Michael's loved ones/family •
Carol Stills (portrayed by
Nancy Carell, Steve Carell's wife) is Michael's real estate agent. She has two children. Michael entertained her kids at an ice-skating rink and she was Michael's date to the casino night. In a deleted scene, it is revealed that after "
Casino Night", Michael continued seeing her over the three months in between the second and third seasons. Carol rejected Michael's marriage proposal after they had been on nine dates. In "
A Benihana Christmas", after Michael gives her a Christmas card containing a family photo with Michael's face superimposed over Carol's ex-husband, she rejects his Christmas gift of two tickets to Jamaica and breaks up with him. In the episode "
Sex Ed", when Michael asks Carol if he romanticizes his relationships, she says that is definitely the case. In "
Finale", she has been showing Jim and Pam's house for the past two months, Pam having put the house up for sale. •
Donna Newton (
Amy Pietz) is the manager of the bar "Sid & Dexter". She first appears in "
Happy Hour", where she reprimands Michael for his disruptive behavior in her establishment. She asks him to leave, but he refuses, and she eventually gives up on the matter. Michael goes over to talk to her, and they argue at first, but then they engage in a conversation, and begin flirting with one another. She reappears in "
Body Language", in which she visits the office in order to buy office equipment. Jim and Pam team up as her sales representatives, but their pitch is undermined by Michael's flirtatious interruptions. Michael takes over the sales presentation, but becomes unsure whether her flirtatiousness demonstrates a genuine interest in him or merely a ploy to extract a lower price. After Donna departs the office, she leaves behind a
barrette, which Michael returns to her in the parking lot. Michael apologizes for his behavior, only to find that Donna is indeed interested in him, and the two kiss. In "
The Cover-Up", Michael discovers their relationship is an extramarital affair. In
the next episode, the office staff tells him that he should break up with her, because she is cheating on her husband. Michael rejects their pleas, but ultimately ends his relationship with Donna via a text message. In "
Sex Ed", after Michael discovers that he may have
herpes, he calls her, and while she is pleased to hear from him, she is mortified when he reveals his
STD, as she fears that he may have transmitted it to her. •
Lucas "Luke" Cooper (
Evan Peters) is the son of Michael's half-sister, from whom he had been estranged from 1995 to 2010, as a result of losing Luke in a forest as a child. In order to make amends for the incident, Michael hired him as the new office assistant sometime between the episodes "
Whistleblower" and "
Nepotism", although he proved inept at his new occupation. Luke is disrespectful during a meeting, so Michael loses his temper and spanks Luke, who is humiliated and tearfully leaves the office.
Jim's family/loved ones •
Gerald (
Robert Pine) and
Betsy Halpert (Perry Smith) are Jim's parents. In "
Frame Toby", Jim purchases their house, where he grew up, for him and Pam to live in. They first appear on-screen in "
Niagara", where they attend their son's wedding to Pam. During the ceremony, Gerald can be seen wearing a
kilt. •
Thomas (Blake Robbins) and
Peter Halpert (Tug Coker) are Jim's obnoxious older brothers who, like him, possess a great love for practical jokes. They first appear in "
Employee Transfer", in which they have lunch with their brother and his fiancée. However, unbeknownst to Jim, Pam met with them before lunch to clue them in on a prank she would be playing on him, but Tom and Pete instead decided to make fun of her interest in art, as opposed to Pam's idea of losing her engagement ring. During lunch, they make numerous insults towards her art career, causing Jim to come to her defense. After the argument escalates, Tom and Pete reveal it to be a prank, with Pam awkwardly confirming this. Afterward, Jim receives a text message from them welcoming Pam into the family, and Pam suggests they should "prank" Tom about being bald over
Thanksgiving. They later reappear in "
Niagara", attending Jim and Pam's wedding, for which they (along with Michael and Dwight) organize to have everyone dance down the aisle in the style of the viral video,
JK Wedding Entrance Dance. •
Katy Moore (
Amy Adams) is a handbag saleswoman, who stops by the office in
the season 1 finale, "
Hot Girl". Upon seeing her, both Michael and Dwight are instantly attracted to her, with Michael commenting that she is like the "Pam 6.0", and Dwight considering her to be the ideal woman. Michael and Dwight each make a move on her; Michael flirts with her aggressively, and Dwight shows interest in purchasing a handbag. However, she ignores their advances, and begins dating Jim, a relationship that only lasted for a few months. After Pam and Roy decide to set a date for their wedding, a devastated Jim breaks up with Katy in "
Booze Cruise", when he ungraciously admits that the two will never be as deeply in love with each other as Roy and Pam seem to be when seeing them together. Along with Toby, Katy is a graduate of
Bishop O'Hara High School, where she was a
cheerleader. She bonds with Roy on the Booze Cruise, when they realize that they went to rival high schools, and she cheered at games against the
football team Roy played on. According to an OfficeTally.com Question and Answer discussion with B. J. Novak, he originally wrote for her to appear in Michael's film,
Threat Level Midnight, as a "
floozy" that Michael's character, Michael Scarn, would have unsatisfying sex with and reflect on how much he missed his late, sexually voracious wife,
Catherine Zeta-Jones Scarn. Katy would have then appeared in a subsequent talking-head interview, where she would have expressed embarrassment over the role, but also talk about how she had been interested in pursuing an acting career at the time. The character's reappearance was prevented by Adams' lack of availability.
