This list of Hannah Montana characters includes characters appearing in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana as well as the related film Hannah Montana: The Movie. The characters listed are almost all fictional, except for stars who make guest appearances.
Main Character Portrayed by Hannah Montana Season 1 Season 2 The Movie Season 3 Forever Miley Stewart Miley Cyrus colspan="55" Lilly Truscott Emily Osment colspan="55" Oliver Oken Mitchel Musso colspan="4" Jackson Stewart Jason Earles colspan="55" Robby Ray Stewart Billy Ray Cyrus colspan="55" Rico Suave Moises Arias colspan="55"
Miley Stewart
Miley Ray Stewart (Miley Cyrus) is the teen main character of Hannah Montana. As her alter ego, Hannah Montana, she secretly lives a double life as a famous pop star. She’d rather be authentically Miley, no longer Hannah Montana. One of the concept names for her alter ego was Alexis Texas, but the writers learned there was an adult entertainer with the same name of Alexis Texas. Eventually the writers decided to use the real first name of the star, Miley Cyrus. Her best friends are Lilly and Oliver. Throughout the series she keeps her alias as Hannah Montana a secret from the world, but eventually tells several people throughout the show such as Lilly, Oliver, Siena, and Jesse. Her main love interest is Jesse, along with occasional crushes. She is known to say "Sweet niblets!" "Ya think?" and "Say what?" as her catch phrases.
Miley misses her mom very much and wishes she was still alive.
Robby Stewart
Robby Ray Stewart (Billy Ray Cyrus) is the widower father of Jackson and Miley Stewart. He is also Hannah Montana's manager, who was a former country singer. As Miley's father, he is also referred to as Hannah's father whenever they appear together publicly. Even though he wears a fake mustache and a hat as a disguise, he does not use a fake name. He takes pride in his hair and his shampoo collection. He is a loving and caring father but knows when serious discipline is necessary.
Billy Ray Cyrus auditioned for the part of Robby along with two other actors. He was only asked to audition after his daughter Miley had been given the lead role. After he was offered the role, Billy Ray at first had reservations about accepting it, saying "The last thing I would want to do is screw up Miley's show." Miley admitted that it was "weird" at first having her real-life father play the role of her television dad, but later described the situation as "really good." Cyrus provided much of the inspiration for the character, including their shared middle name, Ray.
Jackson Stewart
Jackson Rod Stewart (Jason Earles) is the older teenage brother of Miley Stewart and son of Robby Stewart. He is known for his goofy, lazy and disgusting habits. Jackson is a regular character in Hannah Montana. In the episode "He Could Be the One", Jackson does not take part in the actual story, but appears as a third-person omniscient narrator, though still appearing in character. Jackson also has a central role in the feature film Hannah Montana: The Movie.
Like the rest of his family, Jackson is from Tennessee. He moved to Malibu, California, with his father Robby and sister Miley after the death of his mother. In an off-handed remark in "Song Sung Bad," Jackson implausibly suggests the reason for this move involved an embarrassing incident with a Tennessean girlfriend. When Jackson first attended school in California, he was made fun of for wearing his accent, cowboy hat, boots, and large belt buckle with shining bright lights to school.
Jackson and Miley constantly bicker and compete for their father's approval. Miley often finds Jackson's antics disgusting and Jackson sometimes thinks that Miley is too full of herself. However, in private and when needed, both Miley and Jackson are able to express their love and appreciation for each other and maintain a healthy sibling relationship. Jackson even goes to great lengths to help Miley when she gets herself in serious trouble on several occasions. Jackson states that even though they prank each other, he would never bring it into the "Hannah World", meaning he would not go so far as damage her public image as Hannah Montana.
Despite being the first born, and therefore having high expectations from Robby, Jackson constantly lives under Miley's, or rather Hannah's, shadow. Unlike Robby, Lilly and Oliver, Jackson does not attend Hannah events in disguise. This is at first because he exploits his connection with Hannah to impress his dates.The opposite of this plays out in "When You Wish You Were the Star." Jackson gets tired of people pretending to be his friends just to get close to Hannah and moves out of the house and becomes a hermit. This takes place in a parallel universe in which Miley is Hannah all the time. Later, in "My Boyfriend's Jackson and There's Gonna Be Trouble" a paparazzi photographer follows Miley and Jackson home from a concert and reports that they are dating. After this incident, Jackson publicly declares his love for Hannah is "like a sister," but still keeps her secret. In "We Are Family: Now Get Me Some Water!" he openly works as Hannah's "assisticant." He also sometimes works as her chauffeur."She's a Supersneak" and "Bye Bye Ball" While working as Hannah's chauffeur, Jackson is sometimes forced to miss his own activities. He reveals in "Bad Moose Rising" that he really does not mind driving her, as long as she shows appreciation. After Miley gets her license in Season 3 this is no longer an issue.
Despite portraying a teen, Jason Earles was in his late twenties when the show began.
Lilly Truscott
Lillian "Lilly" Truscott (Emily Osment) is the best friend of Miley Stewart. She also becomes Oliver Oken's girlfriend in Season 3 and 4. When Miley is Hannah, Lilly is under the alias Lola Luftnagle, and also "Lola LaFonda." She is also close friends with Hannah Montana and part of her entourage. Lilly/Lola has a huge crush on Orlando Bloom in the episode "The Test of My Love" and tells Miley that she will see "the Lilly Bloom" when Orlando finally meets her. She also plays a central role in the film Hannah Montana: The Movie. The character was originally named Lilly Romero and then changed to Lilly Truscott. Miley Cyrus first auditioned for the role but was cast as the main character instead.Hannah Montana DVD Livin' the Rock Star Life special feature "Miley's Audition Tapes." Emily Osment auditioned for the role after Cyrus was cast.
