List of Shameless (American TV series) characters

The following is a list of fictional characters from the American drama Shameless, created by Paul Abbott, which began broadcasting on Showtime in 2011. It is based on the UK series of the same name, and many of the characters are named after their UK counterparts.

Main cast

Frank Gallagher

Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy) is the father of six children. He is a deadbeat alcoholic, drug addict, and morally deficient freeloader who relies on his children to barely get by. He swindles the state welfare system at every opportunity and he starts affairs with anyone he can, leading him to have even more children. His opportunistic deceit appears to have been impressed on his kids. He begins a relationship with Sheila Jackson when he discovers that she gets maximum disability benefits for her agoraphobia. He is the biological father of Fiona, Lip, Debbie, Carl, and Liam—but not Ian, just their half-brother, and in season 4, reveals his eldest daughter is Sammi, and is referred to by his first name by the offspring. He often self-righteously pontificates about political and social issues, yet spends most of his time developing schemes to cheat the system and take advantage of others in order to make money. He pays little attention to his children but can display care and concern for them in drastic circumstances. In season 4, his liver fails, from his chronic alcoholism. He tracks down his Sammi, and although she is not a match for his liver, Sammi along with Sheila go out of their way to arrange Frank's liver surgery. They find an unlicensed surgeon willing to do the operation, from a Bangladeshi donor, Sammi selling all of Sheila's furniture to finance the operation, and while the family is absent during the operation in an abandoned warehouse, in the hospital they learn that the Bangladeshis took Frank's kidney and nevertheless, Frank is supplied a replacement liver.

Fiona Gallagher

Fiona Gallagher (Emmy Rossum) is the second eldest of the Gallagher children (23). Because of her mother's absence and Frank's neglect, most of the responsibility for child-rearing falls on her shoulders; this forced her to drop out of high school in her junior year. She works a few dead-end minimum-wage jobs to support her five siblings. Though often stressed and exhausted by her responsibilities, she never fails to perform them. Prone to selflessness, she sometimes needs to be reminded to look out for her own happiness as well. At the close of Season 2, she gets her GED and begins to take interest in more serious jobs. In Season 3, after Frank calls social services on them out of sheer spite, she wins a court case (and the admiration of the judge) to be her siblings' legal guardian, which strains her relationship with Jimmy, who is presumed (but unconfirmed) to be dead at the end of Season 3 (at the hands of Estefania's father after she's taken by the INS). Fiona finally gets a decent job towards the end of Season 3 with a cup company. With Lip off to college, Frank out of the house (seemingly) for good, and Ian (unbeknownst to the others) having enlisted in the Army, Fiona's home workload is lighter. In season 4, Fiona is arrested when Liam ingests cocaine at a house party and is hospitalized. She avoids more jail time and is put on probation, but after a wild night with Robbie and his friends, she violates probation and is put on a facility for ninety days. She is released after only a few days due to overcrowding and gets a job at a diner, out of pity by her parole officer.

Jimmy Lishman

Jimmy Lishman (Justin Chatwin; main cast seasons 1-3, cameo season 4), also known as Steve Wilton and Jack, is a young man who relentlessly pursues Fiona, going to great lengths to win her over. He owns expensive things and throws money around liberally, which Fiona finds off-putting until she discovers that he steals cars for a living. It is later discovered that his real name is Jimmy and he comes from a wealthy family. In Season 2, he marries Estefania, the daughter of a Brazilian mafia mob leader, though he is not interested in her. Fiona and Jimmy resume their relationship at the end of Season 2. Nando, Estefania's father, wants her to become a citizen and stay in the US, and he threatens to kill Jimmy if he does not act as her devoted husband for the Immigration office. Jimmy spends Season 3 living a dual life split between Fiona and Estefania with Beto, one of Nando's cronies, keeping a close eye on him. In the end, Estefania cannot convince Immigration that the marriage is not a scam, and Nando takes Jimmy on a boat, presumably to murder him. In the post-credits scene of the Season 4 finale, he was revealed to be alive, now going by the name of 'Jack', he sits in a car in front of the Gallagher residence; shortly after he drives away.

