List of The Office (American TV series) characters

This article is about the characters from the American version of The Office. For characters from the British version, see Characters from The Office (UK).

The following is a list of characters from the U.S. version of The Office. The Office is a television series based on the British television comedy of the same name. The format of the series, which intersperses traditional situation comedy segments with mock interviews with the show's characters, provides the audience access to the ongoing interior monologues for all of the main characters, as well as occasional insights into other characters within the show.

The similarities between characters in the U.S and UK versions are summarized separately.

Major characters

Name	Portrayed by	Description (at series start)
Michael Scott	Steve Carell	Regional Manager of the Scranton Branch of Dunder-Mifflin
Dwight Schrute	Rainn Wilson	Assistant (to the) Regional Manager
Jim Halpert	John Krasinski	Sales Representative
Pam Beesly	Jenna Fischer	Receptionist
Ryan Howard	B. J. Novak	Temporary employee

Secondary Characters

Name	Portrayed by	Description (at first appearance)
Accounting employees
Angela Martin	Angela Kinsey	Accounting Supervisor
Oscar Martinez	Oscar Nuñez	Accountant
Kevin Malone	Brian Baumgartner	Accountant
Other sales employees
Stanley Hudson	Leslie David Baker	Sales representative
Phyllis Lapin	Phyllis Smith	Sales representative
Andy Bernard	Ed Helms	Regional Director in Charge of Sales, Stamford (Joins show in Season 3)
Karen Filippelli	Rashida Jones	Sales representative (Joins show in Season 3)
Other office employees
Meredith Palmer	Kate Flannery	Supplier relations
Kelly Kapoor	Mindy Kaling	Customer service representative
Creed Bratton	Creed Bratton	Quality assurance
Warehouse employees
Roy Anderson	David Denman	Dock worker
Darryl Philbin	Craig Robinson	Warehouse supervisor
Corporate employees
Jan Levinson-Gould	Melora Hardin	Corporate manager
Toby Flenderson	Paul Lieberstein	Human Resources representative (Scranton)

Other warehouse employees

Lonny

Lonny (Patrice Oneal) Dock Worker. Lonny joins his friend Darryl in open displays of irritation and intimidation toward Michael. He became a vocal supporter of Darryl in trying to establish a union, citing the low pay they receive in comparison to the office employees. He is known most notably for yelling at Michael for destroying the entire warehouse. "Dammit, Michael!" He despises Michael for his moronic behavior and proceeded to insult Michael in front of the staff during Darryl's safety training seminar, after Michael frequently interrupts the presentation with his obnoxiousness. Kelly insults him, referring to him as "Sea Monster" due to him being overweight.

Madge

Madge (Karly Rothenberg) Dock Worker. Madge is a female warehouse employee who played against the office team during the Basketball game (which led to Michael's crude reference to her as "the East German gal"). When Michael led the male office workers into the warehouse for some "guy time," Madge excused herself from the proceedings. Michael mistook her name by calling her "Pudge" and later "Patch", not knowing her real name.

Phillip

Phillip is a Dock Worker and one who is visibly shocked at Michael's antics.

Lester

Lester is a Dock Worker. Along with Darryl, Roy, and Michael, he watched the sexual harassment video sent by Corporate.

Other corporate employees

Todd Packer

Todd Packer (David Koechner) Traveling Sales Manager is an obnoxious traveling sales representative who tells obscene, disrespectful jokes that offend everyone except Michael, who considers Packer his best friend, although it is apparent that the friendship is one-sided: Packer treats Michael more like an audience for his jokes rather than a friend. The two have known each other for years, since Michael's days as a sales representative in the Scranton branch and the branch manager has Packer listed as his emergency contact. A dedicated prankster, Packer deposited a highly odorous substance in Michael's office in "The Carpet", which was never clearly revealed to viewers (although it was hinted strongly that it was Packer's own feces). Due to a DUI, Packer cannot drive his red Chevrolet Corvette convertible, which has the Pennsylvania license plate "WL HUNG" (which Ryan Howard suggested meant that Packer was a fan of William Hung). Packer particularly ridicules Jim for being "queer". Jim, in turn, is repulsed by Packer, much like everyone else in the office is with Packer, except for Michael.

Todd Packer's counterpart in the UK version is Chris Finch.

David Wallace

David Wallace (Andy Buckley), the Chief Financial Officer, was first introduced in "Valentine's Day". Wallace replaced Randall, the former CFO who resigned after sexual harassment charges were brought against him. He attends a meeting with Jan, Michael, and Josh along with the two other regional managers: Craig from the Albany branch and Dan Gore from the Buffalo branch. After Craig reveals that Michael and Jan hooked up, Wallace does not punish the two after hearing Michael's explanation. When it is announced in "Branch Closing" that the Scranton Branch would be closing, Michael and Dwight go to his house to get Wallace to change his mind. However, he is not home and the Scranton branch is later saved by reasons unrelated to their presence. In "Cocktails", Wallace invites the company to his home for cocktails. However, he finds the event boring and shoots hoops with Jim.

