Jerrica Benton/Jem This intelligent and hard working business woman is the manager of Jem and the Holograms. She is also the owner and executive of the record company Starlight Music, which she inherited from her father along with the Starlight Foundation, a foster home for girls who were recently orphaned or came from troubled homes. Since Jerrica's and Kimber's parents died, she has also been keeping an eye on her younger sister, almost like a mother. By touching her Jemstar earrings and saying the words "Showtime, Synergy", Jerrica projects a hologram over her body and becomes Jem, the singer of the band the Holograms. Only the members of the Holograms, know that Jem and Jerrica is the same person. As Jem she is able to relax and cut loose a little more. The problem is that she wants to be close to Rio even when she is Jem, and he likes them both, unknowingly of the fact that they're the same person. Jerrica fears Rio would be so hurt if he found out, that she will loose him. Episodes: Jerrica: 54. Jem: All 65. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: Yes. In 4 editions.
	Kimber Benton Jerrica's younger sister, and the youngest member of the Holograms. She is the keyboard player and songwriter of the Holograms, but she is brilliant with any kind of instrument. She tends to be a bit immature and less responsible at times. She always has guys falling for her, sometimes more than one at the time. Episodes: All 65. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: Yes. 2 editions.
	Aja Leith The first girl to be adopted by Jerrica and Kimber's parents as a foster girl to live in Starlight House. Growing up togheter, Aja has become Jerrica's best friend and right hand. She plays guitar in the Holograms, and loves cars and motorcycles, so she is usually the resident chauffeur at Starlight Mansion when the girls are off to somewhere. She is the most athletic one of the girls, and makes sure the other girls stay in shape and play sports. She knows a little karate, which she has taugh Jerrica and the other Holograms, and she also knows a little chinese, both which she learned while she was very young and still lived in China. Episodes: All 65. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: Yes. 2 editions.
	Shana Elmsford The second foster girl to move into Starlight House. She played the drums for a while, and later decided to switch to guitar. She also dreams of working as a fashion designer, and often designs clothes for the Holograms and Starlight Girls. She gives alot of attention to the Starlight Girls who gets their share of tutoring in music, art and sewing. Episodes: All 65. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: Yes. 2 editions.
	Raya (Carmen Alonso) The new member of the Holograms, who took over on drums after Shana after winning a drum duel in the talent search. She has played drums since she was very young, and is also good with other percussion instruments. Raya is a bit shy but can have a temper when she's angry. She is the only girl among three brothers. Her parents came to the USA from Mexico and owns and operates their own nursery of domestic and exotic plants. Episodes: 39. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: Yes.
The Misfits
	Pizzazz (Phyllis Gabor) She is the lead singer of The Misfits, and also plays guitar. She has a rich father and has always gotten anything she pointed at. Now she is determined to be famous aswell, and sees no reason why she shouldn't be. She is arrogant, selfish, rude and lazy. But although her attitude and temper makes her come across as just spoiled, few people know she was abandoned by her mother when she was very little. Her real name is Phyllis Gabor, no one is allowed to call her that. Episodes: 56. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: Yes. 2 editions.
	Roxy (Roxanne Pelligrini) She plays guitar in the Misfits but isn't the most musically creative of the Misfits. She is pretty streetwise, and is apparently the cruelest of the Misfits, who takes things a step further. She has been poor most of her life, and never learned to read. She ran away from her home in Philadelphia when she was 13 years old, and took a number of minor jobs like waitressing, before joining the Misfits. She is determined to be a star to show everyone she's made it. Episodes: 55. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: Yes. 2 editions.
	Stormer (Mary Phillips) The youngest member of the Misfits, and the one with the biggest heart. She often hesitates when the other Misfits decide to make mischief. Her nickname was chosen for her by Pizzazz. She plays keyboard and guitar, and writes the music of the Misfits. Episodes: 56. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: Yes. 2 editions.
	Jetta (Sheila Burns) The saxophone player in the Misfits. She comes from a lower class family in England in the working class town of Hull. Being a pathological liar, she claims her family is aristocrats and that she is close friends of the royalties of England aswell as several celebrities. She first played with the group the Tinkerbillies, who came to the USA but were so obnoxious that they got kicked out of the country by the immigration department. She later met the Misfits while performing at a club in LA, when the Misfits were looking for a new member, although Roxy never approved of her. Pizzazz used her father's money and influence to get a resident card for Jetta. Episodes: 30. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: Yes.
