List of Roseanne and The Conners Characters

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The following is a list of major characters in the television series Roseanne and its successor, The Conners.

[edit] Family tree

[edit] Main characters

[edit] Roseanne Conner

Main article: Roseanne Conner

[edit] Dan Conner

Main article: Dan Conner

[edit] Jackie Harris

Main article: Jackie Harris

[edit] Darlene Conner

Main article: Darlene Conner

[edit] Becky Conner

Main article: Becky Conner

[edit] D.J. Conner

Main article: D.J. Conner

[edit] Mark Healy

[edit] David Healy

[edit] Harris Conner Healy

[edit] Mark Healy II

[edit] Mary Conner

[edit] Geena Williams-Conner

[edit] Other major characters

[edit] Nancy Bartlett

[edit] Leon Carp

[edit] Crystal Anderson-Conner

[edit] Ed Conner

[edit] Jerry Conner

[edit] Fred

[edit] Andy Harris

[edit] Bev Harris

[edit] Nana Mary

[edit] Arnie Thomas

[edit] Minor / recurring characters

[edit] Other family members

[edit] Wellman Plastics

All characters below appear in the first season and part of the second season before being written out altogether. Clooney would make one more appearance in a season four episode.

• Booker Brooks (George Clooney) – The original foreman at Wellman. Booker wasn't always taken seriously by the workers, but compared to their future boss, Roseanne and the others appreciate him more. He dated Jackie for a while, and they tried to keep it a secret. He set the quotas at Wellman at 5,500, much lower than the 8,000 set by their next boss Keith Faber (Fred Thompson).
• Vonda Green (Charlayne Woodard, credited as Charlaine Woodard)- Spirited and perky friend of Jackie and Roseanne, also has a great singing voice.
• Sylvia Foster (Anne Faulkner)- Older Wellman employee working there since the late 1950s, she occasionally hangs out with Jackie, Roseanne, and the rest of the gang at the Lobo. Has a husband named Joe who is hard of hearing.
• Juanita Herrara (Evelina Fernandez)- Hispanic co-worker who after leaving Wellman with the rest of the gang opens a successful small business in Lanford with her husband Emilio and their teenage son.
• Meg Wellman (Debra Mooney) – Owner of the Wellman factory, who believes she and Roseanne are good friends. She comically refers to Roseanne as "Roxanne Conway" and Jackie as Janet. Accidentally hits Roseanne's car with her car in one episode.

[edit] Art's Beauty Shop

All characters below appear in the show's second season only, when Roseanne takes a job as a receptionist and shampoo girl at Art's Beauty Salon.

• Marsha (Elizabeth Franz) – Good friend of Crystal's who is the owner of Art's Beauty Salon named after her late husband who she was only married to for eleven months between 1959 and 1960. Marsha hysterically quotes Arthur throughout her run on the show despite the fact that he has been gone nearly thirty years leading Roseanne to quip that maybe Marsha would not miss him so much if they had been married longer.
• Iris (Lori Tan Chinn) – Vietnamese beautician at the salon. Comically makes jokes throughout her run on the show about being a Vietnamese refugee held captive before emigrating to the United States. Often makes acerbic remarks about people being blown away by gun mortar attacks, which she reveals to Roseanne is her comic way of letting off steam. Chinn and Barr had appeared together in the 1989 movie She-Devil.
• Debbie (Melora Walters) – Manicurist at the salon who is a young naive newlywed.

[edit] Rodbell's Department Store

• Bonnie Watkins (Bonnie Bramlett, credited as Bonnie Sheridan) – Roseanne's coworker at Rodbell's, during season three and four. She has a daughter who lives in Oregon and enjoys traveling by motorcycle with her husband Duke (David Crosby). Bonnie had a drinking problem along with her husband Duke early on in her life that she has since brought under control.

