List of Lost characters

This article contains character information for the American drama/adventure television series Lost.

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From left to right: Hurley, Claire, Sawyer, Kate, Jack, Jin, Sun, Juliet, Locke, Sayid, Ben and Desmond

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. "Guest season(s) identifies a season in which an actor or actress appeared, but received guest star or special guest star billing.

Oceanic Six

The Oceanic Six is a group of characters who have safely gotten off the Island, and are given flashforward episodes showing them coping with life after rescue, as opposed to the regular style of flashbacks. Currently, the characters which have been shown in such episodes are:

Character name	Starring season(s)	Guest season(s)	Played by	Former residence in plot	Summary
Jack Shephard	1, 2, 3, 4	—	Matthew Fox	Los Angeles, California, USA	A spinal surgeon with father issues, Jack is the survivors' leader. He has feelings for Kate and Juliet. After escaping the island, he becomes drug-addicted and suicidal because he longs to return to the island.
Kate Austen	1, 2, 3, 4	—	Evangeline Lilly	Iowa, USA	After blowing up a house that her step-father was in, Kate goes on the run and is eventually captured by a federal marshal while in Australia. On the island, Kate is attracted to both Sawyer and Jack.
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes	1, 2, 3, 4	—	Jorge Garcia	Los Angeles, California, USA	After winning the lottery with the numbers, Hurley suffers from great bad luck. He remains optimistic on the island and builds a golf course.
Sayid Jarrah	1, 2, 3, 4	—	Naveen Andrews	Tikrit, Iraq	A former military communications officer, Sayid is haunted by his past as an interrogator for the Iraqi Republican Guard. On the island, he was romantically involved with Shannon.
Sun-Hwa Kwon	1, 2, 3, 4	—	Yunjin Kim	Seoul, South Korea	The rich daughter of a hotel owner/automobile manufacturer with ties to the Korean mob, Sun has an affair and almost leaves her husband Jin before the crash. They reconcile on the island and she becomes pregnant with Jin's baby.
Jin-Soo Kwon	1, 2, 3, 4	—	Daniel Dae Kim	Seoul, South Korea	The son of a poor fisherman, Jin marries Sun on the condition that he works for her father as a mob enforcer, which is unbeknownst to Sun. On the island, Jin struggles as the single castaway who does not speak English.

Other Oceanic 815 survivors

Character name	Starring season(s)	Guest season(s)	Played by	Former residence in plot	Summary
Boone Carlyle	1	2, 3	Ian Somerhalder	Malibu, California, USA	Boone is the step-brother of Shannon, whom he is in love with. On the island, he becomes Locke's protégé.
Ana Lucia Cortez	2	1	Michelle Rodriguez	Los Angeles, California, USA	A former LAPD police officer, Ana Lucia is the leader of the survivors of the tail section of Flight 815 and guides them to the relative safety of the fuselage survivors.
Michael Dawson	1, 2, 4	—	Harold Perrineau	New York, New York, USA	While trying to escape the island via raft, Michael's son Walt is abducted by the Others. After making a deal with the Others that included killing some of his fellow crash survivors, Michael and Walt are given a boat and leave the island.
Nikki Fernandez	3	—	Kiele Sanchez	Los Angeles, California, USA	Nikki is an actress who, with Paulo, murdered a television producer for his diamonds. When they got to the island they spend their time searching for the diamonds lost in the crash. She is Paulo's girlfriend.
James "Sawyer" Ford	1, 2, 3, 4	—	Josh Holloway	Jasper, Alabama, USA	Sawyer is a confidence man crippled by the murder of his parents as a child. He is romantically involved with Kate on the island.
Libby	2	4	Cynthia Watros	Newport Beach, California, USA	Libby is a tail section survivor. She becomes romantically involved with Hurley.
Claire Littleton	1, 2, 3, 4	—	Emilie de Ravin	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Claire gives birth on the island to a baby boy and forges a strong relationship with Charlie. Although both of them are unaware of it she is also Jack's half-sister.
Walt Lloyd	1	2, 3, 4	Malcolm David Kelley	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	An elementary school student, he is kidnapped by the Others, who claim that he is "special." He is rescued by his father Michael.
John Locke	1, 2, 3, 4	—	Terry O'Quinn	Tustin, California, USA	After having his paralysis healed during the crash, Locke lives out his dreams of becoming a hunter on the island. Being a man of faith, he believes he has a special connection with the island, leading him to clash with man of science Jack.
Mr. Eko	2, 3	—	Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	Nigeria	A former Nigerian drug lord turned priest, Eko crashes with the tail section survivors. He meets the smoke monster on more than one occasion in the island's forests.
Charlie Pace	1, 2, 3	4	Dominic Monaghan	Manchester, England, UK	A one-hit wonder, Charlie ends his addiction to heroin on the island and cares for Claire and her baby.
Paulo	3	—	Rodrigo Santoro	Brazil	Paulo helps Nikki murder a television executive for his diamonds. He spends his time on the island with Nikki searching for the diamonds.
Shannon Rutherford	1, 2	3	Maggie Grace	Los Angeles, California, USA	Shannon is a ballet instructor and Boone's step-sister. She has a relationship with Sayid on the island.

