List of The Gifted characters

The Gifted is an American television series created for Fox by Matt Nix, based on Marvel Comics' X-Men properties.

Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker star as Reed and Caitlin Strucker, ordinary parents who take their family on the run after they discover their children's mutant abilities.

Also starring in the first season are Sean Teale as Marcos Diaz / Eclipse, Natalie Alyn Lind as Lauren Strucker, Percy Hynes White as Andy Strucker, Coby Bell as Jace Turner, Jamie Chung as Clarice Fong / Blink, Blair Redford as John Proudstar / Thunderbird, and Emma Dumont as Lorna Dane / Polaris.

Reed Strucker (portrayed by Stephen Moyer) is a father trying to balance his family responsibilities with his job as a district attorney.

[4] Caitlin Strucker (portrayed by Amy Acker) is a mother and nurse struggling with her "increasingly challenging" teenage children.

[5][2] She had auditioned alongside the already-cast Moyer; the pair did not meet the actors playing their children until the table read of the pilot episode.

"[6] Marcos Diaz (portrayed by Sean Teale) is a rebellious mutant who can absorb and manipulate photons, and goes by the moniker Eclipse.

[10] Lauren Strucker (portrayed by Natalie Alyn Lind) is one of the series' central children, a "perfect" kid.

Later in the second season, after researching the Von Struckers, Lauren discovers she can rotate her shields at rapid rates, allowing them to cleanly slice through objects.

[11][2] Andy Strucker (portrayed by Percy Hynes White) is one of the series' central children, a sensitive loner who keeps to himself.

[15] Nix said the character is "more than just a villain hoping to round up every last superpowered human," but is instead trying to find the balance between protecting society and taking away the rights of mutants.

[26] Lorna Dane (portrayed by Emma Dumont) is a brave and loyal mutant whose abilities include controlling magnetism.

[26] The pilot reveals that the character is pregnant, which Dumont thought would make a "normal person" more cautious, but for Polaris "it's the total reverse where she’s like, ‘I have something in the world to care about and now I’m going to fight even harder,’ and that is probably pretty dangerous.

[31] Additionally, in the series there is "some awareness" that Polaris is the daughter of Magneto, which Nix said would lead to the question "does she accept the mantle of her birthright?

[34][31] The premiere of season two establishes her abilities as being permanently altered by the pregnancy, causing a city-wide electrical power surge while giving birth to her baby, which she names "Dawn".

While she has been shown to be affectionate toward the Frost Sisters, she is very ruthless and unforgiving, having killed her own comrades to ensure her vision for mutantkind is successful.

It is later revealed that although she appears to be a villain, Reeva was in fact an advocate for equality in her community eight years ago before a close friend was attacked and murdered in the street before her eyes.

Reeva is shocked when one of her newer underlings, Twist, kills Quinn and several humans in a grotesque display of madness.

[43] Roderick Campbell (portrayed by Garret Dillahunt) is a mutant researcher contracted by Sentinel Services, who is on a "morally dubious" mission.

Evangeline Whedon (portrayed by Erinn Ruth) is an attorney who recruited Polaris, and later Thunderbird, for the underground on behalf of the X-Men.

[50] Erg (portrayed by Michael Luwoye) is the leader of the Morlocks, and mutant separatist who believes mutantkind should not coexist with regular humans.

She was a psychiatric patient named Rebecca Hoover before the Inner Circle liberated her in order to utilize her gifts in their overall plans.

Benedict Ryan (portrayed by Peter Gallagher) is a popular TV news host, an anti-mutant advocate and secretly a big supporter of the Purifiers.

Showrunner Matt Nix explicitly based the portrayal of Benedict Ryan on Fox News commentator Sean Hannity.

She has the mutant ability to unleash non-dangerous softball-sized glowing light orbs from her hands that she can then mentally control, levitating them anywhere within her line of sight.