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Protagonist
Michael De Santa
A retired bank robber living under a new name in Los Santos, pulled back into heists by debt, boredom and his own past.
Retired bank robber
Protagonist
Franklin Clinton
A young repo man from Strawberry who wants out of gang life, finds a mentor in Michael De Santa, and ends up holding the game’s final decision.
Ambitious wheelman
Protagonist
Trevor Philips
Michael’s violent former partner, a Blaine County meth and gun dealer who comes to Los Santos after learning that his dead best friend is alive.
Unpredictable outlaw
Heist crew
Lester Crest
The disabled hacker and heist planner behind Michael’s robberies, who also hires Franklin for assassinations that pay off on the stock market.
The mastermind
Supporting cast
Lamar Davis
Franklin Clinton’s best friend and a Families member, whose bad deals keep dragging Franklin back to Forum Drive, and whose roast of Franklin’s haircut became a meme.
Franklin’s best friendSupporting cast
Amanda De Santa
Michael De Santa’s wife and the mother of Jimmy and Tracey, whose affair with her tennis coach sets off the debt that sends him back to robbery.
Michael’s wife
Supporting cast
Jimmy De Santa
Michael and Amanda’s son, whose schemes keep setting off the De Santa family’s crises, and who knocks out a mercenary with a bong to save his father.
Michael’s sonSupporting cast
Tracey De Santa
Michael and Amanda’s fame-hungry daughter, whose attempts to get on the talent show Fame or Shame keep bringing her father running.
Michael’s daughterAntagonist
Devin Weston
A billionaire investor who hires the crew to steal cars, refuses to pay, and turns on Michael over the film Meltdown.
Business power brokerAntagonist
Steve Haines
A decorated, corrupt FIB agent and television host who uses Michael’s secret deal with Dave Norton to force the crew into jobs against the IAA.
FIB agent and TV hostCorrupt FIB agent
Dave Norton
The FIB agent who shot Michael and Brad at Ludendorff under a secret deal, wrote to Trevor as Brad, and answers to Steve Haines.
Michael’s FIB contactAntagonist
Martin Madrazo
The leader of the Madrazo Cartel, whose $2.5 million demand sends Michael back to robbing, and whose wife Trevor kidnaps after a dispute over payment for a killing.
Cartel bossFilm producer and mission giver
Solomon Richards
A Vinewood producer with a failing studio, who hires Michael to save his film Meltdown and gives him a producing credit.
Vinewood producer and head of Richards Majestic
Supporting cast
Chop
Lamar Davis’s Rottweiler, who ends up living with Franklin and can be walked, trained and briefly played.
Lamar’s RottweilerSupporting cast
Brad Snider
A bank robber who died after the failed Ludendorff job and was buried under Michael’s name.
Michael and Trevor’s old partnerSupporting cast
Isiah Friedlander
Michael’s expensive Los Santos therapist, who plans to turn his patient’s case into a TV show and returns in GTA Online as the head of a drug company.
Michael’s therapistSupporting cast
Denise Clinton
Franklin’s maternal aunt, who shares the house on Forum Drive with him at the start of the story.
Franklin’s auntSupporting cast
Tanisha Jackson
Franklin’s ex-girlfriend, who left him over his gang life and warns him when Lamar is in danger.
Franklin’s exAntagonist
Harold "Stretch" Joseph
A Families member back from prison, who keeps putting Franklin and Lamar in danger and later sets Lamar up.
Lamar’s dangerous friendSupporting cast
Simeon Yetarian
The owner of Premium Deluxe Motorsport, who employs Franklin and Lamar to repossess cars.
Crooked car dealerSimeon's nephew and Arena War mechanic
Sacha Yetarian
Sacha Yetarian is Simeon Yetarian's nephew and an employee at Premium Deluxe Motorsport. He is only mentioned in GTA V, then appears in GTA Online as a mechanic at the Maze Bank Arena, according to GTABase.
The dealership nephew who became an arena mechanic.Premium Deluxe Motorsport employee
Anak Horozian
Anak Horozian is a Premium Deluxe Motorsport employee known through his Lifeinvader posts in Grand Theft Auto V, according to Grand Theft Wiki.
A Premium Deluxe employee who airs his complaints on Lifeinvader.Minor character and Vagos member
Esteban Jimenez
Esteban Jimenez is a Vagos member in Grand Theft Auto V who buys a Bagger from Premium Deluxe Motorsport and stops paying for it. Franklin Clinton and Lamar Davis go after the bike in Repossession.