The Stingers
	Riot (Rory Llewelyn) The leadsinger of the Stingers. His charisma casts a spell over most women who see him, including Pizzazz and Jem. He doesn't use his charm on Jerrica, Roxy, Stormer and Jetta, and those who are on their guard against him like Aja, aren't affected. Unlike his rival Rio, Riot likes Jem's mystery, and doesn't want to find out who she really is, because he doesn't tolerate the slightest flaw. Riot considers himself perfect, and will never settle for anything but the best. He doesn't like to talk about his family and background. His family was forced to move around alot to different cities and even countries when Riot grew up, and never stayed long enough for Riot to form any friendships. Riot spent his last three years of high school in Germany, he speaks fluent German, and likes Germany better than any other place he has lived. Although Riot wanted to play music, his father never approved of it, and pushed him to join the army. But while stationed in West Germany, Riot joined his first band, Nirvana. Episodes: 9. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: No.
	Rapture (Phoebe Ashe) Plays guitar in the Stingers. Her parents are divorced, and she grew up spending nine months with her mother who is a real-estate saleswoman in San Francisco, and three months in the summer with her father who is a neurologist in Chicago. The only thing that gets Rapture going is music, and fantasy, which Rapture prefer over the mundane real world. Her interest is fantasy oriented movies, books, and fantasy art. She collects statues of griffins, chimeras, and dragons. Even if she doesn't really believe in it all herself, she has a big imagination and uses it to manipulate people, especially if she can earn something on it. Episodes: 9. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: No.
	Minx (Ingrid Kruger) Plays synthesizer in the Stingers. Comes from Berlin, West Germany. Her mother is a secretary and her father is a computer repairman. Minx has always been fascinated with the insides of computers and instruments, and has an impressively good technical mind. She went to high school with Riot in West Germany. She loves to flirt, she thinks she can get any man she wants, and enjoys stealing men from other women, and dumps them once she succeeds. But she hasn't been able to charm Rio yet. She has a sharp tongue and says whatever she feels like. Except for Riot and Rapture, she doesn't like Americans. Episodes: 9. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: No.
Friends and boyfriends of the Holograms
	Synergy A holographic computer which Emmett Benton, Jerrica's and Kimber's father, started building after their mother Jacqui's death, when Jerrica was only 16 years old. Synergy is the result of Emmett's idea of linking music and threedimensional images. But she became much more than he originally intended. She can generate realistic holographic images, as much as 600 a minute without powerloss, that are lightyears ahead of anything seen before. She can also project voice imitations. Emmett had planned to give Synergy as a gift to his daughters to be a friend, mother, teacher and guide. He even recorded Synergy with Jacqui's likeness. But incase he wouldn't survive his cancer he had programmed Synergy to reveal her existance to Jerrica and Kimber. One day Jerrica got a package with starshaped earrings in the mail. These are the Jemstar earrings, which are small remote projectors which enables Synergy to communicate, project holograms, and even voice imitations through, which makes it possible for Jerrica to become Jem without Synergy's actual presence. Synergy is being kept a secret to the world by Jerrica and the Holograms, as she could be a very dangerous tool in the wrong hands. She is kept in Starlight Mansion, in a hidden room behind a holographic wall. But she can also go out from the computer, in the form of a hologram. Episodes: 23. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: Yes.
	Rio Pacheco Jerrica's boyfriend, who is a technical engineer and the roadmanager of Jem and the Holograms. He knows everything about the business, when it comes to musical equipment, touring, lighting, and sound engineering. His family moved next door to the Benton's when he was very young. He got his start in the music business from Emmett Benton. He doesn't know that Jem and Jerrica is the same person. He finds himself attracted to Jem, but doesn't want to betray Jerrica. Jerrica struggles with the idea of revealing her secret identity to him, but Rio has a short temper and has made it clear that he hates deception and liars. Episodes: 47. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: Yes. 2 editions.
	Countess Danielle Du Voisin A very wealthy 38 years old aristocratic woman from France. She is the only girl among two younger brothers, Henri and Michael. Although her family owns vineyards, estates, several resorts hotels, and an enormous hydrofoil yacht which she likes to cruise on the sea, she is first and foremost a fashion designer. She has designed fashions for Jem and the Holograms several times, and helped Shana and Regine with their fashion designing. She is a good friend of Jem and the Holograms, and there seems to be something going on between her and Howard Sands, she even bought a mansion nearby his home. Episodes: 10. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
	Lindsey "Lin-Z" Pierce Has her own rockvideo TV-show on VTV, Lind-Z TV, where she shows music videos and reports the latest music news. Jem and the Holograms are friends and frequent guests, but even the Misfits appear at times even though they're not favorites of Lindsey. Episodes: 28. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
	Video (Vivien Montgomery) A very energetic and prize winning video director. She comes from a little town called Mulberry. As a child she had a passion for tv shows, which turned into a passion for video equipment, and at her 10th birthday she got her first camera from her parents. She won acclaim in the music industry by the help of Anthony Julian. She is a cousin of Clash, and was born on exactly the same time as Clash in the same hospital, although they've never gotten along well. She is a friend of Jem and the Holograms which she has filmed on several occasions, documentaries aswell as music videos. Episodes: 15. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: Yes.
