List of Wizards of Waverly Place characters

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The Wizards of Waverly Place cast of season two. (Left to right) David Henrie as Justin Russo, Jake T. Austin as Max Russo, Jennifer Stone as Harper Finkle, Selena Gomez as Alex Russo, David DeLuise as Jerry Russo and Maria Canals Barrera as Theresa Russo. – Can also use cursor to identify.

The following is the list of characters of Disney Channel original series Wizards of Waverly Place.

The series centers on the fictional characters of the Russo family, which includes Alex (Selena Gomez), her older brother Justin (David Henrie) and their younger brother Max (Jake T. Austin). The three Russo siblings are wizards in training and live with their Italian-American father and "former wizard" Jerry (David DeLuise) and their Mexican-American mother, the "mortal" Theresa (Maria Canals Barrera). Alex's best friend Harper (Jennifer Stone) also found out about the Russos' wizard powers in season 2. The siblings have to keep their secret safe while living in the mortal world. When they become adults, the three siblings will have a wizard competition to decide who will become the family wizard of their generation and keep his or her wizard powers. Harper used to have a crush on Justin, but now is in love with Justin's best friend, Zeke, who finds out about the Russos' wizard powers in season 4. Alex Russo (Selena Gomez) and Justin Russo (David Henrie) are the only characters to appear in every episode of the series.

Overview[]

Main characters[]

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Alex Russo[]

Alexandra Margarita Russo (Selena Gomez) is the only female out of the three Russo siblings, and the middle child. She is sly, rebellious, outgoing, and usually underachieves when it comes to school. She often gets into trouble because of her constant schemes (usually involving magic).

Justin Russo[]

Justin Vincenzo Pepé Russo (David Henrie) is Alex's and Max's older brother, and the oldest of the three Russo siblings. He is very smart, and is often considered a nerd. He is in numerous clubs and has learned over 5000 spells. He continues his wizard studies in a Monster Hunting course. For his knowledge in wizardry, he takes after his father Jerry, who originally won the Wizard Family Competition against Kelbo and Megan.

Max Russo[]

Maximilian Alonzo Ernesto "Max" Russo (Jake T. Austin) is the youngest of the three Russo siblings. Alex and Justin's magic are more advanced than Max's (as shown by the wands). Although he is an underachiever in the beginning, he advances more during the series. During season four, Alex and Justin accidentally turned Max into a little girl who is then given the name "Maxine" (Bailee Madison). Maxine remains as such for five episodes starting from "Three Maxes and a Little Lady" and ending with "Back To Max" when the spell is reversed to turn Maxine back into Max.

Harper Finkle[]

Harper Rosanne Evans Finkle (Jennifer Stone) is best friends with Alex Russo, and always used to have a crush on her brother, Justin Russo, but now is in a relationship with Zeke Beakerman, Justin's nerdy best friend. Harper is a typical teenager, being self-expressive, but a little insecure at times. Unlike Alex, she is a hard-working student and a fairly positive person, but still connects well with Alex. Jennifer Stone does not appear as Harper in "You Can't Always Get What You Carpet" (which was actually the first episode produced, but the sixth episode broadcast—the episode was aired out of production order).

Theresa Russo[]

Theresa Russo^[1] played by Maria Canals Barrera, is the mother of Alex, Justin and Max Russo and co-owner of the Waverly Sub Station, with her husband Jerry; and is also the slightly more serious one of the couple. Theresa is Mexican American (as a Latina, Canals Barrera has Spanish ancestry through her Cuban parents).^[2]

Jerry Russo[]

Geraldo Pepé "Jerry" Russo^[1] is the father of Alex, Justin and Max Russo and co-owner of the Waverly Sub Station, with his wife Theresa (whom he accidentally insults on occasion). Portrayed by David DeLuise. He is also a former wizard, who chose to give up his powers to marry his wife Theresa, a mortal, due to a rule forbidding wizards to marry mortals. Jerry is Italian American (DeLuise also has Italian ancestry).^[3]

Recurring characters[]

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The following is a list of recurring characters in the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place.

Zeke Beakerman[]

Ezekiel 'Zeke' Beakerman^[4] (Dan Benson) is Justin's best friend. Zeke is in the same grade as Justin. He attends Tribeca Prep and is in advanced chemistry along with Justin.

