List of New Girl characters

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New Girl main cast members: Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone. Flickr - Genevieve719 - Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone (3).jpg
New Girl main cast members: Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone.

New Girl is an American television sitcom created by Elizabeth Meriwether. The show, set in Los Angeles, depicts the interpersonal adventures of offbeat teacher Jess (Zooey Deschanel) after her spontaneous move into an apartment loft with three men: Nick (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield), and Winston (Lamorne Morris). Jess' best friend Cece (Hannah Simone) and their former roommate Coach (Damon Wayans Jr.) regularly visit them. The show also features a number of characters that appear as love interests, acquaintances, or family members for the characters in multiple episodes in a season or across multiple seasons.

Contents

Main characters

Summary of character appearances
CharacterPortrayed bySeasons
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Jessica Day Zooey Deschanel Main
Nick Miller Jake Johnson Main
Schmidt Max Greenfield Main
Cece Parikh Hannah Simone Main
Winston Bishop Lamorne Morris Main
Coach Damon Wayans Jr. Guest [a] Recurring Main Special Guest
Reagan Lucas Megan Fox Starring Recurring
Ruth Parikh-Schmidt Danielle Rockoff
Rhiannon Rockoff
Main

Jessica Day

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Zooey Deschanel portrays Jessica Day

Jessica Christopher "Jess" Day (Zooey Deschanel) is introduced as a bubbly, offbeat teacher in her early thirties who is originally from Portland, Oregon. After the shocking discovery in the pilot episode that her live-in boyfriend, Spencer, is cheating on her, she moves into the guys' apartment where Nick, Schmidt, and Winston (or Coach in the Pilot episode) help her move on from her break-up, with the help of her childhood friend, Cece, a semi-successful model. From there, Jess embarks on a journey of self-discovery and growth as she navigates through a series of relationships and jobs.

During season 1, Jess casually dated, the most memorable of those men being her music teacher co-worker Paul Genzlinger (Justin Long) and Russell Schiller (Dermot Mulroney), a divorced father of one of her students. In Season 2 of New Girl, Jess gets laid off from her teaching job and takes up part-time work while searching for a new teaching position. She ends up teaching creative writing in adult education. At first, she's not looking for anything serious and hooks up with Sam Sweeney (David Walton), who prefers open relationships. But things change when she discovers Sam is a successful pediatrician with a good heart, and she starts wanting something more serious. Eventually they begin dating, but their relationship is short-lived; in the episode "Cooler", she and Nick share a spontaneous kiss during a game of True American. Towards the end of Season 2, Jess lands a job as a substitute teacher at Coolidge Middle School. Eventually, she and Nick have sex in the episode "Virgins". They finally decide to become a couple in the Season 2 finale. In Season 3, She and Nick continue their relationship, but their life goals differ too much, and they spend more time arguing. They break up in the Season 3 episode "Mars Landing". In Season 4, she gets promoted to Vice Principal, but the job gets complicated when she starts dating a new science teacher named Ryan, and they face challenges due to a school policy against administrator-teacher relationships. They attempt a long-distance relationship when he moves home to England, but eventually break up. In Season 5, she starts dating Sam again. Towards the end of the season, Sam breaks up with Jess because he is in love with a friend from medical school, and he leads Jess to realize she still is navigating her feelings for Nick. In Season 6, Jess joins a singles group and begins dating Cece's ex, Robby, to avoid her feelings for Nick, who is dating former on-again/off-again roommate Regan (Megan Fox). However, in the episode "The Hike", she and Robby learn that they share relatives in Massachusetts. They realize they are third cousins and end their relationship. Jess is promoted to principal. At the end of the season, she and Nick get back together after he breaks up with Reagan.

In the Season 7 premiere, Jess and Nick return to the loft after Nick's book tour. They are still not engaged or married. Jess takes a job with Russell's education foundation, and is discouraged by the fact that Nick has not proposed. On the night they were supposed to adopt a dog, Nick proposes to Jess, and she accepts. Jess and Nick decide to move to a smaller apartment. But before they leave the loft, they gather everyone for a special farewell. They play one final game of "True American," and during the game there's a glimpse into the future, where it's revealed that Jess and Nick will eventually become parents to a son.

