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The characters from the American drama/adventure television series Lost were created by by Damon Lindelof, J. J. Abrams and Jeffrey Lieber. The series follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet crashes somewhere in the South Pacific. Each episode typically features a primary storyline on the island as well as a secondary storyline from another point in a character's life.

Out of the 324 people on board Oceanic Flight 815, there are 68 initial survivors (67 humans and one dog) spread across the three sections of the plane crash. The opening season featured 14 regular speaking roles, making it the second largest cast in a currently airing American prime time television show.

Main characters

Some of the really Heavy Hitters are Kate, Sawyer, Jack, Locke, Sayid, Hurley, Desmond, Jin, Sun, and Ben. These guys are pretty much what the show revolves around to some degree.

Katherine Anne "Kate" Austen - After blowing up her father, Kate goes on the run and is eventually captured by a federal marshal while in Australia. On the island, Kate is attracted to both Sawyer and Jack, and eventually has a relationship with Sawyer. After escaping the island, she is put on trial for murder, but subsequently makes a highly favorable plea bargain that does not require prison time. She raises Claire's son Aaron as her own pretending to be his biological mother, as a part of the Oceanic 6 cover story. After breaking up with Jack, she wants to repair their relationship, but has no desire to return to the island.

Dr. Juliet Burke - Three years prior to the crash, fertility doctor Juliet is recruited by the Others. She developed a relationship with Goodwin, before Ben arranged for his death. This and Ben's refusal to allow her to leave the island, angers her. Juliet helps Sawyer and Kate escape from the animal cages, and then lives with the Oceanic 815 crash survivors after she leaves the "Others" camp. She defies Ben's orders to spy and ponders a relationship with Jack until the Oceanic 6 leaves on a helicopter. When the recurring time flashes leave Juliet and the others in the mid-1970s, she eventually falls in love with Sawyer.

Boone Carlyle Boone is the stepbrother of Shannon, with whom he is in love. On the island, he becomes a protector of the people and a hunter with Locke. He's also very cautious with his sister Shannon on the island and does his duty of protecting her. A plane falls with Boone in it, crushing Boone's leg in the impact. He returns to the camp to be treated by Jack, but dies shortly thereafter.

Ana Lucia Cortez
A former LAPD police officer, Ana Lucia is the leader of the survivors of the tail section of Flight 815 and guides them to the relative safety of the fuselage survivors. She is shot and killed by Michael Dawson while he tries to free Ben, the leader of the "Others."

Michael Dawson
While trying to escape the Island via raft, Michael's son Walt is abducted by the Others. After making a deal with the Others, Michael and Walt leave the Island. However when they return home Walt leaves Michael after he finds out that he killed Libby and Ana Lucia while carrying out his part of the deal. Michael tries to commit suicide a couple times but soon finds out that "the island won't let him die". He later infiltrates the Kahana freighter crew under the orders of Ben in order to save everyone on the Island. He is killed in an explosion on the Kahana while trying to deactivate a bomb.

Mr. Eko
A former Nigerian drug lord turned priest, Eko crashes with the tail section survivors. He meets the smoke monster on more than one occasion in the Island's forests, and is eventually killed by the monster.

Elizabeth "Libby"
Libby is a tail section survivor. Prior to the crash of 815, she met Desmond and gave him her late husband's boat for the around the world race that ended with Desmond crashing on the island. She is also revealed to have been a patient in the same mental institution at the same time as Hurley. She becomes romantically involved with Hurley. She is shot to death by Michael after accidentally witnessing Ana Lucia's death.

Daniel Faraday
Faraday is a physicist hired to go to the Island by Charles Widmore. Though he lies several times to the Oceanic 815 survivors, he saves Desmond's life and helps Juliet ferry survivors to the Kahana. His mother is Eloise Hawking of LA.

Nikki Fernandez
Nikki is an actress who, with Paulo, murders a television producer for his diamonds. When they get to the island they spend their time searching for the diamonds lost in the crash. She is Paulo's girlfriend and is assumed dead and buried alive on the island after being paralyzed from a spider bite.

