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The following is a list of characters from the American sitcom Friends. It concerns six young people living in Manhattan and trying to find love, life and laughter. Main characters
A great deal of Rachel's life throughout the series revolves around her relationship with Ross Geller. At the end of season seven, during Monica's and Chandler's wedding, it is revealed that Rachel is pregnant and that Ross is the father. The baby is the result of a one-night stand between Rachel and Ross. Initially, Rachel is determined to raise the baby on her own until she realizes she needs Ross' help. Eventually Rachel moves in with Ross so he can help with the pregnancy. When the baby, a girl named Emma, is born towards the end of the eighth season, Rachel makes the decision to remain living with Ross (although the two are not involved in a relationship and it is purely for Emma's benefit). However they get into an argument and Rachel moves back in with Joey, with whom she has a brief relationship. During the tenth season, Rachel is offered a job with Louis Vuitton in Paris. She accepts and prepares to move herself and Emma. However, in the final episode of the series, "The Last One", it is revealed that she ultimately declines the job offer and famously "gets off the plane". Rachel and Ross get back together and reconcile towards the end of the episode.[e 2] In 2019, Jennifer Aniston began filming a new sitcom The Morning Show which co-stars Reese Witherspoon who played Rachel's sister Jill Greene in two episodes of Friends.
Monica is an intelligent, kind-hearted person who works primarily as a chef throughout the show. In the second season, Monica falls for her father Jack (Elliott Gould)'s friend, Richard Burke (Tom Selleck). Despite the twenty-one year age difference, Monica and Richard are happy, and her parents accept their relationship. However, as a result of Monica yearning for a family but Richard having already had one, they break up at the end of season 2. Monica then pursues a chain of various men until she unexpectedly begins a relationship with her longtime friend, Chandler Bing, at the end of the fourth season, during her brother Ross' wedding to Emily Waltham. Monica and Chandler try to hide it from the rest of the friend group for the first half of Season 5, but by the end of the season, everyone finds out. After their first year anniversary at Vegas, they move in at the beginning of Season 6 and get engaged by the season finale. After their marriage, Monica and Chandler try to conceive children, but after visiting the fertility clinic it is revealed that Monica is infertile. In the final season of the series, they adopt two children - Erica and Jack.
Recurring charactersThese characters appear in more than one season. Season 1
Pickles was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her appearance in "The One Where Nana Dies Twice".[e 3] The Seattle Times ranked Jack and Judy jointly as the second best guest character of the series in 2004.[8]
Carol and Susan were based on creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane's best friends in New York: "We didn't create them for any particular political reason or because of lesbian chic. It was just an opportunity to tell a really interesting story." The characters were called a positive example of a gay couple on television by GLAAD. Jessica Hecht originally auditioned to play Monica.[10]
James Michael Tyler was cast as Gunther because he was the only extra who could competently work the coffee machine on the Central Perk set. Tyler appears as Gunther in a co-host voice-over in the Friends trivia game for PS2, PC and Xbox, and in the board game Friends: Scene It?. The Seattle Times ranked Gunther as the eighth best guest character of the series in 2004.[8] When asked in 2009 by Heatworld.com what Gunther would be doing "now", Tyler joked, "He'd probably have a very traditional marriage, with lots of white-haired babies running around with hair brighter than the sun."[11] Aside from the main cast, he appears in the most episodes.
For many years, the identity of the actor that played him in his extremely limited appearances was a mystery. It was speculated that Michael G. Hagerty, the actor who played Mr. Treeger, was Ugly Naked Guy. However, Hagerty denied this theory. On May 31, 2016, an article was published by Todd Van Luling in the The Huffington Post, detailing his search for the identity of Ugly Naked Guy. His article revealed that an actor named Jon Haugen played the role. Season 2
When Gable auditioned for the role, she played Estelle quite plainly and was encouraged to "go away and do something with her". She returned to the audition room wearing a "fat suit" and eating a sandwich from a delicatessen, which she stubbed out a cigarette on. The performance was used in the deleted scene of "The One With The Butt".[e 27] Her age is never given but Gable believed that she was in her 80s.[12] In 2004, The Seattle Times ranked Estelle as the sixth best guest character of the series.[8] Gable also plays the nurse who delivers Ben in "The One with the Birth".
