List of The Umbrella Academy characters

Sir Reginald Hargreeves, also known as The Monocle, is an alien disguised as a wealthy entrepreneur and world-renowned scientist. He received the Nobel Prize for his work in the cerebral advancement of the chimpanzee and founded the Umbrella Academy, a group of adopted super-powered children. Sir Reginald is cold-hearted, often mistreating and even experimenting on the children for his personal interests.[5] He refuses to let the children call him father, demanding that they address him by his codename The Monocle instead. When speaking to the children, he refers to them by number, which was assigned to the children in terms of "usefulness", and has nothing to do with their actual destructive capabilities. In the season two episode "743", Reginald, a member of the Majestic 12, reveals himself to be some kind of being from another dimension and kills the 12.[6] In the television series, Reginald is portrayed by Colm Feore and appears in both seasons in a main role. Feore joined the series in February 2018.[7][8]

Luther Hargreeves, also known as Number One or his superhero alter-ego Spaceboy, is the primary and longest-lasting member of the Umbrella Academy. Luther's principal powers are super-strength and durability. He is portrayed by Tom Hopper as an adult and Cameron Brodeur as a teenager in the Netflix adaptation.[9] After a disastrous mission, Sir Reginald Hargreeves performed surgery on Luther, replacing his body with that of a Martian gorilla, hinted to be the same that damaged his original body. The Netflix adaptation differs – Hargreeves injected a gorilla serum into Luther to save his life, turning Luther into a half-gorilla, half-human.[10] His body can withstand the vacuum and cold of space as long as he has a helmet on. Using his super strength, he primarily fights hand to hand. After his career with The Umbrella Academy, he moved to the moon and lived at the Annihilation. In the comics, he has been shown to have somewhat of a love interest in Number Three, Allison. In the adaptation, their romance is consummated before and after Allison's marriage.[11][12]

The A.V. Club highlighted that in the first season of the Netflix adaptation, Luther immediately jumps on investigating Reginald's death and supports Number Five in trying to avert the "apocalypse; when it becomes clear that Vanya and her previously unknown powers are to blame, Luther locks her up. This drives Vanya to give in to her destructive abilities and go on a rampage that ends up causing the apocalypse, but by the time moon debris is actually falling on the planet, Luther recognizes how he hurt Vanya and agrees to bring her with as his siblings decide to go back in time and take another swing at saving the world".[13] In the second season, during the 1960s in Dallas, Luther begins to work for Jack Ruby as a club security guard and as an underground fighter.[14][15] In the comics "Dallas" storyline, Luther became morbidly obese as part of his struggle with depression. While Luther overeats in the second season, the Netflix adaptation creators decided to avoid the obesity plot after a similar transformation occurred to Thor in Avengers: Endgame.[16]

Diego Hargreeves, also known as Number Two or his superhero alter-ego The Kraken, is the reckless and rebellious member of the group, as described by Reginald Hargreeves. His main ability in the comics allows him to hold his breath indefinitely. He also has a strong talent for knife-throwing (he can change the direction of projectiles in midair; also, though it has not been explored, he may be able to use mild telekinesis) and close-quarter combat. He and Luther have a clear rivalry, and Diego is often unwilling to take orders from Luther. In his teenage years, he was the bassist in the punk rock band the Prime-8s alongside drummer Body (Inspector Lupo's assistant), and guitarist and lead vocalist Vanya Hargreeves / Number Seven (his adopted sister), who he has romantic feelings for. He is depicted as left-handed in the short story "Anywhere But Here," as he is playing the bass left-handed. In the Netflix adaptation, he harbors a secret love for his ex-girlfriend, Detective Eudora Patch. He is portrayed by David Castañeda as an adult and Blake Talabis as a teenager in the Netflix adaptation.[17]

