GTA 5 Characters List & Guide

Grand Theft Auto V Characters Guide - GTA 5 Main Characters, Strangers, Voice Actors, GTA Online

In this page you can find the full list of Characters featured in Grand Theft Auto V, including all Protagonists, Antagonists, Companions, Strangers & Freaks, GTA Online Characters and more.

The character descriptions below are no-spoiler, not giving away the storyline developments. Clicking on a Character brings you to their detailed profile, with character info, bios, locations, image galleries, voice actors, and more.

GTA V Main Protagonists

GTA 5 is the first game in the Grand Theft Auto series that allows players to switch between three playable protagonists at any time during free roam and missions.

Michael, Franklin and Trevor are distinctly different from each other, with their own attitudes, lifestyles, goals and issues, as well as unique skills and special abilities.

Major Characters

The major characters in the storyline of Grand Theft Auto V. This includes friends, family and associates of the protagonists, plus the main antagonists in the game.

Lester Crest

Performer / Actor: Jay Klaitz

An old friend of Michael, Lester is the mastermind behind the Heists that Michael, Franklin, and Trevor pull off. He also issues assassination missions to Franklin. Despite Lester's physical disabilities, he makes up for this with genius-level intelligence, masterful expertise in technology and computing, and a sharp eye for detail, which is what makes him an excellent planner for the various heists he has pulled off throughout his life.

Lamar Davis

Performer / Actor: Slink Johnson

Lamar Davis is Franklin's crazy friend, a proud member of The Families, and fellow employee at Deluxe Premium Motorsport. He frequently bugs Franklin about his attempts at leaving the gang life behind.

Dave Norton

Performer / Actor: Julian Gamble

Dave Norton is the FIB agent credited with "killing" Michael in North Yankton 9 years ago. He is a corrupt FIB agent, although not to the extent of his boss Steve Haines. In reality, Dave struck a deal with Michael, setting him up with a new life in Los Santos, while he received the recognition of killing the highly sought criminal.

Steve Haines

Performer / Actor: Robert Bogue

Steven "Steve" Haines is a highly decorated, yet highly corrupt agent from the FIB. Haines uses his position as Dave Norton's superior to force Michael, Franklin and Trevor into doing his dirty work for him.

Devin Weston

Performer / Actor: Jonathan Walker

Devin Weston is a corrupt and influential billionaire, who owns various businesses in San Andreas. He has a private army in the form of the Merryweather Security Consulting firm, and he blames Michael for interfering with his businesses.

Amanda De Santa

Performer / Actor: Vicki Van Tassel

Amanda De Santa is Michael's wife, and the mother of Jimmy and Tracey. Her relationship with her husband is difficult, the two barely tolerating each other.

Jimmy De Santa

Performer / Actor: Danny Tamberelli

Jimmy De Santa is the son of Michael and Amanda. He is a 20-year-old, fat, whiny pot smoker, who is prominently very lazy and addicted to video games, and, like the other members of his family, has a conflicted relationship with his father.

Tracey De Santa

Performer / Actor: Michal Sinnott

Tracey De Santa is Michael and Amanda's bratty, fame-obsessed daughter. She has aspirations to become a singer and dancer, but has a very bad relationship with her parents, appearing to be very spoiled, obnoxious, and immature.

Stretch

Performer / Actor: Hassan Johnson

Harold "Stretch" Joseph is a high-ranking member of The Families who, while being considered a friend by Lamar, constantly endangers both Lamar and Franklin by sending them on jobs that tend to go horribly wrong.

Wei Cheng

Performer / Actor: George Cheung

Wei Cheng is the leader of the Los Santos Triads, trying to expand his drug dealing operations into Blaine County. He eventually comes into conflict with Trevor when he decides to ditch Trevor's business and partner with the O'Neil Brothers instead.

Ron Jakowski

Performer / Actor: David Mogentale

"Nervous" Ron Jakowski is Trevor's timid, paranoid friend and next-door neighbor in the Blaine County trailer park where he lives.

Wade Hebert

Performer / Actor: Matthew Maher

Wade Hebert is a friend of Trevor and Ron, and cousin of Floyd. Both mentally challenged and dim-witted, he helps Trevor with his jobs around Los Santos and Blaine County.

Supporting Characters

Other supporting characters who play a prominent role in the story of Grand Theft Auto V.

Martin Madrazo

Performer / Actor: Alfredo Huereca

Martin Madrazo is a Mexican businessman and leader of the Madrazo Cartel. It's implied that he is a drug lord, as several witnesses to his Cartel's crimes have been silenced, even though he insists to be a legitimate businessman.