Lilly was born in and grew up in California and was childhood friends with Oliver. She met Oliver in kindergarten and was best friends with him ever since. In "Judge Me Tender", she describes him as a dead beat when she first met him. She recently lived with her mother Heather Truscott (Heather Locklear) in Malibu. Heather appears in one episode, "Lilly's Mom Has Got It Goin' On," where she briefly dates Miley's father Robby. Lilly's parents are divorced, and her father is an accountant. In Season 1, Lilly claims to have a brother but this is contradicted by her in Season 3. In "Miley Get Your Gum", Lilly refers to her brother's pet hamster. However, in the episode "Would I Lie to You, Lilly?" Lilly says "Sometimes I wish I had a brother, then I come over here. All better!" In the Season 3 episode "The Wheel Near My Bed (Keeps on Turnin')," she moves in with the Stewarts' when her mother gets a job in Atlanta. But after she hears that Miley does not like her staying with them, she goes to stay at her dad Kenneth's (Jon Cryer) apartment only to find it even worse than the Stewart's house. Once Lilly and Miley make up, Lilly goes back to staying at the Stewart's house.
Lilly and Miley have been best friends since about the 6th grade.In "Lilly's Mom Has Got It Goin' On" Miley talks about her and Lilly's custom of celebrating their friendship's "weekiversary." Miley mentions missing their 200th weekiversary, which is almost four years. This episode takes place during their 9th grade year. She discovers Miley's secret in the pilot episode, "Lilly, Do You Want to Know a Secret?" when she sneaks into Hannah's dressing room after a concert, and she sees the lucky bracelet that she had given Miley earlier in the episode. In order to help Miley keep her secret, Lilly attends all Hannah Montana events wearing a disguise and posing as Hannah's companion and assistant "Lola Luftnagle." Lilly first comes up with the name "Lola LaFonda" for her alter ego in the episode "Miley Get Your Gum", but she would later settle on Luftnagle in "It's My Party and I'll Lie If I Want To", which is used in all subsequent episodes. Lilly claims that Lola is the "daughter of oil baron Rudolph Luftnagle, [and] sister of socialites Bunny and Kiki Luftnagle." Another alter ego of Lilly's is Lola LaBamba, whose wig is turquoise.
Unlike Lilly, who wears a lot of hoodies, sneakers and athletic pants, Lola wears very tight clothes in loud colors. Emily Osment once said in a backstage interview that Lola has some very tight pants that are impossible to sit in. Lola wears a lot of jewelry like rings, necklaces, huge earrings and bangles. Lola usually wears a short, brightly colored wig, though the Season 3 wig is a bit longer than the wigs used in Season 1 and 2. In most episodes Lola wears a differently colored wig, from white to red to purple to pink to blue (in one episode Traci Van Horne refers to Lola as a "bitter anime character"). Emily Osment has said that she has around 80 wigs for Lola and that her personal favorites are the purple and white wigs. Lola is not dating Mike as said in "He Could Be the One". Instead, she is dating Justin Timberlake, according to an internet rumor she has "no idea" who started. Emily Osment said in a backstage interview that she is more like Lola than Lilly and that she loves Lola's clothes and wants to keep them. Lola did not appear in Hannah Montana: The Movie.
Although Lilly is dating Oliver, she looks at other guys. In "Once, Twice, Three Times Afraidy", she gazed at Tim, an old friend from camp, causing Oliver to point to the menu on the side, showing his muscles. Also, in "He Could Be the One", she gave advice to Miley stating, "whatever choice you make, it's gonna be okay... let's face it, they're both gorgeous!", making Oliver mad. However, other than calling other boys attractive, she never cheats on Oliver.
Lilly experiences a few short-lived dating relationships and only one serious one. She dates actor Jake Ryan (Cody Linley) at a 70s dance until Miley's jealously breaks them up, and her schoolmate Lucas (Sterling Knight) until Miley discovers he is a cheater.
Miley also has a dream in which Lilly starts dating Jackson and must learn to accept her friend for who she is. When Miley wakes up, she believes the dream was real and is pleasantly surprised when Lilly reacts with disgust.
In "You Are So Sue-able to Me", Lilly has a crush on her schoolmate Matt Marshall, but it is never revealed if they actually dated. After Matt asks Lilly to a dance, Miley tries to get Lilly to change her tomboy image so that Matt will find her more attractive. However, Matt gets turned off by Lilly's new look and stands her up. Lilly and Matt reconcile at the end of the episode after Miley was found liable for Lilly's suffering in the Teen Court. Lilly's celebrity crush is Orlando Bloom. Bloom is a recurring off-screen character in the show whom Lilly sometimes harasses at parties as Lola. She also has a crush on Justin Timberlake and supposedly spread a rumor that he is dating Lola.
In the Season 3 episode "Uptight (Oliver's Alright)", it is mentioned that Lilly had a crush on her French teacher during 7th grade. She wore a beret to school and said "Oui, Oui" so much that people started calling her "Tinkles Truscott".