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Bruce Willis donated his appearance fee to five charities after losing a bet with his The Whole Nine Yards co-star Matthew Perry. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his role.[13] Season 7Season 8Tag JonesFile:Cahill, Eddie (USAF).jpg
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Amy appears again in "The One Where Rachel's Sister Babysits", where she tells Rachel that she plans to marry her ex-boyfriend's father, who is rich. Rachel tries to teach her responsibility by letting her babysit Emma (who Amy calls 'Ella', insisting it's prettier), and tries to convince her to stop being so selfish and do something nice for another person. Eventually, Amy decides to take Rachel's advice and do something nice for Emma. Only trouble is, the utterly self-absorbed and self-centered Amy decides to get Emma's ears pierced. Amy repeatedly calls Emma, 'Ella' leading Rachel to say she likes the name but is shocked when Ross tells her "fine, we'll call the next one Ella". Although Amy, like her father Leonard, was a deliberately unpleasant and unlikeable character, the comic relief she provided caused her to, again like her father Leonard, become memorable as a character that fans "loved to hate." Applegate won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her appearance in "The One with Rachel's Other Sister" and was nominated again for her appearance in "The One Where Rachel's Sister Babysits". File:Aisha Tyler SDCC 2014.jpg
The character of Charlie was created to specifically counter criticism the Friends production staff had received for featuring too few characters played by ethnic minority actors. Aisha Tyler was only the second major supporting character to be played by a black actress, following Gabrielle Union's appearance as Kristen Lang in "The One with the Cheap Wedding Dress" (airdate March 15, 2001; Season 7, No. 17).[14] The role was not specifically written for a black actor. Tyler told the St Petersburg Times, "I hope [people's] frustration over [the lack of diversity] is tempered by the fact that when they wrote this role, they didn't wimp out. They wrote her so smart and sexy and elevated, she wasn't just the black girl on Friends."[15] Season 10
Characters appearing in only one seasonEach of the following characters of Friends, portrayed by a celebrity, may or may not be particularly significant to the story of the series; each appeared in only one season. Only in season 1File:Clooneycropped.jpgJoseph Tribbiani, Sr., and Gloria TribbianiIn "The One with the Boobies" (airdate January 19, 1995; Season 1, No. 13), Joey finds out that his father, Joey Sr. (Robert Costanzo), is having an affair with another woman, Ronni (Lee Garlington). Joey (the son) tries to set things right, but Gloria (Brenda Vaccaro), Joey's mother, who secretly knew about the affair all along, makes Joey change it back because her husband's been unusually nice to her since he started cheating on her. Though Joey's parents do not appear on the show again, Joey Sr. later makes an appearance on the spin-off series Joey, making Costanzo the only actor, besides Matt LeBlanc, to reprise his role from Friends on the series Drs. Michael Mitchell and Jeffrey RosenDrs. Michael Mitchell (George Clooney) and Jeffrey Rosen (Noah Wyle): Two doctors whom Rachel and Monica meet at a hospital, then go on a date with, with Monica and Rachel pretending to be each other for health insurance purposes—eventually causing things to go wild. Dr. Mitchell later saves the life of Ross' monkey, Marcel, who swallows alphabet tiles from a Scrabble game that nearly choke him to death.[e 17] Jill Goodacre ConnickJill Goodacre Connick (herself) gets trapped with Chandler in an ATM vestibule in "The One with the Blackout".[e 45] Chandler uses her cell phone to tell Joey and the others, engages in awkward conversion with her, and finally lets her play a "spin the phone pen over your head" game with him. AlanAlan (Geoffrey Lower) is Monica's boyfriend in "The One with the Thumb".[e 46] Everyone likes him more than Monica does. At the end of the episode Monica breaks up with him, and has the break-up talk with the other friends as if they broke up with him, too. LydiaLydia (Leah Remini): a single mother-to-be whose childbirth Joey assists before going to see Carol give birth to Ben.[e 9] Remini had originally auditioned for the role of Monica. RogRog (Fisher Stevens): Phoebe's annoying boyfriend who analyzes each one of the friends and gets to their nerve. Appears in "The One With The Boobies." Phoebe considers calling him in the next episode. Only in season 2Template:Multiple image Caroline DuffyCaroline Duffy (Lea Thompson): a cartoonist. Reprising her role from Caroline in the City, she talks with Joey and Chandler—seeing them with Ben and consequently thinking them to be lovers—in "The One with the Baby on the Bus".[e 47] Eddie ManoickEddie Manoick (Adam Goldberg): a temporary roommate of Chandler. After Joey, having landed the recurring role Dr. Drake Ramoray on Days of Our Lives, moves into his own apartment,[e 48] Chandler gets a new roommate.