List of Drop Dead Diva characters
This article lists the cast and characters in the American fantasy legal television series Drop Dead Diva, which debuted on Lifetime July 12, 2009.
Cast
Jane Bingum and Stacy Barrett
Jane's guardian angels
Harrison & Parker employees
Other legal professionals
Jane's family
Other supporting characters
Celebrity guest stars
Many celebrities have made guest appearances on the show.| Actor | Character | Episode | Notes |
| Paula Abdul | Herself | 5 | She appears in some of Jane's dream sequences. |
| Candice Accola | Jessica Orlando | "Begin Again" | Sister of Tina Orlando; see Mackenzie Mauzy. Member of fictional band Confetti accused of murdering their agent. She made a deal with the ADA to plead guilty in exchange for testifying against her sister. Jessica was represented by Vanessa Hemmings. |
| Clay Aiken | Tyler Callahan | "Prom" | One of Irina's ex-husbands whom was involved with her in a scam to rip off Hank from his money. Though he claimed he was unemployed, Grayson was able to prove his guilt that lead to Callahan confessing. |
| Louis Van Amstel | Himself | "The Wedding" | |
| Diedrich Bader | Wallace Haft | "The Chinese Wall" | |
| Lance Bass | Jamie | "Prom" | |
| Amanda Bearse | Judge Jodi Corliss | 2 | Judge Corliss presided over two cases. One of which involved a mail order bride scam to rip off Hank "see Tyler Callahan". |
| Brigid Brannagh | Molly Hagen | "Secret Lives" | Molly is a woman whose deadbeat husband wins a fortune at a casino, only to hide it from her while filing for a quickie divorce. |
| Delta Burke | Tessa Wells | "Make Me a Match" | One of two sisters in a legal dispute over the inheritance of their dead father. Both sisters work a psychics and are stuck in a bitter sibling rivalry. Grayson resolves the issue by encouraging the sisters to use their "powers" contact their father. See Liza Minnelli. |
| Sandra Bernhard | Judge Ada Brown | "Secret Lives" | Judge who sympathizes with Molly's situation. See Brigid Brannagh |
| Vivica A. Fox | Maria Ellis | "The Long Road to Napa" | Maria Ellis discovers that her husband, Charles, is married to another woman named Emily Parcelles. Both women team up to expose him, and are both represented by Jane. |
| Jorja Fox | Marianne Neely | "Second Chances" | |
| Elliott Gould | Larry Baxter | "Second Chances" | |
| Nancy Grace | Herself | 4 | Appears on her actual show Nancy Grace, and is either talking about a case Jane is in or interviewing Jane, to which she accidentally knocks Nancy out. |
| Kathy Griffin | Jenna Kaswell-Bailey | "He Said, She Said" | Kim's Sister |
| Tim Gunn | Himself | "Second Chances" | Gunn appeared in a dream sequence where Jane practiced telling Grayson her true identity. |
| Jasmine Guy | Judge Nona Daniels | "Last Year's Model" | Judge Daniels supervised the sexual harassment trial of Charlotte Perkins. See Lauren Stamile |
| Gregory Harrison | Brandon Tharpe | "Crazy" | |
| Star Jones | Judge Grace Lyford | "Pick's & Pakes" | Judge Lyford supervised the patent case for the pake between Stacy and Mr. Pierce see Jonah Pierce. After giving Stacy the patent for the pake, she tells Pierce off that no one likes a "Patent Troll" and will have him charged for fraud, even review his patent claims. |
| Ricki Lake | Susan Semler | "Back from the Dead" | Selmer wrote an advice column for young adult professional men under the pen name Jonathan Noble. Parker personally defended Semler when she sued to protect her intellectual property. After Parker used "Noble's advice" to woo Semler, she killed off the character and began writing under her own name. |
| Chad Lowe | Daniel Porter | "Back from the Dead" | Porter suffered a psychogenic fugue after a plane crash and emerged from it just before a judge declared him dead. When Daniel attempted to reunite with his wife, she sued him for divorce. He pressed for custody of their son until he discovered that it was his second fugue state. Daniel then withdrew his contest and lets his wife have full custody of their son. Before leaving, he and his mother explained to Jane that it was for the better that he withdraws now than to abandon his son again. Once they return to Seattle, Daniel and his mother intends to visit a specialist dealing with his condition so he would have a better understanding of it. |
| Cameron Mathison | Jonah Pierce | "Pick's & Pakes" | Jonah Pierce is a "patent troll" who took Stacy to court and sued her for the patent on the pake, claiming he invented it. He was later exposed for his scam during the taste test of his pake that allowed Stacy to have the patent for the pake. see Judge Lyford. |
| MacKenzie Mauzy | Tina Orlando | "Begin Again" | Sister of Jessica Orlando; see Candice Accola. Member of fictional band Confetti accused of murdering their agent. Jane cleared Tina's name by tying a rival singer to a CD found in the murdered man's boom-box. |
| Liza Minnelli | Lily Wells | "Make Me a Match" | See Delta Burke |
| Kathy Najimy | Claire Porter | "The Magic Bullet" | |
| Kelly Osbourne | Joyce Keck | "Jane's Getting Married" | |
| Jake Pavelka | Toby Davlin | "Good Grief" | Toby Davlin, a suitor on Finding the One, a dating show whose producer is being sued for "intentionally inflicting emotional harm" when Toby spurns one bachelorette for another. |
| Teri Polo | Jillian Ford | "The Magic Bullet" | |
| John Ratzenberger | Larry Kaswell | 2 | Kim's Dad |
| LeAnn Rimes | Lana Kline | "Hit and Run" | See Nick Zano |
| Cybill Shepherd | Ellie Tannen | "Queen of Mean" | Tannen is a high-end fashion designer who is famous for her reputation as a "total monster." She sues a former assistant who wrote a book that would have disclosed Tannen's degenerative eye disorder. |
| Lauren Stamile | Charlotte Perkins | "Last Year's Model" | Perkins is a pharmaceutical sales representative who was demoted to customer service. Perkins sued for sexual harassment. Jane and Kim alleged that Perkins’ company maintained a workplace that encouraged female sales reps to dress provocatively and flirt with doctors, which Perkins refused to do. Perkins won a multimillion-dollar settlement. |
| David Sutcliffe | Charles Ellis | "The Long Road to Napa" | See Vivica A. Fox |
| Wanda Sykes | Judge Yvonne Wright | "Prom" | A surly judge presiding over the case of a teenage woman being kept from her high school prom because she's a lesbian and wants to bring a female date. |
| Gina Torres | Diana Hall | "Make Me a Match" | |
| Steve Valentine | Henri Malik | "The Dress" | |
| Nia Vardalos | Lisa Shane | "What If?" | |
| Wendy Williams | Judge Mary Rudd | "Hit and Run" | Judge Rudd presides over a "booty call" case |
| Chuck Woolery | Himself | "Do Over" | He appears in one of Jane's dreams as a gameshow host |
| Nick Zano | Tim Kline | "Hit and Run" | Appears as a famous actor accused of a hit and run that leaves a child dead. His wife, Lana, plays a key witness in his case. See LeAnn Rimes |