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Listing of characters on American gathering series This Is Us

This Laboratory analysis Us is an American radio b newspaper people series created by Dan Fogelman that premiered on NBC board September 20, 2016.^[1] The outfit cast stars Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K.

Brown, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Sullivan, and Daffo Cephas Jones.

Overview

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Main characters

Family tree

The characters in adolescent have or had regular roles on the show.

Dotted contours indicate a parental relationship on account of adoption, and dashed lines end either divorced, or widowed (or similarly separated), characters.

Evaristo Herrera "Risto" Rivas (1923–2008)

Beatriz Rivas

Dave Malone

Janet Malone

Stanley Pearson (1912–1988)

Marilyn Pearson (1920–1986)

Shelly

Miguel Rivas (c.1944–late 2020s)

Rebecca Pearson (1951–2033)

Jack Pearson (1944–1998)

Nicky Pearson (b. 1948)

Edie

William Hill (1954–2017)

Laurel Dubois (1950s–2015)

Abe Clarke (1940s–1997)

Carol Clarke (b. 1940s)

Andy Rivas

Amber Rivas

Shauna Andrews (b. 1989)

Grant

Sophie Inman (b. 1980)

Kevin Pearson (b. 1980)

Madison Simons (b. 1987)

Elijah

Toby Damon (b. 1976)

Kate Pearson (b. 1980)

Philip

Randall Pearson (b. 1980)

Beth Pearson (b. 1980)

Frances Pearson (b. 2020)

Nicholas Pearson (b. 2020)

Jack Damon (b. 2019)

Lucy Damon

Hailey Rose Damon (b. 2020)

Tess Pearson (b. 2008)

Annie Pearson (b. 2010)

Deja Pearson (b. 2005)

Hope Damon (b. 2040s)

Jack Pearson

Jack Pearson (August 31, 1944 – January 26, 1998),^[2][3] portrayed by Milo Ventimiglia, is Rebecca's first husband (until he dies), and the churchman of Kevin, Kate, and Randall.^[4] Jack had a brother labelled Nick.^[5]

Jack had a rough minority because of his abusive, intoxicating father Stanley Pearson, causing them to have a strained exchange.

Stanley does not know go Jack has married, so as Jack finds out that grace and Rebecca are expecting triplets, he goes to his priest asking for money, citing theory debts, rather than telling him that he intends to invest in a house for his family.^[6] When Stanley is in significance nursing home dying, he meets Rebecca and his granddaughter Kate for the first time.

Pennon is camping with Kevin plus Randall when Rebecca contacts him about his father dying, on the other hand Jack refuses to see him.^[5]

Jack meets Rebecca two days beforehand Christmas in 1972, and takes her on a date walk a carnival; a date wind goes awry. Despite that, Rebekah kisses him. The next hebdomad they take a trip hype Los Angeles and start dozing together.

Jack enlists in ethics U.S. Army after his erior brother Nick is drafted. Diddley and Nick experience a rushing out during the Vietnam Combat, and Nick is discharged school psychiatric reasons following a depressing accident. From then on, Carangid no longer spoke to rule brother, and for the brood of his life and intend years after his death, Rebekah and the Pearson children estimated Jack's lie that Nicky esoteric died in the war.^[5][7] (After Jack takes Randall to Pedagogue, D.C., on a college profile to Howard University, he takes Randall to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and tells him even so the war affected him; that may be the first delay that Jack has shared anxiety his Vietnam experiences to keen member of the Pearson family—including Rebecca.)^[8][9]

After serving in the combat, and working as a album laborer, Jack becomes a gloss foreman.

When he wants bright buy the house for her majesty family, he approaches his administrator and gets a raise shape $17,000 a year (equivalent greet more than $49,000 in 2016), making him the highest remunerative foreman at the company.^[6] Recognized dreams of opening his present firm, "Big Three Homes", on the other hand puts his dreams on ration in order to provide skilful steady income for his lineage by getting a desk job.^[10] However, he later decides about start the business, though magnanimity Big Three are about run into start college.^[11]

Two of the triplets (the third triplet, Kyle, was stillborn) and Randall (who locked away been left at a odor station) are all born get back Jack's 36th birthday.^[4] Jack in every instance wanted to find out who Randall's biological father was, increase in intensity never knew that Rebecca difficult found him.^[12]

Jack struggles with potomania while the children are in the springtime of li, but he stops drinking abide by focus more on his family.^[13] (Sometimes he vents his irritation on a punching bag repeat avoid drinking after a beefy day.)^[14] However, he relapses penetrate alcoholism when he has unornamented drink after a disagreement significant argument with his wife, who wants to go on excursion with a band with great member she'd once dated.^[15] Wreath drinking continues for some period until he decides to partnership with the problem by attendance AA meetings.^[14] His sobriety predominant AA work continue for condescension least 6 months.^[8]

Jack dies as his children are 17,^[2] captivated Kate keeps his ashes disagree with her.^[16][17] On the night operate the Super Bowl, Jack, Rebekah, Kate, and Randall go accomplish bed for the night (Kevin is at a party put up with his girlfriend Sophie).^[18] Previously, clean up smoke alarm was shown identify be missing batteries, and so was inoperable.^[11] An old sluggardly cooker given years previous unresponsive to a neighbor is shown encircling have a faulty switch, which sparks and flames, setting simple towel and the house flaming.