The customer who missed a payment on Simeon's Bagger.Story Mode assassination target
Jay Norris
Jay Norris is the founder and CEO of Lifeinvader in Grand Theft Auto V. In Friend Request, Lester Crest has Michael De Santa rig a prototype phone, which kills Norris during a live keynote.
The public face of a company that knows too much.Antagonist
Molly Schultz
Devin Weston’s right-hand woman and legal counsel, who handles his dealings with the crew.
Devin Weston’s lawyerInstigator of GTA Online's Diamond Casino Heist. She is not a playable character.
Georgina Cheng
Georgina Cheng is the vice president of Cheng Holdings, the daughter of Wei Cheng and the younger sister of Tao Cheng. In GTA Online she persuades Lester Crest to plan the Diamond Casino Heist as revenge on the Duggan family.
The Cheng heir who talks Lester out of retirement.Antagonist
Wei Cheng
The leader of the Los Santos Triads, whose men take Michael in North Yankton and hold him at the Raven slaughterhouse.
Triad bossSupporting cast
Tao Cheng
Wei Cheng’s son, who talks business with Trevor through a translator, ends up in an ice box, and later fronts the Diamond Casino in GTA Online.
Wei Cheng’s firstborn sonMinor character; Tao Cheng's translator and liaison
Tao Cheng’s Translator
Tao Cheng's Translator is the unnamed Triad interpreter who speaks for Tao Cheng in Trevor Philips's dealings with the Cheng family. He returns in GTA Online, still working for the Chengs at The Diamond Casino & Resort.
The man who has to tell Trevor no.Supporting cast
Elwood O’Neil
A Grapeseed meth maker whose family wins the Triads’ contract over Trevor and pays for it.
A leader of the O’Neil brothersFranklin's childhood friend and Strangers and Freaks contact
Tonya Wiggins
Tonya Wiggins is a childhood friend of Franklin Clinton who talks him into covering her boyfriend JB's towing shifts across five Strangers and Freaks missions.
Franklin's childhood friend, who needs one more favor.Lifeinvader user
Tavell Clinton
According to Grand Theft Wiki, Franklin’s cousin and Denise Clinton’s nephew, who moved to Liberty City in 2013 and is known only through his Lifeinvader posts.
Franklin’s cousin, per Grand Theft WikiLife coach
Magenta Andrews
Magenta Andrews is a life coach and friend of Denise Clinton, seen at Denise's women's meeting at the start of The Long Stretch.
Denise Clinton's life coach and friendSupporting cast
Ron Jakowski
A former accountant and conspiracy theorist who lives next door to Trevor in Sandy Shores and works for him.
Trevor’s nervous neighborSupporting cast
Wade Hebert
A friend of Ron and cousin of Floyd, who tracks down Michael for Trevor and follows him from Sandy Shores to Los Santos.
Trevor’s followerLeader of the Fooliganz and contact for GTA Online's Los Santos Drug Wars.
Dax
Dax is the leader of the Fooliganz and the main contact in GTA Online's Los Santos Drug Wars update. He brings the player into the Last Dose missions and offers Fooligan Jobs.
The Fooliganz leader at the centre of Los Santos Drug Wars.Supporting cast
Floyd Hebert
Wade Hebert’s timid cousin, a Port of Los Santos longshoreman whose home Trevor takes over and whose job gets Trevor into the port.
Wade’s dockworker cousinMinor character
Debra
Debra is Floyd Hebert's fiancée in Grand Theft Auto V. She is away when Trevor Philips and Wade Hebert move into her apartment, and returns in Hang Ten to confront them.
The homecoming Floyd was afraid of.Supporting cast
Patricia Madrazo
The wife of Martin Madrazo, kidnapped by Trevor, who stays at his trailer without trying to leave, goes home when the feud ends, and keeps in touch with him afterwards.
Martin Madrazo’s wifeSupporting cast
Chef
The meth cook for Trevor Philips Industries, who can also join the crew’s heists as a gunman.
Trevor’s meth cookSupporting cast
Mrs. Philips
Trevor’s elderly mother, who waits in his trailer after the main story, scolds him and sends him out for a van of Deludamol.
Trevor’s motherMentioned character
Ryan Philips
Trevor Philips’s dead brother, who is mentioned in GTA V but never seen.
Trevor’s late brotherSupporting cast
Johnny Klebitz
The Lost MC biker and protagonist of The Lost and Damned, killed by Trevor in Mr. Philips.
Lost MC bikerMinor character
Ashley Butler
Ashley Butler is a minor character in Grand Theft Auto V, carried over from Grand Theft Auto IV and The Lost and Damned. She is Johnny Klebitz's girlfriend and appears in Mr. Philips, where Trevor Philips kills Johnny.