[edit] Neighbors

• The Bowman family are the Conners' neighbors between season 3 and 4 who relocated from Chicago to Lanford. At the end of season 4 they move back to Chicago.
  • Jerry Bowman (Danton Stone) – Kathy's laid-back husband who loves the small-town atmosphere of Lanford, having moved there from Chicago to take a managers job at Wellman Plastics.
  • Kathy Bowman (Meagen Fay) – Roseanne's wealthy and tense neighbor who hates Lanford and its blue-collar atmosphere. Has an acrimonious relationship with Roseanne.
  • Todd Bowman (Troy Davidson, Adam Hendershott ) – Kathy and Jerry's son; friend of D.J.
• The Tilden family move into the Bowmans' old house in season 5.
  • Ty Tilden (Wings Hauser) – A neighbor of Roseanne's, who moved into Kathy's old house. He is a kind, laid-back, struggling single father of two daughters and owns a Winnebago.
  • Charlotte Tilden (Mara Hobel) – Ty Tilden's older daughter who acts responsibly, filling in the mother role for her sister Molly. Because of this, she finds that she has more in common with Roseanne than with Darlene or Molly.
  • Molly Tilden (Danielle Harris) – Ty Tilden's promiscuous daughter, who flirted with Darlene's boyfriend David and took Darlene to a rock concert then abandoned her to smoke weed with some guys in a van. She dies from brain cancer in season 3 episode 16 of The Conners.
• In the season-10 revival, a Yemeni Muslim family lives next door to the Conners, rousing Roseanne's suspicions that the family might be terrorists. They are introduced in episode 7, "Go Cubs," but are not given a surname. They also appeared in The Conners.
  • Samir (Alain Washnevsky) - A Yemeni man who is very aware of Roseanne's suspicions and protective of his family. He also has a very dry sense of humor, choosing to come to Roseanne's house in the middle of the night to repay money she loaned his wife, in retaliation for Roseanne asking to borrow his Wi-Fi password at 2AM.
  • Fatima (Anne Bedian) - Samir's wife, she is soft-spoken and kind, but firm. She allows Roseanne's granddaughter to use their Wi-Fi password to FaceTime her mother in Afghanistan, believing that children should not be punished for adults' prejudices. In return, Roseanne defends her from a racist cashier and loans her money for groceries.
  • Kazem (Callan Farris) - Samir and Fatima's young son, who has been a victim of racism and bullying since his family's move to Lanford and is now so terrified that he sleeps in a bulletproof vest.

[edit] Other characters

• Lonnie Anderson (Josh C. Williams, Luke Edwards, Kristopher Kent Hill) – Crystal's eldest child, born to her deceased husband, Sonny.
• Art (Dan Butler) – A divorced accountant whom Roseanne and Jackie sell a motorcycle to, and who provides tax services to Lanford Custom Cycle.
• Alexander (John McConnell) – A close friend of Dan's.
• Dwight (William Sadler) – A buddy of Dan's who appears in the early seasons of Roseanne, who had a crush on Jackie. In The Conners, there is another character named Dwight who Dan appears to be friends with, but the character is not portrayed by William Sadler and might be a different character altogether.
• Fisher (Matt Roth) – Jackie's former long-time boyfriend, whom Dan ultimately went to jail for assaulting after learning he abused Jackie.
• Stacey Flagler (Traci Lords) – A waitress at the Lunchbox.
• George (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – D.J.'s classmate.
• Gary Hall (Brian Kerwin) – Jackie's former fiancé.
• Heather (Heather Matarazzo) – D.J.'s girlfriend.
• Jimmy Meltrigger (Stephen Dorff) – Becky's former boyfriend from high school.
• Chip Lang (Jared Rushton) – Becky's former boyfriend from high school.
• Marla (Morgan Fairchild) – Nancy's girlfriend.
• Anne-Marie Mitchell (Adilah Barnes) – Roseanne's childhood friend, who is married to one of Dan's poker buddies, Chuckie. She and Chuck have a son, Chuck Jr., who is the same age as Lonnie and Darlene.
• Chuckie Mitchell (James Pickens, Jr.) – Anne-Marie's husband, who occasionally worked with Dan. Pickens reprised the role in two episodes of the 10th season revival and currently (2019) appears on a recurring basis on The Conners.
• Mr. Parkin (Stan Freberg) – A highly qualified man who is frequently unemployed due to various incidents with the Conners.
• Scott (Fred Willard) – A probate attorney who marries Leon.
• Stinky (Matthew Fishman) – Roseanne's youngest child in an alternate reality, in the place of Jerry.
• Ziggy (Jay O. Sanders) – Old friend of the Conners' who helps Dan open Lanford Custom Cycle, then disappears.
• Jimmy Phillips (Danny Masterson) – Darlene's boyfriend, for whom she breaks up with David. In episode 16 in season 7, Darlene confesses to Jackie that he broke up with her because he could not get close to her.
• Ronnie (Joan Collins) – Roseanne's rich cousin who persuades Darlene to get her GED and apply to art school.

[edit] Notes

a. ^ Geena is portrayed by Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly in season 7 and Xosha Roquemore in season 10

[edit] References