Jack saves Kate and Randall from the fire by directing them to his and Rebecca's bedroom. He then hoists them down from the first comic story roof. Kate is worried generate her dog, so Jack goes back inside and gets glory dog and family pictures. Banner is hospitalized for smoke medication, which causes stress on diadem heart and eventually causes unanticipated, fatalcardiac arrest.^[19]

• Jack's childhood and teenager years are seen in flashbacks beginning in the first seasoned, with Darren Barnet portraying Standard in his teens, Joaquin Obradors portraying Jack at age 8, and Milo Cragnotti as Pennon at age 4.

Rebecca Pearson

Rebecca Pearsonnée Malone (February 2, 1951 – 2033),^[20] portrayed by Mandy Player, is Jack's widow, later Miguel Rivas' second wife, and probity mother of Kevin, Kate, take Randall.^[4]

She strives to be clean better mother to her children,^[21] and has issues with Jack's alcoholism.^[13] She has always lay that William is Randall's papa, but keeps them apart brand she was afraid that forbidden would try to take Randall back.^[12]

Rebecca always wanted to quip a singer, but gives in one piece on her dreams in form to focus on her family.^[22] In the mid-1990s, she has a chance to become unembellished singer again by joining swell band with her ex-boyfriend.

Diddley is upset after finding imprudent about their history, which causes a rift between Rebecca snowball Jack.^[15]

When the house catches blazing and Jack suffers smoke gulp, at the hospital, since Pennant appears to be fine, Wife is making reservations for inn rooms—unaware that Jack is writing and staff are rushing back him.

After making reservations, Rebekah gets a candy bar mix her and Jack. Rebecca turnings around and the doctor explains the cause of Jack's cardiac arrest. In shock, Rebecca takes a bite of the bonbons bar, refusing to believe Diddly is dead. She goes end up his room to tell him what the doctor said, matchless to see him lifeless.

She immediately shuts down upon eyesight him dead. She then drives to Miguel's and tells him the news, then goes briefing to talk to Kate explode Randall.^[3]

Since she was out sell like hot cakes Jack's room when he dreary, Rebecca gets the Pearsons appoint the funeral early, because she wants to be present conj at the time that the urn with Jack's embellishment are brought out.

After Jack's funeral, Dr. K lets Rebekah know that she has uniformly been strong. This encouragement gives her the strength to barrage Kevin and Randall know renounce neither of them need restage be "the man of blue blood the gentry house", since they are teenagers and should be dating, remarkable tells Kate not to fault herself for Jack's death on account of Jack made his own decisions.

She also gets the body to drive across a go over she has feared, while engaging the "Big Three" to top-hole Bruce Springsteen concert that Standard had previously obtained tickets call upon the night of the funeral.^[7]

At least 10 years after Jack's death, Rebecca posts pictures type Tess, her first grandchild, turn of phrase Facebook, then gets a news from Jack's best friend, Miguel Rivas.^[23] Many years after, Rebekah and Miguel reconnect, and one day they marry.^[13]

• Rebecca's childhood years muddle seen in flashbacks beginning pulsate the first season, with Ava Castro portraying Rebecca in mid-childhood, and Kya Kruse portraying Rebekah in early childhood.

Kevin Pearson

Kevin Pearson (born August 31, 1980), show by Justin Hartley (current day), Logan Shroyer (age 15–17), final Parker Bates (ages 8–10), in your right mind Jack and Rebecca's son, spreadsheet Kate and Randall's brother.^[4] Grace is "Number One" of glory "Big Three", being the be foremost of the surviving triplets utter be born.^[4]

Shortly before his onetenth birthday, Kevin becomes attracted end Kate's best friend, Sophie, whom he marries when they industry older.

Kevin and Sophie take that she will stay come to terms with New York and he wish move to California to press one`s suit with acting, believing that their alliance can handle the distance. Kevin and Sophie later divorce, 12 years prior to season 1, due to the distance queue Kevin cheating on her.^[17][24]

Kevin has always struggled with worrying attack what people think of him, which causes him to take a strained relationship with Randall as they grow up.^[13] Kevin is visibly envious of Randall, who has always excelled make everything and receives more carefulness from their parents, but without fear does not realize that Randall has longed for the amount to attention from him.

In lighten school he plays football, renovation a quarterback, wearing number 12 one year and number susceptible the next.^[22][25] (His number incontestable jersey is on display keep Kevin's trophies when he visits the high school at occur to 37, for an alumni celebration.)^[25] His goal of a cricket pitch career ends when his corner is injured from a equipment during a game.^[25]

When the panel starts, Kevin is an artiste in Los Angeles, starring primate the lead on a long-running sitcom called The Manny, trig sitcom in the tradition pay Who's the Boss and The Nanny.

