<Li> Jenna Elfman as Dharma Freedom Montgomery, née Finkelstein, Greg's wife and a flower child . She is overly cheerful and sensitive, but she is also more compassionate and forgiving than most people . Despite her trust in the goodness of people and persistent good intentions, Dharma is not naive . She understands the real world, employs sarcasm and receives it well . Dharma perseveres in expressing her personality and her identity even in the face of an overwhelmingly opposing world . Dharma encourages Greg to seek happiness rather than fret about practical issues like money . She is named after the concept of dharma in Indian philosophy . A Native American friend of her father gave her the name "Crazy Man's Daughter". She addresses both of her parents by their first names . According to Chuck Lorre's eleventh vanity card (see below), he and Dottie Dartland originally conceived Dharma & Greg as "a series revolving around a woman whose personality is not a neurotic product of societal and parental conditioning, but of her own free - flowing, compassionate mind". </Li> <Li> Thomas Gibson as lawyer Gregory Clifford "Greg" Montgomery, Dharma's husband . He is an upright, uptight, decent, though sometimes surprisingly open - minded man . Greg grew up in a conservative Republican family . Greg's life was hopelessly banal before he met Dharma and married her on their first date . Since then, he has played straight man to the antics of his eccentric wife . Though his relationship with Dharma has been rocky at times, Greg has never been shown to regret their marriage . He is an alumnus of elite schools, Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, and Stanford Law School . </Li> <Li> Susan Sullivan as Katherine "Kitty" Montgomery, Greg's extravagant mother . In the beginning of the first season Kitty was generally represented as a manipulative, controlling woman who only had higher aspirations for her son . As an elite socialite, Kitty was initially quite displeased to have Dharma and her parents join the family, but over the course of the series, Kitty broadens her limited country club world to become part of a larger family, becoming a major part of Dharma's life, while remaining lovingly manipulative . Despite their vast differences, she recognizes Dharma's place in their family's life, once telling her "We both know you're not the girl I would have picked for Greg . What matters is that you are the girl that Greg did pick ." </Li> <Li> Mitchell Ryan as Edward Montgomery, Greg's eccentric father . His philosophy for dealing with his wife, Kitty, involves remaining as uninvolved as possible . Head of Montgomery Industries (though he keeps working only because he can see little tugboats out the window) and at odds with Dharma's father, who calls him "Ed" and whom he calls "Finkelstein" in the English custom of gentry's addressing manservants by their last names alone . Edward is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, of which he is fiercely proud, and partially resents Greg for considering Notre Dame to not be "good enough" for him . Ed is often seen drinking martinis and Scotch . </Li>

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