| Woody |
Allen | An American filmmaker and actor. |
| Carter |
Ashe | Dwight's friend. |
| Eleanor |
Bishop | A married mother of three who summers at the family camp. Aka: Elle. |
| Sandro |
Botticelli | An Italian painter. |
| Dwight |
Burke | Joanne's father. |
| Cyd |
Charisse | An American dancer and actress. |
| Eric |
Clapton | An English guitarist and singer-songwriter. |
| Vince |
Corcoran | Nanette's third husband. |
| Jim |
Croce | American singer-songwriter. |
| Martha |
Currier | A fraying ex-jazz singer from New Orleans. |
| Amory |
Cushing | Elle's grandfather. |
| Mrs. |
Dancy | Mr. Dancy's wife. |
| Carl |
Dancy | Wallace's lover. |
| Susan |
Dey | An American retired actress. |
| John |
Dixon | Anna's godfather. |
| Barbara |
Duffy | One of Elle's group team. |
| Margaret |
Dumont | An American film actress. |
| Gerald |
Ford | The 38th president of the United States. |
| Mahatma |
Gandhi | An Indian freedom fighter. |
| Michael |
Jackson | An American singer-songwriter and dancer. |
| Janis |
Joplin | American singer-songwriter. |
| Primo |
Levi | An Italian chemist. |
| Miss |
Moody | A music teacher. |
| Bob |
Newhart | An American comedian and actor. |
| Donny |
Osmond | An American singer and dancer. |
| Johann |
Pachelbel | A German composer and organist. |
| Anthony |
Perkins | An American actor. |
| Jeb |
Potter | The most popular boy in school who plays timpani. |
| Madame |
Rechkina | A ballet teacher. |
| George |
Saltonstall | Elle's great-grandfather. |
| Nanette |
Saltonstall | Elle's grandmother. |
| Dr. |
Scholl | Elle Bishop's doctor. |
| Mr. |
Semple | A conductor. |
| William |
Shakespeare | An English playwright and poet. |
| Becky |
Sharp | A film character. |
| Percy Bysshe |
Shelley | An English Romantic poet. |
| Bobby |
Sherman | An American singer and actor. |
| Carly |
Simon | An American musician and singer-songwriter. |
| Mrs. |
Strauss | Petra's mother. |
| Andrea |
| Dixon's new wife. |
| Austin |
| Wallace's brother. |
| Becky |
| Dixon's daughter. |
| Blue |
| One of the Burke's Labradors. |
| Blythe |
| Dancy's daughter. |
| Conrad |
| One of Leo's kids. |
| Cora |
| One of the Burke's Labradors. |
| Dumas |
| A beloved family dog. |
| Edmund |
| Rosemary's husband. |
| Elias |
| One of Jonas's brothers. |
| Finn |
| Elle's son. |
| Frank |
| Joanne's younger brother. |
| Gina |
| Jonas's wife. |
| Gio |
| A wiry doorman. |
| Goldie |
| Frank's favorite hamster. |
| Henry |
| Elle's father. |
| Henry |
| Elle's father. |
| Hopper |
| One of Jonas's brothers. |
| Jack |
| Elle's eldest child. |
| Jim |
| A banker, Nanette's second husband. |
| Joanne |
| A bestselling novelist. |
| Julia |
| Becky's older sister. |
| Leander |
| Lily's brother. |
| Leo |
| A jazz musician from Louisiana. |
| Leslie |
| Conrad's new acquaintance. |
| Linda |
| Jeff's wife. |
| Mabel |
| The oldest Labrador. |
| Madeline |
| Elle's daughter. Aka: Maddy. |
| Mary |
| Anna's father's new girlfriend. |
| Maude |
| Nanette's friend. |
| Michelangelo |
| An Italian sculptor and painter. |
| Miss |
| The kind caretaker of twelve girls in Paris (from Madeline). |
| Miss |
| Madame Rechkina's assistant. |
| Myrtle |
| Elle's grandmother. |
| Nancy |
| Dwight Burke's wife. |
| Pamela |
| Elle's step-grandmother. |
| Paul |
| An American silversmith. |
| Peggy |
| Anna's best friend. |
| Pepe |
| An elevator man. |
| Peter |
| Elle Bishop's husband, a British journalist. |
| Petra |
| A five-year-old girl Elle babysits. |
| Pia |
| One of Elle's counselors. |
| Rosemary |
| One of Leo's kids. |
| Sam |
| Jack's friend. |
| Tyson |
| Whitman's son. |
| Waldo |
| A mouse. |
| Wallace |
| Elle's mother. |
| Whitman |
| Leo's old friend. |
| Anna |
| The deceased older sister of Elle. |
| Cleopatra |
| Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. |
| Jeff |
| Conrad's uncle. |
| Jeremy |
| Anna's new boyfriend. |
| Jonas |
| A painter and Elle Bishop's childhood friend and first love. |
| June |
| One of Elle's counselors. |
| Lily |
| Anna's roommate. |
| Lindsay |
| Anna's friend. |
| Mario |
| A new doorman. |
| Pamela |
| Amory's third and final wife. |
| William |
| Elle's grandfather. |