Nick Miller

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Jake Johnson portrays Nick Miller

Nicholas Sean "Nick" Miller (Jake Johnson), who is based on a person Meriwether knew from college, is one of Jess' roommates who works as a bartender. He and Winston are childhood friends from Chicago, Illinois. [b] He and Schmidt shared a dorm room together at the Syracuse University and became life-long friends. It is implied by Schmidt that he dropped out of law school. [c] At the start of the series, he struggles from having broken up with his long-term girlfriend Caroline. At a wedding event, he almost reunites with her. In the episode "Bells", it is revealed that he is fairly frugal and prefers to repair things in the apartment by himself rather than hire outside help. Out of everyone at the loft he is the worst with money, keeping all of his cash in a box and has never paid taxes, although ironically he is the most financially successful member of his family. Later on, in the episode "Clavado En Un Bar", it is revealed that he took and passed the California bar exam to prove he could do it, but decided he'd rather be a bartender instead. In the episode "Secrets", it is shown he is not good at keeping secrets, and sweats on his lower back. [d] He is also not good with taking care of plants. He is laid back, messy, and avoidant of his feelings. He frequently seeks out advice from Tran, an elderly man he meets in a public park.

In season 1, he initially is hesitant about having a female roommate; however, he eventually develops a genuine friendship with Jess and is immediately supportive of her when she is treated poorly by people or goes through emotional turmoil. He dates Julia, a lawyer. He briefly has a cancer scare, and also develops a platonic infatuation with Jess' older boyfriend, Russell. Nick tries to rekindle his romance with Caroline and almost moves in with her at the end of season 1. [e] They break up, and Nick returns to the loft.

In season 2, he writes a zombie novel called Z Is for Zombie [1] He begins dating a stripper named Angie, and reunites with his father. He and Jess become attracted to each other and they kiss in the season 2 episode "Cooler," despite the fact that Jess is dating Dr Sam. Afterward, he and Jess are confused as to how to deal with their relationship, but later have sex in the episode "Virgins". Nick's father passes away, and he and Jess later decide to date.

In season 3, Nick tells Jess he loves her. Caroline is suspicious Nick cheated on her with Jess, and Nick tells her that he fell for Jess the first time he saw her. Jess and Nick briefly live in his room together, and Nick also represents Schmidt in a civil suit. Nick and Jess break up after an argument about how they see their futures. They later go on a couples' cruise together with Cece, Schmidt, Winston, and Coach.

In season 4, he trains Cece to bartend. He begins dating Tran's granddaughter, Kai (Greta Lee) who eventually breaks up with him. He and Schmidt revive their business ventures, eventually investing in a share of the bar where he works.

In season 5, while Jess is sequestered on jury duty, Nick convinces the beautiful pharmaceutical rep Reagan Lucas to move in and flirts with her, but only get as far as kissing before she leaves. They start dating at the end of season 5, and Nick briefly moves to New Orleans with her. At the beginning of season 6, he returns from New Orleans and works on his novel The Pepperwood Chronicles while maintaining a long-distance, and later in-loft, relationship with Reagan. However, at the end of season 6 he and Reagan break up after Nick realizes he's ready for a mature, emotionally vulnerable relationship, and he reunites with Jess.

Three years later, in the season 7 premiere, Nick and Jess return to the loft after a European book tour for Pepperwood, [2] although he is still waiting for the right time to propose to Jess. He eventually proposes to her in the episode "Mario", and they marry in the episode The Curse of the Pirate Bride". In the series finale, he and Jess move out of the loft to a two-bedroom apartment. A flash-forward reveals that he and Jess have a son in the future.

