List of Superstore characters

Superstore is an American comedy television series created by Justin Spitzer, which premiered on NBC on November 30, 2015. The series stars America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Lauren Ash, Colton Dunn, Nico Santos, Nichole Bloom and Mark McKinney as a group of employees working at a fictional big-box store called "Cloud 9" set in St. Louis, Missouri.

Summary

Name

Portrayed by

Position

Seasons

1

2

Amy Dubanowski

America Ferrera

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Jonah

Ben Feldman

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Dina Fox

Lauren Ash

Assistant store manager

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Garrett McNeill

Colton Dunn

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Mateo Fernando Aquino Liwanag

Nico Santos

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Cheyenne Tyler Lee

Nichole Bloom

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Glenn Sturgis

Mark McKinney

Store manager

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Bo Derek Thompson

Johnny Pemberton

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Sandra

Kaliko Kauahi

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Sal

Sean Whalen

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Tate

Josh Lawson

Pharmacist

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Myrtle

Linda Porter

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Marcus

Jon Barinholtz

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Jeff Sutin

Michael Bunin

District manager

Adam Dubanowski

Ryan Gaul

Seasonal team member

Main

Amy Dubanowski

Portrayed by America Ferrera , originally from Honduras, is a Cloud 9 employee of eleven years who worked as an associate, then floor supervisor, then is promoted to assistant manager, and very briefly store manager before going on strike in the season one finale. Amy immediately clashes with new associate Jonah, as he strives for change and has a sometimes pretentious attitude that annoys her. Although Amy was accepted to college, she never attended due to getting pregnant and marrying Adam instead, however she is currently enrolled in classes part time while working. Amy appears somewhat jaded, admitting she did not see herself still working at Cloud 9 more than ten years after starting her employment there. She has referred to Halloween as her favorite day of the year.

At age 19, she married her high school sweetheart, Adam, with whom she has a daughter, Emma. Amy was surprised when Glenn referenced her marital issues, and was further surprised when all of the coworkers also suggested they felt she was having issues at home as well. After having a pregnancy scare, Amy realizes she is not happy and starts to question her marriage, admitting she was relieved to find out she wasn't pregnant.

In order to keep strangers from calling her by her real name, Amy wears a different name tag in each episode with the exception of The Two episodes where she wore her own, assistant manager, name tag, and one where she wore no name tag. The name tags she's worn include: Allison, Beatrice, Brittany, Diana, Elana, Ella, Esmé, Gemma, Heidi, Joanne, Louise, Millie, Molly, Patti, Rachel, Ramona, Roxy, Sheila, and Sylvia.

Jonah

Portrayed by Ben Feldman, is hired along with Mateo in the "Pilot" episode. Jonah makes a terrible impression on his first day and immediately clashes with Amy, but their relationship has since improved somewhat. Despite their rough start, Jonah has been attracted to Amy since the first time he saw her. He was caught off guard when he found out that Amy has a daughter and is married, as Amy never wears her wedding ring at work.

Jonah is from a well-to-do background and came to Cloud 9 because he flunked out of business school in Chicago and ran up debt. He was driving aimlessly until he stopped at a Cloud 9 in St. Louis and saw the "help wanted" sign. The Season 2 episode "Seasonal Help" reveals that Jonah may have also had a gambling addiction.

Jonah prides himself on being worldly and well-read, and makes every effort to inject this into conversations with coworkers. Garrett maintains a list of "all the crazy white-person stuff" Jonah says, such as: "fencing", "wearing boat shoes", "BBC America", "making his own trail mix", and saying "fine, but I want my objection noted". Jonah is anti-guns and refuses to work the gun counter.

Dina Fox

Portrayed by Lauren Ash, Cloud 9's assistant store manager. Although at one point she takes a voluntary demotion, after her coworkers stage a walkout, Dina does not participate and reassumes her assistant manager role.

Dina is extremely connected to her pet birds, but out of touch with other people. Her by-the-book management style often clashes with employees, and even her boss, Glenn, when he espouses his religious beliefs in the workplace. Dina has a very abrasive exterior but she also has a soft side. In the season 2 she blackmails the district manager, Jeff, into shredding his report to corporate which could have resulted in Amy's termination. Dina also has a very healthy self-confidence, once referring to herself as a "solid 8.25" and the 3rd prettiest girl in ROTC. Dina is a vegetarian.

Dina takes a voluntary demotion to sales associate to pursue Jonah romantically, who denies her and claims that the reason he resists her romantic advances is because she is his supervisor. After being rejected by Jonah, Dina turns her romantic interest toward Marcus. Dina later turns her romantic interests toward Garrett, kissing him in the break room after the Black Friday rush.

