List of 7th Heaven Characters - Minor Recurring Characters

Minor Recurring Characters

• Gladys Bink (Eileen Brennan) first appears in the pilot episode, where Eric pays her to pretend that she had lost a lung, breathing on an oxygen tank, and trying to still smoke cigarettes. This trick makes Matt quit smoking. Later, she appears in "With a Little Help from My Friends", where Matt helps her with a few things around the house. But because she does not let him get her money down from a high shelf, she takes a hard fall and Matt and Eric visit her in the hospital. In "Dangerous Liaisons, Part 2" she visits Mary at the hospital and persuades Annie's father to solve the problem by using her "ways" (i.e. lying). She has been a member of the Glen Oak Community Church for many years, and has a reputation of being an excellent fundraiser. At the end of season seven, she is diagnosed with cancer and Chandler moves into her guest house to help her out. Chandler is the minister who married Gladys to her third husband Fred, though without the blessing of Fred's mother. She is the show's most-recurring character.

• Beau Brewer (Costas Mandylor) is Martin Brewer's father, who served 2 tours in Iraq. When he comes home for three days, he does not speak to Martin until the last day, uneasy because it might be their last conversation. The season ten premiere discloses that he started up a landscaping business.

• Betsy Brewer (Keri Lynn Pratt) is Martin's aunt whom he stays with in Glen Oak while his Marine dad is deployed in Iraq.

• Heather Cain (Andrea Ferrell) is a deaf girl whom Matt sees at the airport (in "Dangerous Liaisons, Part 1"). He goes over to her house and meets her and her mother, Donna (Meg Wittner). On their first date the next night, Heather runs out of the party after being teased. In "Dangerous Liaisons, Part 2," Eric "lures" Matt to a cafe where deaf people work and eat. Matt meets Heather there. They eventually apologize and say they want to get to know each other. In season two, she goes away to school in Philadelphia and breaks up with Matt. In season three, she returns and says she's getting married, but in the finale she runs off with Matt on her wedding day after learning that her fiance cheated on her. In season four, she transfers to Crawford College and sees that Matt is in a relationship with Shana Sullivan. In the season finale she tells Matt she still loves him and he breaks up with Shana. Matt and Heather decide to elope, but (in the season five premiere) it's revealed that she left him at the altar. She later tells Matt she has another boyfriend, but they eventually break up and she moves to New York. In season eight, Matt meets her on a flight to Glen Oak and she says she's divorced and going back to Glen Oak to start over, and they have dinner together as friends.

• Cheryl (Barret Swatek) is Robbie's ex-girlfriend, whom he almost marries. Cheryl also dates Matt for a short while.

• Corey Conway (Alicia Leigh Willis) first appears in "Saturday" as Mary's basketball teammate. Mary is of the few people to stand by her friend when it is revealed that she left her last school because she had a baby at 14. Corey ended up dating Mary's longtime flame Wilson West, also a teenage single parent. In the season nine episode "Fathers," we learn that they have married and become a blended family.

• Lou Dalton (Alan Fudge) works for Glen Oak Community Church. He first appears in "Faith, Hope and the Bottom Line," objecting to Eric's plan to hire an ex-convict as the new organist when Mrs. Hinkle retires. At series' end he resigns as head deacon and moves away from Glen Oak.

• Daniel (Aaron Staton) is Sandy's school friend, introduced in "Turn, Turn, Turn," who later tells Sandy he's in love with her. Upset, Sandy calls Eric for advice. In "You Take the High Road," Sandy desperately tries to break up with him.

• Frankie (Chyler Leigh) is Mary's friend and co-worker at Pete's Pizza. At Mary's age, she's already married to Johnny—who verbally and physically abuses her—and raising their daughter Mercy, but still drinking, smoking, and doing other drugs. After Frankie and Johnny gets drug-busted, Eric forbids Mary to have anything to do with them outside of work, but she is unable to comply. Frankie eventually leaves town without her family.