Lip Gallagher

Phillip "Lip" Gallagher (Jeremy Allen White), born (1994-03-29)March 29, 1994, is the second Gallagher child (18) and the most academic. He was a straight-A student in high school who used his intelligence in various money-making schemes, such as running an ice cream truck that sold beer and marijuana, or taking the SATs for fellow students (often scoring a 2400, a perfect score). Despite his above-average intelligence, his personal life behavior is the opposite; smokes cigarettes and marijuana, drinks alcohol, pursues casual sexual encounters with any girl, and even steals vehicles. He has a strong bond with Ian and is the first Ian comes out to as gay. Lip develops a torrid relationship with Karen, after helping her in math, and soon falls in love with her. But after Karen marries Jody and gives birth to a baby belonging neither to Lip nor Jody, Lip then frequently sleeps with Mandy Milkovich, taking advantage of her easy virtue. They get along at first, until Mandy discovers Lip doesn't plan on going to college. Believing Lip has potential and desires to "get out of the hood", she secretly applies to colleges for him and Lip is accepted into MIT. They severely break-up after Lip discovers Mandy hit Karen with her car, resulting in brain damage. In season 4, Lip begins courses at Chicago Polytechnic and strangely struggles. But when Amanda takes control of his academic habits, his grades go up and he is allowed to keep his scholarship.

Ian Gallagher

Main article: Ian Gallagher § U.S. version

Ian Gallagher (Cameron Monaghan) is the half-brother of the Gallagher children (17) and (according to Frank) the most like their mother, but is treated like their full brother. He participates in Army JROTC at school and works at the Kash and Grab grocery store. His middle name is Clayton. He is gay but only "out" to Fiona, Frank, Jimmy, Monica, Mickey, Mandy, Lip, and Debbie. He has had several furtive relationships: first with his employer, the Muslim grocer Kash, and later with (also closeted) neighborhood thug, Mickey Milkovich. He is not Frank's biological son, but he is the son of Monica. At the end of season 3, when Mickey marries to preserve the masquerade of being straight, Ian obtains forged documents in Lip's name and enlists in the Army, even though he's underage but goes AWOL and becomes a dancer and rent boy at The White Swallow, a gay club, squatting in an abandoned house with Army MPs pursuing him. Lip and Debbie track him down and find him, and continuing working at the gay club, Ian comes back home. With his behavior becoming more erratic, Mickey inquires the rest of the family for an explanation and they suggests he might be bipolar, like Monica.

Debbie Gallagher

Debbie Gallagher (Emma Kenney) is one of the middle Gallagher children (13). She is reserved, intent on positive impressing and willing to cover for others albeit influenced by the deleterious family culture, in contrast to her brash and reckless brothers. She brings baby brother Liam to school for show-and-tell when there's no one else to watch him, puts a pillow under her father's head when he's passed out on the floor, and collects money for charity year-round—only some of which she keeps for herself. She is capable of forgiveness for her father's neglect and irresponsibility as well as her mother's absence. She is very mature in some ways and therefore has trouble making friends with people her age. Debbie is also physically unimpressive, a source of frustration and anxiety from other girls at the city pool. In Season 3, she enters into her teen years, becoming more rebellious, disrespectful, and secretive. In Season 4, having two friends who glamorize sexual promiscuity, she meets Matty, a 20 year old at an arcade who she attempts to seduce but rejects her, although upset he becomes just friends with her, and discovers Matty's apparent girlfriend, Seema, attempts to scare her away, such as making ominous calls to her while at work and leaving a shoplifted snake in her car. Seema eventually confronts her, threatening her with a baseball bat, "If you want a war, you got it". When Seema hires a boy in Debbie's class to humiliate her in front of the whole school, Matty claims that he's broken up with her and that he will still be with her.

Carl Gallagher

Carl Gallagher (Ethan Cutkosky) is the second-youngest Gallagher child (12). He shares a room with older brothers Lip and Ian, who try to keep their more adult interests from him. Carl is often in trouble at school for attacking other students. In his early years, he displays several psychopathic tendencies such as mutilating his toys and killing stray animals, although this behavior seems to be less prevalent as he ages, and he begins to show concern for Frank. His bond with Frank is strengthened after Frank convinces him he has cancer (for one of his schemes—later "cured"), and Carl helps him stay in the van after being kicked out. Later, Frank somewhat inexplicably takes the blame for a heist he and Carl have committed. In season 4, when Frank's liver fails, Carl takes it on himself to find him an organ donor. Carl later meets a girl named Bonnie, who lives with her family in a van. They scheme together to gather money for Bonnie's family, and Carl slowly falls for her. He denies this however, when she asks him about it, to which she replies she doesn't want him to love her. The next day, the van is gone, and so is Bonnie.