Garrett McNeill

Portrayed by Colton Dunn, a Cloud 9 associate who is paralyzed from the waist down. He is often heard making announcements over the store public address system. He enjoys pulling pranks on his coworkers and even customers, usually out of boredom.

Mateo Fernando Aquino Liwanag

Portrayed by Nico Santos, a Filipino (mistaken as Mexican) Cloud 9 associate. He is an employee, who wants to climb the ladder at Cloud 9 as quickly as possible. He immediately begins a rivalry with Jonah, who was hired at the same time as him, by pointing out his mistakes, and later admits to being overly competitive.

Mateo discovers he is an undocumented worker, though Glenn is oblivious when Mateo tries to confess. Mateo later confesses to Cheyenne as well. In order to attempt to keep his secret, Mateo buys Garrett's "I voted" sticker from him, so it would appear that he voted and no one would question his citizenship.

He came out as gay to Glenn, while helping a gay couple find lights for their wedding. Mateo gets asked out by district manager Jeff, which he is very excited about, however the longer they need to keep it a secret the harder he finds it.

Cheyenne Tyler Lee

Portrayed by Nichole Bloom, a Cloud 9 associate who is a pregnant, 17-year old high school student at the start of the series. Cheyenne becomes engaged to her boyfriend, Bo Derek Thompson. Prior to dating Bo, Cheyenne dated her sophomore English teacher, Cole. She delivers a baby girl named Harmonica, in the store. The employees threaten to unionize when Cheyenne is unable to get paid maternity leave, leading to Glenn being fired for suspending her six weeks with pay, resulting in a strike. Cheyenne contemplated dropping out of school in order to try and become an Olympic athlete.

Glenn Sturgis

Portrayed by Mark McKinney, Cloud 9's store manager. Glenn is socially awkward and constantly positive, and he clashes with Dina when he brings his Christian religious beliefs into the workplace. Due to Glenn's religious beliefs he once purchased all the morning after pills in the store, in order to ensure customers could not.

Glenn and his wife, Jerusha, have no children of their own, but they are foster parents to eleven kids. His parents were Arthur and Marion Sturgis. His family owned a hardware store, Sturgis and Sons, before Cloud 9 put them out of business after 59 years. This made Glenn a family "black sheep" when he took the Cloud 9 job.

Glenn's compassion is abundant and for everyone, whether they've been good or bad to him. Due to the fact that Cloud 9 doesn't provide paid maternity leave, Glenn faked anger with Cheyenne and suspended her for six weeks with pay, and a person from corporate overheard this and got Glenn fired. When Dina made a mistake and a customer demanded she be fired, Glenn devised a plan to hide store merchandise on the customer, so that the sensors would go off when the woman left. Glenn then offered to look the other way on the "theft" if the customer would ignore Dina's error.

Recurring

  • Johnny Pemberton as Bo Derek Thompson, Cheyenne's immature, wannabe-rapper fiancé and her baby's father. Bo was previously hit by a car and won a $5,000 settlement, which he plans on using for their wedding.
  • Kaliko Kauahi as Sandra, a Cloud 9 employee who has trouble bringing up legitimate concerns and being heard. She will often attempt to make her voice heard only to shoot herself down shortly after, or during. She revealed herself to be a midwife when Cheyenne had her baby.
  • Sean Whalen as Sal, a creepy, older Cloud 9 employee. It is implied that he harasses Sandra sexually, making comments about her breasts both at work and at her home.
  • Josh Lawson as Tate Stasklewicz, a Cloud 9 pharmacist who is often rude, panicky, sarcastic and full of himself. He often passes his job onto other employees whenever he can.
  • Linda Porter as Myrtle, an old Cloud 9 employee who is often quite confused and forgetful.
  • Jon Barinholtz as Marcus, a dim-witted Cloud 9 employee who briefly dates Dina after Jonah rejects her. Marcus had his thumb cut off while working the deli slicer. Previously went to prison, after his mom turned him in to save herself.
  • Ryan Gaul as Adam Dubanowski, Amy's husband and Emma's father. Adam and Amy were high school sweethearts, got married at 19, and had Emma thereafter. He's a YouTube personality who makes grilling videos, but otherwise appears to have no steady employment.
  • Michael Bunin as Jeff Sutin, District Manager who oversees the St. Louis Cloud 9, among others. He comes out as gay, and has a romantic interest in Mateo.