This is a list of characters in the comedy-drama TV series Monk .
Main characters
Secondary characters
Julie Teeger
Julie Teeger , played by Emmy Clarke, is the daughter of Adrian Monk's assistant, Natalie. Julie was introduced to the show during the third season (episode 10, "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring") where she bonded with Monk after he rescued her pet fish. In that episode she is 11 years old. Since then, Julie has appeared in several episodes of the show, usually in minor roles. In "Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show," Julian Hodge (Malcolm McDowell) invites Julie to participate in a fashion show.
In "Mr. Monk and the Big Game", Julie and her friends on the high school basketball team hire Monk to investigate when their coach is found dead in the locker room following a practice. They (correctly) suspect that this was no accident. Natalie temporarily coaches the team, with Monk as her assistant.
Natalie and Julie fill the gap left when Sharona left Monk and went with her son, Benjy, to remarry her ex-husband. She plays a critical role in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the Birds and the Bees," in which Monk has to give her "the talk" when she starts dating an older guy. A T-shirt with a picture of her previous boyfriend is the clue to a double murder, making her have an even more integral role. In the season 6 episode, "Mr. Monk and the Three Julies," it is revealed that Julie has received her driver's license. Also, it is revealed that after the murder of the other two Julie Teegers in San Francisco, she is the only Julie Teeger for 1,000 miles. In "Mr. Monk is Underwater," it is stated that her age is seventeen. She is later shown to be trying to be an actress, with her performance being the key to solving a murder. In "Mr. Monk and The End, Part One" it is revealed that she is going to the University of California at Berkeley to study Theatre Arts, and that even though she will only be a half-hour away from San Francisco, she will not stay living at home.
Charles Kroger
Dr. Charles Kroger (played by Stanley Kamel) was Monk's beloved psychiatrist. Stanley Kamel died at the age of 65 in 2008 after suffering a heart attack, while Monk was on hiatus as of April 2008 (Due to the WGA Strike). In May 2008, it was announced on the official Monk website that Hector Elizondo would portray Adrian's new psychiatrist, Dr. Neven Bell.
Perhaps the most tolerant of all of Adrian Monk's friends, Kroger is a psychiatrist who serves as the closest thing to a rock for Monk. While he does engage in talk therapy, he does not prescribe an SSRI medication, which is commonly used by psychiatrists to treat OCD, because Adrian doesn't like to take drugs and when he did, in the episode "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine", although Monk lost many of his phobias, he also lost his ability to solve crimes. Kroger is instrumental in trying to get Monk reinstated as a detective, while discussing his problems and progress as a person. Most of Kroger's scenes help move Monk's character forward. Similarly, Dr. Kroger has also (usually unintentionally) helped Monk solve several cases. In "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink" he temporarily quit after his maid was murdered, since the police thought that one of his patients was responsible.
Kroger is also the subject of an ongoing feud between Monk and Harold Krenshaw, another patient with similar problems. While very forgiving, even Kroger gets fed up with Monk from time to time, most heavily demonstrated in one episode ("Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect") where Kroger came back from vacation and saw Monk standing outside his home. Kroger simply instructed the cab driver to just keep driving and kept his head low to avoid Monk. On another occasion in "Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike", when the city stopped collecting garbage, Monk sent his garbage to Dr. Kroger's house. When questioned about it, Monk denied it before Kroger told him it was specifically sorted, boxed, and written in his handwriting.
On the other hand, there have also been several cases in which Dr. Kroger has been the only person capable of getting through to Monk during difficult situations, such as when Monk was brainwashed by a duplicitous cult leader played by Howie Mandel ("Mr. Monk Joins a Cult").
It was revealed in the 15th episode of Season 3 ("Mr. Monk and the Election"), that Kroger is married and has children (a son), and is also Jewish. In the first episode of Season 5 ("Mr. Monk and the Actor"), Monk wants to take up the entire week with therapy sessions. Kroger says he does not like working on the weekends so he can spend time with his wife and kids. In the episode "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", it is revealed that he has a wife, Madeline, and a rebellious adolescent son, Troy, who denies that he is their child.
