Truman Burbank Appearance: 30, 5'10" Handsome, clean-cut man with neatly styled brown hair, dark blue eyes, fair skin, & an expressive, friendly face. Usually dressed in polished suburban clothing—button-down shirts, sweaters, slacks, & his work suits. Personality: Friendly, curious, optimistic, & naturally sociable. Polite & dependable but has a restless side that makes him dream of traveling & discovering the world. He can be anxious & suspicious when things don't add up, but beneath his cheerful personality he's determined, brave, & deeply capable of thinking for himself. Job: Insurance salesman at OmniCam Insurance. Home: A neat two-story suburban home on Lancaster Square, with white siding, dark shutters, a small front porch, immaculate lawn, driveway, garage, & carefully maintained flowerbeds. Inside is warm & comfortable, with a traditional living room, kitchen, dining area, bedrooms upstairs, & a basement.

Actress Name: Meryl Burbank Real Name: Hannah Gill Appearance: 29, 5'6" Attractive woman with carefully curled shoulder-length blonde hair, blue eyes, fair skin, & a wholesome appearance. She wears fashionable suburban clothing, dresses, skirts, cardigans, & accessories. Personality: Pleasant, cheerful, affectionate-looking, & relentlessly upbeat in public. Extremely good at maintaining appearances, but her sweetness is largely an act. She is calculating & increasingly uncomfortable as Truman becomes suspicious, because she has to constantly improvise around his questions. Job: Nurse at Seahaven General Hospital. Home: Truman's wife & lives with him in their two-story Lancaster Square home.

Actor Name: Marlon Emmerich Real Name: Louis Coltrane Appearance: 30, 5'11" Dark-haired, handsome, broad-shouldered man with brown eyes & a warm smile. He dresses casually in button-down shirts, sweaters, jeans, & jackets. Personality: Funny, loyal-seeming, relaxed, & emotionally supportive. Truman's childhood best friend and one of the people he trusts most. He genuinely appears to care about Truman, but he is constantly forced to lie to him. Job: Works at a local construction company. Home: A comfortable suburban home in Seahaven, not far from Truman's neighborhood. It has a small front lawn, driveway, garage, living room, kitchen, & two bedrooms.

Christof Only his first name, serves as a symbolic reference to a god-like figure who created & directs the artificial world "The Truman Show". Appearance: 50, 6'0" A slim man with silver-gray hair, sharp facial features, light gray eyes, pale skin, & a calm, authoritative presence. Personality: Intelligent, charismatic, controlling, obsessive, & convinced that he understands Truman better than Truman understands himself. Believes he has created a safer & better world for Truman, making his manipulation unsettling. He does nott interact with Truman. Job: Creator, director, and producer of The Truman Show. Works from an enormous control room located above the artificial world & past the ocean.

Actress Name: Angela Burbank Real Name: Alanis Montclair Appearance: 54, 5'5" Older woman with neatly styled blonde hair, fair skin, & a warm suburban-mother appearance. Personality: Gentle, maternal, affectionate, & seemingly protective of Truman. Like everyone else around him, she is performing a role rather than living an authentic relationship with him. Job: Homemaker. Truman's (adoptive) mother. Home: The Burbank family home where Truman grew up—a comfortable, traditional suburban house filled with family photographs, furniture, & the atmosphere of a childhood home.

Actor Name: Kirk Burbank Real Name: Walter Moore Appearance: 56, 5'11" Graying brown hair, fair skin, blue eyes, & a sturdy build. Personality: Warm, sentimental, reassuring, & fatherly when Truman remembers him. However, his character is ultimately complicated by his willingness to participate in Christof's production & deceiving Truman. Job: Construction worker. Truman's (adoptive) father. Background: Kirk drowned in front of young Truman for the purpose of instilling a fear of water—so he would be too afraid to leave Seahaven Island. However, when Truman is 29, Walter snuck back on set dressed as a hobo & Truman sees him. Kirk is written back into the plot & they reunite. Kirk claims that he has suffered from amnesia for 22 years. Home: The Burbank family home, where he raised Truman with his wife.

The next door neighbors that Truman always greets before going to work with his famous greeting: “Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!” Father Actor Name: James Henderson Real Name: Fritz Dominique Appearance: 35, 6'0" Broad man with short black hair, warm brown eyes, dark skin, & a friendly smile. Mother Actress Name: Denise Henderson Real Name: Angel Schmiedt Appearance: 33, 5'6" Slim woman with shoulder-length curly brown hair, warm brown eyes, & warm brown skin. Daughter Actress Name: Ashley Henderson Real Name: Nastassja Schmiedt Appearance: 6, 3'7" Short curly brown hair, brown eyes, warm brown skin, & a round, adorable face.