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Grant Family
Michael Grant
Michael Grant
Played By:Rockmond Dunbar
Appearances: 9-1-1
Michael Grant is the ex-husband of Officer Athena Grant who happens to be gay.- Amicable Exes: Divorced his wife of 14 years in "Karma's a Bitch", and become this almost immediately after their divorce. Michael encourages her relationship with Bobby, and Athena grows to like Michael's boyfriend Glen, bonding with him over dinner. When he wants to propose to his later boyfriend David, Athena gives him her blessing and helps him pick out a suit for the occasion.
- Family Man: He has stated numerous times that his kids and Athena are the most important thing in the world to him. He also counts Bobby as a close friend. And when he wants to propose to his boyfriend David he asks all of them for permission.
- Incompatible Orientation: The reason he and Athena got a divorce. He was gay.
- Papa Wolf: It doesn't happen often, but when his kids are in trouble Michael is not someone you want to mess with
- Straight Gay: Having spend decades of his life in the closet, even when out Michael is a very reserved man.
May Grant
May Grant
Played By:Corinne Massiah
Appearances: 9-1-1
May Grant is the daughter of Athena Grant and Michael Grant. As of ‘This Life We Choose’, she is also the stepdaughter of Bobby Nash. see the 9-1-1 Emergency Services page
Harry Grant
Harry Grant
Played By: Marcanthonee Jon Reis
Appearances: 9-1-1
Harry Grant is the son of Athena Grant and Michael Grant. As of ‘This Life We Choose’, he is also the stepson of Bobby Nash. David Hale
David Hale
Played By: La Monde Byrd
Appearances: 9-1-1
David Hale is the fiance of Michael Grant.- Determined Doctor Won't leave his patient until the surgery is finished, even when the hospital is on fire.
- Hospital Hottie Michael certainly thinks so. They meet in a hospital elevator.
- Secular Hero In contrast to his religious fiance Michael and to Athena (who both pray onscreen,) David starts his surgery with the invocation to have "faith in science, and each other."
Wilson Family
Karen Wilson
Karen Wilson
Played By: Tracie Thoms
Appearances: 9-1-1
Karen Wilson is the wife of Henrietta Wilson and adoptive mother to her son Denny.- Black and Nerdy: Karen is a literal rocket scientist.
Denny Wilson
Diaz Family
Shannon Diaz
Shannon Diaz
Played By: Devin Kelley
Appearances: 9-1-1
Shannon Diaz is Eddie's wife and Christopher's mom.- The Caretaker: Was this for her mother, although moving away from Texas to care for her also served as an excuse to get away from the problems with her family life there. She remains in LA even after her mother's death.
- Character Death: Is killed in "Careful What You Wish For."
- Foil: To Eddie. Both are struggling parents of a child with disability who at one point decide to "leave" the family out of feeling the responsibility raising Christopher. However, key differences: 1) Eddie's reason to leave also stems from examples given by his father that a man in the family provides, while Shannon's reason to leave stems from the Eddie's parents' pressure and the feeling of loneliness because Eddie's away during the first years of Christopher's life. 2) Eddie still seeks contact with her and Christopher during his tours through video calls while Shannon closes off contact so much Eddie needs to personally track her. 3) Eddie's absence is viewed as being a hero (because of the touring) while Shannon's absence is viewed as abandonment by other Diaz family members. 4) Eddie realizes his neglect toward his son is wrong so he vows to rectify that by prioritizing his son over anything else and be the best father he can while Shannon, after meeting Christopher, decides that she's still not ready to be his mother so she asks Eddie for a divorce.
- Missing Mom: Was this to her own son, she couldn’t handle the pressure of looking after a child with disabilities. Becomes this again after her death.
- Parental Abandonment: See above.
- Sex with the Ex: When Eddie finds her, they start sleeping together.
Christopher Diaz
Christopher Diaz
Played By: Gavin Mc Hugh
Appearances: 9-1-1
Christopher Diaz is Eddie and Shannon's son.- Action Survivor: Has shades of this due to surviving the season 3 tsunami despite being on the pier when it hit, even after being separated from Buck.
- Ascended Extra: He was a recurring character in Season 2, but was promoted to the main cast for Season 3.
- Cheerful Child: Christopher is nearly always seen smiling.
- Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Christopher has Cerebral Palsy and walks with crutches. That being said, he is mostly seen as a happy kid that the team takes to immediately.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Buck
- Missing Mom: Twice over. At first, Shannon abandons him and Eddie due to marital issues with the latter as well as the the pressures she felt as a mother due to Chris's CP. She comes back in season two, attempting to reconcile with both her estranged husband and son. Unfortunately, this is cut short by her sudden death in the penultimate episode of the same season.
