List of New Girl characters

The show, set in Los Angeles, depicts the interpersonal adventures of offbeat teacher Jess (Zooey Deschanel) after her spontaneous move into an apartment loft with three men: Nick (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield), and Winston (Lamorne Morris).

Jessica Christopher "Jess" Day (Zooey Deschanel) is introduced as a bubbly, offbeat teacher in her early thirties who is originally from Portland, Oregon.

During season 1, Jess casually dated, the most memorable of those men being her music teacher co-worker Paul Genzlinger (Justin Long) and Russell Schiller (Dermot Mulroney), a divorced father of one of her students.

Eventually they begin dating, but their relationship is short-lived; in the episode "Cooler", she and Nick share a spontaneous kiss during a game of True American.

In Season 4, she gets promoted to Vice Principal, but the job gets complicated when she starts dating a new science teacher named Ryan, and they face challenges due to a school policy against administrator-teacher relationships.

Nicholas Sean "Nick" Miller (Jake Johnson), who is based on a person Meriwether knew from college, is one of Jess' roommates who works as a bartender.

Out of everyone at the loft he is the worst with money, keeping all of his cash in a box and has never paid taxes, although ironically he is the most financially successful member of his family.

In season 1, he initially is hesitant about having a female roommate; however, he eventually develops a genuine friendship with Jess and is immediately supportive of her when she is treated poorly by people or goes through emotional turmoil.

In season 5, while Jess is sequestered on jury duty, Nick convinces the beautiful pharmaceutical rep Reagan Lucas to move in and flirts with her, but only get as far as kissing before she leaves.

At the beginning of season 6, he returns from New Orleans and works on his novel The Pepperwood Chronicles while maintaining a long-distance, and later in-loft, relationship with Reagan.

However, at the end of season 6 he and Reagan break up after Nick realizes he's ready for a mature, emotionally vulnerable relationship, and he reunites with Jess.

Because of this, he often says offensive or cocky things, and every time he does, his roommates make him put money in the apartment's "douchebag jar".

[f][g][4] He is relatively wealthy compared to his roommates, having bought the couch and refrigerator, and splurging on things such as an $80 sushi plate; it was also noted that his family spent $40,000 on his Bar Mitzvah.

Schmidt is a successful marketing associate, the sole male in a female-dominated office, and is known for his numerous flings with women.

[c] Schmidt's other quirks include a fear of feral cats, especially the one on their apartment's roof;[b] being very controlling and a germophobe when it comes to preparing food; and organizing the loft.

He rekindles his relationship with his college girlfriend Elizabeth (Merritt Wever) in an attempt to move on from Cece, who is now engaged.

[k] Leading up to the wedding, Schmidt tries to repair his relationship with his father Gavin (Peter Gallagher), while also trying to convince Cece's mother he is worthy of marrying her.

[10] Ernie Tagliaboo (Damon Wayans Jr.) who goes by the nickname Coach, is a cocky and driven, yet sometimes awkward and often sensitive former athlete.

In season 3, Coach moves back in with the gang in the loft after having been dumped by his girlfriend, initially working as a personal trainer.

In the episode "Cece's Boys", it is revealed that he and May moved to North Carolina and have taken in a foreign exchange student named Montsie.

Cecilia "Cece" Parikh[l] (Hannah Simone) is Jess' best friend since childhood, a street-smart and snarky fashion model.

Initially skeptical of Jess' new roommates, Cece and Schmidt share an intimate moment when he comforts her after a breakup.

She later discovers that she has limited time to conceive a baby and decides to enter an arranged marriage with a man named Shivrang.

Cece starts working part-time as a bartender at Nick's bar,[12] passes her GED exam and begins taking community college classes.

She goes on a hiking trip to Mount Shasta, and when she returns she accepts his marriage proposal in the season 4 finale "Clean Break".

Her mother refuses to give her blessing, so Schmidt spends the time leading up to their wedding convincing her, and is successful.

Winston L'Andre Bishop[k] (Lamorne Morris) who sometimes goes by "Winne the Bish", is Nick's childhood friend from Chicago [c] and one of the loft's original occupants.

In the episode "Curse of the Pirate Bride", Aly gives birth to a baby boy whom Winston names DanBill Bishop, and in the series finale flash-forward scene, they have five children.

When she is first introduced, she seeks Winston's help in officially breaking off her on-and-off relationship with a woman named Camilla (Clea DuVall).

Despite her iciness, the loft residents are eager to befriend her; she even becomes close with Jess, who returns from jury duty shortly before Reagan leaves.