The following is a list of characters from the Fox supernatural drama television series Sleepy Hollow, which is loosely based on the 1820 Halloween short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving with added concepts from "Rip Van Winkle", also by Irving.
Cast Appearances Character Actor Season Season 1(2013–14) Season 2(2014–15) Season 3(2015–16) Season 4(2017) Main characters Captain Ichabod Crane Tom Mison colspan="4" Lt. (later Agent) Grace Abigail "Abbie" Mills Nicole Beharie colspan="3" Captain Frank Irving Orlando Jones colspan="2" colspan="2" Katrina Crane Katia Winter colspan="2" colspan="2" Jennifer "Jenny" Mills Lyndie Greenwood colspan="3" Henry Parrish / Jeremy Crane / The Horseman of War John Noble Betsy Ross Nikki Reed colspan="2" Pandora Shannyn Sossamon colspan="2" Joe Corbin Zach Appelman Daniel Reynolds Lance Gross colspan="2" Sophie Foster Jessica Camacho colspan="2" Diana Thomas Janina Gavankar colspan="3" Jake Wells Jerry MacKinnon colspan="3" Alex Norwood Rachel Melvin colspan="3" Molly Thomas Oona Yaffe colspan="3" Malcolm Dreyfuss Jeremy Davies colspan="3" Supporting characters The Headless Horseman / Abraham van Brunt Richard Cetrone colspan="3" Jeremy Owens colspan="2" Craig Branham Neil Jackson colspan="2" Unknown / Body Double colspan="3" Officer Andy Brooks John Cho colspan="2" Sheriff August Corbin Clancy Brown colspan="2" Reverend Alfred Knapp Patrick Gorman colspan="2" colspan="2" Detective Luke Morales Nicholas Gonzalez colspan="3" Moloch D. J. Mifflin colspan="3" Derek Mears colspan="2" Detective Devon Jones Michael Roark colspan="3" Grace Dixon Onira Tarés colspan="4" Cynthia Irving Jill Marie Jones colspan="2" Macey Irving Amandla Stenberg colspan="3" Benjamin Franklin Jon Sparks colspan="3" Timothy Busfield colspan="2" Sheriff Leena Reyes Sakina Jaffrey colspan="2" Nick Hawley Matt Barr colspan="2" Zoe Corinth Maya Kazan colspan="2" Ezra Mills James McDaniel colspan="2" Atticus Nevins Bill Irwin colspan="2" The Hidden One Peter Mensah colspan="2" Jobe Kamar de los Reyes colspan="3" Benjamin Banneker Edwin Hodge colspan="3" Lara Seychelle Gabriel colspan="3"
Main characters Captain Ichabod Crane Captain Ichabod Crane, Esquire (Tom Mison), former professor of history at Oxford University prior to the American Revolution, comes to America with the British before switching sides to spy for the Colonists, under General George Washington. In 1781, he dies while simultaneously beheading the Horseman, and their blood mixes together. Later, the Horseman is resurrected, as is Crane. Despite his skepticism, he proves to be an invaluable resource after his resurrection, due to his detailed knowledge of supernatural lore. Although initially he has difficulty adapting to the 21st century, by the end of the second season, he states he has acclimatized (aside from occasional mishaps), berating Katrina and Henry for holding onto the past. As of the third season, he is applying for American citizenship to legalize his efforts to preserve the archive he and Abbie use to research their adversaries, although the application process is delayed in "Dark Mirror" due to Crane missing an important interview while trying to save Abbie. As of "The Sisters Mills", Crane is officially head of the Hudson Valley Historical Society, giving him an explanation for his expertise and a reason for his affiliation with the FBI. He revealed that the two Witnesses would be facing seven disasters in the episode I, Witness. The first disaster would be Moloch, and the second one would be Pandora. At the end of the series, the President makes him an official citizen of America.
The series ends with Crane still to face four Tribulations, with his soul sold to the devil. However, Crane is confident that he can get out of the contract; given that, if he returned the Philosopher's Stone he bargained his soul for, that would nullify the deal.
Lt. Grace Abigail "Abbie" Mills Lieutenant Grace Abigail "Abbie" Mills (Nicole Beharie), lifelong resident of Sleepy Hollow. She was about to transfer to Quantico to train with the FBI, but after the death of her mentor she decides to stay and gradually comes to accept her role in the fight against the Horseman as the second Witness to the Apocalypse. Abbie is the driving force in the future of understanding the new Sleepy Hollow, as well as helping Crane adjust to his new era. She keeps much anger from her deceased mother's actions deep inside, as well as nurturing complex feelings over her father's abandonment. Between seasons two and three, she completed a course at Quantico and is now a member of the FBI stationed in Sleepy Hollow. In the season three finale, she sacrifices herself to restore Pandora's box to contain the power of the Hidden One, but her soul is subsequently released from the box and allowed to pass on after a final goodbye to Crane, assuring him that there are other Witnesses out there to assist him in his burden.