James "Sawyer" Ford
Sawyer is a confidence man emotionally crippled by the murder-suicide of his parents when he was a child. He is romantically involved with Kate and Juliet on the island.

Desmond David Hume
Desmond shipwrecks on the island while on a boat race around the world and lives in the Hatch for three years until he moves in with the crash survivors. At the start of the third season, Desmond gains the ability to see flashes of future events, most of them being about Charlie's death. He escapes the Island with the Oceanic Six at the end of season four and is reunited with his girlfriend, Penelope Widmore. They name their baby boy Charlie. Hume is named after Enlightenment philosopher David Hume.

Sayid Jarrah
A former military communications officer, Sayid is haunted by his past as an interrogator for the Iraqi Republican Guard. On the island, he is romantically involved with Shannon. After escaping the island and coming to America, he reunites with and marries his former girlfriend Nadia. After Nadia is murdered, Sayid is employed by Ben as an assassin to kill the associates of Charles Widmore.

Jin-Soo Kwon
The son of a poor fisherman, Jin marries Sun on the condition that he work for her father as a mob enforcer. On the island, Jin struggles as the only castaway who does not speak English, although he does eventually begin to learn. He is presumed dead by his wife, Sun-Hwa Kwon, and the other members of the Oceanic Six, when a bomb goes off on the Kahana. Kwon is later found unconscious on driftwood by a French research team in 1988, having flashed to that time period with the other people on the island.

Sun-Hwa Kwon
The rich daughter of a hotel owner/automobile manufacturer with ties to the Korean mob, Sun has an affair and almost leaves her husband Jin before the crash. They reconcile on the island and she becomes pregnant with Jin's baby. After escaping the island, Sun gives birth to Jin's baby, a girl named Ji Yeon, off the island. With the settlement money from Oceanic, Sun buys a controlling share of her father's company.

Charlotte Staples Lewis
Charlotte is an anthropologist hired to go to the Island by Charles Widmore. Miles suggests that she has been to the Island before and she chooses to stay there when given the option to leave. She later dies due to the ill effects of the Island's erratic movements through time and admits she was born on the Island, her parents being members of the Dharma Initiative.

Benjamin Linus
Ben is the manipulative leader of the Others. He is captured by the survivors and is held hostage in a hatch that Boone and Locke found. However Michael releases him in return for the safe passage of himself and his son, Walt, back home. In the finale of the 4th season he is forced to leave the Island after he "moves" it.

Claire Littleton
Claire gives birth on the island to a boy and forges a strong relationship with Charlie. She is also Jack's half-sister. She is not aware of this, but Jack learns this from her mother after he leaves the Island. Claire is later seen in Jacob's hut with her father.

Walter "Walt" Lloyd
An elementary school student, he is kidnapped by the Others, who claim that he is "special." He is rescued by his father Michael and goes to live with his grandmother in New York.

John Locke
After having his paralysis healed during the crash, Locke lives out his dreams of becoming a hunter on the Island. John Locke is also the name of a philosopher. Being a man of faith, he believes he has a special connection with the island, leading him to clash with man of science Jack. Having been "chosen," Locke becomes the leader of the Others at the end of the fourth season. Locke is eventually murded by Ben shortly after leaving the island. Eventually his body returns on the island with most of who left. After waking up from the crash, Locke could walk again.

Charlie Pace
A one-hit wonder, rock musician Charlie ends his addiction to heroin on the island and cares for Claire and her baby. He drowns in the Looking Glass station, trying to help the survivors communicate with the outside world.

Paulo
Paulo helps Nikki murder a television executive for his diamonds. He spends his time on the island with Nikki searching for the diamonds. He is assumed dead and buried alive on the island after being paralyzed from a spider bite.

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
After winning the lottery with the numbers, Hurley suffers from great bad luck. He remains optimistic on the island but after escaping from it is hospitalized for psychiatric reasons that include recurring hallucinations involving Charlie.

Shannon Rutherford
Shannon is a ballet instructor and Boone's stepsister. She has a relationship with Sayid on the island. She is accidentally shot and killed by Ana Lucia on the Island.