Other Island Inhabitants

Character name	Starring season(s)	Guest season(s)	Played by	Former residence in plot	Summary
Juliet Burke	3, 4	—	Elizabeth Mitchell	Miami, Florida, USA	Three years prior to the crash, fertility doctor Juliet is recruited by the Others. Ben does not allow her to leave the island and she later lives with the crash survivors, developing a relationship with Jack.
Desmond Hume	3, 4	2	Henry Ian Cusick	Glasgow, Scotland, UK	Desmond shipwrecks on the island and lives in the Hatch for three years until he moves in with the crash survivors. Desmond gains the ability to get flashes of future events.
Ben Linus	3, 4	2	Michael Emerson	Portland, Oregon, USA	Ben is the manipulative de facto leader of the Others.

Kahana crew

Character name	Starring season(s)	Guest season(s)	Played by	Former residence in plot	Summary
Captain Gault	4
Daniel Faraday	4	—	Jeremy Davies	Essex, Massachusetts, USA	Faraday is a physicist who was hired to work for Naomi's team for unknown reasons.
Charlotte Lewis	4	—	Rebecca Mader	Essex, England, UK	Charlotte is an anthropologist hired to work on Naomi's team.
Miles Straume	4	—	Ken Leung	USA	Miles is a man whose occupation is to communicate with the dead, and he was hired by Naomi's team for unknown reasons.

Supporting characters

Flight 815 survivors

Character name	Played by	Episode Appearances	Summary
Rose Henderson	L. Scott Caldwell	1.01, 1.02, 1.04, 1.12, 2.04, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08, 2.09, 2.16, 2.19, 3.21, 3.22, 4.01	Main article: Rose Henderson Rose Henderson is one of the crash survivors from the fuselage and is married to Bernard. She is a woman from the Bronx, New York. She ends up with the fuselage survivors and her husband, initially, crashes with the tail section survivors.
Bernard Nadler	Sam Anderson	2.04, 2.5, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08, 2.09, 2.16, 2.19, 2.23, 3.21, 3.22, 4.01	Main article: Bernard Nadler Dr. Bernard Nadler is one of the survivors of the tail section and is married to Rose. He is a dentist.
Edward Mars	Fredric Lane	1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 1.23, 1.24, 2.09, 3.06, 3.15	An American marshal who was obsessed with capturing the fugitive Kate Austen. Mars is critically injured during the crash and dies on day 3.
Cindy Chandler	Kimberley Joseph	1.01, 1.02, 2.03, 2.04, 2.5, 2.06, 2.07, 3.09, 3.19	An Australian Oceanic Airlines stewardess in a relationship with a Flight 815 passenger, the novelist Gary Troup. Cindy crashes with the tail-section survivors. Gary ends up on the beach and dies in the initial chaos. She encounters Michael, Sawyer and Jin on day 45. Cindy is taken by the Others on day 48 during the journey to the fuselage survivors' camp. She and the other kidnapped tail-section survivors are seen living comfortably with the Others on days 74 and 88. Cindy was originally set to die in the pilot episode, however the producers enjoyed Joseph's portrayal and decided to bring back Cindy in the second and third seasons.
Leslie Arzt	Daniel Roebuck	1.22, 1.23, 1.24, 3.14	An American ninth grade science teacher from New Jersey three times married. On the island, he keeps a collection of native fauna in various jars, including a spider with venom capable of causing severe paralysis. He has apparently discovered a handful of new species on the island and claims he will be the next Charles Darwin. He complains about not being included in the various missions the likes of Jack and Locke go on, finally joining them on a trip to the Black Rock. He explodes there while handling dynamite on day 44. Roebuck joined the cast as a guest star in late first season and rumours arose that he would be part of the main cast in the second season; however, Arzt was killed off in the finale. An unofficial action figure has been produced, with an included backstory for the character written by a Lost writer.
Emma and Zack	Kiersten Havelock and Mickey Graue	2.07, 3.09, 3.19	Two sibling children from the tail section of the plane. After the crash, they were kidnapped by the Others, and have been seen living with the Others under the care of Cindy and the other kidnapped tail-section survivors.
Scott Jackson and Steve Jenkins	Christian Bowman and Dustin Watchman	1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 1.04, 1.05, 1.07, 1.09, 1.10, 1.12, 1.14, 1.15, 1.20, 1.21, 1.23, 2.04, 2.08, 2.10, 2.20, 3.10, 3.14, 3.17	They are regularly confused with each other by the characters and crew, even after one of the pair is murdered by Ethan on day 28.
Seth Norris	Greg Grunberg	1.01	The pilot of Oceanic Flight 815. Little is known about him except that he married his high-school sweetheart and that he replaced his friend Frank Lapidus as the pilot of the doomed flight. He is found by Jack and Kate in the plane's cockpit, where he tells them that the plane was over 1000 miles off course before they crashed; shortly after, he is killed by the Monster.
Gary Troup	Gary Troup	1.01, L.E.	The New York author of the metafictional novel, Bad Twin. He is also Cindy Chandler's lover. Troup dies in "Pilot: Part 1".
Vincent	Madison and Pono,	1.01, 1.03, 1.04, 1.07, 1.09, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.20, 1.23, 1.24, 2.01, 2.03, 2.04, 2.5, 2.06, 2.08, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15, 2.19, 2.22, 3.10, 3.14, 3.21, 3.22, 4.1, 4.02	Walt's yellow Labrador retriever. He was left behind with the crash survivors when Walt attempted to leave the island.

