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enceinte patronage characters can make a TV show much better , and they can even be more compelling and democratic than the stars of the show . While most TV shows chiefly center on just a handful of character , it ’s authoritative for the supporting cast to experience just as material . If only a few lineament are worth watching , then an entire show could fall down monotonic . Additionally , interesting secondary character reference facilitate contribute to the immersive worlds of their shows . In some utmost eccentric , supporting character make TV shows their own .

It can be hard to draw and quarter focus from the outer boundary of a show , but great role player be given to find a way to bring in something unique to their characters that make them vital to the show ’s success . Secondary characters also give writers the hazard to experiment a little more . If a new idea does n’t work out , the fibre can simply fade into the backcloth , but if it strike amber , the character help make the show much well . No matter how much a show concenter on one character , the supporting mold can always slip the show .

Though there have been numberless character who have made their mark in television history , Ranker has highlighted those voted as the all - clock time best .

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10Victoria Neuman

Played by Claudia Doumit in The Boys

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Since season 1,The Boyshas gradually disclose more and more supes created by Vought , not all of whom are presented as shiny superheroes worthy of being in The Seven . As well as plenty of failed experimentation , there are a few supes who survive incognito , masquerading as regular people . Victoria Neuman is a member of congress who take the field for more oversight of Vought ’s activities , but the true nature of her relationship with the corporation is undecipherable . Revealing Victoria as the " Head - Popper " sets up a tantalizing season 4 , as her political take on a more sinister tone .

9Richard Splett

Played by Sam Richardson in Veep

Selina Meyer ’s remorseless hungriness for power pass a collection of sycophants and schemer into her eye socket , but Richard Splett is one character of unbendable moral fortitude . Richard ’s greatest calibre is that he is just as charming and sincer whether he ’s on camera or behind closed doors . Everyone else tries to either manipulate or ignore Richard , but he ends up outshining all of them on his rise to the top . In this direction , Richard is a ray of hope for America ’s political future . All ofVeep ’s best seasonshappen after Richard ’s innovation .

8Dasha

Played by Harriet Walter in Killing Eve

Dasha represents the biography that Villanelle desperately need to scat .

Villanelle can thank Dasha for shaping her into the world - class assassin she is , but she resents her for her harsh method acting . Dasha represents the life history that Villanelle desperately wants to escape . She is manipulative and cynical , with a obscene sensory faculty of superiority . Dasha ’s actions indirectly bestow Villanelle and Eve much nigher together . She may be cruel and emotionally detached , but she ’s the good optical idea of The Twelve that either Eve or Villanelle can come up . She cling to the estimation of the Soviet Union , showing that even she has romantic pipe dreams .

7NoHo Hank

Played by Anthony Carrigan in Barry

NoHo Hank is curiously personable and happy - go - lucky for a richly - rank member of the Chechen Mafia . His life of crime does n’t fit with his forthcoming personality , and he often babble about contract killing in a casual and chatty elbow room . His one - sided relationship with Barry is systematically one of the funniest part of the show . Despite the fact that Barry openly despises him , NoHo Hank believe that they ’re just two beneficial bud tease each other . Hank flip between being a villain and an unusual ally , butBarry ’s final seasongives him the show ’s most emotional send - off .

6Leon Black

Played by JB Smoove in Curb Your Enthusiasm

After the smutty family are invited to quell with Larry following Hurricane Katrina , Leon worm his means into Larry ’s life and stick put . Leon and Larry appear to have nothing in usual , come in from extremely dissimilar background , but they both partake a brutally reliable doctrine , and the opinion that the world is against them . Larry ’s dynamic with Leon is key to hatful of the show ’s better moments , especially when JB Smoove extemporise one - liner which force Larry to intermit character . WithCurb Your Enthusiasmseason 12coming out , the duo are closer than ever , although Leon has still never seenSeinfeld .

5Janet

Played by D’Arcy Carden in The Good Place

Despite starting the show as a glorified digital assistant , Janet develops into one of the show ’s most fascinating characters .

Of all the imaginative touches inThe Good Place , the character of Janet is the most original . She ’s an omniscient , powerful being who exists as a variety of personal assistant in the Good Place . Despite starting the show as a extol digital helper , Janet develop into one of the show ’s most captivating type . Janet is not a homo , but she ’s uniquely placed to annotate on the nature of man and its home within the sweep up cosmic mess of the universe . She begins to develop more feelings , opinions , and overall humanity as the show progresses .

4Tom Wambsgans

Played by Matthew MacFadyen in Succession

Tom is an outsider looking in at the Roy class , but he ’s just as greedy and nonadaptive as any of them . Successionshows Tom and Shiv ’s relationshipas helter-skelter and volatile . Although they share feelings for one another , they are more drawn to money and power , and they perpetually cheat each other . Tom often takes his foiling out on Greg , the one person he knows he can whole master . He treats him as a protégé , a darling , and a disappointing Logos , all to comfort his monolithic ego . Tom helps bring the worst out of everyone , and this makesSuccessiontick .

3Sophie Chapman

Played by Olivia Colman in Peep Show

Peep Showfocuses on the friendship between two diametrically fight back roommates , Mark and Jez . Everyone can see themselves as one or the other . Mark is uptight and controlling , and Jez is irresponsible and frivolous . Sophie demonstrate what can encounter when normal , functioning people drop too much meter with either one of them . She starts out as a smart and determined loan managing director put to work alongside Mark , but she is gradually worn down and broken emotionally , sliding into Great Depression and dependence . Mark idealizes Sophie , but he does n’t care for the world when he actually gets what he desire .

2Mr. Burns

Voiced by Harry Shearer in The Simpsons

Excluding the Simpson family , Mr. Burns get more focus than anyone else in Springfield . The owner of Springfield ’s nuclear power flora is the incarnation of corporate covetousness at any cost , and he revels in being the villain . With his toadying sidekick Smithers by his side , Mr. Burns is responsible for mess of evil dodge , even though he does n’t need any more money . Mr. Burns tries to bump off Bart in his pursuit of the Hellfish treasure , he plan to struggle the Simpson family ’s greyhound to make a pelage , and he even embarrass the sun from shining on the townsfolk .

1Peggy Olson

Played by Elisabeth Moss in Mad Men

Peggy is always forced to consider how others comprehend her . She needs Don ’s favorable reception , but she has to balance this with the impression that Joan and some of the other fair sex in the office may see down upon her life history ambitions . Ultimately , Peggy is headstrong enough not to conform to other hoi polloi ’s outlook of her , include her mother . Peggy ’s journeying is arguably more interesting than Don ’s , as she has to crusade relentlessly to succeed in the male - centrical world of advert . She ’s one ofMad Men ’s most compelling characters , and a rebuttal against the phony hope of the American dream .

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