<Li> Manny Jacinto as "Jianyu Li", a supposedly silent Buddhist monk from Taiwan and Tahani's soulmate . Eleanor discovers he is actually Jason Mendoza from Jacksonville, Florida, an amateur DJ and backup dancer who sold fake drugs to high school students . At first, Jason develops feelings for Janet because she is the only one who is nice to him but later forgot after they rebooted everybody's memories, but later ended up sleeping with Tahani in season 2 . </Li> <Li> Ted Danson as Michael, the architect of The Good Place where Eleanor and her fellow humans reside . In the first - season finale, Michael confesses that he is a Bad Place demon who constructed a fake "Good Place" to torture Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason . Unfortunately, he ends up repeatedly restarting his experiment due to Eleanor (and one time Jason) always figuring out that "The Good Place" is "The Bad Place," leading to his routine failure, as well as hiding the constant resets from Shawn in order to avoid "retirement". As part of a truce he makes with Eleanor so his failing project will not be exposed and a chance to reform his behavior, Michael agrees to let the humans keep their memories and help them get into the true Good Place as well as to take Chidi's ethics lessons . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Tiya Sircar as the "real Eleanor Shellstrop", a human rights lawyer mistakenly sent to The Bad Place, who was killed trying to save Eleanor from a traffic accident, causing confusion because the two Eleanors were close to one another and died almost simultaneously . In the finale of season 1, she is revealed to be a demonic colleague of Michael's named Vicky, who is part of the experiment . In season 2, in one of many reboots, Michael gives Vicky a significantly smaller role as Denise, a restaurant owner, to Vicky's dissatisfaction . After having to go through hundreds of Michael's failed attempts, Vicky blackmails him, saying he will reboot the neighborhood and blank the memories of the humans again, and put her in charge of the new neighborhood, saying that if he does not agree to her terms (and to meet the demands of the other demons, who all want something different out of this newest attempt), she will alert Shawn to her documentation of his many failures, and request that he initiate Michael's retirement . This makes Michael desperate enough to team up with the humans, whose memories he only pretends to blank . </Li> <Li> Adam Scott as Trevor . In season 1, he is portrayed as a sinister figure representing The Bad Place, sent upon Eleanor's true identity being revealed, vowing to take her with him . He leads an entourage of demons that parties endlessly and bullies Michael . </Li> <Li> Marc Evan Jackson as Shawn, an all - powerful Eternal Judge who decides on matters between the two realms . He is called in to hear Eleanor's fate . In the season 1 finale, his true nature was revealed: he is Michael's boss . He believes Michael will fail in his second attempt, and he makes it clear that Michael's failure in this regard will result in Michael's retirement, and that only one more chance will be given . </Li> <Li> Maribeth Monroe as Mindy St. Claire, the only resident of The Medium Place, a neutral plane of existence between The Good Place and The Bad Place . She is a former real - estate lawyer, cocaine addict, and is somewhat sexually depraved, as evidenced by the fact that she has taped and kept track of times when Eleanor and Chidi shared intimacy during their repeated visits . Regarding those visits, she told a reluctant and disbelieving Eleanor that she (Eleanor) and Chidi have been romantically linked for a long time, even though it may seem to Eleanor as if she and Chidi just met . Because of her location and existence, Mindy is a real person and not subjected to the experimental nature in which both places are being run . It is implied that Mindy died in the 1980s as evidenced in her environmental surroundings (such as having a TV set with recordable VHS tapes which enabled her to record one of the sex tapes over Cannonball Run 2; she also has a People magazine cover featuring Pierce Brosnan that she keeps reading). </Li> </Ul> <Li> Tiya Sircar as the "real Eleanor Shellstrop", a human rights lawyer mistakenly sent to The Bad Place, who was killed trying to save Eleanor from a traffic accident, causing confusion because the two Eleanors were close to one another and died almost simultaneously . In the finale of season 1, she is revealed to be a demonic colleague of Michael's named Vicky, who is part of the experiment . In season 2, in one of many reboots, Michael gives Vicky a significantly smaller role as Denise, a restaurant owner, to Vicky's dissatisfaction . After having to go through hundreds of Michael's failed attempts, Vicky blackmails him, saying he will reboot the neighborhood and blank the memories of the humans again, and put her in charge of the new neighborhood, saying that if he does not agree to her terms (and to meet the demands of the other demons, who all want something different out of this newest attempt), she will alert Shawn to her documentation of his many failures, and request that he initiate Michael's retirement . This makes Michael desperate enough to team up with the humans, whose memories he only pretends to blank . </Li>

Who plays mindy st. claire on the good place