List of Degrassi characters

This article is about the characters in the original series. For the current series, see List of Degrassi: The Next Generation characters.

The following is a list of characters who appeared in the teen drama series Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High (including the immediate follow-up made-for-television movie, Degrassi: School's Out), which are part of the Degrassi universe. Hundreds of actors appeared the series throughout their run. There were distinct main youth characters among recurring youth characters, yet the latter were occasionally the central protagonists of episode plots. No plots centered around adult characters, though they were often important plot devices. Degrassi Junior High ran for three seasons, and was followed by Degrassi High, which ran for a further two seasons, and a made-for-television movie Degrassi: School's Out. Seasons 1 through 3 refer to Degrassi Junior High, and seasons 4 and 5 refer to Degrassi High and School's Out.

Youths

Actor	Character	Appearances
Aaron Martin	Aaron	One appearance in season 2
Maureen McKay	Michelle Accette	Occasional seasons 1-2, seasons 3-5
Ximena Bensusan	Annie	Occasional season 1
Jenny Lass	Avrianna	One appearance in season 1
Dov Markowich	Blain	One appearance in season 5
Tory Cassis	Blaine	One appearance in season 4
Trevor Cummings	Bartholomew Bond	Occasional seasons 3-5
Sara Ballingall	Melanie Brodie	Seasons 1-5
Kirsten Bourne	Tessa Campanelli	Occasional season 3; seasons 4-5
Angela Moore	Carmelita	One appearance in season 5
Andrew Lockie	Casey	Seasons 3-4
Andy Chambers	Luke Cassellis	Seasons 2-5
Paolo Perin	Chico Aman	Seasons 3-5
Elizabeth Marmur	Cindi	Occasional season 3
Marsha Ferguson	Cindy	Occasional season 2-3; season 5
Steve Bedernjak	Clutch	Occasional seasons 3-5
Amy Millan	Cordelia	Occasional season 2
Tyson Talbot	Jason Cox	Occasional season 1
Cameron Graham	Dale	Season 5
Adam Silver	Dave	Season 3
Clayton Wade	Dave's Friend	One appearance in Season 3
L. Dean Ifill	Basil 'Bronco' Davis	Seasons 3-5
Renato Rizzuti	Don	One appearance in season 3
Amanda Cook	Lorraine "L.D." Delacorte	Seasons 1-4
Michael Carry	Simon Dexter	Seasons 2-5
Annabelle Waugh	Dorothy	Occasional seasons 3-5
Chrissa Erodotou	Diana Economopoulos	One appearance in season 2; season 3-5
Nick Stamiris	George Economopoulos	One appearance in season 4
Astra Crosby	Faith	One appearance in season 3
Angela Deiseach	Erica Farrell	Seasons 1-5
Maureen Deiseach	Heather Farrell	Seasons 1-5
Anais Granofsky	Lucy Fernandez	Seasons 1-5
Karryn Sheridan	Vicky Friedland	Occasional seasons 2-3; occasional season 5
Marc Betsworth	Glen, drug dealer	Occasional season 3
Kyra Levy	Maya Goldberg	One appearance each in seasons 2-3; seasons 4-5
Niki Kemeny	Voula Grivogiannis	Season 1
Billie Mintz	Hank	Occasional season 1
Jacy Hunter	Amy Holmes	Season 3; occasional seasons 4-5
Sara Holmes	Alison Hunter	Season 3; occasional seasons 4-5
Pat Mastroianni	Joey Jeremiah	Seasons 1-5
