<Li> ^ 2 In the season 2 episode Valley Girls, Carol Rhodes was portrayed by Krysten Ritter . </Li> <P> Recurring characters who are family to one or more main character . Names are listed alphabetically . </P> <P> Portrayed by Francie Swift in seasons one, two and four, Anne Archibald (née van der Bilt) is the mother of Nate Archibald . During the events of the first season, she aids her husband in dealing with Eleanor Waldorf's accounts . She once promised to Eleanor Waldorf to give Blair her Cornelius Vanderbilt engagement ring should Nate and Blair ever be engaged but when Blair witnesses Nate's troubles with his father she ends the relationship . By the second season, Nate's mother whose financial assets have been frozen since her husband's guilty departure have caught up with her and their house in Manhattan is seized, leaving Nate to lodge in temporarily with the Humphreys . Anne Archibald's reputation was also in danger during her financial situation with Chuck giving her loan after selling his club, Victrola but this causes Nate to end his friendship with Chuck . Her financial troubles come to an end when Nate convinces his father to come clean to the FBI and she sheds tears for the arrest of her husband . A short while before her husband is released from prison however she files for divorce . </P> <P> Portrayed by Sam Robards in seasons one, two, four and six . Howard "The Captain" Archibald is the father of Nate Archibald . Howard is a white - collar criminal and a recovering cocaine addict . He leaves to escape arrest, still addicted to cocaine and Nate punches his father before the Captain could get into his limo and fled to Dominica . In the second season, when he returned to New York, to take Nate and his mother with him, Nate gave him a choice . Either go back to Dominica and never speak to his family again or turn himself in to the police . Howard decided to do the right thing and chose to turn himself in . In the fourth season, Howard later receives a file for divorce while in jail, a few months before his release from prison . When he is paroled, Howard soon takes a job with Russell Thorpe . </P>

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