Allison Hargreeves, also known as Number Three or by her superhero alter-ego The Rumor, is the third member of the Umbrella Academy. Described as narcissistic, she has the ability to manipulate reality by lying, using the phrase "I heard a rumor..." to activate the power. After her career with The Umbrella Academy, she married her boyfriend, Patrick, and had a daughter named Claire. The couple has since divorced, and Patrick has full custody of their daughter, due to Allison using her special ability on Claire. She has a cybernetic left hand as Dr. Terminal devoured her original hand when she was a child. In "Dallas", when she goes to get vocal surgery, her arm is no longer drawn as if it were mechanical, suggesting that it too had been fixed.[18] In the Netflix adaptation, she is portrayed by Emmy Raver-Lampman as an adult and by Eden Cupid as a teenager.[9][19] In the adaptation, Allison uses her powers to become an extremely successful actress after leaving The Umbrella Academy. She is romantically linked to her adopted brother, Luther Hargreeves. In the comics, their love for each other is unconsummated as Luther sees himself as a monstrosity due to his gorilla body. However, in the Netflix adaptation, the two hook up before and after Allison's marriage.[11][12] In both the comics and show, Allison uses her ability of suggestion to make her husband Patrick fall in love with her; after they divorce, Allision ends up with limited custody of their child. In the adaptation, Patrick eventually discovers that Allison has used her ability on their daughter Claire which leads to their divorce.[11][12]

During the events of “Apocalypse Suite”, Allison had her throat slit by her sister Vanya (as the White Violin) to prevent Allison from utilizing her power. Saved by Luther, she was able to survive but was told she could never speak again. As a result, she was forced to communicate via a note pad. While she and her family were forced to live in the bunker beneath the academy's ruins, Allison tortured the slightly amnesiac and disabled Vanya by forcing Vanya to remember and relive her rampage. After her surgery, however, Allison had felt remorse and empathetic towards her sister, and began to support Vanya in physical therapy. In a review of the adaptation's second season, Lacy Baugher of Paste commented that Allison's character in the first season "was often regulated to the sidelines, with paper thin motivations and no real arc to speak of. Here, she is the center the season's most emotionally impactful plot, as a modern-day Black woman forced to experience the horrors of the Jim Crow era South for herself".[20] Baugher highlighted that Allison joins "the civil rights movement" and works toward making "herself into a hero in a way that has nothing to do with the mind control abilities she still abhors. It's a compelling subplot in more ways than one, and leads to one of the season's best action sequences (at least one that has nothing to do with anyone using superpowers) when a peaceful sit-in turns into a riot".[20]

Klaus Hargreeves, also known as Number Four or by his superhero alter-ego The Séance, is the fourth member of the Umbrella Academy. Klaus's powers are speaking with the dead, channeling the dead so they speak through him, possessing people, broadcasting his consciousness through airwaves (allowing him to communicate through TVs), and telekinesis. In the Netflix adaptation, he also has the power of evocation, making spirits corporeal, capable of being seen by others and interacting with objects around them. Of his comic powers, he retains only the ability to speak to the dead in the Netflix adaptation, although he does not require a Ouija board to do so. He is portrayed by Robert Sheehan and Dante Albidone, as an adult and teenager, respectively, in the Netflix adaptation.[9] He has the words "Hello" and "Goodbye" tattooed on his right and left palms, respectively. It has been theorized by Mr. Pogo that Klaus has been doing drugs since he was a teenager. Klaus continues to communicate with his deceased brother Ben.[21] Refinery29 highlighted that "Ben, from the beyond, tries to keep Klaus on a straight and narrow path, and off of drugs, as best he can. Ben acts as sort of a north star for Klaus, often times pointing him in the right direction when needed".[22]

In the comic book "Dallas", Klaus is seen holding a Vietnamese baby, which he later reveals to be his, to the surprise of Luther. Handing it to an elderly woman before leaving in the elevator, he thanks her for taking care of the baby, to which she responds: "Where you are going is no place for kids. The baby is safer here." Before leaving in the elevator, Klaus apologizes to the woman, saying, "Really sorry about what happened to its mother." The conversation was in Vietnamese, implying that he learned it during the three years he ran a strip club named "Spookies". The Netflix adaptation differs – during the first season, Klaus spends ten months as a soldier in 1968 Vietnam after stealing Hazel's time-travel briefcase.[23] Klaus falls in love with Dave, a fellow soldier, and becomes sober. However, Dave dies in battle before Klaus returns to the present. At the end of the season, all of the siblings are thrown back in time. In the second season, Klaus falls to maintain his sobriety and starts a cult which Ben opposes.[24][25] In 1963, Klaus attempts to convince Dave not to enlist, however, this only pushes Dave to enlist earlier than he had previously.[24][26]

After returning to the present in the comics, Klaus abandoned his family and began working with the Mothers of Agony, a local satanic biker gang who gave him a variety of drugs and utilized his power to speak with the dead to con wealthy buyers. He would later betray this group, however, leading them into a shootout with a rich widow desperate to find her husband's buried fortune. After locating both the hidden money as well as the biker's stash of heroin, Klaus returned to the city, only to overdose in an abandoned house. He was saved by the manifested spirit of his long-dead brother, Ben (aka The Horror), who delivered him to a nearby hospital, and warned him of a new threat looming.

