Dynasty is a 2017–2022 American television series based on the 1980s prime time soap opera of the same name.
In season one, heiress Fallon Carrington (Elizabeth Gillies) is unhappy to find her billionaire father Blake (Grant Show) engaged to Cristal Flores (Nathalie Kelley), a rival employee at the family company. When Fallon's machinations to separate the couple backfire and cost her a promotion, she allies with Blake's nemesis, Jeff Colby (Sam Adegoke), and strikes out on her own. Meanwhile, the arrival of Cristal's opportunistic nephew Sam (Rafael de la Fuente)—who becomes romantically involved with Fallon's wayward brother Steven (James Mackay)—threatens to expose Cristal's shady past. Watching out for the Carringtons are majordomo Anders (Alan Dale) and chauffeur Michael Culhane (Robert Christopher Riley). Later in the season, Fallon marries Liam Ridley (Adam Huber) to thwart Jeff's plot to ruin her, and Blake's ex-wife Alexis Carrington (Nicollette Sheridan), the estranged mother of Steven and Fallon, returns. Season two introduces Ana Brenda Contreras as Cristal Jennings; Maddison Brown as Anders' daughter Kirby; Sam Underwood as Adam Carrington, Blake and Alexis' eldest son; and Michael Michele as Dominique Deveraux, Blake's half-sister and the mother of Jeff and Monica Colby (Wakeema Hollis). In season three, Daniella Alonso portrays Cristal, and Elaine Hendrix plays Alexis. Season four introduces Eliza Bennett as Alexis' secret daughter by Blake, Amanda.
The reboot updates several elements from the 1980s original, including moving the setting from Denver, Colorado to Atlanta, Georgia; making Steven's homosexuality a nonissue to Blake; and changing gold digger Sammy Jo from a woman to a gay man. Additionally, in the new series, Blake's new wife and her nephew are Hispanic, both Michael and the Colby family are African-American, and Amanda is a lesbian.
Overview Actor Character Appearances First12345 Main characters Elizabeth Gillies Fallon Carrington "I Hardly Recognized You" colspan="5" Nathalie Kelley Celia Machado / Cristal Flores colspan="4" James Mackay Steven Carrington colspan="2" colspan="2" Robert Christopher Riley Michael Culhane colspan="5" Sam Adegoke Jeff Colby colspan="5" Rafael de la Fuente Samuel "Sammy Jo" Jones colspan="5" Alan Dale Joseph Anders colspan="4" colspan="1" Grant Show Blake Carrington colspan="5" Nicollette Sheridan Alexis Carrington Colby "Poor Little Rich Girl" colspan="1" colspan="3" Elaine Hendrix "The Sensational Blake Carrington Trial" colspan="2" colspan="3" Ana Brenda Contreras Cristal Jennings Carrington "Twenty-Three Skidoo" colspan="1" colspan="3" Daniella Alonso "Guilt Trip To Alaska" colspan="2" colspan="3" Maddison Brown Kirby Anders "Twenty-Three Skidoo" colspan="4" Sam Underwood Adam Carrington "Parisian Legend Has It..." colspan="4" Michael Michele Dominique Deveraux "New Lady in Town" colspan="3" Adam Huber Liam Ridley "Our Turn Now" colspan="2" colspan="3" Eliza Bennett Amanda Carrington "The British Are Coming" colspan="3" Recurring characters Wakeema Hollis Monica Colby "I Hardly Recognized You" colspan="3" colspan="1" colspan="1" Brianna Brown Claudia Blaisdel colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="1" Nick Wechsler Matthew Blaisdel colspan="4" Elena Tovar Iris Machado "Guilt is for Insecure People" colspan="1" colspan="3" colspan="1" Michael Patrick Lane Ted Dinard "Company Slut" colspan="4" Luis Fernández Alejandro Raya "The Best Things in Life" colspan="4" Hakeem Kae-Kazim Cesil Colby "Rotten Things" colspan="3" Brent Antonello Hank Sullivan "A Line from the Past" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="3" Katherine LaNasa Ada Stone "The Butler Did It" colspan="3" Nicole Zyana Allison "How Two-Faced Can