"Libby\" Smith
Cynthia Watros
2
4, 6
Miles Straume
Ken Leung
4, 5, 6
—
Ilana Verdansky
Zuleikha Robinson
6
5
Supporting characters
Minor Oceanic 815 crash survivors
Leslie Arzt
Daniel Roebuck
1, 3, 6
Dr. Leslie Arzt is a junior high school science teacher, who crashes with the fuselage survivors and keeps a collection of native fauna in various jars. Almost all characters continue to pronounce his name \"Arts\" even though he repeatedly corrects them. Arzt complains about not being included in the various missions of Jack and Locke, finally joining them on a trip to the Black Rock. He dies ironically when a stick of dynamite spontaneously explodes in his hand while he lectures Jack, Locke, Kate and Hurley on how to safely handle it. In the alternate timeline, he is working at the school where he helps Ben to expose the principal of his actions. His name, \"Arzt\", is the German word for \"physician\". Despite his early demise, his advice is invaluable to the Survivors, even years later.
Cindy Chandler
Kimberley Joseph
1, 2, 3, 6
Cindy Chandler is an Australian Oceanic Airlines stewardess dating the Flight 815 passenger Gary Troup and is the only crew member other than Seth Norris to survive the crash. She is featured in the Pilot episode as giving Jack a small bottle of alcohol, which is the first thing Jack discovers after the plane crash. She crashes with the tail-section survivors and is taken by the Others in the second season during the journey to the fuselage survivors\' camp. Cindy lives comfortably with the Others following her abduction firstly at the Hydra station then at the Temple, caring for Zach and Emma. To avoid death, she aligns with the Man in Black following the temple massacre. She survives Widmore\'s mortar attack and survives the series to live under Hurley\'s guard.
Emma and Zach
Kiersten Havelock and Mickey Graue
2, 3, 6
Emma and Zach are two sibling children from the tail section of the plane who live under the care of Cindy, following the pair\'s kidnapping. With Cindy, they follow the Man in Black. Their ultimate fate is never resolved onscreen.
Bernard Nadler
Sam Anderson
2, 3, 4, 5, 6
An American dentist, Dr. Bernard Nadler weds Rose Henderson less than one year prior to the crash. He crashes with the tail section survivors, but joins the fuselage survivors in season two. Bernard stays with the majority of the group after some of the freighter crew arrive. He and Rose are last found to have travelled back in time to 1977 after the island skips around in time. Together they choose to live alone on the beach, avoiding both Dharma and the Others. They later return to the present time and help Desmond out of a well, and after a run-in with the Man in Black, choose to stay on the island at the end of the series.
Rose Henderson Nadler
L. Scott Caldwell
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
A woman with terminal cancer from the Bronx, New York, Rose Henderson-Nadler marries Bernard less than a year before the crash. She lives with the fuselage survivors and reunites with Bernard in season two. She opts to return to the beach at the beginning of season four when the survivors contact the freighter. She and Bernard are last found to have traveled back in time to 1977 after the island skips around in time. They later return to the present time and help Desmond out of a well, and after a run-in with the man in black, choose to stay on the island at the end of the series.
Scott Jackson and Steve Jenkins
Dustin Watchman and Christian Bowman
1, 2, 3, 5
Scott Jackson and Steve Jenkins crash with the fuselage survivors. They are regularly confused with each other, even after one of them (Scott) is killed in the first season by Ethan. In season five, Steve and the remaining minor Flight 815 castaways are killed by a fire arrow attack right after the island jumps in time (except for two unnamed men, who are later killed by claymore mines at the creek).
Edward Mars
Fredric Lane
1, 2, 3, 6
Edward Mars is a U.S. marshal who is obsessed with capturing Kate, finally apprehending her in Australia. He is critically injured during the crash and dies in the third episode.
Seth Norris
Greg Grunberg
1, 4, 6
Seth Norris is the pilot of the airplane (Flight 815), which crashes on the island. He is found in the cockpit in the first episode by Jack, Kate and Charlie and soon after is killed by \"the Monster\".
Gary Troup
Laird Granger and Frank Torres
Lost Experience, 1
Gary Troup is the New York author of the metafictional novel, Bad Twin, and is Cindy\'s lover. He dies when he is sucked into the plane\'s turbine immediately after the plane crash.
