He is also an excellent poker player and a fairly good cook, but is very uneducated and stubborn, which coupled with his excessive flatulence, is a frequent theme of jokes about him. Despite his apparent lack of intelligence, he is sometimes very observant. He is friendly, innocent and he clearly loves his father and uncle, but is often dismissive towards them. Jake's style, personality and attitude changes as the series progresses, from a more cute, little-boy charm in the first season to a sardonic teenager in later seasons. After Charlie's death, Jake at first does not show any emotion but it is later revealed that, like Alan, he painfully misses him and still grieves his death . He proceeds to tell his father that the most important thing Charlie taught him was that when he is his uncle's age he wants to be married and have a family, because Charlie seemed very lonely and unhappy.
Despite his young age, he has proven himself to be charming enough to get sex from older women . Jake and Eldridge decide to join the Army following their high school graduation. Jake forms a friendship with Walden, who buys the beach house, and has such an impact on his life he tells Walden that he would name his child with his then girlfriend Tammy, Walden Harper. At the end of the tenth season he announces to the household that he is being shipped to Japan for a year. He and Alan go on a father son bonding trip together before he leaves. Initially Charlie's gorgeous but dim-witted girlfriend until Charlie broke it off with her so he could date Mia.
During this time Judith briefly dated Kandi's father Andi leading an interesting joke Jake told his father about the possibility Kandi could be his stepmother, stepsister and stepcousin all at once. Kandi and Alan had a superficial relationship based mostly on sex, but they eventually wed in Las Vegas, where they also won half a million dollars. Kandi is soon offered a role as a forensics expert on a CSI-type television series, entitled Stiffs. At the same time, Alan sees that Jake is practically grown up and he returns to Kandi to agree to have a baby with her. However, moments before they try to conceive, Kandi finally signs the divorce papers to ensure that Alan will not have any claim on her new-found television lucre, and disappears from Alan's life.
In the tenth season, Kandi resurfaces as a television star and tries to win Alan back, but despite his temptations, Alan ultimately rejects her, as he is in a relationship with Lyndsey McElroy. After a paparazzo acquires altered photographs of them together, Kandi goes to explain the situation to Lyndsey, and for unknown reasons they end up having sex. Years ago, she was featured in a soft-core porn movie, Cinnamon's Buns.
She and Eldridge live in the San Fernando Valley, across the street from Judith, Herb, Jake, and Millie. She divorced her husband Chris after discovering his affair with their babysitter. Alan began dating Lyndsey at the end of season 7, and their relationship was initially kept a secret from their sons. Alan later tells Jake that he and Lyndsey are dating but have absolutely no intention of getting married. They however get engaged in the season ten episode "Something My Gynecologist Said".
This does not deter Lyndsey from having sex with Alan's ex-wife Kandi when Kandi attempts to reconcile with Alan. Later, in season ten, Lyndsey breaks up with Alan again and begins dating a man named Nick. Nick is unseen, though Alan spies on him and Lyndsey and hears them having loud sex.
As season eleven begins, it is unknown what happened to Nick, but Lyndsey reveals she is dating another man who turns out to be Larry Martin. She still keeps Alan around for sex only, revealing that Larry is lousy in bed but that she likes all of his other qualities. Larry eventually proposes to Lyndsey and she accepts, but the wedding is cancelled when Larry learns of Alan's true identity and that Lyndsey cheated.
Lyndsey returns early in season twelve after 60 days in alcohol rehab, only to find out that Alan married Walden. She immediately gets drunk and goes to Alan, suggesting that they resume their sex-only relationship. In the final episode, Alan telephones Lyndsey to inform her that should anything happen to him, she was the love of his life (since he currently fears the wrath of a very-alive Charlie).
Though she tells him she loves him, she is in a pawn shop selling Alan's engagement ring behind his back. Marty Pepper (Carl Reiner, seasons 7–8, 11), Evelyn's much older boyfriend, a retired TV producer. Evelyn first invites him round to Charlie's house when she goes to visit. He believes Alan and Charlie to be gay and Jake to be their adopted son, which he quips would make a great sitcom. This becomes the premise of season 12 of the show with Alan and Walden marrying to adopt a child.