- Parental Abandonment: See above.
Other Recurring Characters
Eva Mathis
Eva Mathis
Played By: Abby Brammell
Appearances: 9-1-1
Hen's ex-girlfriend and the biological mother of Hen and Karen's son. She causes trouble for the family when she gets out of jail.- It's All About Me:
- Missing Mom: She was this to her own son, having signed away all of her parental rights.
- Put on a Bus: Is last seen "Awful People", getting taken to the hospital after a heroin overdose, and most likely going back to jail for breaking her parole.
- Sex with the Ex: Has sex with her ex-girlfriend, Henrietta “Hen” Wilson, in "Full Moon (Creepy AF)"
- Tattooed Crook: Has numerous tattoos covering her body, and has been in jail for drugs.
Doug Kendall
Doug Kendall
Played By: Brian Hallisay
Appearances: 9-1-1
Doug Kendall was Maddie's husband who used to be violent with her until she fled to Los Angeles. He eventually tracked her down and kidnapped her.- Asshole Victim: Maddie puts an end to his life in "Fight or Flight", but given how much of an abusive, violent douchebag he was, it's safe to say no one's missing him. Even Maddie, who killed him in self-defence, is too relieved to have survived and reunited with her cop comrades to care that he's dead.
- Character Death: Is killed by Maddie in “Fight or Flight”.
Taylor Kelly
Taylor Kelly
Played By: Megan West
Appearances: 9-1-1
Taylor Kelly is a reporter who was saved by the 118 and decided to do a story on them. In a relationship with Buck from Season 4 to Season 5.- Ascended Extra: After her first 2 appearances in Season 2, Taylor is absent from Season 3 before returning for a bigger role in Season 4 where she's Promoted to Love Interest for Buck and they become an Official Couple in the finale, though they break up a year later in the following season's finale.
- The Bus Came Back: After 2 episodes in Season 2, she is absent from Season 3 before coming back in a more recurring capicity in Season 4,
- Dark and Troubled Past: Her father's in prison after being convicted of her mother's mother which was initially ruled a suicided, leaving Taylor to wonder if her father is a killer or a victim of a Miscarriage of Justice. Further, she was taken in by her mother's relatives who may have not been the best caretakers of her circumstances.
- Distaff Counterpart: When she and Buck were hooking up in an episode of Season 2, she treated rather casually before breaking it off with Chimney realizing Buck basically hooked with a Pre-Character Development version of himself.
- This becomes more prevalent in Seasons 4 and 5 when gains more screen-time, at one point trying convince her boss to finance a trip abroad for a story. During their first Christmas together, both have difficulty finding presents for each other and actually ask Bobby for advice.
- Freudian Excuse: Because of her past mentioned above, Taylor channeled the need to find the truth behind every story since she may never find the truth behind her own.
- Hypocrite: Two instances.
- The reason she became a reporter is that her father was arrested for murdering his wife and media outlets report the news intensely ignoring her wish to stop. Her first appearance has her recording Bobby hallucinating his dead wife and almost committing suicide and trying to air the footage without his consent.
- She confronts Lucy in May Day because she thinks she's going to give the 118, especially Buck, trouble and ask her to stay away. She later causes legal trouble for 118 by airing Chimney and Hen's investigation regarding Jonah without asking for the 118's consent despite promising not to in Hero Complex.
- Ms. Fanservice: Her first scene in the Season 5 premiere features her in bed with Buck in nothing but a black bra and panties.
- Tagalong Reporter: To the 118.
- Will They or Won't They?: Season 4 hints towards her and Buck pursuing a serious relationship, which occurs in the season finale.
Albert Han
Albert Han
Played By: John Kim
Appearances: 9-1-1
Chimney's much younger half-brother from Korea who unexpectedly arrives on his brother's doorstep wishing- Big Brother Worship: Albert looks up to Chimney as a self-made man who had no help from his father in achieving what he has in life. He even ends up joining the LAFD in the final episode of the season 4.
- Foreshadowing: In his first episode, Albert talks about how he looks up Chimney, in part, because as a firefighter he does something that's important. The season 4 finale sees him joining the LAFD with the crew of the 118 there to celebrate when he passes his test.
- Innocently Insensitive: His Hero Worship of Chimney as a self-made man comes off as this as Albert doesn't realize until he and his brother talk that their father abandoned him in the States even after the latter's mother died.