Jack Shephard
A spinal surgeon with father issues, Jack is the survivors' leader. He has feelings for Kate. After escaping the island, he ends up in a relationship with Kate but after a dramatic breakup he becomes drug-addicted and suicidal because he longs to return to the island to save everyone left behind, and return to his relationship with Kate.

Miles Straume
Miles is a spiritualist hired to go to the Island by Charles Widmore. He can apparently talk to the dead. He has the most cutting wit out of the Kahana away team members, earning him a comparison to Sawyer by Hurley.

Supporting characters
 

The Others


Alex
Alexandra is Rousseau's daughter who is kidnapped by the Others sixteen years prior to the crash of Flight 815 and raised by Ben. Alex aids the crash survivors in various escapes and eventually defects at the end of season three. She dates Karl, but Ben tries to keep them apart because she would die if she becomes pregnant. She is executed by Keamy.

Richard Alpert
Dr. Richard Alpert is Ben's advisor who is seemingly ageless. In flashbacks spanning fifty years, including being present for Locke's birth in 1956, associating with Ben to purge the Dharma Initiative in 1992, and recruiting Juliet to the Others, he always appears to be the same age as he is in 2004. In the fourth season, Richard leads the surviving Others to a place referred to as "The Temple". He is shown to come into contact with John Locke several times during the latter's early life. Juliet has said that Richard has always been on the Island and, when questioned about how old he is, cryptically asserts that he is "old."

Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin is one of the Others and has lost one of his eyes. He lives and works at the Flame Dharma station. Locke, Sayid and Kate find him and take him hostage. He manages to escape and later sets off a hand grenade, which kills both himself and Charlie at the Looking Glass Dharma station.

Karl Blake
A young Other, Karl is Alex's boyfriend. In an attempt to prevent Karl from impregnating Alex, Ben imprisons him until he is rescued by Kate and Sawyer. Later, he joins the plane crash survivors and is killed by the mercenaries from the Kahana in season four.

Bea Klugh
Beatrice Klugh visits Michael during his forced stay with the Others and is present when they capture Jack, Kate and Sawyer. In season three, at the Dharma Flame station, she is found by Sayid, Locke and Kate and has Mikhail kill her to prevent her from being the survivors' prisoner.

Jacob
Jacob is the Others' highest authority. With the exception of Ben, the Others do not have regular contact with him. Jacob lives in a cabin that seemingly moves and is invisible to some people. At first, Locke can only hear Jacob and not see him, although he later sees and talks to Christian Shephard inside the cabin.

Danny Pickett
Danny Pickett is a violent member of the Others who supervises Kate and Sawyer while they are imprisoned. He is married to another Other named Colleen until Sun kills her. Enraged, Pickett takes his anger out on Sawyer, and tries to kill Sawyer until Juliet intervenes and kills Pickett.

Ethan Rom
Dr. Ethan Rom poses as a fuselage survivor until he is exposed by Hurley, at which point he kidnaps Claire and Charlie. He unsuccessfully attempts to murder Charlie and takes Claire to the Staff Dharma station, where he performs tests on her unborn child and implants a device that can cause her to become sick. Charlie kills Ethan in "Homecoming".

Goodwin Stanhope
Goodwin Stanhope is married to the Others' therapist, Harper Stanhope. He has an affair with Juliet, which dismays Ben because he is in love with Juliet. Partially out of jealousy, Ben sends Goodwin on a mission to infiltrate the tail section survivors. When Goodwin's identity is discovered by Ana Lucia, she confronts and kills him.

Tom
Tom, aka "Mr Friendly," wears a fake beard when acting as a liaison to the crash survivors until they kidnap Jack, Kate and Sawyer. He recruits Michael to spy on the boat Kahana. He's shot and killed by Sawyer.

Minor Oceanic 815 crash survivors

Aaron
Aaron is the son of Claire Littleton and her boyfriend Thomas. Aaron is born on the island and leaves it, then being raised by Kate with the public perceiving the baby to be hers, to follow along with their version of what happened on the island. (Over fifty male and female blonde-haired, blue-eyed babies portrayed Aaron during the first three seasons.
 