The unnamed fifth member of the Umbrella Academy is known only by his given number, Number Five, and by his superhero alter-ego The Boy. Number Five had a name but it was unspoken for so long that all of his siblings, and Five himself, forgot what it was. At the age of 10 (or 13 in the Netflix adaptation), Five disappeared by using his power of time travel to escape into the future. Sir Reginald always warned him that he "could never go back"; it took him 45 years to figure out how to go back in time. He aged normally during his time in the apocalypse, but upon returning to the past he regained the appearance he had the day he traveled forwards. His body is stuck in time and cannot age, as medical examinations prove that there are no signs of cell growth or death. In the Netflix adaptation, his body continues to age normally after reverting to its 13-year-old form, as Five bemoans "going through puberty twice." Five claims to have read accounts of the academy's immediate future and their connection to an apocalypse. While trying to go back in time to warn his adoptive brothers and sisters about the apocalypse, he worked with the Temps Aeternalis. He was taught to perform "micro jumps" in time, allowing him to move faster than the eye can see. In the Netflix adaptation, Five has the secondary power of teleportation in addition to time travel and does not have to be taught "micro-jumps". In the comics, he is considered "the perfect assassin," as he has had the DNA of the best killers in history infused into him. He has a 100% chance of killing if he decides to kill. It is revealed in the Dallas storyline that Five and Spaceboy are twin brothers. He also has a puppy named Mr. Pennycrumb.[27]

Number Five / The Boy first appeared in The Umbrella Academy: The Apocalypse Suite #2, following a brief appearance on the final page of the previous issue. In the television series, the character is portrayed Aidan Gallagher and appears in both seasons. Jim Watson plays an adult Five and Sean Sullivan portrays an elderly Five. For the effects of Number Five jumping through time and space in the series, Burrell wanted to make the effects look organic, and liquidy, representing how much time and the world bends around him when he jumps, and how quick it should be. For these effects, he used more than 30 frames in the first episodes, however with the progress of the series, this reduced to only 10 frames.[28] To that footage, the team iterated on several kinds of spatial jump effects, all the way from heavy distortion to subtler images. The visual effects team started with some R&D tests. At the end, the final effect, called the "jelly vision", was used to make the series, with Burrell expressing: "as if you're pushing your hand through a jelly membrane, just for a few seconds, and then it pops. It's really, really subtle, but you get a little bit of texture, you get a little bit of striations, almost like the universe is bending as he does his spatial jumps."[29]

Ben Hargreeves, also known as Number Six or by his superhero alter-ego The Horror, is the currently deceased sixth member of the Umbrella Academy. Number Six possesses eldritch monsters from other dimensions under his skin (most often appearing as tentacles emerging from his torso). He is deceased from the results of a mission gone wrong. He is portrayed by Justin H. Min and Ethan Hwang, as an adult and a teenager, respectively, in the Netflix adaptation.[30] There is a memorial statue of him located in front of the academy. Even though he has been dead since before the start of the series, he has been portrayed as a member of The Umbrella Academy, appearing as his statue counterpart, in visions, or with Klaus, through his ability to talk to the dead. He can connect with Klaus physically, lending him his ability for a moment. CBR referred to Ben as a "Jiminy Cricket" type of character as he "reminds Klaus of his moral responsibilities even if the troubled Number Four refuses to listen".[31]

Ben's spirit manifests during the “Hotel Oblivion” storyline, appearing before his brother Klaus in the hospital after saving him from an overdose. It is shown that the portion of his chest that held the monster's tentacles is now an empty cavity, and it is hinted by Ben later in the issue that the monster had escaped from its dimension. It is also implied the Hotel Oblivion was not just made to be a supervillain prison, but a trap designed by Hargreeves to contain the beast, with the villains inside meant to be used as bait.

