List of We Are America characters

Here is a comprohensive list of characters from We Are America.

Tom Santos
Played by Blake Michael. A sporty, kindhearted boy with a love of skateboarding and basketball. He is of Mexican-American heritage and lives with his mother, father and younger brother. He is also a skilled singer, as evidenced when he performs a rendition of "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)". Throughout the series, Tom has a number of relationships, before later having an on-off gay relationship with Alex, despite disapproval from the latter's strict parents.

Towards the end of the series, Tom is chosen to play for Mexican basketball team Panteras de Aguascalientes.

Molly Harper
Played by Sierra McCormick. A girl with a feisty personality and a caring nature, she has been close friends with Tom since kindergarten. She shares his love of sports, especially basketball, and also likes travel and cooking. She lives with her single mother and grandmother. Her favourite holiday destinations are Jamaica, Greece and Australia.

Molly's parents are divorced, but sees her father every other weekend, and on one such visit, she discovers that her father is gay, and has a younger Italian partner called Nick; she later leaves Houston with him to live in Sydney.

Ben DeSanto
Played by Jeremy Shada. He is Tom's closest friend aside from Molly, and has known him since first grade. He is of Italian-American and Polish-American descent, and has a quirky, nerdy personality, exhibited in his extensive love and knowledge of pop culture and superheroes. He lives with his strict parents and paternal grandmother.

Ben appears to have Asperger's, which makes social situations difficult for him, which is demonstrated in him often turning up to school and going out in public dressed as various superheroes. Ben is killed during a school shooting by a troubled ex-student called Jonathan, who also shoots Tom (his injuries are non-life threatening and he recovers), before shooting himself.

Josh Yang
Played by Ryan Potter. A confident, spunky boy with a love of art and comics, he lives next door to Tom with his large Chinese-American family. As well as his passion for art, he is also an accomplished breakdancer and rapper, and also acts as the mascot for the school basketball team The Coyotes.

Due to Josh's parents and culture, he must obtain good grades and be observant of family values; as a result, he and his parents rarely see eye to eye; however, his father reveals to him that his difficult relationship with his own parents led him to be hard on him. Midway through the series, he leaves Houston to study art in Los Angeles.

Katie West
Played by Abigail Breslin. A shy, caring girl with a positive nature, she is close friends with Tom and even dates him for a brief period of time. She lives with her aunt and uncle, who brought her up due to her mother's alcoholism and her father walking out on her. Despite the hardships thrown her way, she retains her caring attitude.

Katie's caring personality is clearly exhibited in her love for animals, and she is passionate about conservation; it is revealed midway through the series that she left Houston to volunteer for a wildlife sanctuary in South Africa.