Jennifer "Jenny" Mills Jennifer "Jenny" Mills (Lyndie Greenwood), Abbie's younger sister who was confined in a mental institution. As teenagers, they both witnessed the rise of the second Horseman while walking through the forest one day after school. However, Abbie denies seeing the creature, while Jenny insists they both saw it, and so Jenny is institutionalized, since it seems clear she is mentally ill. Unknown to Abbie, though, Sheriff Corbin was Jenny's mentor. While in and out of mental hospitals, Jenny trained in combat in foreign countries, helping Corbin hunt down occult artifacts. She breaks out of the institution, but after Abbie tells her sister she will never again deny what they saw, the sisters are reconciled. Jenny later takes part in helping to solve the mysteries surrounding the Horseman. Following Abigail's death, Jenny remains in contact with Crane, following him to Washington D.C., acknowledging that the two of them are the only real family either has left.
Seasoned main characters Season 1 The following characters continue to be main characters in season 2.
Captain Frank Irving Captain Frank Irving (Orlando Jones), the chief of Sleepy Hollow's Sheriff's department (who is affiliated with the New York State Police). Initially skeptical of Crane and Mills' assertions, he later discovers the truth when the trio confront, battle, and trap the Horseman. After confessing to murders his possessed daughter committed, he is arrested and sent to the psychiatric ward. Later in Season 2, Henry tricks Irving into selling his soul to him by signing a contract naming Henry as his lawyer. Irving is later killed by the armored form of the Horseman of War in "The Akeda", but is risen from the dead in "Paradise Lost", at which point he is taken back into custody. Later revealed to be under Henry's control, Irving is freed but allowed to remain alive once Henry is slain. Irving subsequently departs the country to protect his family from the forces of the Apocalypse.
Katrina Crane Katrina Crane (Katia Winter), Ichabod's wife, who is secretly a witch. It is she who casts the spell of suspended animation on Crane, after his supposed "fatal" wounding by the Horseman. She is unaware that the Horseman's blood mingled with Crane's, and that her husband's resurrection also signals the return of the Horseman. Katrina appears to Crane only in dreams, telling him she is trapped in Purgatory, a place between worlds, and can only be freed with the defeat of the Horseman. Crane and Abbie are able to free her, but soon after Katrina is captured by the Horseman, revealed to be Abraham "Brom" van Brunt, a former suitor. She remains with him, communicating secret knowledge to Crane, but later escapes to Crane and Abbie. Ichabod and Katrina's marriage is strained by the secrets she keeps, which include compelling a one-time lover of Crane's to suicide. Katrina later causes tension when she tries to restore Abraham's humanity. She encounters the "Warlock", at which time Katrina gives into her dark side, aligning with Henry's plan to awaken the descendants of her coven of witches, despite the danger if these powers are activated in the modern world. When Henry is slain, she attempts to alter history by going back in time to kill Crane after his fight with the Horseman, the spell allowing her to "possess" her prior-self. But fortunately, Abbie is able to travel back in time using Katrina's spell, allowing her to keep Crane safe long enough for her to negate the time travel spell and return them to their present, with Crane forced to stab Katrina to save Abbie's life.
Season 2 Henry Parrish Henry Parrish / Jeremy Crane / The Horseman of War (John Noble), he is initially seen as a Sin Eater who helped Crane break the curse connecting him with the Headless Horseman. Later, Parrish is revealed to be Katrina and Crane's son, Jeremy Crane, and the Second of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, War. Henry is bitter that his parents' actions trapped him in a coffin for two centuries in a state of living death until he is released by Moloch. He believed Moloch to be his true father, but later destroys Moloch, who sees Henry as expendable. After killing Moloch, Henry spends time contemplating his life; he comes to see he protected Katrina out of love, wanting to create a "family" by awakening latent powers in the witches' descendants. He is slain by Abbie. His spirit appears before Katrina, welcoming her to the afterlife.
In the fourth season, a variation of Henry manifests from a spider-demon that trapped Crane in a hallucination where he was 'on trial' for his role in the death of Abigail Mills. Later in the series, Henry is able to manifest from the remnants of the demon when Crane is transformed into a new Horseman of War, but he specifically states that he is a manifestation of what parts of Henry Crane chooses to remember, rather than the actual Henry Parrish reborn.
Season 3 Elizabeth "Betsy" Ross Betsy Ross (Nikki Reed), Crane's old flame. Although history merely remembers her as the seamstress who designed the American flag, she was actually a secret agent for General Washington who fought off several supernatural threats; she used the fact she was a woman to her advantage numerous times. She was later found still alive in a tomb in a hidden dimension on the River Styx, having been trapped during a mission to cross the Delaware, but the storyline concluded with her returning to her time, her "later" distance to Crane attributed in hindsight to her knowledge of his future ties to Abbie.
Pandora Pandora (Shannyn Sossamon), a mysterious new presence in Sleepy Hollow. She unleashes six different threats against the two of them, with the goal of nurturing the emotions that are inspired by their new adversaries in Crane and/or Abbie, each particular crisis causing a new bud to bloom on a tree that will serve as a means for Pandora to open a portal to Hell. Once the portal was completed, Pandora entered the tree and returned with a figure that she refers to as her 'husband', an ancient Sumerian god known only as 'the Hidden One', using her box to restore his power so that he can purge humanity. Fortunately, the Witnesses manage to destroy her box before the Hidden One can fully 'recharge', forcing her to donate some of her power to sustain him. As she sees the Hidden One become consumed by his vendetta against humanity, Pandora turns against him to side with the Witnesses, recognising that they have a genuine bond of love and respect, as opposed to the Hidden One's disdain for her, considering her just another human despite their long history.