Mr. Laritate[]

Mr. Herschel Laritate (Bill Chott) is the principal of Tribeca Prep High School.

Mason Greyback[]

Mason Greyback (Gregg Sulkin; seasons 3–4) is first mentioned in Season 2 episode "Future Harper" when Future Harper tells Alex that she seems irritable and asks if she broke up with Mason yet, implying that she will date a boy named Mason in the future. Mason is first fully introduced as a student in Alex's art class, and as an English boy who has a crush on Alex. They later begin to date. Mason loves to paint.

Juliet van Heusen[]

Juliet van Heusen (Bridgit Mendler; seasons 2–4) is a teenage vampire who is Justin Russo's main love interest. When she was born, her parents let her have a soul so she could socialize in the human world. This also makes her more compassionate than most vampires, who are usually heartless and cunning. She is characterized as a beautiful girl with blonde hair and rather pale skin.

Dean Moriarty[]

Dean Moriarty (Daniel Samonas; seasons 2 and 4) is Alex's boyfriend in the second season. He makes temporary tattoos in the boys bathroom and is interested in cars.

Professor Crumbs[]

Professor Crumbs (Ian Abercrombie) is the headmaster of WizTech (a reference to Albus Dumbledore).

Hugh Normous[]

Hugh Normous (Josh Sussman; seasons 1–2 and 4) was Alex's Wiz Tech friend he first appeared in "Wizard School."

Kelbo Russo[]

Kelbo Russo (Jeff Garlin; seasons 1–3) is the uncle of Alex, Justin and Max, brother of Jerry and Megan and brother-in-law of Theresa. Unlike Jerry, he is very fun and carefree. Kelbo is a full wizard (Jerry had originally won the competition, but gave up his powers to marry a mortal) who often uses his powers very childishly, and often seems just as irresponsible with them as Alex is with her own. As a recurring gag, in every episode he appears in during the post credits scenes, he makes a prank call to someone.

Monotone Woman[]

Monotone Woman (Amanda Tepe; seasons 1–2) has played numerous characters during the show's first season, as well as one guest appearance in season two. She appears as a random character who speaks with a monotone voice. Jobs she has held include department store manager, waitress, frozen yogurt store manager, hotel maitre'd, dog show security guard, the information desk lady at Volcano Land (only job in the magic world), art museum security guard, and hot dog vendor. Tepe's only appearance on the show during the second season is in the episode "Wizards vs. Vampires: Dream Date" as the hot dog vendor person. Her name in "New Employee" is Amanda, according to her name tag, but in "Art Museum Piece", her name is Elaine according to Blue Boy. She does not appear in the third and fourth season.

Other recurring characters[]

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• Stevie Nichols (Hayley Kiyoko; season 3) – Stevie is the new trouble maker at school. She was first seen in episode Detention Election where she competes with Alex to see who is the baddest girl in school when it turns out to be her Alex and Stevie form a close friendship
• Rosie (Leven Rambin; season 4) – Rosie is Justin's angel girlfriend throughout the Wizards vs. Angels trilogy. In the first part, she pretends to be a wizard so she can join Justin's delinquent wizard class, but does terrible.
• Gorog (John Rubinstein; season 4) was an Angel of Darkness. He was the leader of the Dark Angels, who debuts in the episode "Wizards vs. Angels." His pawn, Rosie, tried to get Justin on his side in order to obtain the Moral Compass from the Guardian Angels, only to learn that Gorog tricked her. He appears to be based on Satan.
• Alucard and Cindy van Heusen (JD Cullum and Anne Ramsay; season 2) – Alucard and Cindy are Juliet's full vampire parents and the owners of the competing sandwich shop on Waverly Place, the Late Nite Bite, appearing in the four-part "Wizards vs. Vampires on Waverly Place" story arc at the end of season two. The name Alucard is the reverse spelling of Dracula.
• Riley (Brian Kubach; season 1) – Riley is Alex's crush in "I Almost Drowned in a Chocolate Fountain" and "The Supernatural", and her boyfriend in "Alex's Spring Fling".
• Talia Robinson (McKaley Miller; season 4) – Talia is Max's girlfriend. Her first appearance is in "Back to Max". She obviously likes Max
• Gertrude "Gigi" Hollingsworth (Skyler Samuels; seasons 1–2) – Gertrude is Alex's rival. She has tried to embarrass Alex ever since they were in kindergarten when Gigi spilled juice on Alex's mat during naptime and said Alex had an "accident", and will often go entirely out of her way to do so.
• The Wannabes (Kelsey Sanders and Heather Trzyna; seasons 1–2) – The Wannabes are called "the wannabes" because they want to be as pretty as Gigi.
• Chancellor Rudy Tootietootie (Andy Kindler; seasons 3–4) – He is the head of the monster hunting council.
• Conscience (Moises Arias; season 3) – The Conscience is Max's inner thoughts of right and wrong.
• Frankie/Joey (Paulie Litt; seasons 1 and 3) – Frankie/Joey is Justin's enemy in the first season. He returned in season 3 with his name changed to Joey.

