Edward | Albee | American playwright. |
Woody | Allen | American film director. |
Neil | Armstrong | American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. |
Lauren | Bacall | American actress. |
Joan | Baez | American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. |
Ginger | Bailey | Bette's new friend. |
Barbara | Barkin | Betsy's acquaintance. |
Bernard | Barkin | Barbara Barkin's husband. |
Ethel | Barrymore | American actress. |
Jeff | Bayon | The owner of the Manhattan Bridge Club. |
Carl | Bernstein | American investigative journalist and author. |
Chuck | Berry | American singer, songwriter and guitarist. |
Travis | Bickle | One of Betsy's acquaintances. |
Justin | Bieber | Canadian singer-songwriter. |
Cate | Blanchett | Australian actress, producer, and theatre director. |
Humphrey | Bogart | American film and stage actor. |
Ben | Brantley | American theatre critic, journalist, editor, publisher and writer. |
Louise | Brooks | American film actress and dancer. |
Lynn | Carter | An actress. |
Richard | Chamberlain | American actor and singer. |
Coco | Chanel | French fashion designer. |
Winston | Churchill | Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
Montgomery | Clift | American actor. |
Hillary | Clinton | Former United States Secretary of State. |
Bette | Cohen | One of the bridge ladies. |
Sylvia | Cohen | Bette's mother. |
Al | Cone | A Bridge player's teacher. |
Joan | Crawford | American film and television actress. |
Roald | Dahl | British novelist. |
Bette | Davis | American actress. |
Hilary | Duff | American actress, singer-songwriter, producer, and writer. |
Lena | Dunham | American actress, writer, director, and producer. |
Bob | Dylan | American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. |
Zac | Efron | American actor and singer. |
Eileen | Fisher | American clothing designer. |
Millard | Fleetwood | Bea's acquaintance. |
Alicia | Florrick | The main character of the TV series The Good Wife. |
Rhoda Belle | Freedman | One of Rhoda's high school classmates. |
Ruth Helen | Freedman | One of Rhoda's high school classmates. |
Betty | Friedan | American feminist writer and activist. |
Jerry | Garcia | American singer-songwriter. |
Eugene | Genovese | American historian. |
Charlotte P. | Gilman | American novelist. |
Ruth Bader | Ginsburg | Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. |
Bernard | Goodman | Jackie's uncle. |
Burnett | Goodwin | Bernard Goodman's new name. |
Charles | Goren | American bridge player. |
Arlowe | Guthrie | American singer-songwriter. |
Nathan | Hale | American soldier and spy for the Continental Army. |
Rita | Hayworth | American actress, dancer, and producer. |
Florence | Henderson | American actress and singer. aka: Carol Brady. |
Jimi | Hendrix | American musician, singer, and songwriter. |
Katharine | Hepburn | American actress of film, stage, and television. |
Edward | Hirsch | American poet. |
Bob | Hope | American-British comedian. |
Albert | Horowitz | Bette's husband. |
Rock | Hudson | American actor. |
Julia | Jacobs | The Director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Progrogram at Alberta Children's Hospital. |
W.W. | Jacobs | English author of short stories and novels. |
Mick | Jagger | English singer, songwriter, actor, and film producer. |
Elton | John | English singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer. |
Philip | Johnson | American architect. |
Shirley | Jones | American actress and the lead role of Shirley Partridge. |
Jenny | Joseph | English poet. |
Jess | Jurkovic | A Bridge club teacher. |
Francis | Kay | Rhoda's longtime friend. aka: Fran. |
Mrs. | Kekst | A teacher at the Jewish Center. |
John F. | Kennedy | 35th U.S. President. |
Robert F. | Kennedy | Former United States Attorney General |
Billie Jean | King | American tennis player. |
Stephen | King | American author of horror, supernatural fiction and suspense. |
Martin Luther | King, Jr. | American Baptist minister and activist. |
Millie | Klarik | Roz's acquaintance. |
Tony | Kushner | American playwright, author, and screenwriter. |
Betsy | Lerner | An author. |
