Revenge

Daniel Grayson (Josh Bowman) is Victoria and Conrad's son, and an all - American boy of privilege.

Daniel's life embodies all that comes with being the firstborn of a wealthy family - high expectations to succeed, partnered with a penchant for getting into any and all trouble his family can buy his way out of.

But when his party-boy ways culminated in a messy drunk driving accident the previous summer, Daniel's free-pass was revoked by his parents and replaced with stricter boundaries and even higher expectations.

Now Daniel has returned to the Hamptons after a semester at Harvard Business School, struggling to face the demons of his past and re-imagine the life he wants to live and the man he wants to be. In this fragile state, Daniel's unable to resist Emily Thorne's beauty, kindness, and wise counsel, unknowing that he is the entrée she's counting on to infiltrate and bring down the family that's invested so much in him.

Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp) is the newest arrival in the Hamptons this summer. By all appearances, she's a friendly and sophisticated "girl next door," whose disarming charm and generosity allows her seamless access to the restricted circles of Hamptons high society.

But the affluent, exclusive world she's immersed herself in is tied to a dark family history and Emily Thorne is anything but what she seems. As a nine year old girl, Emily's father was framed for a horrific crime by the friends and coworkers he trusted and sentenced to a life in prison.

Emily never saw her father again and spent her childhood consumed by rage, loss, and betrayal. Now 17 years later, Emily has returned under an assumed identity with one endgame - REVENGE, every social overture a carefully planned chip at the foundation of her sworn enemies, until their lives come crashing down around them.

Emily's goal is unwavering and her sharp mind is always five steps ahead, but when her past begins to catch up, her true heart may get caught in the crossfire.

Nolan Ross (Gabriel Mann) is a tech genius and social misfit. A Mark Zuckerberg meets Howard Hughes type, he has more money than nearly anyone on the island, but has learned the hard lesson that it takes more than vast fortune to cull social acceptance in the Hamptons.

Nolan's pompous and arrogant, but secretly starved for human connection. Though in public he's unfamiliar with Emily Thorne, the truth is he shares a link to her past, present, and above all, her secret.

Being the one and only person who knows who Emily really is makes him either a useful accessory or a live wire threat to her true agenda.

Jack Porter (Nick Wechsler) is a blue-collar son of a dock worker who's spent his entire adult life helping his father manage the Stowaway Tavern, a local hangout for the common folk of Montauk.

Though he's loyal to the core, Jack's always had aspirations of escape - nomadic dreams of sailing around the world and carving out an adventure of his own, but dedication to his hard luck family has always conspired to keep him landlocked.

When fate (and a yellow lab) brings Emily Thorne into his life, jack is unable to shake a deja vu-like connection to her. with intimate knowledge of Emily's former life as the little girl he knew as Amanda Clarke, jack's growing interest in the strangely familiar new girl could throw a serious wrench into Emily's carefully crafted agenda.

Victoria Grayson (Madeleine Stowe) is the glamorous and powerful matriarch of the Grayson family and the reigning Queen of the Hamptons social scene.

As the wife of a billionaire, she appears to have it all: the perfect husband, children, and home. But these are just the trappings that house a much darker secret - her culpability in the events that destroyed Emily Thorne's life.

Mired in her many secrets and lies, and a true love-lost that haunts her every day, Victoria is strikingly suspicious of her new neighbor Emily, who's taken a keen interest in Victoria's son, Daniel.

Knowing that nothing in life is coincidental, Victoria is determined to find out Emily's real intentions and protect the life she has sacrificed so much for by any means necessary 

Conrad Grayson (Henry Czerny) is the CEO of Grayson Global and head of the Grayson family. He's well respected among his peers in both business and Hamptons' society - a shrewd and successful tycoon who operates with questionable moral integrity.

Conrad is ruthless and willing to do whatever it takes to ensure he slithers out of potentially scandalous situations unscathed - and he's got the skeletons of previous scandals to prove it. But with the arrival of Emily Thorne, Conrad will finally have to atone for his many past sins. 

Charlotte Grayson (Christa B. Allen) is her father's pride and joy, the youngest daughter of the Grayson clan - a rich coquettish teenager always on the prowl for fun.

But Charlotte's no dummy, as she defies expectations with her perfect academic record at school. Charlotte easily fits right in with the "mean girls" of the Hamptons, but there's a curiosity streak that draws her to the troubled boys from the "wrong side of the tracks."

Throughout the summer, as she dives head first into forbidden romance, Charlotte constantly struggles to get away from the condemnatory eye of a mother who's honest affection has always eluded her. 

Declan Porter (Connor Paolo) is Jack's troubled kid brother. Well - intentioned but rough around the edges, he's an outsider among his peers, frustrated with the lot he's been dealt in life.

Declan is both intrigued and aroused by the wealthy world of the elite vacationers that populate his town every summer, and his interest finds a target in the sassy but good hearted Charlotte Grayson.