Kurt Elizabeth Hummel (Chris Colfer) is a singer who is bullied by the football team. A kiss from Quinn brings back Puck's confidence: he passes the retest and graduates. Ryan Murphy's 'Glee' is immensely popular as a series that shows inspiration can take us places. Kurt then joins Dalton's show choir, The Warblers, and falls in love with Blaine. He is an actor, known for Glee (2009-2015), Struck by Lightning (2012), and The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell. In "Heart", she gives Will money to pay for costumes and makeup for Regionals, and throws a big Valentine's Day party. Although he claims to have a girlfriend, Rachel refers to him as a "closet case", and he is fired for his inappropriate sexual behavior towards a male student. In the episode "Special Education", Carl and Emma marry in Las Vegas. [75][33] After confessing to Kurt of his infidelity, Kurt severs all ties. New Directions members from throughout its history unite for one last massive group song. Another Warbler is Nick (Curt Mega), who sings lead for the Warblers in the third season. The initial main cast encompassed club director and Spanish (later History) teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), Will's wife Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig), and eight club members played by Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Amber Riley, Mark Salling and Jenna Ushkowitz. [30], First season guest stars include Victor Garber and Debra Monk as Will's parents,[237] and Gina Hecht plays Puck's mother in the eighth episode, and is seen again in the third-season finale and the fourth season's holiday episode. In season two, Puck is sent to juvenile detention for stealing an ATM. Before tonight's Glee Farewell Panel at PaleyFest, the audience got a sneak peek at the first hour of the two-hour Glee finale that will air March 20 on Fox starting at 7 . [32] She later finds out that she'll be having a baby girl, but it has birth defects. Near the end of the season, he hires the glee club to perform at the school's junior prom. United in grief, Glee alumni gathered today on the shores of Lake Piru, the . [114][115], Rory Flanagan (Damian McGinty) is an Irish foreign exchange student who is living with Brittany's family. Suddenly her boyfriend dies and she is paid $2 million in hush money by the widow not to go to the newspapers. [152][153] Early in her tenure, she claims that show choir is stupid, but on several subsequent occasions she is seen enjoying singing and performing in the background. [90] Gilsig characterized Terri as emotionally still being in high school,[91] and as of December 2009 did not know how long her character would feature in the series, as she was initially only created as an obstacle to come between Emma and Will.[92]. Kurt gets an internship at Vogue.com and inadvertently pulls away from Blaine; distraught, Blaine cheats on Kurt. However, Puck fights for Quinn, after Biff texts through her performance of Toxic with Santana and Brittany and yells at her after she tells the truth about her pink hair, tattoos and Beth, and the two kiss after Quinn asks him to stay with her. He entered the song with Joe. [30], Gilsig has deemed Terri "a woman of conviction", willing to do "whatever it takes" to keep Will from leaving her. 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"[102] In her acting career, Jones has "played every tough chick possible", and in early 2012 described the role of Beiste as one "where I still get to be the tough coach, but be vulnerable, have heart and have a love interest". ", "Tony Winners Chenoweth, Garber, and Monk Join Cast of Fox's Glee", "Glee Guest Matt Bomer on Living Out His Duran Duran Fantasy, Kissing Jane Lynch and More! [200] Also in the fifth and sixth season, Christopher Cousins plays Superintendent Bob Harris. She has romantic feelings for Will. [257] Harris won the 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series" for his appearance. [17] She was described by Agron as Rachel's enemy, and "terrible, the meanest girl". He later switches from teaching Spanish to teaching history, though he continues directing the glee club. They become parents with Rachel as their surrogate. Shelby is next seen in the nineteenth episode of season four, "Sweet Dreams"; she is living in New York, and visits Rachel at NYADA. Later in New York, Kurt confesses to Adam that though he tries hard to forget Blaine, he couldn't do it. The two then begin a relationship. After junior prom, Mercedes and Sam begin dating secretly, but he moves away during the summer. The fifth season saw the biggest change, with Monteith's death, and Morris, Riley, Salling and Shum all being switched to recurring status. "This Time" is an original composition by Criss and is sung by Michele. Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel) is the coach of rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline during season one, described by Murphy as "a sort of Faye Dunaway of Network". [199] Phoebe Strole first appears in the fifth season as Penny Owen, a college sophomore who wants to become a nurse though she is not yet very skilled, and whom McKinley High senior Sam Evans is attracted to. [74] Blaine successfully runs for senior class president. She campaigns with Puck for prom king and queen, though they both lose, and the two are still a couple at the end of the second season. He is later outed at his new school and bullied so mercilessly that he attempts to commit suicide but is saved by his father; Kurt visits him in the hospital and they agree to become friends. [10] His behavior is often eccentric, including doll collecting, writing fan fiction about Desperate Housewives, and attempting to create a role for himself as Cleopatra in the school production of Cabaret. He is briefly seen in the season four episode "Shooting Star" as a potential match for Coach Beiste on an online dating site. No Rory, no Marley and no Sebastian (though he wasn't a part of ND, was he?). After the show aired on Oct. 10, some media outlets reported that Agron had skipped the TV reunion due to a rift with her former cast members. He joins Rachel, Sam and Mercedes, who have teamed up to go do "prom on a budget", at the McKinley junior prom; however, after getting into a fight with a jealous Finn, he's kicked out of prom. [16] Will is married to his high school sweetheart Terri. When Finn was young, she had a relationship with a lawn-care worker who left her for a younger woman. Does anyone know why? [120] Sugar remains with New Directions at their Nationals victory, and returns the next year to continue with the glee club at Sectionals and Regionals, but has not appeared in the fifth season. Edit: after further observation, he appears to have been in the episode, but still not in this number as far as I can tell. Later in the season (starting from the episode "Feud"), she chats with her crush Ryder Lynn (Blake Jenner) as a blonde girl named Katie to create a connection between them. However, after Emma naively advocates abstinence to the glee club with a performance of "Afternoon Delight", a song actually about the joys of sex, Carl requests a private couples counseling session with Holly Holliday, the acting sexual education teacher, as his and Emma's marriage hadn't been consummated after four months. He is a younger half-brother of Puck, whom he has never met. [84] Henson, Lock and Nelson appear, with the Jazz Ensemble, in the flashforward to 2020, accompanying the collected cast in the final performance of the show's final episode.[167][168]. At its core, it taught us. (Main Season 14,6; Recurring Season 5) Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley) is a "diva-in-training who refuses to sing back-up" with a "flair for fashion". [1] McHale explained that the diversity of the cast's backgrounds reflects the range of different musical styles within the show itself: "It's a mix of everything: classic rock, current stuff, R&B. "[16] The A.V. [31] In the episode "On My Way", Sue tells Quinn and Will that she's pregnant. Her father Al is the wealthy owner of a piano business who donates three repossessed pianos to the glee club in "The Purple Piano Project", the episode in which she first appears. After confessing to Kurt of his infidelity, Kurt severs all ties. [40] At the end of the first season, she tells Will she has started dating a dentist named Carl Howell, and in the second season her relationship with Carl (John Stamos) blossoms to the point that they get married in Las Vegas in the episode "Special Education". Ryder joins the glee club in the episode Dynamic Duets and romantic tension builds between him and Marley. In season 5, he helps Puck move on after Finn's death. [210] She is persuaded by Sue to use songs from New Directions' set list at Sectionals to give her group an edge in the competition. Which Character Needs Therapy the Most? [140] Artie later encourages Becky to go to college, and Becky visits the University of Cincinnati. At NYADA, Rachel struggles to impress her dance teacher, Cassandra July, and embarks on a new romance with upperclassman Brody Weston. During the fourth season, Mike visits McKinley from the Joffrey on four occasions: to help Artie and Finn direct the school musical, Grease; to help choreograph the New Directions songs for Sectionals and later Regionals; and to attend the aborted first wedding ceremony of Will and Emma. However, valuing his friendship with Jake and Marley's happiness, Ryder decides to suppress his feelings and be happy for them. "[12] In season two he begins dating Tina, and gives his first lead musical performance dueting with her on "Sing!" [172] "Principal" is his real first name. On July 13, 2020, on the 7th anniversary of Corey's death, Naya's body was found in a lake after going missing days prior. Blaine wants to involve Kurt in it but she refuses. "[145] During the second season, show co-creator Ryan Murphy noted that "Glee is by nature optimistic and I think a character like Karofsky could turn to booze or pills or alcohol and kill themselves or do something dark. With her wholesome good looks, Agron certainly looked the part, but the producers wondered if she appeared too innocent. The fourth season began with fourteen in the main cast, with Chord Overstreet being promoted, and Mays and Agron were removed and demoted to recurring cast. Ryder in turn confesses that he has trouble reading, and the two soon become friends. In 2020, she becomes a surrogate mother for Kurt and Blaine, and wins a Tony award, thanking Will for his support. She is hurt when he rejects her, but