He gives the boys advice on how to score with women, telling them to say to a woman that he will give her, her own sitcom. He meets Evelyn's newly found granddaughter but does not like her living with them when Walden throws her out of his house as she is receiving all of Evelyn's attention, leaving no time for sex between them. He initially mistakes Evelyn inviting Jenny to stay as a sexual reason as he had never done a grandmother/grandchild combination before. He believes Walden and Alan to be gay and ask the minister to marry them at his and Evelyn's wedding.
He believes Walden to be one of Evelyn's sons and prefers him over Alan, as most people do. He and Evelyn reportedly have an "open marriage", in that they can sleep with other people, as Evelyn does on at least 2 occasions following the wedding. In his original appearance ("Warning, It's Dirty") the character was slightly different, he spoke with a slight lisp and out of one side of his mouth.
Formerly a one-night stand, Chelsea seems to be one of the few women out of Charlie's countless relationships that has caused him to try to make positive changes in his debaucherous lifestyle. She became close friends with Alan, something Charlie enjoyed because Alan could take her to museums and foreign films . In the seventh season premiere, Charlie finally decides to let go of Mia and commit to Chelsea. As the season progresses, however, Chelsea unintentionally begins to bring out Charlie's evil side, as he starts treating Alan and Jake cruelly if they accidentally inconvenience her. Charlie and Chelsea make several attempts to reconcile, most recently following her breakup with Brad. Chelsea tried to reunite with Charlie, but was thwarted due to her best friend, Gail , sleeping with him.
Jake was driving at the beginning of this episode, but when the police came after them in a cop car, Jake and Charlie switched seats, causing Charlie to lose his license. While credited among the main cast as Jennifer Taylor during the seventh season, CBS press releases bill her as a recurring character. At Charlie's funeral, she spitefully says that he gave her chlamydia. She appears in the finale with a huge check from Charlie and an apology letter for shooting her while they were dating. Before she appeared as Lyndsey on TAAHM, Thorne-Smith was already a famous television actress.
She had recurring roles on Melrose Place, L.A. Law, and Ally McBeal. She was also a main character on the sitcom According to Jim from 2001 until 2009. Courtney is still getting cast following her time on Two and a Half Man and she can currently be seen on the television series Fresh Off the Boat.
She has been married twice and has a son with her second husband, to whom she's been married since 2007. After warming up to her, Walden and Alan invite her to move in after she reveals she has nowhere to go. Though she exhibits many of Charlie's personality traits , Jenny is considerably much nicer and down-to-earth than he was. Thus far, she has formed good relationships with her surviving relatives, Walden, Berta and Walden's friend Barry . She and Jake have never met thus far, but she does know he exists and would like to meet him.
In "Welcome Home, Jake" she meets Barry for the first time, mistaking him for Jake. She happily gives him a hug only to be disgusted when she discovers the truth. She eventually takes a liking to Barry and the two become the best of friends. Though it is apparent that Walden is attracted to her, he believes she has no drive or ambition. Fearing she may turn into "another Alan", he tries to be a positive role model for her. She moved from her home in New York City in order to find her dad in Malibu.
She apparently has a poor relationship with her mother and the only reason she became an actress was "to piss her mother off," as she wanted her to become a doctor. She makes a brief appearance in the final episode, where she receives a large cheque and an apology letter from Charlie, who survived his accident in Paris. She also appears to have gone back to her promiscuous ways, given that she was apparently having a threesome with two women and forgot they were in her bedroom. Conchata Ferrell has been acting since the mid 1970s and she has appeared in several shows and television movies.
Ferrell is an award winning actress and she was also nominated for multiple Emmys for her role as Berta. Ferrell has been featured on many television series including Teen Angel, Hearts Afire and The Ranch. Ferrell is married to Arnie Anderson and she has a daughter and two stepdaughters. Graham played Jake's best friend and Lyndsey's son Eldridge on TAAHM.
He is now well-known for his recurring role as Rusty Beck in the TNT series Major Crimes. Since 2014, he has been in a relationship with 22-year-old actress Virginia or "Ginny" Gardner. The young actress got her first big break on the series The Goldbergs where she played the recurring character Lexy Bloom, and has appeared in a few minor roles in TV shows and movies since then. Mia (Emmanuelle Vaugier, season 3 recurring, seasons 5–7, 9, 12), a ballet teacher whom Charlie Harper fell in love with during the third season. She got him to clean up his act by not drinking or smoking as much, not wearing bowling shirts as well as not eating meat.