Vincent
Madison and Pono
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Vincent is Walt\'s yellow Labrador retriever, who is originally owned by Walt\'s stepfather, Brian Porter. Vincent first appears in the opening scene of the series when he encounters Jack in the jungle. He is left behind on the Island when Michael and Walt leave and, at Walt\'s request, remains in Shannon\'s care until she dies. He is later seen accompanying Sun. After the timeshifts and an attack on the survivors, Vincent ends up with Rose and Bernard in 1974. All three make a new home in the jungle and are found three years later by Sawyer, Juliet and Kate. Vincent is last seen at Jack\'s side in the series finale, recalling the opening scene of the pilot episode.
Neil \"Frogurt\"
Sean Whalen
5, 6
Neil is first mentioned when Bernard is trying to make an S.O.S sign out of rocks. He is first seen in the mobisode \"The Adventures of Hurley and Frogurt\". He first appears in the TV series in the season 5 premiere, \"Because You Left\" and \"The Lie\". He is on the Zodiac raft with Daniel Faraday when the island shifts in time. He is killed in 1954 when he is shot by flaming arrows in the chest and back.
The Others
Jacob
Mark Pellegrino / Kenton Duty (young)
5, 6
Jacob is The Others\' highest authority and has resided on the island for nearly 2,000 years, most recently in a chamber in the foot of the statue of Tawaret, which is the statue\'s only remaining component. The backstory of Jacob is revealed in the episode \"Across the Sea\", which, according to the episode\'s script, took place in A.D. 44; it also revealed the mysterious Man in Black (a.k.a. the \"smoke monster\") is his fraternal twin and assumed his current supernatural form after an altercation with Jacob. Jacob is the protector of the Island and is able to visit various Flight 815 survivors prior to their arrival, speaking to and conspicuously touching several of the main characters. It seems he granted Richard Alpert\'s agelessness by touching him on the shoulder (episode \"Ab Aeterno\"). Ben initially claims to John Locke that he can communicate with Jacob but later reveals he is lying out of embarrassment for his inability to do so, despite being leader of The Others. The figure in the mysterious cabin, who reacted violently to John Locke\'s flashlight and later is heard by Locke to say \"Help me\", is at one point presumed to be Jacob; however, it is later implied it may have been his brother, trapped on the island in his \"smoke monster\" form by Jacob\'s presence and, as such, has been scheming to ensure Jacob\'s downfall. The Man in Black is able to assume the appearance of deceased bodies on the island and, through an elaborate series of events involving him arranging the death of, and subsequently impersonating, John Locke, eventually manipulates Ben into killing Jacob; this represents a \"loophole\" from the apparent \"rule\" the two brothers could not harm one another. However, Jacob returns as a ghost on the island and communicates with Hurley. Also, the Man in Black and Sawyer have seen an apparition of a younger Jacob on the present-day island. Eventually, the ghost of Jacob ceded control of the island to his successor, Jack Shephard.
Alexandra Rousseau
Tania Raymonde
2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Alexandra Rousseau is Danielle Rousseau\'s daughter, who is abducted by The Others 16 years prior to the crash of Flight 815. Ben is sent by Widmore to kill Danielle and her daughter, but he is unable to bring himself to do so and raises Alex as his own instead. She aids the crash survivors in various escapes and eventually defects from The Others. She dates Karl, though Ben tries to keep them apart because she would die if she became pregnant. She is later kidnapped and murdered by Keamy in front of Ben, in an attempt to make Ben surrender.
Mikhail Bakunin
Andrew Divoff
3, 6
Mikhail Bakunin lives and works at the Flame Dharma station, and is responsible for The Others\' communication with the outside world. He is notable for his one eye, usually wearing a black eye-patch. He is captured by a group of 815 survivors and says he remembers Locke from his past. He is responsible for Charlie\'s death, blowing a hole in the side of the underwater Looking Glass Station, drowning Charlie inside and killing himself in the process. In the alternate 2004, he works alongside Martin Keamy as an interpreter and has both eyes until he is shot and killed by Jin.
