Dharma & Greg
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[edit] Dharma
Dharma Freedom Montgomery, née Finkelstein (Jenna Elfman) is Greg's wife and a flower child. She is extremely peppy and ditzy, but she also seems to be more compassionate and forgiving than most people. Dharma encourages Greg to seek happiness, rather than fret about practical issues like money. Due to being homeschooled by Abby and Larry, she has a limited understanding of Western culture and is very naïve when it comes to trusting strangers. She is appropriately named after the concept of dharma in Indian philosophy.
According to Chuck Lorre's eleventh vanity card (see below), he and Dottie Dartland originally conceived Dharma & Greg as "a series revolving around a woman whose personality is not a neurotic product of societal and parental conditioning, but of her own free-flowing, compassionate mind." Although, when she almost cheats on Greg, the series takes a much more dramatic turn.
[edit] Greg
The lawyer Gregory "Greg" Clifford Montgomery (Thomas Gibson) is Dharma's husband. He is an upright, uptight, decent, though sometimes surprisingly open-minded, man. Greg's life was hopelessly banal before he met Dharma and married her on their first date. Since then, he has played straight man to the antics of his eccentric wife. Though his and Dharma's relationship has been rocky at times, Greg has never been shown to regret their marriage. He is shown to be an alumnus of the famous Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.
[edit] Kitty
Katherine "Kitty" Montgomery (Susan Sullivan) is Greg's snobbish mother. She highly disapproves of Dharma and is often successful in making her feel guilty. She is generally represented as a manipulative, controlling woman, and the other characters tend to consult her when they wish to do something evil.
[edit] Edward
Edward Montgomery (Mitch Ryan) is Greg's eccentric father. His philosophy for dealing with women involves remaining as uninvolved as possible. Head of Montgomery Industries (though he only keeps going to work because he can see little tugboats out the window) and at odds with Dharma's father, who calls him "Ed" and whom he calls "Finkelstein." Ed is often seen drinking martinis and Scotch.
[edit] Abby
Abigail "Abby" Kathleen O'Neil (Mimi Kennedy) is Dharma's caring mother, who encourages her daughter and son-in-law to produce children; "Feel free to have sex anywhere." Although they have a grown daughter and later a son, she and Larry are not married. Unlike her "lifemate" Larry, she immediately accepted Greg, though she still constantly annoys and conflicts with his parents. She is a militant vegan, which is a never-ending source of trouble.
[edit] Larry
Myron Lawrence "Larry" Finkelstein (Alan Rachins) is Dharma's father. He is a stereotypical sixties radical who frequently rants about various conspiracies. Despite this, he manages to get along with Edward, often when both are sick of dealing with Kitty. It is often alluded to that Larry is a chronic user of Marijuana, though never proven. However, it would explain his poor short term memory.
[edit] Jane
Jane Deaux (briefly Jane Cavanaugh) (Shae D'Lyn) is Dharma's friend. She considers all men more or less evil; over the course of the show, her hair went from black, to red, to blonde. She and Dharma met when Dharma was calling strangers to meet new friends. D'Lyn left at the end of the fourth season, though she had one "guest appearance" in season five.
[edit] Pete
Peter "Pete" James Cavanaugh (Joel Murray) is one of Greg's fellow lawyers and a graduate of the Bob Marley School of Law. He's a particularly bad, lazy lawyer and was married to Jane for a time. His entire life can be summed up by the interior of his apartment: a massage chair surrounded by empty take-out containers, next to this is a small refrigerator and a stack of porno tapes. A high-class entertainment center is in front of this. Greg once said of his friend; "Pete went to Law School in Barbados, he failed the Bar seven times. The last time because he threw up on the exam."
[edit] Other characters
- Celia (Lillian Hurst) — Kitty and Edward's Hispanic maid. She is given constant support from Larry, who views her as 'oppressed.' (appears in 16 episodes)
- Marci (Helen Greenberg) — one of Dharma's Co-Op friends; nausy-voiced receptionist, whose vocabulary primarily consists of the words "I'm sorry" (appears in 17 episodes; Greenberg also played a different character in the episode "Drop Dead Gorgeous")
- Susan (Susan Chuang) - another of Dharma's friend from the Co-Op, she is seen as Marci's counterpart. Susan also pulls a "Dharma & Greg" with a lawyer hired by Kitty in a community garden spat (Her wedding, along with Dharma's accident was the Season 4 finale). (appears in 17 episodes)
- Marlene (Yeardley Smith) — Greg's secretary who was fired and then re-hired by Greg. She is snide, rude, and a bad secretary in general. (appears in 13 episodes)
- George (Floyd Westerman) — an elderly American Indian, who came to live with Dharma and Greg in the episode "Indian Summer"; he died at the end of the episode, but his ghost sometimes appears to Dharma to offer her advice. (appears in 4 episodes)
- Charlie (Kevin Sorbo) — a university professor going through a divorce who falls in love with Dharma. His affections, particularly a love letter and offering to drive Dharma home on a rainy day, cause Dharma and Greg to briefly separate. (appears in 4 episodes)
- Stinky — Dharma's and Greg's dog; a long-haired mutt
- Nunzio (Bud 1997–1998, Butch 1998–1999, Twiggy 2000–2001)— Stinky's dog, a Welsh Corgi; a gift from Dharma on Stinky's Bar Mitzvah
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