List of minor Degrassi: The Next Generation characters
The following is a list of main characters who appear on Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Characters listed here are those who are portrayed by actors not billed in the opening credits, but have still contributed to the storylines. These are characters worth mentioning, or frequent appearers. Exceptions can be made for persons appearing in their own episodes/story arcs, or anything within reasonable judgment.
Teachers and Adults
Coach Darryl Armstrong
Coach Armstrong is the Mathematics teacher for all grades at Degrassi, and shows he's dedicated to his job by taking time out to tutor students who are having trouble in the course. But this dedication started to spawn nasty rumours that he and Liberty Van Zandt were having an inappropriate relationship, when the real reason behind Liberty's tutoring is that she had a learning disability called dyscalculia. Coach Armstrong coaches the boys' sports teams and takes an active part in Degrassi's sports programme.
Scott "Tracker" Cameron
Tracker is Sean's older brother and they lived in an apartment together, until getting a unrefusable job offer in Alberta, leaving Sean alone when he moved there with girlfriend Kim. He dispenses brotherly wisdom from time to time and tried to keep Sean out of trouble again, by trying to keep him away from Jay Hogart, but to no avail. Tracker left Sean to be emancipated and left the apartment in Sean's care, until Sean too vacated the apartment for their parents' home in Wasaga Beach, leaving the apartment to Sean's girlfriend, Ellie Nash, who couldn't afford it on her own.
Ms. Kwan
Matt Oleander
Matt started out as a student teacher's assistant under Mr. Simpson, and yoga instructor at Degrassi. Paige crushed on him and got her way when he kissed her, starting their secret relationship. This lasted the entire second semester of the school year. Matt was a struggling college student and a teaching enthusiast. He lived in an apartment worse than Sean's, and tried to shield Paige from seeing it to allow her to keep her fantasy vision of how wonderful it must be. One person was in on the secret, and that was Manny, who witnessed their kiss. Manny was good about keeping the secret until Paige made her mad by missing spirit squad rehearsals, so Manny started a cat fight with Paige and revealed the secret to the crowd. Manny also accidentally informed Hazel, who is well known for being "secrecy-challenged", but Hazel only caused some heat. Matt was questioned about his paramour, and took responsibility, realizing that calling her a stalker wasn't cool. He was kicked out of school, and left for a couple of months. He came back scraggly-looking and unkempt, and told Paige about plans to move to Vancouver as a painter. He supplied her with a marijuana joint, which caused some problems....
Sydney
Sydney is a real estate agent who had a short-lived relationships with Joey Jeremiah. Things between the two disenegrated when Joey realised that he still loved Caitiln Ryan, his old flame, and they ended on bad terms. Apparently the terms weren't bad enough when Joey went back to Sidney to try and sell his house, which Caitlin bought right back within a day or two of it being on the market. It's safe to say that Caitlin and Sidney resent each other, because they both have feelings for Joey, and Caitlin won Joey's attentions from her.
Ms. Sauve
Ms. Sauve is the school guidance counselor. She is there in times of need, such as helping people through the after-effects of the school shooting, helping Paige after she was raped or helping J.T and Liberty figure out what to do with Liberty's teenage pregnancy.
Kate Kerwin
The mother of Ashley Kerwin and girlfriend of Jeff Isaacs, she splits up with her husband after finding out that he's gay and cheated on her. When Jeff and his son Toby move in, to accomodate Toby, she dotes him and always takes his side sometimes over her own daughter Ashley. This, in addition to Toby's attitude and behaviour, causes the sibling like rivalry between him and Ashley.
It's shown that she has some knowledge of science when her and Jeff comically interrupt Toby and J.T., who were watching porn. When Toby questions "... are those real?", Jeff and Kate, who have come hom early unbeknownst to the two boys, Jeff responds with "actually, I'll say silicon" and Kate retorts with "or saline solution". They both agree on disciplining J.T. and Toby by forcing to watch porn with them (including gay) so they can learn the hard lesson about objectifying women.
Jeff Isaacs
Jeff Isaacs is a fictional recurring character in the Canadian teen television series, Degrassi: The Next Generation. He is the father of Toby Isaacs, stepfather of Ashley Kerwin and boyfriend of Kate Kerwin.
First seen touring the new school with Toby in the first Degrassi: The Next Generation episode, Mother and Child Reunion, Part 1, Jeff Isaacs has made a number of appearances throughout the first season of the series. Though a loving father to Toby, he in his ex-wife Anne Marie cannot have a conversation without it turning into an arguement. After splitting up, he and Toby move in with his new girlfriend, Kate Kerwin (Ashley's mother), which causes some friction between the new siblings. He essentially treats Ashley like a step daughter even though he is not officially married with Kate.
Anne Marie Isaacs
Toby gets every other weekend with her and the rest with his father.
Strongly devoted to her career, this has left her with no time to be there for her family. As a casting agent, she gave Terri her card saying that she "liked her look".
Students and Kids
Chante Black
Chante is on the Spirit Squad and is friends with Manny Santos, Emma Nelson, and Darcy Edwards. She had a significant lust for Chester Hosoda-Bloom, helped in the scheme that broke Paige Michalchuk's leg, and revealed to Paige that Manny's topless video was circulating around the school, ultimately getting Manny kicked off the Spirit Squad. She seems to be gossipy and catty.