[e 49] Eddie and Chandler have nothing in common; Eddie hates Baywatch, foosball, and sports in general, and likes to steal mannequins from Macy's and dehydrate fruit. In "The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies",[e 50] he suspects Chandler of both having sex with his ex-girlfriend Tilly and killing his goldfish, so spites him by stealing his insoles. Later he forgets these events, but Chandler wants him out after learning that Eddie watches him sleep.[e 12] Eddie agrees to leave but later denies the conversation took place; he also claims that he and Chandler once took a trip to Las Vegas and genuinely believes it to have happened, confirming Chandler's suspicion that he is mentally ill. Bizarrely, Phoebe finds Eddie's weird behavior attractive. Chandler ultimately gets rid of Eddie by allowing Joey to move back in; they move Eddie's stuff out into the hall and pretend that Eddie moved out (and Joey moved back in) a year ago. The madman falls for their bluff and leaves. He is never seen again afterwards (although it was humorously noted in a guide to this particular season that Eddie would "probably come back with a gun"). Adam Goldberg later appeared in the second season of Joey as a different character. Rob DonnanRob Donnan (Chris Isaak): Rob asks Phoebe to sing for the children at a library, but their parents are horrified by her morbidly honest lyrics. However, the kids like the songs and come to the café to listen to her.[e 51] Chris Isaak's song Wicked Game plays in the background when Ross and Rachel sleep together for the first time. Zoo staffsZoo Administrator (Fred Willard) of the zoo Ross sent Marcel to after Marcel started humping everything. When Marcel is kidnapped and forced into show business, he and the rest of the zoo staff decide to cover up the break-in out of fear of bad publicity, and when Ross enters the zoo with the intention of paying Marcel a visit, he lies and informs Ross that Marcel has died. Ross later learns the truth about what happened to Marcel from the Zoo Janitor (Dan Castelanetta), a very unusual man with a strange fascination for the animals in the zoo.[e 51] Susie MossSusie "Underpants" Moss (Julia Roberts): an old childhood friend of Chandler, who's working on the production of a movie,[e 51] and with whom Chandler has a colored history: when they were in elementary school, Chandler pulled up Susie's skirt when she was on stage, revealing her underwear to the entire school, and she never lived it down until she graduated high school. They arrange a date, Chandler unsuspecting that it is a plot to get revenge. After convincing him to wear her panties, Susie takes him out to dinner, undresses him in the men's room, and takes off with his clothes—leaving him in a bathroom stall wearing nothing but her panties. She is never seen again. Julia Roberts and Matthew Perry had a brief relationship after the collapse of her marriage. Jean-Claude Van DammeJean-Claude Van Damme (himself): an actor in the movie Susie's producing, whom Rachel and Monica compete for his attention. This creates tension between them, as they both argue over who should get to date him. They both dump him when he, catching on to their rivalry, tries to convince them to have a threesome with Drew Barrymore. He is last seen being greatly irritated by Joey's stupidity while trying to act alongside him, along with everyone else on the studio set.[e 51] Erika FordErika Ford (Brooke Shields): a mentally ill stalker who thinks that Joey is actually Dr. Drake Ramoray, the character he plays on Days of Our Lives.[e 51] Despite this, Joey goes on a date with her. She dumps him when she suspects "Drake" is cheating on her with another woman (actually another character in the soap opera). He tries to explain that "It's a TV show!" and "I'm not Drake!", but she doesn't understand, so Ross tells her Joey's "Hans Ramoray", Drake's "evil twin"—and Joey tells her to go to Salem to find the "real" Drake Ramoray. She is never seen again afterwards. Brooke Shields then boyfriend Andre Agassi watched the recording and at one point stormed onto the set. RyanRyan (Charlie Sheen) arrives in New York on leave from the Navy to see Phoebe, who has chicken pox at the time.[e 52] He is bewildered to see Phoebe covering her head with a scarf, trying to disguise the fact that she has chicken pox; eventually convincing her to admit this to him, he decides he can't stand to be apart from her and consequently catches chicken pox from her and they both spend the rest of the time sick and trying to not scratch at the sores. Charlie Sheen would later marry Denise Richards who appeared later in the series as Cassie. DuncanDuncan (Steve Zahn) is a Canadian ice dancer that Phoebe married in order to allow him to get a green card.[e 53] While Phoebe believed him to be homosexual, he returned to ask Phoebe for a divorce because he has realized he is straight and has proposed to another woman. After witnessing and being bewildered by Rachel's antics with a pigeon (after she trapped it inside a saucepan), he admits to Phoebe the truth about his sexuality. File:JonFavreauScreenTXMarch09.jpg File:Ben Stiller in NYC Cropped.jpgTemplate:Multiple image Only in season 3ChloeChloe (Angela Featherstone): "The girl from the copy place", with whom Ross drunkenly sleeps with while mistakenly thinking his relationship with Rachel was over.