Karl Martin
Blake Bashoff
3, 4
Karl Martin is Alex\'s boyfriend. In an attempt to prevent Karl from impregnating Alex, Ben imprisons him until he is rescued by Kate and Sawyer. Later, he joins the plane crash survivors, and is able to warn them of an impending raid by the Others. He is killed by the mercenaries from the Kahana in season four.
Bea Klugh
April Grace
2, 3
Beatrice Klugh visits Michael during his forced stay with the Others and is present when they capture Jack, Kate and Sawyer. In season three, at the Dharma Flame station, she is found by Sayid, Locke and Kate and has Mikhail kill her to prevent her from being the survivors\' prisoner.
Dogen
Hiroyuki Sanada
6
Dogen is one of the leaders of the Others living in the Temple. He speaks Japanese, but knows English. According to Dogen, he does not like \"the taste of the English words\" and so he uses an interpreter. He tries to have Sayid killed because of the \"infection\" claiming Sayid, but Sayid murders him. Before coming to the Island, he was a banker, but when he got his son into a near fatal accident while driving drunk, Jacob offered to save him if Dogen came to the Island. He is drowned by Sayid, who had joined the Man in Black.
Danny Pickett
Michael Bowen
2, 3
Danny Pickett is a violent member of the Others who supervises Kate and Sawyer while they are imprisoned. He is married to another Other named Colleen, who is shot by Sun. Enraged, Pickett takes his anger out on Sawyer, and nearly kills him before Juliet intervenes and shoots Pickett.
Eloise Hawking
Fionnula Flanagan (old), Alice Evans (middle age), Alexandra Krosney (young adult)
3, 5, 6
Eloise Hawking is the caretaker of the L.A.-based Dharma station known as the Lamp Post, which can track the location of the island. Before she is revealed as such, she is introduced as a jewelry store employee who urges Desmond not to marry Penny, and explains the nature of time travel to him. Later, in the monastery Desmond briefly lives in, she also appears in a photograph in the head monk\'s office. Eloise is the mother of Daniel Faraday, the father being Charles Widmore, and, like Widmore, was formerly a member of the Others. The rat that Daniel trains to run a maze in Desmond\'s presence is named after her. She instructs Jack, Sun, and Ben on how to get back to the island. In 1977, she is responsible for the death of her own son, having shot him in the back while he was brandishing a gun at Richard Alpert.
Ethan Rom
William Mapother
1, 2, 3, 5, 6
Dr. Ethan Rom is the child of Amy and Horace Goodspeed, and grew up in the Dharma Initiative in the 1970s. After the organization is purged by the Others, Ethan joins the latter group. When Flight 815 crashes on the island, he poses as a fuselage survivor until he is exposed by Hurley, at which point he abducts Claire and Charlie, unsuccessfully attempting to murder the latter. Claire is rescued, and Charlie then kills Ethan in \"Homecoming\". His name is an anagram of \"Other Man.\" In the alternate timeline he has his parents\' last name and examines Claire when she has issues with her pregnancy.
Goodwin Stanhope
Brett Cullen
2, 3, 4
Goodwin Stanhope is married to the Others\' therapist, Harper Stanhope. He has an affair with Juliet, which dismays Ben because he too is in love with Juliet. Out of jealousy, Ben sends Goodwin on a mission to infiltrate the tail section survivors, knowing the dangers Goodwin will face. When Goodwin\'s identity is indeed discovered, Ana Lucia confronts and kills him.
Lennon
John Hawkes
6
Lennon is one of the Others taking refuge in the Temple. He acts as translator for Dogen and was killed by Sayid when he ignored the ultimatum brought forth by The Man in Black.
Tom Friendly
M. C. Gainey
1, 2, 3, 4
Tom Friendly is the second Other the Flight 815 survivors meet after Ethan, when he abducts Walt from the raft and blows it up to sabotage Michael, Jin and Sawyer\'s escape plan in the season one finale. Tom is later shown acting as a liaison between his group and Jack\'s in the second season, and in the third season he takes part in many of their operations and conflicts. Initially, Tom wore a distinctive fake beard, as part of the Others ruse to present themselves as uncivilized and undeveloped island natives. He is shot and killed by Sawyer despite having surrendered in the season three finale. In season four, he appears in a flashback episode; revealed to be gay, he recruits Michael as a spy on Widmore\'s freighter.
