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!!Main
[[folder:Dr. William Masters]]
!!Dr. William "Bill" Masters
->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelSheen
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/williammasters.jpg]]
----
* AbusiveParents: Bill's dad was physically abusive and his mom ignored it.
* AccidentalPun: Bill's "I hope I've aroused your curiosity... if nothing else." is met with laughter by his audience during a meeting, much to his chagrin. He then proceeds to turn it into a successful catchphrase to conclude his sales presentations.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness
* TheAlcoholic: [[spoiler:Bill is attending court-mandated AA meetings in season 4 though they have yet to admit they have a drinking problem.]]
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Masters to Johnson at the end of "Manhigh".]]
* AntiHero: The series is about Bill Masters and he is not a bad guy, he takes the Hippocratic oath very seriously and big ego aside, he wants to help people with his groundbreaking work. However his inability to express his emotions in a healthy way and his arrogance oftentimes leads to him making the lives of his wife and Ginny (who are much nicer people) hell, and several times, his manipulative, possessive schemes to assert control over Virginia turn him very close to a VillainProtagonist.
* BeardOfSorrow: Bill sports one in the season 4 premiere. (He shaves it off before the episode's over.)
* BettyAndVeronica: The Archie between Virginia and Libby.
* {{Blackmail}}: Masters gets Barton Scully's support for his study by hinting that he knows that Scully has been having sex with male prostitutes.
* CallingYourOrgasms: When Bill and Ginny first start having sex ForScience, he calmly announces each stage of sexual response as it occurs: plateau, orgasm, AND resolution. As they start having feelings for each other, the announcements become rather less calm.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Bill Masters has an appalling sex life, relationship with his wife, and inability to discuss the subject with her.
* TheComicallySerious: Bill's straight, joyless and occasionally pompous personality is the source of much deadpan hilarity.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Bill and Virginia almost always keep up their cool, scientific observer demeanors, but when Bill sees her topless for the first time, he's obviously rattled (both from seeing that his partner is a sexual being and by the realization of his own attraction to her).
* FatalFlaw: Pride. And a lot of it.
* ForbiddenFruit: While an academic success, the book about the study barely sells its first edition. Masters has the idea to wrap it in plain brown paper to elicit curiosity from the public as something mysterious and illicit. It quickly finds a second wind among readers.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Virginia Johnson]]
!!Virginia Johnson
->'''Played by:''' Creator/LizzyCaplan
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/virginiajohnson.jpg]]
----
* AdaptationalAttractiveness
* EthicalSlut: She picked her own time to lose her virginity (and not within marriage) and is comfortable with her body and with casual sex, making her probably the most well-adjusted person in the series. But even when she and Bill start having sex with each other within the study, she makes it absolutely clear there has to be an emotional firewall between that and Bill's marriage, because she doesn't want to hurt Libby. [[spoiler:She quits the study at one point late in season one when she realizes Bill has been using it as an excuse to have an affair with her.]]
* GirlFriday: Invoked and averted, Masters initially hires Ginny because he's been told he needs a female accomplice, but it becomes pretty clear, pretty fast that she's just as important in the implementation of the study as he is.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: The morally pure Ginny is portrayed as having an active and healthy sex life, while Bill, who is portrayed much more [[AntiHero grey]] is sexually repressed and deeply conflicted about it. Subverted, also with many other people like Masters's wife Libby, who is IncorruptiblePurePureness (in his eyes) and has a horrible sex life with her husband.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade
* HonorableMarriageProposal: [[spoiler: Virginia re-marries George after becoming pregnant with his child.]]
* IronicName: Virginia... is not virginal at all.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Libby Masters]]
!!Libby Masters
->'''Played by:''' Creator/CaitlinFitzGerald
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/libbymasters.jpg]]
----
* ConvenientMiscarriage: Heartrendingly straight with her.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Austin Langham]]
!!Dr. Austin Langham
->'''Played by:''' Creator/TeddySears
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/austinlangham.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Ethan Haas]]
!!Dr. Ethan Haas
->'''Played by:''' Nicholas D'Agosto
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ethanhaas.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Betty Dimello]]
!!Betty Dimello
->'''Played by:''' Creator/AnnaleighAshford
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bettydimello.jpg]]
----
* SmokingIsGlamorous
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Fakes one in the first episode which prompts the study.
