List of One Tree Hill characters

However, the casting department remembered her and asked her to send an audition tape for One Tree Hill, and producers promised her a character that she could sink her teeth into – Peyton.

During the course of his life he has experienced many obstacles including spending time in a wheelchair following an accident after a fight; dealing with an overbearing father; an alcoholic-drug addict mother; allegations he cheated on Haley.

In Season 9, he is traveling a lot as an agent but when returning to Haley, Jamie and Lydia he is taken by Eastern European mobsters, with the aid of corrupt policemen, for a failed signing in Europe.

Peyton was often surrounded by terrible events: she was shot in the leg during the school shooting in Season 3 and lost a lot of blood, but was rescued by Lucas, and was brutally attacked twice by Ian Banks, who pretended to be her long-lost brother Derek.

After realizing the type of person Rachel is when she wants to take their TV show to the corridor where he murdered Keith, he gives all his money to charity and divorces her.

Portrayed by Sophia Bush since the series' second episode, Brooke Penelope Baker, née Davis, was originally a party girl, who was neglected by her parents.

She goes through an on-again, off-again relationship with Lucas (which is part of a complicated love triangle involving the two of them and Peyton) during the first three seasons, but the two eventually understand they don’t belong together.

He has had a very big interest in playing baseball, which grew after Julian gave Jamie a glove once worn by Roberto Clemente and he met ace pitching prospect Ian Kellerman.

When Lucas returns to Tree Hill, Jamie and Lydia leave with their uncle allowing Haley to relieve some stress as she awaits word on Nathan.

Clay lingers between life and death with a gunshot wound to the chest and comes close to dying when his organs start to fail but makes a miraculous recovery after a kidney transplant and awakens with Quinn at his side.

They confess their love for each other ("Til kingdom come") before Quinn wakes up and makes a full recovery, but fears for Clay when Haley tells her that his organs are failing.

In Season 8, she goes to Brooke's bachelorette party and ends up, after a drunken night, with a tongue piercing, raw meat in her purse and a stolen skateboarding dog.

Portrayed by Jana Kramer since Season 7, Alex Dupre, real name Alice Whitehead, was originally a recurring character, but was moved to starring in Episode 14.

In the series finale, Nathan gives Chris the guitar he had sold years ago to pay for Haley's record as a thank you for his part in the rescue mission, with the two on much better terms.

Chris performs at Tric's ten-year anniversary where he impresses a record executive named Frankie Parks but turns down the offer to sign to her label.

[24] Schwahn notes that the audience initially thought the character was there for Peyton, and were praising him for his confidence, however when they learned he was there for Haley to break up her marriage they began hating him.

[32] The role of Jake Jagielski was written specifically for Bryan Greenberg, having previously worked with series creator Mark Schwahn on The Perfect Score.

In Season 5, he is now working a delivery boy for a pizza place, is married to Bevin, and they have a son named Nathan, as learned when he gets locked in the library with Haley, Peyton, Brooke, Mia, and Lindsey.

Played by Kieren Hutchison during Seasons 2 and 5, Andy Hargrove is a teacher at Karen's college who happens to be extremely wealthy since he had quite a successful CEO job after a car accident with a woman, which worked as a wake-up call.

Later on she tried to control Brooke's decision over COB's future as the CEO of the brand (the opening of the Tree Hill boutique and Peyton's label) but ended up alienating her daughter by repeatedly rejecting her.

Brooke was disgusted with her mother and gave the company over to Victoria who subsequently fired Millicent and closed the Tree Hill Clothes Over Bros store.

Victoria is the one who also learns of Millicent's drug addiction and one night when she and Alex leave TRIC, she calls the cops and reports Millie as a drunk driver, and she is arrested.

When she got stuck in the Tree Hill Library with Haley, Brooke, Peyton and Mia, she told them her father died from cancer and she had to take him off the ventilator because her mother was too destroyed to do it.

While driving Jamie, and his friends Chuck and Madison home during a hurricane, Lauren crashes her car, leaving her life, as well as the children's lives, in danger.

While initially hostile and cold, she has shown some loyalty to Haley after she started working at Red Bedroom, standing up for her against a reporter who wanted to discuss Nathan and Renee's scandal.

Leven Rambin portrayed Chloe Hall in Season 8, a troubled young girl, who chose Brooke and Julian as the parents of the child she is expecting, but when the baby was born she changed her mind, for the father had come to the hospital.

Absent to his daughter's life from many years he comes back in Tree Hill to the baptism of Brooke's sons Davis and Jude and be the godfather of his grandsons.

She plays dirty tricks to win customers, including planting cockroaches and hanging a sign that says Karen's Cafe hires murderers (from when Dan helped out Haley when she was short-staffed).

Jimmy Edwards played by Colin Fickes in Season 1 and 3, was a student at Tree Hill high and a friend of Lucas and Mouth's from the River Court.

The series has featured musical guests including Gavin DeGraw, Sheryl Crow, The Wreckers, Lupe Fiasco, Jimmy Eat World, Nada Surf, Michelle Branch, Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy, Cheap Trick, Jack's Mannequin, Nick Lachey,[47] Kid Cudi,[48] and Dave Navarro.