Sabrina Dias	Jyoti	Occasional seasons 2-4
Nicole Stoffman	Stephanie Kaye	Seasons 1-2
Arlene Lott	Nancy Kramer	Seasons 2-5
Duncan Waugh	Arthur Kobalewsky	Seasons 1-3; occasional 4-5
Arlene Lott	Nancy Kramer	Season 3; occasional seasons 2, 4 and 5
Ken Hung	Wai Lee	Occasional seasons 1-2
Alon Freeman	Les	One appearance in season 3
Ysu Luu	Lily	Occasional season 3
Samer Kamal	Mahmoud	Occasional seasons 1-3
Andy Jekabsons	Mark	Occasional season 2
Joshua Whitehead	Max	Occasional season 2
Bill Parrott	Shane McKay	Seasons 1-3, one appearance in season 4
Rebecca Haines	Kathleen Mead	Seasons 1-5
Raffi Malkhassian	Meat	Occasional season 2
Wayne Reid	Mick	Season 3
Craig Driscoll	Rick Munro	Seasons 1-2
Darrin Brown	Dwayne Myers	Occasional seasons 2 and 4, season 5
Amanda Stepto	Spike Nelson	Seasons 1-5
Samantha Morrison	Emma Nelson	Season 3
Ashlee Henricks	Emma Nelson	Seasons 4-5
Nikki Vong	Michi	One appearance in season 4
George Chaker	Nick	Seasons 4-5
Stefanie Samuels	Nicole	One appearance in season 2; Occasional seasons 3-4
Keith White	Tim O'Connor	Recurring seasons 1-5
Cathy Keenan	Liz O'Rourke	Seasons 2-5
Brooke Madigan	Young Liz O'Rourke	One appearance in season 5
Tammy Campbell	Trudi Owens	One appearance in season 3
Katerina Gavala	Eleftheria Papadopoulos	One appearance in season 4
Irene Courakos	Alexa Pappadopoulos	One appearance in season 1, seasons 2-5
Vincent Walsh	Patrick	Guest star in seasons 4 and 5
Michael Blake	Paul	Occasional season 3 and 4
Anna Keenan	Rainbow	Occasional season 4 and 5
Henry Hwang	Ralph	Occasional season 4 and 5
Christine Leigh	Rebecca	Occasional season 1
Jessica Anne Bogart	Rebecca	Occasional season 4
Danny Ciraco	Ricky	Season 5
Lea-Helen Weir	Norah-Jean Rivera	One appearance in season 2
Sarah Charlesworth	Susie Rivera	Seasons 1-2
Krista Houston	Joanne Rutherford	Season 5
Stacie Mistysyn	Caitlin Ryan	Seasons 1-5
Lisa Williams	Joy Saint-Jean	Occasional Season 1-3, One appearance in season 5
Stefan Brogren	Archibald Rupert "Archie" "Snake" Simpson	Seasons 1-5
Montgomery Randal	Glen Simpson	One appearance in season 3
Byrd Dickens	Scott Smith	Occasional seasons 4-5
Danah-Jean Brown	Trish Skye	Seasons 1-5
Kevin Marshall	Stu	One appearance in Season 2
Sanjay Madhav	student	One appearance in Season 5
Aimee Darcel	Sylvia	Occasional seasons 4-5
Charles Bonsu	T.J.	One appearance in season 4
Michelle Johnson-Murray	Tabi	Occasional seasons 3-4, season 5
David Armin-Parcells	Claude Tanner	Seasons 4-5
Dayo Ade	Bryant Lester "BLT" Thomas	Seasons 3-4, occasional seasons 2 and 5
Christian Campbell	Todd	Occasional season 5
Christopher Charlesworth	Scott "Scooter" Webster	Seasons 2-5
Neil Hope	Derek "Wheels" Wheeler	Seasons 1-5
Colleen Lam	Vivian Wong	Occasional seasons 2-4
John Ioannou	Alex Yankou	Occasional seasons 1-3, seasons 4-5
Siluck Saysanasy	Yick Yu	Seasons 1-5

Parents

Parents were usually credited only as "x’s Mom" or "x’s Dad" where x = the youth's first name or nickname. Only occasionally were adult characters given full names in dialogue.