Pam's family/friends •
Helene Beesly (
Shannon Cochran in Season 2,
Linda Purl in Seasons 6, 7 and 9) is Pam's mother. Pam gets excited when Helene comes to visit her at work in "
Sexual Harassment". Helene appears to get along with Roy very well, but is eager to meet Jim after Pam talked about him in private. In "
Stress Relief", it is revealed Helene and Pam's father William are going through a rough patch in their marriage and it eventually ends in divorce after Jim confesses to William his deep and abiding love for Pam, a feeling that William never felt with Helene. In "
Niagara", Helene comes to the wedding and is disturbed when William comes with a new girlfriend who is half his age. Helene takes pity on Michael when he talks about his past relationships and invites him into her room after the wedding. In "
The Lover", Michael confirms to Jim and Pam that he is dating Helene, much to Pam's horror and anger. Pam maintains a hostile attitude toward their relationship until they go out to lunch for Helene's birthday in "
Double Date", where she sees that Helene is happy with Michael. However, when Michael learns that Helene is turning 58 and has already done many things Michael hasn't done yet, he breaks up with her in front of Jim and Pam. In "
The Delivery", Helene comes to visit Pam at the hospital after she gives birth and has an awkward moment with Michael. :Michael later visits her at a playground in "
Sex Ed", where he attempts to discuss their past relationship and see if what they had was genuine. She bitterly points out his skewed sense of memory, to which Michael responds by insulting her and then walking off. Helene appears in three more episodes after that: in "
Christening, where she is seen in the background attending CeCe's christening; in "
The Search", with a voice-only part where she calls Jim on his cell phone to tell him that she unintentionally locked CeCe in her car (with the keys inside it); and in "
Threat Level Midnight", where she is briefly seen in Michael's titular homemade film as a slutty nurse (to Pam's obvious discomfort). Helene now spends her days watching Jim and Pam's children while the two are at work. In "
Lice" she inadvertently revealed that Pam, not Meredith (as everyone assumed), was responsible for spreading
lice to the office after calling Pam at work to inform her that Cece's school had discovered she had lice. :
Shannon Cochran portrayed Helene in "
Sexual Harassment", but she was unavailable to return in Season 6 because she was committed to a 12-month stage production tour of
August: Osage County, so she was replaced by
Linda Purl. •
William Beesly (
Rick Overton) is Pam's father. He first appears in "
Stress Relief", where he stays at Pam and Jim's house after an argument with Helene. After a conversation with Jim, William decides to separate from Helene; he later reveals he was motivated by realizing he had never loved her as much as Jim loves Pam. He reappears in "
Niagara", attending Jim and Pam's wedding, where he is accompanied by his considerably younger new girlfriend, whom Jim mistakes for his niece. •
Penny Beesly (
Anna Camp) is Pam's sister. She appears in "
Niagara", where she is the
maid of honor at Pam and Jim's wedding. When Pam introduces her to Oscar and Kevin, she manages to unintentionally offend the former when she mistakes the latter for his ex, Gil. When the ceremony is interrupted by the
JK Wedding Entrance Dance recreation, she is apologetic to Pam for allowing it to happen, but Pam encourages her sister to dance down the aisle along with everyone else. :Camp would later go on to star with Mindy Kaling in her show
The Mindy Project. •
Sylvia (
Peggy Stewart), known as "Meemaw" to her family, is Pam's conservative grandmother, whom Pam describes as the only elderly woman at her wedding "with no smile wrinkles". She first appears in "
Niagara", where she travels to
Niagara Falls for Jim and Pam's wedding. But, after Jim inadvertently reveals that Pam is pregnant, she refuses to attend, until Michael is able to convince her to do so by falsely telling her that Jim and Pam will name their baby after her (or "Sylvio", if it is a boy). She reappears in "
Christening", where she attends CeCe's
christening. •
Alex (
Rich Sommer) is a student at the Pratt Institute in New York City who quickly befriends Pam during her summer internship. The two share a couple of jokes about two of the professors in "
Weight Loss". He makes another appearance in "
Customer Survey", where he tries to convince Pam to not return to Scranton, but instead stay in New York to pursue her career in art. It is indicated that he is attracted to Pam, and that he views Jim the same way Jim viewed Roy. In an interview with
USA Today, Sommer revealed that his character was originally intended to be a potential roadblock for Jim and Pam's relationship, but fan reaction to this storyline was so overwhelmingly negative, that the writers abandoned the idea. •
Isabel Poreba (
Kelen Coleman) is a
dental hygienist who attends Jim and Pam's wedding as a
bridesmaid, where she has sex with Dwight. The night before the wedding, she takes a liking to Dwight when he talks about his farm and the two end up having a one-night stand. She develops a crush on Dwight, which shocks Pam. However, Dwight blows her off on the day of the wedding when she tries to talk to him. In "
The Delivery", Isabel visits Pam and Jim in the hospital after Pam gives birth, where they find that Pam had breastfed the wrong baby. Isabel leaves to drop some food at Jim and Pam's house where Dwight is fixing their kitchen. Dwight is surprised and asks if he could come in for a cleaning. In "
Happy Hour", she and Dwight start to get to know each other better as the two share similar interests (Isabel's older brothers are police officers or are serving in the
USMC). Dwight decides Isabel would be better suited to have his children than Angela, with whom he had entered into a contract to have a child. When Dwight calls off the contract, Angela confronts Dwight and Isabel in the parking lot. Isabel smacks Angela on the head and scares her off. Dwight calls her an "impressive specimen" and passionately kisses her. It is presumed their relationship did not last as she has not been seen or mentioned since then.
Jim and Pam's children •
Cecelia Marie "CeCe" Halpert (portrayed by Mia Cavolic and twins Baily and Sienna Strull) is Jim and Pam's daughter, in real life named after Jenna Fischer's niece. Pam's pregnancy is discovered in the fifth-season finale "
Company Picnic", and she gives birth to CeCe in the sixth-season episode, "
The Delivery", on March 4, 2010, after 19 hours of labor. Jim jokingly states that CeCe was conceived in a
porta-potty at
Burning Man. CeCe makes appearances in several episodes throughout the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth seasons. •
Philip Halpert is Pam and Jim's infant son, named after Pam's grandfather (to Angela's rage, as she wanted Pam to give up the name so she could have it for herself in tribute to her favorite cat). In
the eighth-season premiere, Pam is approximately eight months pregnant, and she and Jim reveal to the camera crew that they are expecting a boy. Unlike with his older sister, there was no episode focusing on Philip's birth; it was instead announced on a blog.