• Odile Hinkle (Peg Phillips) is Mrs. Bink's neighbor and best friend. In "We The People", Mrs. Hinkle provides a rest-stop for erstwhile newspaper-couriers Simon and Ruthie, then literally rides to their rescue. In "Says Who?", Mrs. Hinkle disappears, moving to a seniors' residence without informing anyone, leaving Mrs. Bink and Eric to investigate her disappearance. At one time, she was the organist for Glen Oak Community Church, but eventually retires from that position, leaving Eric to find someone else as a replacement.

• Georgia Huffington (Rheagan Wallace) is Simon's ex-girlfriend/lover. She is portrayed as the first girl that Simon had sex with. They get married when she tells Simon that she's pregnant, but it is quickly revealed to be a lie. Simon ends their relationship shortly afterwards.

• Jane (Sarah Mason) is a homeless girl who stays at the Camdens'. After her father left her mother, her mother's new live-in boyfriend, whom she meets via the Internet, threatens to harm Jane, causing her to flee. Despite not actually being pregnant, she seeks refuge at the home for teenage mothers, but Lucy turns her down, but she and her friend Margaret are soon invited to move into the Camdens' garage apartment. In "Broken Hearts and Promises," she gets a job at the Dairy Shack. "You Take the High Road" reveals that she used to be married to a soldier, but left him after he started hitting her. In "Tit for Tat," she marries Eric's adopted brother George after the conflict of her first marriage was ironed out (in "And I'll Take the Low Road"), with help from Kevin when her first husband does not show up for their divorce hearing. While arguing with T-Bone about his mother coming to see him, she blurts out Eric's heart problems on the Promenade. In "Thanks and Giving," she and T-Bone insist that a salesman donates a bed for Eric and Annie. In the series finale, she announces that her mom is in rehab (her parents used to smoke pot) and her mom's boyfriend is in jail for breaking his probation.

• Jeff (Ryan Bittle) first appears in the pilot episode. He is Matt's best friend since age six, and Mary's crush since age ten. While jogging with Lucy, Mary runs into him and he asks her if she wants help with her foul shot; Matt spies on him while the two shoot baskets. In "In the Blink of an Eye," Jeff asks Mary to go to a party, then an R-rated movie, neither of which she is allowed to attend. In "No Funerals and a Wedding," Jeff attends Mary's grandmother's memorial service at the Camdens'. Mary starts to dislike him as he has become clingy. Later, Lucy tells him that she is sorry that they broke up, even though Mary had not dumped him. When Jeff asks Mary to go steady she refuses as she would rather be his friend then date him. They then end up as friends.

• Johnny (Nathan West) is Pete's nephew and Frankie's husband, who leaves his infant daughter, Mercy, at the Camden's doorstop after Frankie leaves him. He ends up deciding to be a single parent.

• Jordan (Wade Carpenter) briefly date both Mary and Lucy. He is first seen playing basketball with Mary before the show focuses on his relationship with Lucy. When a teacher catches Lucy slapping Jordan, Mary explains that they were rehearsing a scene from Gone With the Wind. When Lucy discovers that Jordan and Mary intend to attend a co-ed sleepover for the basketball teams, she gets jealous and tries to seduce Jordan, but Mary catches them kissing and escorts her home before anything more serious can happen. In the season three finale, Jordan says he still loves Mary but does not want to hurt Lucy (who overhears). Jordan and Mary's renewed relationship creates a sibling rift; later that day the girls and their boyfriends engage in a kissing contest until Aunt Julie orders the boys to leave. Jordan disappears after this. "We don't speak of him," Mary tells Simon in season four, but when the unpleasant subject does insist on coming up, he's referred to as "Big Lips," such as in "Simon's Home Video."

• Mac (Kyle Searles) is Martin's best friend. Cecilia sets him up with Pam early on. Ruthie has a crush on him during season nine, but does little about it as he is two years older. In season 11 he rents an apartment with Jane and Margaret and falls in love with the latter. He and Margaret later begin dating.

