Protagonists, antagonists and the supporting cast, across the franchise. Search by name, alias, crew or voice performer, and filter by game, era, role or affiliation.
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Lazlow
A radio presenter the franchise has followed for two decades, from a Liberty City talk show through a Vice City rock station to whatever will still book him in Los Santos.
The other Forelli man on that trip, and the other one who does not leave the dock.
Chunky Lee
A Liberty City Triad running a Chinatown noodle stand as a front for Colombian Cartel SPANK, which is what makes him a Leone target rather than a competitor.
An Ocean Beach chef taking contract work from Mr. Black on the side. Tommy Vercetti kills him in an alley and starts answering his payphone.
A police detective on the Leone payroll who treats his badge as a second income stream and expects Toni to fund it.
The planner behind the crew's largest scores. Physically frail and technically formidable, he is the reason a job that should be impossible turns out to have a route through it.
A private investigator Hsin Jaoming hires to find the FIB informant inside the Triads, who works the case with Huang Lee and has to blend in with the Angels of Death to do it.
Master of Arms for Kenny Lee's side of the Triads, working out of a Chinatown massage parlour that fronts for something else. She is the one who teaches Huang to fight, and she turns down everything else he offers.
Jacob Hughes
A Jamaican gun dealer out of Dukes who becomes the steadiest friend Niko makes in Liberty City, and the one most likely to answer a phone at four in the morning.
A Rollin' Heights Balla whose funeral, rather than whose life, is the thing the story uses him for.
Phil Cassidy's sister, trying to get herself and her daughter away from a husband who will not allow it.
Lucia learned to fight before she learned much else, and defending her family is what put her inside the Leonida Penitentiary. She comes out with a plan and no intention of going back — after the life her mother has been describing since their Liberty City days, and done waiting to be given it.
A Leone club owner in Portland with a permanent interest in expanding his side of the business and a permanent shortage of anybody willing to help him do it.
Luis Lopez
Bodyguard and business partner to a nightclub owner whose empire is collapsing under its own debts. Competent, exhausted, and pulled between the club, his family in Northwood and everyone owed money.
Toni's mother, who runs the family restaurant and measures her son against a father he cannot compete with, loudly and in public.
The singer of a Manchester band on a San Andreas tour, in a condition that makes the tour a containment exercise rather than a schedule.
Los Santos's biggest rapper, destroyed by the loss of his manager and his lyrics, and rebuilt by the man who took both.
Head of the Uptown Riders, an Algonquin motorcycle club with nothing in common with The Lost except the machines, and Johnny Klebitz's most reliable ally outside his own patch.
Roman Bellic's girlfriend, and the reason Niko meets half the people he works for in Liberty City — every early introduction runs through her rather than through Roman.
A former street figure turned community campaigner, filming a documentary about his own redemption while it is still going on.
A Mexican-American whose family has lived in the country for two hundred years, detained by Joe and Josef anyway, and not inclined to let it go.
Head of the Forelli family six years after Sonny's death, and one of the three signatures on Caligula's Palace. Salvatore Leone sends Carl to Liberty City to remove him from the arrangement.
Salvatore's wife, bored of the marriage and reckless enough to make that everybody else's problem. Her lies about who she is seeing set most of GTA III's second act in motion.
Marlene Allen
A young woman who came to Liberty City to act and is panhandling in Algonquin instead, asking Niko for the fare home.
A cartel figure whose patience the crew exhausts early and expensively. Everything he considers owed to him, he collects.
Owner of a failing dog food factory in Trenton who works through his creditors, his wife and her lover in that order, and puts every one of them through the machinery.
A trailer-park operator running protection, laundry and his wife's life, and the first person Victor takes a business from.
A fitness obsessive training for races and a triathlon, furious with everybody and insistent that she is not.
A consigliere sent from Sicily to reorganise Liberty City's families, which in practice means setting all of them against each other.
A bounty broker living in a trailer in Grapeseed, who gives out fugitives to bring back.
The owner of the Cherry Popper Ice Cream Factory, which sells rather less ice cream than its fleet of vans would suggest, and who sells the whole thing to Tommy Vercetti.
The McReary mother, holding a family together on church and appearances while four of her five children work the other side of it.
A former army research chief with three doctorates, in prison for espionage, whom an intelligence handler needs out.
One of the drinkers around Vlad Glebov in Comrades Bar, met again later trying to settle what he ran up there.
A well-connected fixer who trades favours across every faction in the city and never quite explains which one she is working for.
Big Smoke
The friendliest man on Grove Street and the one who sold it. His route from the set's elder statesman to the crack trade's chief beneficiary is the story's spine.
The colonel's daughter, entirely uninterested in the life he has arranged for her and better connected in Vice City's nightlife than he is.
Michael Townley
A retired bank robber living in Rockford Hills under a name a federal deal gave him after a job in North Yankton went wrong. Nine years of a pool, a therapist and a family who cannot stand him end the moment an old life finds him again.
Karen · Karen Daniels
Introduced to Niko Bellic as a date arranged by Mallorie, and working for a government office that does not put its name on anything.
A qualified mechanic with her own garage in San Fierro, met at the driving school in Doherty and interested in one thing more than she is in Carl.
A Leone enforcer who works alongside Toni Cipriani rather than over him, and one of the few people in the family who is straightforward about what the job is.
A Colombian Cartel lieutenant and Catalina's second, who ends up on the wrong side of both of the people he has worked for.
Martin Madrazo's son, working against his father's interests and financing the trip to Cayo Perico that follows from it.
A small-time Liberty City criminal working one last stretch of jobs with his partner Vinnie, on the understanding that the two of them leave the city afterwards. Vinnie's death in a car bombing ends that plan and starts the story.
An enforcer who worked for Ricardo Diaz and stayed on the payroll after Tommy Vercetti took the mansion.
Lips Forelli
A Forelli capo eating lunch in Saint Mark's while the Leones decide he is a problem, and the reason Joey Leone hands out a car bomb rather than a delivery.
A government operative who conscripts Carl into work nobody will ever admit happened, and is the only person in the state able to get Sweet out of prison.
A Broker crime boss whose paranoia and appetites have outrun his judgement, and who gives orders nobody can carry out without starting a war.
The sitting Mayor of Liberty City, and the obstacle every favour Donald Love asks of Toni is meant to remove.
A croupier at Caligula's Palace with a house in Prickle Pine, and the keycard the casino heist is built around. Carl gets to it by killing the gimp she keeps and posing as him.
One of Luigi Goterelli's girls in the Red Light District, and Joey Leone's — which is how the first errands in Grand Theft Auto III come to be driving her between the two of them.
Devin Weston's lawyer and fixer, loyal considerably past the point of sense.
Isaac Roth's partner in the diamond trade, and the man actually holding the case when the museum meeting goes wrong.
Brucie's older brother, who spends every conversation reminding everybody present that he is the successful one.
A voice on a payphone and never anything more than that. He pays for killings on behalf of associates he does not name, and nobody in Vice City sees him.
Runs the haulage depot in Flint County and has known Catalina long enough not to ask what is on the truck. The depot becomes one of Carl's earning assets.
Trevor's mother, out of prison, and exactly as indifferent to him as he remembers.
A British tourist collecting stolen Vinewood memorabilia with Nigel, while a husband and two children wait for her in England.
A Liberty Tree journalist working for Donald Love, who reports the stories he has been sent to create.
Mrs. Thornhill's companion on a Los Santos holiday spent stalking celebrities, and the one who asks Trevor to do the stealing.