Dwight's family/friends/loved ones •
Mose Schrute (portrayed by writer
Michael Schur) is Dwight's cousin, who lives with Dwight at the Schrute family beet farm. In "
The Injury", Michael refers to Mose as Dwight's "weirdo cousin" who is "27 years old [and has] never left the beet farm." Mose wears an
Amish-esque beard and clothing, and speaks and behaves in a very naive and childlike manner, at times even appearing mentally unstable and very socially awkward. The source of his mental imbalance was somewhat explained in the episode "
St. Patrick's Day", when Dwight explains to the camera crew, "I didn't see my father for the first two years of my life. I thought my mother was my father, and my wet nurse was my mother... Turned out fine for me. But Mose, same story...
different ending". In "
Money", Dwight informs Jim that Mose has had nightmares ever since "the storm". In the same episode, Mose is also shown, in the background, throwing manure at Dwight in the beet fields. Like Dwight, Mose is a skilled table tennis player, as seen at the end of "
The Deposition". In "
Did I Stutter?", Dwight's organizational chart shows Mose (who is not even employed at the office) is in charge of Heindl, Shirley, Vater, and Mutter. "Vater" and "Mutter" are German for "father" and "mother", and Heindl and Shirley are Dwight's uncle and aunt. In "
Jury Duty", Dwight says that Mose has never been taught what sex is. In "
Tallahassee", Dwight records a message for his presumed son, Phillip Lipton, and states that, if he dies, Phillip is the rightful inheritor of Schrute Farms, but warns him to kill Mose, before Mose can kill him. :Mose first appears in "
Initiation", in which he takes part in Dwight's misguided attempts to haze Ryan at Schrute Farms. After Ryan storms off, Dwight attempts to present him with a whittling that Mose made, which is in the shape of the
Venus of Willendorf. He later appears in "
Money", and in the fourth season finale, "
Goodbye, Toby", in which he assists Dwight with placing a
raccoon in Holly Flax's car. He also appears in "
The Surplus", and in the cold open of "
Koi Pond". In "
Counseling", he is seen painting the Daycare Center Dwight is planning to open in the building. He also appears in the eighth season episode "
Garden Party", where, in the role as valet, he forcibly takes Toby's keys and parks the car in a field; he is later shown attempting to jump over a row of cars on a
motorbike, in the style of
Evel Knievel. In the season 8 finale, "
Free Family Portrait Studio", he is used as a distraction to get Angela off of Dwight's tail on his way to the hospital to get the DNA testing of her son's
feces, in an attempt to prove that he is indeed the father. In the episode "
Junior Salesman", Mose is a candidate for the eponymous position, but flees from the building during his interview when Dwight points out a lie on his resumé that Mose used to work at the
Dow Chemical Company. In a prior talking-head interview, Dwight talked about how he believed Mose would be a good fit for the job, as he has papyrophobia (fear of paper), which would motivate him to sell as much paper as he could in order to get rid of it. A comment from Dwight's aunt, Shirley, in "
Moving On", implies that, at one point, he had a sexual relationship with a "lady
scarecrow". •
Fannie Schrute (
Majandra Delfino) is Dwight's younger sister, who appeared in the ninth-season episode "
The Farm". Described as an attractive and urban, if somewhat pseudo-intellectual, liberal woman with an ironic sense of humor but a great heart, Fannie left Schrute Farms in favor of a city life in
Boston. She is now divorced, and appears to have full custody of her young son, Cameron, as he stated to Dwight that he has never met his father. While she is the only one of her siblings who is fully opposed to running her aunt Shirley's estate (as Jeb flip-flops between wanting to and not), after she sees that Dwight and Cameron have bonded, she agrees to return to home to run the property with her siblings, though both she and Jeb let Dwight take on the responsibility of managing it. •
Jeb Schrute (
Thomas Middleditch) is Dwight's ne'er-do-well younger brother. After leaving the
army, he traveled to northern California, where he purchased a 9-acre
pot farm (albeit unknowingly). After the death of his aunt Shirley, he moves back home to Pennsylvania with his siblings in order to care for her estate. Jeb is first mentioned by his brother in "
Dwight Christmas", and appears alongside him via a family photograph from 1982. He made his first live appearance in "
The Farm". •
Cameron Whitman (Blake Garrett Rosenthal) is Fannie's son and Dwight's nerdy and slightly weird 9-year-old nephew. While at first, Dwight is more or less disgusted with him and his city slicker ways, the two later bond when he teaches him how to milk a goat. He appeared in the episode "
The Farm". •
Zeke Schrute (
Matt Jones) is Dwight's cousin and Mose's brother, and the self-appointed comedian of the family (since Dwight was the "cool kid" growing up and Mose was "the visionary"). He first appears in the episode "
Junior Salesman", interviewing to be Jim's part-time replacement, and reappears in "
The Farm". •
Shirley (Mary Gillis) was Dwight's aunt, whom he considered to be the closest thing he had to a mom (as his own was very cold and distant, and, ironically, he considered her to be the closest thing he had to an aunt). She makes her first appearance in "
Moving On", in which Dwight acquires the help of Angela in order to bathe her. Initially, he wants to merely take his aunt out and spray her with a hose, but Angela talks him into letting her do it in a more dignified manner, and through the process, the two begin to remember their feelings for each other, something that they do not realize they are experiencing mutually until Shirley playfully comments on the chemistry between them. In
the subsequent episode, Dwight announces that she has passed on, and, later on, at the funeral, Dwight and his siblings receive a shock when they learn that she willed her estate to them. Their inheritance was to serve as the catalyst for Dwight leaving Dunder Mifflin, in order for Wilson to star in his own spin-off about the character running the farm. Upon review of the episode, however, NBC decided not to pick it up. •
Heinrich Manheim (
Tom Bower) is the Schrute siblings' manipulative, avaricious, malevolent, unhinged and very likely Nazi war criminal great uncle, who was to be a major character in Dwight's spin-off "
The Farm". His part was cut from the NBC broadcast of the episode, but he appears in a deleted scene, threatening to kill Dwight unless he relinquishes his inheritance to him, which Dwight fails to take seriously. •
Henry Bruegger (
Allan Havey) is a somewhat stoic neighboring
Brussels sprout farmer, who appears in "
The Farm", briefly pulling up in his truck to pay his respects at Shirley's funeral. He reappears in
the subsequent episode, in which he tries to rope Dwight into co-leasing a
tractor with him. •
Esther Bruegger (
Nora Kirkpatrick) is one of Henry's five daughters, who appears in "
The Farm". She and Dwight are shown flirting at Shirley's funeral, and later in the episode, when everyone is outside on the porch, playing
The Decemberists'
Sons and Daughters, Dwight drops a pair of crows' beaks at the feet of Esther – signaling his desire to court her. Following tradition, Esther reciprocates by crushing the beaks with her boot. She reappears in "
