Guests
Tacey Adams as Sophie Brimble (née Woodstone), Sam's great aunt and Hetty's great-granddaughter, from whom Sam inherits Woodstone Manor. Upon dying in the series' first scene, she briefly appears a transparent ghost over her corpse before abruptly moving on to the afterlife.
Rachael Harris as Sheryl, Sam's mother, who she sees as a ghost at the restaurant where she died. After she and Sam make peace with each other, she moves on to the afterlife. Her belches, which smell of shrimp, can be smelled by the living.
Jamie Mayers as Winky, a 12-year-old paper boy who was trampled to death by a horse and now haunts the Ulster County Review office with Shiki.
Gregory Zaragoza as Naxasi, Sass's father, who tried to convince him not to be a storyteller.
Rob Huebel as Ari, one of Trevor's former coworkers from Lehman Brothers who comes to the mansion to purchase a timepiece found on Elias's remains.
Blair Penner as young Ari
Mercedes Morris as Clara Brown, a lounge singer and bootlegger whose illegal activities Alberta reported so she could steal a gig from her.
Drew Tarver as Micah, a charismatic cult leader who attempts to manipulate Jay into joining his group so they can move into the mansion.
Hannah Rose May as Molly, an Irish maid with whom Elias had sex when they were alive. She is brought back from the afterlife briefly through a seance, and explains to Hetty that Elias coerced her.
Dallas Goldtooth as Bob, a Lenape man from the Hudson Valley Lenape Culture Center. He corrects the information Sass has given the group about the ancient tree on their land and teaches them about land acknowledgements, and Sass admires his work.
Kelly Craig as Olga, Thorfinn's wife and Bjorn's mother.
Mathew Baynton as an actor starring in a reconstruction of Pete's death.
Rose Abdoo as Paula, the producer of "Dumb Deaths".
Dana Gourrier as Jennifer, a woman who was one of Pete's scout troops that witnessed his death.
Kaliko Kauahi as a liquor license inspector.
Neil Crone as Benjamin Franklin, an American Founding Father and Freemason, with whom Isaac tried to build a good reputation so he could join the society.
Andrew Leeds as Eric, Bela's friend, whom she starts dating in the second season.
Hillary Anne Matthews as Beatrice, Isaac's wife, who knew about his sexuality but cared deeply for him regardless.
Chip Zien as Lenny Lefkowitz, Trevor's father who attends Trevor's memorial at Woodstone Manor.
Laraine Newman as Esther Lefkowitz, Trevor's mother who attends Trevor's memorial at Woodstone Manor.
Tara Reid as herself attending Trevor's memorial at Woodstone Manor.
Ashley D. Kelley as Alicia, a lawyer and a descendant of Alberta, who is inspired by her ancestor's work to pursue singing.
David Baby as Jerry, Carol's current husband and Pete's former best friend.
Asia Martin as Theresa, Alberta's sister.
Brooks Brantly as Earl, Alberta's bootlegger boyfriend.
Daniel Rindress-Kay as Thomas Woodstone, Hetty's son and Earl's secret boyfriend, who planted a poisoned whiskey bottle for Alberta to drink when Earl left him for her.
Jeremy Luke as Al Capone, a famous Chicago crime boss, who almost committed suicide with the poisoned whiskey Alberta ultimately drank.
Brian Cook as David Woodstone, Sam's uncle, Sophie's son, and Trevor's former coworker, who dumped Trevor's body into a lake before dying of an aneurysm in the depressing strip club that he now haunts.
Al Connors as Schmitty, another ghost at the strip club who died from eating ill-prepared sushi.
Holly Gauthier-Frankel as Laura, Pete's daughter. She has a son named after her father.
Emily Mitchell as Young Laura.
Douglas Sills as Samuel, Hetty's father, who discouraged her from marrying an artist due to his painting her with her ankle exposed.
Jon Glaser as Jeremy Lefkowitz, Trevor's brother, who refused to take over their father's business.
David Kohlsmith as Young Jeremy.
Lamorne Morris as Saul Henry, a poltergeist and former Negro league baseball player who visits the manor using a guest as his host and starts a brief relationship with Alberta. As a non-traditional ghost, he can travel anywhere by binding himself to different human hosts in near range if he concentrates hard enough. He speculates that his power is a result of his tendency to become overly attached to people in life.
Geoffrey Owens as Gene, a new guest at Woodstone to whom Saul is tethered.
Deniz Akdeniz as Chris, an Australian male stripper and part-time DJ hired to perform a lap dance, unknowingly for Isaac, causing Isaac to become attracted to him. He becomes another ghost at Woodstone when his parachute fails during a stunt for Alicia's bachelorette party and he fatally crashes through the roof of Jay's restaurant, and he and Nigel end up competing for his affections. He can use his parachute to fly beyond the ghost boundaries of the property.