[[/folder]]
!!Recurring
!!!Scully's
[[folder:Barton Scully]]
!!Barton Scully
->'''Played by:''' Creator/BeauBridges
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barton_scully.jpg]]
----
* ArmoredClosetGay: An all-too-realistic example of this, marrying and having children.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Margaret Scully]]
!!Margaret Scully
->'''Played by:''' Creator/AllisonJanney
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/margaretscully.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vivian Scully]]
!!Vivian Scully
->'''Played by:''' Creator/RoseMcIver
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vivianscully.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
!!!Masters'
[[folder:Estabrooks Masters]]
!!Estabrooks "Essie" Masters
->'''Played by:''' Creator/AnnDowd
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Francis Masters Jr.]]
!!Francis "Frank" Masters Jr.
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ChristianBorle
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Johnny Masters]]
!!Johnny Masters
->'''Played by:''' Jaeden Lieberher
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/johnnymasters.png]]
----
[[/folder]]
!!!Johnson's
[[folder:George Johnson]]
!!George Johnson
->'''Played by:''' Mather Zickel
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/georgejohnson.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Henry Johnson]]
!!Henry Johnson
->'''Played by:''' Cole Sand (Seasons 1-2), Noah Robbins (Seasons 3-4)
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tessa Johnson]]
!!Tessa Johnson
->'''Played by:''' Kayla Madison (Seasons 1-2), Creator/IsabelleFuhrman (Seasons 3-4)
----
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Becomes this by season 3.
[[/folder]]
!!!Doctors
[[folder:Dr. Lillian [=DePaul=]]]
!!Dr. Lillian [=DePaul=]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JulianneNicholson
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brave_new_world_dr_lillian_depaul_and_virginia_johnson_discuss_mandatory_cervical_testing1.png]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Charles Hendricks]]
!!Dr. Charles Hendricks
->'''Played by:''' Creator/CourtneyBVance
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Douglas Greathouse]]
!!Dr. Douglas Greathouse
->'''Played by:''' Creator/DannyHuston
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/parallax_dr_doug_greathouse_played_by_danny_huston.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Art Dreesen]]
!!Dr. Art Dreesen
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JeremyStrong
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Nancy Leveau]]
!!Dr. Nancy Leveau
->'''Played by:''' Creator/BettyGilpin
----
[[/folder]]
!!!Others
[[folder:Jane Martin]]
!!Jane Martin
->'''Played by:''' Helene Yorke
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lester Linden]]
!!Lester Linden
->'''Played by:''' Kevin Christy
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/love_and_marriage_lester_holds_ulysses.jpg]]
----
* AlliterativeName: '''L'''ester '''L'''inden
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gene Moretti]]
!!Gene Moretti
->'''Played by:''' Creator/GregGrunberg
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dale]]
!!Dale
->'''Played by:''' Creator/FinnWittrock
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Barbara Sanderson]]
!!Barbara Sanderson
->'''Played by:''' Creator/BetsyBrandt
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kyrie_eleison_bills_new_secretary_barbara_sanderson_played_by_betty_brandt.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Coral]]
!!Coral
->'''Played by:''' Music/KekePalmer
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/keke_palmer_in_masters_of_sexr.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Robert Franklin]]
!!Robert Franklin
->'''Played by:''' Jocko Sims
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/giants_robert_played_by_jocko_sims_talks_to_libby_about_coral.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Helen]]
!!Helen
->'''Played by:''' Creator/SarahSilverman
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Flo Packer]]
!!Flo Packer
->'''Played by:''' Artemis Pebdani
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shep Tally]]
!!Shep Tally
->'''Played by:''' Creator/AdamArkin
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dan Logan]]
!!Dan Logan
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JoshCharles
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nora Everett]]
!!Nora Everett
->'''Played by:''' Creator/EmilyKinney
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/surrogates_nora_compares_sex_to_a_watch.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Paul Edley]]
!!Paul Edley
->'''Played by:''' Ben Koldyke
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ronald Sturgis]]
!!Ronald Sturgis
->'''Played by:''' Colin Woodell
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Louise Bell]]
!!Louise Bell
->'''Played by:''' Creator/NiecyNash
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/masters_of_sex_season_4_episode_2_photos_inventory_05_450x600.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dody Oliver]]
!!Dody Oliver
->'''Played by:''' Kelli O'Hara
----
[[/folder]]
!!Main
[[folder:Dr. William Masters]]
!!Dr. William "Bill" Masters
->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelSheen
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/williammasters.jpg]]
----
* AbusiveParents: Bill's dad was physically abusive and his mom ignored it.
