gina gershon played rachel berry's mom in glee.
gina gershon played rachel berry's mom in glee.
who plays rachel berry's mom in glee?
gina gershon
for a short time rachel believes that she is dating finn, but he tells her that he needs to take time out for himself. he changes his mind soon after, but rachel has already begun dating jesse st. james (jonathan groff), the lead singer of rival glee club vocal adrenaline. the rest of the glee club presses rachel to break off with jesse, but he transfers to william mckinley and joins new directions, which defuses their concerns. she tells jesse that her dream is to find her birth mother, and he offers to help her do so. however, he already knows who it is: vocal adrenaline coach shelby corcoran (idina menzel), who has asked jesse to befriend rachel so that she might reconnect with her daughter, whom she is not allowed to contact directly until rachel is eighteen. when rachel discovers that shelby is her mother, they both confess to not feeling an immediate attachment and eventually decide not to pursue a relationship. jesse betrays rachel and returns to vocal adrenaline, leaving her devastated. in the episode "journey to regionals", as he and rachel are about to go onstage at regionals, finn tells her that he loves her; although they lose the competition to vocal adrenaline, they become a couple.
rachel berry
"glee" has featured as many as fifteen main roles with star billing, after starting with twelve. morrison plays will schuester, mckinley high's spanish teacher, who becomes glee-club director and hopes to restore it to its former glory. lynch plays sue sylvester, head coach of the "cheerios" cheerleading squad, and the glee club's nemesis. mays appears as emma pillsbury, the school's mysophobic guidance counselor who has feelings for will, and jessalyn gilsig plays terri schuester, will's wife whom he eventually divorces after five years of marriage and the discovery that she has faked being pregnant instead of revealing she had suffered a false pregnancy. michele plays rachel berry, talented star of the glee club who is often bullied by the cheerios and football players, but grows closer to them as the show progresses. rachel has an on-and-off relationship with finn hudson starting in season one; they become engaged in season three. monteith played finn, star quarterback of the school's football team who risks alienation by his friends after joining the glee club. also in the club are amber riley as mercedes jones, a fashion-conscious diva who initially resents having to sing back-up; colfer as kurt hummel, a fashionable gay male countertenor; mchale as artie abrams, a guitar player and paraplegic; and ushkowitz as tina cohen-chang, an asian american student with a fake speech impediment. dianna agron plays quinn fabray, finn's cheerleader girlfriend, who later joins the glee club to keep an eye on him. mark salling plays noah "puck" puckerman, a good friend of finn's on the football team who at first disapproves of finn joining the glee club, but later joins it himself. naya rivera and heather morris, who portray cheerios and glee club vocalists santana lopez and brittany pierce respectively, were originally recurring actors, but were promoted to series regulars in the second season. mike o'malley, who plays kurt's father burt hummel, also became a series regular on season two. gilsig and o'malley no longer appeared on the list of starring actors at the beginning of the third season, though o'malley was a recurring guest star in at least six episodes during the season. two actors were promoted to series regulars as of the third season: harry shum jr. as football player and glee club member mike chang and darren criss as former dalton academy warbler and new club member blaine anderson, both of whom started as recurring actors, shum in the first season and criss in the second. for the fourth season, chord overstreet, who started as a recurring actor in the second season, playing glee club member sam evans, was promoted to the main cast, while agron and mays were credited as recurring guest stars.
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