The Others

Character name	Played by	Episode Appearances	Summary
Tom	M. C. Gainey	1.24, 2.11, 2.15, 2.22, 2.23, 3.01, 3.03, 3.04, 3.06, 3.07, 3.09, 3.12, 3.13, 3.19, 3.20, 3.22, 4.01, 4.06, 4.08	Main article: Tom (Lost) Tom acts as a liaison to the crash survivors until they kidnap Jack, Kate and Sawyer. He is killed by Sawyer in the third season finale.
Alex	Tania Raymonde	2.15, 2.22, 2.23, 3.03, 3.06, 3.07, 3.09, 3.12, 3.13, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 4.01, 4.02, 4.08	Main article: Alex (Lost) Alexandra "Alex" Rousseau/Linus is Rousseau's daughter who was kidnapped by the Others sixteen years prior to the crash of Flight 815. Alex aids the crash survivors in various escapes and eventually defects at the same time as Juliet and Karl. Throughout the third series, Alex and Karl are in a relationship, but Ben keeps them apart because she would die if she became pregnant.
Ethan Rom	William Mapother	1.09, 1.10, 1.11, 1.15, 2.15, 3.01, 3.07, 3.14, 3.16	Main article: Ethan Rom Dr. Ethan Rom lives among the fuselage survivors of Flight 815 during their initial days on the island. Before he is exposed as an Other, Ethan kidnaps Claire for her unborn child. If you re-arrange the letters in "Ethan Rom", you will have "Other Man".
Jacob		3.20, 4.01	Jacob is the mysterious leader of the Others. With the exception of Ben, the Others have never met or not seen Jacob in years. Jacob lives in a shack without electricity. When Ben takes Locke to meet him on day 91, Locke cannot see Jacob – although he is staring at him – but he can hear Jacob say, "Help me..." In his split-second of camera-time, Jacob appears to be an expressionless middle-aged white male with long hair, the makings of a beard, and bland clothing much like the "Others" wear outside of the confines of their barracks. There are also a couple of frames showing a close up of someone's eye. Hurley encounters Jacob's shack after falling behind the rest of the group and stumbling into a clearing. When he peers in through the window he sees a figure sitting in a rocking chair who is wearing a business suit and white trainers and appears to be Christian Shephard. Somebody suddenly appears at the window and Hurley falls backwards and runs in shock. He runs through the jungle but finds himself at the cabin again. He screws his eyes shut, counts to five and backs away, thinking the shack to be another of his hallucinations; when he opens his eyes the cabin is gone. It is implied that this is not the original location that Ben introduced Locke to Jacob, as the group then travels to this location on the way to the barracks. Locke finds the cabin to be gone and is visibly frustrated. Hurley then mentions that he thought the cabin was back the way they came. This startles Locke and Ben as it implies that Hurley also has seen the shack and presumably Jacob.
Richard Alpert	Nestor Carbonell	3.07, 3.13, 3.16, 3.19, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22	Named after spiritual philosopher Ram Dass, Dr. Richard Alpert is an influential Other who does not age. In the early 1970s, Richard – one of the original "Hostiles" (Others) – conspires with a young Ben to gas the Barracks and kill the Dharma Initiative, with the Others moving in. Richard works as a recruiter for a front company for the Others, called Mittelos Bioscience. (Mittelos = Lost time). In September 2001, he recruits Juliet with the help of Ethan Rom. Richard prefers not to take a position of power, but disputes several decisions by Ben. Carbonell has speculated that Richard is 400 years old and indigenous to the island.