Promos", visiting Dwight at the office with her sisters and father, the latter of whom tries to get Dwight to co-lease a tractor with him. However, she later explains to Dwight that her father really is trying to take advantage of him, and suggests a better deal he should make, affirming that her feelings for him are genuine and that she was not using him, as Clark had believed and warned the fellow Salesman. •
Rolf Ahl (
James Urbaniak) is introduced in the season 5 finale "
Company Picnic" as Dwight's new best friend. Dwight claims to have met him in a shoe store after having heard him "asking for a shoe that could increase his speed and not leave any tracks". Rolf and Dwight appear to share very similar personalities and interests. However, Rolf is much more outspoken than Dwight and at one point during the volleyball game has to be quieted by Dwight after telling David Wallace and Charles Miner from corporate that "You suckers are goin down! They're gonna wipe their asses with your serves! Piss all over your faces!". Dwight is also not happy when Rolf insults Angela for the second time during the volleyball game, by calling her a whore, and he is told by Dwight to "knock it off", a demand to which he (grudgingly) assents. Rolf is also seen again in the episode "
The Delivery", where he helps Dwight remodel Jim and Pam's kitchen. Three seasons later, in "
Junior Salesman", he interviews for the titular position. Dwight initially believes he would be perfect for the job; however, it soon becomes evident to him that he is not cut out for the paper business. After all of Dwight's applicants leave the office, angry that not one of them were chosen, Rolf warns Dwight not to open any suspicious packages he will be receiving, before backpedaling and telling him to go right ahead, unconvincingly claiming that they are "totally safe". Rolf later appears in the finale at Dwight's bachelor party alongside Mose and Gabor, showing his feud with Dwight was ultimately short-lived. •
Trevor Bortmen (
Chris Gethard) is a friend of Dwight's. He works as a self-licensed and self-employed Private Investigator, and, like Dwight, is a former volunteer sheriff, having been fired from the force for reasons unknown. He makes his debut in "
The Target", in which Angela hires him to kill Oscar after she finds out about his affair with her husband. While Trevor concedes that her request is "a little crazy", he agrees to the job. However, after Dwight objects to the murder, he convinces Angela to opt for a kneecapping instead. Trevor later arrives at the office, posing as a sandwich delivery man (with the lead pipe he placed in the sandwich being clearly visible), and pursues both Dwight and Oscar after the former rushes the latter out from the building. He manages to ambush the pair outside, but is hesitant once it is time to actually attack Oscar, giving the Accountant the opportunity to take away his weapon, causing Trevor to flee. He later reappears in "
Junior Salesman", as one of Dwight's original applicants for the position of being Jim's part-time replacement; however, during his interview, he immediately effaces any confidence Dwight had in him that he would be suitable for the job. •
Melvina Whitaker (
Beth Grant) is Dwight's former babysitter. She debuts in "
Dinner Party", in which she acts like his date in order for the Salesman to attend the couples-only dinner held by Michael and Jan (though he maintains that their relationship is purely carnal). After the tension between the two hosts erupts, she decides she wants to leave, but Dwight refuses to give her a ride home; he later passes her by at a bus stop in a seedy-looking neighborhood while driving Michael to his farm. She reappears years later in the ninth season, applying to be a
Junior Salesman at the office, but is ultimately passed on. •
Ira Glicksberg (
Lance Krall) is Dwight's
karate sensei, who referees a sparring match between Dwight and Michael, in season 2's "
The Fight". He makes a reappearance in the ninth season, interviewing for the position of a junior Salesman, in the
episode of the same name. According to his resume released by NBC.com, he was at one point in his life so obese that he worked as a
sumo wrestler. •
Wolf von Weyler (
Will McCormack) is a mentally disturbed friend of Dwight's, who appears as one of his sponsored applicants in "
Junior Salesman". He has some homicidal tendencies; Dwight mentioned that Wolf has executed him during their
paintball games at point blank range multiple times, even when they were on the same team.
Angela's family •
Robert Lipton (
Jack Coleman), often referred to as "The Senator" by Angela, is a
Republican Pennsylvania state senator who resides in
Scranton. He first appears in "
WUPHF.com", where he meets Angela at Dwight's hay festival. The two begin dating shortly after that, and Lipton eventually proposes to her in the
seventh-season finale. At the start of the eighth season, they are now married, and she is pregnant with his child, whom she gives birth to in "
Jury Duty". :Lipton is a
widower, mentioning in his debut episode that his wife has been deceased for a few years. He is also shown to have a young son. However, despite his previous marriage, it was strongly implied in various episodes that Lipton was actually a closeted homosexual, with Oscar several times pointing this out to the cameras. The episode "
Fundraiser" hinted that he had become attracted to Oscar, which is later confirmed in "
Free Family Portrait Studio", when he asks him why he did not call him after the event, and heavily alludes to his supposed homosexuality. :The two later begin an affair throughout the ninth season, which Angela discovers in "
The Whale", briefly causing a rift between Angela and Oscar. The episode "
Vandalism" establishes that she has remained with him, although only as a trophy wife. When the TV series documentary about the Scranton branch is being publicized, Angela and Oscar realize that the senator will be
outed as his and Oscar's affair was also documented. Angela later speaks with the senator, who agrees to hold a press conference, and leaves Angela with the impression that they'll suppress any news of his affair with Oscar. However, the senator comes out of the closet live on the press conference to Angela's shock. The senator publicly thanks Oscar for coming to terms with his sexuality, only to blindside Oscar when it's discovered that the senator is in love with his Chief of Staff. As a result, Angela divorces the senator and ends up in a bad living situation thereafter. •
Phillip Halsted Schrute is Angela's infant son, whom she named after her favorite cat. She gives birth to him in the episode "
Jury Duty". However, despite Angela's claim that he was born prematurely, Phillip weighs . Angela eventually admits to Oscar that she is lying about the date of conception, as Phillip was conceived out of wedlock. After Dwight is informed of this information, he privately confronts Angela that it is highly probable that he is Phillip's biological father, as he and Angela had sex around the time Phillip was conceived. In "
Tallahassee", Dwight reveals that, after he dies, Phillip will inherit Schrute Farms. In the season 8 finale, Dwight steals one of Phillip's soiled
diapers and takes it to a hospital in order to run the
DNA test, to find out if he is the child's father. In the ninth-season premiere, "
New Guys", it is revealed that he is not. (A fact which confounded fans due to the fact that NBC deleted a scene where Dwight ponders if he accidentally stole Phillip Halpert's diaper instead.) When the senator comes out of the closet, he and Angela divorce, prompting Angela and Phillip to move into a studio apartment. In
A.A.R.M., when Dwight babysits Phillip, he begins to have suspicions once again, but Angela denies it. However, when Dwight proposes to Angela at the end of episode, it is revealed that Dwight is in fact Phillip's father, as confirmed by Angela. •