[e 54] She is mentioned twice in "The One with the Jam". Ross quickly tries to usher her out of his apartment in "The One with the Morning After". Pete BeckerPete Becker (Jon Favreau): a computer software genius and multi-millionaire. Pete tips Monica $20,000 at the Moondance diner in "The One with the Hypnosis Tape", which she assumes is a joke. He asks her out on a date and takes her to Rome. They start seeing each other but initially break up because Monica isn't attracted to him. They reconcile after Monica kisses him when he offers her a job in his restaurant (which she turns down), and then realizes that she is attracted to him after all. Monica thinks he is going to propose in "The One With Ross' Thing"; instead, he tells her he wants to become the Ultimate Fighting Champion. He gets badly beaten by Tank Abbott,[e 29] and Monica ends it with him after he refuses to quit. The character of Pete was conceived as "a Bill Gates billionaire genius scientist-type" whom Monica was not attracted to. The producers and casting director had difficulty finding an actor to play Pete as they wanted, "someone who was appealing enough that we liked him, so we could root for him, but on the other hand, wasn't so drop-dead male model gorgeous that we would go, 'What's your problem?' to Monica when she didn't fall for him."Template:Sfn Kate MillerKate Miller (Dina Meyer): Joey's co-star in the play Boxing Day.[e 55] Joey falls for her, and she sleeps with him ... but she fails to see any attraction in him and is already dating the director. The play turns out to be dismal, and after the director dumps her she gets together with Joey in "The One with the Screamer". Joey is distraught when she leaves for a soap opera role in Los Angeles. In the episode "The One in Barbados (1)", Joey and Rachel, in hope of getting into the Pharmaceutical convention, use fake IDs in which one of the names is "Kate Miller". Marshall TownendMarshall Townend (Reg Rogers): the overly dramatic, self-absorbed director of Boxing Day, who is dating Kate. He and everyone else involved in making the play (apart from Lauren) are said to have made fun of Joey after Kate recognized him as a man on TV who was too idiotic to be able to open up a milk carton. He later dumps Kate after she (and the play) gets a bad review. LaurenLauren (Jennifer Milmore): Kate's understudy in Boxing Day. She is a big fan of Joey from his role as Dr. Drake Ramoray, and ends up sleeping with him. Joey dumps her after sleeping with Kate, and although she is initially upset (calling him "pig"), she later seems to be fine with him. She takes over the role of "Adrienne" in the play after Kate leaves for Los Angeles. Jennifer Milmore is married to Friends writer Gregory S. Malins. Tommy (The Screamer)Tommy "the Screamer" (Ben Stiller): an aggressive, testosterone-fuelled bully who takes his pent-up rage out on anyone who irritates him in the slightest way by viciously screaming at them, in an episode fittingly titled "The One With The Screamer". He was briefly in a relationship with Rachel, doing well throughout this period of time to hide his aforementioned pent-up rage from her, with Ross being the only witness to it after seeing him screaming at an elderly couple who were accidentally in his and Ross' seats shortly after they first met at the theatre, and he later screams at Ross just because the latter almost spilt hot coffee on him. Frightening and intimidating people in this manner apparently amuses Tommy, who appears to be in a good mood after screaming at both Ross and the elderly couple. Ross tries to warn Rachel of what a bully Tommy is, but she doesn't believe him, assuming he's just making up the stories regarding Tommy's outbursts of anger in order to split them up so he can have Rachel all to himself (and considering that Tommy had learned of Ross' past with Rachel and witnessed how awkward they were around each other to his own bemusement, it is likely that he guessed after witnessing this that she would jump to this conclusion if Ross ever tried to warn her what a bully Tommy really was). However, his aggressive true colours are exposed to Rachel after she, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler and Ross witness him lose his temper after Joey and Chandler's pet baby chicken urinates in his hand and, unable to keep his anger in check, he screams at both it and their pet duck when its quacking irritates him further. Accepting to his own chagrin that she and the others are now afraid of him, he breaks up with her before leaving and is never seen again afterwards. Ben Stiller later married Christine Taylor who played Bonnie. Isabella RosselliniIsabella Rossellini (herself) got bumped off of Ross' "freebie list":[e 56] Ross and Rachel compile lists, each of 5 people (celebrities) one can have sex with, without incurring the other's wrath. Ross bumps Rossellini for Winona Ryder—because the latter isn't "international" like Isabella—only to see Rossellini herself enter the coffee house. Rachel encourages Ross to pursue her as an "alternate", knowing he'll get shot down for his efforts after bemusing her with his quirks. She is never seen again afterwards. Tomas and TimTomas (Robin Williams) and Tim (Billy Crystal): two strangers at the coffee