	Danse (Giselle Dvorak) A dancer full of charisma and warmth, and a friend of Jem and the Holograms and the Starlight Girls. Came to the USA as a baby with her mother from Yugoslavia. Has trained dancing since she was a little child, and has a natural talent for it. She lost her mother in a natural disaster, and grew up with foster parents. She has taken part in several music videos by Jem and the Holograms, and she also works as a part-time volunteer with teenage runaways in the local halfway house called Haven House. Episodes: 11. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: Yes.
	Anthony Julian A creative and intelligent director of film and music videos, friend of Lindsey Pierce and Video, boyfriend of Shana who he met on the Countess Du Voisin's yatch and they've been a steady couple since. He directed the music video of "Twilight In Paris" and the movie "Starbright". Episodes: 10. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
	Craig Phillips Stomer's 5 year older brother, who is very protective of Stormer, the few times he's around. Also a love interest for Aja's although they don't see each other alot and she doesn't know that Stormer is his sister at first. He is a very talented musician, but first and foremost a drummer who usually plays drums with his band The Blue Bloods in England, although he can play just about any instrument. He doesn't care much about fame, as long as he gets to do what he the likes most, which is to play drums. He actually prefers playing with smaller groups, which is what he has been doing the last few years around Europe. Episodes: 3. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
	Howard E. Sands This 42 years old bachelor studied at a film school and is today a top movie producer and owns the World Studios. He often donates money to film programs and foundations. Infact he was the one who donated the Starlight Mansion to the "Battle of the Bands" contest in which Jem and the Holograms and the Misfits participated. He is also into real eastate, antiques, art, sailing, scuba diving and cycling. He met Danielle in France during a mini-series production. Episodes: 8. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
	Jeff Wright Works as a stuntman, and met Kimber while working on the movie Starbright. Later engaged with and almost married Kimber. Episodes: 6. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
	Sean Harrison A british teen idol singer and actor. Once a friend of Pizzazz, but now dating Kimber. Episodes: 5. Invented by: Mary Skrenes. Released as a doll: No.
	Regine Cesaire A fashion designer, friend of Danielle and Jem and the Holograms although she started out as a fan of them, epspecially of Shana and her designing. She is very cheerful, but also has a temper. She comes from Fort-de-France the capital city of Martinique in the French Antilles (Windward Island) of the Carribean. Her father is a translator of English, French, Spanish and Creole. Her mother Vanessa has a business making handprinted textiles. Regine learned alot about fabrics from her mother and designed all her clothes already as a teenager. Danielle who was a client of Regine's mother, discovered Regine and took her to Paris for training, and then to live in Danielle's mansion, which is next door to Starlight Mansion. Episodes: 1. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: No.
	Astral (Maeve Eldritch) A professional stage magician, sleight-of-hand artist and a psychic investigator, which has been an interest of her since she was a young girl. Her family has some of the most mixed genes as her ancestors come from all around the world. Her parents are both doctors, and used to travel all over the world and take Maeve with them. Maeve went to highschool in Phoenix Arizona, where her family happened to live next door to an old man who was a student of Harry Houdini, from whom Maeve learned alot of her magic tricks. She came to L.A. when she became involved with a group of psychic researchers at a university. She is very interested in psychic abilities like ESP, although she keeps a skeptic mind to the supernatural. Episodes: 1. Invented by: Hasbro. Released as a doll: No.
Friends of the Misfits
	Eric Raymond He used to work for Jerrica's father Emmett, and inherited half the music company Starlight Music when Emmett died. He has also been the owner of Misfit Music, but now owns half of Stingers Sound. He has had a hard time promoting the Misfits ever since Jem and the Holograms showed up. He is a sly businessman with no scruples at all, and doesn't hesitate to hire people like Zipper and Techrat to do his dirty work for him. Episodes: 45. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
	Clash (Constance Montgomery) Video's cousin, who is jealous of Video and always tries to outdo her or make her life miserable. She is the biggest fan of the Misfits, but has not been allowed to join the band. She always hangs out with them though, and they gladly take advantage of her and her abilities of disguising herself to play tricks on Jem and the Holograms. She doesn't play any instruments but manage get attention by causing noise with the two cymbals she wears as armrings. Episodes: 12. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: Yes.