Schmidt

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Max Greenfield portrays Schmidt

Schmidt (Max Greenfield), is one of Jess' new roommates and later Cece's husband. [f] He is an overly confident ladies' man who is originally from Long Island, New York. While attending Syracuse University, he was very obese, and shared a dorm room with Nick and became life-long friends. [g] [h] [3] He has OCD. Since college, he has worked hard to lose weight and to be seen as physically attractive and cool. Because of this, he often says offensive or cocky things, and every time he does, his roommates make him put money in the apartment's "douchebag jar". [f] [g] [4] He is relatively wealthy compared to his roommates, having bought the couch and refrigerator, and splurging on things such as an $80 sushi plate; it was also noted that his family spent $40,000 on his Bar Mitzvah. Schmidt is a successful marketing associate, the sole male in a female-dominated office, and is known for his numerous flings with women. [c] Schmidt's other quirks include a fear of feral cats, especially the one on their apartment's roof; [b] being very controlling and a germophobe when it comes to preparing food; and organizing the loft. [i] [7] [j]

Schmidt meets Cece through Jess, and is immediately smitten. They begin hooking up in secret in the second half of season 1. In the season finale, he ends his relationship with Cece because he feels she deserves someone better. [e] In season 2, he continues to have feelings for Cece, but she has moved on to date someone else. He has a brief relationship with a co-worker Emma who has him sign a sex contract, but later ends things. He rekindles his relationship with his college girlfriend Elizabeth (Merritt Wever) in an attempt to move on from Cece, who is now engaged. In season 3, he tries to date both Elizabeth and Cece but he ends up losing both of them. He moves into neighboring apartment 4C, allowing for Coach to return as a roommate, but later moves back to 4D (sharing a room with Nick) after he uses his savings to fund a storefront for Jess' sister Abby (Linda Cardellini), whom he also briefly dates. [8] He gives his blessing to Coach, who wants to date Cece. In season 4, he dates councilwoman Fawn Moscato, who uses him as a prop. In the season 4 finale "Clean Break", he realizes he cannot part ways with Cece; he proposes to her. [k] Leading up to the wedding, Schmidt tries to repair his relationship with his father Gavin (Peter Gallagher), while also trying to convince Cece's mother he is worthy of marrying her. They marry at the end of season 5.

In season 6, they purchase a fixer-upper house, and have it renovated. Towards the end of season 6, he is promoted to director of marketing, and in the final episode, he learns that Cece is expecting their first child. In the season 7 premiere, it is revealed that Schmidt has become a stay-at-home dad to their three-year-old daughter Ruth. In the series finale, a flash-forward reveals that he and Cece have a son named Moses. [9]

Schmidt's first name is a long-kept secret of the series, until the penultimate episode of season 6 "San Diego" in which it is revealed to be Winston and his middle name is Saint-Marie. He agreed with Winston Bishop to be called by his last name to avoid confusion. [10]

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Damon Wayans Jr. portrays Coach

Coach

Ernie Tagliaboo (Damon Wayans Jr.) who goes by the nickname Coach, is a cocky and driven, yet sometimes awkward and often sensitive former athlete. He is one of the roommates when Jess first moves into the loft in the pilot, but he moves out before the second episode to move in with an unseen girlfriend, allowing for Winston (a former roommate) to take his place.

In season 3, Coach moves back in with the gang in the loft after having been dumped by his girlfriend, initially working as a personal trainer. He has limited interest in a friendship with Jess, but eventually gets a job at her school as a gym coach and health teacher, and they develop a close friendship. He briefly dates Cece, but they realize they are better off as friends. He continues to date on and off and not have any serious relationships.

In the episode "Bar Crawl", he meets fellow army brat May, a professional cellist, for the first time; continuously bumping into each other throughout the night at different bars, they soon discover that they were constantly missing each other by a year or two while traveling the country growing up, and begin dating. At the end of season 4, Coach moves to New York with May after she gets an opportunity to work at the Metropolitan Opera. He makes guest appearances afterwards in seasons 5–7, and is often mentioned. In the episode "Cece's Boys", it is revealed that he and May moved to North Carolina and have taken in a foreign exchange student named Montsie.

Cece Parikh

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Hannah Simone portrays Cece

Cecilia "Cece" Parikh [l] (Hannah Simone) is Jess' best friend since childhood, a street-smart and snarky fashion model. Although she is fairly responsible and cool, she does enjoy parties and frequently dates unserious men. Her parents were born in India. [b] Not much is known about Cece's childhood outside of her father dying shortly before she and Jess met. She struggled in school and Jess tutored her. For much of the series, she lives in an apartment with several other models, including the deadpan Russian model Nadia. She and Nick frequently butt heads, but she is very close to Winston and Coach.

