lena adams played stef's mother on the fosters.
lena adams played stef's mother on the fosters.
who plays stef's mother on the fosters?
lena adams
bullet::::- sam mcmurray as frank cooper (season 1, season 5): stef's late father, who struggled to accept stef's relationship with lena. he dies in "family day", deeply affecting stef who regretted never making amends with him. a vision of frank appears to stef in season 5.









































bullet::::- annie potts as sharon elkin (season 1-present): stef's supportive mother and ex-wife of frank.
list of the fosters characters
bullet::::- stefanie "stef" marie adams foster (née elkin) (teri polo) is lena's spouse, brandon's biological mother, and the adoptive mother to twins jesus and mariana. in the pilot episode, she and lena take in two foster children, callie and jude, before adopting them. stef is a police officer for the san diego police department, where she works as a patrol partner with her ex-husband, mike. she is known for having a strong personality with bold opinions but can also be loving and motherly. when jesus goes missing one night, mariana informs her parents how she fears jesus is at their biological mother ana's house since they recently got in contact and have been lending her money. stef and mike go to rescue jesus only to discover that he is not there, and ana's boyfriend, an abusive drug addict, shoots stef, who is severely wounded before making a full recovery. later, she officially marries lena, and after having a mammogram, stef receives a diagnosis of intraductal carcinoma. because it is likely that the cells will become cancerous, she undergoes surgery.
the fosters (american tv series)