Roz | Lerner | One of the bridge ladies. |
Sis | Levine | Bette's old friend. |
Seth | MacFarlane | American actor, writer, producer, and singer. |
Bob | Marley | Jamaican singer, songwriter, and musician. |
Karl | Marx | A philosopher. |
Henry | Miller | American writer and artist. |
Amedeo | Modigliani | Italian Jewish painter and sculptor. |
Jimi | Morrison | American singer-songwriter and poet. |
Van | Morrison | The lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B and rock band. |
Zero | Mostel | American actor, singer and comedian of stage and screen. |
Alice | Munro | Canadian short story writer. |
Benito | Mussolini | Former Prime Minister of Italy. |
Bess | Myerson | The only Jewish woman to win Miss America. |
Anaïs | Nin | American-Cuban-French diarist. |
Maureen | O'Hara | Irish actress and singer. |
Nancy | Pelosi | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. |
Bea | Phillips | One of the bridge ladies. |
Carl | Phillips | Bea's husband. |
Nancy | Phillips | Carl and Bea's daughter. |
Pablo | Picasso | Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker,
and theater designer. |
Mary | Pickford | American-Canadian film actress. |
Emily | Post | American author, novelist, and socialite. |
Helen | Reddy | American-Australian singer, songwriter, author and actress. |
Bobby | Riggs | American tennis champion. |
Betty | Rollin | NBC News correspondent and author. |
Leon | Russell | American musician and songwriter. |
Diane | Sawyer | American television broadcast journalist. |
Bobby | Seale | Black Panther leader. |
Dr. | Seuss | American children's author, political cartoonist. |
Omar | Sharif | Egyptian film and television actor. |
Neil | Simon | American playwright, screenwriter and author. |
Benjamin | Spock | American pediatrician. |
Bruce | Springsteen | American singer, songwriter, and musician. |
Gloria | Steinem | American feminist journalist and social political activist. |
Barbara | Streisand | American singer, actress, and filmmaker. |
Deborah | Tannen | American author and professor of linguistics. |
Sharon | Tate | American actress and model. |
Alan | Turing | English mathematician, computer scientist, logician. |
Christy | Turlington | American model. |
Vincent | van Gogh | Dutch painter. |
David Foster | Wallace | American author of novels, short stories and essays. |
Edward L. | Wallant | American writer. |
Shaun | White | American snowboarder. |
Eli | Whitney | American inventor. |
Amy | | Bette's daughter. |
Anne | | A therapist. |
Barbara 1 | | A teacher at the bridge club. |
Barbara 2 | | Betsy's sister. |
Barbara 3 | | Gloria's youngest children. |
Barbara 4 | | Bette's roommate at Skidmore. |
Beth | | Peter and Rhoda's daughter. |
Brion | | Roz's acquaintance. |
Davi | | Bette's daughter. |
Dick | | Jackie's husband. |
Donald | | A young doctor. |
Ebert | | One of Betsy's acquaintances. |
Ellen | | One of Betsy's acquaintances. |
Emily | | One of Betsy's acquaintances. |
Esther | | One of Betsy's acquaintances. |
Fania | | A Russian manicurist. |
Freddie | | Roz's granddaughter. |
Gail | | Betsy's younger sister. |
George | | Rhoda's gentleman friend. |
Gloria | | Roz's closest friend. |
Jack | | Beth's son. |
Jackie | | One of the bridge ladies. |
Jeff | | One of Betsy's acquaintances. |
John | | Betsy Lerner's husband. |
Jonathan | | Betsy's new acquaintance. |
Keebler Elf | | A dealer at the game. |
Lady | | Jackie's aunt. |
Liza | | Jackie's daughter. |
Marion | | Roz's acquaintance. |
Matty | | Betsy's friend. |
Nina | | Betsy's older sister. |
Omar | | A waiter. |
Pashmina | | Betsy's acquaintance. |
Peter | | Rhoda's husband. |
Pippin | | One of Fran's boyfriend. |
Pupik | | One of Betsy's acquaintances. |
Raffi | | Betsy's daughter. |
Raven | | American actress and singer. |
Rhoda | | Executive director of the synagogue. One of the bridge ladies. |
Rudie | | Rhoda's friend. |
Ruth | | A bookkeeper. |
Shayna | | Betsy's pet name. |
Shirley | | One of the night ladies. |
Siskel | | One of Betsy's acquaintances. |
Sylvia | | One of Roz's friends. |
Vivian | | One of Roz's friends. |
Yolanda | | One of Betsy's acquaintances. |