Liam Gallagher

Liam Gallagher (Brennan Kane Johnson & Blake Alexander Johnson) is the youngest of the Gallagher children (2). He is black despite having two white parents, due to a recessive black gene the Gallaghers acquired from Frank's grandmother, who (allegedly) had an affair with a jazz musician. He is starting to verbalize more; however, his character has yet to be developed. He is hospitalized in season 4 after ingesting cocaine, and although things seem touch-and-go for a while, Liam recovers well and is allowed to go home again after a week.

Veronica Fisher

Veronica "Vee" Fisher (Shanola Hampton) is the Gallaghers' neighbor and Fiona's best friend and confidante; she often gives Fiona advice concerning relationships, caring for her siblings, and caring for herself. Always willing and able to lend a hand, Veronica had pursued a medical career until she was fired from the hospital for stealing medical supplies. She currently works as a webcam girl. Thought to be unable to conceive with Kevin, she has him impregnate her mother Carol, but when Veronica later finds out that she's pregnant with triplets, and Kevin reveals that the bar is losing money, Carol refuses her request to abort her own baby. During a check-up, the doctor reveals to Veronica that one of the triplets has been absorbed by the other remaining babies. Not long after this, Veronica goes into labor and gives birth to two daughters.

Kev Ball

Kevin "Kev" Ball (Steve Howey) is the bartender and owner of the Alibi Room (the one bar where Frank has not been banned) and the Gallaghers' neighbor and friend. Though frequently exasperated by Frank's lifestyle, he gives Frank drinks on credit and cashes his disability checks for him. He and Veronica have a successful relationship, though he is technically married to another woman who previously left him. He is dyslexic and grew up in foster care, living with several families. When Kev and Veronica take in a foster daughter, Kev takes it upon himself to make her feel as comfortable as possible. This does not stop her from eventually running away, which prevents Kev and Veronica from ever being allowed to get a fosterchild again. They decide to try for their own baby, but Veronica is unable to conceive, so she has Kev impregnate her mother, Carol. After the baby is born however, Carol wants to keep the baby, a boy. Veronica ends up pregnant herself, and they now have two daughters. To keep his bar from going bankrupt, Kev goes into business with Mickey Milkovich, creating a massage salon with women who provide happy endings.

Sheila Jackson

Sheila Jackson (Joan Cusack) is an agoraphobic germophobe, Karen's mother, and Eddie's widow. Sheila developed her conditions when Karen was young and has tried to overcome them for years. Frank seduces her in order to live in her home, taking advantage of her cooking, disability checks, and bedroom hospitality. Sheila is a kind and caring person, if a bit empty-headed. Sheila eventually overcomes her condition and continues to spend a great deal of her time with Frank. She later starts a relationship with Jody and they appear to have a loving, healthy relationship. However after Karen has an accident, Sheila breaks things off with Jody and encourages him to take care of Karen. In season 4, Sheila starts internetdating, meeting a Native American, whose 5 little cousins she wants to adopt, and is required to be married, so she marries Frank while unconcious in the hospital. Her request for adoption is still denied and even expresses her contempt to Sammi that she is unwelcome in her house and an enraged Sammi engages her in a full on fight in the hallway.

Karen Jackson

Karen Jackson (Laura Slade Wiggins; regular season 1–2, recurring season 3) is Lip's tutoring student and the neighborhood bad girl. She begins a casual relationship with Lip, but due to her promiscuous nature she refuses to make any real commitment, leading to a complicated relationship between the two. Her mother, Sheila, is a doting agoraphobe and her father, Eddie, is a straitlaced bus driver and devout Christian who left their family in the pilot episode. He later tries to reconnect with Karen by having her attend his church's purity ball in exchange for receiving a car. After an honest recollection of her past sexual escapades at the purity ball, Karen feels humiliated after Eddie calls her a whore in front of everyone else at the purity ball. She then dyes her hair black, gets tattooed with "Daddyz Girl" on her arm, and eventually coerces Frank into having sex with her on a webcam session shown to her father. At the end of Season 2, Karen gives birth to a baby with Down syndrome. Karen runs away from home when her mother elects to take the baby; midway through Season 3, she returns and Mandy runs her over with a car. Though Karen doesn't die from the incident, she sustains frontal-lobe brain damage resulting in a short-term memory lapse, and Jody takes Karen and her baby to Arizona to be with faith healers.