* AccidentalPun: Bill's "I hope I've aroused your curiosity... if nothing else." is met with laughter by his audience during a meeting, much to his chagrin. He then proceeds to turn it into a successful catchphrase to conclude his sales presentations.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness
* TheAlcoholic: [[spoiler:Bill is attending court-mandated AA meetings in season 4 though they have yet to admit they have a drinking problem.]]
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Masters to Johnson at the end of "Manhigh".]]
* AntiHero: The series is about Bill Masters and he is not a bad guy, he takes the Hippocratic oath very seriously and big ego aside, he wants to help people with his groundbreaking work. However his inability to express his emotions in a healthy way and his arrogance oftentimes leads to him making the lives of his wife and Ginny (who are much nicer people) hell, and several times, his manipulative, possessive schemes to assert control over Virginia turn him very close to a VillainProtagonist.
* BeardOfSorrow: Bill sports one in the season 4 premiere. (He shaves it off before the episode's over.)
* BettyAndVeronica: The Archie between Virginia and Libby.
* {{Blackmail}}: Masters gets Barton Scully's support for his study by hinting that he knows that Scully has been having sex with male prostitutes.
* CallingYourOrgasms: When Bill and Ginny first start having sex ForScience, he calmly announces each stage of sexual response as it occurs: plateau, orgasm, AND resolution. As they start having feelings for each other, the announcements become rather less calm.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Bill Masters has an appalling sex life, relationship with his wife, and inability to discuss the subject with her.
* TheComicallySerious: Bill's straight, joyless and occasionally pompous personality is the source of much deadpan hilarity.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Bill and Virginia almost always keep up their cool, scientific observer demeanors, but when Bill sees her topless for the first time, he's obviously rattled (both from seeing that his partner is a sexual being and by the realization of his own attraction to her).
* FatalFlaw: Pride. And a lot of it.
* ForbiddenFruit: While an academic success, the book about the study barely sells its first edition. Masters has the idea to wrap it in plain brown paper to elicit curiosity from the public as something mysterious and illicit. It quickly finds a second wind among readers.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Virginia Johnson]]
!!Virginia Johnson
->'''Played by:''' Creator/LizzyCaplan
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/virginiajohnson.jpg]]
----
* AdaptationalAttractiveness
* EthicalSlut: She picked her own time to lose her virginity (and not within marriage) and is comfortable with her body and with casual sex, making her probably the most well-adjusted person in the series. But even when she and Bill start having sex with each other within the study, she makes it absolutely clear there has to be an emotional firewall between that and Bill's marriage, because she doesn't want to hurt Libby. [[spoiler:She quits the study at one point late in season one when she realizes Bill has been using it as an excuse to have an affair with her.]]
* GirlFriday: Invoked and averted, Masters initially hires Ginny because he's been told he needs a female accomplice, but it becomes pretty clear, pretty fast that she's just as important in the implementation of the study as he is.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: The morally pure Ginny is portrayed as having an active and healthy sex life, while Bill, who is portrayed much more [[AntiHero grey]] is sexually repressed and deeply conflicted about it. Subverted, also with many other people like Masters's wife Libby, who is IncorruptiblePurePureness (in his eyes) and has a horrible sex life with her husband.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade
* HonorableMarriageProposal: [[spoiler: Virginia re-marries George after becoming pregnant with his child.]]
* IronicName: Virginia... is not virginal at all.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Libby Masters]]
!!Libby Masters
->'''Played by:''' Creator/CaitlinFitzGerald
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/libbymasters.jpg]]
----
* ConvenientMiscarriage: Heartrendingly straight with her.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Austin Langham]]
!!Dr. Austin Langham
->'''Played by:''' Creator/TeddySears
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/austinlangham.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Ethan Haas]]
!!Dr. Ethan Haas
->'''Played by:''' Nicholas D'Agosto
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ethanhaas.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Betty Dimello]]
!!Betty Dimello
->'''Played by:''' Creator/AnnaleighAshford
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bettydimello.jpg]]
----
* SmokingIsGlamorous
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Fakes one in the first episode which prompts the study.