Bandit, formerly named "Garbage" by Mose (due to the animal's habit of eating garbage), is one of Angela's cats. He first appears in "
Dunder Mifflin Infinity", where, after Dwight captures the
feral animal from his
barn, he presents him to Angela, in an attempt to make up for mercy-killing her cat, Sprinkles. However, Angela declines the gift, and Dwight gets rid of Bandit by releasing him into Bob Vance's office. Andy later captures the cat in the Warehouse, in the episode "
Money", and gives him to Angela, which, this time, she accepts. Bandit later reappears in "
Stress Relief", when Dwight sets the office on fire, and Angela grabs the cat (who was sleeping in a desk drawer) and yells to Oscar, who is climbing in the ceiling, to save her pet. Unfortunately, when she throws him up to Oscar, Oscar fails to catch him, and Bandit falls through the ceiling. While it was unknown if Bandit had survived the fall, he is later confirmed to be alive, when he makes a cameo in "
Two Weeks", chewing on a
copier cord. He makes another cameo in "
The Delivery", when Jim, proving to the camera crew that he can put a
diaper on anything, does so to Bandit, angering Angela. In the ninth-season episode Paper Airplanes, it is implied that Bandit died sometime between them, as she has a cat named Bandit 2. •
Rachael Martin (
Rachael Harris) is Angela's sister. In "
A Benihana Christmas", Angela reveals to the camera crew that she and her sister have not spoken in sixteen years over "some disagreement, I don't even remember." By final season the two have made amends off-screen, and she attends Angela's
bachelorette party and serves as her maid-of-honor at her wedding.
Andy's family/loved ones/friends •
Walter Bernard, Sr. (
Stephen Collins) and
Ellen Bernard (
Dee Wallace) are Andy's affluent, ritzy, fastidious parents, who view Andy as a disappointment, and as such, treat him with disdain. The two debuted in "
Goodbye, Toby", where they attended Toby's farewell party, and also witnessed Andy's proposal to Angela (although, in this episode, they are portrayed by different, uncredited actors, and Walter is named "Andrew", just like his eldest son). Several years later, they reappear in the episode "
Garden Party", where they attend Andy's
garden party at Schrute Farms, along with Walter, Jr. After Andy becomes frustrated with his father and brother, Walter confronts Andy about his "obnoxious attitude", which he turns into a browbeating, as he tells Andy to stop seeking his approval, because he is not impressed that he is the "manager of some rinky dink branch". During "
Angry Andy", Andy calls his father and tells him of Nellie Bertram stealing his job. It is implied that Walter refers to the job as a demotion to Andy, who is visibly defensive. However, shortly after this, Andy has an anger outburst, and picks the phone and finally stands up to his father, yelling "Dad, go to hell, I'm taller than you!" before hanging up on him. In the ninth season, Walter, Sr. bankrupts his family when he takes all of their money and flees to Argentina with his mistress; Andy then springs into action and sells off all of Walter's left-behind assets so that Ellen will have money to live on, and does so with such effectiveness that both Pam and Darryl express surprise at how competent he was at handling this crisis (though he balks for a long time at selling the family's most lucrative remaining asset, a boat, for personal reasons before he finally agrees the sale has to happen). •
Walter Bernard, Jr. (
Josh Groban) is Andy's successful, talented younger brother, who is the favored child of Walter, Sr. and Ellen. He is first mentioned in "
The Delivery", and later appears in "
Garden Party", where he attends Andy's garden party at Schrute Farms, although his presence quickly makes Andy feel insecure and upstaged. However, he does seem to treat Andy with more respect than their parents do. In "
After Hours", Andy mentions that his brother has gotten a boat. He returns in the episode "
The Boat", where he has since become an alcoholic after his father took all of the family's money and left them in shambles. Andy discovers him passed out in the liquor closet of the family's boat (as Junior wanted to get the first relapse out of the way before checking into
rehab), and then invites him on his trip to the
Caribbean, as a way to sober him up and also spend some quality time with him. •
Jessica (Eleanor Seigler) is an assistant cross country coach at
Bryn Mawr College, and Andy's ex-girlfriend. She is first mentioned in "
Spooked", with Andy confiding in Erin that, while she has never come by the office, as per his request, as he believes it would make Erin uncomfortable, he is now worried that she is not calling him. Andy admits that things are "serious" between them, the two having gone on 31 dates. In "
Christmas Wishes", Andy invites her to the office Christmas party. An emotionally confused Erin tries to be nice to Jessica, but ends up drinking too much at the party. In a drunken stupor, she tells Andy that her Christmas wish is for Jessica to die. Offended, he tells her to get over their breakup before storming off. In "
Pool Party", Andy states in a talking-head interview, that his parents met Jessica, and were extremely impressed with her. So much so, that they gave Andy a Bernard family ring for him to use to propose to her with (although, Ellen took out the main diamond, as she felt it would be better suited for Walter, Jr.). Later, Andy brings Jessica to CEO Robert California's pool party at his mansion. In a deleted scene from that episode, she tells the camera crew that she and her brother were the "chicken fight champions" of their swimming club, and reveals that she grew up in
West Hartford, Connecticut. She has a cameo in the episode "
Special Project", where she and Andy are seen happily
carpooling together, and in "
Tallahassee", she calls him after quitting time at the office. However, in "
Last Day in Florida", upon learning that Erin is not returning to Scranton, Andy realizes that he is, indeed, still in love with Erin, and not with Jessica. In "
Get the Girl", Andy drives down to Florida to win Erin back, and the two rekindle their former relationship. The aftermath of this is addressed in the subsequent episode, "
Welcome Party", in which Erin and Andy travel to Jessica's family's
log cabin in order for him to break up with Jessica, but they are surprised to encounter Jessica and her friends having a bachelorette party. To make the break up less awkward, Andy initially tells Jessica that he is gay, but he later returns with Erin and tells the party that he and Erin are together, despite his earlier claim to Jessica that Erin was not "relationship material". •
Here Comes Treble is a
Cornell college
a cappella group, of which Andy was a member of and makes frequent references to. The group members, besides Andy (who was nicknamed "Boner Champ"), were "Carl 1" and "Carl 2" (who have not spoken to one another since their
civil union ended), "Jingle Jangle", "Sandwich", "Doobie" (who now works as a
bus driver), "
Pubey Lewis & the News", "Sparerib", "Hopscotch", "Lunchbox", and "Broccoli Rob" Blatt. In the show's
final Halloween episode, Andy becomes angry with Rob (portrayed by
Stephen Colbert, via
Skype) when he learns from the latest roster of Here Comes Treble (who he invited to perform for the office during the Halloween party) that he told the new group his nickname was "Boner Champ" and that his signature song was
George Michael's "
Faith", both of which were actually Andy's.
