List of The L Word Cast Members - Guest Appearances

Guest Appearances

The following is an alphabetical list of actors who made a guest appearance on The L Word.

• Anne Archer as Lenore (in season one), Alice's vain actress mother.
• Rosanna Arquette as Cherie Jaffe (season one and three), a "Hollywood wife" with whom Shane had a romantic fling.
• The rock band The B-52's (season two) as themselves.
• Sandra Bernhard as Charlotte Birch (season two), the college professor of Jenny's creative writing class.
• The rock band Betty as themselves (seasons two & three). They also wrote/performed the theme song used since season two and a number of tracks for the musical score.
• Élodie Bouchez as Claude (season three), a French writer that becomes romantically involved with Jenny.
• Kate Clinton as Dr. Farber, a lesbian sex therapist to Bette and Tina.
• Alan Cumming as Billy Blaikie (season three), drug addicted manager of The Planet and brief lover of Max.
• Lolita Davidovich as Francesca Wolff (season one), Marina's lover.
• Ossie Davis (his final acting role; seasons one and two) as Bette and Kit's conservative father, Melvin Porter.
• Dana Delany as Barbara Grisham (season three), a Senator (and closeted lesbian) from Massachusetts who hits on Bette.
• Holly Dignard as Chandra
• Snoop Dogg as rapper Slim Daddy (season one) for whom Kit appears in a music video.
• Charles S. Dutton as the motivational speaker Benjamin Bradshaw (season two) who becomes romantically involved with Kit.
• Steven Eckholdt as Henry (season three), a divorced father that becomes Tina's first boyfriend after breaking up with Bette.
• Andrew Francis as Howie Fairbanks, brother of Dana who comes out at the Gay Pride Parade.
• Tony Goldwyn as Burr Connor, a closeted Hollywood actor.
• Lisa Gay Hamilton (season one) as a nameless art show attendee that attends Bette's show in New York.
• The rock band Heart as themselves.
• Alexandra Hedison as Dylan (season three), a documentary director that becomes Helena Peabody's love interest, and later her sexual harassment plaintiff.
• Nona Hendryx as herself
• Sandrine Holt as Catherine Rothberg (season four), a sleezy poker playing lesbian who cons Helena Peabody.
• Arianna Huffington as herself (season two)
• Elizabeth Keener as Dawn Denbo, the owner of Shebar and Kit's nemesis when she ultimately buys out Ivan's share of The Planet.
• Sharon Isbin as herself
• Kristanna Loken as Paige Sobel, Jared's single mom and Shane's fling.
• Irene López as Mercedes Morales, Carmen's mother (season three)
• Dr. Susan Love as herself
• Jane Lynch as Joyce Wischnia, a gay-rights attorney who represents Tina and Bette in several cases and fiancee of Phyllis Kroll.
• Kelly Lynch as Ivan Aycock (seasons one and two) a transman who romances Kit and helps with her alcohol recovery.
• Brian Markinson as Aaron Kornbluth (season four, five and six), exective in Shaolin Productions, superior of Tina during the film-making Lez Girls
• Mei Malancon as Jaime Chen, third wheel of Alice and Tasha.
• Camryn Manheim as Veronica Bloom (season two), the egotistical and hot-tempered movie producer who hires Shane as her assistant.
• Heather Matarazzo as Stacy Merkin, a journalist and nemesis of Jenny Schecter.
• Meredith McGeachie as Tonya (seasons one, two, and three), Dana's celebrity-obsessed temporary fiancée and manager.
• Kelly McGillis as Col. Gillian Davis, prosecutor for Tasha's homosexual misconduct case.
• Tammy Lynn Michaels as Lacey, Shane's stalker (season one)
• Ion Overman as Candace Jewell, a carpenter at CAC who has an affair with Bette.
• Dan Payne as a policeman (pilot episode)
• The singer Peaches as herself
• Anne E. Ramsey as Robyn, Jenny's fling who is ultimately dumped.
• Lucia Rijker as Dusty, Helena's cellmate (season five) and as Dana's trainer (season two)
• Melissa Rivers as herself (season two)
• Eric Roberts as Gabriel McCutcheon, Shane's dysfunctional father (seasons three and four)
• Julian Sands as Nick Barashkov (season one), Jenny's former college professor of Russian literature.
• Helen Shaver as Fay Buckley (season one), the leader of an extreme right-wing activist group bent on shutting down Bette's art gallery.
• Russell Simmons as himself (season three)
• The rock band Sleater-Kinney as themselves
• Lauren Lee Smith as Lara Perkins (seasons one, two and three), a chef and lover of Dana and later Alice.
• Cybill Shepherd as Phyllis "Heads Will Roll" Kroll, the university chancellor and late bloomer lesbian; lover of Alice and Joyce.
• Gloria Steinem as herself (season two)
• Holland Taylor as Peggy Peabody (seasons one, two and three), Helena's mother and multi-millionaire tycoon.
• The indie-pop band Tegan and Sara as themselves
• Guinevere Turner as Gabby Deveaux (seasons one and two), Alice's hot and cold recurrent girlfriend.
• The indie-pop band The Organ as themselves.
• Patricia Velásquez as Begoña, an immigrant actress (season five)
• Alicia Leigh Willis as Cindi Tucker, Dawn's lover and Shane's fling.
• The electro band Goldfrapp