Community (TV Series) - Cast and Characters

Cast and Characters

The show focuses on an ensemble group of characters that belong to a study group in community college, as well as other faculty members.

• Joel McHale as Jeff Winger, a suspended lawyer who enrolls at Greendale after his firm discovers that he falsely claimed to have a bachelor's degree from Columbia University; it was in fact from the country Colombia. A womanizer and narcissist, he is often seen using his charm to get his way. Jeff often tricks or persuades the other members of the group to do all of the work.

• Gillian Jacobs as Britta Perry, a former anarchist activist who traveled around the world after dropping out of high school, but now trying to take her life in a new direction. At first, Britta puts up a façade, appearing intelligent and cool at the start of the series. However, as the group gets to know her and her defenses are stripped away, the charming flaws in her personality become more obvious.

• Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir, a pop-culture-obsessed Palestinian-Polish film student with an encyclopedic knowledge of TV shows and movies. Abed has trouble interacting with others, and his friends hint that he may have Aspergers. On occasion, Abed has displayed coping mechanisms to things he cannot deal with, such as seeing everything as a stop-motion animated adventure, or being convinced he is Batman. Abed is the source of much of the show's meta-humor, and he often interprets the group's everyday adventures by comparing them to TV tropes or clichés.

• Yvette Nicole Brown as Shirley Bennett, a single mother and vocal Christian going to school to start a brownie business. Shirley is seen as the "mother" of the group and often uses this to manipulate them by being passive-aggressive and appealing to their sense of guilt.

• Alison Brie as Annie Edison, the youngest of the group, a compulsive over-achiever, relentlessly organized and comparatively innocent. Despite this, Annie ends up at Greendale instead of an Ivy League school because she developed an Adderall addiction while studying for finals, earning her the nickname Annie Adderall. This led to a major breakdown and a stay in a drug rehabilitation clinic, as well as being disinherited by her parents. Annie was extremely unpopular in high-school, to the extent that even the teachers hated her and crossing guards lured her into traffic.

• Donald Glover as Troy Barnes (starring seasons 1–4, recurring season 5), a former high school star quarterback who lost his scholarship to a top-tier university when he hurt his shoulder doing a keg flip. Troy went to the same high school as Annie, but never spoke to her and did not even recognize her at the start of the series. Troy starts the series obsessed with being cool, but due to his friendship with Abed, he lets his guard down and embraces his nerdy, childish side.

• Chevy Chase as Pierce Hawthorne (seasons 1–4), a millionaire who enrolls at Greendale due to boredom. Pierce is often seen as the least liked member of the group due to his self-importance, incoherence and casual bigotry. Despite his apparent arrogance, Pierce is aware of his place in the group, and he often attempts to appear cooler, fit in, and make others like him more. In the season 4 finale Pierce finally decides to graduate and leave Greendale.

• Ken Jeong as "Señor" Ben Chang, an extremely unhinged man, originally the group's Spanish teacher until the school discovers his incompetence and lack of teaching qualification. He goes on to become a student and later a security officer for the school. Chang's insanity and loose grip on reality often lead him to take extreme action for no apparent reason. In Season 4, he claims to be suffering from "Changnesia" and goes under the name Kevin. However, it is shown that he is working for someone, only pretending to be an amnesiac, or "Changnesiac".

• Jim Rash as Dean Craig Pelton (recurring seasons 1–2, starring seasons 3–present), the dean of Greendale, who desperately wants his school to be more like a real university, and goes to excessive lengths to appear politically correct. Although his sexual orientation is left ambiguous, he is an avid cross dresser (often using some kind of thematic excuse to dress up in the costumes - usually by the way of puns) who has occasionally displayed a fetish towards Dalmatians. Dean Pelton considers the group to be his favorite students and has an obsessive crush on Jeff.