Frank Quinlan	Michelle [Accette]'s Dad (Season 3)
Richard Kovsky	Michelle's [Accette] Dad (Seasons 4 & 5)
Rose Newlove	Michelle [Accette]'s Mom
Vanessa Dylyn	Melanie [Brodie]'s Mom
Kenneth Taylor	L.D. [Delacorte]'s Dad
Angela Demos	Diana [Economopoulos]'s Mom
Darren Marsman	Lucy [Fernandez]'s Dad
Linda Schuyler	Lucy [Fernandez]'s Mom's voice [see also teacher below]
Paul Brock	Voula [Grivogiannis]'s Dad
Nancy Beltrame	Voula [Grivogiannis]'s Mom
Kathryn Ellis	irate parent #1 [see also book publicist below]
Kit Hood	irate parent #2
George King	Joey [Jeremiah]'s Dad [ Angie Jeremiah's grandfather]
Gretchen Helbig	Joey [Jeremiah]'s Mom [ Angie Jeremiah's grandmother] [The only original series parent (aside from teen parents Spike Nelson and Shane McKay) spoken to on The Next Generation (only Joey's end of the telephonic conversation is depicted).]
Pat Beaven	Stephanie [Kaye]'s [and Arthur Kobalewscuy's] Mom
Mike Douglas	[Stephanie Kaye's & Arthur Kobalewscuy's mom's fiancé] Jerry
James Johnston	Arthur [Kobalewscuy]'s [and Stephanie Kay's] Dad
Donna Tunney	[Arthur Kobalewscuy's & Stephanie Kay's dad's girlfriend] Carol
Peter Brierley	Shane [McKay]'s Dad [the Rev. Steven McKay] [ Emma Nelson's grandfather]
Jane Carnwath	Shane [McKay]'s Mom [Mary McKay] [ Emma Nelson's grandmother]
Ross Churchill	Kathleen [Mead]'s Dad
Sheila Brogren	Kathleen [Mead]'s Mom
Diana Bragman	mom at pool
Sidney Bruyn	Rick [Munro]'s Dad
Rhonda Kristi	Spike [Nelson]'s Mom [ Emma Nelson's grandmother]
Les Porter	Liz [O'Rourke]'s Dad
Laine Williams	Liz [O' Rourke]'s Mom
Steve Behal	Caitlin [Ryan]'s Dad (Season 2)
Martin Brown	Caitlin [Ryan]'s Dad (Season 5)
Diane Scovell	Caitlin [Ryan]'s Dad's girlfriend
Dona Hird	Caitlin [Ryan]'s Mom
Clarke Mackey	Snake [Simpson]'s Dad (Season 2)
Ingvar Brogen	Snake [Simpson]'s Dad (Season 5)
Vivian Palin	Snake [Simpson]'s Mom (Season 2) [see also Teacher #2 below]
Maggie Thomas	Snake [Simpson]'s Mom (Seasons 3 & 5)
Ronald Williams	BLT [Thomas]'s Dad
Timm Zemanek	John Wheeler, Wheels' [Wheeler] adoptive father
Rod Rekofski	Wheels [Wheeler]'s [adoptive maternal] Grandfather
Dorothy Phillips	Wheels [Wheeler]'s [adoptive maternal] Grandmother
Nancy Sinclair	Helen Wheeler, Wheels' [Wheeler] adoptive mother
Dave James	[Wheels Wheeler's natural dad] Mike Nelson
Deborah Jones	[Wheels Wheeler's natural dad's fiancé] Maggie

Faculty and school staff

Robert Hawke	AIDS speaker #1	One appearance in season 5
Ken Campbell	AIDS speaker #2	One appearance in season 5
Carli Coleman	Herpes Victim #1	Occasional appearance in season 3
Kyle Fartley	Herpes Victim #2	One appearance in season 3
Michelle Goodeve	Ms. Karen Avery	Seasons 1-3, occasional season 4
Charmaine Lord	Basketball coach	One appearance in season 1
Deborah Lobban	Doris Bell	Seasons 1-3
Marcus Bruce	Mr. Colby	Occasional season 2
Bette Markowitz	Detention supervisor	One appearance in season 4
Peter Read	Driving instructor	Occasionally season 4
Claude M. Lane	French teacher	One appearance season 4
Roger Montgomery	Mr. Garcia	Season 3
Gwen Tolbart	Geography teacher	Season 5
Tom Cranston	Gym coach	Occasional seasons 4-5
Evannah Sakamoto	Gym teacher/Swim coach	Occasional season 1
Susin Nielsen	Louella Hawkins	Occasional seasons 2-3
John Bertram	Principal Lawrence's voice	Seasons 1-3
Paula Todd	Music teacher	One appearance in season 5
Florence Darnell	Mrs. Perry	Occasional season 5
Angela Bruce	Principal	One appearance in School's Out
Dan Woods	Mr. Dan Raditch	Seasons 1-4
Christopher William Vickery	School janitor	Occasional season 4
Monica McIntyre	Secretary	Occasional season 5
Jacqueline Gooderham	Teacher	One appearance season 1
Ben Hong	Teacher	One appearance in season 4
Linda Schuyler	Teacher	Occasional seasons 4-5 [See also Lucy Fernandez's Mom, above]
Bruce Mackey	Teacher #1	One appearance season 3
Ian Orr	Teacher #1	One appearance season 3
Vivian Palin	Teacher #2	One appearance season 3 [See also Snake Simpson's Mom, above]
Sari Friedland	Teacher / Ms. Avery's friend	One appearance in season 1, occasionally seasons 4-5
Adam David	Mr. Walfish	Seasons 4-5
John Weir	Mr. Webster	Seasons 4-5

