The following is a list of characters who appear in Succession, an American satirical comedy-drama television series created by Jesse Armstrong centering on a super-rich and dysfunctional family who own a global media conglomerate.
Cast timeline Key Main cast (receives star billing) Recurring cast (credited as guest starring in two or more episodes) Guest cast (credited as guest starring in one episode) Co-starring cast (credited as co-starring in one or more episodes)
ActorCharacterSeasons 1 2 3 4 Main characters Hiam Abbass Marcia Roy colspan="2" Nicholas Braun Greg Hirsch colspan="4" Brian Cox Logan Roy colspan="4" Kieran Culkin Roman Roy colspan="4" Peter Friedman Frank Vernon colspan="4" Natalie Gold Rava Roy colspan="2" Matthew Macfadyen Tom Wambsgans colspan="4" Alan Ruck Connor Roy colspan="4" Parker Sawyers Alessandro Daniels colspan="3" Sarah Snook Siobhan "Shiv" Roy colspan="4" Jeremy Strong Kendall Roy colspan="4" Rob Yang Lawrence Yee colspan="2" colspan="2" Dagmara Domińczyk Karolina Novotney colspan="3" Arian Moayed Stewy Hosseini J. Smith-Cameron Gerri Kellman colspan="3" Justine Lupe Willa Ferreyra colspan="2" colspan="2" David Rasche Karl Muller colspan="2" colspan="2" Fisher Stevens Hugo Baker colspan="2" Alexander Skarsgård Lukas Matsson colspan="2" Recurring characters Mary Birdsong Marianne Hirsch colspan="2" Molly Griggs Grace colspan="3" Judy Reyes Eva colspan="3" Larry Pine Sandy Furness colspan="4" Ashley Zukerman Nate Sofrelli colspan="2" James Cromwell Ewan Roy colspan="2" Eric Bogosian Gil Eavis colspan="2" colspan="2" Harriet Walter Lady Caroline Collingwood colspan="2" Caitlin FitzGerald Tabitha Hayes colspan="2" colspan="2" Danny Huston Jamie Laird colspan="2" Scott Nicholson Colin Stiles colspan="3" Jeannie Berlin Cyd Peach Patch Darragh Ray colspan="3" Holly Hunter Rhea Jarrell colspan="2" Zack Robidas Mark Ravenhead colspan="2" Cherry Jones Nan Pierce Annabelle Dexter-Jones Naomi Pierce colspan="2" Mark Linn-Baker Maxim Pierce colspan="2" Babak Tafti Eduard Asgarov colspan="2" Sanaa Lathan Lisa Arthur colspan="2" Linda Emond Michelle-Anne Vanderhoven colspan="2" Juliana Canfield Jess Jordan colspan="2" colspan="2" Jihae Berry Schneider colspan="2" Dasha Nekrasova Comfry Pellits colspan="2" Jordan Lage Keith Zigler colspan="2" Hope Davis Sandi Furness colspan="2" colspan="2" KeiLyn Durrel Jones Remi colspan="2" Zoë Winters Kerry Castellabate colspan="2" Quentin Morales Iverson Roy colspan="2" Swayam Bhatia Sophie Roy colspan="2" colspan="2" Justin Kirk Jeryd Mencken colspan="2" Pip Torrens Peter Munion colspan="2" colspan="2" Kevin Changaris Tellis colspan="3" Cynthia Mace Sylvia Ferreyra colspan="3" Elliot Villar Daniel Jiménez colspan="3" Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson Oskar Guðjohnsen colspan="3" Brian Hotaling Mark Rosenstock colspan="2" Eili Harboe Ebba colspan="3"
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Roy family members
Logan Roy
Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox) is the billionaire founder of media and entertainment conglomerate Waystar RoyCo. He is a brash leader whose primary focus was his company rather than his four children Connor, Kendall, Roman and Siobhan.
Logan was born in 1938, to abject poverty in Dundee, Scotland. His mother Helen died when he was four years old, and he and his elder brother Ewan fled Dundee shortly afterwards during World War II in a convoy traveling to Canada. The two were then raised in Quebec by their aunt and uncle, who sent Logan to boarding school, during which Logan and Ewan's infant sister Rose was brought to Canada. Logan detested boarding school and eventually returned home; Rose died of polio shortly afterwards, which Logan's aunt and uncle blamed on him - Logan continued to carry the guilt into his adulthood. Logan's uncle Noah subjected him to vicious physical abuse throughout his childhood. In his adulthood, Logan used money bequeathed to him by his father to buy an advertising business, which formed the seed for the family holding company he started with Ewan. He then bought out Ewan's shares in the company and purchased the Waystar newspaper in 1967, going on to grow his company into a global media and entertainment empire under the name Waystar RoyCo. His leadership of the company estranged him from Ewan, who despises his politics.