In the first season of the Netflix adaptation, Klaus hides that he is communicating with the deceased Ben.[32] However, during the concert hall battle, "Klaus is able to use his powers to get Ben to manifest in the real world, as basically a superpower ghost. Ben then uses his powers — a giant beast with tentacles coming out of his stomach — to take out the gunmen".[22] This also reveals the ghost Ben to his siblings.[22] In the second season climax, Ben is the only one who can reach Vanya's subconscious when her power is out of control.[33] Vulture highlighted that "as Vanya relives the horrors of the past, Ben gets through to her — not by imprisoning her, as his siblings once did, but by reassuring her that all those horrible things weren't her fault. [...] It's enough to get through to Vanya, but it comes with a cost: The effort Ben had to expend to reach Vanya means that, 17 years after his 'death,' it's time for Ben to die for real".[34] In the last episode of the season, a version of Ben from an alternate timeline is introduced where this Ben is a member of the Sparrow Academy. He is known as Number Two and presumably has the same powers and the alter ego Horror.[35]

Vanya Hargreeves—Viktor Hargreeves in the Netflix adaptation[lower-alpha 14]—is the seventh member of the Umbrella Academy; they are also known as Number Seven or by their superhero alter-ego The White Violin. In the Netflix adaptation, the character is portrayed by Elliot Page as an adult, and by T.J. McGibbon and Alyssa Gervasi as a teenager and a 4-year-old, respectively. The most estranged member of the umbrella group, Vanya originally showcases no particular powers other than an interest in music. Vanya is known to have written a book detailing her life with the academy and her decision to leave. According to The Conductor, leader of the Orchestra Verdammten, Vanya is the most powerful member of The Umbrella Academy. In her early childhood, The Monocle suppressed her powers and kept her on medication to maintain this, but her powers were eventually released by The Conductor, driving Vanya mad. She is capable of releasing destructive waves of force using her violin that can be strong enough to cut someone's throat or destroy an entire building with a single note. After unlocking her powers, she murders the Conductor and travels to the Hargreeves mansion to destroy it, killing Pogo in the process. During the fight with her siblings, while distracted by Klaus pretending to channel Hargreeves, she's shot in the back of the head by Number 5 with Hargreeves' revolver. Doctors noted she would eventually recover from her injuries, but would never play the violin again. The Netflix adaptation differs – it is instead Allison who shoots at Vanya; she misses on purpose by shooting to the side of Vanya's head which makes her lose focus on the sound of her violin and she then passes out.

During the “Dallas” storyline, Vanya is shown in the care of her siblings in the bunker beneath the mansion's ruins, partially amnesic and using a wheelchair. She was subject to some abuse by Allison in retaliation for slicing her throat, left bound in front of screens depicting the aftermath of her rampage. At the end of the storyline, Allison has a change of heart and helps her sister recover rather than punishing her. In season 2 of the adaptation, Vanya suffers from amnesia after getting hit by a car upon arrival in 1963 and becomes a live-in nanny for Sissy's autistic son Harlan.[36][37] When Harlan goes missing, Vanya "uses powers to discover that Harlan actually drowned in a lake and later is able to resuscitate him by unknowingly transferring some of [her] power to him".[38] After this, Vanya enters a romantic lesbian relationship with Sissy which is kept secret from Sissy's husband.[37][39] Later in the season, his memories return via electroshock torture. Vanya returns to the present with his family while Sissy chooses to remain in her time.[38][37] CBR highlighted that "Dallas didn't dive deep into Vanya apart from her and Mother trying to fix her memory after her attack as the White Violin" while the second season's "entire LGBT relationship and arc of xenophobia is new, as well as [Vanya] being a bomb the FBI triggers".[40]

By the “Hotel Oblivion” storyline, Vanya has undertaken physical therapy with Allison coaching her. She feels doubtful about her recovery, though, and brushes off Allison's attempts to support her, possibly out of guilt. Eventually, Mother takes Vanya from the bunker in secret, revealing that there was more to the academy than Hargreeves realized, and introducing her to another team of superpowered siblings seemingly under her leadership.