Mickey Milkovich

Main article: Mickey Maguire (Shameless) § US Version

Mickey Milkovich (Noel Fisher; recurring season 1–2, regular season 3-4) is Mandy's older brother, often aggressively antisocial and sometimes to the point of psychopathic and carries firearms illegally and has a very long prison record, like his father Terry. Mickey is [Bisexuality|bisexual]], but claims to just prefer men but is acts like the pimp of both gay and straight services. He and Ian begin their relationship when Ian goes to Mickey's house to settle his repeated open acts of shoplifting at the Kash and Grab. In Season 3, Terry, catches him having sex with Ian, brutally beats them, and forces Svetlana, a Russian prostitute to "fuck the gay out of Mickey". When Svetlana's pregnant, Terry forces Mickey to marry her, but he's still in love with Ian and is heartbroken when Ian decides to enlist in the Army. In Season 4, Mickey takes over a prostitution racket with Russian prostitutes, persuading Kevin to let him run it in the upper floors of The Alibi Room. Being derided from Ian, Mickey does his official "coming out of the closet" at his son's christening/father's welcome home party. This announcement leads to another brutal fight with Terry and lands Terry back in jail after four hours on probation.

Mandy Milkovich

Mandy Milkovich (Jane Levy; recurring season 1, and Emma Greenwell; recurring season 2, regular season 3-4) is Mickey's sister, and the bad girl of Ian's class, although she has a sweeter side. Initially offended with Ian when he rejects her advances, she becomes a good friend, offering to act as his girlfriend to keep his homosexuality secret. Mandy is promiscuous and proud of it: in Season 2 she seduces Lip and agrees to seduce Jody to help him and Karen break up. She has no idea that while she's pretending to be Ian's girlfriend, he is having sex with her brother Mickey. She was once raped by her intoxicated father (who had mistaken her for her dead mother); she got pregnant but had an abortion. Like her brothers, she has suffered heavily at the hands of her father and formed a tough, occasionally violent exterior. Mandy loves Lip and does most of the work of applying him to colleges without his knowledge, recognizing that he is the only one with a potentially bright future. They have casual sex frequently. When Karen returns, Mandy is infuriated with her blatant selfish attempts to seduce Lip back into a relationship when Karen doesn't care about him and Mandy does. Mandy eventually lures Karen out and hits her with her car, causing her massive head trauma and permanent short-term memory loss. Initially afraid that Mandy has become psychotic, Lip eventually confronts her and they have a vicious breakup. But before he departs for college, Lip thanks Mandy for everything she has done for him. In Season 4, Mandy is apparently with Kenyatta, who lives with her and also abuses her when he suspects she is still with Lip, even though he's at college.

Jody Silverman

Jody Silverman (Zach McGowan; recurring season 2, regular season 3) is a man Karen meets at Sex Addicts Anonymous and later marries. Jody is a keen tattoo artist, often looking for work and helping around the house. He becomes extremely attached to Sheila and calls her 'Mom', unaware that Karen is cheating on him with Lip. He is good-natured, if somewhat absent-minded.

Mike Pratt

Mike Pratt (Jake McDorman; recurring season 3, regular season 4) is Fiona's corporate boss and boyfriend in Season 4. Their relationship developed when Fiona started her internship at World Wide Cup, and had a brief affair during a camping trip, which Fiona declined in concern for her relationship with Steve/Jimmy. They began dating shortly after Jimmy's disappearance. He is good-natured, responsible, and desires trust and honesty, which Fiona enjoys but finds a little tedious overtime. He bails out Fiona when she's imprisoned.

Sammi

Samantha "Sammi" (Emily Bergl; recurring season 4, regular season 5) is Frank's eldest daughter. Her existence is revealed when she is sought out by Frank when he needs a liver transplant corroded by his alcoholism. She lives in a trailer in a rundown neighborhood with just her son, Charles also simply called, Chuckie. Unaware that he's her father upon meeting him, she is sexually attracted to him, but only corrected when she is not a match for Frank's organ donor. Although intensely enraged at her unintentional supposed moral crime, she quickly accepts him back and becomes his somewhat caretaker. Frank explains that his estrangement from her stems from his youthful immaturity when he became a father, his initial desire to abort her, and his uncertainty about how he impregnated her mother. It is not revealed who Sammi's mother is nor who fathered Sammi's son, Chuck. Chuck becomes Carl's partner in crime in pranks and thefts, e.g., stealing spruce trees from a Chicago police station.