Logan has a son, Connor, with his first wife (who was committed to a psychiatric institution), and three children (Kendall, Roman, and Siobhan) with his second wife, Caroline. While married to Caroline, he had a passionate affair with a woman named Sally-Anne; eventually, he divorced Caroline and went on to meet his third wife, Marcia. Logan is shown to have been emotionally withdrawn and abusive to his children to varying degrees throughout their upbringing, leading all of them to continue clamoring for his approval as adults. As a business leader, Logan is shown to be extraordinarily shrewd, ruthless and well-connected; he holds significant influence over the sitting President of the United States (known within the family as "The Raisin"), who won election in large part due to support from Waystar's right-leaning news network, ATN.
Across the series, Logan serves as the domineering patriarch and long-serving CEO of Waystar, repeatedly manipulating succession plans to retain control. At the outset, he shocks his family by refusing to step aside on his 80th birthday before suffering a stroke, after which he recovers and aggressively reasserts authority, thwarting Kendall's attempted vote of no confidence and later neutralizing a hostile takeover by Stewy Hosseini and Sandy Furness through coercion and leverage, including covering up Kendall's role in a fatal car accident. As pressures mount from declining legacy media, shareholder unrest, and the exposure of systemic sexual abuse within Waystar's cruise division, Logan resists relinquishing power, instead attempting to acquire Pierce Global Media, and ultimately has Kendall take the fall for the cruises scandal, only for Kendall to publicly implicate Logan at a press conference. Logan weathers the scandal through legal settlements, and later accepts a sale of Waystar to streaming giant GoJo without his children's consent, stripping them of their voting power with the help of Caroline. Estranged from his children and preparing to finalize the deal, Logan dies suddenly of a pulmonary embolism while flying to renegotiate terms in Sweden. After his death, an ambiguous succession document naming Kendall is discovered. Logan appears posthumously through recorded messages.
Connor Roy
Connor Roy (played by Alan Ruck) is the eldest son of Logan's first marriage. Prone to delusions of grandeur, Connor is mostly removed from corporate affairs, residing at a ranch in New Mexico with his young girlfriend Willa, a former call girl, and deferring to his siblings on most firm-related matters. In season 2, he announces his bid for President of the United States, running as an independent candidate.
In the first season, Connor divides his time between New York and Austerlitz following Logan's stroke. He lives with Willa, whom he financially supports while she pursues a career as a playwright. After Kendall's failed vote of no confidence against Logan, the family gathers at Austerlitz for a staged therapy retreat that quickly collapses. Connor later persuades Willa to move to the ranch full-time. During Shiv's wedding, Connor announces his intention to run for President of the United States as a libertarian candidate.
In the second season, Connor relocates to New York with Willa, establishing a base for his presidential campaign while Willa produces her play. His anti-tax platform alarms the family, who fear it could interfere with Waystar's political relationships. Shiv attempts unsuccessfully to dissuade him from running. After Willa's play fails critically and commercially, Connor faces severe financial losses and asks Logan for a $100 million loan; Logan agrees on the condition that Connor suspend his campaign.
In the third season, Connor reacts to Kendall's public denunciation of Logan by acknowledging the family's complicity in the cruises scandal, though he remains aligned with Logan. He postpones his presidential ambitions and seeks a role at Waystar to bolster his credibility. When the sitting president declines to run for reelection, Connor briefly attempts to revive his campaign but fails to secure donor or family support. At Caroline's wedding in Tuscany, Connor proposes to Willa, who accepts after recognizing his vulnerability following Logan's decision to sell Waystar to GoJo.
In the fourth season, Connor and Willa marry aboard a yacht in New York on the same day Logan dies en route to Sweden. After receiving the news from Tom, Connor proceeds with a small ceremony and later purchases Logan's apartment from Marcia, taking responsibility for organizing the funeral. As the election concludes, Connor concedes the race to Jeryd Mencken in exchange for a promised ambassadorship to Slovenia.
Kendall Roy
Kendall Logan Roy (played by Jeremy Strong) is the second son of Logan from his second marriage. The presumed successor to Logan, Kendall struggles to prove his worth to his father amid bungling major deals and battling with substance abuse, as well as toiling to maintain a relationship with his estranged wife Rava, his siblings, and his children.
Kendall studied at the Buckley School, then both Harvard and Columbia University, which he attended alongside his best friend Stewy Hosseini. He also spent time in Shanghai learning the fundamentals of the family business. With his wife, Rava, he has a daughter, Sophie, and a son, Iverson. Kendall's substance-abuse issues eventually led to the breakdown of his marriage, and he went on to spend months in rehab before the start of the series. Throughout the series, Kendall is shown to be well-versed in business principles but emotionally insecure and lacking in authenticity and people-skills. He is an avid lover of hip hop and a strong believer in the technology industry and new media.