In March 2022, it was announced that Page would return in the upcoming third season as Viktor Hargreeves; the character will transition during the third season.[2] Gizmodo reported that "the change comes in the wake of Page's own announcement of their transgender identity, and was very likely done to reflect Page's own transition".[3]

The Conductor is a villain in The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite who relentlessly pursued Vanya Hargreeves in the hopes of recruiting her to his orchestra for the purpose of ending the world with a song he had written. The Conductor had found the truth about Vanya's powers and brainwashed her into realising them. After turning down the Conductor's offers many times, Vanya later agreed to play his song to bring on the apocalypse. While Vanya is playing the song with the orchestra, she kills the Conductor and the rest of the orchestra shortly before using her powers to bring on the apocalypse. Vanya's powers devastate the moon sending chunks of it flying back to Earth. However, shortly after this, her brother Klaus managed to utilize his telekinesis to support the largest piece of the moon, preventing numerous and averting the future visited by Number Five.[18] The Conductor appears in a recurring role in the first season of the television series, in which he is portrayed by Peter Outerbridge. In the adaptation, the Conductor has no villainous motive. Instead, the character's motives are more closely embodied by Leonard Peabody.

Dr. Terminal is a villain in The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite. In the past, Terminal was diagnosed with Eisenstein Syndrome, a rare disease that eats a person from the nervous system to the brain. He was given two months to live by doctors, so he created a device that can convert matter into energy that will feed the disease and keep him alive. He then returned to his doctor's office and devoured the doctors with his device. He was incarcerated and escaped by absorbing a reporter, the cell bars, all the guards, the prison warden, and the carnations near the front gate. He later kidnapped The Rumor and devoured her left arm before being defeated by Spaceboy. He battled the Umbrella Academy time and time again till he was sent to the Hotel Oblivion by The Monocle. He vowed to return and destroy the world. He also left behind the Terminauts to destroy the Umbrella Academy should they ever reform.[18] Dr. Terminal is briefly mentioned in the television series adaptation.

A pair of extremely violent assassins working for the Temps Aeternalis are named Hazel and Cha-Cha. Many in the agency, including Number Five, consider them the most dangerous team in the history of the agency, mainly for their unpredictable methods. They both wear brightly colored cartoon character masks, exhibit maniacal and psychopathic behavior, and have a love of murder and sugary snacks. After the initial failure of the first team to recapture or neutralize Number Five for defecting, they were called in to take him down. To that end, they managed to capture his brother, The Séance, torturing and eventually killing him, as well as acquiring Sir Hargreeves’ secret stockpile of nuclear weapons. They die near the end of the “Dallas” story line when The Séance, after returning from the dead, possesses Cha-Cha, kills Hazel, and then himself (as Cha-Cha). Hazel and Cha-Cha are portrayed by Cameron Britton and Mary J. Blige, respectively, in the television series. Hazel appears in a main role in the first season and a guest role in the second. He falls in love with a doughnut-store owner named Agnes Rofa and quits the commission. Before the world ends, he time travels to the past to be with Agnes. He appears in the guest role in season 2, where he is killed by Alex, Otto, and Oscar after warning Five of the upcoming apocalypse. Cha-Cha, on the other hand, appears only in the first season and remains loyal to the commission and dies along with everyone else in the apocalypse.[41][42][8]

Atlas Jericho "A. J." Carmichael is a talking goldfish who inhabits a tank atop a human bodysuit. He is the chief authority in charge of the Temps Aeternalis. Carmichael headed the Temps Aeternalis at the time Number Five was inducted into the organization. He oversaw his training as an assassin and his DNA being bonded to that of the most notorious assassins from across history. In The Umbrella Academy: Dallas, Carmichael blackmails Number Five and The Rumor to stop Five's past self from stopping the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Unknown to them, the assassination had to be ensured so that Kennedy would never meet Sir Reginald Hargreeves and hand over nuclear missiles to him. These missiles would be detonated by Hazel and Cha-Cha and destroy the world in the Temps Aeternalis's own attempt to apprehend Number Five. Carmichael explained the scope of their mission's success after President Kennedy had been assassinated and the Umbrella Academy were returned to the present. Number Five then attacked and killed Carmichael out of revenge for what he had done to him, eating the goldfish alive. A. J. is portrayed by Robin Atkin Downes in the television series and appears in the second season in a recurring role.