Other adults

Dave Glud	Bass player	One appearance in season 1
Gary Hall	Bill Beaumont	One appearance in season 2
Judy Shiner	Beauty shop customer	One appearance in season 1
David Yonson	Beer Store clerk	One appearance in season 3
Kathryn Ellis	Book publicist	One appearance in season 1 [See also irate parent #1 above]
Ric Gatehouse	Bouncer	One appearance in season 4
Kit Hood	Floor space planner	One appearance in season 2
Al Black	Car salesman	One appearance in School's Out
Meita Winkler	Counsellor	One appearance in season 4 & School's Out
Doreen Friedman	Doctor	One appearance in season 2
Bruce Evoy	Doctor	One appearance in season 5
Anne Fotheringham	Donut shop manager	One appearance in season 4
Jocelyne Borys	Driving examiner	One appearance in season 4
Robert De Lint	Drug store cashier	One appearance in season 2
Randy Daiter	Factory spokesperson	One appearance in season 1
Lewis Manne	Floor director	One appearance in season 2
Guido Luciani	Guitar player	One appearance in season 1
Linda Speciale	Hooker	One appearance in season 4
Selene Strilesky	Hooker	One appearance in season 4
Frank Faulk	Innkeeper	One appearance in season 3
Craig Williams	Jean Paul	One appearance in season 4
Tom Melissis	Jeff	One appearance in season 1 [subsequently portrayed Next Generation teacher, Mr. Dom Perino]
Jerry Ride	Jewelry clerk	One appearance in School's Out
Moe Wosniak	Keyboard player	One appearance in season 1
Barry Tull	Damon King	One appearance in season 1
Lisa Lightbourn-Lay	Landlady	Occasionally season 4
Cliff Woolner	Mechanic	One appearance in season 2
Bill Bruce	Minister	One appearance in season 3
Tim Progosh	Policeman	One appearance in season 1
Terry McNichol	Policeman	Occasional season 3
Barry White	Policeman	One appearance in season 5
Laura Vickers	Policewoman	One appearance in season 3
Eve Jennings	Receptionist	One appearance in season 1
Susan Hart	Receptionist	One appearance in season 4
Jean Walker	Receptionist	One appearance in School's Out
Dino Schiavone	Renter	One appearance in season 4
James Knapp	Salesman	One appearance in season 3
Barbara Shawe	Saleswoman	One appearance in season 1
Sue Johanson	Dr. Sally	Guest appearances in seasons 2-3
Lyn Brown	Secretary	One appearance in season 4
Norbert Kausen	Security guard	One appearance in season 4
Mitra Sen	Security guard #1	One appearance in season 1
Clive Batchelor	Security guard #2	One appearance in season 1
Robert Persichini	Social worker	One appearance in season 1
Anne Thornley-Brown	Spike's counsellor	One appearance in season 2 Eggbert
Sugar Bouche	Stripper	One appearance in season 4
Norm Reynolds	Used car salesman	One appearance in season 5
Ann Shipman	Waitress	One appearance in season 4
Maureen Burgoyne	Waitress	One appearance in School's Out
Sandra Oh	Waitress	One appearance in School's Out

References