Johnny Klebitz's girlfriend, present when Trevor kills him.Lost MC arms dealer and Johnny Klebitz's friend
Terry Thorpe
Terry Thorpe is a Lost MC biker and friend of Johnny Klebitz, carried over from The Lost and Damned. Trevor Philips hunts him down in Grand Theft Auto V's Mr. Philips.
A Lost MC biker who doubts Trevor's word.Minor character
Clay Simons
Clay Simons is a Lost MC biker from The Lost and Damned who returns in Grand Theft Auto V. Trevor Philips hunts him down in Mr. Philips, and he is dead by Friends Reunited.
A survivor of The Lost and Damned who meets Trevor in Blaine County.Supporting cast
Lazlow Jones
The host of the talent show Fame or Shame, who runs from Michael and Trevor at Tracey De Santa’s audition and meets Michael again at a tattoo parlor.
Host of Fame or ShameMinor character; Jimmy De Santa's dealer
Ahron Ward
Ahron Ward is a Burger Shot employee and Jimmy De Santa's drug dealer in Grand Theft Auto V. He appears in Did Somebody Say Yoga?, supplying the drink Jimmy uses to drug Michael.
The Burger Shot order that wasn't on the menu.Supporting cast
Fabien LaRouche
Amanda De Santa’s private yoga instructor, who dodges Michael at the De Santa pool, leaves with Amanda, and later takes a laptop to the face at the Bean Machine.
Amanda’s yoga instructorSupporting cast
D
A Ballas gangster whom Franklin and Lamar try to kidnap, and whom Stretch shoots at a recycling plant in La Puerta.
Ballas gangsterYacht party guest and pursuer
Freddy Slade
Freddy Slade is a guest at the yacht party in Daddy's Little Girl who joins the chase after Michael De Santa takes Tracey off the boat.
He chases Michael and Tracey off the DignityGTA Online contact and Families drug dealer
Gerald
Gerald is a member of The Families and a drug dealer who gives the player early contact missions in GTA Online. He is introduced by Lamar Davis.
A Families dealer with work for the Online protagonist.Tracey De Santa's ex-boyfriend
Gary Scales
Gary Scales is Tracey De Santa's ex-boyfriend in Grand Theft Auto V. He is an unseen character known through Lifeinvader and through what the De Santa women say about him, according to Grand Theft Wiki.
Tracey's ex, known through Lifeinvader and family arguments.Supporting cast
Andreas Sanchez
An agent who works under Steve Haines at the FIB, turns on him at the Kortz Center, and is shot dead by him there.
Agent under Steve HainesSupporting cast
Ferdinand Kerimov
A prisoner Michael takes from the IAA for the FIB, who is tortured in By the Book and driven to the airport by Trevor.
The FIB's prisonerSupporting cast
Tahir Javan
A wealthy green energy businessman in Chumash, suspected of terrorism by the FIB, whom Michael kills in By the Book.
The FIB's targetSupporting cast
Karen Daniels
An IAA agent who is questioning Ferdinand Kerimov when Michael breaks in during Three's Company, and who first appeared in GTA IV as Niko Bellic's girlfriend Michelle.
The IAA's interrogatorTahir Javan's friend, a witness in By the Book
Rachel Withers
Rachel Withers is a minor Grand Theft Auto V character and a friend of Tahir Javan. According to Grand Theft Wiki, she attends the Chumash party where he is killed in By the Book.
A guest at Tahir Javan's last party.Supporting cast
Kyle Chavis
Amanda De Santa’s tennis coach and lover, whom Michael chases out of the house and into the hills in Marriage Counseling.
Amanda’s tennis coachMinor character
Javier Madrazo
Martin Madrazo’s cousin and a member of his cartel, killed in Caida Libre over the prospect of his testimony against Martin.
Martin Madrazo’s cousinSupporting cast
Natalia Zverovna
Martin Madrazo’s Russian mistress, whose Vinewood Hills house Michael and Franklin damage in Marriage Counseling.
Martin Madrazo’s mistressMadrazo heir and Cayo Perico Heist contact
Miguel Madrazo
Miguel Madrazo is the son of Martin and Patricia Madrazo and a GTA Online character. Added on December 15, 2020, he brings the player into the raid on El Rubio's compound in The Cayo Perico Heist.
