Still Alice Characters

Anna’s husband. Like Anna, Charlie is a successful lawyer and he works at the same large firm as Anna. Alice remembers Charlie even after she begins to lose memories of Lydia, which greatly upsets Alice as her disease worsens.

Alice’s mother who died in the same car crash that killed Anne. Sarah was about 40 when she died, and Alice sometimes thinks about how Sarah missed being able to do with her, including meeting her grandchildren and seeing Alice achieve her goal of becoming a Harvard professor.

A friend who Alice meets through Denise Daddario, the social worker at the neurosurgeon’s office where they are both patients. Dan is 53 and is also suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s. Dan attends Alice’s talk at the Dementia Care Conference.

Malcolm is one of Lydia’s roommates in LA. When Lydia talks about him, she momentarily blushes, which indicates to Alice that Lydia might have feelings for him. Later, Alice reads Lydia’s diary and learns Malcolm, like Lydia, is an actor, and they worked together before dating.

The head of Stanford’s Psychology Department. Alice and Gordon are on friendly terms, and he is the one who introduces her and goes over her accomplishments to the audience before her presentation at Stanford.

The caretaker hired to help care for Alice after John leaves for New York. Carole takes Alice on walks, gets her ice cream, and stays with her while Alice’s kids work during the day.

Alice’s grandson and Anna’s son. Alice frequently holds Charles and entertains him in the late stages of her Alzheimer’s. Charles is Allison Anne’s twin, and, like Allison, underwent embryonic testing which showed he did not inherit the gene mutation that resulted in Alice’s Alzheimer’s.