Mikhail Bakunin	Andrew Divoff	3.05, 3.11, 3.12, 3.16, 3.18, 3.20, 3.22	Named after the anarchist of the same name, Mikhail is a one-eyed member of the Others who lived in a Dharma Initiative station. Because he wears an eye-patch, he was referred to as "Patchy" by the crew before his name was revealed. Mikhail was born in Kiev in present day Ukraine, which was part of the USSR at the time of his birth. He worked as a medic in the Soviet Army and served in the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Later he carried military service on a listening station near Vladivostok. However, his military unit is decommissioned. He later replies to a newspaper advertisement and was recruited by Jacob, which eventually landed him on the island. He lives in the Flame, a communications station with a satellite transceiver, televisions and computers. After Flight 815 crashes, Mikhail compiles detailed files on each of the survivors. Sayid, Locke, Kate and Rousseau find him on day 77. They take him prisoner and he is apparently killed by the sonic fences that protect the Others' homes in the Barracks. However, an alive Mikhail reappears on day 87 to Desmond, Hurley, Charlie and Jin. He saves Naomi's life in exchange for being let free to return to the Others. On day 91, Mikhail finds the Others and is beaten up by Locke. Mikhail claims that the sonic fence was not set to a lethal level. Mikhail is sent by Ben, who calls Mikhail a "loyalist," to reinforce Greta and Bonnie at the Looking Glass station on day 92, who have encountered Charlie and Desmond. At Ben's request, Mikhail questions and kills Greta and Bonnie on day 93. Desmond appears and shoots Mikhail in the chest with a spear gun. Later, Mikhail explodes a hand grenade, which kills both himself and Charlie. Mikhail is set to return through flashbacks in a future episode.
Danny Pickett	Michael Bowen	2.22, 2.23, 3.03, 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 3.07	Pickett is a forceful and the most violent member of the Others who supervised the construction of an airstrip on the island where the Hydra station is located. He was married to another Other named Colleen until her death. He monitors Kate and Sawyer when they are ordered to smash rocks on days 69, 70 and 72. His wife Colleen takes part in a raid upon Desmond's boat the Elizabeth on day 69, and is killed by Sun in the process. Enraged, Pickett takes all of his anger out on Sawyer, repeatedly beating him and threatening to kill him for days. He almost succeeds, however he is ordered to release Kate and Sawyer or else Ben will die at the hands of Jack. Pickett pursues Kate and Sawyer with Luke and Jason, but he is shot dead by Juliet. Juliet faces trial for the murder but escaped execution and was only branded as punishment. Pickett may return through flashbacks in a future episode.
Karl	Blake Bashoff	3.01, 3.07, 3.09, 3.21, 3.22, 4.01, 4.02, 4.08	A young Other, Karl is Alex's boyfriend. Worried that Karl would get Alex pregnant (which, due to the mysterious nature of the Island, would kill her), Ben cages Karl on day 68 and, after he escapes and is recaptured, is forced to watch a brainwashing film repeatedly. Alex, Sawyer and Kate rescue him on day 73, and he goes with Kate and Sawyer by canoe back to the main island. Sawyer lets him go free once they return. He lives in the forest until Alex tells him to go warn the crash survivors of the Others' upcoming raid on their camp on day 92. He reunites with Alex on day 93 and they join the survivors' group.
Goodwin	Brett Cullen	2.07, 3.01, 3.16, 4.06	Goodwin was married to the island's therapist, Harper Stanhope. When Juliet Burke arrived to the island, he began an affair with her much to the dismay of Harper and Ben who is in love with Juliet. Possibly out of jealously, Ben sends Goodwin on a mission to pretend he is one of the tail-section survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. When Goodwin is found out by Ana Lucia Cortez to not be a crash survivor, she confronts him and engages in a fight that results in his death.
Beatrice "Bea" Klugh	April Grace	2.22, 2.23, 3.11	Bea is the Other who interrogates Michael during his stay with the Others. She also allows him to see Walt. On day 79 at the Dharma station, The Flame, she is found by Sayid, Locke and Kate after she attacks her. She is soon killed by Mikhail after demanding her death in fluent Russian.