Initially skeptical of Jess' new roommates, Cece and Schmidt share an intimate moment when he comforts her after a breakup. She becomes romantically interested in Schmidt while preparing Thanksgiving dinner. [i] They have a passionate sexual relationship and try to keep it a secret from the others until they are discovered by Winston. Schmidt breaks up with her at the end of season 1, and she retains feelings towards him. [e]

In season 2, Cece begins dating Robby. She later discovers that she has limited time to conceive a baby and decides to enter an arranged marriage with a man named Shivrang. She calls off the wedding in the season 2 finale after realizing that she is still in love with Schmidt and has no feelings for Shivrang (who also turned out to be in love with someone else). At the start of season 3, a confused Schmidt misleads her as he attempts to carry on two distinct relationships Schmidt reveals he is dating her and Elizabeth, and both women break up with him. During season 3, Cece and Coach briefly date, much to Schmidt's dismay, but decide to remain friends.

Cece starts working part-time as a bartender at Nick's bar, [12] passes her GED exam and begins taking community college classes. While Schmidt is dating Fawn Moscato, Cece begins to have feelings for him again. She goes on a hiking trip to Mount Shasta, and when she returns she accepts his marriage proposal in the season 4 finale "Clean Break". [k] Cece is nervous to tell her mother she is engaged to Schmidt, as he is not Indian. Her mother refuses to give her blessing, so Schmidt spends the time leading up to their wedding convincing her, and is successful. Cece also encourages Schmidt to repair his relationship with his estranged father Gavin.

Schmidt and Cece get married in the season 5 finale "Landing Gear", and buy a house, which they fix up in season 6. In addition to bartending, she opens up a modeling agency called Cece's Boys in season 6. In the final episode, "Five Stars for Beezus", Cece learns she is pregnant. Three years later, in season 7, she and Schmidt have a three-year-old daughter named Ruth, and her modeling agency was merged into a larger agency. In the series finale, a flash-forward reveals that she and Schmidt eventually have a son named Moses.

Winston Bishop

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Lamorne Morris portrays Winston Bishop

Winston L'Andre Bishop [k] (Lamorne Morris) who sometimes goes by "Winne the Bish", is Nick's childhood friend from Chicago [c] and one of the loft's original occupants. He first appears in "Kryptonite", where he returns to the loft, replacing Coach who had vacated, after returning from a career as a point guard for a team in the Latvian Basketball League. Upon his return to the States, he struggles to find work and find a healthy relationship. [c] He enjoys pulling pranks on people, but the jokes are either too small or too big, which makes his friends despise them. He also enjoys jigsaw puzzles and wearing shirts with pictures of birds or other animals on them, despite being color blind. [13] [14]

Winston's father left his family when he was a baby. He has a sister who also plays professional basketball.

After dabbling in some odd jobs, including being a nanny for Schmidt's boss Gina's son, he gets his break as a research assistant to a sports radio show host, [15] which leads to his own show on the radio's late night shift. He dates Shelby, who he had treated neglectfully in the past. [16] In the season 1 finale, it is revealed he his afraid of the dark, [17] although after spending a night in the desert, he seems to get over it.

In season 2, he breaks up with Shelby in the Halloween episode. He later dates Daisy (Brenda Song). Despite wanting to be exclusive with her, she continues to see other men, so Winston breaks up with her and he takes ownership of her cat, Furguson. [18] He later dates a bus driver named Bertie. In season 5, he dates Rhonda (Sonequa Martin-Green), a soldier, who engages in pranks with Winston; they marry, for a prank, before she is immediately deployed overseas.

