List of Boardwalk Empire characters

[1] James "Jimmy" Darmody (Michael Pitt) is the secondary protagonist and antagonist of the series and a main character in Seasons 1-2.

[2] Margaret Thompson (formerly Schroeder, née Rohan) (Kelly Macdonald) is one of the main characters of the series who's a young Irish widow and mother who turns to Nucky for help and eventually becomes his lover and later, his wife.

[1] Elias "Eli" Thompson (Shea Whigham) is a main supporting character throughout the series, being Nucky's younger brother and former sheriff of Atlantic County.

Angela also starts an affair with a photographer's assistant named Mary Dittrich but ends it once Jimmy comes back from war in 1918–1919.

Following New Year's Eve 1919 and the start of Prohibition, Angela tries to persuade Jimmy to get a proper job or go back to Princeton to finish his studies.

(Boardwalk Empire) After Jimmy becomes a success as Nucky's top hitman, he starts to buy expensive gifts for the family, including some presents for Tommy.

(Broadway Limited) A month or so after Jimmy has left, Angela resumes her affair with Mary Dittrich and gets a sponsorship by Robert to put her paintings up and be a successful painter.

Mary tells her to calm down and says that Robert has an art critic friend named Jonathan who is coming to assess Angela's paintings in Greenwich Village in a few days.

Later, Angela visits Robert about her paintings, but he refuses to show them to the public, calling them a cheap imitation of painter Mary Cassatt.

Jimmy thinks that it is Robert and goes inside and violently beats him with a tripod camera as Angela, Mary, Tommy and the boardwalk residents watch in shock.

At home, while Jimmy visits Commodore Louis Kaestner and Gillian, Angela packs her suitcase and takes Tommy to the Dittrich Studio, only to find it locked up and the lights out.

(A Return to Normalcy) By 1921, Angela moves to a beach house in Atlantic City along with Tommy with Jimmy purchasing it and starting a life there.

Lucy is first seen dancing with Nucky at the 1919 New Year's Eve Party, which is celebrating the onset of Prohibition and the lucrative bootlegging opportunities it will bring.

Lucy confesses that she finds the premature baby hospital spooky and then mentions that Broadway impresario Flo Ziegfeld is in Atlantic City casting for a production.

At La Belle Femme, the manager Madame Jeunet tells her new employee Margaret Schroeder that they have an important customer and gives her a selection of items to take through to the dressing room.

(Broadway Limited) At the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Nucky is standing in front of the bathroom mirror, practicing a surprised response for the birthday party he is throwing himself.

When the band is in full swing and the dance floor is busy, Nucky and Lucy eat dinner with Commodore Louis Kaestner, Frank Hague, Walter Edge and their dates.

He states they are not lovers but are merely in an agreement for Van Alden to give the child to his wife once it is born and for Danziger to remain in the apartment until that time.

Van Alden finds a diaper hung up alongside a script for A Dangerous Maid along with it, indicating that Lucy has made him take care of the baby and will never come back into his or Nucky's lives again.

Roy Phillips (Ron Livingston) is a main supporting character in Season 4, being a wealthy out-of-town businessman and Piggly Wiggly exec who finds himself getting involved with Gillian Darmody.

However, after Nucky's comeback and Jimmy's defeat and ultimate death, Remus decides to be bootlegging partners with the former and joins him alongside Luciano, Lansky, Arnold Rothstein, Frankie Yale, Joe Masseria, Masseria's top right-hand man and enforcer Gyp Rosetti, the Chicago Outfit and Waxey Gordon from Philadelphia.

A few weeks later, George is arrested by Deputy DA Esther Randolph on orders of dismantling corruption in politics and the Harding administration and taken to jail.

Remus finally appears briefly midway through Season 4 where he tells Randolph, Agent Warren Knox/James Tolliver and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover about Nucky's empire in Atlantic City, how it works and who is involved in it.

One day, having enough of the constant abuse, Dunn tells his fellow black cooks to rebel against the white Ritz-Carlton owners as a stand for their rights.

He gets into a brief rivalry with Capone however the 2 and Chalky manage to work things out in the end and after Gyp and Masseria's lairs are ruined, Dunn, Capone, Chalky and all their henchmen help Nucky and his associates by shooting and murdering all of Gyp and Masseria's henchmen whilst they are trying to escape from Atlantic City before going back to their homes after gaining each other's trust.

He is a Ukrainian Jewish gangster from Odessa, Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine) living in Philadelphia and working as a butcher as a front for his criminal activities over there.

At the same time, Manny moved to Philadelphia in 1899 with his wife, daughter and friend and right-hand man Herman Kaufman and became a gangster partnered up with Waxey Gordon in bootlegging and other operations whilst he also operated a butcher shop as a front organization and became friends with Polish immigrant and bootlegger Mickey Doyle (real name Kuzik).

Later on, Manny is attacked at his butcher shop in Philadelphia by an assassin named Alfred Gordetsky sent by Waxey Gordon and Jimmy, however manages to kill him and his acquaintance.

Someone then walks out of the shower, Manny, thinking it is Jimmy, shoots and kills the person, revealed to be Louise (Angela's lover and mistress).

After that, Manny leaves Philadelphia and moves with his wife and daughter to Atlantic City, becoming the owner of one of Nucky's warehouses over there partnered with Mickey.