Erin's family/friends •
Reed (Sean Davis) is Erin's foster brother. The two lived together in an
orphanage, from ages 10–12 and 15–18, and now share a house. He appears in "
St. Patrick's Day", in which he interrupts Erin and Andy's date, and his behavior around his foster sister makes Andy feel uncomfortable. •
Irene (
Georgia Engel) is a kind, elderly woman, who resides in Tallahassee. She first appears in "
Test the Store", in which she befriends Erin, after Erin was ordered to remove a group of
senior citizens from the Sabre store, and in "
Last Day in Florida", it is revealed that Irene has hired her as a live-in
maid, although Erin quickly proves herself to be fairly incompetent at this new occupation, a fact which Irene soon becomes painfully aware of. However, it did not develop into a relationship, although the two appear to remain on good terms. When Erin decides to go back to Scranton, she worries about Irene and Glenn's well-being, but Irene assures her that they will be fine, and informs Erin that Glenn is going to sue
Home Depot, because he somehow managed to get his
foreskin caught on some of their
lawn furniture. Stacey has one daughter, named Abby (portrayed by Greg Daniels' daughter, Haley Daniels), whom Kevin brings to the office, in the episode "
Take Your Daughter to Work Day". :Stacey first appears in "
The Dundies", attending the event of the same name, alongside Kevin. She later appears in the episodes "
E-mail Surveillance", in which she attends Jim's
barbecue party, and in "
Phyllis' Wedding", in which she attends Phyllis' wedding. In "
Valentine's Day", Kevin indicates that he and Stacey are beginning to have problems in their relationship, and admits that she will, at times, leave Scranton without telling him where she is going. Later, in the episode "
Cocktails", Kevin claims that they have set a date for their wedding, but when Kelly asks him when the date is, he states that "It's complicated", and becomes very defensive about the subject. In "
Chair Model", Kevin reveals that Stacey broke up with him, and that the two are on bad terms. In "
Blood Drive", he reveals how Stacey ended their relationship: Kevin had casually told her that he believed that the
Philadelphia Eagles could win the
NFC East, and she abruptly stated "we're done". •
Lynn (
Lisa K. Wyatt) is Kevin's love interest in the fifth season. She first appears in "
Blood Drive", attending the singles mixer that Michael organizes. Kevin becomes attracted to her shortly after they meet, but is awkward talking to her. He later apologizes, stating that he becomes nervous around "pretty girls", which flatters her, and she gives him her
e-mail address. In "
Golden Ticket", Kevin is given greatly disparate advice on wooing her, but he ultimately succeeds when asks her to dinner and a movie. In "
Cafe Disco", Lynn is seen passionately kissing him; however, in a deleted scene, Kevin tells the camera crew that he and Lynn had broken up. She is later mentioned in "
The Delivery", when Kevin declares that, compared to Erin, "Lynn was
way hotter".
Oscar's loved ones •
Gil (
Tom Chick) is Oscar's former boyfriend. He first appears in the episode, "
The Secret", when Dwight goes to Oscar's house to see if Oscar really is sick with the
flu. Even though Oscar and Gil are obviously in a relationship, Dwight is oblivious to this. He reappears in "
Gay Witch Hunt", during which, even though Michael had discovered that Oscar was gay, Michael believes that Gil is just Oscar's roommate. In order to make sure that Oscar does not sue the company after Michael reveals his sexuality to the staff, Jan gives Oscar a three-month paid vacation, and Oscar tells the camera crew that he and Gil will be traveling to Europe. Gil is later seen in "
A Benihana Christmas", in which he and Oscar return to the office, but, upon seeing what the Christmas party is like, decide that it is "too soon" to return, and quietly leave, unnoticed by the staff. In "
Business School", Gil and Oscar attend Pam's art show, but Gil expresses his disdain for her art, unaware that Pam is standing right behind him. :In "
Beach Games", Oscar reveals that he is planning to end his relationship with Gil. Gil is not mentioned again until "
Niagara", when Pam's sister, Penny, mistakes Kevin for him. The episode "
Get the Girl" also implies that Oscar may regret his decision to break up with Gil, as he wistfully reminisces about the time when he and Gil were still together, and then sadly states that they "were so
happy then".
Kelly's loved ones •
Ravi (
Sendhil Ramamurthy) is a
pediatrician and Kelly's boyfriend. His first appearance is in the eighth-season episode "
Angry Andy", where Pam tells the camera crew that she set Ravi and Kelly up, in hopes of helping Kelly to forget about Ryan. Throughout the episode, Ryan makes several attempts to win Kelly back, eventually renting a horse and proclaiming his love to Kelly. She responds by saying she is in love with Ravi, but hopes to stay friends. They hug goodbye, but start passionately kissing. However, despite this, in "
Free Family Portrait Studio", it is revealed that she is still dating Ravi, instead of Ryan. In the ninth-season premiere, "
New Guys", Toby reveals to the film crew that Kelly and Ravi are now engaged and have moved to
Ohio, after Ravi got a job as a pediatrics professor at
Miami University. He returns in the series final as Kelly's fiancé, but she leaves him for Ryan, who distracts Ravi by giving his baby an allergic reaction. He later gives the baby to Kevin while he calls Child Services.