Having realized that others have been making his career choices for him all his life, he quits his radio host job, [19] enrolls in a police academy, and becomes a police officer for the LAPD. He is partnered with the tough, but kind-hearted colleague, Aly Nelson (Nasim Pedrad). They start dating in season 5, [20] and he proposes to her in season 6. [21] Three years later, he and Aly are married and are expecting a child, living on their own. In an attempt of good faith, Aly believes she has tracked down Winston's father, but Winston ultimately decides he does not need him in his life. In the episode "Curse of the Pirate Bride", Aly gives birth to a baby boy whom Winston names DanBill Bishop, and in the series finale flash-forward scene, they have five children. [22]

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Megan Fox portrays Reagan Lucas

Reagan Lucas

Reagan Lucas (Megan Fox) is a no-nonsense pharmaceutical sales rep. She first appears in season 5. Nick convinces her to sublet Jess' room during Jess' jury duty, which the show used as a cover for Zooey Deschanel's maternity leave. [23] [24] Reagan moves around frequently and does not want to have committed relationships, platonic or romantic. It is revealed she and Cece knew each other from an MTV show, and that they had a sexual relationship years prior. She is bisexual, and has a habit of hooking up with both men and women but never having a real relationship. When she is first introduced, she seeks Winston's help in officially breaking off her on-and-off relationship with a woman named Camilla (Clea DuVall). Despite her iciness, the loft residents are eager to befriend her; she even becomes close with Jess, who returns from jury duty shortly before Reagan leaves.

Reagan and Nick begin dating during her stint in the loft, and continue to do so after she moves out to Seattle. They briefly move to New Orleans together, but he returns alone. She travels often and doesn’t appear much after she moves out. Her relationship with Nick is complicated due to their mutual inability to express emotion or talk through issues. They eventually break up at the end of Season 6 after Nick admits to wanting more. [25]

Ruth Parikh-Schmidt

Ruth Bader Parikh-Schmidt (Danielle Rockoff and Rhiannon Rockoff) is Schmidt and Cece's daughter, first appearing in season 7 where she celebrates her third birthday. Showrunner Brett Baer said that they chose to name her after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg because of Schmidt's character growth and change from someone who often objectified women to someone who admired strong women and wants his daughter to become President of the United States someday. [26] Ruth is smart and enjoys a routine. She spends much of her time with her father and has a comical relationship with Nick.

Secondary characters

Introduced in season 1

Introduced in season 2

Introduced in season 3

Introduced in season 4

Introduced in season 5

Introduced in season 6

Notes and episodes cited

  1. Damon Wayans, Jr. was only credited as a part of the main cast in the "Pilot" episode.
  2. 1 2 3 "Cece Crashes". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 5. [11]
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Bells". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 7. [5] [6]
  4. "Secrets". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 19. April 3, 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 "See Ya". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 24. May 8, 2012.
  6. 1 2 "Pilot". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 1.
  7. 1 2 3 "The Story of the 50". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 10. January 17, 2012.
  8. "Wedding". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 3.
  9. 1 2 "Thanksgiving". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 6.
  10. 1 2 3 "Jess and Julia". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 11. January 31, 2012.
  11. 1 2 3 "Clean Break". New Girl. Season 4. Episode 22. May 5, 2015. Event occurs at 06m10s for Winston's middle name, near end of episode for Cece's last name. Fox.
  12. Cece's last name has been spelled Parikh and Parekh. The season 5 episode "D-Day" shows an invitation where Cece's last name is spelled Parikh. For the season 2 episode "Table 34" the captions spell her name Parikh. It was spelled Parekh in the season 4 finale "Clean Break" and some captions early in season 5. It is also spelled Parekh in the Fox profiles.
  13. "Bad in Bed". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 8. December 6, 2011.
  14. "The 23rd". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 9. December 13, 2011.
  15. 1 2 "The Landlord". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 12. February 7, 2012.
  16. "Valentine's Day". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 13. February 14, 2012.
  17. 1 2 "Fancyman (Part 1)". New Girl. Season 1. Episode 17. March 20, 2012.
  18. "Ready". New Girl. Season 6. Episode 6.
  19. "Coming Out". New Girl. Season 4. Episode 13. January 13, 2015. Fox.
  20. "The Crawl". New Girl. Season 4. Episode 15. February 10, 2015. Fox.
  21. Barbara Kerford played Schmidt's mom in a flashback scene for Season 1 episode "Naked"

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