List of Saving Grace characters

This is a list of characters from the television series "Saving Grace", which premiered in 2007 on TNT in the United States.

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Main Characters

*Grace Hanadarko (Holly Hunter): Grace is an Oklahoma City police detective who has a hard-living, hard-loving, hard-drinking lifestyle, and is plagued by an angel trying to help her heal from her past.

*Earl (Leon Rippy): the last-chance angel who visits Grace, ever since she called out for God's help after running a man down while driving drunk. Earl is a folksy, down-to-earth type who enjoys chewing tobacco and collecting t-shirts from his many global haunts.

*Hamilton "Ham" Dewey (Kenny Johnson): Grace's police partner who is personally and physically involved with her, despite being married. Ham is a good-hearted guy with very passionate feelings, but sometimes those feelings get the best of him.

*Rhetta Rodriguez (Laura San Giacomo): Grace's best friend, and a police forensics specialist. A devout Catholic with the curiosity of a scientist, Rhetta is fascinated by Grace's encounters with Earl.

*Butch Ada (Bailey Chase): a fellow detective in the Major Crimes squad, he has a long history with Grace and is often at odds with Ham over this. Butch played football for the Texas Longhorns, and finds himself a very lonely fish in a sea of Oklahoma Sooner fans.

*Bobby Stillwater (Gregory Norman Cruz): Butch's police partner, Bobby is the steady family man of the group. Bobby is of Native American heritage.

*Captain Kate Perry (Lorraine Toussaint): The supervisor of the Major Crimes squad, Kate Perry once worked the streets with Grace, but she now has to make decisions based on the bigger picture.

*Clay Norman (Dylan Minnette): Clay is the young son of Grace's late sister, Mary Frances, who was killed in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing. Clay shares a special bond with Grace.

*Leon Cooley (Bokeem Woodbine): An inmate on death row for killing a prison guard, Leon is another one of Earl's charges, and is strangely connected to Grace through him.

Recurring Characters

*Father Johnny Hanadarko (Tom Irwin): Grace's brother who is also a Catholic priest. Johnny wants Grace to draw closer to God, but is impatient with her behavior and has difficulty believing an angel visits her.

*Henry Silver (Mark L. Taylor): Henry works with Rhetta in forensic sciences, specializing in pathology.

*Lt. Percy Yukon (Roger Aaron Brown): Lt. Yukon was the original supervisor of Grace's squad, but was shot to death by his brother in the second episode.

*Leo Hanadarko (Patrick St. Esprit): Grace's firefighter brother, who has the shared experience with Grace of the traumatic search-and-rescue efforts on the day of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing.

*Betty Hanadarko (Jessica Walter): Grace's mother, Betty Hanadarko loves her daughter but has difficulty honestly facing some of the things that happened to Grace as a child.

*Paige (Jessica Tuck): Grace's little sister, Paige deals with life very differently from Grace. Paige is a perfectionist and clashes with her sister's reckless ways.

*Doug Norman (Chris Mulkey): Clay's father and the widower of Grace's sister, Mary Frances.

*Ronnie Rodriguez (Jose Zuniga): Rhetta's husband Ronnie runs the family farm.

*Joe Hanadarko (Sam Hennings): Grace's brother Joe.

*Geepaw (August Schellenberg): Grace's grandfather. Geepaw is a Native American, a member of the Choctaw people.

*Jimmy Hanadarko (Mike Pavone): Grace's brother Jimmy.

*Buck (Jake Muxworthy): Paige's husband.

*Ralph "Rafe" Dewey (Judson Mills): Ham's younger brother, Rafe was a lieutenant in the Marines. He was killed in action in Iraq.

*Nick Dewey (Jack Conley): Ham's brother Nick is gay and owns an art gallery in town. He is very protective of Ham, and isn't happy with his extramarital involvement with Grace.

*Darlene Dewey (Robyn Lively): Ham's estranged wife.

*Marissa Stillwater (Camillia Sanes): Bobby Stillwater's wife.

*Nell Ada (Andrea Fay Friedman): Butch's sister, Nell has Down syndrome.

*Emily Jane Ada (Mariette Hartley): Butch's mother, who is affluent and well-connected with the rich and powerful.

*Chet (Art Frankel): Grace's elderly neighbor is often a fixture at his window.

*Alvin Green (Steve Rankin): A cattle baron who is used to getting what he wants, Alvin Green paws Grace while she's on the job. He winds up with a face full of knuckles and flat on his back for his trouble.

*Cathy (Frances Fisher): Grace's aunt and Betty Hanadarko's sister. A free spirit whom Grace was once close to, a chasm came between them when Grace learned of Cathy's affair with her father.

*Jack St. Clair (Gordon MacDonald): The nephew of Grace's neighbor Chet, Jack is an amateur astronomer and an atheist. Grace and Jack become involved for an episode.

*Father Patrick Murphy (Rene Auberjonois): The family priest when Grace was a child, he was a pedophile who abused scores of children including Grace. Grace and Rhetta's nickname for him was Father Patrick "Satan" Murphy. Father Murphy was killed in the street, shortly after Grace arrested him for his crimes.

External links

*imdb title|0830900|Saving Grace
* [http://www.tnt.tv/series/savinggrace/characters/?contentId=32561 "Saving Grace" Character Guide at the TNT website]