List of This Is Us characters
[1] The ensemble cast stars Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Sullivan, and Ron Cephas Jones.
Jack Pearson (August 31, 1944 – January 26, 1998),[2][3] portrayed by Milo Ventimiglia, is Rebecca's first husband (until he dies), and the father of Kevin, Kate, and Randall.
When he wants to buy the house for his family, he approaches his boss and gets a raise to $17,000 a year (equivalent to more than $49,000 in 2016), making him the highest paid foreman at the company.
[11] An old slow cooker given years previous by a neighbor is shown to have a faulty switch, which sparks and flames, setting a towel and the house ablaze.
[19] Rebecca Pearson née Malone (February 2, 1951 – 2033),[20] portrayed by Mandy Moore, is Jack's widow, later Miguel Rivas' second wife, and the mother of Kevin, Kate, and Randall.
She also gets the courage to drive across a bridge she has feared, while taking the "Big Three" to a Bruce Springsteen concert that Jack had previously obtained tickets for the night of the funeral.
Kevin and Sophie decide that she will stay in New York and he will move to California to pursue acting, believing that their marriage can handle the distance.
[12] After his breakup with Olivia, Kevin begins dating the writer of the play, Sloane Sandburg, attending Hanukkah with her family and inviting her to the Christmas Eve party at Randall's house.
He settles things with his mom (who was hurt during the rehab family session, tearfully revealing that Kevin was the first to leave after Jack's death).
[31] Kevin reconciles with Randall by helping him fix up the apartment building William lived in, and the two share with each other how odd it feels that they could outlive their dad.
[31] On Super Bowl Sunday, about 20 years after Jack's death, Kevin visits the memorial tree with some of his dad's ashes, to talk with him, vowing to make him proud.
As season four begins, Kevin bails Nicky out of jail after a relapse, then buys his own trailer next to Nicky's in order to bond with him, eventually meeting and starting to get close to Marine veteran and fellow AA member Cassidy Sharp: they have a one-night stand but eventually part ways, Kevin even helping her mend fences with her estranged husband.
[4] Kate is obese and has struggled with issues of self-esteem her entire life, which she greatly attributes to her strained relationship with her mother and the death of her father.
[31] (Jack went back inside their burning house to save her dog, causing smoke inhalation which led to his death in the hospital.
[7] Every year on Super Bowl Sunday, Kate watches the videotape Jack made of her singing for a Berklee College of Music audition.
[38][39] On the day that Randall is born, he is dropped off in front of a firehouse by his biological father, William, and then taken to the hospital, where he is adopted by Jack and Rebecca.
Bethany Pearson, née Clarke, portrayed by Susan Kelechi Watson, is Randall's wife, whom he met in college at Carnegie Mellon University and married 7 years later in 2005.
[22] The household included her mother Carol, who taught at a local school, and father Abe, an immigrant from Jamaica who worked as a police officer, as well as siblings and Beth's cousin, Zoe Baker.
[11] Beth is eventually laid off: Randall, by this time running for a Philadelphia city council seat, asks her to join his campaign.
After Abe died of lung cancer, Beth learns she did not get a solo she wanted, which prompted her mother to pull her from dance school and send her to college, where she met Randall.
Another trait that demonstrates these qualities is in how she deals with challenges and adversities in her life with prominent examples being in season 3, when both her and Randall are going through marital difficulties, when she had to deal with the grief of losing her father, or when she had lost her job of 12 years amongst many other examples; Beth chooses to never completely falter but rather confront her life's difficulties with dignity and grace and endeavors to maintain a calm and collected composure for as long as she possibly can.
Eventually, Kate gets pregnant and gives birth to their son prematurely (at 28 weeks), whom they agree to name Jack in honor of her father.
William H. "Shakespeare" Hill (died 2017), portrayed by Ron Cephas Jones (recent days) and Jermel Nakia (as a young adult), is Randall's biological father.
)[30] William returns to Philadelphia to attend a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, hoping to find and reconnect with his former lover—a man named Jessie.
[11] Miguel eventually bonds with Beth and Toby as "The Other Big Three", remaining the only one of the three to have actually known Jack and so effectively acting as arbiter between the family and spousal circles.
She later calls Kevin during his bachelor party, having changed her phone number (later revealed in Season 6 to be due to her work as a travelling nurse after Claire's death).
Tessa Marie "Tess" Pearson, (born October 31, 2008), portrayed by Eris Baker, is Randall and Beth's older daughter.
Zoe Baker, portrayed by Melanie Liburd, is Beth's cousin, a photographer and documentary filmmaker who becomes Kevin's new love interest.
After the family moves, Deja meets Malik, a teenage father, and the two start to fall in love, remaining a couple for several seasons.
Madison remained an integral part of Kate's friend circle, even though the rest of the Pearsons (and their spouses) found her mildly annoying and abrasive.