Leslie Arzt
Dr. Leslie Arzt is a high school science teacher, who crashes with the fuselage survivors and keeps a collection of native fauna in various jars. Arzt complains about not being included in the various missions of Jack and Locke, finally joining them on a trip to the Black Rock. He dies ironically when a stick of dynamite explodes in his hand whilst he lectures Jack, Locke, Kate and Hurley on how to safely handle it.

Cindy Chandler
Cindy Chandler is an Australian Oceanic Airlines stewardess dating the Flight 815 passenger Gary Troup. She crashes with the tail-section survivors and is taken by the Others in the second season during the journey to the fuselage survivors' camp. Cindy lives comfortably with the Others following her abduction.
Emma and Zack Kiersten
Emma and Zack are two sibling children from the tail section of the plane who live under the care of the Others, following the pair's kidnapping.

Rose Henderson
A woman with terminal cancer from the Bronx, New York, Rose Henderson-Nadler marries Bernard less than a year before the crash. She lives with the fuselage survivors and reunites with Bernard in season two. She opts to return to the beach at the beginning of season four when the survivors contact the freighter.

Scott Jackson and Steve Jenkins
Scott Jackson and Steve Jenkins crash with the fuselage survivors. They are regularly confused with each other, even after one of them (Scott) is killed in the first season by Ethan. In season four, Steve is killed as well when the survivors are attacked by the people from the freighter.

Edward Mars
Edward Mars is an American marshal who is obsessed with capturing Kate, finally apprehending her in Australia. He is critically injured during the crash and dies in the third episode.

Bernard Nadler
An American dentist, Dr. Bernard Nadler weds Rose Henderson less than one year prior to the crash. He crashes with the tail section survivors, but joins the fuselage survivors in season two. Bernard stays with the majority of the group after some of the freighter crew arrive. He is the only tail section survivor not to be abducted by the Others or killed.

Seth Norris
Seth Norris is the pilot of the airplane (Flight 815) which crashes on the island. He is found in the cockpit in the first episode by Jack, Kate and Charlie and soon after is killed by "the Monster."

Gary Troup
Gary Troup is the New York author of the metafictional novel, Bad Twin Gary Troup is Cindy's lover. He dies when he is sucked into the plane's turbine immediately after the plane crash.

Vincent Madison
Vincent is Walt's yellow Labrador retriever, who is originally owned by Walt's stepfather, Brian Porter. He is left behind on the Island when Michael and Walt leave. He is given to Shannon by Walt and remains under her care until she is killed. He is later seen accompanying Sun.

Neil "Frogurt"
Neil was first mentioned when Bernard is trying to make an S.O.S sign out of rocks. He is finally seen in mobisode, "The Adventures of Hurley and Frogurt". He was not seen again until season 5 episodes "Because You Left" and "The Lie". He is on the Zodiac raft with Daniel Faraday when the island shifts in time. He is killed in 1954 when he is shot by a flaming arrow in the chest and back.

Dharma Initiative members



Annie
A girl who befriended Ben Linus when they were both young and living in the Dharma Initiative during its heyday. On the Season 3 DVD, the producers stated Annie is a major influence on Ben, and will play a "seismic" part in future storylines.

Pierre Chang
He is the scientist in the Dharma Initiative orientation films, who also goes by the names Marvin Candle, Mark Wickmund, and Edgar Halliwax.

Gerald and Karen
A couple, Doctorals candidates of the University of Michigan, who received funding by the Hanso Foundation in 1970 to create and operate the Dharma Initiative on the island.

Horace Goodspeed
The leader of the Dharma Initiative on the island. He is first seen along with his wife Olivia, assisting Roger Linus after his son's birth, and eventually recruiting Roger into the Dharma Initiative. Later, Horace is romantically involved with Amy, with whom he fathers a child. Horace also maintains diplomatic relations with the Others, led by Richard Alpert . Horace dies during the "purge," an event during which the Others kill the majority of the Dharma Initiative using poison gas.