	Techrat A genius at high-tech, computers, electronics, sound equipment and laser-effects, in his early 20's. He works for Eric and creates gadgets for the Misfits and the Stingers. He doesn't care if his gadgets are used for evil purposes as long as they work as he meant them to. And usually his gadgets end up causing alot of trouble for Jem and the Holograms. Still Jem and the Holograms have never seen him and have no idea who he is. He is not very social, he hangs out in his "Rathole", and does not like to be touched, until he meets Minx who is the one person who he has allowed to come close to him. Techrat isn't aware of Synergy, but knows that Jerrica has some kind of techinical device. Episodes: 12. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
	Zipper A very cruel and heartless thug who works for Eric and seems ready to do just about anything for a flat fee, whenever Eric needs help sabotaging for Jem and the Holograms. Changes haircolor after some episode from blonde to black. Disappears from the show after the episode "Hot Time In Hawaii" where he is arrested by the police. Episodes: 9. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
	Harvey Gabor Father of Phyllis (Pizzazz). He was one of ten siblings. Born into a working-class family, but became a business tycoon and was a billionaire already at the age of 20. He married Pizzazz' mother Gail Nye at the age of 24, who soon ran off and left him and their daughter Phyllis. His main concern is business and making money, but he always gave Phyllis just about everything she asked for, except for love and attention. Episodes: 7. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
The Starlight Girls
Ashley Thomas A tough and independant 12 years old girl who had trouble getting along with the other Starlight Girls when she first arrived to Starlight House as the 14th Starlight Girl. She is interested in both fashion, which Shana helps her with, and likes to sing and practice guitar. Episodes: 34. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: Yes.	Ba Nee O'Carolan She is 8 years old, and was brought to America from the village of An Loc by her vietnamese mother who died soon after that. She is usually a very sweet and mannerly girl, who loves to draw and read books of all kinds. But she is determined to find her father, while all she knows about him is what her mother told her, that he is an american with red hair. Episodes: 34. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: Yes.
Krissie She arrived to Starlight House when she was very young. At only 11 years old, she is a very sensible and responsible girl, a loyal and helpful friend. Episodes: 28. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: Yes.	Deidree A 12 year old girl who arrived to Starlight House when she was very young. She loves Jem and the Holograms. She plays guitar and is determined to play in a band of her own one day. Infact she, Lela, Becky and Ashley rehearse togheter in their own band called "the Starlights". She can be a bit impulsive, but when the going gets rough she comes to her senses. Episodes: 26. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
Terri An 8 year old girl who is superstitious, easily scared and hates Halloween. Episodes: 22. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.	Lela At the age 14 she is the oldest of the Starlight Girls, and was the first girl to arrive at Starlight House, after Aja and Shana. She takes charge when Jerrica, Kimber, Aja, and Shana aren't around. Plays drums and piano. Episodes: 23. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
Anne An 11 years old girl who arrived to Starlight House when she was very young. Episodes: 22. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.	Marianne An 9 years old cuban girl. Episodes: 22. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
Joellen An 9 years old girl. Episodes: 23. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.	Becky At 13 years old, she is one of the oldest of the Starlight Girls. She practices keyboard and drums with the other Starlight Girls Lela, Ashley and Deidre. Episodes: 21. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
Nancy A 10 years old girl. Episodes: 25. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.	Delaree An 13 years old girl who arrived to Starlight Hosue when she was very young. Episodes: 18. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
Laura A 14 year old girl who arrived at Starlight Mansion when she lost her parents. But she didn't stay for long. She didn't feel at home there, and eventually her low selfasteem caused her to start using drugs. Episodes: 1. Invented by: Sandy Fries. Released as a doll: No.
Other re-appearing characters
	Joanie Stuart This 50-something woman is originally from Scotland and she is the comptroller of Starlight Music's financial affairs and have been working there ever since Emmett Benton's owned the company, and is now the right hand of Jerrica at the record company. Episodes: 5. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
	Mrs. Bailey Has been around since Jerrica and Kimber were little, as the housekeeper of Starlight House, and is now the housekeeper of Starlight Mansion and takes care of the Starlight Girls. Episodes: 10. Invented by: Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.
	Harriet Horn Shown on the same channel as the Lin-Z show, is Harriet Horn's a talkshow sponsored by Cool Trash magazine, so you can imagine she likes to gossip about the celebrities she interviews. Episodes: 4. Invented by: Mary Skrenes. Released as a doll: No.
	Richard Xanthos A very wealthy man who lives in an estate in Northern California. He has a huge interest in books, and runs his own charity foundation. The concepts of friendship, good will and peace are a prime concern to him. He thinks the key to making the world better is music. That's how Jem and the Holograms meet him, when he decides to arrange little contests like a treasure hunt and a music video contest. Episodes: 2. Invented by: Ellen Guon and Christy Marx. Released as a doll: No.