Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Bo Derek | Maria Gianni - Luke's mother (via an affair with Charles Blakely). Widow of wealthy Antonio Gianni. Owner of House of Gianni, a fashion design firm in Los Angeles. Scheming and conniving with everyone, including her family. Notable for trying to break up Luke and his girlfriend, Michelle Randall, ultimately failing. Almost marries William Chandler, until she is told, by an angry Sophia, that Luke was her husband, Charles Blakely's son, and thereby brothers. Had catfights with Sophia Blakely, Tania Ford, and Michelle. Eventually "dies" (Tania Ford was the one who shot her), but is later shown at an island paradise, under an assumed name, very much alive, with Sophia on the other side of the pool. |
| Natalie Martinez | Michelle Randall Miller - A new designer at House of Gianni. In love with Luke Gianni, to Maria's disgust. Divorced from Lance Miller. Best friend of Nikki; Michael; and designers Harold and Hans. Opens her first design house, Michelle Miller Designs, but is backstabbed by her duplicitous partner, Lexi, with Maria's help. Almost killed by mobster Eddie twice, but is saved, both times, by Gloria Thompson, the woman whom Lance cheated on her with. After that, she and Gloria become good friends. Eventually moves to New York with Luke, the love of her life, and opens her own design house. |
| Taylor Kinney | Luke Gianni - Maria's son; Sophia's stepson; William's paternal half-brother. An artist whose talent he inherited from his birth father, Charles Blakely. Alternately loyal to and disgusted with his mother and her machinations. In love with Michelle Randall and eventually moves to New York with her, after selling House of Gianni. |
| Mini Anden | Tania Ford - Luke's ex-girlfriend. A very self-destructive model who hates Nikki Clark. She tended to fight with everyone, including Maria herself. Later was revealed to be the one who shot Maria Gianni and was thusly arrested. |
| Joel Berti | William Chandler - Maria's former fiance; Luke's protective half-brother. Sophia Blakely's son. He and Sophia help Michelle open her own design house, but is stymied by Maria and her equally scheming assistant, Lexi. Protective of Luke, considers him family, and genuinely cares about him, even though it's for his own mysterious ends. Was charged with Tax evasion by a spiteful Maria. |
| Nicole Pulliam | Nikki Clark - Michelle's best friend, girlfriend of Luke's friend, Michael, who is carrying his child. Hated by Tania Ford, who has fought her numerous times. Injured in a home invasion engineered by mobster Eddie Zarouvian. |
| Robert Buckley | Michael Bauer - Photographer at House of Gianni. Luke's best friend, Nikki's boyfriend and father of her unborn child. Had an unwise affair with Maria, which nearly imperiled his friendship with Luke. Had been injured in a home invasion engineered by Eddie Zarouvian. |
| Donna Feldman | Gloria Thompson - Lance Miller's former assistant, who ruined his marriage to Michelle. Mother of Alec, her son by mobster, Eddie Zarouvian. She dumps Lance, becomes friends with Michelle (after saving her life during a botched assassination attempt and again saving her life after finding out about Eddie kidnapping her), and then finds love and a job with the doctor who was treating her son for his injuries. |
| Mike Begovich | Lance Miller - Crooked accountant, cheated on his wife, Michelle, with Gloria. Gloria eventually dumps him, and becomes his ex-wife's good friend. Eventually is killed. |
| Garrett Swann | Harold - a designer at House of Gianni. He, along with fellow designer, Hans, is friendly and protective of Michelle, their new assistant. The two, aside from her best friend, Nikki, are perhaps Michelle's closest friends in fashion. In the end, he and Hans get Michelle most of her designs back, (the rest they sell on eBay) and gives the conniving Lexi Walker her comeuppance. |
| Tony Tripoli | Hans - another designer at House of Gianni. Both he and Harold take Michelle under their collective wing and try their best to help her with support and advice. He and Harold get most of Michelle's precious designs back to her, and give Lexi her comeuppance. |
| Erika Schaefer | Lexi Walker - Maria's duplicitous assistant who is as power-hungry as Maria herself ever was. Backstabs Maria by joining Michelle Randall at her new design house, and then she backstabs Michelle, by taking it over with Maria's help. Given her comeuppance by Harold and Hans (she fired them from House of Gianni) who get even with her by getting most of their friend, Michelle's designs back to her. |
| Ethan Erickson | John Cotter - Arrogant senior designer who irritates Harold and Hans, and is eventually fired by Maria for his missteps and his ego. Tries to seduce Michelle, but fails. |
| Jordi Vilasuso | Eddie Zarouvian - Gloria's former boyfriend; father of her son, Alec. Tries to have Michelle Randall killed, but the assassin ends up missing Michelle and injures Alec instead, which causes Eddie to kill the assassin. This bonds Michelle and Gloria as friends. He ends up arrested at the end for a home invasion attack on Michael and Nikki. |
| James Black | Rodney Griffith - Lance's accounting partner, who has suspicions about Lance's unethical behavior. |
| Mark Totty | Dr. Russell Woods - Maria's therapist, who listens to her problems. |
| Tippi Hedren | Doris Thompson - Gloria's mother; Alec's grandmother. She dies of cancer. |
| Morgan Fairchild | Sophia Blakely - William's mother, Luke's stepmother; Maria's hated rival (Maria slept with Charles Blakely, Sophia's husband, resulting in Luke's conception). Known for her sharp wit and sarcasm. She helps Tania and later on, Michelle in dealing with the villainous Maria. Dressed in red at her son's aborted wedding to Maria; and wore yellow to Maria's supposed "funeral". Had no grudge against her stepson, Luke, despite him being Maria's son, and, like William, considered him to be part of the family. |
| Jennifer Dorogi | Amanda Bhandarkar - Luke's one time fling from New York. |
| Will Beinbrink | Cop |
| Christopher del Valle | Pedro |
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