However, he breaks up with her after he becomes fed up with the way she was trying to control his behavior. She returns towards the end of the third season when her dancing group comes to town, and she asks Charlie for his sperm so she can have a baby. He attempts but fails, and he then proposes marriage to her, in which she accepts. Initially, Alan was their wedding planner, however after a big blowout with Mia's parents, they agree to go to Las Vegas and elope.
Just as they are about to be married, Mia implies that Alan and Jake will be moving out after they wed, and Charlie refuses to throw out his family. Mia returns in the fifth season when Charlie sees that she is marrying another man, and he attempts to win her back, but her father punches him out. She returns again the sixth and seventh seasons after her divorce in hopes that Charlie will help her with a new-found singing career.
Charlie then has to choose between Mia and his then-fiancée Chelsea. After much consideration, Charlie chooses Chelsea and abandons Mia at the recording studio. Mia also makes a brief guest appearance in the ninth season première at Charlie's funeral. In the final episode, Mia gets a letter of apology from Charlie for having an affair with her sister, along with a large check. When she sees the amount, she says "Screw my sister", presumably forgiving him. He and his ex-wife, Judith, are Jake's parents, and Alan is possibly the biological father of Judith's second child, a daughter named Millie Melnick.
After losing his house to Judith in the divorce, he moves in with Charlie. He is generally a pleasant and supportive man, but seems to have an attraction to women who treat him poorly, which may stem from the non-nurturing relationship he had with his and Charlie's mother. Also, in the Season 6 episode, "She'll Still Be Dead at Halftime", he confesses that he likes feet . In the season 3 finale, Alan marries a twenty-two-year-old dumbbell named Kandi who was one of Charlie's former girlfriends. After Charlie had canceled his wedding with Mia, Alan and Kandi got married instead.
Although in the season 4 premiere, four months after the marriage Kandi throws Alan out of her condo and divorces Alan which leads him to paying alimony to two ex-wives. Jon Cryer as Alan Harper, Charlie's younger brother, a struggling chiropractor, Jake's twice-divorced father, Walden's best friend, and Jenny's uncle. In the 12th and final season, Alan agrees to "marry" Walden for the latter to adopt a child, and for months, the two pretend to be a gay couple.
In the series' penultimate episode, Walden and Alan end the marriage as Walden had successfully adopted a six-year-old named Louis. Alan finally proposes to Lyndsey and agrees to marry her in the final episodes. Cryer is the only cast member who appears in all 262 episodes of the series.
Holland Taylor has played the character of Evelyn Harper in famous sitcom Two and a Half Men. Jon Cryer is known for playing the character of Alan Harper in famous sitcom Two and a Half men. Besides being an actor Jon Cryer is a television director as well as a comedian.
Jon Cryer has worked in a number of movies and television series including Pretty in Pink, Hit Shots! Barry Foster (Clark Duke, seasons 11–12), was the working partner of Walden's love interest at the time Nicole. He is a full grown man but due to his youthful looks, childish personality, and short stature – he is often mistaken to be a kid.
After Nicole left Malibu to work for Google in San Francisco, Barry was left homeless and without a job. He moves in with Walden temporarily, until Walden decides he's had enough of people moving into his house so he found Barry an apartment. Nevertheless, Walden takes a liking to Barry and the two become good friends. Jenny, Alan and Berta mistook him for Jake upon meeting him for the first time. Since his first appearance on the show, Barry's role gradually becomes more significant. He is there when the birth mother of Walden and Alan's supposed child goes into labour and stays to be there with them.
The two were married from 2002 to 2006, and they have two daughters together. Even though the couple split, they both still spend time with their children together. Denise has one more child, a baby girl she adopted, name Eloise Joni. Her most recent role was in a comedy film "1st born" where she played one of the main characters.
Rachel appeared in only one episode as Charlie's girlfriend Chloe, and love interest of fellow guest star Fernando aka Enrique Iglesias. The beautiful blonde, who is currently playing Deidre in the ABC comedy Fresh off the Boat, got married in 2015 to Noah Engh. Maggie played the quirky and adorable social worker Ms. McMartin, who was assigned to Walden and Alan when they chose to adopt a child. In 2015, the actress best known as Det. Jules on Psych, got married to actor Ben Koldyke.
