Patricia Bethune
True Blood is an American television drama series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on the Sookie Stackhouse book series (known as The Southern Vampire Mysteries) by Charlaine Harris.
Mike Spencer
is both the town coroner and the director of the local funeral home; he presides over the burial of Sookie's parents when she is a child. During the second season he becomes a frequent participant in Maryann's orgies.
Jane Bodehouse
Chuck
and
Wayne
are friends of Royce Williams and appear with him in each of his appearances in season one. Both characters are regulars at Merlotte's and share Royce's bigoted attitude towards vampires and homosexuals. They are accomplices in the murders of Malcolm, Diane, Liam, and Neil Jones, as well as the arson of the three vampires' home in Bon Temps. Despite sharing in Royce's guilt, neither are shown being kidnapped by the vampires at Fangtasia.
Ginger
Barry
is a bellboy at the Dallas vampire hotel, the Hotel Carmilla, in the second season. Sookie discovers that he is also a telepath, and she calls for his help telepathically when the Fellowship of the Sun captures her. Lorena briefly feeds from Barry, stopping when she realizes that his blood tastes different from other humans. Barry escapes from her clutches when Bill knocks her unconscious with a plasma television.
Hugo
Nan Flanagan
is the spokesperson for the American Vampire League and has intermittently been shown being interviewed on televised news programs within the series. She denounces acts of violence committed against vampires (especially those perpetrated by the Fellowship of the Sun during the second season) and denies allegations of vampire attacks on humans based on a lack of evidence. In "I Will Rise Up," it is implied that she is a high-level bureaucrat within the vampire community, a position that gives her the authority to fire Godric.
Chow
Lorena is first introduced during flash back sequences to Bill's birth as a vampire in the first season, but is featured more prominently during season two. She gives Bill the "gift" of eternal life over a century before the events of the series when he is returning from service during the American Civil War. After Bill is made a vampire, the two live as lovers for approximately 70 years (Bill indicates to Sookie that he was turned in 1865, and a flashback scene from "Release Me" shows Bill and Lorena breaking up in 1935) before parting ways. Bill's refusal to adopt Lorena's disregard for human life makes their relationship miserable. Lorena is at first incredulous when Bill reveals this to her, but she reluctantly releases her hold on him when he threatens to commit suicide if she will not.
The two characters are reunited through Eric's machinations during season two. While investigating Godric's disappearance in Dallas, Eric sees an opportunity to drive a wedge between Bill and Sookie. He invites Lorena to Dallas, and asks her to detain Bill while Sookie infiltrates the Fellowship of the Sun. Though Lorena initially feigns disinterest, her feelings for Bill become evident while she holds him captive in his hotel room. Despite being stronger and faster than Bill, he eventually escapes her to be with Sookie. Later, Godric stops her from attacking Sookie and reprimands her for her childish behavior considering her age.
Though Lorena does seem to reside in Bon Temps when she makes Bill, the two take to traveling the world while they are together. Her whereabouts between her breakup with Bill and the events of the series are unknown, as is her destination after Godric forces her to leave his home.
Isabel
Dawn Green
is Sookie's co-worker and friend. Dawn engages in an on-and-off again relationship with Jason Stackhouse, which they rekindle during the first season shortly after Maudette Pickens' death. When Jason discovers that Dawn has slept with a vampire (later revealed to be Eric) and criticizes her for it, Dawn throws him out of her house at gunpoint. Later that night, she is strangled to death by Drew Marshall.
Maudette Pickens
Bartlett Hale
, known as "Uncle Bartlett" to Jason and Sookie Stackhouse, is their great-uncle and Adele's estranged brother. In the first season, it's revealed that he molested Sookie when she was a child, and is alienated from the rest of the family when Sookie tells her grandmother what he's done. During the events of the series, he upsets Sookie by attending her grandmother's funeral. She confides the traumatic events of her childhood to Bill, who later tracks him down and kills him in an act of revenge. Uncle Bartlett's body is discovered in the second season, and Sookie learns that Bill murdered him in cold blood. Under the terms of Uncle Bartlett's will, Sookie inherits $11,000, all of which she gives to Jason as she cannot bear to take his money.
Malcolm, Liam and Diane
Longshadow
is the bartender at Fangtasia. In season one, Sookie discovers that he's been stealing money from the bar when she reads the mind of a waitress working there named Ginger. Longshadow glamors Ginger when she discovers what he's been doing. Bill stakes Longshadow in order to save Sookie's life when he attacks her for revealing his treachery.
Royce Williams
Karl
is Maryann's assistant and serves her as an all-purpose domestic worker. Making his first appearance in the last episode of season one, he functions as a cook, chauffeur, house keeper, and masseur at various points during season two. Karl serves Maryann and her guests without complaint, speaking infrequently in general. He seems to knowingly help in the coordination of Maryann's bacchanalia, however he neither appears as a participant nor as showing visible signs of possession. At the end of the second season, Lafayette Reynolds tries to shoot Maryann Forrester, but she deflects the bullet and it goes into Karl's head. Maryann only shows momentary pause at the loss of her companion, remarking that he "never made it far in this lifetime."