Ryan Pryce
Brian Goodman
3
Ryan Pryce is the Others\' chief of security after the death of Danny Pickett. Ben assigns him to lead a team charged with kidnapping all women among the 815 survivors. His team is ambushed by Sayid, Jin, and Bernard, but turns the tables and captures them. He dies when Hurley hits him with a Dharma Initiative van.
Dharma Initiative members
Main article: Dharma Initiative
Amy
Reiko Aylesworth
5
A member of the Dharma Initiative whose husband was murdered by the Hostiles. Sawyer and Juliet intervened and saved Amy\'s life. Three years later, Amy was married to Horace Goodspeed and pregnant with his child. When complications arose during the delivery, Juliet was forced to step in and deliver the child, a boy named Ethan.
Phil
Patrick Fischler
5
Phil is a subordinate of Sawyer (under the alias LaFleur) and works as a security personnel for the Dharma Initiative. Phil discovers Sawyer and Kate handed a young Ben over to the Hostiles, so Sawyer ties him up in his house. He is discovered by Radzinsky and assists in trying to extract information from Sawyer by punching Juliet. Phil is killed during the incident at the Swan Station, when, during a last-minute attempt to get payback by killing Sawyer, several pieces of rebar are dragged by the electromagnetic energy and impale him.
Pierre Chang
François Chau
2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Pierre is the scientist in the Dharma Initiative orientation films, who also goes by the names Marvin Candle, Mark Wickmund, and Edgar Halliwax. He appears as an actual character in season 5, where it is revealed he is the father of Miles Straume. Daniel Faraday convinces him that his group is from the future, and gets him to stop the drilling at the Swan Station. Radzinsky, however, overrules him, and Chang\'s arm is injured when the electromagnetic energy is released. Miles saves his father\'s life when his arm is crushed underneath a metal component. In the 2004 \"flash sideways\", Miles mentions his father\'s work at a museum, and Chang later speaks at an archaeological benefit and gives Hurley Reyes a commemorative trophy. A puppet version built by Jim Henson\'s Creature Shop appears in Lost Untangled for the final season (played by Allan Trautman), with an appearance by the real Chang close to the end of the series.
Gerald and Karen DeGroot
Michael Gilday and Courtney Lavigne
2
A couple, Doctoral candidates of the University of Michigan, who received funding by the Hanso Foundation in 1970 to create and operate the Dharma Initiative on the island.
Horace Goodspeed
Doug Hutchison
3, 4, 5
The leader of the Dharma Initiative on the island during the 1970s. He is first seen assisting Roger Linus after his son Ben\'s birth, and he eventually recruits Roger into the Dharma Initiative. Later, Horace is romantically involved with Amy, with whom he fathers a child, a baby named Ethan. Horace also maintains diplomatic relations with the Others, led by Richard Alpert. Horace dies during the Purge, an event during which the Others kill the majority of the Dharma Initiative using poison gas, but he appears to John in a vision many years later.
Alvar Hanso
Ian Patrick Williams
2
A former arms salesman and manufacturer, he is the enigmatic Danish leader of the Hanso Foundation. Hanso can be seen in the show via the orientation film in \"Orientation\". When Widmore is seen bidding on the Black Rock's ship\'s log, the log is said to have some connection to the Hanso family. When the Black Rock crashed on the island in 1867, the captain\'s name also was \"Hanso\".
Kelvin Joe Inman
Clancy Brown
2
Kelvin is an intelligence operative for the United States government, and responsible for making Sayid torture his former commander in Iraq. Later, Kelvin joins the Dharma Initiative, and operates the Swan Station until Desmond accidentally kills him.
Roger Linus
Jon Gries
3, 5, 6
Roger is Ben\'s alcoholic father and an employee of the Dharma Initiative. He is distant and cruel to Ben, often ridiculing him for indirectly killing his mother during childbirth, and physically abuses him. Ben later kills him in the Purge. Hurley discovers his corpse in a blue VW van in \"Tricia Tanaka Is Dead\". In sideways 2004 Roger is living with his son Ben in Los Angeles and is breathing off an oxygen tank apparently suffering from emphysema in \"Dr. Linus\".