You Get" colspan="2" Sharon Lawrence Laura Van Kirk "The Butler Did It" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="2" Ken Kirby Evan Tate “Wild Ghost Chase” colspan=2 Kelli Barrett Nadia"Mother? I'm at La Mirage" colspan="2" colspan=2 Jade Payton Vanessa Deveraux colspan=2 colspan="1" colspan="2" Daniel Di Tomasso Fletcher Myers “Shoot from the Hip” colspan=2 Emily Rudd Heidi "You See Most Things in Terms of Black & White" colspan="2" colspan="2" John Jackson Hunter Connor colspan="2" colspan="2" Wil Traval Caleb Collins "Is the Next Surgery on the House?" colspan="2" Lachlan Buchanan Ryan "My Hangover's Arrived" colspan=2 Ashley Day Colin McNaughton "Your Sick and Self-Serving Vendetta" colspan=3 Luke Cook Oliver Noble "Equal Justice for the Rich" colspan=3 David Aron Damane Leo Abbott "A Public Forum for Her Lies" colspan=3 Kara Royster Eva "She Lives in a Showplace Penthouse" colspan=3 Geovanni Gopradi Roberto "Beto" Flores "Motherly Overprotectiveness" colspan=3 Felisha Terrell Nina Fournier "How Did the Board Meeting Go?" colspan=4 Pej Vahdat Dex Dexter colspan=4 Rogelio T. Ramos Daniel Ruiz "Go Catch Your Horse" colspan=4 Cynthia Quiles Charlie Jiménez "Devoting All of Her Energy to Hate" colspan=4 Brett Tucker Ben Carrington "Vicious Vendetta" colspan=4 Samantha Massell Stacey Moore colspan=4 Grace Junot Ellen "Stars Make You Smile" colspan=3
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Fallon Carrington
Heiress Fallon Carrington (Elizabeth Gillies) is unhappy with her father Blake's engagement to Cristal Flores, and is furious when he gives Cristal the promotion Fallon wanted for herself. She positions herself as her father's business rival, backed by Blake's nemesis Jeff Colby. Oblivious to Jeff's attraction to her, Fallon is carrying on a sexual relationship with the family chauffeur, Michael Culhane.
Cristal Flores Carrington
Carrington Atlantic's head of public relations, Cristal Flores (Nathalie Kelley), marries Blake and immediately makes an enemy of his daughter Fallon. Cristal's married ex-lover, Matthew Blaisdel, is killed in the aftermath of a suspicious explosion, which implicates the Carringtons. Cristal—whose real name is Celia Machado—is also trying to hide certain details of her past from Blake, which is made more difficult by the arrival of her nephew Sam Jones.
Steven Carrington
Blake's son Steven Carrington (James Mackay) devotes himself to environmental and humanitarian causes, often in opposition to his father's business interests. He becomes romantically involved with Sam, who he soon discovers is his new stepmother Cristal's nephew.
Michael Culhane
Blake's chauffeur Michael Culhane (Robert Christopher Riley) is Fallon's lover and unofficial henchman; he has feelings for her which at first seem unrequited, but in losing him Fallon realizes that she loves him.
Jeff Colby
Jeff Colby (Sam Adegoke) is a high school friend of Fallon's, and Blake's former employee. He made a fortune from software he created while working for Blake, which the court ruled was his own property. Blake has never forgiven him for this "betrayal". Jeff finances Fallon's business venture to be close to her, but it takes a while for her to begin to see his value as a partner. In "Trashy Little Tramp", it is revealed that Jeff's mother Millie is Blake Carrington's half-sister.
Sam "Sammy Jo" Jones
Cristal's opportunistic nephew Samuel Josiah "Sammy Jo" Jones (Rafael de la Fuente) becomes romantically involved with Steven. Sam's presence makes Cristal nervous, as he knows her secrets.
Joseph Anders
Staunchly protective of the Carringtons, majordomo Joseph Anders (Alan Dale) is threatened by Cristal's presence as the new would-be mistress of the mansion, as well as her scheming nephew Sam.