Other Kahana crew members

Character name	Played by	Episode Appearances	Summary
Naomi Dorrit	Marsha Thomason	3.17, 3.18, 3.19, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 4.01, 4.02, 4.03, 4.08	Naomi was born in Manchester, England. She was recruited by Matthew Abaddon to lead a group of four people, Daniel Faraday, Charlotte Lewis, Miles Straume, and Frank Lapidus, on a mission to the island. Naomi is wary of the mission, appearing to doubt the story that Flight 815 had been found at the bottom of the ocean. Naomi is the first of her team to arrive on the island, although she injures herself as she parachutes in. She is discovered by Desmond, Hurley, Charlie, and Jin, and is initially surprised they are alive as she recounts the cover-up story that "they found the plane. There were no survivors. They were all dead." She is brought back to the survivor's camp in secret, where Sayid questions her. Naomi claims she has come from a freighter off-shore that has been sent by Penny Widmore to search for Desmond. Naomi's presence is later revealed to the other survivors and Jack lays out his plan for contacting Naomi's boat. The survivors hike towards the Radio Tower, while Charlie switches off the blocking signal for communications to the island. Naomi is finally able to get a signal on her satellite phone to the freighter, but is mortally wounded in the process as Locke throws a knife into her back, desperate that she does not contact the outside world. Regardless, Jack completes the call. Naomi is able to crawl away with the phone and make one last call back to Minkowski on the freighter, relaying a coded phrase to say she has been attacked before dying. The next day Miles examines Naomi's body and, after "communicating" with her, declares she was indeed killed by Locke. Her body is then carried back to the Freighter by Frank's helicopter.
Frank Lapidus	Jeff Fahey	4.02, 4.03, 4.05, 4.08	Frank Lapidus is a pilot who brings Daniel, Miles, and Charlotte to the island. His father was born in the Bronx, and Frank claims to be a die hard Yankee fan. He worked for Oceanic and was supposed to be the pilot for Flight 815. He has an alcohol addiction. Frank is later selected to be one of five who visits the island around day 94. He takes Sayid and Desmond to the freighter the next day via helicopter.
George Minkowski	Fisher Stevens	3.22, 4.01, 4.02, 4.05, 4.08	George Minkowski, named after Lithuanian-born German mathematician Hermann Minkowski, is the ship's communications officer on the freighter. He is introduced in "Through the Looking Glass". When Jack calls the ship on day 93, Minkowski answers and tells him he will send help. He later calls the survivors multiple times to reconfigure the phone and speaks to Naomi just before she dies. Minkowski gets caught in time warps and dies from brain aneurysm. His voice is portrayed by an uncredited actor in "Through the Looking Glass"; at the beginning of season 4, Fisher Stevens was cast in the role.
Regina	Zoë Bell	4.02, 4.03, 4.04, 4.07	Regina is a woman on the freighter who answers calls from the satellite phone after Minkowski gets stuck in a time loop. She is contacted by Miles and Daniel and helps Daniel with an experiment by sending a rocket to the island.

Island inhabitants and arrivals

The following are neither aboard Flight 815 nor members of The Others nor people on the freighter but arrived on the Island a different way.

Danielle Rousseau

Main article: Danielle Rousseau

Rousseau arrived on the island sixteen years before the crash of Flight 815 as part of a research party. She gave birth to a baby girl, Alex, though her child was stolen shortly after by the Others. Mira Furlan portrays Rousseau in thirteen episodes.

Anthony Cooper

Named after Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, the mentor of the philosopher John Locke, Cooper is Locke's biological father and the man who conned Sawyer's parents, leading to both of their deaths. Cooper was unaware that he had a son (Locke) until Locke was born. Locke was given up for adoption. A couple of decades later, Cooper took the alias of Tom Sawyer and conned a woman, Mary Ford, into giving him a large amount of money. In response, Mary's husband killed her and himself. Their son James retained a grudge against Cooper, later taking the name Sawyer for himself. In his older years, Cooper's kidneys fail, and he needs a transplant. Locke's mother, Emily comes back asking for money once again, and Cooper agrees to help her if she finds Locke for him. Cooper bonds with Locke, before conning him out of a kidney. This scars Locke for life and Locke begins stalking his father. Later, Cooper cons two men out of $700,000. Afraid that they might kill him, Cooper fakes his death, then enlists Locke's help to get the money from a safe deposit box. Locke, who swore to his girlfriend Helen that he had stopped going to see his father, lost Helen as a result of this. Sometime later, Cooper begins another con with a woman, Ms. Talbot. Locke, having been visited by her son, confronts Cooper, and tells him to stop conning others. Cooper kills her son and pushes Locke out a window to fall eight stories and break his back, causing Locke's paraplegia. Cooper then disappears, presumably to Mexico. Soon after the crash of Flight 815, Cooper has a car accident in Tallahassee and is taken and imprisoned on the island. Cooper believes that he is in Hell and after Ben reveals that they have Cooper in captivity, Locke takes him to the Black Rock. His true identity is revealed to Sawyer, who then kills him. Kevin Tighe plays Cooper in "Deus Ex Machina", "Orientation", "Lockdown", "The Man from Tallahassee" and "The Brig". Tighe was nominated for a 2007 Los Angeles Times GoldDerby TV Award in the category of "Drama Guest Actor", however he lost to George Dzundza of Grey’s Anatomy.