Simeon Yetarian

Performer / Actor: Demosthenes Chrysan

Simeon Yetarian is an automotive dealer of Armenian heritage, and is the owner of Premium Deluxe Motorsport, the car dealership where Franklin and Lamar work.

Solomon Richards

Performer / Actor: Joel Rooks

Solomon Richards is a famous Vinewood movie producer and owner of Richards Majestic Productions, a film company he inherited from his father in 1978. He plans to retire after releasing one final movie: Meltdown.

Molly Schultz

Performer / Actor: Elizabeth Mason

Molly Schultz is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel to Devin Weston's business, while also being Devin Weston's lawyer.

Floyd Hebert

Performer / Actor: Jimmy Ray Bennett

Floyd Hebert is the cowardly but hard-working cousin of Wade, working as a unionized longshoreman at the Port of Los Santos.

Andreas Sanchez

Performer / Actor: Abdel Gonzalez

Andreas Sanchez works for the Federal Investigation Bureau, acting as the right-hand man of highly decorated and corrupt FIB agent Steve Haines.

Tao Cheng

Performer / Actor: Richard Hsu

Tao Cheng is the firstborn son of Cheng Triad boss Wei Cheng. Unlike his father, who is a ruthless organization leader, Tao is proven to be a completely inept Triad successor, displaying the typical traits of a spoiled child.

Dr. Isiah Friedlander

Performer / Actor: Bryan Scott Johnson

Dr. Isiah Friedlander is a renowned therapist based in Los Santos and is Michael's therapist. He works for the Mount Zonah Medical Center, with a clinic on the Pacific Bluffs coastline.

Patricia Madrazo

Performer / Actor: Olivia Negron

Patricia Madrazo is the elderly wife of the Mexican gangster Martin Madrazo. However, their marriage appears to be unhappy as Madrazo mistreats her, verbally abuses her, and cheats on her with a Russian woman named Natalia Zverovna.

Brad Snider

Performer / Actor: Ryan Woodle

Brad Snider is the former partner-in-crime of Trevor and Michael. He is believed to have been captured in a failed heist in North Yankton prior to the events of Grand Theft Auto V. He still keeps in contact with Trevor.

Chop

Chop is Franklin's and Lamar's pet Rottweiler Dog. Although nominally Lamar's dog, he lives with Franklin for a majority of the storyline. Franklin can engage in several activities with Chop, including walking him and playing fetch with a ball.

Strangers & Freaks

Characters featured as part of the "Strangers & Freaks" Side Missions of GTA V.

Minor Characters

Other minor characters that can be encountered or make an appearance in Grand Theft Auto V.

Heist Crew Members

Gunmen, Drivers and Hackers available for recruitment as Crew Members for the Heist Missions in Grand Theft Auto V.

Soapboxers

Special Characters and pedestrians in Grand Theft Auto V found around Los Santos soapboxing about their thoughts, preaches or conspiracy theories. Some can become unlocked as playable characters in Director Mode after meeting them.

Strippers

The strippers who work at the Vanilla Unicorn in Grand Theft Auto V.

GTA Online Characters

Prominent characters that you can encounter in the multiplayer world of GTA Online. This section includes brand new characters introduced exclusively in GTA Online, as well as returning characters from Story Mode.

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john · 7 days ago
who is the voice actor of liz
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Franklin · 4 months ago
Does Franklin Clinton got a wife?
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  Pookie · 4 months ago
  
  @Franklin Yes, and that wife is Tanisha.
  
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Ign · 5 months ago
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Idc · 6 months ago
Anyone know the people in baby blue suits with a mansion near michaels house they have only relaxing music
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  xyz · 6 months ago
  
  @Idc kifflom institute
  
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  RoTak · 6 months ago
  
  @Idc The people you see are members of the Epsilon Cult, which you can read more about on the Gangs & Factions page. The building is the Epsilon Program's headquarters, that's why you can see them around there.
  
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Garry · 10 months ago
Yo anyone know who that Girl is in the loading screen? She bending over and blowing a kiss infont of the Cinema.
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  hvj.h · 4 months ago
  
  @Garry bit late but her name is starlet
  
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idk · 1 years ago
who is d?
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  Jemma · 1 years ago
  
  @idk It is lamer brother
  
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  Jerry · 8 months ago
  
  @Jemma nope
  
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  Jone · 7 months ago
  
  @Jerry yep...Jemma is right.
  
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Yash valmiki · 1 years ago
Thanks four your verification
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  Mike oxlong · 10 months ago
  
  @Yash valmiki No. It isn’t. He is a balla who snitched on frank,Lamar, and stretch.
  
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