Irene White and Adrian Martinez as Gloria and Mike, a ghost couple Pete meets in a DealMart superstore. They were trampled to death in a 2005 Black Friday sale, and Gloria is now stuck carrying a box containing the TV she tried to buy.
Marc-André Boulanger as the Butcher Ghost, the leader of a violent ghost gang that becomes active in the Hudson Valley DealMart after business hours, who was fatally struck in the head with a meat cleaver.
Dean Norris as Frank, Sam's father.
Melinda McGraw as Diane, Frank's new girlfriend.
Matty Cardarople as Jamie, an Internet personality with a video series themed around detonating objects.
Gardiner Millar as Duffy, a Vietnam veteran ghost who haunts his former house, now owned by Jamie.
Connor Ratliff as Scott Morgan, the director of the Hudson Valley Players.
Samantha Boscarino as Marisa, an actress in the Hudson Valley Players in whom Sass becomes romantically interested.
Hayden Finkelshtain as William, an assessor of historical artifacts.
Sakina Jaffrey as Champa Arondekar, Jay's mother, who immigrated from India to America with her husband Mahesh.
Bernard White as Mahesh Arondekar, Jay's father and Champa's husband.
Paul Wight as Gorm, a Viking ghost haunting a historic Norwegian village, now a tourism destination, who belonged to Thorfinn's tribe and died after being shot in the abdomen with an arrow.
Lenny Venito as Anthony, the head of a local mafia branch and Carol's nephew, whose family used Pete's travel agency as a front for laundering its profits.
Nat Faxon as Alexander Hamilton, an American Founding Father with whom Isaac became rivals over a neck ruffle they both sought to buy. The series' depiction of Hamilton is historically inaccurate: he appears as a middle-aged man in the year 1776 and is involved in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence, whereas the real Hamilton was only age 19 or 21 that year and had nothing to do with the document.
Asif Ali as Sunil, Jay's cousin.
Peter New as Janis, a Latvian ghost hunting expert skilled in maintaining and upgrading equipment designed to capture and eviscerate ghosts.
Richie Keen as Adam Pinkus, Trevor's former coworker, who worked as a junior associate at Lehman Brothers, and to whom Trevor lent his pants and boxers after he was hazed by Ari and David Woodstone. Keen also directed multiple episodes of the series.
Robert Bazzocchi as young Pinkus
Gideon Adlon as Abby Pinkus, Trevor's biological daughter, born to his once-girlfriend Laurie Goldstein, who later married Pinkus before she died. In the fifth season, she begins working as a waitress at Jay's restaurant and Sam and Jay tell her the truth about the ghosts, including Trevor.
Kyle Gatehouse as Richard, Donna's former neighbor, who died with a Walkman that only plays the album Purple Rain and witnessed his wife Linda murder Donna's husband Gerald.
Justin Kirk as Tad, the mayor of Hudson Valley and Stephanie's prom date from the night of her murder, who was knocked unconscious while trying to stop her killer and uses his attempt at heroism to bolster his image. Kirk co-starred on the TV series Weeds, and his appearance on Ghosts marked the 20th episode of the fourth season with a 420-theme.
Stephanie Belding as Melanie del Vecchio, Tad's wife and Stephanie's former friend.
Farhang Ghajar as Amunhotep, an immensely powerful 3,000-year-old Egyptian ghost who was accidentally bound to his mummified corpse, which was brought to the Woodstone mansion by Elias and Hetty in 1890. He can cause ancient curses, which include weather manipulation, spontaneously creating swarms of locusts and rats, and controlling his mummy to kill a target.
Larry Wilmore as Walker Storm, a national news reporter who interviews Sam about Isaac's novel.
Myles Anthony-Douglas as David, Mark's son.
Will Greenberg as Bruce/Jason, the leader of Flower's former cult, still leading an indeterminate number of them as ghosts after they died together of carbon monoxide poisoning in an underground bunker on Woodstone's property. After being exposed as a fraud, he admits his real name is Jason, and the other hippie ghosts banish him to wander in the dirt underneath the property. He is rescued a month later by the basement ghosts and Isaac but now thanks Flower for freeing him from the lies.
Steve Berg as Eugene Woodstone, a cult member who brought some cult members to the bunker
Tori Barban as Brenda, a cult member who died in the bunker
Jon Blair as Ted, a cult member who died in the bunker
Christopher Jackson as Anthony, an HR representative at the company where Trevor works. He gets Trevor (under the pseudonym Michael Jackson) fired after Jay has to pretend to be Michael following Trevor gifting his boss a strip-o-gram.
Eddie Shin as Dr. Park, a therapist for whom Sam translates Thorfinn's psychological problems.