• Margaret (Andrea Morris) is Jane's very shy friend. She gets highly emotional when Annie calls the paramedics because she thinks something is wrong with Eric. She gets a job at the Dairy Shack in "Broken Hearts and Promises." She reveals to T-Bone (in "You Take the High Road") that Jane called his mother and she is coming to see him. She later reveals her past in "And I'll Take the Low Road": Her father abused her mother and she ended up going from home to home. Unwilling to be abused for saying the wrong thing, she became shy. In "Thanks and Giving," she helps Sam and David prepare the song "This Land is Our Land" for Eric, Annie, and Ruthie's homecoming, and reveals her ambition to teach Pre-K. In the series finale, she is offered a college scholarship, but she turns it down and goes on the Camdens' road trip.

• Ms. Margo (Rachel Boston) is Sam and David's teacher who first appears in "A Pain in the Neck." When she feels attracted to Eric, Sam and David tell her that he is their grandfather. This is soon resolved, and Ms. Margo asks Eric and the twins out to dinner; Eric resists her advances and starts homeschooling his sons. When Ben hits on her the same day, she turns up at the Camdens', to Eric's annoyance.

• Mercy is Frankie and Johnny's daughter.

• Jimmy Moon (Matthew Linville) (introduced in the episode, "Family Secrets") is Lucy's first boyfriend. In the episode, "In the Blink of an Eye," he and Lucy go on their first date by watching a French film in the Camdens' living room. However, Eric messes this up by playing country songs. In "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil," he wants to break up with Lucy because of a school class president election. He later withdraws followed by Lucy because they want to stay together. In "Happy's Valentine," he takes Lucy, Simon, Nigel, Ruthie, and Lynn to the movies. He and Lucy see a separate movie (a French film) for their first Valentine's together. His grades in science start to drop, and so Lucy told Mary to tutor him in "Faith, Hope and the Bottom Line." Lucy regrets this, because she thought that Mary was going to steal her boyfriend. The issue is resolved at the end of the episode. In "It's About George..." he meets The Colonel and Grandma Ruth Camden, who he declares to be the scariest people he ever met. He breaks up with Lucy (in "Dangerous Liaisons, Part 1") after she changes her hair color. The next year, Lucy gets jealous of anyone with Jimmy Moon. She finally gets to decide between her old boyfriend and her new one. She does not get either of them. He later gets caught up in marijuana, and eventually is the defendant in a crime that Lucy is assigned to have jury duty on. He is arrested for possession of marijuana (in season three's episode "Paranoia"). And Lucy is also arrested while observing him.

• Andrew Nayloss (Will Estes) is the boy that Lucy does not like at first, but then he moves away and has a child and Lucy is heartbroken.

• Renee Nicholson (Ashlee Levitch) is introduced (in the episode, "Family Secrets") as a girl that Matt meets at the library two weeks prior, and befriends her. She is expecting a daughter with Lou. When Matt goes over to her house to talk to her, he falls asleep on her couch and does not get back until 5:15 a.m., where he is then grounded for three weeks. She later joins the Glen Oak Community Church choir, and sings a solo on Sunday. She goes into labor in "No Funerals and a Wedding".

• Pete (James Keane) is Johnny's uncle; the owner of Pete's Pizza.

• Paris Petrowski (Shannon Kenny) is Peter Petrowski's mother. Paris dated once Ben Kinkirk, Lucy's brother-in-law. Later she goes out with Chandler and it seems they will stay together, until her ex-husband appears. She decides to give him another chance and they move away. Later on it is told that she is pregnant and she and her ex are married again.

• Mike Pierce (Jeremy Lelliott) is Lucy's ex-boyfriend who tries to commit suicide from a drug and alcohol combination and as a result, his mother becomes severely depressed and despondent until he helps talk her out of it with Lucy's help.

• Dr. Jonathan Sanders (Nick Zano) is a doctor whom Sandy dates (in season 11). He then proposes to her in which she says "yes." This causes a conflict between Sandy and Martin.

• George Smith (Brad Maule) is Cecilia's father. He never marries his wife, and never tells Cecilia this fact. After twenty years, Eric marries them in his office. He and his wife eventually become foster parents to the Davis children. He owns a cleaning business which Simon and Cecelia both work at.

• Deena Stewart (Nicole Cherié Saletta) is Simon's first girlfriend. She eventually moves back east with her family. In the season five episode "Chances", she comes back, and she and Simon start dating again for a while.