The Madrazo heir who sends the player to Cayo Perico.Merryweather founder and CEO
Don Percival
Don Percival is the founder and CEO of Merryweather Security Consulting in Grand Theft Auto V. He never appears on screen, but he writes to Michael after The Third Way.
The man behind Merryweather's private armySupporting cast
Rocco Pelosi
A Liberty City mobster turned Vinewood talent agent, whose contract dispute with Solomon Richards holds up the filming of Meltdown.
Vinewood talent agentSupporting cast
Gianni
Rocco Pelosi’s associate, who helps him attack Solomon Richards in The Ballad of Rocco.
Rocco Pelosi’s associateVinewood actor
Milton McIlroy
The Vinewood actor who plays the lead in Solomon Richards’s film Meltdown, and who walks off the set until Michael De Santa flies him back.
Star of MeltdownSupporting cast
Anton Beaudelaire
The Vinewood film director hired by Solomon Richards to make Meltdown.
Director of MeltdownUnseen founder of Richards Majestic
David Richards
David Richards is the unseen founder of Richards Majestic in Grand Theft Auto V and the father of Solomon Richards. He is mentioned in the game's background material rather than appearing in it.
The film mogul who founded Solomon's studio.Unseen Richards Majestic executive
Ira Richards
Ira Richards is an unseen character in Grand Theft Auto V, mentioned in the game's news reports. According to Grand Theft Wiki, he is Solomon Richards's son and director of marketing at Richards Majestic.
Solomon Richards's son, known only from the news.Murderer at the end of the Letter Scraps
Peter Dreyfuss
Peter Dreyfuss is a retired Vinewood film director who murdered actress Leonora Johnson in 1975. Franklin Clinton uncovers the crime through 50 letter scraps and confronts him, and can kill or spare him.
A retired director at the end of a paper trail.Fooliganz chemist and acid cook
Labrat
Labrat is the chemist and acid cook of the Fooliganz in GTA Online's Los Santos Drug Wars update, according to GTABase. He is voiced by Courtney Gains.
The Fooliganz' acid cook.Tanisha Jackson's boyfriend, mentioned on Lifeinvader
Jayden
Jayden is an unseen character in Grand Theft Auto V. Tanisha Jackson's Lifeinvader posts describe him as her new boyfriend, a Los Santos doctor.
The doctor Tanisha dates after Franklin.Minor character
Ortega
An Aztecas gang figure in Blaine County. Trevor pushes his trailer into the Zancudo River, and the player decides whether he lives.
The Aztecas figure whose trailer goes into the riverMinor character
Harvey Molina
A janitor at the FIB building whose ID and overalls Michael takes for The Bureau Raid.
The FIB building janitor Michael follows homeMinor character
Casey
A Gruppe Sechs security guard whose ID helps get the crew into the Union Depository in the subtle approach to The Big Score.
The Gruppe Sechs guard taken along for the Big ScoreCartel boss and arms dealer
Oscar Guzman
Oscar Guzman is a Mexican cartel boss and gun runner who buys Trevor Philips's stolen weapons in Story Mode and returns as the contact for Oscar Guzman Flies Again in GTA Online.
A gun runner with business in the airSupermodel and celebrity target
Kerry McIntosh
Kerry McIntosh is a supermodel whose pug, Dexie, loses its collar to Trevor Philips in Vinewood Souvenirs - Kerry. She also appears in GTA Online's After Hours update.
A supermodel whose pug becomes a souvenirIAA agent and GTA Online mission contact
Agent ULP
Agent ULP is a senior IAA agent, once known through its Liberty City front United Liberty Paper. He appears in Monkey Business and The Wrap Up, is rescued in The Doomsday Heist and runs Operation Paper Trail in GTA Online.
The IAA man behind United Liberty PaperHedge fund manager and Strangers and Freaks contact for Franklin
Dom Beasley
Dom Beasley is a hedge fund manager and adrenaline junkie who takes Franklin Clinton on a series of stunts before dying in a jump from the Land Act Dam.
A hedge fund manager and adrenaline junkie.Marijuana legalization advocate and Strangers and Freaks mission giver.
Barry
Barry is a marijuana legalization advocate and Strangers and Freaks character in GTA V Story Mode. He approaches Michael and Trevor with a petition, and recruits Franklin to supply a smoke-in that he then misses.
A petition, a home-grown joint and a smoke-in he forgets to attend.Recurring race rival
Mary-Ann Quinn
Mary-Ann Quinn is a fitness obsessive and Strangers and Freaks character in GTA V Story Mode. She challenges Michael to a foot race, Franklin to a short triathlon and Trevor to a bike race.
