Weeds/Characters
This character sheet is for Weeds.
The Botwin Family
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
- Happily Adopted: He finds out Judah isn't his biological father in season six, but his feelings for him don't change.
- 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
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.
Lenny Botwin
Andy and Judah's father.
The Hodes
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.
Isabelle Hodes
Dean and Celia's daughter.
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.
Other Agrestic Residents
Doug Wilson
Nancy's accountant. Works with her selling drugs.
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.
Miscellaneous characters (seasons 1-3)
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.
Valerie Scottson
Peter's ex-wife.
Kat Wheeler
Andy's mentally unstable ex-girlfriend.
Tara Linderman
Silas's fundamentalist girlfriend.
Chess
Biker who has a sketchy working relationship with Nancy.
The Cartel
Estaban Reyes
Leader of the local cartel, Mayor of Tiajuana and Nancy's third husnad
Cesar
Estaban's right hand man