GTA 5 Characters List & Guide

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

On 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.

We also have a list of the Gangs & Factions in the game.

GTA V Characters Full List

  1. GTA V Main Protagonists
  2. Major Characters
  3. Supporting Characters
  4. Strangers & Freaks
  5. Minor Characters
  6. GTA Online Characters
  7. Heist Crew Members
  8. Soapboxers
  9. Strippers
  10. Assassination Targets
  11. Bounty Targets
  12. Golf Opponents
  13. Private Taxi Fares Customers

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.

Michael De Santa

Michael De Santa

Performer / Actor: Ned Luke
Michael is a middle-aged, retired bank robber. After being apparently killed 9 years ago during a past operation with Trevor in North Yankton, Michael made a deal with the FIB and was sent off to live a new life in Los Santos under the disguise of "witness protection". He now lives in a mansion in Rockford Hills with his dysfunctional family: disrespectful daughter Tracey, lazy son Jimmy, and spendthrift wife Amanda - who all had to change their surname from "Townley" to "De Santa".
Franklin Clinton

Franklin Clinton

Performer / Actor: Shawn Fonteno
Franklin is a young gang member who dreams of becoming big-time in Los Santos, in a world where the glory days of street gangs has long passed. He works as a repo man for a luxury car dealership, but his ambition makes him tired of the job. He soon crosses paths with Michael De Santa, who takes him under his wing.
Trevor Philips

Trevor Philips

Performer / Actor: Steven Ogg
The less said about Trevor, the better. A former airman, career criminal, and Michael's old best friend and partner in crime, Trevor is a mentally unstable drug addict, now living in a trailer park full of meth heads and biker gangs in Sandy Shores, Blaine County. He founded "Trevor Philips Enterprises", which mainly deals with weapons and drugs. He is the designated pilot of the team.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Assassination Targets

These characters are targeted by Franklin as part of the Lester's Assassinations missions:

Brett Lowrey Corrupt CEO of Bilkinton Research, who tried to bribe the FDA for his dangerous drug, Priapol, threatening Betta Pharmaceuticals' profits.
Jackson Skinner Head of Product Development at Facade, illegally selling consumer data and amassing wealth through shady dealings.
Isaac Penny Venture capitalist plotting to take control of Vapid Motor Company by firing workers to lower stock value.
Enzo Bonelli Ex-mafia turned real estate developer who used extortion and murder to dominate building contracts in Los Santos.

Bounty Targets

These characters are targeted by Trevor as part of the Maude's Bail Bonds missions:

Ralph Ostrowski Regarded as the most mundane criminal, hiding in a quarry while trying to stay under the radar.
Larry Tupper A violent meth dealer closely associated with Trevor, known for his aggressive behavior and criminal connections.
Glenn Scoville A reckless banker who takes extreme measures, including parachuting from Mount Chiliad to evade capture.
Curtis Weaver A disheveled criminal living off the grid, notorious for undisclosed offenses and a flighty nature.

Golf Opponents

If the player begins a game of Golf alone, they can choose to compete against up to three NPC players, among the following characters:

Todd Rosenweig Easy
Aaron Ingram Normal
Jeff Miller Normal
Glenn Mather Hard
Castro Lagano Hard (Castro is unlocked after his Random Event, if he isn't delivered to the Altruist Cult by Trevor)

Private Taxi Fares Customers

These are the names of customers encountered by Franklin as part of the Private Taxi Fares side missions:

  • Alonzo (and girlfriend Liz Macallen)
  • Derrick
  • Felipe
  • Keyla
  • Kwak
  • Miranda (Lady of the Best Tailor)
  • Otis
  • The Three Bankers
  • Walter
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