Supporting Characters

Georgina is Serena's evil former friend who returns to New York City after escaping rehab in Utah. (Her parents had forced her into rehab after she dropped out of an equestrian circuit and sold her show pony for cocaine. Yeah, she's trouble.) Her sudden return is not welcomed by the UES clique. At first, Georgina is determined to ruin Serena's life. She blackmails Serena with a bit of...

The late Bart Bass was Chuck's father, the billionaire founder of Bass Industries, and Lily van der Woodsen's most recent husband. His family lives at the New York Palace Hotel, which he owned. He was controlling and manipulative, a touch paranoid (he employed a private investigator and stockpiled family secrets), ruthless in business, and sadly uninterested in his son's life. In Season 2, with...

Carter is a St. Jude's graduate. Before Season 1, he had turned his back on his parents and was left without a trust fund, which prompted him to think about shaping his own future. At the beginning of the first season, he cons Nate into joining a high-stakes poker game and tries to extort money from him. He also escorts Serena to the debutante ball, but Nate punches him after Chuck manipulates...

Cyrus is Eleanor Waldorf's divorce attorney and Aaron Rose's father. He becomes Eleanor's new love interest in Season 2. Blair is initially excited to meet him, as she believes her mother to have the best taste in men, but she is shocked to find that he is older, short, and bald; and has a crude, seemingly unpolished personality. In "The Magnificent Archibalds," Cyrus and Eleanor get engaged;...

Dorota Kishlovsky is the Waldorf's Polish housekeeper. She cares deeply for Blair, even though Blair takes advantage of her and is often cross and snappish. The truth is: she sees Dorota as a substitute mother figure. In the web series "Chasing Dorota," it is revealed that Dorota is actually a Polish countess with a secret husband, Stanislaw. After fleeing to America to escape her family, she...

Owner of Eleanor Waldorf Designs, Eleanor is the fashion designer mother of Blair Waldorf. Her decades-long marriage to Blair's father, Harold Waldorf, ended when Harold left her to pursue a relationship with French male model, Roman, who was Eleanor's best friend during her early years as a designer. In Season 2, she dates and then marries the oddly charming Cyrus Rose. Also in the second...

Hazel is a member of the Constance Billard clique of popular girls. Throughout the first season, she constantly shifts her allegiance between Blair and Jenny. In a misguided attempt to fit in with the rich girls, Jenny steals Hazel's mother's Valentino dress. Hazel is annoyed with Jenny after Blair exposes the pitiful misdeed, but she is quick to overlook the theft when Jenny brings Nate...

Nate's father, Howard (Howie) is a white-collar criminal and cocaine addict. His illegal business activities come to light after he attempts to finalize a deal with Eleanor Waldorf. Once the scandal breaks, the Captain decides to flee to Dominica to escape arrest; just before the elder Archibald gets into his limo to the airport, Nate punches him square in the face. The Captain eventually...

Jonathan is Eric's boyfriend. They start dating in the second season.

Pretty and demure, Maureen made the perfect society wife for the politically-ambitious Trip Vanderbilt. The couple got married in Season 2 -- an event that engineered a short-lived reconciliation between Nate and his grandfather, William Vanderbilt. Trip and Maureen later returned to the show as Trip set his sights on Congress...and Serena set her sights on him. We're not sure how Maureen will...

A member of the Constance Billard clique, the Mean Girls, Penelope constantly shifts her allegiance between Blair and Jenny. She officially "dethrones" Blair in Season 1, but Blair's loss of power doesn't last.

Raina Thorpe is the Midwest’s answer to Blair — or maybe to Chuck. The daughter of a wealthy Chicago businessman and a savvy businesswoman in her own right, Raina is more inclined to hop into bed than to give her heart away. Whether or not that heart is in the right place remains to be seen.

Ah, the mysterious Juliet Sharp. What do we know about her? Not a whole heck of a lot. First and foremost, she’s the stylish Columbia student hell-bent on destroying Serena — that much we know. Juliet is working in cahoots with her jail-bird “brother” Ben to take down our beloved group of Upper East Siders. In a nutshell: She’s scheming, conniving, after the affections of Nate, and, well, she...