The Girlfriend – Reference Guide: Cast, Characters & More

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Noteworthy Information

• Date (S1E4): Approximately June 2025

Notable Locations & Items

• St. John’s Wood (S1E1): The neighborhood that Laura lives in
• Stown Haven (S1E4): The residential home where John Laine lives

Groups & Organizations

• Hambridge & Holmes (S1E1): Where Cherry, Pandora, and Elliot work

Laura (Robin Wright)

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• Character Summary: Laura is a renowned art dealer and gallery owner who has an exceptionally close relationship with her son, partly due to losing her first child, Rose.

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1
• Cat’s Name (S1E1): Moses
• Ownership (S1E5): Howard owns Laura’s gallery
• Security Codes (S1E5): Is Daniel’s birthday

Daniel (Laurie Davidson)

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• Character Summary: Daniel is Laura and Howard’s son, a doctor (trauma surgeon being his specific specialty), who has dated many women before Cherry, including his first, Brigette, but is completely enamored by Cherry.

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1
• Age (S1E1): 27
  • Birthday (S1E6): 05/24/1998
• A Musical and Dumplings (S1E3): For who knows how long, Laura and Daniel, for his birthday, would go to a musical and eat as many dumplings as they could

Cherry (Olivia Cooke)

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• Character Summary: Cherry is a working-class young woman who works in real estate and has career goals of owning her own company, which focuses on providing affordable housing.

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1
• Age (S1E1): Based on her saying her dad died 15 years ago, and saying he died when she was 14, that would make her roughly 29.
• Bi-Lingual (S1E2): Thanks to working in the Canary Islands, selling timeshares, Cherry knows Spanish
• Address (S1E4): 32 Sandingford drive, Slough Berkshire

Howard (Waleed Zuaiter)

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• Character Summary: Howard is Daniel’s father, Laura’s husband, who is HUGE in the real estate world, with most of the family’s fortune being thanks to his work.

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1

Elliot (Nicholas Burns)

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• Character Summary: Cherry and Pandora’s boss, who is the senior director of sales.

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1

Nicholas (Leo Suter)

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• Character Summary: Cherry’s ex, who recently got married, and paints Cherry as a stalker and psychopath

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1

Millie (Francesca Corney)

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• Character Summary: Nicholas’ new girlfriend, later wife.

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1

Isabella (Tanya Moodie)

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• Character Summary: Isabella is Laura’s best friend, who has had four failed marriages, stemming from her desire to be with men, but rarely finding good ones, and so she settles for mediocre until she can’t take it.

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1

Tracey (Karen Henthorn)

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• Character Summary: Cherry’s mom, who is a butcher for a living.

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1

Brigette (Shalom Brune-Franklin)

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• Character Summary: Brigette is Isabella’s daughter, her only child, who we often see hanging out with her.

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1

Pandora (Marina Bye)

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• Character Summary: Pandora is Cherry’s co-worker who gets a promotion over her, to assistant manager, despite closing fewer deals, because her mother is connected.

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1

Lilith (Anna Chancellor)

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• Character Summary: Lilith is an artist, a former lover of Laura, whom she met in art school.

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 3
• First Spoken Of (S1E2): Is described as a woman who, after Rose died, became Laura’s lover, whom she would have left Howard for if she hadn’t become pregnant with Daniel

John (Simon Meacock)

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• Character Summary: John is Cherry’s father, Tracey’s ex

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 4
• What Happened? (S1E6): We learn from one of John’s nurses that he fell 20 feet, broke his spine in two places, and cracked his skull. This happened because Cherry pushed him for abandoning her and Tracey, and not providing any support. She had to literally track him down, and more than likely, he was nasty towards her, so she pushed him.

Max Kader (Ben Miles)

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• Character Summary: A wealthy man, who is a peer of Howard, with whom Candy works with to further her affordable housing career.

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 4

Harriet (Naomi Sheldon)

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• Character Summary: Harriet is Laura’s assistant at her gallery

Additional Information

• Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 5

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