shop. Appearing at the beginning of "The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion", they perform an otherwise pointless cameo/skit performance while sitting on the group's sofa at Central Perk. They are not mentioned in the credits. Tomas begins by asking the friends to move over to make room for the pair which they do. Then Tomas complains to Tim about how he thinks his wife is cheating on him with her gynaecologist. The friends stop trying to have their own conversation and eavesdrop. Eventually Tim reveals how he's sleeping with Tomas' wife causing Joey to rather crassly interrupt their discussion to ask if Tim is the gynaecologist Tomas was earlier referring to, only for an irritated Tim to tell him to mind his own business. Bursting into tears as he absorbs the fact that Tim has been sleeping with his wife, Tomas starts shouting at and insulting Tim, and ends their friendship before leaving the shop in a loud fury, followed by Tim, who gives the six shocked, bewildered friends one last embarrassed, apologetic look before he leaves. Only in season 4KathyKathy (Paget Brewster): Joey's girlfriend, introduced in "The One with Joey's New Girlfriend", with whom he has nothing in common apart from both being actors. A mutual attraction develops between Kathy and Chandler,[e 57] which manifests as a kiss;[e 58] after Joey finds out, Kathy decides to leave New York for Chicago, and declares her love to Chandler.[e 59] Initially outraged at Chandler's betrayal, Joey has a change of heart after Kathy's speech, and she and Chandler get together. Although Chandler was initially uncomfortable about the possibility of their relationship becoming sexual as he would be directly compared to Joey, Monica and Rachel were able to give Chandler some pointers. She has a row over the sexual content of her play and later sleeps with a co-star[e 60] and Chandler dumps her. When Paget Brewster arrived for her audition, she believed she was the "runty alternate" and did not have a chance of getting the part. Matthew Perry later told her that the producers knew she was right for the role when she called herself a "runt". She spent her first two weeks working on the show believing that she would be fired and the part recast with a better looking actress. Brewster did not want Kathy to be written out by cheating on Chandler. The female stars agreed with her and tried to persuade the producers to have Kathy tour in a play instead.[16] Charlton HestonCharlton Heston (himself): actor in a movie with Joey. Joey reeks from spending a day fishing without showering after, so he uses Heston's shower—only to be caught by Heston. Joey tries to explain that he "stinks"—which Heston infers to refer to his acting, not his smell—and Heston gives Joey an actor's pep talk before telling him that "no matter how badly you think you stink, you must never break into my dressing room and use my shower!"[e 61] The SalesmanThe Salesman (Penn Jillette) sells encyclopedias and attempts to sell one to Joey, finding his stupidity hard to deal with while negotiating with him. When Joey informs him that he only has $50, he offers Joey a choice of one volume; Joey buys the "V" volume, because it's the one he's reading at the time.[e 62] CherylCheryl (Rebecca Romijn): a woman whom Ross dates, only to find that she keeps an incredibly filthy apartment overrun with rats and fleas, yet finds Ross' own apartment disgusting due to a "weird smell", which Ross suspects is soap. He attempts to form a relationship with her, but cannot after being covered with ink and meat while making out with her. After Ross ends it with Cheryl, Monica arrives at the apartment asking to clean it as she can't sleep thinking about it, only for Cheryl to close the door in disgust.[e 57] Joshua BurginJoshua Burgin (Tate Donovan): a recently divorced customer who regularly uses Rachel as a personal shopper at Bloomingdale's. They start dating but break up in "The One With All The Wedding Dresses" when he thinks the relationship is moving too fast. Joshua appeared at the same time that Jennifer Aniston and Tate Donovan had recently broken up in real life.[17] Chip MatthewsChip Matthews (Dan Gauthier): A man who many years prior to the events of the show had attended the same high school as Rachel, Monica and Ross; although he was outwardly friendly and charismatic enough to become the most popular guy in the high school, he is depicted as being an inwardly selfish, careless and unpleasant person who emotionally hurts and plays immature pranks on other people. His first appearance is a very brief cameo in "The One with the Prom Video" (airdate February 1, 1996; Season 2, No. 14) as Rachel's senior prom date; in this episode he is played by an unknown, uncredited actor and his face is not seen on screen. He fully appears in the episode "The One With The Cat", where it is revealed that Monica always had a crush on Chip and was saddened by the fact that he would never date her for her obesity throughout her teenage years, even despite the fact that he abandoned and cheated on Rachel at the prom; apparently, she couldn't find him for two hours because he was having sex with a girl named Amy Welch. Monica and Chip meet again and, seeing that she has lost a lot of weight since