Stuart Radzinsky
Eric Lange
5
Radzinsky is head of research for the Dharma Initiative. In the 70s he worked in the Flame and designed the Swan. Years later he would live in the Swan and press the button every 108 minutes with Kelvin Joe Inman. Kelvin claimed Radzinsky killed himself by putting a shotgun in his mouth. Secretive, testy with everyone he encounters and trigger happy, Radzinsky is a control freak.
Widmore and employees
Charles Widmore
Alan Dale (old); Tom Connolly (young); David S. Lee (middle age)
2, 3, 4, 5, 6
A wealthy industrialist, Widmore is the father of Penelope Widmore and benefactor of Daniel Faraday (later revealed to be his son with Eloise Hawking). Widmore is Ben\'s predecessor as leader of the Others on the island. He is exiled by Ben, who claims Widmore is an enemy of the people on the island. Widmore admits to Daniel Faraday he staged the find of the false plane wreckage of Oceanic 815, and he sends the freighter Kahana to the Island in order to find and capture Ben, which is unsuccessful. Widmore disapproves of his daughter\'s relationship with Desmond Hume and is estranged from her. However, when Desmond is searching for Eloise Hawking, it is Widmore who informs him of her location in Los Angeles. He is still actively searching for the Island and tries to assist Locke in reuniting the Oceanic Six into going back to the Island. Later, he returns to the island with Desmond Hume, who he describes as a \"failsafe\". He gives this information to the Man in Black in return for a guarantee of safety for his daughter Penny, but Ben shoots him dead.
Penelope \"Penny\" Hume
Sonya Walger
2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Penny is Desmond\'s wife and the estranged daughter of Charles Widmore, as well as the half sister to Daniel Faraday. Before Desmond went missing and crashed on the island she was his longtime girlfriend, although they broke up shortly before. Nevertheless, Penny searched for any sign of him and was alerted to his location when the Swan DHARMA station exploded at the end of season two. At the end of season three she was able to communicate briefly with Charlie after the jamming of communications from the island was lifted. When Desmond made contact with Penelope during \"The Constant\" the communication was garbled just as she began to tell how she knew of the Island, but confirmed she knew of it. She was able to rescue Desmond, the Oceanic Six and Frank by boat at the end of season four. Desmond and Penny then married and proceeded to have a son, whom they also named Charlie. Ben Linus hunts Penelope down with intent to kill her in retaliation for his own daughter\'s death indirectly at the hands of Charles Widmore, but he changes heart when he sees she is now a mother.
Matthew Abaddon
Lance Reddick
4, 5
Matthew Abaddon works for Widmore by \"helping people get to where they\'re supposed to be\". He is responsible for Locke going on his walkabout that ultimately leads him to the Island. After the crash, Matthew hires Naomi, Miles, Faraday, Charlotte, and Lapidus to go to the Island via the freighter Kahana. He visits Hurley at the mental institution after the Oceanic 6 rescue and tries to gather information on where the other survivors are. Matthew acts as a chauffeur for Locke after he leaves the Island, helping him in his mission to convince the Oceanic 6 to return to the Island. During Locke\'s mission, Matthew is shot dead by Ben who claims he is a \"dangerous person\".
Naomi Dorrit
Marsha Thomason
3, 4, 5
Recruited by Matthew Abaddon and employed by Charles Widmore, Naomi is the leader of the group on a mission to capture Ben Linus and remove him from the island. She is the first to arrive on the island and tells the Oceanic survivors of the freighter Kahana. While she claims she is there to rescue Desmond Hume, her true mission is later revealed. Naomi dies of her wounds after Locke throws a knife into her back.
Martin Keamy
Kevin Durand
4, 5, 6
Martin Keamy is the lead mercenary on the Kahana and is a former Marine. Keamy leads a team onto the island to find Ben, killing Karl and Danielle Rousseau and later executing Alex in front of Ben. Keamy eventually tracks Ben down and is stabbed to death by him. His death causes the freighter to explode via a fail-deadly switch that monitors his heartbeat.
Captain Gault
Grant Bowler
4
Gault (first name unknown) is the captain of the freighter Kahana sent by Widmore to find the island and Benjamin Linus. He is originally seen as antagonistic and untrustworthy, but he later becomes an ally of Desmond and Sayid, allowing them the freighter\'s zodiac boat to ferry castaways from the island to the freighter after he becomes concerned at the lengths Keamy is willing to go to secure Ben. He is shot dead by Keamy after he confronts Keamy at gunpoint in \"Cabin Fever\".