Aaron

Appearances: "Do No Harm", "The Greater Good", "Born to Run", "Exodus: Part 1", "Exodus: Part 2", "Adrift", "Everybody Hates Hugo", "Abandoned", "What Kate Did", "The 23rd Psalm", "The Hunting Party", "Fire + Water", "The Long Con", "Maternity Leave", "Lockdown", "S.O.S.", "Three Minutes", "Live Together, Die Alone", "Further Instructions", "Every Man for Himself", "Flashes Before Your Eyes", "Par Avion", "Exposé", "Left Behind", "One of Us", "Greatest Hits", "Through the Looking Glass", "The Beginning of the End", "Confirmed Dead," "Eggtown," and "The Other Woman."

Aaron Littleton is the son of Claire and her boyfriend Thomas. A psychic named Richard Malkin warns Claire that if she gives the baby to someone else to be raised by, bad things will happen to it. He later suddenly changes his mind and tells Claire to let an American couple in Los Angeles, CA adopt her baby. On the island, Claire is captured by the Others, who try to steal her unborn child. Claire later escapes and gives birth to Aaron on November 2, 2004. Aaron is kidnapped by Rousseau two days after his birth in an attempt to exchange Aaron for her daughter Alex, who was kidnapped by the Others from her sixteen years prior. Charlie and Sayid go to rescue him and succeed. Charlie later has dreams that Aaron will soon be in danger and forcibly takes Aaron to the ocean to be baptized. While Claire temporarily disallows Charlie from being with Aaron, she gets Mr. Eko to baptize Aaron on day 56. On day 92, Desmond prophesies that Claire and Aaron will be rescued from the island via helicopter. Sometime in the future, Aaron leaves the island, presumably with the Oceanic Six, and is being raised by Kate under unknown circumstances. Over fifty male and female blonde-haired, blue-eyed babies have acted as Aaron throughout the first three seasons. In addition, child actor William Blanchette plays Aaron at two years old.

DHARMA Initiative members

• Dr. Marvin Candle, Dr. Mark Wickmund and Dr. Edgar Halowax are the names that the actor playing scientists in the DHARMA Initiative orientation films calls himself. New footage of François Chau as the man in the orientation films appears in the episodes "Orientation", "What Kate Did", "?", "Enter 77" and "The Man Behind the Curtain".

• Gerald and Karen DeGroot were funded by the Hanso Foundation in 1970 to found the DHARMA Initiative. Michael Gilday and Courtney Lavigne play the DeGroots in episodes "Orientation", "What Kate Did", "?" and "Not in Portland".

• A former arms salesman and manufacturer, Alvar Hanso is the enigmatic Danish leader of the Hanso Foundation. Ian Patrick Williams plays Hanso in the Lost Experience. Hanso can be seen in the show via an orientation film in "Orientation".

• In the early 1990s, Kelvin Joe Inman is an intelligence operative for the United States government, and responsible for making Sayid torture his former commander. Later, Kelvin joins the DHARMA Initiative, and operates the Swan station until Desmond accidentally kills him. Clancy Brown appears as Kelvin in "One of Them" and "Live Together, Die Alone".

• Roger Linus is Ben's father and an employee of the DHARMA Initiative. In "The Man Behind the Curtain", Jon Gries plays Roger, who is killed by Ben in the episode. His corpse is discovered by Hurley in "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead".

• Annie was a girl who befriended Ben Linus when they were both young and living in the Dharma Initiative during its heyday. She is seen in The Man Behind the Curtain. It is unknown what happened to her, whether she died in the purge of the original DHARMA inhabitants or she had left the island but it is possible that she could become an important character in future episodes.

• Horace and Olivia Goodspeed were the couple, who helped Roger and Emily Linus after Emily gave an early labor. Years after Emily's death, Horace and Olivia offered a job to Roger at the DHARMA Initiative. Horace was presumed to be a worker at the The Arrow, while Olivia was a teacher. Horace died during the purge, however Olivia's fate is left unanswered. Doug Hutchison played Horace and Samantha Mathis did Olivia. The producers have confirmed that Horace and Olivia Goodspeed are important to the DHARMA story, and we can expect to see more of them in future episodes.

Off-island characters

Christian Shephard

Main article: Christian Shephard

John Terry appears in ten episodes as Dr. Christian Shephard, Jack and Claire's father who died before the crash.