he saw her last and is now a very attractive woman, Chip asks her out, much to her delight as she still has a crush on him. Rachel is upset when she learns that Monica intends to date the man who once cheated on her, but she eventually allows this to happen out of sympathy for her formerly obese friend. She does however react coldly when she answers the door to him when he arrives to pick up Monica, and asks him, "So Chip, how's Amy Welch?", to which he replies, "Amy Welch? Wow, I haven't seen her since..." He then becomes embarrassed and quickly changes the subject. Monica's dream is soon shattered when she realizes that not only is Chip every bit as inwardly unpleasant as he was back in high school, he has reached no level of maturity and done nothing to better himself since then; as it becomes clearer and clearer to her that mentally, he is still a teenager, she asks him if he still lives with his parents, to which he replies "Yeah, but I can stay out as late as I want." Finally seeing him for the selfish, immature loser he always was, Monica shows for the first time accurate insight into Chip when she later tells Rachel "You know how I always wanted to go out with Chip Matthews in high school? Well tonight, I actually did go out with Chip Matthews in high school." She finds happiness however, in the fact that she got to dump "Chip Matthews in high school". Mr. WalthamMr. Waltham (Paxton Whitehead): Rachel's boss in season 4, who appears in "The One with Rachel's Crush" and "The One with Joey's Dirty Day". He is Emily Waltham-Geller's uncle, he asked Rachel to accompany his niece to the opera, just before Rachel gets a date with Joshua. Rachel convinces Ross to go in her place, which leads to Ross and Emily beginning a relationship which leads to them marrying in London, leaving Rachel devastated. Sarah, Duchess of YorkSarah, Duchess of York (herself): Sarah makes a cameo appearance with Joey on his video camera, in "The One with Ross' Wedding". Dr. Timothy BurkeTimothy Burke (Michael Vartan): Richard Burke's son. Monica, who has an ice chip in her eye while she is taking out the turkey from the freezer, meets him. He is invited to share the Thanksgiving dinner in "The One With Chandler In A Box". Eventually, after they kiss, they both realize that dating each other is a mistake, as Monica compares Tim to his father Richard.[e 58] Only in season 5File:BobBalaban2010.jpgDannyDanny (né Daniel) (George Newbern): a man who has been on an around-the-world trip and returns in "The One with the Yeti".[e 63] Rachel and Monica encounter the bearded man in the basement of their building and think he is a Yeti. Rachel is attracted to him but plays hard-to-get by pretending not to be interested in a housewarming party he is throwing.[e 64] They eventually get together, but Rachel dumps him when she discovers he has a "special bond" with his sister.[e 65] KatieKatie (Soleil Moon Frye): An extremely (and constantly) energetic girl whom Joey dates in "The One with the Girl Who Hits Joey". As the episode name suggests, she's a woman whose play-punches are all-too-hard. A seemingly nice person nonetheless, she appears to like Joey a lot, apparently bemused but also highly amused by wacky antics from him such as "breadstick fangs" but she's so energetic that whenever she playfully punches him on the arm she accidentally hurts him, but seems to be oblivious to this. When Joey actually tells her, she thinks he is merely making good-natured fun of her small size. Joey eventually decides he wants to break up with her as a result, but worries about hard she will hit him if he in the process of doing so upsets her, but Rachel gives him an easy way out when she retaliates in anger after Katie playfully punches her and accidentally hurts her also by kicking Katie's ankle, and when Joey refuses to stick up for Katie upon witnessing this she, as he had hoped, breaks up with him and leaves. She is never seen again afterwards.[e 66] Dr. Donald LedbetterDr. Donald Ledbetter (Michael Ensign): Ross' boss at the museum. After he eats Ross' leftover Thanksgiving turkey sandwich in "The One with Ross' Sandwich", Ross angrily shouts at him, and he puts Ross on sabbatical.[e 67] He reappears in the tag scene of "The One Where Everybody Finds Out".[e 22] GaryGary (Michael Rapaport): a cop who accidentally leaves his badge in Central Perk.[e 68] Phoebe finds it and starts impersonating a police officer. He tracks her down and, not wanting the fact that he left his badge behind in a coffee shop to get out, decides not to arrest Phoebe and, feeling attracted to her, asks her out to dinner, and they start dating. He takes Ross, Joey and Chandler on a ride-along while at the same time being irritated by their quirks,[e 69] and asks Phoebe to move in with him.[e 70] She leaves him after he shoots a bird on his windowsill just because it was irritating him by chirping too loudly. He is never seen again after that. File:Elle Macpherson, Women's World Awards 2009 b.jpg File:Reese Witherspoon 2005 (squared).jpg File:Bruce willis cinedom.jpgJanine LaCroixJanine LaCroix (Elle Macpherson): Joey's female roommate after Chandler moves in with Monica. Joey places an ad for a new roommate in "The One Where Phoebe Runs"; attractive Australian dancer Janine applies and Joey immediately gives her the room without knowing anything else about her.