2 Broke Girls

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• Kat Dennings as Maxine "Max" George Black, one of the waitresses at the Williamsburg Diner. She is a poor working-class girl who had a rough childhood in Hope, Rhode Island, and an equally rough adult life, driven by both poverty and being raised by a mother who was usually absent and dangerously incompetent when she was around. Han initially allowed her to sell homemade cupcakes in the diner, which led to her going forward with Caroline's idea to go into the cupcake business. Max is street-smart, tends to deliver insults with a smile, and often pokes fun at her own promiscuity, large breasts, and indulgence in marijuana. She always wears knee-high brown leather boots while waitressing. She is co-godmothers with Caroline to Barbara Kaczyński-Golishevsky.
• Beth Behrs as Caroline Wesbox Channing, a waitress at the Williamsburg Diner. She is a tall, blond, formerly rich high-society girl and University of Pennsylvania Wharton graduate who lost all of her money when her father was arrested and thrown in jail for a Ponzi scheme. She is forced to start over and becomes Max's co-worker, roommate, and eventual best friend. She comes up with the idea of starting a cupcake business with Max. Despite being spoiled since birth and then losing her money, Caroline is kind and optimistic, though high-maintenance at times. She is sometimes very dim-witted. Caroline always wears large pearl necklaces with her waitress uniform, as well as high-heeled shoes. She is co-godmothers with Max to Barbara Kaczyński-Golishevesky.
• Garrett Morris as Earl Washington, the elderly cashier who has worked at the Williamsburg Diner since 1962, or 1989, and a former jazz musician with a love of marijuana and gambling. Max is very close to him, and frequently says that she wishes he was her father. By season six, Earl is starting to show signs of memory loss.
• Jonathan Kite as Vanko Oleg Golishevsky, a Ukrainian cook at the Williamsburg Diner. He sexually harasses Max and Caroline constantly with inappropriate jokes, innuendo, and propositions for sex, but his behavior is benign and easily ignored. He later develops an attraction to Sophie, and has a sex-only relationship with her. At the end of season two, Oleg cheated on Sophie, leading her to angrily break up with him off-screen before the third-season premiere. In season four, the two reconcile and get engaged and then married. In the sixth-season premiere, they have a baby daughter named Barbara Kaczyński-Golishevsky.
• Matthew Moy as Han Margaret Lee, the owner of the Williamsburg Diner. He is constantly a target for jokes involving his height, his effeminate mannerisms in spite of his claims of being heterosexual, and his lack of knowledge of American culture. He is originally from South Korea and he references his parents and his home country often.
• Jennifer Coolidge as Zofia "Sophie" Kaczyński, a feisty blonde buxom Polish woman who owns a cleaning company, lives in the apartment above the girls, and often regales them with stories about her sex life and growing up in Communist Poland. She does not like Caroline as much as she does Max, but invests in their cupcake business in season two. She always sits in a booth that she considers her own. She was involved in a relationship with Oleg during seasons two and three, gets engaged to him in season four, marries him in the finale, and during season five becomes pregnant with their first child. In the sixth-season premiere, they have a baby girl that they name Barbara Kaczyński-Golishevsky.

