List of Wizards of Waverly Place characters

The following is the list of characters of the 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, Jerry (David DeLuise), and their Mexican-American mother, Theresa (Maria Canals Barrera). The siblings have to keep the secret of their magical powers 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 and keep his or her powers.

Overview

Character	Portrayed by	Wizards of Waverly Place					The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex
		Season 1	Season 2	The Movie	Season 3	Season 4
Main characters
Alex Russo	Selena Gomez	Main
Justin Russo	David Henrie	Main					Mentioned
Max Russo	Jake T. Austin	Main
Harper Finkle	Jennifer Stone	Main		Guest	Main
Theresa Russo	Maria Canals Barrera	Main
Jerry Russo	David DeLuise	Main
Archie	Steve Valentine			Main
Giselle	Jennifer Alden			Main
Max "Maxine" Russo (female version of Max)	Bailee Madison					Main
Mason Greyback	Gregg Sulkin		Mentioned		Recurring		Main
Alex Russo (evil version)	Selena Gomez						Main
Dominic	Beau Mirchoff						Main
Recurring characters
Zeke Beakerman	Dan Benson	Recurring			Recurring
Mr. Herschel Laritate	Bill Chott	Recurring			Recurring
Professor Crumbs	Ian Abercrombie	Recurring			Recurring		Mentioned
Hugh Normous	Josh Sussman	Recurring				Recurring
Juliet van Heusen	Bridgit Mendler		Recurring		Recurring		Mentioned
Stevie Nichols	Hayley Kiyoko				Recurring
The Mummy	John Eric Bentley				Recurring
Gorog, Angel of Darkness	John Rubinstein					Recurring	Mentioned
Rosie	Leven Rambin					Recurring
Kelbo Russo	Jeff Garlin	Recurring			Recurring
Gigi Hollingsworth	Skyler Samuels	Recurring
The Wannabes	Kelsey Sanders Heather Trzyna	Recurring
Monotone Woman	Amanda Tepe	Recurring	Guest
Frankie / Joey	Paulie Litt	Recurring			Guest
Riley	Brian Kubach	Recurring
Dean Moriarty	Daniel Samonas		Recurring			Guest
Conscience	Moises Arias				Recurring
Alucard van Heusen	JD Cullum		Recurring
Cindy van Heusen	Anne Ramsay		Recurring
Chancellor Rudy Tootietootie	Andy Kindler				Recurring
Talia Robinson	McKaley Miller					Recurring
Felix	Frank Pacheco					Recurring
Minor characters
T.J. Taylor	Daryl Sabara	Guest
Officer Lamp	Michael A. Shepperd	Guest
Officer Goblin	Brian Scolaro	Guest
Miranda Hampson	Lucy Hale	Recurring
Mr. Stuffleby	Fred Willard		Guest			Guest
Carmela	Natalia Nogulich						Supporting
Francesca	Antonella Lentini						Supporting

Main

• 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 under achieves when it comes to school. She often gets into trouble because of her constant schemes (usually involving magic). Alex and Justin Russo are the only characters to appear in every episode of the series
• 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" because 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.
• Maximilian Alonzo Ernesto "Max" Russo (Jake T. Austin) is the youngest of the three Russo siblings. Although Max 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 then is 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.
• Harper Rosanne Evans Finkle (Jennifer Stone) is best friends with Alex Russo. She used to have a crush on her brother, Justin Russo, but eventually falls in love with Justin's best friend, Zeke Beakerman. Harper is a typical teenager: self-expressive but a little insecure at times. Unlike Alex, she is a hardworking student and a fairly positive person. During season 2, Harper finds out about the Russo family's wizard powers.
• Theresa Russo (Maria Canals Barrera) is the mother of Alex, Justin and Max Russo and co-owner of the Waverly Sub Station, with her husband Jerry. Theresa is the slightly more serious one of the couple. Theresa is Mexican American (as a Latina, Canals Barrera has Spanish ancestry through her Cuban parents).
• Geraldo Pepé "Jerry" Russo (David DeLuise) is the father of Alex, Justin and Max Russo and co-owner of the Waverly Sub Station with his wife Theresa. 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).

