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This is a list of recurring characters on the American sitcom Friends. For characters who recurred only as partners of the six Friends, see List of significant others of Friends. more...

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Charles Bing

Charles Bing is the father of Chandler Bing. Charles Bing is a transvestite once married to Nora Tyler Bing. He has a show in Vegas under the name Viva Las Gaygas, and performs under the pseudonym Helena Handbasket.

Played by Kathleen Turner

Nora Tyler Bing

Nora Tyler Bing is the mother of Chandler Bing. An adult novelist, she divorced Charles Bing when she learned of his sexuality. Their divorce triggered Chandler to start using humour as a defense mechanism.

Played by Morgan Fairchild.

Ben

Ross's son, who lived with Carol and Susan. Born in The One with the Birth at the end of Season 1, he only appeared in thirteen episodes. Played as an infant by Charles Thomas Allen and John Christopher Allen and in later seasons by Cole Sprouse.

Jack Geller

Jack Geller is the father of Monica and Ross, and husband to Judy Geller.

Jack Geller is most known for his ill-timed, inappropriate comments, such as addressing a British character as a "thieving, would be speaking German if it weren't for us, cheap little man". He also smokes cigarettes, albeit secretly; he claims that cigarettes Ross finds around the house are Judy's.

Played by Elliott Gould

Judy Geller

Judy is the mother of main characters Monica and Ross, and is married to Jack Geller. She is always critical of Monica, in particular her usual lack of a boyfriend, and favours Ross. Her intense (albeit well-meant) criticism of Monica may in some way be responsible for Monica's obsessive sense of cleanliness and order. Her constant criticism of Monica's failures and pride in Ross's work, as well as her family religion, places her in the Jewish mother stereotype.

Played by Christina Pickles.

Leonard Greene

Leonard Green is the father of Rachel Green. He is an overbearing perfectionist who demands that anything his children do reap instant, flawless results. He and his wife divorced shortly after Rachel left her fiance Barry at the altar; her mom told Rachel, "you didn't marry your Barry, honey, but I married mine." While he and Rachel have a fairly fractious relationship, he has said to his friends and youngest daughter Jill (but not to her) that she is the only one of his children he is proud of. And like many of the characters on the show, including his wife and daughter, Dr. Green is a traditional Jewish stereotype, the overbearing, oft-critical doctor. Ron Leibman once said of his character: "I may have won a Tony... but everyone asks, 'Aren't you Rachel's Dad?'"

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