Primary Antagonists (Villains)
| Character | Actor | Seasons | Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Escobar Gallardo | Robert LaSardo | 1, 2, 4, 6 | A ruthless, violent, and somewhat Scarface-esque drug lord from South America who the doctors become entangled with during season one. Has a thing for 1980s music and ultimately blackmailed Sean and Christian into giving him a new face so he could leave the drug business behind and start over again. Instead, Sean and Christian gave him the face of another wanted criminal and he was arrested at the airport while attempting to flee the country. Appeared briefly in a dream in the Season 2 finale, encouraging Sean to kill the Carver. He also appeared in Season 4 as a hallucination of Sean's, encouraging him to repeat his sexual exploits with a young babysitter. Apparently has taken on the symbolic role of Sean's inner voice for aggressive behavior. Later, Escobar convinces Christian and Sean to restore his original face. He then breaks out of security while in the clinic, and kills his accomplice to remove a threat to Sean and Christian. It is revealed later in the season that James LeBeau has been working for him. In the fourth season finale, he is killed by his greedy and long-abused wife, Gala Gallardo, so she could take over his drug dealing business all for herself. (deceased) |
| Ava Moore | Famke Janssen | 2, 3, 6 | A life coach who routinely manipulates and uses her clients for her own twisted amusement. Hired by Sean to fix his marriage to Julia, only to seduce their son Matt and reveal Christian as Matt's biological father (a result of Julia's one night stand with Christian while she was engaged to Sean and still attending medical school). At the end of season two, Ava was revealed to be transsexual. She had left her husband/doctor before completing genital surgery; Ava was able to barter with Sean and Christian to perform one last surgery to complete her medical transition in exchange for her ending her relationship with Matt. Stepmother to Adrian Moore and was married to Dr. Barrett Moore. Also known as Avery Tanner. Fled to Paris, France to avoid being implicated in her adopted son's murder. Appeared for a surprise visit in the final two episodes when she came back to Mcnamara/Troy after a long hiatus, having a little deformed baby boy with her that she adopted when she was in Paris. She needs Dr.Troy & Dr. McNamara to do an immediate cosmetic surgery on her newly adopted baby because he was not perfect, all this made the past begin to reform. Sean and Christian refused to do the surgery. Ava, frustrated with their decision, decided to ask how Matt has been. Sean tells Ava he's fine and is getting married, seeing Matt's Wedding Invitation on the table as she leaves McNamara/Troy, Ava takes the invitation so she could make a surprising visit to Matt and his fiancee. Ava surprises Matt at a clothing store after following him, Matt being very ecstatic and suspicious to see her there wondering why she came back and telling her he thinks about her all the time but he's getting married to someone he loves. Ava notices Jenna and immediately becomes wide eyed saying she is the most perfect and most beautiful girl she has ever seen. Later on, Sean says he will do the surgery for Ava's baby, amazed with excitement Ava thanks Sean. Once the surgery is done, Ava says she does not want the baby when she learns some of his scars will remain permanently, making him an outcast just as Ava used to be. In the final episode, we see Matt, Jenna, and Ava headed on a plane together to start a new life together. |
| The Carver | Bruno Campos | 2–3 | A mysterious psychopath, masked serial rapist/killer known as The Carver, who disfigures his victims by cutting a deep slash on either side of their mouths, resembling a smile. Sean McNamara, Christian Troy, Kit McGraw, Kimber Henry and Quentin Costa were the principal characters who fell victim to the Carver attacks. The identity of the Carver was revealed during the Season 3 finale. Currently living somewhere in Europe under a new identity. |
| James LeBeau | Jacqueline Bisset | 4 | A ruthless businesswoman and extortionist who knows Michelle Landau; the trophy wife of Sean and Christian's new boss. She apparently seems to have some kind of sexual relationship with her. Michelle Landau worked under her as an escort to pay her way through medical school. James is also the mastermind of an organ theft ring that targeted Liz, and she uses Michelle as a decoy for this purpose. It is revealed that James herself has a boss: Escobar Gallardo. James later kills herself in front of Michelle, rather than turn Wilber's kidneys over to Escobar. (deceased) |