  Recurring

• Chestnut is Caroline's horse, one of the few things she was able to keep from her old life prior to her father's business scandal. During the first season, Chestnut lived full-time in the garden of Max's apartment, until Max convinced Caroline to have Peach adopt and stable him so that he could endure the winter weather. At the end of the season, Max goes back to Peach and gets him back. In season two, the girls enlist the help of two Amish boys to convert the garden into a barn as a permanent home for Chestnut. He appears in all seasons. He is portrayed by a horse named Rocky.
• Brooke Lyons as Peach Landis, a high-society mother who acts like the most clueless version of exactly that. She has two babies, Brad and Angelina, whom Max babysits. Peach fired Max from that job to appease an awful friend of hers after a cupcake-catering mishap, and after she begged Max to return full-time, Max decided that she would only return in a part-time capacity. She has not been seen or heard from since, and the show has made it clear Max no longer has any association with her.
• Nick Zano as Johnny, Max's on-again-off-again love interest. He told Max he broke up with Cashandra and that he was about to marry a woman he met just a week earlier, in the season-one finale. He was not seen again until the Season 2 episode "And the Big Opening," in which he and Max had sex. They both agreed that they only wanted each other when they were taken by another person. He left at the end of that episode, promising her he would see her again someday.
• Ryan Hansen as "Candy" Andy, a candy-store owner whose business was across from the cupcake store, and Caroline's love interest in season two. In season five, Andy returns to Williamsburg and invites Caroline and Max to his wedding, where he marries Romy, a hat designer. The season-six episode "And the Rock Me on the Dais" reveals Andy divorced Romy, and is also quite wealthy.
• Federico Dordei as Luis, a flamboyant man who becomes the new day waiter in the third-season episode "And the Group Head". He is attracted to Oleg.
• Gilles Marini as Nicolas Saintcroix, a French "master baker" who owns and teaches at the Manhattan School of Pastry; he was Caroline's love interest until she realized he is married in "And the French Kiss". His wife and he have an "open relationship" and his wife even gives Caroline permission to sleep with Nicolas, but Caroline refuses because she does not want to sleep with a married man. He later moves back to France to be with his wife, thus the Manhattan School of Pastry closes.
• Mary Lynn Rajskub as Bebe, a neurotic pastry chef who works at the front desk of the Manhattan School of Pastry. She later moves to Canada, claiming that "they" have found her.
• Eric André as Deacon "Deke" Bromberg, a sarcastic half-black/half-Jewish student at the pastry school who quickly becomes Max's friend, lover, and later ex-boyfriend. He is the second person to whom Max says "I love you". Despite living in a renovated dumpster, he is later revealed to be rich, his parents owning a large elevator company. However, when he contemplates making a stand against his parents after they objected to his relationship with Max, Max drugs him so Caroline and she can push his dumpster in front of his parents' house, Max knowing that Deke would be unable to cope with being genuinely poor. In "And the Wedding Cake Cake Cake", Max reveals that she and Deke are no longer together.
• Patrick Cox as John, a large, homosexual, bald man who shared a table in the pastry school classroom with Max, who nicknames him "Big Mary". They later worked together at The High.
• Sandra Bernhard as Joedth , the lesbian owner of The High, a boutique restaurant where Max and Caroline start working.
• Austin Falk as Nashit "Nash", a handsome new waiter at The High, later hired by Han to be a dishwasher at the diner. He returns home to Ireland when his mother shows up to get him, also revealing that Nash is not yet 18.
• Ed Quinn as Randy Walsh, a lawyer who becomes Max's lover while the girls are in Hollywood to discuss the film adaptation of Caroline's life story. He later breaks up their relationship before she leaves town, saying that he likes her too much and knows how long-distance relationships usually end, but he then follows her to New York and they briefly continue the relationship. He returns at the end of season six to open a permanent office in New York, and proposes to Max. She accepts.
• Christopher Gorham as Bobby is a contractor who helps rebuild the dessert bar after a storm, and soon becomes Caroline's love interest.

  Special guest stars

• Renée Taylor as Hinda Fagel
• Martha Stewart as herself
• Steven Weber as Martin Channing, Caroline's father, who is currently in prison for a Ponzi scheme he masterminded.
• Cedric the Entertainer as Darius, Earl's estranged son.
• Caroline Aaron as Wiga, a psychic whom Caroline visits for a reading about her future love life.
• 2 Chainz as himself
• Andy Dick as J. Petto, a puppeteer who slips on a cupcake at Max and Caroline's cupcake shop and tries to sue them over his damaged puppet. He returns in the season-six premiere to thwart the girls' attempts to obtain a liquor license.
• Missi Pyle as Charity Channing, Caroline's rich and abusive aunt. She refused to give Max and Caroline a loan for their failing business, and later admitted that Caroline's claims to their parents that Charity was abusive to her were accurate.
• Debra Wilson as Delores, an exhausted employee at the temporary agency where Max and Caroline worked. Her catchphrase, "Let me give you a 'for instance'", was used throughout the episode to illustrate violations to company policies.
• Kym Whitley as Shirley
• Piers Morgan as himself
• Kyle Gass as an SFX operator
• Karen Maruyama as Su-Min Lee, Han's mother
• Jeff Garlin as David, Deke's father
• Sheryl Lee Ralph as Genet, Deke's mother
• Lindsay Lohan as Claire Guinness, a soon-to-be-bride who asks Max and Caroline to make her wedding cake but drives them crazy with her inability to make decisions.
• Hal Linden as Lester. Lester is the real named tenant of Max and Caroline's apartment. He originally plans to evict them, then says he will let them stay if Max sleeps with him, and finally is conned into letting them renew their lease for several years.
• Kim Kardashian West as herself
• Jesse Metcalfe as Sebastian, Max's brief fling. He works as a DJ at a grocery chain and Max cannot get over how embarrassing his job is.
• Valerie Harper as Nola Anderz, a regular customer at the diner who is actually a successful photographer.
• Ellie Reed as Claire
• Caroline Rhea as Bonnie, a randy flight attendant at the airport where the second branch of The High is located.
• Martha Hunt as herself
• Lily Aldridge as herself
• Judith Roberts as Astrid, Caroline's grandmother who awakens from a coma with no knowledge of her family's massive money scandal.
• Jackée Harry as Ruby, a jazz singer-turned-night club owner who was once involved with Earl until his drug habit drove her away.
• George Hamilton as Bob
• Darin Brooks as Frank, Bobby's bowling team-mate
• John Michael Higgins as Elliot, Randy's therapist
• Noah Mills as Robbie, Max's womanizing, alcoholic lover
• Mercedes Ruehl as Olga, Oleg's Ukrainian mother
• Telma Hopkins as Pilar
• French Stewart as Mr. Bronsk.
• Chad Michaels as a Cher impersonator
• RuPaul as himself
• Brandon Jones as Jebediah, an Amish man building Chestnut's barn

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