Recurring

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

• Zeke Beakerman (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. Herschel Laritate (Bill Chott) is the principal of Tribeca Prep High School.
• 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 (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 (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 (Ian Abercrombie) is the headmaster of WizTech (a reference to Albus Dumbledore).
• Hugh Normous (Josh Sussman; seasons 1–2 and 4) was Alex's WizTech friend he first appeared in "Wizard School."
• 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 (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

• Stevie Nichols (Hayley Kiyoko; season 3) 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) 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) 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) 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) is Max's girlfriend. Her first appearance is in "Back to Max". She has an obvious crush on Max.
• Gertrude "Gigi" Hollingsworth (Skyler Samuels; seasons 1–2) 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) are called "the wannabes" because they want to be as pretty as Gigi.
• Chancellor Rudy Tootietootie (Andy Kindler; seasons 3–4) is the head of the monster hunting council.
• Conscience (Moises Arias; season 3) is Max's inner thoughts of right and wrong.
• Frankie/Joey (Paulie Litt; seasons 1 and 3) is Justin's enemy in the first season. He returned in season 3 with his name changed to Joey.

Minor

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

Film

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

• Archie (Steve Valentine) 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) 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) was a host at the hotel the Russos were staying at in the Caribbean.

TV special

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

• Dominic (Beau Mirchoff) 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) is an Italian cousin of Jerry Russo, and was a wizard in training with him.
• Francesca (Antonella Lentini) 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.

Guests

• Heidi Swedberg as Miss Majorheely ("Art Teacher") 2.15 (2009)
• Austin Butler as George ("Positive Alex") 3.10 (2010)
• Cindy Crawford as Bebe Rockford ("Fashion Week") 2.13 (2009)
• Rachel Dratch as Future Harper/"H.J. Darling" ("Future Harper") 2.16 (2009)
• Julia Duffy as Ms. Angela ("Credit Check") 1.18 (2008)
• Willie Garson as Mr. Frenchy ("Fashion Week") 2.13 (2009)
• Dwayne Johnson as Himself ("Art Teacher") 2.15 (2009)
• Lee Meriwether as "Battle Diva" ("Harper Knows") 2.08 (2008)
• Belita Moreno as Magdalena Larkin ("Quinceanera") 1.20 (2008)
• Sara Paxton as Millie ("Credit Check") 1.18 (2008)
• Rob Reiner as Himself ("Future Harper") – Reiner is seen in the episode's tag scene
• Adam Irigoyen as Conscience's Conscience ("Night at the Lazerama") 3.05 (2009)
• Phill Lewis as Marion Moseby ("Cast Away (to Another Show)"), 2.25 (2009) part of the "Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana" crossover)
• Debby Ryan as Bailey Pickett ("Cast Away (to Another Show)", 2.25 (2009) part of the "Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana" crossover)
• Brenda Song as London Tipton ("Cast Away (to Another Show)", part of the "Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana" crossover)
• Cole Sprouse as Cody Martin ("Cast Away (to Another Show)", part of the "Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana" crossover)
• Dylan Sprouse as Zack Martin ("Cast Away (to Another Show)", part of the "Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana" crossover)
• Chelsea Staub as Kari Landsdorf ("The Supernatural") 1.15 (2008)
• Malese Jow as Ruby Donahue ("Movies") 1.09 (2007)
• Tiffany Thornton as Susan ("Movies") 1.09 (2007)
• Misty May-Treanor as Herself ("Art Teacher") 2.15 (2008)
• Eric Allan Kramer as Coach Gunderson ("Alex in the Middle") 1.15 (2007)
• Jo Anne Worley as Maggie ("Alex Does Good") 2.17 (2009)
• Bella Thorne as Nancy Lukey ("Max's Secret Girlfriend") 3.19 (2010)
• Laura Ashley Samuels as Sara ("Moving On") 3.26 (2010)
• Shakira as Herself ("Dude, Looks Like Shakira") 3.12 (2010)
• Kate Flannery as Elaine Finkle ("Wizards vs. Finkles") 3.23 (2010)
• Scot Robinson as Marty Finkle ("Wizards vs. Finkles") 3.23 (2010)
• Wilmer Valderrama as Uncle Ernesto (""Uncle Ernesto") 3.25 (2010)
• John O'Hurley as Captain Jim Sherwood ("Captain Jim Bob Sherwood") 3.22 (2010)
• Bailee Madison as Maxine Russo ("Three Maxes and a Little Lady – Back to Max") 4.5 – 4.10 (2011)
• Shane Harper as Fidel ("Three Maxes and a Little Lady") 4.5 (2011)
• China Anne McClain as Tina ("Wizards vs. Angels") 4.09 (2011)
• Jackie Evancho as Choir Girl/Herself ("Back to Max") 4.10 (2011)
• Valente Rodriguez as Bob "Muy Macho" ("Magic Unmasked") 4.12 (2011)
• Tim Conway as Cragmont ("Justin's Back In") 4.18 (2011)
• Joely Fisher as Meg Robinson ("Alex the Puppetmaster") 4.19 (2011)
• James Urbaniak as Rob Robinson ("Alex the Puppetmaster") 4.19 (2011)