Sarah Shephard

Sarah is Jack's ex-wife. Eight months before her wedding to her first fiancé, Kevin, she is involved in a car crash with an SUV driven by Adam Rutherford (Shannon's father and Boone's step-father). When Jack informs Kevin that Sarah may never be able to walk again, Kevin leaves her. Sarah's back is broken, and her doctor, Jack, informs her that she will never walk again, however she does. They fall in love and marry, but some time later, Sarah has an affair and divorces Jack. Sometime after the crash survivors are rescued, Sarah is pregnant. Julie Bowen portrays Sarah in "Do No Harm", "Man of Science, Man of Faith", "The Hunting Party", "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Through the Looking Glass".

Penny Widmore

Penelope "Penny" Widmore is the great love of Desmond, and his girlfriend before he was separated from her by her domineering and extremely wealthy father Charles. Desmond is shipwrecked on the island while trying to win a race to prove his worth to her father and get her back. Penny is searching for the island, with two Portuguese men stationed at a polar research station. On day 93, Penny transmits a message to the Looking Glass Hatch, which Charlie receives, and she informs him that Naomi was not sent by her. Desmond was finally able to make contact with Penny after 3 years of searching for him on Christmas Eve. Sonya Walger plays Penny in "Live Together, Die Alone", "Flashes Before Your Eyes", "Catch-22", "Through the Looking Glass" and "The Constant". Carlton Cuse has stated that "Penny is an important character in the overarching mythology of the show".

Charles Widmore

Charles Widmore is a wealthy industrialist and the father of Penny Widmore, the love of Desmond's life. However, he thinks Desmond is a coward and strongly disapproves of his relationship with his daughter. He tries to keep Desmond as far from Penny as possible. When Widmore holds a sailing race around the world, Desmond finds that as a way to prove himself worthy of Penny however his boat only leads him to the island where 815 crashed. According to Ben, Charles is as an enemy of the people of the Island and is trying to exploit the island, and it was Charles who sent the freighter to help him with that venture. Widmore is played by Alan Dale in "Live Together, Die Alone," "Flashes Before Your Eyes," "The Constant," and "The Other Woman."

Jae Lee

Jae Lee is the wealthy son of the owner of the Seoul Gateway Hotel and the hotel's general manager. He attended Harvard University and studied Medieval Russian Literature. He meets Sun on a family-arranged date. He teaches Sun English at her request, and ends up having an affair with her. He asks her to leave for America with him. Sun's father finds out about the affair. Instead of telling Jin about it, Sun's father tells Jin that Jae is stealing from him. He orders Jin to kill Jae. Jin beats up Jae, but tells him to leave the country and never return instead of killing him. Jae subsequently commits suicide by jumping from his apartment. Tony Lee acts as Jae in "…And Found", "The Whole Truth" and "The Glass Ballerina".

Yemi

Yemi is the younger brother of Mr. Eko. When they were young, the village of Yemi and Eko was invaded by guerrillas who command Yemi to shoot an old man. Eko saves him from doing this task by shooting the man himself. The men sense the potential for ruthlessness in Eko and take him with them when they leave, leaving Yemi behind. Yemi later becomes a priest and works to improve the lives of his parishioners. For example, he makes arrangements to procure vaccines twice a year for the village; thugs take 80% of the vaccines in exchange for offering "protection" to the village, but villagers acknowledge that without Yemi's efforts they would have no vaccines at all. He plans on moving to London to continue his education. The week before Yemi is scheduled to leave for London, Eko pays him a visit. Eko needs to transport heroin out of the country and wants to use the missionary planes of the church. Yemi initially refuses, but gives in when Eko warns him that his partners will burn down the church if Yemi does not cooperate. Yemi reluctantly signs papers to give Eko and his men the authority of priests. Yemi dies trying to stop Eko and the men from leaving; he is shot by gunfire from the army as the plane with the heroin begins to take off. He later appears as a vision to Locke and Eko on day 64, and he leads them to the Pearl station. The "monster" also takes his form (and was possibly the "vision" Yemi in the first place) and kills Mr. Eko on day 72. Adetokumboh M'Cormack acts as Yemi in "The 23rd Psalm", "?" and "The Cost of Living".

Cassidy Phillips

Cassidy Phillips was a recently divorced woman whom Sawyer conned. Despite being in love with her, Sawyer stole her money (albeit after a threat from his partner). Cassidy then went to Iowa and tried to con people using the techniques she had been taught, and met Kate. Cassidy later reported Sawyer to the police and as a result, he was thrown in jail. While Sawyer was in prison, Cassidy visited him and showed him a picture of a baby girl named Clementine, who she said was his daughter. Kim Dickens appears as Cassidy in "The Long Con", "Every Man for Himself" and "Left Behind".