Kroger has a stormy relationship with his son, and was forced to take a paternity test three times at the "request" of his son. Troy calls his parents by their first names and knows Lt. Randy Disher from possibly being arrested. Disher asked if Troy had kept out of trouble, to which Troy said "no". Troy later appears in the Season 6 episode "Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure". In this episode, while skateboarding with two friends, he finds a map leading to what he assumes is money. He and his friends ask Monk to help them, saying it is a school project. Monk agrees to help them, and they eventually find it. Monk, however, later discovers he's been tricked and tells Troy to come with him back to where the buried treasure was, leading to them temporarily being trapped in Troy's car. By the end of the episode Troy has a better relationship with his father.
Prior to the beginning of season 7 Stanley Kamel died suddenly of a heart attack, and the same explanation was used to explain Dr. Kroger's departure from the series. Monk is understandably quite disturbed by the event, but manages to recover with the aid of his new psychiatrist, Dr. Neven Bell.
Neven Bell
Dr. Neven Bell (Hector Elizondo) is Adrian's new therapist beginning in the Season Seven premiere (Mr. Monk Buys a House) after Adrian's original therapist, Dr. Kroger, died of a heart attack. This character was introduced after Stanley Kamel, who played Dr. Kroger, died of a heart attack between production of Seasons Six and Seven.
Though Adrian is skeptical of his new therapist at first, Dr. Bell was able to win his confidence though several small gestures (he begins the appointment at the exact second it was scheduled and has Adrian's favorite bottled water available, a supply of wipes handy during their introductory handshake, and a painting in his office which previously belonged to the late Dr. Kroger.)
Additionally, Natalie pointed out that Dr. Bell's name (Neven) is a palindrome as a comfort to Adrian. Adrian, however, points out that it isn't a "perfect" palindrome, because of the first "N" being capitalized.
Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck
Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck is a recurring villain, appearing in 3 episodes so far. In season 1, he is played by Adam Arkin, in season 2 by Tim Curry, and in season 6 by Ray Porter, all of them wearing fat suits. A very rich and well-connected financier, Biederbeck is arrogant, brilliant, and ruthless. Adrian Monk claims that Biederbeck owns "half the city" (of San Francisco), and has an option on the other half. He gets his nickname from his morbid obesity (caused by overeating, supposedly attributed to the death of his mother). In his first and second appearances, he weighs upwards of 800 pounds (360 kilograms), and is unable to leave his bed. By the time of his third appearance, "Mr. Monk Is On The Run, Part II" he has lost enough weight to get around in a wheelchair.
In his first appearance, "Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale" Biederbeck is the primary suspect in the slaying of a judge who issued a costly antitrust ruling against him. Several clues point to his being the killer, but it seems impossible because he is incapable of leaving his bedroom. It is also revealed in this episode that Monk harbors a severe hatred of Biederbeck, who sued his late wife Trudy and her newspaper after she wrote an unflattering article about him (calling him the "Genghis Khan of world finance"). Unlike many rich men, Biederbeck goes to extreme lengths to avoid publicity. He sued Trudy and the paper that published the article in a drawn-out libel suit that he knew he couldn't win, just to torment her. The legal costs forced the Monks to sell their first home, which Biederbeck snapped up and which he now claims to use to store his collection of pornography. Because Trudy was killed a short time later, Monk feels that Biederbeck stole one of the last years of her life. However, at the end of the episode, Monk proves that Biederbeck and his personal doctor conspired to kill the judge, and the doctor promptly turns state's evidence on Dale.
Biederbeck reappears in Season Two's "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail." Although he's been convicted of murder, he is adjusting to life in prison quite easily. He has an inmate to act as his personal servant, luxurious furniture, a TV, and just about everything one would not normally find in a prison environment — except a window. After a condemned prisoner is poisoned less than an hour before his execution, suspicion falls on Biederbeck, to whom the dead man owed $1,200. Both he and Monk know that Biederbeck wouldn't kill anyone over such a petty sum (as he says with a laugh, "I wouldn't bend down to pick up $1,200, even if I could"), but until the killer is ca
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