List of Revenge characters

This is a list of the characters featured on ABC soap opera Revenge created by Mike Kelley and stars Emily VanCamp and Madeleine Stowe.

After having an affair with David Clarke, Victoria reluctantly agreed to help Conrad and Frank frame him to cover up their crimes.

Amanda returns to the Hamptons under a new identity, Emily Thorne, a wealthy socialite dedicated to charity work, to exact revenge on the people responsible for her father's death and wrongful conviction for terrorism.

As a youth, she spent time in a juvenile detention center, unaware of her father's innocence until her release when Nolan Ross approaches her.

She makes preparations for her return to the Hamptons – trading identities with her former cellmate in juvenile detention, as well as taking notes on Daniel Grayson.

After arriving in the Hamptons, Emily buys her father's former house next door to the Graysons and becomes romantically involved with Daniel in order to get closer to his family.

After learning that Charlotte is her half-sister, Emily chooses to protect her from her revenge against the Graysons, although she does use her to take Conrad down.

Nolan Ross is a computer genius and Emily's wealthy ally with a cocky attitude and poor social skills.

Nolcorp became a great success, making Nolan the sixth youngest billionaire on Forbes list and a well-known celebrity.

Nolan is Emily's first port of call when she needs a computer or cell phone hacked, an anonymous email sent, something decrypted, or something doctored.

Nolan is bisexual;[1] although he often hits on women at Grayson parties (much to Ashley Davenport's chagrin), he had a relationship with Nolcorp's former CFO, Marco Romero, for many years until 2006.

Although Ashley has made it a priority to get closer to rich men and women, she and Nolan cannot tolerate each other; she sums up her opinion of him as a "perennial pain in the arse" while he calls her "fun police".

In season one, he is attacked by Emily (twice), Frank Stevens, Tyler Barrol, Jack Porter and Gordon Murphy.

In season 3, however, it is revealed that Nolan installed a failsafe in the program that led to his arrest, enabling the FBI to (off-screen) shut down the Initiative.

He exposes Victoria's past extramarital affair with David Clarke at a family dinner and blackmails her current lover, Dominik, into leaving her.

Throughout the second season, Charlotte attempts to destroy ties with her family and live with the Porters, though she still (reluctantly) attends some Grayson parties.

Despite Victoria's constant belittling of Amanda, Declan and Emily, Charlotte believes they offer love that she does not find in her family.

On the third occasion, which occurs at the season finale, Emily – who is disgusted by Daniel's choice of standing by his father – terminates the engagement.

By season 3, Daniel goes into business with a woman named Margaux and continues his romance with Emily and plans their wedding.

In Season 4, Daniel has hit rock bottom due to Conrad's crimes being exposed, and him now being the son of the most "hated man in America", along with being forced out of his job position by Gideon.

Wanting to rebuild himself, Daniel begins working for Louise Ellis, but ends up having a one-night stand with her, which causes Margaux to leave him.

In episode 10, Daniel was killed by Kate Taylor (Malcolm Black's daughter) after trying to save Emily from getting shot.

Initially working as Victoria's party planner and assistant, Ashley becomes the Grayson family spokesperson during Daniel's murder trial.

Declan is the father of Charlotte's unborn baby and dies at the end of Season 2 when his artery ruptures during surgery to repair the injury he sustained from an explosion.

Later, Daniel finds out that Aiden's father, Trevor Mathis, was a baggage handler suspected of putting a bomb on "Flight 197".

When Pascal arrives in the Hamptons, Margaux fears that he will undermine all of her hard work and resorts to blackmail to keep her father from taking control of her magazine.

Margaux later works with Victoria and the assassin White Gold, but decides to allow herself to be sent to prison for her crimes rather than have the evidence destroyed of her actions.

After a terrorist attack brings down a plane, David is framed for the crime by Conrad, Frank, and Victoria, as well as other friends and colleagues he trusted.

David convinces Victoria to hide Kate's death and make the official story that Emily shot Daniel in self-defense.

While he is charged with the murder, he is granted compassionate release due to his terminal diagnosis and dies at home with Amanda by his side.