Omar
Anthony Azizi
4, 6
Omar is one of the mercenaries sent by Charles Widmore to the Island aboard the freighter Kahana.
Zoe
Sheila Kelley
6
Zoe is a geophysicist recruited by Widmore to lead his scientific team. She is first encountered by Sawyer, when she tries to pass herself off as a survivor of Ajira 316. She later leads the team in kidnapping Jin and bringing him to Hydra Island. The Man in Black cuts her throat after Widmore orders her not to speak, his argument being that she serves no purpose if she can\'t speak.
George Minkowski
Fisher Stevens
4, 6
George Minkowski was the communications officer aboard Widmore\'s freighter. Although he at first obstructs the survivors\' attempts to contact the outside world, he later assists Desmond in calling Penny. He ultimately dies of temporal displacement on the boat. He later appears in the Sideways world as Desmond\'s driver, where he gives him the Oceanic 815 manifest.
Miscellaneous characters
Aaron Littleton
Various; William Blanchette (Toddler version)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Aaron is the son of Claire Littleton and her former boyfriend Thomas. Aaron is born on the island and leaves it, then being raised by Kate with the public perceiving the baby to be hers, to follow along with their almost entirely false version of what happened on the island.
Anthony Cooper
Kevin Tighe
1, 2, 3, 6
Anthony Cooper is a ruthless con man, John Locke\'s biological father and the man who conned Sawyer\'s parents, leading to their deaths. Cooper cons Locke into donating a kidney to him before abandoning him. He later comes to make amends with Locke when he convinces Locke to help him retrieve money he owes to a couple of heavies. When Locke begins to interfere with one of his schemes, Cooper pushes Locke out of an eighth-story window, paralyzing him. Cooper is later brought to the Island by the Others, and Sawyer kills him as revenge for the death of his parents. In the flash sideways world, he is in a vegetative state following an accident that also paralyzed Locke.
Bram
Brad William Henke
5, 6
Bram is a mysterious person who seems to oppose Widmore\'s organization. He appeared to Miles in 2004 and asked him not to go to the island. Bram is also onboard Ajira Flight 316 and has an unknown tie with Ilana. They\'ve both asked the enigmatic question, \"What lies in the Shadow of the Statue?\". Bram was killed by Jacob\'s nemesis, The Man in Black, in the form of the smoke monster.
Caesar
Saïd Taghmaoui
5
Caesar boards the Ajira Flight 316 along with the returning Oceanic survivors, and when the plane makes an emergency landing on the Hydra Island, he interacts with Ben, Frank, Locke and Ilana. He finds a sawed-off shotgun in Ben\'s old office and shows it to Ben, who later steals the weapon and uses it to shoot Caesar.
Christian Shephard
John Terry
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Christian Shephard, Jack\'s father, works as the chief of surgery at St. Sebastian Hospital. He loses his medical license when Jack reveals to the authorities that Christian performed surgery on a pregnant woman while drunk, causing her death. Christian then heads to Australia with Ana Lucia in tow to hunt down his daughter Claire, whom he is subsequently barred from seeing. He dies in Australia after days of drinking, after having first met and having a heart-to-heart with Sawyer. His body is being brought back to L.A. by Jack for his funeral when the plane crashes, but when the coffin is later recovered on the Island, it is mysteriously empty. Christian has appeared multiple times on the Island to many different characters, including Jack, Claire, Locke, Hurley, Miles, Michael and even Vincent. He is connected somehow to either Jacob or Jacob\'s rival, a connection that became less clear when it was revealed that Jacob, whose cabin Christian had been seen in, hadn\'t actually been at the cabin for some time, but somebody else had. Christian also appears in the well when John is trying to move the island. After the Ajira flight crash, he also advises Sun and Frank that Jin and the others left behind, are now living in 1977. In the season 6 episode, The Last Recruit, it is revealed the Man in Black was responsible for Christian\'s appearances on the island.
Diane Janssen
Beth Broderick
1, 2, 3, 4
The estranged mother of Kate, she turns Kate in to the police after Kate kills Diane\'s husband and Kate\'s father, Wayne. Diane never forgives Kate, but decides not to testify at Kate\'s trial once Kate returns home as part of the Oceanic Six.