• Stanley Sunday (Keith David) is a homeless man seen in the promenade. He is first seen at the hospital, where he goes in for testing. Lucy is supposed to visit him, but she cannot make it, and Eric goes in her place. Stanley ends up convincing Eric to give him his coat, although Eric is hesitant. He appears in the next episode where Kevin goes to him to get some information about what Eric did at the hospital. Stanley convinces Kevin to give up his shoes and pants. In "You Don't Know What You've Got 'Til He's Gone" Stanley encounters Eric just as he is leaving to go home and asks him if he asked God to let him live. In "Christmas!" it is revealed that Stanley is one of Eric's guardian angels. He is there when Eric was brought to heaven. In the series finale, he joins Eric and the family on their RV.

• Theodore "T-Bone" Jr. (Colton James) is a 16-year-old who works as the ticket vendor at the movie theater in the promenade. He is introduced in And Tonight's Specials Are... when he had pizza with Lucy, which upset Kevin. Two months prior to his stay at the Camdens, T-Bone breaks into Glen Oak Community Church to sleep and use the bathroom, since his father is dead, and his mother ran away. Upon staying at the Camdens, T-Bone told Eric that he vaguely knows about what is going on with his health. In "You Take the High Road" he stays at Kevin and Lucy's while Eric and Annie are on a trip to seen Ruthie in Scotland. In "Thanks and Giving," he and Jane insist that a salesman donate a bed for Eric and Annie. They both like it, not knowing it was donated. In "You Don't Know What You've Got 'Til He's Gone" he reveals that he likes Ruthie and kisses her. Eric and Annie are glad that Ruthie has found a possible boyfriend, of whom they approve of. In "Can I Just Get Something to Eat" he works with Ruthie on a research project about Darfur. In "Deacon Blues," he and Ruthie discuss the topic of having sex. Kevin tells him not to do it, and when Annie finds out, they are stopped. In "Tit for Tat" Ruthie convinces him to get tattoos. He does, but only a small one on his ankle. He warns Ruthie that he has a fear of sharp objects. T-bone's earlier-mentioned father, who is supposedly dead, shows up (in Season 11) and convinces T-bone to go on a road trip with him. T-bone graduates from high school, and goes on the road trip with the Camden family to meet up with his dad.

• Umberto (Fidel Gomez) is Rose's ex-boyfriend who almost marries Rose. He keeps on trying to get Rose back while she is preparing to marry Simon.

• George "Vick" Vickery (Bryan Callen) is Peter's father, who is a recovering alcoholic. He works as a college art teacher.

• Vincent (Thomas Dekker) is Ruthie's boyfriend after Peter. He broke up with her twice.

• Rick Palmer (Lance Bass) is Robbie's younger brother. He goes on a date with a Lucy and they end up making out on a street corner and Eric sees them.

• Brett (Matt Farnsworth) is Shana's roommate and eventual boyfriend. He first appears in "Loves Me, Loves Me Not". He kisses her after Shana and Matt have a fight. He follows Shana out to Glen Oak when she came back for the summer.

• Wilson West (Andrew Keegan) first appears in "Dangerous Liaisons, Part 1." He meets Mary when she is at the park with Ruthie, and asks her out. At first, Eric tries to do anything he can to prevent their date, but he later finds out that he knows his father. Wilson takes Mary to Eddie's Pool Hall where they play pinball and pool. Michael Towner and a couple of his friends harass him, which ends his date with Mary. He comes to church the following Sunday where he apologizes to Mary. He has a son called Billy, whose mother died in childbirth before Mary met them both. In "Dangerous Liaisons, Part 2," Mary's parents find out about Wilson being a father. Mary dates Wilson a number of times, including when she is sent to Buffalo, to live with her grandparents, they are serious and for a time discuss marriage and Billy wants to call Mary mom, but they break up when Wilson catches her kissing Ben. Wilson eventually decides to move back to Glen Oak after meeting and eventually marrying Corey Conway, one of Mary's old basketball teammates who has a daughter.