Robbie Pratt

Robbie Pratt (Nick Gehlfuss; season 4) is Mike's brother with whom Fiona starts an affair while dating Mike. He is irresponsible and lives life carelessly, even after being released from rehab, which he went to for alcoholism. He fuels his lifestyle by leeching off Mike and his parents, but justifies his manipulative actions by saying that he cannot live a "normal, boring" life with a desk job like his brother. Mike finds out about the affair at a family occasion and punches him in the face. After a rebuffed attempt to reconcile with Fiona, he leaves a bag of cocaine at her house which soon causes her arrest.

Recurring cast

Jasmine Hollander

Jasmine Hollander (Amy Smart) is Fiona's friend, the married mother of three kids. She is more free-spirited than Fiona and is less conventional with her parental responsibilities despite the fact that the children in her care are her own, not younger siblings. She often tries to bring Fiona out of her shell by inviting her to parties and setting her up with different men. Eventually Jasmine's husband discovers her multiple infidelities and kicks her out, leaving Jasmine with no place to go.

Kash

Kash (Pej Vahdat) is the owner of the grocery store Kash and Grab, where Ian works. He has an affair with Ian despite being a married, putatively devout Muslim with children. When his wife discovers Kash's sexuality, she allows it, so long as he gives her another child. However, Kash soon grows sick of Linda's behavior and, feeling trapped in his marriage and now without Ian beside him, he leaves, thrusting the responsibility upon Ian to tell his family.

Tony Markovich

Tony Markovich (Tyler Jacob Moore) is the Gallaghers' neighbor and a local police officer who bore a liking for Fiona for some time. He initially lives with his overbearing mother, whom he's desperate to impress. The Gallaghers attempt to keep Tony sweet in order to keep out of trouble; however, as Tony gets more involved in their lives when he begins dating Fiona, he grows more cautious of Steve's illegal activity, resulting in a vendetta that lands Lip and Ian under arrest. In Season 2, Tony is redoing his house, having found a new girlfriend (whom he may or may not have purchased from the internet, as stated by Steve).

Eddie Jackson

Eddie Jackson (Joel Murray; season 1) is Karen's overbearing father and Sheila's husband. It appears he's stuck in an unhappy marriage, with a wife constantly on edge, and a rebellious daughter. He appears to be quite religious, which causes his breakdown when he learns of Karen's true sexual nature, and he eventually commits suicide (at the end of Season 1).

Ethel

Ethel (Madison Davenport) is a 13-year-old girl removed from a polygamist colony and taken in by Veronica and Kevin as a foster child after the police arrested her elderly husband for molestation charges. She has four "sister-wives" from the marriage and is later discovered to have had a child in the marriage, Jonah, whom Kevin and Veronica also take care of. Initially Ethel struggles to fit in with her new surroundings but soon warms up to Kevin and Veronica as well as the Gallaghers.

Linda

Linda (Marguerite Moreau) is Kash's wife, a business-minded busybody. She is a Muslim convert and proud mother but treats everything like a business, including her marriage. When she discovers her husband and Ian have been having an affair, she accepts it, but only on the basis he gives her another child and he not touch the "forbidden fruit" (Ian) until she is pregnant. She gets pregnant, but Kash leaves several months later.

Monica Gallagher

Monica Gallagher (Chloe Webb) is Frank's ex-wife and the mother of the Gallagher brood; she has bipolar disorder. She feels terrible for abandoning her children but can never sustain her love and concern for them for very long before succumbing to drugs, selfishness, and depression. The older Gallagher children resent and distrust her, but she is sometimes able to coax Debbie or Carl into spending time with her.

Peg Gallagher

Peg Gallagher (Louise Fletcher), also known as "Grammy", is Frank's formidable mother and the Gallagher family matriarch. She is sent home from prison on a medical furlough after lying about her health and immediately goes after a retired meth dealer who profited from her arrest and demands money from him, a plan which Frank ends up ruining. Despite her extremely hostile nature, she tries her best to reach out to the Gallagher children, giving Fiona money and showering Carl and Debbie with gifts. She dies at the end of Season 2 after revealing that she has terminal cancer.

Tommy

Tommy (Michael Patrick McGill)

Kate

Kate (Kerry O'Malley)

Professor Hearst

Professor Hearst (Dennis Boutsikaris) is a college professor who catches Lip attempting to take someone else's exam. Since then he has tried to channel Lip's intelligence into numerous projects in return for drugs and knowledge about youth and popular culture in order to bed his female students.

