List of Parenthood characters

This is a list of fictional characters in the television series Parenthood. The article deals with the series' main and recurring characters.

The show revolves around the Braverman family, which has expanded to five generations, featuring patriarch Zeek Braverman and matriarch Camille Braverman, their oldest son Adam, his wife and three children, their daughter Sarah and her two children, their second son Crosby, his wife and their young son and infant daughter, and finally their daughter Julia, her husband and her young daughter and adopted son.

Ezekiel "Zeek" Braverman (Craig T. Nelson) is the patriarch of the Braverman family, Camille's husband and the father of Adam, Sarah, Crosby, and Julia. He has dabbled in various careers, including being a soldier in Vietnam having graduated from West Point in the class of 1962, an activist hippie, an aspiring actor, and a shrewd entrepreneur, but none lasted more than a few years. He is 67 at the start of the series (as he is said to be turning 72 in season 6), making him four years older than his wife, Camille. In the first season it is revealed that he made a bad investment, causing his wife, Camille, and him financial hardship. Later, it is also revealed that he had an affair. He doesn't get along with his mother, Blanche, who turns 86 in season three, which means that she was about seventeen when Zeek was born, as he would've been 69 in season three. Zeek's health begins to decline throughout season 6, enduring two hospital stays. Zeek dies peacefully in his home an unknown time after Sarah's wedding to Hank as Camille is looking at photos taken by Max. His ashes are spread in the musical montage that begins the last scene of the series finale.

Camille Braverman (Bonnie Bedelia) is the matriarch of the family and Zeek's wife. She is an artist and also shows herself to be very capable domestically, striving to keep her family happy and peaceful. In season one, when Zeek reveals that he made a bad investment that he kept from Camille, she reveals that he was having an affair. Zeek later reveals that they both cheated. Camille confirms to her daughter, Sarah, that she has been having an affair with her art teacher, Matthew, but that she has ended it. In season one it is stated that she has been married to Zeek for 46 years. She is 63 when the series begins, meaning she was about 17 when she married Zeek. She was 23 when she had Adam, 25 when she had Sarah, and 31 when she had Crosby. After Zeek's death, she is shown as having traveled to France to the place where Zeek had planned to take her as a surprise in an earlier episode. As she is shown in other scenes in the finale's final montage, she returns from her trip at some unknown point.

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