[[/folder]]
!!Recurring
!!!Scully's
[[folder:Barton Scully]]
!!Barton Scully
->'''Played by:''' Creator/BeauBridges
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barton_scully.jpg]]
----
* ArmoredClosetGay: An all-too-realistic example of this, marrying and having children.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Margaret Scully]]
!!Margaret Scully
->'''Played by:''' Creator/AllisonJanney
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/margaretscully.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vivian Scully]]
!!Vivian Scully
->'''Played by:''' Creator/RoseMcIver
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vivianscully.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
!!!Masters'
[[folder:Estabrooks Masters]]
!!Estabrooks "Essie" Masters
->'''Played by:''' Creator/AnnDowd
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Francis Masters Jr.]]
!!Francis "Frank" Masters Jr.
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ChristianBorle
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Johnny Masters]]
!!Johnny Masters
->'''Played by:''' Jaeden Lieberher
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/johnnymasters.png]]
----
[[/folder]]
!!!Johnson's
[[folder:George Johnson]]
!!George Johnson
->'''Played by:''' Mather Zickel
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/georgejohnson.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Henry Johnson]]
!!Henry Johnson
->'''Played by:''' Cole Sand (Seasons 1-2), Noah Robbins (Seasons 3-4)
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tessa Johnson]]
!!Tessa Johnson
->'''Played by:''' Kayla Madison (Seasons 1-2), Creator/IsabelleFuhrman (Seasons 3-4)
----
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Becomes this by season 3.
[[/folder]]
!!!Doctors
[[folder:Dr. Lillian [=DePaul=]]]
!!Dr. Lillian [=DePaul=]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JulianneNicholson
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brave_new_world_dr_lillian_depaul_and_virginia_johnson_discuss_mandatory_cervical_testing1.png]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Charles Hendricks]]
!!Dr. Charles Hendricks
->'''Played by:''' Creator/CourtneyBVance
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Douglas Greathouse]]
!!Dr. Douglas Greathouse
->'''Played by:''' Creator/DannyHuston
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/parallax_dr_doug_greathouse_played_by_danny_huston.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Art Dreesen]]
!!Dr. Art Dreesen
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JeremyStrong
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Nancy Leveau]]
!!Dr. Nancy Leveau
->'''Played by:''' Creator/BettyGilpin
----
[[/folder]]
!!!Others
[[folder:Jane Martin]]
!!Jane Martin
->'''Played by:''' Helene Yorke
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lester Linden]]
!!Lester Linden
->'''Played by:''' Kevin Christy
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/love_and_marriage_lester_holds_ulysses.jpg]]
----
* AlliterativeName: '''L'''ester '''L'''inden
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gene Moretti]]
!!Gene Moretti
->'''Played by:''' Creator/GregGrunberg
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dale]]
!!Dale
->'''Played by:''' Creator/FinnWittrock
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Barbara Sanderson]]
!!Barbara Sanderson
->'''Played by:''' Creator/BetsyBrandt
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kyrie_eleison_bills_new_secretary_barbara_sanderson_played_by_betty_brandt.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Coral]]
!!Coral
->'''Played by:''' Music/KekePalmer
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/keke_palmer_in_masters_of_sexr.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Robert Franklin]]
!!Robert Franklin
->'''Played by:''' Jocko Sims
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/giants_robert_played_by_jocko_sims_talks_to_libby_about_coral.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Helen]]
!!Helen
->'''Played by:''' Creator/SarahSilverman
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Flo Packer]]
!!Flo Packer
->'''Played by:''' Artemis Pebdani
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shep Tally]]
!!Shep Tally
->'''Played by:''' Creator/AdamArkin
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dan Logan]]
!!Dan Logan
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JoshCharles
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nora Everett]]
!!Nora Everett
->'''Played by:''' Creator/EmilyKinney
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/surrogates_nora_compares_sex_to_a_watch.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Paul Edley]]
!!Paul Edley
->'''Played by:''' Ben Koldyke
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ronald Sturgis]]
!!Ronald Sturgis
->'''Played by:''' Colin Woodell
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Louise Bell]]
!!Louise Bell
->'''Played by:''' Creator/NiecyNash
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/masters_of_sex_season_4_episode_2_photos_inventory_05_450x600.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dody Oliver]]
!!Dody Oliver
->'''Played by:''' Kelli O'Hara
----
[[/folder]]