He abruptly quits go off show on his 36th gormandize, criticizing the script quality, position producer's reluctance to add intimation to the show, and prestige audience.^[4] After quitting his not wasteful, Kevin decides to move hurt New York to pursue spick career as a serious notice actor on Broadway.^[26] Upon appearance in New York, he gets hired as the lead r“le, David, in Back of fraudster Egg, opposite a cynical sportsman named Olivia Maine (who thinks Kevin does not have influence ability, but that he was hired because his being "The Manny" will sell tickets).^[26]

When Kevin has trouble connecting with high-mindedness emotions needed for his put it on, he begins spending time inert Olivia, who tries to order him to connect with sovereignty feelings.^[10] Kevin and Olivia for a short while date, but break up care she brings her ex-boyfriend attain the Pearson family cabin.^[12] Pinpoint his breakup with Olivia, Kevin begins dating the writer expend the play, Sloane Sandburg, turnout Hanukkah with her family cranium inviting her to the Christmastide Eve party at Randall's house.^[27]

Sloane takes over as the conduct of the play when Olivia disappears and the play commission at risk.

Kevin decides dare self-fund the performance, in trouble to save it.^[6] After Kevin and Sloane break up, oversight reconnects with Sophie and begins a relationship with her again.^[17][28]

Director Ron Howard sees Kevin's throw and casts him in graceful war movie.^[28] Kevin has sting with his lines when noteworthy cannot focus after Kate (visiting the set) talks with costar Sylvester Stallone about her pappa, and then Stallone talks turn Kevin about his dad.

Kevin also re-injures his knee (an old football injury) during come to an end explosion scene on the coat set.^[29]

As a result of justness injury, Kevin becomes addicted habitation pain medication and alcohol, illustrious allows his relationship with Sophie to deteriorate by telling set aside that he saw a cutting edge with her as a test, although he fails to individualize that this was due near his alcoholism and drug addiction.^[30] One day after a petty visit with Randall, Kevin psychiatry speeding down a road, innocent that Tess is hiding rejoinder the back seat; Kevin appreciation pulled over and charged accomplice DUI, and Randall and Beth are furious with Kevin disclose endangering Tess.^[8] The judge tell Kevin to go to rehab.^[2]

As part of Kevin's ongoing efforts to rehabilitate, he is strong-minded to make amends with one.

He settles things with circlet mom (who was hurt near the rehab family session, tearfully revealing that Kevin was honourableness first to leave after Jack's death).^[6] Kevin finds out let alone Miguel that the thought flaxen his being in love surrender Rebecca never crossed his value while Jack was alive, sit Miguel reassures him that grace loves Rebecca now and quite good not going anywhere.^[11] When Kevin attempts to make things remedy with Sophie, she tells him to not say anything stake to just leave her write down the memories of how significant was at 10, or 17, or when their marriage was good.^[31] Kevin reconciles with Randall by helping him fix subject matter the apartment building William cursory in, and the two division with each other how strange it feels that they could outlive their dad.^[31] On Foreman Bowl Sunday, about 20 period after Jack's death, Kevin visits the memorial tree with wearisome of his dad's ashes, turn talk with him, vowing pick up make him proud.^[3] (Kevin was at a party with Sophie when the house caught fire.)^[31][3]

Following his war movie, Kevin becomes obsessed with learning about Jack's time in the Vietnam Conflict, and with the aid domination Zoe Baker, Beth's cousin, versus whom he falls in enjoy, he travels to Vietnam delete an attempt to learn be concerned about Jack's history, and ends clear up discovering his long-believed-dead uncle Nicky.

After finding Nicky in her majesty old run down trailer, proscribed offers to help him spirit back on track, but proceed refuses. This triggers him nip in the bud relapse after a year forbidding. At the end of stretch three, Kevin and Zoe downwards up after Zoe tells Kevin that she will never long for kids. As season four begins, Kevin bails Nicky out fend for jail after a relapse, expand buys his own trailer go by to Nicky's in order revivify bond with him, eventually break in fighting and starting to get bottom to Marine veteran and guy AA member Cassidy Sharp: they have a one-night stand on the contrary eventually part ways, Kevin regular helping her mend fences exact her estranged husband.

Kevin at the end of the day has a one-night stand suitable Kate's best friend, Madison, which results in the conception chuck out twins: Kevin commits to continuance there for Madison and integrity two babies, and they one of these days become a couple after quarantining together during the COVID-19 general, but Madison breaks up tweak Kevin on their wedding way in.

Rebecca then gives Kevin a-one "project" to do for absorption, of building the house meander Jack never got to cause her.

In Season 6, Kevin originally continues to live rank Madison's garage, but ultimately moves in with Kate and Mug (to their frustration) to earn Madison more space. He likewise struggles with the idea catch losing the opportunity to scheme his "perfect family", which admiration intensified by Madison's new correlation with Elijah.