Alvar Hanso
A former arms salesman and manufacturer, he is the enigmatic Danish leader of the Hanso Foundation. Hanso can be seen in the show via the orientation film in "Orientation".

Kelvin Joe Inman
Kelvin is an intelligence operative for the United States government, and responsible for making Sayid torture his former commander. Later, Kelvin joins the Dharma Initiative, and operates the Swan station until Desmond accidentally kills him.

Roger Linus
Ben's father and an employee of the Dharma Initiative. He is killed by Ben in the "purge" (the massacre of the members of the Dharma Initiative). Later, his corpse is discovered by Hurley in "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead".

Widmore and employees


Charles Widmore
A wealthy industrialist, former Other and father of Penelope Widmore. He claims that he used to be the leader of the Others until he was exiled by Ben, who says that Charles is an enemy of the people on the Island. He sends the freighter Kahana to the Island in order to find and capture Ben. Charles disapproves of Desmond's relationship with his daughter.

Penelope "Penny" Widmore
Penny Widmore is Desmond's girlfriend. After he is shipwrecked on the Island, she never gives up looking for him. She ultimately succeeds and rescues not only Desmond but also Frank Lapidus and the Oceanic Six. She helps arrange the Oceanic Six's cover story. Later she gives birth to Desmond's son Charlie. Carlton Cuse has stated that "Penny is an important character in the overarching mythology of the show".

Matthew Abaddon
Matthew Abaddon works for Widmore by "helping people get to where they're supposed to be". He is responsible for Locke going on his walkabout which ultimately leads him to the Island. After the crash, Matthew hires Naomi, Miles, Faraday, Charlotte, and Lapidus to go to the Island via the freighter Kahana. He visits Hurley at the mental institution after the Oceanic 6 rescue and tries to gather information on where the other survivors are. Matthew acts as a chauffeur for Locke after he leaves the Island, helping him in his mission to convince the Oceanic 6 to return to the Island. During Locke's mission, Matthew is shot dead by Ben who claims that he is a "dangerous person."

Naomi Dorrit
Recruited by Matthew Abaddon to lead a group of four people on a mission to the Island, Naomi Dorrit is the first to arrive on the Island and tells the survivors of the freighter Kahana. While she claimed she was there to rescue Desmond Hume, later events seemed to show she had a different agenda. She is mortally wounded when Locke throws a knife into her back, after finally contacting the boat.

Martin Keamy
Martin Keamy is the lead mercenary on the Kahana and is a former Marine. Keamy leads a team onto the island to find Ben, killing Karl and Danielle Rousseau and later executing Alex in front of Ben. Keamy eventually tracks Ben down and is stabbed to death by him. His death causes the freighter to explode, presumably killing many people.

Frank Lapidus
Frank Lapidus is a pilot who brings Daniel, Miles and Charlotte to the Island. He was supposed to be the pilot for Flight 815. He ultimately helps Desmond and the Oceanic Six escape The Island. In Season 5 episode "316", he reappears as the pilot flying the Oceanic Six back to the island. In "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham", Frank is referenced as leaving the survivors camp with a boat along with Sun.

Miscellaneous characters

Anthony Cooper
Anthony Cooper is a ruthless con man, John Locke's biological father and the man who conned Sawyer's parents, leading to their deaths. Cooper cons Locke into donating a kidney to him before abandoning him. He later comes to make amends with Locke when he convinces Locke to help him retrieve money he owes to a couple of heavies. Later, Locke begins to interfere with one of his cons, so Cooper pushes Locke out of a window, paralyzing him. Cooper later arrives on the Island, where Sawyer kills him in revenge. He is named after Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, the mentor of the philosopher John Locke.

Eloise Hawking
Eloise Hawking tells Desmond the rules of course correction and informs Ben how long he has to get the Oceanic 6 to back to the Island. Eloise urges Desmond not to get married to Penny. She tells the Oceanic Six how to get back to the island. She is the caretaker of the L.A.-based Dharma Initiative station known as the Lamppost, and is also the mother of Daniel Faraday.