Blake Carrington
Atlanta energy tycoon Blake Carrington (Grant Show as an adult, Jax Buresh as a teenager) marries public relations executive Cristal Flores, which lands his family at the center of a scandal when Cristal's married ex-lover Matthew Blaisdel is killed in a suspicious explosion. The marriage—and Blake's promotion of Cristal to COO of his company, Carrington Atlantic—put him at odds with his daughter Fallon, who allies herself with Blake's nemesis Jeff Colby as a business rival to her father. Blake already has a complicated relationship with his son Steven, who disapproves of his father's capitalistic politics and underhanded business tactics.
Alexis Carrington Colby
Blake's long absent ex-wife Alexis (Nicollette Sheridan) reappears at Thomas' funeral in "Poor Little Rich Girl", and she soon makes an enemy of her daughter Fallon in "Enter Alexis". The role was later portrayed by Elizabeth Gillies in three episodes of season two, and played by Elaine Hendrix in seasons three, four and five .
Cristal Jennings Carrington
Cristal Jennings (Ana Brenda Contreras), the woman from whom Celia Machado got her identity as Cristal, comes to Atlanta to offer her condolences to Blake in season two. The role is played by Daniella Alonso in seasons three, four and five.
Kirby Anders
Anders's estranged daughter arrives at the Carrington manor by Sam's invitation in "Dead Scratch". Anders keeps Kirby (Maddison Brown) at a distance from the Carringtons in "Twenty-Three Skidoo", and father and daughter clash over her wild lifestyle and his mistrust.
Adam Carrington
Adam Carrington (Sam Underwood), Blake and Alexis's eldest son who was kidnapped as an infant, arrives in Atlanta looking to reclaim the life and family he was denied.
Dominique Deveraux
Dominique Deveraux (Michael Michele), Jeff and Monica's mother and Blake's half-sister, reappears in "New Lady in Town" after abandoning her family for a singing career in New York years before.
Liam Ridley
Liam Ridley (Adam Huber) meets and agrees to marry Fallon Carrington to thwart Jeff's plot against her. Over time, the business relationship evolves into a romantic one.
Amanda Carrington
Amanda Carrington (Eliza Bennett), Alexis' secret daughter by Blake who was raised by her cousin in England. She arrives in Atlanta in "The British Are Coming" after her adoptive mother dies, seeking answers about her biological family. Amanda is later involved in a lesbian relationship with Kirby Anders.
Recurring
Introduced in season one Matthew Blaisdel
Matthew Blaisdel (portrayed by Nick Wechsler) is Blake's top field engineer at Carrington Atlantic, and Cristal's former lover. Engaged to Blake, Cristal says goodbye to Matthew in "I Hardly Recognized You", and Fallon uses photos of their kiss to try to separate Cristal and Blake. Meanwhile, on his final job for Blake before he resigns, Matthew is injured in an explosion, and later dies. His widow, Claudia, accuses Blake of murder. The explosion is determined to have been caused by sabotage, and the Carringtons work to hide Cristal's connection to Matthew in "Spit It Out". Matthew's friend Willy Santiago tells Cristal that before his death, Matthew refused Blake's offer of a job transfer to China. Fallon leaks a sex tape of Cristal and Matthew in "Private as a Circus", and the Carringtons are cleared of wrongdoing in Matthew's death by Willy's suicide note. Confronting the Carringtons at gunpoint in "A Taste of Your Own Medicine", Claudia admits to setting the explosion that killed Matthew, though his death was not her intent. Claudia is subdued, and with Police Chief Stansfield's help, Blake sends Claudia to a sanitarium rather than prison. Matthew, not dead after all, visits Claudia at the facility in "Trashy Little Tramp", vengeful toward the Carringtons. He helps Claudia escape the sanitarium in "Dead Scratch", and they infiltrate the mansion. Claudia snaps and confronts Cristal with a gun. Matthew steps between them as Claudia fires, except that Matthew is a figment of her imagination, and Cristal takes the bullet.
Executive producer Sallie Patrick said of reimagining the character:
Claudia Blaisdel
Matthew's wife, Claudia Blaisdel (portrayed by Brianna Brown), is recovering from a head injury that has left her with memory loss. Distraught over Matthew's death, she accuses Blake of killing him.
Monica Colby