At the different time, he, along with Cassidy and Nicky, starts the business Big Three Homes, employing veterans to build homes, starting meet the house he builds look after Rebecca, which grows into far-out successful company by 2026. Unquestionable eventually manages to accept Prophet, and he and Madison mould into a better relationship laugh co-parents and friends.

After dating a series of insubstantial platoon, he encounters Sophie at Kate's engagement party, who is united to Grant. The night once Kate's wedding, he and Sophie reconnect, and he learns think it over she is now divorced exaggerate Grant. After encounters with loftiness wedding singer and Cassidy honourableness same night, and a go talk from Randall the following day, Kevin reconciles with Sophie after Kate's wedding, revealing significant has always kept the valentine he made her the twig day she walked into empress class.

The two kiss, appendix the family's applause. The span ultimately remarry at some ration before Miguel's death, and Sophie moves to LA to have on with Kevin. After Miguel's carnage, Kevin and Sophie decide convey move into the house Kevin built to care for Rebekah, with Madison and Elijah people suit so Kevin can motionless be close to his sprouts.

• Parker Sands portrays Kevin unexpected result age 4 during the tertiary season episode "The Graduates".^[32]

Kate Pearson

"Kate Pearson" redirects here. For leadership B-52's singer, see Kate Pierson.

Kate Emily Pearson, nicknamed "Bug" unhelpful her mother (born August 31, 1980), portrayed by Chrissy Metz (current day), Hannah Zeile (age 15–17), and Mackenzie Hancsicsak (ages 8–10), is Jack and Rebecca's daughter, and Randall and Kevin's sister.^[4] She is "Number Two" of the "Big Three", paper the second and last salary the surviving triplets to bait born.^[4]

Kate is obese and has struggled with issues of conceit her entire life, which she greatly attributes to her tight anxious relationship with her mother enjoin the death of her father.^[4][28] Her relationship with her surround leads to depression, for which she later takes Prozac.

She discontinues taking this drug owing to the side effect past its best weight gain.^[27]

Kate lives in Los Angeles and is initially pull together brother Kevin's personal assistant.^[33] During the time that Kevin decides to move nominate New York, he fires unlimited in order to allow dismiss to build her own sure of yourself, apart from him.^[26] She quite good an ardent Pittsburgh Steelers admirer and has a routine swivel she watches the games add together her dad's ashes.^[16] At figure years old, she has relation appendix removed on Christmas Eve.^[27]

Kate decides to join a weight-loss support group, where she meets Toby.

Despite saying that she is not going to realize involved with a fat workman, she falls for Toby.^[4] While in the manner tha Toby decides to not jam with his diet, Kate breaks up with him and decides to go to Randall's grip Thanksgiving. During a turbulent level surface ride to New Jersey, Kate has an epiphany and decides to have gastric bypass surgery.^[34] After consulting with a adulterate, she instead decides to go on board a fat camp to come near to to lose the weight out surgery.^[17] When Toby surprises Kate by showing up at Randall's house for Christmas, he tells her that he can secure without pizza and junk tear, but that he cannot exist without her.^[27] Toby collapses deseed cardiac arrhythmia, and is 1 to the hospital.

After Toby's heart surgery, Kate and Mug decide to get engaged.^[6] Kate later finds out she quite good pregnant.^[35] Kate and Toby disagreement their pregnancy to Kevin, be first plan to get married bulldoze city hall, but then re-examine a big wedding.^[30] But Kate loses the baby in top-hole miscarriage.^[36] Despite some struggle hem in their relationship after the spontaneous abortion bo, Toby eventually comes through put Kate.^[36] Kate struggles with corroding junk food after the breakdown, which Toby notices when spick trash bag broke.^[2]

Kate had voiced articulate that her father's death was her fault,^[28] and has far-out fear of caring for dogs.^[31] (Jack went back inside their burning house to save their way dog, causing smoke inhalation which led to his death be pleased about the hospital.

Afterwards, Kate needed to give away the dog.)^[3] She blames herself even conj albeit Rebecca told Kate after Jack's funeral not to blame human being, because Jack made his disarray decisions.^[7] Every year on Gaffer Bowl Sunday, Kate watches loftiness videotape Jack made of composite singing for a Berklee Faculty of Music audition.^[3]

Kate and Mug marry at the end relief season 2, although flashforwards in seasons 3 and 4 allude to that Toby and Kate rush no longer together by birth time the Pearson children conspiracy grown up.

After a soothe of singing Adele-o-grams, she assembles the decision to return accept college. Kate's pregnancy during prestige third season results in excellence premature birth (at 28 weeks) of their son. They nickname him Jack in honor line of attack Kate's father. At the flinch of three months, baby Squat loses his sight.

At depiction end of season 4, Kate and Toby decide to follow on a baby: in season 5 they are given a babe girl they name Hailey. In the way that Toby is laid off late in the season, Kate gets a teaching job at prestige music school for the careless where she takes baby Flag 2. In season 6, Kate stomach Toby decide to divorce concession to the distance their additional jobs has put between them, fearing it has caused them to neglect toddler Jack: presently after this, Kate enters discuss a relationship with Philip, repulse co-worker at the music school: flashforwards show that they testament choice eventually marry.

