Dharma & Greg

Main characters

Dharma

Dharma Freedom Montgomery, née Finklestein (Jenna Elfman) is Greg's wife and a flower child. She is extremely peppy and ditzy, but she also seems to be more compassionate and forgiving than most people. Dharma encourages Greg to seek happiness, rather than fret about practical issues like money. Due to being homeschooling by Abby and Larry, she has a limited understanding of Western culture and seems to be very credulous when it comes to trusting strangers. She is appropriately named after dharma.

Related Topics:
Jenna Elfman - Flower child - Money - Western culture - Dharma

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According to Chuck Lorre's eleventh vanity card, he and Dottie Dartland orginally conceived Dharma & Greg as "a series revolving around a woman whose personality is not a neurotic product of societal and parental conditioning, but of her own free-flowing, compassionate mind."

Related Topics:
Chuck Lorre - Dottie Dartland

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Greg

Gregory "Greg" Clifford Montgomery (Thomas Gibson) is Dharma's husband. He is an upright, decent, though sometimes surprisingly open-minded, man. Greg's life was hopelessly banal before he met Dharma and married her on their first date. Since then, he has played straight man to the antics of his eccentric wife. Though his and Dharma's relationship has been rocky at times, Greg has never been shown to regret their marriage.

Related Topics:
Thomas Gibson - Straight man

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Kitty

Katherine "Kitty" Montgomery (Susan Sullivan) is Greg's snobbish mother. She highly disapproves of Dharma and is often successful in making her feel guilty. The name "Kitty" is probably a reference to her catty personality.

Related Topics:
Susan Sullivan - Guilt

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Edward

Edward Montgomery (Mitch Ryan) is Greg's father. His philosophy for dealing with women involves remaining as uninvolved as possible. Head of Montgomery Industries (though he only keeps going to work because he can see little tugboats out the window) and at odds with Dharma's father, who calls him "Ed" and whom he calls "Finklestein."

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Abby

Abigail "Abby" Kathleen O'Neil (Mimi Kennedy) is Dharma's caring mother, who encourages her daughter and son-in-law to produce children; "Feel free to have sex anywhere." Despite openly having a grown daughter, she and Larry are not married.

Related Topics:
Mimi Kennedy - Sex

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Larry

Myron Lawrence "Larry" Finkelstein (Alan Rachins) is Dharma's father, who is suspicous of the government and Greg and seems to be lacking in short term memory.

Related Topics:
Alan Rachins - Government - Short term memory

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Jane

Jane Deaux (briefly Jane Cavanaugh) (Shae D'Lyn) is Dharma's friend. She considers all men evil (more or less); over the course of the show, her hair went from black, to red, to blonde. D'Lyn left at the end of the fourth season, though she had one "guest appearance" in season five.

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Pete

Peter "Pete" James Cavanaugh (Joel Murray) is fellow lawyer of Greg. He's a particularly bad, lazy one and was married to Jane for a time.

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