Dr. Phinneus Pogo is a talking male chimp associated with The Monocle. When growing up at the academy, Spaceboy considered Mr Pogo to be his best friend. He watched most of the academy grow up and knew all of the children very well. He was also a sympathizer of Vanya's plight when she is repeatedly told by Sir Reginald that she is not special, as she has no special powers. Despite this, he is murdered by Vanya after her transformation into the White Violin as a test of her power against the academy.[8][43] Burrell called Weta Digital, who previously worked for the rebooted Planet of the Apes series, to develop the visual effects for the character of Pogo in the television series. Ken Hall provided the motion capture for Pogo using a gray suit to later make additions to his captures to create the CGI of the chimpanzee, with Adam Godley making the facial expressions and voice acting of the character.[44]

Abhijat is Reginald's bodyguard and assistant. He also serves as the pilot of the Minerva. After the family had drifted apart again following “Dallas”, Abhijat flew the Minerva to Japan, assisting Dr. Zoo, a former associate of Hargreeves, with using the Minerva to explore the mysterious depths of the Afterzone. This character is absent in the Netflix adaptation of the series, though has the possibility to appear in future seasons.

John Perseus X is the young, spoiled heir to the Perseus Corporation. He returns to buy out all outstanding shares of the company, and name himself CEO and chairman of the board, and immediately orders a drastic change in focus of the company, planning to create his own Televator to break his father out of the Hotel Oblivion, Hargreeves' interdimensional prison for supervillains. He eventually manages to break in with the help of Hotel escapee Obscuro, only to find his father dead, with his talking atomic robot head, Medusa still active. Medusa convinces Perseus to lead a mass jailbreak of all the supervillains from the hotel, who causes a reign of terror on the city that Medusa convinces Perseus X to fight and be thought of as the city's new true hero. Perseus however, soon realizes Medusa is as dangerous as the other villains, and actually influences his father to commit suicide, finally lopping off the hand Medusa has attached itself to and allowing Spaceboy to throw it at a massive Dr. Terminal, who is gorging on the city, which ultimately destroys Medusa and Terminal. Perseus X is absent from the Netflix adaptation of the series, though has the possibility to appear in future seasons.

Grace Hargreeves is a robot designed to be the Umbrella Academy's mother. She later malfunctions and “dies” after getting a pot of coffee spilled in her by Number Five. The members of the Umbrella Academy try to fix her but in the end they find her machinery to be much too complicated. In the Netflix adaptation, Grace emotionally cares for the children, even when they return as adults. Diego deactivates her out of mercy as she had been malfunctioning badly. However, Pogo reactivates her shortly after, but she is destroyed permanently during the destruction of the academy. In the second season, a human version of Grace appears in 1963 as Reginald's love interest, implying that the robot was based on her.[45]

Saint Zero was a world-renowned astronaut and space explorer. Spaceboy's childhood hero, he flew eight successful missions in total aboard his ship the Valeur before disappearing while on a mission to Mars. In fact, Saint Zero survived, but was hurtled into afterspace and rendered catatonic. Saint Zero is absent from the Netflix adaptation of the series, though has the possibility to appear in future seasons.

Dr. Zoo is a doctor associated with Reginald. Dr. Zoo is absent from the Netflix adaptation of the series, though has the possibility to appear in future seasons.

The Sparrows are a group made up of seven powered individuals. They are heavily implied to be among the 43 children born simultaneously to mothers with no previous signs of pregnancy on October 1, 1989. First introduced in Hotel Oblivion, their origins are likely to be explored in the next installment of the comic book series. They are significantly different in the Netflix adaptation, where in an altered future of the 1963 just changed by the Umbrella Academy members; they are a group of superheroes adopted by Reginald, similar to the Umbrella Academy, and Ben is revealed to be a member of the Sparrows. Their names are Marcus (Number One), Ben (Number Two), Fei (Number Three), Alphonso (Number Four), Sloane (Number Five), Jayme (Number Six), and Christopher (Number Seven).