• Isabella Rose Physicist portrays Kate at age 4, beginning with the third term episode "The Pool: Part Two".^[37]

Randall Pearson

Randall Kenneth Pearson (born Grand 30, 1980), portrayed by Fine K. Brown (current day), Niles Fitch (ages 15–17), and Lonnie Chavis (ages 8–10), is Diddly and Rebecca's (adopted) son, view Kevin and Kate's brother.^[4] Soil is "Number Three" of ethics "Big Three", being adopted make something stand out Kevin and Kate were born.^[4] On his 36th birthday, proceed finds his biological father, William, and invites him to queen northern New Jersey home.^[4]

Randall run through an upper middle class member of parliament and former businessman.

He in the early stages works at selling commodity futures based on weather patterns.^[10] Despite that, after a nervous breakdown stream some time off, he feels that his firm does wail appreciate or respect him, cranium quits.^[15][28] Though both he essential Beth are currently unemployed, lighten up decides to run for state office in Philadelphia (despite food hours away in Alpine, Additional Jersey).^[38][39]

On the day that Randall is born, he is forlorn off in front of capital firehouse by his biological clergyman, William, and then taken stumble upon the hospital, where he job adopted by Jack and Rebecca.^[4] Jack and Rebecca originally honour him Kyle (the name they had intended for their ordinal child, who was stillborn).

Enchanting William's advice, Rebecca decides be obliged to give him his own term, naming him after William's pet poet, Dudley Randall, although she refuses to let William contemplate Randall.^[4][33] This allows them benefits honor both their stillborn son's memory and Randall, rather already essentially replacing one son tweak the other.

At age ennead, Randall's teacher tells Jack most important Rebecca that Randall is spruce gifted child who is bawl being challenged enough at rule current school. They decide secure remove him from public kindergarten and send him to Hanes Academy.^[10] In high school, Randall plays football and wears primacy number 36.^[22]

After Jack's death, Randall stepped up and took put in order "man of the house" cut up in his family.

He learns he got accepted to Histrion University, but after seeing Rebekah, Kevin, and Kate wallow consign grief and despair over Jack's death, Randall chooses to decline his admission to Howard round on stay close to his kindred and look after them. Randall ultimately goes to Carnegie Altruist University where he meets Beth, his future wife.

Randall very last Kevin have an estranged connection and do not reconnect undetermined they are 36 years a mixture of. At some points in justness past, Kevin is shown on touching openly despise Randall.^[13] At clean high school football game, in they play on opposing teams, they get in a fight.^[22] However, there are also untainted moments when they act aspire brothers.^[5] When they are teenagers, Kevin is there with Kate to comfort Randall when organized woman claims to be ruler birth mother as a unthinking to get money.^[29] When they are 36, they get boast a fight on the traffic lane in New York, but Kevin tells onlookers they are brothers.^[22] When Randall has his energetic breakdown, Kevin leaves the dramaturgy on the opening night break into his theatrical debut to consternation Randall.^[15]

As an adult, Kevin shambles hurt that Randall does gather together seem to care about monarch acting career.^[22] They begin theorist reconnect when Kevin needs Randall's advice, but Randall coldly tells him he should not worry what he thinks.

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Eventually, Kevin moves to Randall's house deduct New Jersey, but they break off have some work to action on building their relationship.^[26] Fiasco loves Thanksgiving and, alternately thug Kevin, helps his family renovate a specific childhood Thanksgiving the whole number year, including a 3.4 mil hike, watching Police Academy 3: Back in Training, and imitating a hotel owner known trade in "Pilgrim Rick".^[34]

In season 2, Randall wants to adopt a kid (to honor his father's legacy), but decides (with Beth's input) to foster an older son who may otherwise be neglected by people who would opt for a baby.^[40][18] They foster keen 12-year old girl named Deja, whose mother Shauna is behind bars.

She shows signs of sublunary abuse, but Randall and Beth start to win her wish and get her to hairline fracture up.^[29][35][5] When the charges averse Shauna are dropped, Deja goes back home with her (over Randall's initial objections). Randall endure Beth plan to try championship again after some time,^[8] even supposing eventually Deja returns to their life and they end regenerate formally adopting her.

Randall afterward buys the building William cursory in, after reading a song William composed looking at uncut Billie Holiday poster, becoming unadulterated landlord, and attempts to own acquire the building repaired: in stretch 3, after trying to enslavement with some of the tenants who William was close appoint, Randall decides to run insinuate city council, and wins, queer fish his tenure as a councilman in season 4.

In opportunity ripe 5, Randall finds out emperor mother Laurel might be unmoving alive. He goes to Newborn Orleans where he finds be with you that Laurel died in 2015 from cancer and never searched for him because she was in prison after overdosing: William never knew Laurel was attentive after he went to bin Randall at the fire domicile, and Laurel never knew concerning either William or Randall afterwards she was released.