Minor characters[]

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• Miranda Hampson (Lucy Hale) – She is Justin's goth girlfriend in two episodes of season one.
• Mr. Stuffleby (Fred Willard) – The character first appears in the episode "Make it Happen".
• T.J. Taylor (Daryl Sabara) – T.J. is another teenage wizard that attends Tribeca Prep with Alex, Justin, and Max.
• Officer Lamp (Michael A. Shepperd) – Officer Lamp is a wizard police officer who partners with Officer Goblin.
• Officer Goblin (Brian Scolaro) – Officer Goblin is a goblin/wizard police officer. He is married, but it is unknown if he has kids.
• The Mummy (John Eric Bentley) – A mummy who kidnapped and bewitched Juliet to be his servant.
• Conscience's Conscience (Adam Irigoyen) – He is Conscience's conscience when Conscience and Max get separated in Season 3 episode "Night at the Lazerama" and Conscience begins to develop his own conscience.
• Joey (Zack Shada) – Joey is in Dean's posse. He is the only who talks in the posse besides Dean.
• Ronald Longcape Jr. (Chad Duell) – Ronald is an evil kid at WizTech.
• Ronald Longcape Sr. (Maurice Godin) – Ronald Longcape Sr. is Ronald Longcape Jr.'s father.
• Dr. Mary-Beth Evilini (Octavia Spencer) – Dr. Evilini was an evil teacher at WizTech.
• Frankengirl/Frankie Stein (Perry Mattfeld) – Frankengirl is a female monster Justin created to guard his room from Alex in the season 3 episode "Franken Girl".
• Megan Russo (Carrie Genzel) – Megan is the embittered aunt of Alex, Justin and Max, and sister of Jerry and Kelbo and sister-in-law of Theresa.
• Susan (Tiffany Thornton) – Susan is another one of Justin's academic friends.
• MacGruder (Michael Monken) – MacGruder is a popular kid at Tribeca Prep who gets everyone to do what he does.
• Warren Nichols (Richard Chiu) – Warren is Stevie's brother whom she left in the middle of the power-transfer ceremony after he'd won their family wizard competition.
• Tutor Hatchback (Paulina Olszynski) – Max's magical tutor.

Film characters[]

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Characters only appear in Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie.

• Archie (Steve Valentine) – Archie is a skilled, but unlucky and sardonic illusionist and con artist, and serves as the comical foil and anti-hero of the movie.
• Giselle (Jennifer Alden) – Giselle is a female wizard. She was turned into a parrot and is the driving force for the search of The Stone of Dreams through the manipulation of Archie and the Russos.
• Javier (Xavier Enrique Torres) – He was a host at the hotel the Russos were staying at in the Caribbean.

TV special characters[]

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Characters only appear in The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex.

• Dominic (Beau Mirchoff) – Dominic is an evil, manipulative, self-absorbed wizard. Dominic was one of Justin's assistants at WizTech and delivers a message for the Russo family.
• Carmela (Natalia Nogulich) – Carmela is an Italian cousin of Jerry Russo, and was a wizard in training with him.
• Francesca (Antonella Lentini) – Francesca is an Italian cousin of the Russo family. When Max first sees her, he tries to pursue her, but when he tries to kiss her, she smacks him.

Guest characters[]

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