Every casual meeting is a competition.Bail bonds contact for Trevor in Story Mode; bounty contact and Bail Office founder in GTA Online.
Maude Eccles
Maude Eccles is a bail bonds woman and bounty hunter in Blaine County. In GTA V Story Mode she hires Trevor Philips to bring in four bail jumpers, and in GTA Online she offers bounty work and later the Bail Office business.
A bail bonds woman who sends Trevor after fugitives.Founder and leader of the Epsilon Program
Cris Formage
Cris Formage is the founder and leader of the Epsilon Program, who deals with Michael De Santa in the Epsilon missions and meets him in person in the last of them.
The founder of the Epsilon Program.Epsilon Program member
Marnie Allen
Marnie Allen is an Epsilon Program member from Grand Theft Auto IV who deals with Michael De Santa in five Epsilon missions.
Michael's contact in the Epsilon Program.Actor and Epsilon Program member
Jimmy Boston
Jimmy Boston is an actor and Epsilon Program member who appears in three of Michael De Santa's Epsilon missions, and later in GTA Online.
An actor and Epsilon Program member.A British tourist and celebrity stalker who enlists Trevor to collect Vinewood souvenirs.
Nigel
Nigel is a British tourist in GTA V Story Mode who, with his companion Mrs. Thornhill, is obsessed with Vinewood celebrities. They mistake Trevor Philips for Jock Cranley and recruit him to steal souvenirs for their collection.
A tourist's souvenir hunt turns into a series of thefts and a kidnapping.Supporting character and mission giver in the Vinewood Souvenirs Strangers and Freaks missions.
Mrs. Thornhill
Mrs. Thornhill is a British tourist in GTA V Story Mode who, with her companion Nigel, is obsessed with Vinewood celebrities. They mistake Trevor Philips for Jock Cranley and recruit him to steal souvenirs for their collection.
A tourist collecting pieces of Vinewood celebrity cultureA paranoid believer in extraterrestrial life who hires Franklin to recover the pieces of a crashed ship.
Omega
Omega is a paranoid believer in extraterrestrial life who hires Franklin Clinton to find 50 spaceship parts scattered across Los Santos and Blaine County.
A believer in visitors from beyond the stars.Stranger and mission giver in Michael's Strangers and Freaks missions
Abigail Mathers
Abigail Mathers is the widow of TV producer Frank Mathers, who hires Michael De Santa to recover 30 pieces of the submarine Frank died in, so she can claim his life insurance.
A widow who wants the wreckage to say the right thing.Trevor's real estate client, and the man who betrays him at the end of their missions
Josh Bernstein
Josh Bernstein is a failing Rockford Hills real estate agent who hires Trevor Philips against his former partner, Lenny Avery, has him burn down his own mansion for the insurance, then blames him to the police.
A property deal built on sabotage, arson and betrayal.A Sandy Shores hunter who introduces Trevor to sniping and to the hunting trade.
Cletus Ewing
Cletus Ewing is a Sandy Shores hunter who tests Trevor Philips's marksmanship, takes him elk hunting in Paleto Forest and then buys photos of his kills.
A hunter who pays by the photograph.Mechanic, street racer and vehicle-performance specialist
Hao
Hao is a Los Santos Customs mechanic and friend of Franklin Clinton who brings him into illegal street racing, and who later runs Hao's Special Works in GTA Online.
A mechanic with racing on his mind.Civil Border Patrol member
Josef
Josef is a Russian immigrant and the junior partner in the Civil Border Patrol, the two-man Blaine County vigilante group he runs with Joe. Trevor Philips works with them, then kills them both.
A Russian immigrant hunting immigrants in Blaine County.Civil Border Patrol co-founder
Joe
Joe is the American co-founder of the Civil Border Patrol, a two-man Blaine County vigilante group he runs with Josef. He hires Trevor Philips to help detain suspected immigrants and is later killed by him.
A self-appointed border patrolman with a stun gun and a Park Ranger.Wrongly detained citizen and mission giver
Manuel
Manuel is a Blaine County citizen wrongly detained as an illegal immigrant by the Civil Border Patrol. He then tells Trevor Philips to kill Joe and Josef, and refuses to pay him for it.
The citizen who sends Trevor after the Civil Border Patrol.Paparazzo and Franklin's Strangers and Freaks contact
Beverly Felton
Beverly Felton is a self-absorbed Los Santos paparazzo who mistakes Franklin Clinton for a rapper, hires him for celebrity photo jobs, lands a reality show, and then will not pay him.
A paparazzo who wants his own reality show.No characters found. Try a different search or filter.
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