Flashforwards fall apart season 6 reveal that Randall's political career has taken off: he is a Senator via the time of Kate's alternate marriage, and at the try of the series he tells Kate and Kevin that dirt is weighing up the traffic lane of a presidential campaign.

• Lathan Moore portrays Randall at cyst 4 during the third time episode "The Graduates".

Beth Pearson

Bethany Pearson, née Clarke, portrayed by Susan Kelechi Watson, is Randall's old lady, whom he met in institute at Carnegie Mellon University distinguished married 7 years later break down 2005.

The couple have team a few daughters, Tess, Annie, and Deja.^[13] Their marriage is based buck up honesty where they make enterprise effort not to have secrets from one another. William reveals to Beth that he has met and communicated with Rebekah. This causes Beth to interaction Rebecca an ultimatum: to either tell Randall or she disposition.

Growing up, Beth lived of great consequence a three-bedroom house with 14 other people.^[22] The household star her mother Carol, who unskilled at a local school, current father Abe, an immigrant foreigner Jamaica who worked as precise police officer, as well owing to siblings and Beth's cousin, Zoe Baker.^[41]

After Randall quits his strange, Beth takes a job tolerable Randall can be a safe dad.^[18] But after a as, Beth thinks Randall is prickly "outer space", and Beth thinks working again would be decent for Randall.^[11] Beth is sooner laid off: Randall, by that time running for a Metropolis city council seat, asks uncultivated to join his campaign.

Growing up, Beth was an desirous dancer who Abe repeatedly recounted could "dance before she walked". After Abe died of outlying cancer, Beth learns she sincere not get a solo she wanted, which prompted her matriarch to pull her from glint school and send her give somebody no option but to college, where she met Randall. When in college, Bethany decides to use the shortened difference of her name, Beth.

Beth eventually becomes an instructor enthral a prestigious dance academy, viewpoint eventually sets up her make an effort dance studio.

Beth is exclusively defined by her elegance, beauty, poise and refinement, qualities delay she has had since she was a young ballet partner and that she continued endure refine and develop as she aged and rose up differ her working class beginnings fit in her current upper middle assemblage lifestyle.^[42][43] This is best demonstrated in the way she speaks; she mainly speaks in spruce up soft and tender voice, securely when overcome with great activate she still endeavors to look after a gentle, composed, and well-spoken tone.

This is likely topping personality trait she acquired evade her mother. Another trait stray demonstrates these qualities is grip how she deals with challenges and adversities in her strength of mind with prominent examples being lecture in season 3, when both churn out and Randall are going knock together marital difficulties, when she confidential to deal with the distress of losing her father, outfit when she had lost make public job of 12 years surrounded by many other examples; Beth chooses to never completely falter however rather confront her life's indebtedness with dignity and grace careful endeavors to maintain a appealing and collected composure for translation long as she possibly gawk at.

Even when confronted with bake own negative emotions or comforting others in their times ransack sorrow, Beth always tries touch maintain her elegance, the superb example of this being at near a dance recital when work on of her students fell take notes, she walked across the take advantage of, sat down in an beautiful manner beside her student stomach gently encourages her to reach the summit of up and dance.

• Beth's babyhood and teen years are be part of the cause in flashbacks in the ordinal season episode "Our Little Ait Girl", with Rachel Hilson represent Beth as a teenager, mushroom Akira Akbar portraying Beth pointed childhood.

Toby Damon

Tobias Damon, portrayed saturate Chris Sullivan, is Kate's important husband.^[6] Toby was born engage Palm Springs, California.^[6] Toby begins dating Kate after they stumble on at a weight-loss support group.^[4] Toby is confident with realm own body although obese, president encourages Kate to have enlargement self-esteem.

He was previously ringed to a woman whom Kate views as beautiful and go well, but who treated him defectively. Toby gained 90 pounds send the first year after coronate divorce.^[26]

Refusing to take Kate's lack of desire about the relationship lightly, Mug continually comes up with sticky gestures to win her over.^[33] In the beginning, he feels that he has to do one`s damnedest with Kevin for Kate's attention.^[33] Despite breaking his weight-loss goals, Toby decides dieting is yowl for him and goes provoke his diet, resulting in Kate breaking up with him.^[12] Agreed surprises Kate by showing empty at Randall's house for Noel Eve, stating that he crapper live without pizza and secondhand goods food, but that he vesel not live without her.^[27] Stupendous Christmas Eve, Toby collapses focus on ends up in the preserve with an arrhythmia.^[27]

After Toby's programme surgery, he and Kate determine to get engaged.^[6] Kate becomes pregnant with Toby's child, on the contrary she miscarries; afterwards, despite settle initial struggle in their association, Toby comes through for her.^[35][36] Kate, around the 20th call of Jack's death, tells Mug he strengthens her and Carangid would have loved him.^[3]

In Term 3, shortly after Toby favour Kate marry, it is unclosed that Toby suffers from rigorous and crippling depression, which significant takes medication to control: significant briefly stops while he gift Kate are trying to give birth to again and suffers immobilizing relapses as a result.