Nour Abbed (Nadia) Jazeem
Andrea Gabriel
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Nour Abbed Jazeem, a childhood friend of Sayid\'s, becomes involved in an insurgency opposed to Saddam Hussein. Nadia is imprisoned and interrogated by Sayid, but he lets her escape. She travels to the West, and in doing so comes in contact with both Charlie and Locke. When Sayid leaves the island, they get married, but shortly after she is murdered. In Season 6, when Sayid doesn\'t crash on the island, she is married to Sayid\'s brother. With him, she has two kids, a boy and a girl.
Jae Lee
Tony Lee
2, 3
After teaching Sun English, Jae Lee has an affair with her and as a result, her father sends Jin to kill him. Jin instead tells him to leave Korea forever, but Jae commits suicide by jumping from his apartment building.
Cassidy Phillips
Kim Dickens
2, 3, 5
Cassidy is a recently divorced woman whom Sawyer cons, even though he loves her. Cassidy then goes to Iowa and accidentally meets Kate. Cassidy later has Sawyer arrested and visits him in jail, where she tells him they have a daughter together - Clementine. After Kate returns from the Island, she tells Cassidy the truth about everything that happened on the Island and gives her some of her settlement money from Oceanic Airlines, in order for Kate to keep her promise she made to Sawyer, to look after Clementine.
Danielle Rousseau
Mira Furlan; Melissa Farman (younger)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Danielle Rousseau is a member of a multi-national scientific research expedition whose boat breaks down and who become stranded on the island in 1988. She records a SOS message (in her native French) that continually repeats for 16 years, until the crash of Flight 815. Pregnant when she arrives on the island, and slowly becoming mad, she gives birth to Alex after killing her team because they had gotten \"sick\" as a result of contact with the monster, though Danielle later comes to blame the Others. Baby Alex is kidnapped soon after by the Others. Rousseau, having been found by Sayid living in seclusion, occasionally helps the Flight 815 survivors. She is shot and killed in an ambush along with Karl while leading Alex to the Temple on Ben\'s orders. In the fifth season, Jin, who has traveled back in time, meets Rousseau and her crew after he drifts to the Island on the wreckage of the exploded freighter.
Sarah Shephard
Julie Bowen
1, 2, 3
Sarah is involved in a car crash with Shannon\'s father. Jack performs surgery on her, but informs her that she will never walk again. However, she is miraculously healed. They fall in love and marry, but some time later, Sarah has an affair and divorces Jack. Sometime after the crash survivors are rescued, it is revealed she is pregnant.
Geronimo Jackson
Geronimo Jackson has been referenced in six episodes of Lost as well as in The Lost Experience. The producers of Lost have asserted that Geronimo Jackson was a genuine, but obscure, 1970s rock band, which released one album entitled Magna Carta. Aside from sources relating to Lost, there is no evidence for the existence of this band. A search of the US Patent and Trademark Office online database lists \"Geronimo Jackson\" as a word mark owned by Disney Enterprises, valid for all types of housewares, school supplies, stationery, etc. The mark was filed on January 22, 2009. In \"The Hunting Party\", a Geronimo Jackson album is found by Charlie and Hurley while they are going through all of the gramophone records in The Swan. The band is also referenced in the episodes \"The Whole Truth\", \"Further Instructions\", \"This Place is Death\", \"LaFleur\", on a poster in John Locke\'s locker in \"Cabin Fever\" and at Hurley\'s birthday party in \"There\'s No Place Like Home\". There is a Geronimo Jackson poster in the backgroup when Jack, Kate and Hurley are in the dining hall in He\'s Our You. A single on iTunes called \"Dharma Lady\" has surfaced by the band and appears as a song in the film Dear John. \"Dharma Lady\" was made available to players of the video game series Rock Band through the Rock Band Network, shortly after the airing of the Lost series finale. Geronimo Jackson is actually San Diego based band, The Donkeys.