In "Beach Games", Wallace offers Michael a corporate position, which Jim and Karen apply for as well. During the interview in "The Job", he reveals that the corporate position is actually Jan's job, whom the company will fire once they hire her replacement. Michael reveals this to Jan, who in turn angrily barges into Wallace's office. Wallace claims the firing was due to Jan's mental state, the numerous personal days she had been taking, and the lack of work she had been completing. Wallace's wife's name is Rachel, and they have a son. Like Michael, he despises his office's HR representative, Kendall.

Mr. Brown

Mr. Brown (Larry Wilmore). In "Diversity Day", after hearing news of Michael's inflammatory impersonation of a Chris Rock speech, corporate sends Mr. Brown to mediate a healthy discussion of diversity issues with the office staff. However, Michael's juvenile humor and off-the-wall antics took a toll on Mr. Brown, and he departed not really able to accomplish anything at all. Mr Brown is later seen in "Gay Witch Hunt" giving the Stamford branch the same diversity training he gave the Scranton Branch; he alludes to incidents at the Scranton branch as the reason he is in Stamford.

Minor

• Hunter (Nicholas D'Agosto) is Jan's new assistant. He made his first appearance in "The Negotiation". In "The Job", Jan wishes him luck with his band and tells him not to let them change him. Michael thinks that Hunter is similar to James Van Der Beek.

Former Dunder-Mifflin Employees

Josh Porter

Josh Porter (Charles Esten) Stamford Regional Manager. Introduced in the "Valentine's Day" episode, Porter was the Regional Manager of the Stamford branch before its closure in "Branch Closing".

A colleague of Michael's and seemingly a more responsible and competent boss, his presentation to the new CFO of Dunder-Mifflin was professional in comparison to Michael's and was the only branch that was shown to have a growth in clients. Jim worked for him in Stamford and seemed to look up to him (taking after his practice of biking to work).

When it was announced in "Branch Closing" that Dunder-Mifflin Scranton would be closing, Josh was offered a promotion. However, he leveraged the offer to obtain a senior management job with Staples, throwing plans for the Scranton closing into disarray. As a direct result of Josh's decision to leave Dunder-Mifflin, it was decided to close the Stamford branch instead. Jim later says of Josh's double-dealing, "Say what you will about Michael Scott, but he would never do that."

Ed Truck

Ed Truck (Ken Howard) was regional manager at Scranton when Michael first started working at Dunder-Mifflin. He also hired Creed and Phyllis. Apparently, Ed was not a fun boss and Michael vowed to not become him. In "The Carpet", Michael briefly meets with him; he tells Michael that he should have his employees be his employees instead of his friends. Ed's death is reported in "Grief Counseling": He was reportedly driving while intoxicated when his vehicle slid beneath an 18-wheeler, decapitating him.

Devon

Devon (Devon Abner); former office worker. An office employee who sat across from Creed (who is directly responsible for getting Devon fired, to save his own job). Devon was reluctantly laid off by Michael on "Halloween", and took it badly. In a bid to salvage their "friendship", Michael offered Devon free Chili's gift certificates which Devon ripped up in Michael's face. While storming out, Devon invited "Kevin, Jim, Pam, Kelly, Toby, Oscar, Meredith, Phyllis, Stanley, and the temp," to drinks, leaving out Angela, Dwight, Michael, and Creed. This implies he was never friendly with Angela and Dwight. Devon then smashes a pumpkin on Michael's car in sad retaliation. The episode marks his only dialogue in front of the camera. When Michael later receives a $3,000 Christmas bonus due to Dunder-Mifflin saving money through downsizing, he considers calling Devon to thank him, saying "some good came of it."

Devon was also warned by Dwight in "The Dundies" to keep his speech short. On the Season One DVD, a deleted scene from Diversity Day shows Devon with a "West Nile" sign on his forehead, as he escapes the seminar for a smoke. On the Season Two DVD, a deleted scene from "Valentine's Day" shows Michael walking down the street in New York City, only to have a pedestrian begin to chase after him, yelling at Michael as he chases him. In the following scene, Michael reveals that it was Devon chasing him.

Tony Gardner

Tony Gardner (Mike Bruner) was a worker at the Stamford branch, and is one of the employees that was transferred to Scranton during "The Merger". His first appearance is in the "Diwali" episode, when his chips get stuck in a vending machine, and Karen helps him get them out. Before even meeting Tony, Dwight tries to persuade Michael to fire him on his first day in order to scare the new employees straight. On Tony's first day, he can hardly take Michael's antics (sitting through a painful orientation video made by Michael), but he hits his breaking point when Michael and Dwight tried to lift his large frame onto a table for an orientation demonstration (Michael refers to his leg as a "hock"). Humiliated and angry, Tony quits, admitting that he was not completely sure about transferring to begin with, but mostly blaming Michael's management style. An insulted Michael fires Tony instead, resulting in Dunder-Mifflin having to pay him severance.

