List of Falcon Crest characters

Cast timeline

Cast notes

Main characters

Supporting characters

Introduced in season one

• Gus Nuñez – Nick Ramus Hispanic vineyardist at the Gioberti estate who befriends Chase. He lives on the property with his wife Alicia and son Mario. He later dies after accidentally digging into a gas line while repairing an irrigation pipe.
• Mario Nuñez – Mario Marcelino Gus' son, who becomes romantically involved with Vickie Gioberti. He leaves town with his mother following his father's death.
• Douglas Channing – Stephen Elliott Angela's estranged first husband and father of Julia, Emma and Richard. He is owner of The San Francisco Globe newspaper, and following his death he bequeaths half of his shares to his illegitimate son Richard.
• Tony Cumson – John Saxon, Robert Loggia Julia's husband and Lance's father who was driven away by Angela. He makes brief returns to try and bond with Lance.
• Jacqueline Perrault – Lana Turner Chase's flamboyant mother and bitter enemy of Angela. She was co-founder of the Cartel. Years earlier, Jacqueline had an affair with Angela's first husband Douglas and later told Richard that she was his mother, though it later emerged that this was not true. When Julia Cumson was revealed to be Carlo Agretti's murderer in front of the entire family, Julia pulled out a gun. A struggle ensued and shots were fired, one of which killed Jacqueline.
• Carlo Agretti – Carlos Romero Melissa's wealthy father and owner of the Agretti vineyards. He is murdered by Julia Cumson after he tries to use their affair to gain control of Falcon Crest.
• Father Bob – Bob Curtis A Catholic priest who is a longtime friend and confidant of Angela.

  Introduced in season two

• Diana Hunter – Shannon Tweed Personal assistant to Richard Channing who is working for the sinister Cartel organization.
• Nick Hogan – Roy Thinnes County supervisor and Vickie Gioberti's first husband, who married her for her family's fortune. He was later exposed to still be involved with his wife Sheila and Vickie ended the marriage.
• Darryl Clayton – Bradford Dillman Film producer who works with Maggie Gioberti on a screenplay she is writing, but is actually part of a plot by Angela to destroy her marriage to Chase.
• Katherine Demery – Joanna Cassidy The owner of a small vineyard who has a brief romantic involvement with much younger Cole Gioberti before leaving the valley.
• Amanda Croft – Anne Jeffreys The wife of a prominent politician and Phillip Erikson's love interest. Her relationship with Phillip ends after Angela's interference.
• Vince Caproni – Harry Basch Linda's father, who disapproves of her marriage to Cole Gioberti. Following his daughter's death, he leaves the valley to live with relatives.
• Linda Caproni Gioberti – Mary Kate McGeehan Cole Gioberti's first wife, who dies in a plane crash.
• Joseph Gioberti – Jason Goldberg The son of Cole Gioberti and Melissa Agretti. Although Melissa was already pregnant with Joseph by the time she married Lance, it emerged that Cole was his father and a bitter custody battle ensued. Angela later convinced Melissa to give Joseph to Cole in return for Chase returning her half of Falcon Crest after a legal dispute. Melissa agreed on the condition that she was to become Angela's sole heir. Years later, when Melissa became increasingly unstable, Joseph eventually went to live with Cole in Australia.

  Introduced in season three

• Dr. Michael Ranson – Cliff Robertson Jacqueline's nephew and Chase's cousin, who starts working as a neurosurgeon at the Tuscany Valley hospital. He later marries Terry Hartford, but is killed in the plane crash that also killed Phillip Erikson and Linda Gioberti.