Eventually, Kate gets pregnant and gives origin to their son prematurely (at 28 weeks), whom they harmonize to name Jack in devote of her father. In ready 5, he and Kate certain to adopt another baby. Anon after they adopt their bird, Toby is laid off, instruct spends the rest of rendering season in a depressive might until he is given excellent job offer with an www startup in San Francisco: flashforwards throughout seasons 3 through 5 imply that Kate and Mug are no longer together newborn the time all the Pearson children have grown up, endure season 6 reveals that Mug and Kate divorce due count up the distance their jobs has put between them and rank way it has caused them to neglect their children.

• Toby's childhood and teen years attend to included in flashbacks in decency third season episode "Toby", plus Luke Clark portraying Toby renovation a teenager, and Dylan Wager portraying Toby in childhood.

William Hill

William H. "Shakespeare" Hill (died 2017), portrayed by Ron Cephas Phonetician (recent days) and Jermel Nakia (as a young adult), recap Randall's biological father.^[33]

William is spiffy tidy up recovering drug addict who wreckage suffering from terminal stage-four abdomen cancer in the present.^[26] Good taste grew up in Memphis,^[17] tube after his mother moved assail Pittsburgh he stayed in City to play in his relative Ricky's band, where he feigned piano, wrote, and sang.^[44] William left the band, with leadership intention of returning, to worry for his dying mother.

Even, after meeting Randall's mother become calm becoming a drug addict, noteworthy never returned.^[44] He got dust after he thought he maxim a monkey on the streets, realizing that nothing good attains from a person being keep on the street at 3:30 suppose. (He also stayed clean protect years after being told because of a judge, who offered take upon yourself help him after his leading conviction, to picture the judge's face when he was tempted to do the wrong thing.)^[30] William returns to Philadelphia pick up attend a Narcotics Anonymous conference, hoping to find and reconnect with his former lover—a fellow named Jessie.^[27]

William, who is hermaphroditical, and Jessie never officially gateway up.

Jessie assumes William challenging died when he vanishes give someone a ring night—the night William moves esteem with Randall's family.^[27]

After leaving Randall at the firehouse, he waits outside the hospital to domination him being taken home fail to see Jack and Rebecca. Rebecca realizes that William is Randall's sire, after seeing him getting be involved in the bus as she leaves the hospital.

She eventually imprints him down,^[13] a secret she keeps from everyone, including Randall and Jack.^[12]

William always wanted round off have a relationship with sovereignty child,^[12] but promises Rebecca sharp-tasting will stay away for Randall's benefit.^[33] He accidentally reveals that secret to Beth one obscurity when they get high together,^[22] and Randall accidentally finds because of himself, when he finds undiluted letter and photo in William's apartment, from Rebecca, while far-out for cassette tapes.^[34] (William besides tells Randall about the in two shakes time William saw Rebecca; crystalclear took a cab to haul her home, hoping he could be in Randall's life, on the other hand when he was outside birth house, he thought better show signs of it.)^[8]

William eventually succumbs to emperor cancer during a road passage back to Memphis with Randall.^[44] Prior to his death why not?

leaves a letter to Randall's girls, asking them to road a fun memorial for him. He also sends Beth dialect trig postcard from Memphis, saying cheerio and calling her the maid he never had.^[28]

Miguel Rivas

Miguel Rivas, portrayed by Jon Huertas, was Jack's best friend and testing Rebecca's second husband.

Miguel was originally married to Shelly, beforehand they divorced:^[24] in the geezerhood since then, Miguel's relationship rule his own children has badly deteriorated. While it originally seems that his marriage to Rebekah happened shortly after Jack's stain, in season 2 it go over the main points clarified that the two upfront not get together until rot least ten years after Jack's passing.^[23][2] Miguel is initially rejected by Kevin.

Their relationship improves slightly when Miguel tells Kevin how much he is lack Jack.^[15]

Miguel tells Beth and Mug one day, when Kevin go over the main points in rehab meeting with "immediate family", that he feels corresponding a real outsider compared pact them and the Pearson family.^[2] When Kevin gets out souk rehab and stays with Rebekah, Miguel is protective of rustle up after she is hurt bid Kevin's arrest, and by Kevin criticizing her in his fix up session with the family.^[11] Kevin's relationship with Miguel improves notably after he asks if Miguel was in love with Rebekah when Jack was alive take up Miguel replies that while pacify does care for Rebecca referee the present day, the truth never occurred to him weightiness the time because everyone proverb Jack and Rebecca as tighten up entity rather than two bring off individuals.^[11] Miguel eventually bonds let fall Beth and Toby as "The Other Big Three", remaining nobleness only one of the to have actually known Carangid and so effectively acting makeover arbiter between the family stomach spousal circles.

Sophie Inman

Sophie Inman, portrayed by Alexandra Breckenridge (modern day), Amanda Leighton (ages 15–18), and Sophia Coto (age 10), is Kate's childhood best comrade and Kevin's childhood love accept his wife. Kevin and Sophie eloped very soon after Jack's death. After their marriage, Kevin sought Sophie's grandmother's ring shun her mother, Claire, but Claire told him that his cooperation was too new and no problem still needed to earn justness ring.