| Eden Lord | AnnaLynne McCord | 5 | An 18-year old high school student who is the daughter of Julia's girlfriend, Olivia Lord. She comes to Sean's office, requesting to get her hymen repaired. When she noticed Sean squirming, she tries to get him to have sex with her but he rejects her and she leaves. She later shows up at Sean's house and finds out she's Olivia's daughter. She's revealed to be a brutal sociopath who uses her charms to get what she wants. She begins becoming friends with Sean's daughter, Annie. Eden tells Annie that she's fat and convinces her to commit bulimia. She later tries to help Annie get a boy. Later, Annie gets expelled from school for giving her crush a blowjob in a bathroom stall. Sean finds out Eden was behind this and confronts her. Eden later blackmails Christian to give her gay friend an operation by threatening to reveal to Sean his affair with Julia. Christian gives her weight loss pills and tells Olivia and Julia she stole them. Julia and Olivia then decide to send Eden to rehab. When Eden comes back from rehab, she tells Sean about the affair but Sean doesn't believe her, Eden later tells Sean that she lied and kisses Sean and admits she likes him. She later has sex with Sean as "a get it out of our system screw". Sean later enlists the help of his costar, Aidan to get Eden back. Aidan tells Sean to just ignore her and it works. Eden agrees to have sex with Sean again, but during sex, Sean has a nervous breakdown from ecstasy. Sean then tells Julia and Christian about his affair with Eden and breaks up with her. Afterwards, she gets Aidan fired from the show by having sex with him in front of a camera, then posted the sex tape online. She then attempted to kill Julia by putting mercury in a fruitcake. Julia had an illness and finds out Eden poisoned her. Eden decides to kill her and shoots her with her own gun. She later tells everyone that Julia committed suicide. Julia survives but doesn't remember Eden shot her. Eden later finds out her mother, Olivia died and tosses her ashes on Sean and Julia. She later enters the adult film industry and stars in a movie with Kimber. Eden tells Kimber to hit her, but instead, Kimber punches her in the face. Eden comes to Sean, hoping that he'd help her. Sean fixes her eye and Eden tells him that she doesn't want to do another movie but has a contract. She asks Sean to help her get out of her contract. Eden later admits to Sean she loves him and wants to get back together with him but Sean rejects her due to their age difference. Sean later confronts Ram about how to get Eden out of her contract. Ram tells him that if he does some surgery on some of his older clients and Eden's free. Sean does the surgery but Eden revealed that she never wanted out of her contract and was using him to get free surgery. Eden later runs away with her new lover, Ram Peters to become a porn star. |
| Colleen Rose | Sharon Gless | 5 | A hyper-tempered, psychopath talent agent working with Sean due to his role in Hearts & Scalpels. The legitimacy of her practice is brought into question by her lack of familiarity with CAA and her false claims of representing various actors. When a CAA agent meets her at her apartment and sees through her scam, she murders him by filling him with cotton and turning his features into a teddy bear. It's revealed that she runs a teddy bear kiosk at a mall and is confirmed to be an unlicensed agent. When Sean discovers the truth and fires her, she shows up at his apartment with her wrists slit. Later, after being rejected again, she leaves the body of the agent in Sean's apartment. Later, in disguise, she sneaks into the practice and stabs Sean in the back while he is operating on Annie, only to get stabbed and killed by Sean despite being gravely wounded. Every time Colleen Rose appears on camera, the sinister theme music from the movie The Exorcist can be heard in the background. Tim Stack describes her as an "obsessed teddy-bear enthusiast." (deceased) |
| Dr. Theodora 'Teddy' Rowe | Katee Sackhoff (Season 5) Rose McGowan (Season 6) | 5–6 | A new anesthesiologist hired by Sean and Christian at their new L.A. practice. Romantically involved with Sean, she soon convinces him to marry her in the season 6 premiere. Although Sean has no idea that Teddy is in fact a "Black Widow," (a female serial killer who marries men and later kills them) and was living a double life. As revealed in the Season 5 finale, Teddy was going by the alias "Dixie" in a small Las Vegas plastic surgery firm. She married the owner, Harlan, but soon killed him—presumably for his money. Teddy then focused on Sean and proving to stop at nothing to get at his health insurance money. During a camping trip with Sean, Annie and Connor, Teddy tries to kill all of them by drugging them with sleeping pills and flooding the camper with carbon monoxide. However, Annie wakes up (having not eaten the drugged smores) and manages to wake her father up who manages to break the door down and get them out. Teddy walked off and encountered a nearby camper who turned out to be another serial killer (a man who kills women). Teddy was attacked by him and runs back to Sean to find the trailer empty and her attacker behind her. Sean is later called by the police, who find a human heart in the forest nearby who's DNA matches blood from Teddy's hair. The attacker is later pulled over for a routine traffic violation and is arrested when he is found with bloodied hands... and Teddy's severed head in his car trunk. Sean later learns that Teddy intentionally tried to kill him and his children, and had preyed on and murdered four other doctors in the past as well. Before attempting to commit suicide, Sean dumps Teddy's ashes into a trash can and throws his wedding ring in after it. (deceased) |
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