Weeds/Characters

This character sheet is for Weeds.

Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker)
Nancy is a widow who turns to drug dealing when she cant't support her family on her own. Then things get worse...


 * Affably Evil
 * Anti-Villain: Type 1
 * Black Widow
 * Bi the Way
 * The Chessmaster: at least she wants to be
 * Even Evil Has Standards
 * I Just Want to Be Normal: Subverted. She keeps saying she wants a normal life for her family but does nothing to achieve it. In fact she plunges back into the drug life at the first opportunity whenever she's pushed away from it.
 * Hot Mom
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
 * Les Yay: With Celia
 * Mama Bear
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Pornomancer: Sometimes, her life is like a gender-reversed Axe commercial. In season 7, she has sex with her old cell-mate, then has sex with her cell-mate's brother in the next room.
 * Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Develops into this as the series progresses.
 * Villain Protagonist

Silas Botwin
Nancy's eldest son.


 * Aloof Big Brother: To Shane and especially Stevie.
 * Big Brother Instinct: He really wants to protect them though.
 * Break the Cutie
 * I Just Want to Be Normal: Played straighter than his mother, especially in later seasons.
 * Not So Different: Has more in common with Nancy than he'd like to admit.
 * Only Sane Man: From about Season 4 onwards.
 * Troubled but Cute
 * Troubled but Cute

Shane Botwin (Alexander Gould)
Nancy's second son.


 * Beware the Nice Ones
 * Break the Cutie
 * Calling the Old Man Out
 * Heroic Sociopath
 * Took a Level in Badass
 * Troubled but Cute

Stevie Ray Botwin
Nancy's third son. Born during the series.

Andy Botwin
Nancy's brother in law.


 * Cool Big Brother: To Silas and Shane.
 * The Casanova
 * Chew Toy
 * Dogged Nice Guy
 * Hopeless Suitor: To Nancy
 * Only Sane Man: He and Silas take turns.
 * Supreme Chef
 * Team Chef

Judah Botwin
Nancy's deceased husband.
 * Posthumous Character

Lenny Botwin
Andy and Judah's father.

Celia Hodes
Nancy's on-again, off-again Rich Bitch friend.


 * Abusive Parent
 * The Alcoholic
 * Bi the Way
 * Jerkass
 * Les Yay: With Nancy

Dean Hodes
Celia's husband. Works with Nancy and separates from Celia early on.


 * Butt Monkey
 * Chew Toy

Isabelle Hodes
Dean and Celia's daughter.


 * Hollywood Pudgy
 * Lipstick Lesbian
 * Only Sane Girl
 * Schoolgirl Lesbian

Quinn Hodes
Dean and Celia's eldest daughter. Was dating Silas at the start of the series until her mother shipped her off the a reform school in Mexico.

Doug Wilson
Nancy's accountant. Works with her selling drugs.


 * Casanova Wannabe
 * Jerkass
 * Too Dumb to Live

Sanjay Patel
The final member of Nancy's initial operation. Began the series harbouring a crush on Nancy only to come out as gay early in the third season.


 * Camp Gay: Despite having a child.

Megan Graves
Silas' deaf girlfriend.

Conrad James
Nancy's supplier. Worked with her as a grower in series 2.


 * UST: With Nancy.

Heylia James
Conrad's aunt and Nancy's chief supplier.

Vaneeta James
Heylia's daughter.

Sullivan Groff
Corrupt real estate developer who had pursued Celia and Nancy at the same time.

Lupita
Nancy's housekeeper.

U-Turn
Rival dealer who trained Nancy to be his enforcer.



Marvin
U-Turn's overweight and incompetent enforcer.

Peter Scottson
DEA agent who Nancy married.


 * Dating Catwoman

Valerie Scottson
Peter's ex-wife.

Kat Wheeler
Andy's mentally unstable ex-girlfriend.


 * Cloudcuckoolander

Tara Linderman
Silas's fundamentalist girlfriend.

Chess
Biker who has a sketchy working relationship with Nancy.

Estaban Reyes
Leader of the local cartel, Mayor of Tiajuana and Nancy's third husnad


 * Sleazy Politician
 * Wicked Cultured

Cesar
Estaban's right hand man


 * The Dragon

Guillermo

 * Faux Affably Evil

Ignacio

 * Dumb Muscle
 * Faux Affably Evil

Pilar

 * The Woman Behind the Man
 * The Woman Behind the Man