Martin Nash

Martin Nash (Wayne Wilderson) Supplier Relations. Martin Nash worked at the Stamford branch, and was one of the employees transferred to Scranton in "The Merger". Before working at Dunder-Mifflin, he served time in prison after getting busted for insider trading (which Kevin says is strangely similar to what he does). However, since he was put in a minimum-security facility, Martin claims his time in prison was just really boring. When he was released, he was hired by Josh through a federal reformed convict employment program, which allows Dunder-Mifflin to receive rebate checks. Michael made a bad first impression on Martin, when he told the African-American employee, "I will show you where all the slaves work." He attempted to befriend Stanley, but failed. In "The Convict", when Martin's past is revealed to the office, Michael overly stresses his trust in Martin to everyone, worried that people would see him as a racist for looking at him as an ex-convict. However, since Martin's tales from prison were generally positive, everyone actually envies his experience compared to their jobs, frustrating Michael. Martin is the second employee from the Stamford branch to leave, due to Michael's management style, particularly after Michael makes his prison sentence the focal point of one of his seminars.

Hannah Smoterich-Barr

Hannah Smoterich-Barr (Ursula Burton) Accounting. Hannah worked at the Stamford branch, and was one of the employees transferred to Scranton. In "The Merger", Hannah had unpleasant encounters with Ryan (who stared at her while she was using a breast milk pump) and Creed (who took a photo of her left breast while she was using the pump and put it on his computer). She dresses her infant son (who she brings into the office) in pink because she says it is his favorite color. She quit her job because she was a working mother. She is the third from the Stamford Branch to leave. Pam mentions to Michael when he gets back from Jamaica that Hannah had also filed complaints against the Scranton Branch while he was away.

Other

Carol Stills

Carol Stills (Nancy Walls, wife of actor Steve Carell). Carol is Michael's real estate agent. She has two children. Michael entertained her kids at an ice-skating rink and she was Michael's date to the casino night. In a deleted scene, it is revealed that after Casino Night, Michael continued seeing her over the three months in between the second and third seasons . Carol rejected Michael's marriage proposal after they had been on nine dates. In A Benihana Christmas, after Michael sent out an inappropriate Christmas card of them (which was actually a family photo with Michael's face superimposed over Carol's ex-husband) she rejects his Christmas gift of two tickets to Jamaica and breaks up with him. She drives an early-model Honda CR-V.

Bob Vance

Bob Vance (Robert R. Shafer). Phyllis Lapin's husband and owner of Vance Refrigeration, a neighboring tenant in the office park. He always introduces himself as "Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration", even in his wedding vows. On Valentine's Day, he sent a number of gifts to Phyllis at the office, each card signed with his tagline. He also supplied a mini-fridge as a "Casino Night" prize and once called Stanley and Michael "a pair of Mary's" in frustration. He is a friendly and helpful neighbor to Dunder-Mifflin, including offering to pump the employees' car tires back full of air after Michael had flattened them in an attempt to create office camaraderie in "The Merger". When word gets out that the Scranton branch is shutting down, Bob offers to buy the Dunder-Mifflin warehouse, therefore allowing all the workers there to keep their jobs. In "Ben Franklin" a bachelor party is held for him in the Dunder-Mifflin warehouse before his wedding, but he refuses to be entertained by the stripper Michael hires. He eventually marries Phyllis in "Phyllis' Wedding", invites all her coworkers, and kicks Michael out after an embarrassing toast. He drives a GMC Yukon.

Gil

Gil (Tom W. Chick) is Oscar's partner. In "The Secret", Dwight is the first character to meet Gil. Dwight staked out Oscar's home because he believed that he was feigning illness to skip work. Oscar and Gil invite Dwight in to their home, yet Dwight remains oblivious to the nature of their relationship. When Oscar is outed to the entire office in "Gay Witch Hunt", Michael still thinks Gil is just Oscar's roommate. Gil is a bit of an art snob—he criticizes Pam's art (calling it "motel art") because it is too formulaic and takes no chances, much like Pam herself. It is revealed in "Beach Games" that Oscar is looking for a way out of his relationship with Gil.

Katy

Katy (Amy Adams) is an attractive hand-bag saleswoman that stops by the office in "Hot Girl." Dwight considers her to be his ideal woman. Both Michael and Dwight make a move on her; Michael by flirting aggressively, and Dwight by showing interest in purchasing a handbag. However, she ignores their advances and later dates Jim for a few months. After Pam and Roy decide to set a date for their wedding, a devastated Jim breaks up with Katy on the "Booze Cruise" episode when he admits that the two will never be as deeply in love with each other as Roy and Pam seem to be. Along with Toby, Katy is a graduate of Bishop O'Hara High School, where she was a cheerleader. She drives a Volkswagen Jetta. One of her Desert Island Movies is Legally Blonde.

Billy Merchant

Billy Merchant (Marcus A. York), property manager of the office park in which Dunder-Mifflin's Scranton office is located. Billy has used a wheelchair since the age of four. He is invited to the office in "The Injury" to speak about being disabled after Michael burns his foot in a George Foreman grill. Billy attends "Casino Night" with his girlfriend, a Chili's waitress, whom Michael mistakes for his nurse. Billy shares his last name with original series co-creator Stephen Merchant.