supportive when he confides his sexuality. Unique returns in Season 6 to support Coach Beiste after his Transgender operation and she is seen in the last performance briefly on stage with Ryder and Joe. I'm used to being very strict. [229] American Idol Season 11 runner-up Jessica Sanchez appeared in two episodes of the fourth season, including the season finale, as a "legendary diva powerhouse singer" named Frida Romero from a school that goes up against McKinley at Regionals. What she intends is not to merely be in Beth's life, but to get full custody of her daughter. Puck falls in love with her, but Shelby tells him in "Mash Off" that the kiss was a mistake. [17] Upon discovering that Quinn is pregnant, she allows her to move in with them when Quinn's father kicks her out. If that means she has to prostitute herself or take advantage of a 16-year-old boy, she'll do it. In the pilot episode, Pilot, Ben Bledsoe appears as Hank Saunders, a member of the McKinley glee club before its transformation into New Directions, singing Where is Love? from Oliver!. Rivera's fellow "Glee" cast members Cory Monteith and Mark Salling have also died. [23] He and Tina are still a couple at the end of the year, but she breaks up with him over the summer. [119] Sugar has subsequently been seen dancing and singing in several polished performances, indicating that she has greatly improved. Check Out the First Pic of Cheyenne Jackson on "Glee! Santana, Brittany, Quinn, and Puck (among many others who are worthy) were not even slightly featured in the episode, so if you're reading this for any of them, you have been warned. The 27-year-old actress dismissed such claims. Madison McCarthy (Laura Dreyfuss) is a student at McKinley and a member of the New Directions. Sunshine reappears in the season two finale "New York" for the National show choir competition. She performs "I Know What Boys Like", her first solo, in "Comeback". Faking a depression after the loss, Sue joins the glee club for a week; when she can't destroy it from within, she decides to coach one of their rivals, Aural Intensity, to a regionals victory over New Directions, but New Directions emerges victorious. [14] In the new year, Finn asks Rachel to marry him, and she accepts. [186] He commented: "the real challenge is to find the balance between not trying to be too funny, not trying to make it funny, just letting it be funny, and just delivering the line and letting the writing do the work for you. [110], Roderick Meeks (Noah Guthrie) is a senior at McKinley and a member of the New Directions. Blaine later breaks up with Karofsky and gets back together with Kurt. I didn't see Dianna Agron :( Was she there? They arrange a Christmas Day dinner with their two mothers, who have never met before, and the two womeninitially hostilecome to an understanding. For season six, she helps Rachel and Kurt with their new glee club and along with Tina helps Becky with her new boyfriend. Jeff (Riker Lynch) and Trent (Dominic Barnes) are also fellow Warblers. It's all about power and winning. [138] Becky wants Sue to come back to McKinley, and later misbehaves in "Lights Out" so that Roz Washington, who has taken over as coach of the Cheerios, brings her to the principal's office, as she wants to tell Figgins something important. Hunter is a new Dalton transfer student, recruited from a Regionals-winning military academy. After making another try at Jake, she begins dating Jake's older half-brother, Puck. [218] Gustin's first day on the Glee set was September 26, 2011. She had signed a contract that stated that she could not seek out her daughter until she was eighteen. Kitty, though still acerbic, becomes more sympathetic to the other glee club members, admitting that she considers everyone in New Directions her friends, and thatsince the glee club's disqualification has been reversedshe wants to win a Nationals championship. In the episode Feud, Ryder has an online love interest named Katie, whom he shares all his secrets with, only to find out he's being catfished. In the fifth episode, "The Role You Were Born to Play", she tries out for and is cast in the female role of Rizzo for the school musical, Grease, but Sue Sylvester informs her parents in the following episode, "Glease", and they pull her from the show. In 2020, the two of them are well-known actors who also teach students in schools to accept everyone. Sue next meets Becky Jackson (Lauren Potter) who apologizes for exposing Sue to the national media and they reconcile. He proposes to her after New Year's, and she accepts. Millie Rose (Trisha Rae Stahl) is introduced in "The New Rachel" as the lunch lady and Marley Rose's mother. Club wrote that hers might be "the best new character ever",[205] and TVLine's Michael Slezak felt that Harmony was "brilliantly bought to life" by Pearce. [171] In "Pot o' Gold", Shelby tells Puck that she is struggling at being a mother; as the episode ends, they kiss. ", "Glee: Gay Kiss for Kurt and New Boyfriend? I will miss you all so much", "Broadway star Jonathan Groff to join cast of Fox musical comedy 'Glee', "Promises Star Kristin Chenoweth Speaks Out on 'Horrendously Homophobic' Newsweek Article, Defends Sean Hayes", "Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on 'Lost,' 'House,' 'Smallville,' 'Heroes,' and more!