This is a list of characters in the USA Network original drama TV series, Necessary Roughness.
Dr. Dani Santino is a tough divorcée who, to make ends meet, becomes the therapist for a professional football team and quickly becomes sought after by other athletes, musicians, politicians and those living in the spotlight.
[3] Dr. Dani kisses Nico Careles after Marshall Pittman dies in a plane crash.
So, she gets wooed over by McClane and gets an offer with V3 that she can't refuse provided on the condition that she closes her private practice.
[4] Nico Careles (Scott Cohen) is a former Navy SEAL from Pittsburgh, employed as the team's head of security and "fixer", he works closely with Dani.
[3] Nico later learns that a friend (Mike Pniewski) of his has double crossed him and bugged the team for Marshall Pittman.
In "All the Kings Horses", he and Dani share a kiss after it is confirmed that Pittman had died in the plane crash.
However, he also finds out some roadblocks that are preventing the sale of the Hawks, because Marshall Pittman made some questionable deals before his tragic plane crash.
King (Mehcad Brooks) is the New York Hawks' star player and Dani's main focus when she was hired by the football team.
Terrence often finds himself doing childish things, mainly spending his money on himself and various women, getting himself into trouble with a rival psychiatrist of Dr. Dani, Laz Rollins (Orlando Jones) who used T.K.
even resorts to buying his own gun, almost pulling it out on stage during a party to open the new football season.
to become irritable and reckless, flashing reporter Noelle Saris (Michaela McManus) in the Hawk's locker room.
who initially hazed Damon Razor (Gaius Charles), helps him with his problems and to see his true potential as a football player with the Hawks, and what was important to him, causing T.K.
becomes enraged on the set of a sports drink commercial photo shoot and is fired by the director.
is based partly on NFL receiver Terrell Owens, who went by the nickname T.O., and has often been criticized and complimented for his brashness on and off the field.
Owens himself plays a guest character in the series named Maurice "The Minefield" Manningfield, a defensive rival of King.
[12] Connor McClane (John Stamos) is the founder of a sports and entertainment management empire named V3, who expresses interest in hiring Dani.
[13] Matthew "Matt" Donnally (Marc Blucas; Seasons 1–2) is the New York Hawks' athletic trainer, and later general manager, to whom Dani was attracted.
Donnally also recruits two new football players to the team; one named Damon Razor (Gaius Charles) who has a shady past, and another whose agent (Rob Estes) was T.K.
After Juliette Pittman sells the Hawks to the new ownership, they reassigned Donnally and they hired a new GM who is abrasive, but has an impressive track record of winning 4 championships.
Donnally later quits the Hawks and becomes the GM for Boston and also becomes an expecting father with reporter Noelle Saris.
In season two, Lindsay sees a therapist (Amy Sedaris) about wanting to make her choices without her mother judging her.
Ray Jay was temporarily turned into a vegan by Olivia until she told him she wanted to start college out of state, without him, the two breaking up; coincidentally at the same time as his mother and Matt Donnally.
Ray Jay gets into trouble with the law when he tries to raise money for a project by planting and selling illegal drugs.
When she asks Ray Jay to move to Paris with her, he decides to drop out of school and join her, to Dani's disappointment.
Laura Radcliffe (Andrea Anders) is a high-powered publicist hired by the Hawks to improve T.K.
Damon Razor/Bryce Abbot (Gaius Charles) is an academic football player with a shady past who comes in as a runner-up for T.K.
Hank Hooper (Michael O'Neill) is a friend of Coach Purnell, and he was appointed by the league to be the Interim GM until the "Pittman situation" was resolved.
At the end of Season 2, she eventually sells the team for a billion dollars and decides to move to Paris, taking Ray Jay with her as her personal assistant.