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The following are fictional characters who appeared in ''Northern Exposure'', an American television series which originally aired on CBS from July 1990 to July 1995. ==Main characters== *Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow) is the central character at the beginning of the series, a young, somewhat uptight, Jewish doctor from Manhattan (New York City) who is contractually bound to practice in the remote Alaskan town of Cicely for four years to repay a student loan from the government. The comedy centered originally on the clash between Fleischman's neurotic, almost Woody Allen-like, urban mindset and the easy-going, community-minded people around him. The role receded somewhat in importance by season four, as behind the scenes Morrow was involved in contentious contract negotiations, and Fleischman's character was minimized or even entirely absent for some later episodes. Morrow permanently left the series in the middle of the sixth (and final) season. *Maurice J. Minnifield (Barry Corbin) is a macho, patriotic ex-astronaut and millionaire entrepreneur, owner of the local radio station KBHR and newspaper, as well as fifteen thousand acres (60 km²) of local land. Determined to make tiny Cicely the next boomtown, on "the cusp of the new Alaskan Riviera," Maurice arranges to bring Dr. Fleischman to the town, which previously had no permanent physician. In season 3, Maurice is visited by a South Korean man who turns out to be his son that he fathered during his deployment in South Korea in the 1950s as a Marine. *Chris (Christopher Danforth) Stevens (John Corbett), is the disc jockey at KBHR, conceptual sculptor, and an ex-convict who spent most of prison time reading, a fact which makes him one of the most well-educated people in Cicely. He intersperses the music of his morning show with philosophical musings on the nature of life and readings from such writers as Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, Carl Jung, and Maurice Sendak (''Where the Wild Things Are''). Chris is also Cicely's only clergyman, ordained as a minister in the Universal Life Church through an advertisement in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine. As radio host, he serves as the ''de facto'' narrator for the show. *Maggie (Mary Margaret) O'Connell (Janine Turner) is a professional bush pilot, property agent and Fleischman's landlord. She was a debutante from a wealthy Irish American family in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She sometimes believes herself to be cursed because all of her former boyfriends died in bizarre accidents. She maintains a strong love-hate relationship with Fleischman, including the occasional sexual episode. *Shelly Marie Tambo Vincoeur (Cynthia Geary) is a young, beauty pageant winner, Miss Northwest Passage, with a somewhat 'surfer dude' shallow-but-sweet personality, who comes from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and is brought to Cicely by Maurice, who had hoped to marry her. Shortly after her arrival, she met and fell in love with the much older (by 44 years) Holling Vincoeur. Shelly nearly becomes a bigamist when she almost marries Holling before divorcing her schoolmate, hockey player Wayne Jones (Brandon Douglas), whom she had married solely to get him to stop proposing. *Holling Gustav Vincoeur (John Cullum) is a sexagenarian hunter and owner of The Brick bar and restaurant, where he lives upstairs with Shelly. Born in Quebec (or the Yukon; both are mentioned in different seasons) and later becoming a naturalized US citizen, he had been best friends with Maurice until they had a falling out over Shelly. His father and grandfather both lived to be over 100 years old, spending most of their lives as widowers despite having married much younger women; fearing the same bitter fate, Holling had sworn off love until Shelly appeared. He claims to be a direct descendant of King Louis XIV of France and attempts to distance himself as much as possible from his despotic forebears. After 23 years as unelected mayor of Cicely, he loses that post to Edna Hancock, who runs against him because of a grudge, in the town's very first election in 1992. *Ed Chigliak (Darren E. Burrows) is a mild-mannered but amiably tactless half-Native Alaskan who was raised by the local Tlingits. He does odd jobs for Maurice and works part-time at Ruth-Anne's general store. A film buff and would-be director, Ed learned everything he knew about life and the outside world from movies, especially those of Woody Allen and Federico Fellini. He is a shaman-in-training and is occasionally visited by his invisible spirit guide, One-Who-Waits, and by his personal demon, Low Self Esteem, who resembles a leprechaun. Ed writes, directs, and produces his own film about Cicely and another film about a fellow native American's traditional handicraft. *Ruth-Anne Miller (Peg Phillips) is the septuagenarian owner of the general store, who moved to Cicely thirty years ago from Portland, Oregon. A widow, Ruth-Anne lives alone until late in the series, when she becomes involved with Walt Kupfer (see below). Like Holling, she is one of the more rational/balanced characters and always has an open ear for her customers' personal problems. She too is a film buff and has earnest conversations with Ed on this topic. *Marilyn Whirlwind (Elaine Miles) is Fleischman's receptionist and a stoic Native American. Almost supernaturally calm and imperturbable, Marilyn barely ever speaks, while her boss rarely stops talking. She occasionally offers up wisdom in the form of a Native American folk legend in response to another Cicelian who is troubled about some issue. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Northern Exposure characters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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