The Handler is an exclusive character to the television series. She is portrayed by Kate Walsh and appears in a recurring role in the first season before being promoted to the main cast for the next. The Handler was a high-ranking member and major influencer of the Temps Commission. She was frequently seen dealing personally with matters concerning Number Five and the apocalypse, despite not being the case leader. The Handler had a clear agenda in her belief that time should not be changed, going to extreme lengths to maintain the timeline and ensure nothing is changed. She is also the adoptive mother of Lila Pitts, having assassinated the girl's biological parents to take Lila for herself. The Handler is almost killed at the end of season one after being shot in the head by Hazel, and is actually killed by the Swede at the end of the second season.[46]

Leonard Peabody, also known as Harold Jenkins, is an exclusive character to the television series based on The Conductor. He is portrayed by John Magaro as an adult, while Jesse Noah Gruman portrays a younger Harold. As a child, he was an admirer of the Umbrella Academy and begged to join, since he was born on the same day as the result of a normal pregnancy, but was rejected and humiliated by Reginald. He later discovers Reginald's diary, detailing Vanya's potential, and inserts himself into her life with the goal of manipulating her into discovering her powers and using them against her siblings. After hiring thugs to rough him up in front of Vanya, he loses an eye and the prosthetic eyeball that Five found in the future is revealed to be his after his death. He is killed by Vanya after she discovers his secret but has the potential to reprise the role in season three due to the changed timeline.[47]

Lila Pitts is a character exclusive to the Netflix series; she is portrayed by Ritu Arya. Lila is introduced as a fellow patient at the mental institution Diego is committed to in 1963. After she and Diego escape the institution, Lila tags along to help Diego stop the apocalypse. However, Five, who doesn't trust Lila, discovers she is The Handler's daughter, and that in 1993, The Handler had Five execute Lila's parents so she could take Lila for herself and raise her. She is one of the 43 children born on October 1, 1989, and has the ability to mirror anyone's powers.

Raymond Chestnut, portrayed by Yusuf Gatewood, is Allison's second husband in the early 1960s. Raymond is an African-American man fighting for civil rights and appears in a main role in the second season of the series.[48]

Sissy Cooper, portrayed by Marin Ireland, is Vanya's friend and love interest. She is also Carl's wife and Harlan's mother. Sissy takes in Vanya after hitting the latter with her car and causing amnesia. She soon begins an affair with Vanya. Sissy appears in the second season of the series in a main role.[48][38][37]

• Sheila McCarthy as Agnes Rofa (season 1), Hazel's nascent love interest, the waitress and baker at (and owner of) Griddy's Doughnuts. She leaves with Hazel, even though Cha-Cha is threatening her life. Agnes died from cancer sometime before the events of season two sometime in the 1950s or 60s.
• Ashley Madekwe as Detective Eudora Patch (season 1), Diego's former romantic partner. Patch is killed by Cha-Cha after finding Klaus in the latter's Hotel room. Diego is the prime suspect for her murder due to being at the scene of the crime and having his fingerprints all over the body, however his name is cleared when Hazel gives Diego Cha-Cha's gun.
• Rainbow Sun Francks as Detective Chuck Beaman (season 1)
• Matt Biedel as Sgt. Dale Chedder (season 1)
• Cody Ray Thompson (season 1) as Dave, Klaus' boyfriend during the Vietnam war. Calem MacDonald portrays a younger Dave in the second season.
• Ken Hall as Herb (season 2; guest season 1) is a member of the Commission who idolizes Number Five.
• Patrice Goodman as Dot (season 2; guest season 1) is a member of the Commission who idolizes Number Five.

• Kevin Rankin as Elliott (season 2) is a man who assists Number Five, believing he is an alien from Area 51. He is murdered by Alex, Otto, and Oscar.
• Justin Paul Kelly as Harlan Cooper (season 2) is the non-verbal autistic son of Sissy and Carl Cooper. After Vanya saves him from drowning, he retains telekinetic abilities and has the potential to appear in possible future seasons.[38]
• John Kapelos as Jack Ruby (season 2) is the owner of a nightclub that Luther is involved with and the future murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald.
• Kris Holden-Ried as Axel (season 2)
• Jason Bryden as Otto (season 2)
• Tom Sinclair as Oscar (season 2)
• Stephen Bogaert as Carl Cooper (season 2)
• Dov Tiefenbach as Keechie (season 2) is a follower of Klaus' cult.