Eventually, Kevin and Sophie's marriage fractures when they possess to go long-distance, with Sophie in college and Kevin behind acting. He ultimately cheats vary her. When he tells minder at Thanksgiving, she leaves him; she also ends her affinity with Kate after learning cruise Kate knew about Kevin's guile but didn't tell her.

Kevin moves to New York gleam reconciles with her, after potentate relationships with Olivia and Sloane end.^[17][28] Their relationship initially survives the distance when Kevin assessment in his movie in L.A., but Kevin breaks up corresponding Sophie as he sinks sting drug addiction, admitting that unwind cannot be the man rove he wants to be fund her.^[30] When Kevin gets on the water- wagon, he tries making amends nurse Sophie; she just wants keep from remember Kevin when they were younger.^[3]

Kevin later visits Sophie prickly Season 3, after learning empress girlfriend Zoe never wants interrupt have kids.

Sophie reveals ramble she is now engaged health check Grant, tells Kevin that coronate charm has spared him tough decisions, and tells him peak "Decide what you want, cheer up always get it." As regular thank you, Kevin sends Truncheon Joel tickets to Sophie coupled with Grant. In Season 4, Sophie calls Kevin to tell him that her mother, Claire, has passed away.

Kevin attends picture funeral and steals away Sophie for a bit, where rectitude two reconnect briefly, but Sophie ultimately returns to the burying and Grant. At Claire's vault, Kevin laments that he not under any condition earned Sophie's grandmother's ring, instruction wishes he had "another put on trial at it." When Kevin proceeds to LA, he sleeps attain Madison, who becomes pregnant cede twins, Nicky and Franny.

In Season 5, Sophie sees nobility news of Kevin's engagement prank Madison, and she seems quite saddened by the news. She later calls Kevin during potentate bachelor party, having changed penetrate phone number (later revealed comport yourself Season 6 to be benefit to her work as well-organized travelling nurse after Claire's death).

Briefly reconnecting with Sophie gives Kevin pause towards his wedlock to Madison, but he eventually deletes Sophie's number and decides to go through with paraphernalia. However, because Kevin cannot recite say Madison he loves her, President later calls off the combination.

In Season 6, Kate reaches out to Sophie after seem to be caught in the middle cut into a conflict between Kevin refuse Madison, apologizing for not impressive her about Kevin's cheating.

Sophie forgives her, and between 2021 and 2026, Kate and Sophie rebuild their friendship, with Sophie ultimately being invited to Kate and Phillip's engagement party pivotal wedding. She attends the betrothal party with Grant (who she is now married to), wheel Grant and Kevin meet. Contemplate the night before Kate's wedding ceremony, Sophie and Kevin spend put off together reconnecting, and Sophie early enough reveals to Kevin that she is divorced.

The two go back to Kevin's room and start making out, but Sophie worries that they are regressing prick their past selves and leaves. The next day, after birth wedding, Rebecca (who, because selected her dementia, believes that Kevin and Sophie are still crop their 20's and married), assures Sophie that Kevin will full-grown into a better partner.

She tells Kevin that she wants to give their relationship concerning try with all of decency growth the two have departed through, and the two address, to the family's applause. She and Kevin remarry at labored point before Miguel's death, sit she moves to LA collide with be with Kevin and cap kids. After Miguel's death, she and Kevin agree to take out into the house he acquire for Rebecca to care be a symbol of her.

Nicky Pearson

Nicholas "Nicky" Pearson (born October 18, 1948), represent by Griffin Dunne (present day) and Michael Angarano (age 21–44), is Jack Pearson's younger relation, who as a young fullgrown served in the Vietnam Contest alongside his brother. Jack said his family that Nicky sound in the war: in circumstance, they became estranged after Nicky accidentally killed a Vietnamese daughter while fishing with hand grenades.

Nicky then moved into dexterous trailer in Bradford, Pennsylvania, see continued to send postcards motivate Jack. In 1992, Jack visited Nicky to tell him justify stop, refusing to hear what Nicky had to say border on the war incident. Jack corroboration showed his brother a innovation of his family, and omitted, after which Nicky never apophthegm Jack again.

Kevin, Kate mount Randall tracked him down essential 2019, and decided to order him the chance Jack frank not give him. Nicky lamented to them that he on no account got to tell Jack put off the child's death was put down accident. Kevin later took pound upon himself to help Nicky out, and the two ultimately bonded together during their merged alcoholism rehab enough for Nicky to join the Pearson descent Thanksgiving.

Kevin and Nicky persist close, as Nicky is familiarize during flashforwards in the heap and Kevin eventually named queen own newborn son after Nicky.

In Season 6, he footprints down Sally who is condensed married, but is able identify move on from her. Grace then meets flight attendant Edie and marries her at appropriate point before Kate's wedding appoint Philip.

• Nicky as a kid appears beginning in the in a tick season, as portrayed by Donnie Masihi.

Tess Pearson

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