  Introduced in season four

• Joel McCarthy – Parker Stevenson Terry Hartford's unscrupulous ex-husband and a drug addict. He comes to the Tuscany Valley to blackmail Terry as their divorce was never finalized, meaning her marriage to Michael Ranson was never legal. He is paid by Melissa to frame Lance for the attempted murder of Angela.
• Lorraine Prescott, later Cumson – Kate Vernon Stepdaughter of Richard Channing and love interest for Lance. Though neither Angela nor Richard approve of their relationship, Lorraine marries Lance after she becomes pregnant with his child, but she and her unborn baby later die after a fall.
• Charlotte Pershing – Jane Greer Maggie's biological mother who gave her up for adoption at birth. She has a gambling addiction that Angela uses to her advantage.
• Damon Ross – Jonathan Frakes Brother of Cassandra Wilder, and son of Anna and Dominic Rossini. Damon works for his sister at Wilder Advertising, a top San Francisco ad agency, from where they both plot to take over Falcon Crest and ruin Angela for her alleged crimes against their family. He briefly romances Emma, which deters him from taking part in the final takeover.
• Connie Giannini – Carla Borelli The beautiful owner of the Giannini Vineyards, she begins working with Chase, whom she is attracted to and has a brief fling with.
• Robin Agretti – Barbara Howard Melissa's cousin, the daughter of Phillip and Theresa Agretti. Robin comes to visit Melissa and later agrees to help her and Cole by being a surrogate mother, as Melissa cannot have any more children. However, she becomes attracted to Cole and undermines his marriage to Melissa at every opportunity. When she eventually gives birth to a baby girl, Hope, she leaves the valley with the child, determined that Melissa will never raise her. Robin's father Phillip dies sometime before Frank Agretti returns to Tuscany Valley.
• Francesca Gioberti – Gina Lollobrigida Angela's Italian half-sister, who visits Tuscany Valley with a claim to a share of Falcon Crest that she later sells to Richard.
• Paul Hartford - Andrew Duggan Maggie's and Terry's archeologist father. Paul adopted Maggie with his late wife Margaret.
• Cassandra Wilder – Anne Archer A cool, calculating businesswoman who becomes involved with Richard. She later manages to gain controlling interest in Falcon Crest, which she plans to destroy because of Angela's crimes against her family. Daughter of Anna Rossini, sister of Damon Ross and half-sister of Father Christopher Rossini. Cassandra becomes pregnant with Richard's child, Michael, but dies in childbirth.
• Anna Rossini – Celeste Holm A bitter widow with an old score to settle with Angela. Mother of Cassandra Wilder and Damon Ross. She was institutionalized after trying to kill Angela by setting Falcon Crest on fire, as part of her revenge against Angela for supposedly driving her husband to suicide. Aware of but in denial over the affair her husband had with Julia Cumson, which led to the birth of Christopher Rossini.

  Introduced in season five

• Jordan Roberts – Morgan Fairchild A glamorous attorney who works for Richard Channing and helps him rebuild his empire after he loses his share of Falcon Crest and goes bankrupt. Although a sharp, intelligent woman, Jordan suffers from multiple personality disorder following years of abuse at the hands of her father, who molested her as a child. She later becomes involved with Greg Reardon and, after receiving treatment for her condition, the two of them leave the Tuscany Valley together.
• Apollonia – Apollonia Kotero A singer who becomes romantically involved with Lance. When her career takes off, she leaves San Francisco.
• Dwayne Cooley – Daniel Greene A dashing truck driver who falls for Emma Channing. He later goes into the wine distribution business with Chase. Dwayne and Emma intend to marry, much against Angela's wishes, but he is killed in the earthquake that devastated the valley in 1986.
• Jeff Wainwright – Edward Albert A press agent for a book written by Maggie Gioberti, but his interest in her takes a disturbing turn when he begins stalking Maggie, later kidnapping and raping her.
• Li-Ying – Rosalind Chao Chao-Li's daughter, who comes to Tuscany Valley to visit her father. Li-Ying works as a seismologist and predicted the deadly earthquake that occurred in Tuscany Valley.
• Erin Jones – Jill Jacobson An unscrupulous woman who performs underhanded work for Angela, such as infecting Chase's vineyards with a parasite. She later works for Richard Channing and tries to double-cross him, but her plan backfires. Also responsible for shooting Chase Gioberti.

  Introduced in season six

• Kit Marlowe – Kim Novak A woman with a shady past who poses as Peter Stavros' dead stepdaughter. She causes mayhem when she arrives in Tuscany Valley and is pursued by deadly gangster Roland Saunders. Kit eventually becomes involved with Lance's father Tony, and the two of them leave to go and live on Peter's private island, only to later part ways.
• Roland Saunders – Robert Stack Mafioso-type criminal who is out to kill Kit Marlowe. He is himself later killed by Peter Stavros.
• Meredith Braxton – Jane Badler Erin Jones' sister, and later assistant to Richard Channing after her sister's death. After he spurns her, she turns on Richard and provides Angela with information that will ruin him.
• Garth – Carl Held Personal assistant and head of security for Richard Channing.
• Guy Stafford – Jeff Kober Hired killer sent to kill Kit Marlowe.
• Vince Karlotti – Marjoe Gortner A charlatan posing as a psychic medium who has Emma Channing under his spell. When he marries her, it is revealed that he is a polygamist.
• Dina Wells – Robin Greer Love interest for Lance who is crippled after a racing car accident and is killed by a psychotic nurse. Greer and Lamas were also briefly engaged in real life, but split up in 1987. Their onscreen relationship followed suit.
• Gabrielle Short – Cindy Morgan Love interest for Chase following the end of his marriage to Maggie.
• Francine Hope – Melba Moore An adoption attorney who tries to help Maggie Gioberti trace her baby.