Jess

Jess (Missy Doty) is the lesbian bartender at the Alibi Room. Jess is witty and has a dry sense of humor; she takes charge of the books at the Alibi Room, unaware that it's because the dyslexic Kevin can't read. The two often clash over Stan, the business owner, who is slowly losing his mental faculties. She pushes for Kevin to phone Stan's daughter and have Stan put in a home, yet Kevin is reluctant.

Little Hank

Little Hank (Nicky Korba) is Carl's socially awkward and slightly twisted friend. He tries to woo numerous girls and often leads the way on pranks and stunts that land him and Carl in trouble, such as taking advantage of his house-sitting duties. Despite all this Debbie takes a shine to him, although at the time he seems more interested in other girls. He later gives Debbie a bunch of flowers, although he is drunk at the time.

Adam

Adam (James Wolk) is a banker who tries to woo Fiona while she is working at a bar. Veronica tells Fiona that he is just a second rate version of Steve, but she takes no notice. He encourages her to try and break her track record, which she never got to do at school, and the two later begin dating. However, when Steve arrives back in town and the two double date (alongside Steve's new wife, Estefania), he notices the signs between Fiona and Steve and is left heartbroken and humiliated, and tells Fiona to stay away.

Terry Milkovich

Terry Milkovich (Dennis Cockrum) is Mandy and Mickey's father. He has escaped arrest numerous times, which causes Frank to turn to him when he needs a watertight alibi to stop the police from questioning him about the death of Eddie Jackson. He also very nearly catches Ian and Mickey together but thinks nothing of it. It is later discovered, due to his constant drinking and blackouts, that he has unknowingly impregnated his daughter Mandy. When he discovers Mickey and Ian having sex, Terry beats both of them and calls Svetlana to have sex with Mickey. This leads to her pregnancy and Terry forces Mickey to marry her and raise the baby. After Mickey announces he is gay, Terry beats Mickey again and returns to jail.

Kermit

Kermit (Jim Hoffmaster) is one of Frank's cohorts at the Alibi Room, he often listens to Frank's rants and stories. He is quick to defend his name when people liken it to that of Kermit the Frog.

Carol Fisher

Carol Fisher (Vanessa Bell Calloway) is Veronica's loud and proud mother, she is the owner of a beauty salon and always speaks her mind. She becomes pregnant with Kev's baby as a surrogate, but after giving birth, Veronica decides to let Carol keep the baby.

Estefânia

Estefânia (Stephanie Fantauzzi) is Jimmy's wife and a drug lord's daughter. She was married to Jimmy yet had a flame (in "Marco"), but at the end of Season 2 he has abused her and she has taken up residence at the Gallaghers'. In Season 3, everything appears to be normal between Estefania and Marco because they are living together when Estefania's father, Nando, comes to the States and quickly puts a bullet through Marco's head.

Nando

Nando (Pêpê Rapazote) is a Brazilian drug lord and Estefania's father.

Lloyd Lishman

Lloyd "Ned" Lishman (Harry Hamlin) is Jimmy's father, a surgeon, who has a brief sexual relationship with Ian.

Svetlana

Svetlana (Isidora Goreshter) is a Russian prostitute hired by Terry to have sex with Mickey after catching Ian and Mickey together. Although given her line of work, she claims her pregnancy is Mickey's. In season 4 she is living in the Milkovich house along with her other colleagues. When Ian returns, she confronts him while he's in the shower with a hammer threatening his life to get him to leave, believing he is a distraction to Mickey in raising their child. After her son's birth, she blackmails Mickey for money, threatening to call Terry and expose his relationship with Ian.

Ron Kuzner

Ron (Adam Cagley) is the roommate of Lip when he is at college in Season 4. He is sympathetic to Lip and goes out of his way to provide for him with his basic livings and with his academics.

Amanda

Amanda (Nichole Bloom) was initially thought by Lip to be the girlfriend of Ron but she reveals that she is just a friend with benefits and that she is "saving myself" by "taking it in the backdoor". It is not clear if she is a student at the college or just provides favors in order to sleep in the dorms. Amanda becomes attached to Lip when Fiona is imprisoned and Lip brings Liam with him to the room, and this attracts Amanda to Lip, imagining herself as Liam's mother. At the end of the Season, it is revealed that her parents are Jason and Sheryl, a white and affluent couple who offers Lip $10,000 to stay away from Amanda believing she is just rebellious and that Amanda was adopted from a "Subic Bay Whorehouse" and it is not clear what her ethnicity is. Although Lip takes the money, but this only turns Amanda even more onto Lip.