Stanley's family/loved ones •
Melissa Hudson (
Jazz Raycole) is Stanley's teenage daughter from his first marriage. Her character is first seen in "
Sexual Harassment", when Michael mistakenly refers to a photo of Melissa on Stanley's desk as a "centerfold in the Catholic schoolgirl's outfit." In "
Take Your Daughter to Work Day", Stanley brings her to the office. She develops an infatuation with Ryan, which causes Kelly to become jealous. Kelly alerts Stanley, who screams at the terrified Ryan about his "motives". •
Terri Hudson (Joanne Carlsen) was Stanley's second and now ex-wife, who works as an
interior decorator. In "
The Dundies", Michael assumes that she is not Stanley's wife because she is white. In "
Booze Cruise", she accompanies Stanley on the Booze Cruise boat. In "
Phyllis' Wedding", she attends the wedding with Stanley. In "
Stress Relief", she attends Michael's roast. "
Take Your Daughter to Work Day" implies that Terri that she does not have a good relationship with her stepdaughter; When Pam mistakenly refers to Terri as her mother, Melissa becomes hostile and sharply corrects Pam. :In the
sixth season premiere, Michael discovers that Stanley has been cheating on Terri with a woman named Cynthia. At the end of the episode, Michael talks to Terri on the phone and accidentally calls her Cynthia, which confirms her suspicions that Stanley is having an affair. It is presumed that she leaves him, as Stanley smashes Michael's car in anger; their separation is confirmed in later episodes, when he begins to date Cynthia publicly. •
Cynthia (Algerita Wynn Lewis) is the woman with whom Stanley has an affair. Originally, she was his nurse during his rehabilitation, but the two eventually developed a romance, despite their marriages. Soon after their affair is discovered, in "
Gossip", Stanley decides to end their relationship, as he did not want to cheat on his wife any longer, but after Terri leaves him, he stays with Cynthia. She makes her first appearance in "
Niagara", where she and Stanley attend Jim and Pam's wedding and both join in the dance down the aisle, and later reappears in "
Andy's Play", attending a local production of
Sweeney Todd, that Andy is performing in. In a deleted scene from the episode, she unintentionally makes Phyllis jealous by quickly forming a friendly relationship with Bob Vance, leading Phyllis to call her a "home-wrecking slut" in a talking-head interview. Cynthia also appears with Stanley in the episodes "
Christening" and "
Garden Party".
Phyllis' family •
Robert "Bob" Vance (
Robert R. Shafer) is
Phyllis Lapin-Vance's husband and the owner of Vance Refrigeration, a neighboring tenant in the
office park. He often introduces himself as "
Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration" in order to plug his business. He is seen for the first time as Phyllis' boyfriend in "
Christmas Party" and introduces himself to Kevin, Stanley, and Ryan in exactly that manner individually even though they were all standing next to each other. This leads Ryan to jokingly ask "So...what line of work are you in, Bob?" On
Valentine's Day, he sent a number of gifts to Phyllis at the office—signed "Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration". He also supplied a mini-fridge as a "
Casino Night" prize. In "
Gay Witch Hunt", Michael suggests that Phyllis may be a lesbian, at which point she announces that she and Bob are engaged. In "
Initiation", he referred to Michael and Stanley as "a pair of Marys" after they ordered Phyllis to get to the back of the pretzel line, instead of letting her cut in with Bob. He is a friendly and helpful neighbor to Dunder Mifflin, including offering to pump the employees' car tires back full of air after Michael had flattened them in an attempt to create office camaraderie in "
The Merger". When word gets out that the Scranton branch is shutting down, Bob offers to buy the Dunder Mifflin warehouse, therefore allowing all the workers there to keep their jobs. In "
Ben Franklin" a bachelor party is held for him in the Dunder Mifflin warehouse before his wedding, but he refuses to be entertained by the stripper Michael hires. He marries Phyllis in "
Phyllis' Wedding", to which all her coworkers are invited, and kicks Michael out after an embarrassing toast. Even in the wedding, he is referred to as "Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration" during their vows. In a deleted scene from "
Women's Appreciation", he comes to the Dunder Mifflin office to comfort Phyllis after she is flashed, then takes her for a walk to calm her nerves. He is portrayed as an attentive and dedicated husband who is deeply in love with Phyllis. In a deleted scene from the wedding episode, Phyllis mentions "baby mama drama" because Bob's other family from
Ho Chi Minh City is coming in, but this has not been mentioned otherwise. In "
Crime Aid", Bob attends Michael's auction intent on winning the
Bruce Springsteen tickets, but after a spirited bidding war with Dwight, ends up buying a hug from Phyllis for $1000. In "
Blood Drive", he refers to Michael, Dwight, and Andy as "that jackass", "that other jackass" and "that new jackass" respectively. In "
Secret Santa", Phyllis threatens to "get Bob involved" to resolve her Santa role rivalry with Michael. Jim is confused about what Bob would do at first, but appears mildly alarmed when Phyllis recants, "Never mind, I shouldn't have said that". Bob makes a guest appearance in
The Paper, revealing that Dunder Mifflin went out of business in 2019. •
Elbert Lapin (
Hansford Rowe) is Phyllis' elderly,
wheelchair user father. He appears in "
Phyllis' Wedding", where he attends his daughter's wedding ceremony, and manages to build up the strength to walk Phyllis down the aisle, something which makes Michael feel upstaged, as he was pushing Elbert's wheelchair. Elbert's brother, Phyllis's
Uncle Al, has dementia and is mistaken for a wedding crasher by Dwight in "
Phyllis' Wedding". Additionally, Phyllis' mother is mentioned in "
Garage Sale" when Phyllis tells
Holly Flax that she has recently moved her into assisted living.
Meredith's family •
Jake Palmer (portrayed by
Spencer Daniels) is Meredith's disrespectful and trouble-making son, whom she brings to the office in "
Take Your Daughter to Work Day", after he is suspended from his school. During his time at the office, he is very rude to the staff, particularly Dwight, whom he addresses as "Mr.