Diane Janssen
The estranged mother of Kate, she turns Kate into the police after Kate kills Diane's husband and Kate's father, Wayne. Diane never forgives Kate, but decides not to testify at Kate's trial once Kate returns home as part of the Oceanic Six.

Nadia Jazeem
A childhood friend of Sayid's, Nadia becomes involved in an insurgency opposed to Saddam Hussein. She is imprisoned and interrogated by Sayid, but he lets her escape. She travels to the West, and in doing so comes in contact with both Charlie and Locke. When Sayid leaves the island, they get married, but shortly after she is murdered.

Jae Lee
After teaching Sun English, Jae Lee has an affair with her and as a result her father sends Jin to kill him. Jin instead tells him to leave Korea forever, but Jae commits suicide by jumping from his apartment building.

Cassidy Phillips
Cassidy is a recently divorced woman whom Sawyer cons, despite his loving her. Cassidy then goes to Iowa and accidentally meets Kate. Cassidy later has Sawyer arrested and visits him in jail, where she tells him they have a daughter together.

Danielle Rousseau
Danielle Rousseau arrives on the island sixteen years before the crash of Flight 815 as part of a research team. She gives birth to Alex on the island after killing her team because they had gotten "sick." It is later revealed that she believes that the monster made them sick. Alex is kidnapped soon after by the Others. Rousseau occasionally helps the survivors and is shot and killed in an ambush along with Karl while leading Alex to the Temple on Ben's orders. In the fifth season, Jin, who has traveled back in time, meets Rousseau and her crew after surviving the explosion of the boat.

Christian Shephard
Christian Shephard works as the chief of surgery at St. Sebastian Hospital, and is a recovering alcoholic. He goes to Australia with Ana Lucia to find his long-lost daughter, Claire, after his son, Jack inadvertently costs Christian his medical license. Christian subsequently dies from drinking too much after being abandoned at a bar by Ana Lucia and meeting Sawyer. He has appeared multiple times on the Island to many different characters, including Jack, Claire, Locke, Hurley, Miles, Michael and even Vincent. He appears to be somehow connected to Jacob.

Sarah Shephard
Sarah is involved in a car crash with Shannon's father. Jack treats her injuries, and informs her that she will never walk again, however he "fixes" her. They fall in love and marry, but some time later, Sarah has an affair and divorces Jack. Sometime after the crash survivors are rescued, Sarah is pregnant.

Minor recurring off-island characters

Casting and development

Many of the first season roles were a result of the executive producers' liking of various actors. The main character Jack was originally going to die in the pilot, and was hoped to be played by Michael Keaton; however, ABC executives were adamant that Jack live. Before it was decided that Jack would live, Kate was to emerge as the leader of the survivors; she was originally conceived to be more like the character of Rose. Dominic Monaghan auditioned for the role of Sawyer, who at the time was supposed to be a suit-wearing city con man. The producers enjoyed Monaghan's performance and changed the character of Charlie, originally a middle-aged former rock star, to fit him. Jorge Garcia also auditioned for Sawyer, and the part of Hurley was written for him. When Josh Holloway auditioned for Sawyer, the producers liked the edge he brought to the character (he reportedly kicked a chair when he forgot his lines and got angry in the audition) and his southern accent, so they changed Sawyer to fit Holloway's acting. Yunjin Kim auditioned for Kate, but the producers wrote the character of Sun for her and the character of Jin, portrayed by Daniel Dae Kim, to be her husband. Sayid, played by Naveen Andrews, was also not in the original script. Locke and Michael were written with their actors in mind. Emilie de Ravin, who plays Claire, was originally cast in what was supposed to be a recurring role. In the second season, Michael Emerson was contracted to play Ben ("Henry Gale") for three episodes. His role was extended to eight episodes because of his acting skills, and eventually for the whole of season three and season four. Rebecca Mader's role of Charlotte was originally only intended for 8 episodes of season 4, but her role was extended to the whole of the season, and part of season 5. While a large cast makes Lost more expensive to produce, the writers benefit from more flexibility in story decisions. According to series executive producer Bryan Burk, "You can have more interactions between characters and create more diverse characters, more back stories, more love triangles."