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Welcome to Weedville.


Meet Weeds' cast of characters--seeds, stems, and all

1 Recently--widowed Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2 1964) is an American actress. She has been the recipient of the Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe awards. Her best-known works include Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, Proof, The West Wing, ) has turned to selling marijuana to maintain her own quality of life as well as that of her sons:

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2,3 Teenage Silas (Hunter Parrish) and 8-year-old Shane (Alexander Gould Alexander Jerome Gould (born May 4, 1994) is an American child and voice actor. Biography
Gould was born in Los Angeles, California of Jewish heritage to parents Tom Gould and Valerie Zisser.
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4 Nancy's best friend is the gossipy and viperish vi·per·ish  
adj.
Spiteful or malicious; venomous: a viperish retort. 
 Celia (Elizabeth Perkins); Celia may come off as a bit of a harpy at first, but she's got her own problems, including rebellious daughters and a philandering husband.

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5 Doug (Kevin Nealon) is Nancy's best customer, her accountant--and a city council member of Weeds' "ticky-tacky" planned community, Agrestic A`gres´tic

a. 1. Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.

Adj. 1.
.

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6 Turning up in the fourth episode is Nancy's ne'er-do-well brother-in-law Andy (Justin Kirk, Parkers Angels in America Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is an award winning play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. It has been made into both a television miniseries of the same name and an opera by Peter Eötvös.  costar), who just happens to be old friends with Nancy's suppliers:

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7,8 Conrad (Romany Malco) and his no-nonsense mom, Keylia (Tonye Patano).

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Author:Duralde, Alonso
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 30, 2005
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