[e 71] She adds a feminine touch to the apartment by hanging pictures of babies, flowers, and babies dressed as flowers, which unnerves Joey—who senses that he's "becoming a woman".[e 72] They get together during the recording of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve,[e 73] but break up after she reveals she does not like Monica and Chandler. She moves out soon after and is never seen again in the series.[e 74] The JudgeThe Judge (Conchata Ferrell) presides over the attempt of Ross and Rachel—who got married in Las Vegas while drunk—to get an annulment; she informs them that they have to get a divorce instead.[e 75] Only in season 7File:Susan Sarandon 3 by David Shankbone.jpg File:Denise Richards 2009.jpg File:Winona Ryder 2010 TIFF adjusted.jpgErinErin (Kristin Davis): a girl Joey has a would-be one-night stand with[e 76]—except that Rachel and Phoebe don't have the heart to tell her he's not into a "serious relationship", so Joey is forced to date her again and again, until she decides to dump him, asking the girls to tell him she's not into a serious relationship.[e 76] Cecilia MunroeCecilia Munroe (Susan Sarandon): an actress who portrays Jessica Lockhart on Days of Our Lives. In Days of our Lives, Jessica dies, and Drake Ramoray, played by Joey, gets her brain, so he can awaken from his coma, a procedure Ross takes issue with on medical grounds.[e 77] Jessica was famous for throwing drinks at people and slapping them. Her daughter, Dina, was seeing a man named Frederick, of whom she did not approve. She was thrown off a horse and onto an electric fence, an accident set up by Frederick and Dina. After handing over the role of Jessica Lockhart to Joey, Cecilia Munroe sleeps with Joey causing minor hysteria for Rachel and Monica, who both are big fans of Days. She then takes a role in Mexico, resulting in her and Joey breaking up and her disappearance from the show. Susan's real-life daughter played Jessica's daughter in the episode. Melissa WarburtonMelissa Warburton (Winona Ryder): one of Rachel's sorority sisters in college. During their senior year, Melissa and Rachel went to the Sigma Chi luau wearing coconut bikinis—and, after drinking too much sangria, went back to the house and ended up making out. Melissa fell in love with Rachel and never forgot that night, but Rachel never saw it as anything more than a wild college experience.[e 78] Rachel runs into Melissa in Central Perk and they go out to dinner. When Rachel confronts Melissa about the kiss, she pretends to have no memory of it ever happening because she doesn't think Rachel will return her love. At the end of dinner, Rachel kisses her again to prove to Phoebe that she can do something crazy. Melissa takes this to mean that Rachel loves her back. She says that "nobody can kiss that good and not mean it", but Rachel says that she is just a good kisser. Melissa is extremely embarrassed and tries to act as if she was kidding, saying, "I'm not in love with you. I don't hear coconuts banging together. I don't picture your face when I make love to my boyfriend..." Melissa leaves, but not before asking for another kiss goodbye, which she doesn't get. She is never seen again after that. Winona Ryder was on the list of celebrities Ross was allowed to sleep with. Richard CrosbyRichard Crosby (Gary Oldman): a pedantic actor with whom Joey shares scenes in a wartime drama, also from "The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding" (he appears in parts 1 and 2).[e 79] He gets a bad first impression of Joey when the latter irritates him by congratulating him for winning an Oscar he actually hadn't won. Crosby insists that real actors spit when they enunciate, resulting in both actors spitting on each other during takes, and being given towels by the crew afterwards. Crosby later shows up drunk for work, arousing concern as to whether Joey will complete his scenes in time to attend the wedding. For his performance, Oldman received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. Only in season 8MonaMona (Bonnie Somerville), a co-worker at Monica's restaurant, first meets Ross in "The One After 'I Do'". They later get reacquainted in "The One with Rachel's Date" (airdate October 25, 2001; Season 8, No. 5) and begin dating. Their relationship is troubled from the start due to Ross being the father of Rachel's baby; in "The One with the Stripper", Leonard Greene calls her a "tramp" after Ross does not propose to Rachel, and Ross regularly forgets dates with her when Rachel has problems with the baby. They eventually break up in "The One with the Birthing Video" (airdate February 7, 2002; Season 8, No. 15) after Ross does not tell her that Rachel is moving in with him. In "The One with the Tea Leaves" (airdate March 7, 2002; Season 8, No. 17), Ross sneaks into her apartment to recover his "faded salmon color" shirt, which he left there, but has to hide when she arrives home with a date and is discovered when she and her date start making out and he tries to slip out; while Mona is angry with Ross at first, she softens visibly after he apologizes and but Ross really only wanted his salmon shirt back, and Mona leaves for good once she hands it over to him. Dina TribbianiDina Tribbiani (Marla Sokoloff): Joey's sister, who tells Rachel, then Joey, that she's pregnant—having come to Rachel because Rachel herself is unmarried and pregnant at the time.