List of The L Word cast members

This is a List of The L Word actors.

:"See also: List of characters from The L Word"

Cast members

*Jennifer Beals - Bette Porter
*Laurel Holloman - Tina Kennard
*Mia Kirshner - Jenny Schecter
*Pam Grier - Kit Porter
*Katherine Moennig - Shane McCutcheon
*Leisha Hailey - Alice Pieszecki
*Erin Daniels (Seasons 1—3) - Dana Fairbanks
*Eric Mabius (Season 1) - Tim Hapsel
*Karina Lombard (Season 1) - Marina Ferrer
*Rachel Shelley (Season 2—) - Helena Peabody
*Eric Lively (Season 2) - Mark Wayland
*Sarah Shahi (Seasons 2—3) - Carmen de la Pica Morales
*Daniela Sea (Season 3—) - Moira/Max Sweeney
*Dallas Roberts (Season 3—4) - Angus Partridge
*Cybill Shepherd (Season 4—) - Phyllis Kroll
*Marlee Matlin (Season 4—) - Jodi Lerner
*Janina Gavankar (Season 4—) - Papi
*Rose Rollins (Season 4—) - Tasha Williams
*Malaya Rivera Drew (Season 5—) - Adele Channing
*Kate French (Season 5-) - Niki Stevens
*Elizabeth Keener (Season 5—) - Dawn Denbo
*Clementine Ford (Season 5—) - Molly Kroll

Guest stars

Below is a list in alphabetical order of guest stars that have appeared, with their respective performances.
*Anne Archer as Lenore (in season one), Alice's vain actress mother
*Rosanna Arquette as Cherie Jaffe (season one and three), a "Hollywood wife" with whom Shane had a romantic fling
*The rock band The B-52s (season two) as themselves
*Sandra Bernhard as Charlotte Birch (season two), a college professor of a creative writing class that Jenny attends
*The rock band Betty as themselves (seasons two & three). They also wrote/performed the theme song used since season twocite web|url=http://villagevoice.com/people/0525,conaway2,65117,24.html|title=She Is 'The L Word'|accessdate=2006-09-03|author= Conaway, Laura|date=2005-06-19|work=The Village Voice] and a number of tracks for the musical score.Fact|date=February 2007
*Elodie Bouchez as Claude (season three), a French writer that becomes romantically involved with Jenny
*Kate Clinton as Dr. Farber, a lesbian sex therapist
*Alan Cumming as Billy Blaikie (season three), a transvestite party promoter.
*Lolita Davidovich as Francesca Wolf (season one), Marina's lover
*Ossie Davis (his final acting role; seasons one and two) as Bette and Kit's conservative father, Melvin Porter
*Dana Delany as Barbara Grisham (season three), a senator (and lesbian in the closet) from Massachusetts
*Holly Dignard as Chandra
*Snoop Dogg as rapper Slim Daddy (season one) for whom Kit appears in a music video
*Charles S. Dutton as the motivational speaker Benjamin Bradshaw (season two) who becomes romantically involved with Kit
*Steven Eckholdt as Henry (season three), a divorced father that becomes Tina's first boyfriend after breaking up with Bette.
*Lisa Gay Hamilton (season one) as a nameless art show attendee that attends Bette's show in New York
*The rock band Heart as themselves
*Alexandra Hedison as Dylan (season three), a documentary director that becomes Helena Peabody's love interest, and later her sexual harassment plaintiff
*Nona Hendryx as herself
*Sandrine Holt as Catherine Rothberg (season four), a rich and poker playing lesbian, who uses Helena Peabody for her games and entertainment
*Arianna Huffington as herself (season two)
*Sharon Isbin as herself
*Irene López as Mercedes Morales, Carmen's mother (season three)
*Dr. Susan Love as herself
*Jane Lynch as Joyce Wischnia, a gay-rights attorney who puts the moves on Tina while representing her against Bette in season two, and who Bette subsequently retains against Tina in the custodial fight of season three.
*Kelly Lynch as 'drag king' Ivan (seasons one and two) who helps Kit with her alcohol recovery
*Camryn Manheim as the egotistical and hot-tempered movie producer Veronica Bloom (season two), who hires Shane as her assistant
*Meredith McGeachie as Tonya (seasons one, two, and three), Dana's celebrity-obsessed temporary fiancée and manager
*Tammy Lynn Michaels as Lacey, Shane's stalker (season one)
*Dan Payne as a policeman (pilot episode)
*The singer Peaches as herself
*Melissa Rivers as herself (season two)
*Eric Roberts as Gabriel McCutcheon, Shane's dysfunctional father (seasons three and four)
*Julian Sands as Nick Barashkov (season one), Jenny's former college professor of Russian literature;
*Helen Shaver as Fay Buckley (season one), the leader of an extreme right-wing activist group bent on shutting down Bette's art gallery;
*Russell Simmons as himself (season three)
*The rock band Sleater-Kinney as themselves
*Lauren Lee Smith as Lara Perkins (seasons one, two and three), a chef that both Dana and later Alice become romantically involved with;
*Cybill Shepherd as Phyllis "Heads Will Roll" Kroll, the university chancellor who hires Bette as dean of Art and confides her nascent lesbianism to Bette as well (season four)
*Gloria Steinem as herself (season two)
*Holland Taylor as Peggy Peabody (seasons one, two and three), the wealthy contributor to Bette's art gallery and Helena's mother
*The indie-pop band Tegan and Sara as themselves
*Guinevere Turner as Gabby Deveaux (seasons one and two), Alice's hot and cold recurrent girlfriend
*The indie-pop band The Organ as themselves.
*Patricia Velásquez as Begoña, an inmigrant acctress (season five)

References