Minor recurring off-island characters
Sam Austen
Lindsey Ginter
Kate\'s stepfather, Sayid\'s captor
2
Tom Brennan
Mackenzie Astin (adult)
Tanner Maguire (child)
Kate\'s childhood sweetheart
1, 5
Dr. Douglas Brooks
Bruce Davison
Hurley\'s doctor
2, 6
Rachel Carlson
Robin Weigert (adult)
Savannah Lathem (child)
Juliet\'s sister
3, 5
Teresa Cortez
Rachel Ticotin
Ana Lucia\'s mother and boss
2
Chrissy
Meilinda Soerjoko
Some crash survivors\' ticket agent
1, 2
JD
John Dixon
Flight attendant in the Oceanic 815
1
Charlie Hume
Marvin DeFreitas
Desmond and Penny\'s son
5
Wayne Janssen
James Horan
Kate\'s biological father
2
Omer Jarrah
Cas Anvar (adult)
Xavier Raabe-Manupule (child)
Sayid\'s brother
5, 6
Mary Jo
Brittany Perrineau
Sawyer\'s girlfriend, Hurley\'s lottery vendor
1
Mr. Kwon
John Shin
Jin\'s father, Sun\'s father-in-law
1, 3
Nurse Susie Lazenby
Grisel Toledo
Hurley\'s nurse
2, 4, 5, 6
Carole Littleton
Susan Duerden
Claire\'s mother, Aaron\'s grandmother
3, 4, 5
Lindsey Littleton
Gabrielle Fitzpatrick
Claire\'s aunt
2, 3
Susan Lloyd
Tamara Taylor
Michael\'s girlfriend, Walt\'s mother
1, 2
Emily Annabeth Locke
Swoosie Kurtz (adult)
Holland Roden (teenager)
Locke\'s mother
1, 4
Richard Malkin
Nick Jameson
Claire\'s psychic, Mr. Eko\'s acquaintance
1, 2
Jason McCormack
Aaron Gold
Ana Lucia\'s attacker and later victim
2
Michael\'s mother
Starletta DuPois
Michael\'s mother, Walt\'s grandmother
4
Michelle
Michelle Arthur
Flight attendant in the Oceanic 815
1
Ray Mullens
Nick Tate
Employer of Kate\'s (later turns her in to Marshal Edward Mars)
1
Randy Nations
Billy Ray Gallion
Locke\'s supervisor, Hurley\'s former supervisor
1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Helen Norwood
Katey Sagal
Locke\'s former girlfriend
2, 6
Andrea (Nurse)
Julie Ow
Locke (nurse), Jack\'s co-worker
1
Liam Pace
Neil Hopkins (older),
Zack Shada (younger)
Charlie\'s elder brother
1, 2, 3, 6
Megan Pace
Multiple
Charlie\'s mother
2
Simon Pace
Robin Atkin Downes,
John Henry Canavan
Charlie\'s father
2, 3
Ji Yeon Kwon
Jaymie Kim
Sun and Jin\'s daughter
3, 4, 5, 6
Woo-Jung Paik
Byron Chung
Sun\'s father, Jin\'s employer and father-in-law
1, 3, 4
Mrs. Paik
June Kyoko Lu
Sun\'s mother
2, 4, 5
Carmen Reyes
Lillian Hurst
Hurley\'s mother
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
David Reyes
Cheech Marin
Hurley\'s father
3, 4, 5
Adam Rutherford
Uncredited
Shannon\'s father, Boone\'s stepfather, Jack\'s patient and the perpetrator of his future wife\'s car accident
2
David Shephard
Dylan Minnette
Jack and Juliet\'s son in the flash-sideways
6
Margo Shephard
Veronica Hamel
Jack\'s mother
1, 4, 6
Marc Silverman
Zack Ward (older)
Jack\'s friend
1
Leonard Simms
Ron Bottitta
Hurley\'s friend
1, 2
Big Mike Walton
Michael Cudlitz
Ana Lucia\'s partner, Hurley\'s interrogator
2, 4
Yemi
Adetokumboh M\'Cormack
Mr. Eko\'s brother
2, 3
Kevin Callis
Nathan Fillion
Kate\'s husband
3
Reception
Entertainment Weekly praised the show\'s fourth season for its \"captivating minor characters (tortured Sayid, scheming Juliet, savvy Ben)\". In May 2006, McFarlane Toys announced recurring lines of character action figures and released the first series in November 2006, with the second series being released July 2007.