Poop". In order to demonstrate to Angela that he capable of enforcing discipline, Dwight is finally stern with Jake, calling him "a horrible little
latchkey kid", something which upsets the child. Near the end of the episode, he appears to be somewhat humbled by Dwight's insult, and he bonds with Pam, declaring that her job as receptionist is "awesome". He is later mentioned in "
Fun Run", when, after it is discovered Meredith has
rabies, Dwight suggests that, instead of spending their money on a ceremony for Michael's
fun run to raise awareness of the disease, they should instead put together a college fund for Jake. Michael then replies "Have you met that kid? He's not going to college". Jake reappears in a deleted scene from "
Company Picnic", where Meredith brings him to the Dunder Mifflin company picnic, and, after he insults her, she locks him in her car for the remainder of the day. In "
Get the Girl", Meredith reveals that Jake, at some point between the fifth and eighth seasons, has gotten a face tattoo. A now-adult Jake (now seen with Chinese symbols tattooed on his face and neck) makes a cameo in "
Free Family Portrait Studio", taking a family portrait with Meredith. He angrily asks Meredith to just smile for the picture, but she snaps back that she does not want to. In the series finale, it's revealed that Jake has become a male stripper and performs at Angela's bachelorette party, which everyone but Meredith finds awkward.
Toby's family •
Sasha Flenderson (Delaney Ruth Farrell) is Toby's daughter, whom he often mentions. In "
Take Your Daughter to Work Day", Toby brings her to the office, and she and Michael quickly bond. In a deleted scene from "
WUPHF.com", a now-teenage Sasha appears in a
web chat with her father, during which she unintentionally upsets him by revealing that her mother has a new boyfriend. Sasha later makes a cameo in "
Free Family Portrait Studio", taking a family portrait with her father. •
Rory Flenderson (portrayed by writer and producer
Warren Lieberstein, Paul Lieberstein's real life brother) is Toby's brother, who resides in
Boulder, Colorado. He appears in "
Goodbye, Michael", dressed similarly to his brother, in which he talks to Toby, via
video chat, and gets excited about Michael moving to Colorado, after Toby tells him that he thinks, rather implausibly, the two would "hit it off, in an odd way". •
Kathy Becker is implied to be Toby's ex-wife. She never appears in the show. In , Toby said he was in the seminary and dropped out so he could have sex with a woman named Kathy. They married, had a daughter, eventually divorcing before the start of the series. While she is rarely referenced by name, Michael often pokes fun at the fact that Toby is a divorced man.
Jan's family •
Art Gould is Jan's ex-husband. Their separation is revealed in "
The Client", with Jan eventually admitting that it was due to her desire to have children and his desire not to. In a deleted scene from "
Performance Review", Michael calls Gould for advice on his "relationship" with Jan, but Gould is offended that Michael would call him about such an issue. •
Astrid Levinson, nicknamed "Assy" by her mother, is Jan's daughter, with whom she became impregnated from an
artificial insemination via a
sperm bank. Astrid is first seen when Jan brings her to the office in the episode "
Baby Shower". In a deleted scene from the episode, Jan discovers that Kevin donated
sperm to the same sperm bank she went to and is horrified at the possibility that he might be Astrid's biological father. Astrid is seen again in "
Sex Ed", although she is considerably older than she was in her previous appearance.
Roy's family •
Kenny Anderson (Michael Patrick McGill) is Roy's brother. He is first mentioned in "
The Client", when Pam reveals that he accompanied his brother on Roy and Pam's first date. He makes his first appearance in "
Business School", attending Pam's
art show, alongside Roy, and reappears in "
Cocktails", in which he accompanies Roy to "Poor Richard's" for a night of drinking with Pam and her co-workers. When Pam confesses to Roy that Jim kissed her (in the episode "
Casino Night"), Roy becomes enraged, and he and Kenny start wrecking the bar. To dissuade the owners from calling the police, Kenny pays them off with money he got from selling his
Jet Skis. Years later, Kenny appears in "
Roy's Wedding", where he tells his brother to "stop wasting time" talking with Jim (whom he refers to as "Haircut"), and rubs Roy's success in Jim's face by mentioning that he now owns a fifty-thousand dollar
sports car. •
Lara (Sara Chase) is Roy's wife. The two married exactly a year after they met, in the episode "
Roy's Wedding". In Roy's wedding toast, he reveals that when he first met Lara, he believed her to be his waitress, but three weeks later, she revealed to him that she was actually the owner of the establishment where he had been eating. In honor of her being his "beautiful mystery girl", he surprises her by revealing that he has learned to play piano, and performs "
She's Got a Way" by
Billy Joel for her.
Karen's family •
Dan (portrayed by
Dan Goor) is Karen's husband, who works as a
dermatologist. The two met in a bar, and they later married after Karen was transferred to the Utica branch. By the time of the episode "
Lecture Circuit", Karen is already eight months pregnant with his child. Dan later makes a cameo in the episode "
Threat Level Midnight"; he can be seen very briefly in the background during Karen's talking-head interview.
Holly's family •
Mr. and Mrs. Flax (voiced by uncredited actors) are Holly's parents, who reside in Boulder, Colorado. Mr. Flax is also the reason that Holly and Michael move to Colorado, as, during a phone conversation, she notices that he seems mentally disoriented.
David Wallace's family •
Rachel Wallace (Jean Villepique) is David Wallace's wife. She first appears in "
Cocktails", in which she is forced to deal with Michael and Dwight's antics, and later reappears in "
Sabre", in which it is implied that her relationship with David has been strained since he was fired from Dunder Mifflin. •
Teddy Wallace (portrayed by Greg Daniels's son,
Owen Daniels), is David and Rachel's young son. He makes his first appearance in "
Cocktails", and later reappears in "
Sabre", in which he loudly plays his
drum set during Michael's visit to David's house.
Robert California's family •
Susan California (
Maura Tierney) is Robert's third and now ex-wife. She appears in the episode "
Mrs. California", in which she arrives at the office, looking for a job. However, unbeknownst to her, Robert secretly orders Andy not to hire her. After she requests a job as an Accountant, Andy claims that the office is already fully staffed, but, in contrast to his previous request, Robert insists that she be given a job, which Andy does, much to Robert's dismay. Later, she eventually realizes that Robert did not want her working at the office, and the two end up in a discussion about his dishonesty. Later, after work, she meets Andy in the parking lot, and, to his surprise, she asks him out on a date. In the subsequent episode, "
Pool Party", it is revealed that Susan and Robert are getting divorced. In her debut episode, Susan notes in an interview that she met Robert when she was a secretary at a company he acquired, and that he cheated on his second wife when they began seeing each other. •
Bert California (
David Mazouz) is Robert's adolescent son, who shares some of his father's peculiar personality traits. He appears in "
Spooked", in which he accompanies Robert to the office Halloween party, and soon bonds with Dwight, due to their similar interests and opinions. ==Other characters==