Story of a Girl Characters

Meet the Cast

Deanna Lambert

Not a Nympho or Psycho… Really… though if you listened to the other kids at Terra Nova high, you'd probably think she was both. What Deanna actually is though, is a confused, possibly clinicall...

Tommy

Not Exactly Being All That He Can BeThere's a Tommy Webber in every high school—he's the guy who kisses and tells, the guy who's only as nice to girls as he has to be to get them in the sack. Unf...

Ray Lambert (Dad)

The Root of All DramaIf there's one character in Story of a Girl about whom it's really difficult to say anything nice, it's Deanna's dad. He's a thoroughly miserable human being, and he's made him...

Mom

Deanna's mom is perhaps the most tragic character in Story of a Girl, and unfortunately for her, we never get to see any real change in her life. She works a low-paying retail job at the now-defunc...

Darren

Darren is Deanna's older brother, Stacy's baby daddy, and Tommy's former best friend and pot-smoking buddy. When Story of a Girl opens, he's been out of high school for a year, but he and Stacy alr...

Stacy

Stacy is the mother of Darren's child, and was once a popular, tough girl at Terra Nova. She does her best to raise her daughter, April, while living in the Lamberts' basement and working at Safewa...

Jason

If there's a more perfect best friend and boyfriend than Jason, we don't want to know about it. He and Deanna have been friends since childhood, but although she's starting to think of him as more...

Lee

Deanna's best girlfriend—Lee—moved to Pacifica from San Francisco during their sophomore year. Because she was the only one in school who hadn't heard some version of the Deanna-is-a-"slut" sto...

Minor Characters

Michael The forty-six-year-old gay owner of Picasso's Pizza, Michael loves Pacifica, even though his business isn't exactly booming. He watches out for Deanna when she has to work with Tommy, servi...