Angela "Angie" Jeremiah
Angela is the only daughter of Joey and Julia Jeremiah, making her Craig Manning's half-sister, because they share the same mother. Angela is currently a Grade 5 and hasn't entered middle school yet, though she could start at Degrassi in the fall of 2008. She would be a graduate of the Class of '14, if that took place.
Heather Sinclair
Heather Sinclair has never had her face shown on Degrassi, although in the episode # 410 “Neutron Dance”, she appeared with her face blocked by her raised arms, but is very talked about and ridiculed for her self-inflicted haircuts, overtweezed eyebrows, and bargain-basement nose job. But she seems to be popular since she beat Paige Michalchuk out for the Prom Queen crown previous to their Grade 9 year. She auditioned for video announcements during Liberty Van Zandt's run as President, but was once again the butt of a joke, as she had boogers hanging from her nose during her audition. It is shown in the mini "Be Aware of Heather Sinclair" that her personailty is very much like the first season Paige.
Trey 'Towerz' Hightower
Towerz was a member of Jay's gang, but the gang seems to have disbanded since Alex ran for President in her junior year. In their sophomore year, it was revealed that he had a "thing for smart girls" through fellow gangmember Sean, and it resulted in Liberty's first steady boyfriend for a period of time before breaking up over a summer. He has not appeared since.
Chester Hosoda-Bloom
Chester was a short lived character in the series. Chester is a grade below Manny Santos and Emma Nelson. Chester gives Manny and Marco an idea of a dance to help relieve the school shooting. This led Manny to a crush on him The two of them kiss at the dance but Manny quickly realizes that she wants to be with Spinner. After he is rejected by Manny he sets his eyes on Emma, even though she is the only one who seems uninterested in him. The girls who were actually intimidated by his presence were Manny Santos, Darcy Edwards, and Chante Black. He continues to taunt Emma and her friends, then leaves.
Dylan Michalchuk
A graduate of Degrassi class of ‘04 and Paige's older brother, Dylan is openly gay. He was Marco's first boyfriend and only intimate partner, and they recently broke up due to Dylan wanting an "open relationship". It is theorized that Jay may have an old feud with Dylan, though no explanation has ever been offered. It could just be plain homophobia. Dylan is a jock, playing both volleyball and college hockey. He recently got back together with Marco at the end of season 5.
Rick Murray
Very intellectual, very psychotic, young man. He had major anger problems, where he would turn violent. He was in love with Terri but was a controlling, obsessive, abusive boyfriend. He shoved her, and he hit her head on a concrete block, putting her in a coma. He left school, to return a little late next year to a place where he was not welcome. In return, his tormentors dumped paint on him in front of the school. He returned after lunch that day with a gun. He was mislead into believing his friend, Jimmy, pulled the prank. He shot him and was going to shoot Emma when Sean tussled with the gun and twisted it back towards Rick. The gun went off, and Rick was killed.
Amy Peters-Hoffman
Amy is the once best friend of Alex Nunez. She dated Sean while he was on rebound from Emma; however, after a hot and heated relationship, they broke up. It was later revealed that Amy took part in the sexual activities that went on at "The Ravine", including giving oral sex to Alex's then boyfriend, Jason "Jay" Hogart in the back of a van. She had many bracelets and the colours of the bracelets denotes that oral sex wasn't the only thing that she took part in at "The Ravine." From it all, Amy lost her best friend and contracted the STD gonorrhea from Jay.
Chris Sharpe
Chris is an aspiring DJ who has a talent in English, as shown by his like of Shakespeare when the class read it in Grade 9. He and Emma Nelson had a short-lived relationship, and it ended during the summer holiday between their Grade 9 and 10 years. Liberty had shown an interest in Chris, which resulted in Emma finding out and being quite rude about it,ending their friendship. However, it was apparent that Chris wasn't looking for anything huge with Liberty. Chris was hurt by Emma's racy and ill-lived relationship with Jay and by her contracting gonorrhea, but covered for it by making rude and sly comments in Media Immersions class during the student-teacher, Matt Oleander's lecture. There are rumors that he will be returning in (611) Rock This Town.
Dean Walton
Dean is a hot-headed athletic college student who raped Paige at a party in the first hour-long episode. Paige later takes Dean to court, but loses, and wrecks Dean's car with Spinner's. After this episode Dean is not heard from again.
Kendra Mason
Kendra Mason is Spinner's adoptive sister, but is of Chinese heritage, as revealed during a discussion of race in the aftermath of a hate crime at International Day at Degrassi. She's very into Japanese anime, and shares this love with Toby Issacs, who she had a short-lived romantic relationship with. After the break up she had fewer and fewer appearances on the show until eventually she just disappeared all together. She was last seen in "Time Stands Still (Part 1)" sitting in the audience when Rick was humiliated on stage during a game show.
Tim
Tim is the short-lived boyfriend of Marco Del Rossi, who broke up with Marco after being insulted that he was just a standby relationship in case Marco's relationship with Dylan Michalchuk didn't work out.
See also
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| Degrassi Classic |
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| Degrassi: The Next Generation |
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