[e 80] Dina had also visited Joey in The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister but was played by a different actress. BobbyBobby (Marc Rose): Dina Tribbiani's child's father. Dr. LongDr. Long (Amanda Carlin): Rachel's obstetrician, who appears in five episodes of Season 8. She delivers the baby in "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby" after Rachel's extremely long labor. EricEric (Sean Penn): Ursula Buffay's boyfriend, whom she brings to Monica's Halloween party in "The One with the Halloween Party" (airdate November 1, 2001; Season 8, No. 6). Phoebe is attracted to him but learns that Ursula has lied about herself in order to marry him. He dumps her between "The One with the Halloween Party" and "The One with the Stain" and tries to get together with Phoebe, but cannot stand to look at her as she reminds him of her sister. Penn got the role after he made several visits to the Friends set with his children, who were fans of the show.[18] ParkerParker (Alec Baldwin): an extremely (and constantly) energetic and optimistic man Phoebe meets at the dry cleaner in "The One with the Tea Leaves". He next appears in "The One in Massapequa" (airdate March 28, 2002; Season 8, No. 18), where he meets the other five friends and gives them a bad first impression of him with his habit of making a big fuss of everything, even the most trivial things, which they find annoying. At Jack and Judy Geller's anniversary party, which he is invited to as a guest by Phoebe, he drives everyone crazy by getting excited by anything and everything he sees. Phoebe overhears her friends making fun of Parker and, angered, scolds them. However, his habit of constantly making a big fuss of everything regardless of how trivial whatever it is he's complimenting is begins to irritate her as well after a while, and after they and everyone else in the room witness and are bewildered by an utterly ridiculous speech Monica gives to her parents she takes him back to her apartment and tries to get him to calm down by suggesting that they play a no-talking game, only for him to respond by saying "I lose, now (let's play) Jenga." Unable to listen to him anymore, Phoebe snaps and shouts at him, and when she angrily tells him she wants him to be "much less happy" he breaks up with her. His glee finally wavering, Parker angrily storms out of the room...but not for long, as he then returns, excited, to compliment the argument they just had. Although Parker is, in spite of his annoying nature, depicted as being an outwardly friendly and nice guy, his attitude towards his break-up with Phoebe shows that he never really cared about or took their relationship seriously even though she did before she began to find him annoying, implying that he was inwardly very selfish and also rather manipulative. "Sick Bastard" and "Evil Bitch"Only in season 9Gavin MitchellGavin Mitchell (Dermot Mulroney), Rachel's temporary replacement at Ralph Lauren Corporation. Zelner makes it known to Rachel that he likes Gavin, so Rachel ends her maternity leave early to compete with him in "The One Where Rachel Goes Back to Work" (airdate January 9, 2003; Season 9, No. 11). Their working relationship has improved by "The One with Phoebe's Rats", and they kiss at her birthday party. In "The One Where Monica Sings" (airdate January 30, 2003; Season 9, No. 13), Rachel tells Gavin that, although she likes him, a relationship would be difficult because of her history with Ross. After he sees how complicated the situation is with Ross and Emma, he leaves Rachel and Ross' apartment and is never seen again. SteveSteve (Phill Lewis): Chandler's boss at his internship. Appears in "The One Where Rachel Goes Back to Work", "The One with the Mugging" and "The One with the Lottery", when he offers Chandler the job of junior copywriter. ZackZack (John Stamos), a prospective sperm donor for Monica, who finds out that Chandler can't get her pregnant.[e 81] WendyWendy (Selma Blair), a co-worker of Chandler's in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who tries to seduce him when he's forced to spend Christmas there.[e 82] Minor charactersThese characters appear in only one episode.
Leonard Hayes (Jeff Goldblum), a director who thinks Joey doesn't act "urgent enough"; he gets a bad first impression of Joey when he mistakenly thinks the latter is making fun of him in their conversation shortly after they first meet, but quickly comes round when he realizes that Joey is actually complimenting him in his own way. When Joey does the audition while needing to urinate, Leonard is impressed by the newfound urgency in his performance, so the former drinks a lot of liquids in preparation for the second audition. All goes well in the aforementioned second audition—that is until Leonard, failing to realize that Joey needs to urinate, makes the mistake of telling him to "relax" causing him to wet his pants on the spot—to Leonard's chagrin. Special cameo appearance
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