Matthew Abaddon

Matthew Abaddon is a fierce and ruthless corporate recruiter who appears intimidating. Abaddon first appears in the flash forward in "The Beginning of the End". He visits Hurley in the mental hospital, initially claiming to be a lawyer for Oceanic Airlines, and offers to "upgrade" Hurley to a nicer hospital. Hurley becomes suspicious when Abaddon does not have a business card, making it unlikely that he is really associated with Oceanic Airlines. Abaddon then asks him, "Are they still alive?" He abruptly leaves when Hurley becomes agitated. He returns in a flashback talking to Naomi about the crew he has assembled for her in "Confirmed Dead". He appears to be in charge of the freighter's operations on the Island and recruited all the people on Naomi's freighter, including Miles, Daniel, Charlotte, and Frank. He and Naomi also seem to imply that they are either not convinced by the finding of Oceanic 815 or they themselves planted the fake plane. He apparently works for Charles Widmore since Widmore is financing the freighter and is the main person trying to find the Island. He is portrayed by Lance Reddick.

Rachel Blake

Rachel "Persephone" Blake is Alvar Hanso's daughter, who attempts to expose the Hanso Foundation and fate of the DHARMA Initiative. She is portrayed by Jamie Silberhartz. Blake only appears in the Lost Experience.

Recurring off-island characters

Character name	Played by	Main character crossover(s)	Episode Appearances
Sam Austen	Lindsey Ginter	Kate (step-father), Sayid (captor)	"What Kate Did", "One of Them"
Rachel Carlson	Robin Weigert	Juliet (sister)	"Not in Portland", "One of Us"
Chrissy	Meilinda Soerjoko	Some crash survivors (ticket agent)	"White Rabbit", "House of the Rising Sun", "Two for the Road"
Teresa Cortez	Rachel Ticotin	Ana Lucia (mother)	"Collision", "Two for the Road"
JD	John Dixon	Crash survivors (flight attendant)	"Pilot: Part 1", "Pilot: Part 2", "Exodus: Part 2"
Diane Janssen	Beth Broderick	Kate (mother), Sawyer (waitress)	"Born to Run", "What Kate Did", "The Long Con", "Left Behind", "Eggtown"
Nadia Jazeem	Andrea Gabriel	Sayid (girlfriend), Locke (client), Charlie (acquaintance)	"Solitary", "Lockdown", "Greatest Hits"
Helen	Katey Sagal	Locke (girlfriend)	"Orientation", "Lockdown"
Mr. Kwon	John Shin	Jin (father), Sun (father-in-law)	"…In Translation", "D.O.C."
Lindsey Littleton	Gabrielle Fitzpatrick	Claire (aunt)	"Two for the Road", "Par Avion"
Susan Lloyd	Tamara Taylor	Michael (girlfriend), Walt (mother)	"Special", "Adrift"
Richard Malkin	Nick Jameson	Claire (psychic), Eko (acquaintance)	"Raised by Another", "?"
Mary Jo	Brittany Perrineau	Sawyer (girlfriend), Hurley (lotto girl)	"Numbers", "Outlaws", "Everybody Hates Hugo"
Jason McCormack	Aaron Gold	Ana Lucia (attacker; victim)	"Collision", "Two for the Road"
Michelle	Michelle Arthur	Crash survivors (flight attendant)	"Pilot: Part 1", "Pilot: Part 2", "Exodus: Part 2"
Randy Nations	Billy Ray Gallion	Locke (supervisor), Hurley (former supervisor)	"Walkabout", "Everybody Hates Hugo", "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead", "The Beginning of the End"
Nurse	Julie Ow	Locke (nurse), Jack (co-worker)	"Deus Ex Machina", "A Tale of Two Cities"
Liam Pace	Neil Hopkins (older), Zack Shada (younger)	Charlie (elder brother)	"The Moth", "Fire + Water", "Greatest Hits"
Mr. Paik	Byron Chung	Sun (father), Jin (employer & father-in-law)	"…In Translation", "The Glass Ballerina", "D.O.C."
Carmen Reyes	Lillian Hurst	Hurley (mother)	"Numbers", "Everybody Hates Hugo", "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead"
Adam Rutherford	Uncredited	Shannon (father), Boone (step-father), Jack (patient; victim of future wife's car accident)	"Man of Science, Man of Faith", "Abandoned"
Marc Silverman	Zack Ward (older)	Jack (friend)	"White Rabbit", "Do No Harm"
Leonard Simms	Ron Bottitta	Hurley (friend)	"Numbers", "Dave"
Big Mike Walton	Michael Cudlitz	Ana Lucia (partner), Hurley (interrogator)	"Collision", "The Beginning of the End"

External links

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