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* [[Echo (Dollhouse)|Echo]] ([[Eliza Dushku]]) is an Active and the main character of the series. She is the most popular Active in the Dollhouse, and has shown skills that transcend the limitations of her parameters during the course of her engagements. Prior to having her mind wiped, Echo was a college student and political [[activism|activist]] named Caroline Farrell.{{ref|Echoes|E-7}} Caroline is originally a student activist who accidentally uncovers the Rossum Corporation's illegal activities; her boyfriend is killed during an attempt to infiltrate a Rossum laboratory, and Rossum attempts to have her recruited to Adelle DeWitt's Dollhouse.{{ref|Echoes|E-7}} While on the run from Rossum, Caroline becomes a terrorist devoted to bringing the corporation down, until she is finally captured.{{ref|Getting Closer|E-24}} Throughout the series, Echo becomes increasingly self-aware while in her blank state, and later even vows to discover and restore her original self.{{ref|Vows|E-14}} On achieving full self-awareness, Echo develops a romantic interest in Paul Ballard. Having learned more about Caroline's potentially murky past, she decides to be her own person.{{ref|Meet Jane Doe|E-20}} While condemned to the Attic, she discovers Rossum's weakness and emerges to ally with DeWitt and the LA Dollhouse against Rossum.{{ref|The Attic|E-23}} While she is uncertain what having become her own person will mean for her, she agrees to be reunited with Caroline's personality to gain crucial information over Rossum.{{ref|Getting Closer|E-24}}
* Boyd Langton ([[Harry Lennix]]) is introduced at the onset of the first season as a former cop and the Dollhouse [[Agent handling|handler]] assigned to Echo. He has doubts about the Dollhouse's ethics, but largely keeps quiet about them. Later in the season, he's promoted to head of security.{{ref|A Spy|E-9}} His own "morally compromised" past is not originally revealed, but it is known he has considerable skills and contacts in disposing of dead bodies.{{ref|Belonging|E-17}} When Echo returns to the Dollhouse after a three-month absence, he allies himself with Paul and Topher in keeping her self-awareness a secret from the Rossum execs.{{ref|A Love Supreme|E-21}} After regaining Caroline's memories, she discovers that Boyd is one of the two founders of the Rossum Corporation and seemingly installed himself in the Dollhouse to become Echo's handler.{{ref|Getting Closer|E-24}} After attacking Echo, Langton's mind is wiped after Topher finishes a remote wiping device. In a doll state, Langton is fitted with explosives and given a grenade and is commanded to blow up the Rossum building, which he does, killing himself in the process.{{ref|The Hollow Men|E-25}}
* Topher Brink ([[Fran Kranz]]) is the scientist who operates Dollhouse's technology and uses it to imprint new personalities on the Actives. Cynical, ego-driven and seemingly amoral, Topher's knowledge of human behavior allows him to specially craft the various personalities of the Actives for their various missions. In the second season, Topher faces several moral dilemmas, the first when he is required by Rossum to
* Paul Ballard ([[Tahmoh Penikett]]) is an FBI special agent assigned to the Dollhouse case at the onset of the series; most in the Bureau view the case as a joke, but he makes discovering and rescuing Caroline/Echo an obsession. The Dollhouse assigns active November to spy on him by becoming his girlfriend, Mellie. After breaking into the Dollhouse, he works for them under the condition that November is released,{{ref|Omega|E-12}} and later takes the role of Echo's handler. The two of them vow to set the Actives free.{{ref|Vows|E-14}} When Echo is left out on the streets, Paul finds her and helps conceal her from the Dollhouse for three months while she develops a full self-awareness. She becomes romantically and sexually attracted to him, but he abstains from sex with her. The two re-enter the Dollhouse to continue their crusade.{{ref|Meet Jane Doe|E-20}} They later form an alliance with Boyd and Topher, but Paul is wiped and left braindead by Alpha.{{ref|A Love Supreme|E-21}} Topher is able to partially restore Ballard by converting him into an Active, removing one brain function, and imprinting him with the scan Alpha took.{{ref|The Attic|E-23}} However in doing so, it was necessary for Paul's feelings of love toward Echo to be erased.{{ref|Getting Closer|E-24}} In the final episode of Dollhouse set ten years in the future, Paul is killed in combat, and his memories and personality are imprinted into Echo.{{ref|Epitaph 2|E-26}}
* [[Victor (Dollhouse)|Victor]] ([[Enver Gjokaj]]) is an Active who was originally introduced as Lubov, Paul Ballard's informant inside the Russian mob, before being revealed to be a Doll.{{ref|Stage Fright|E-3}} The character is also regularly hired out by Adelle DeWitt herself to be her lover, whom she truly appears to love. In his mind-wiped state, Victor is inexplicably attracted to Sierra despite numerous attempts to wipe away his memories of and feelings for her. {{ref|A Spy|E-9}} Before entering the Dollhouse, Victor was a [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]] veteran named Anthony Ceccoli suffering [[posttraumatic stress disorder]] (of which he is cured by the Dollhouse). He is restored to this personality in "[[Stop-Loss (Dollhouse)|Stop-Loss]]",{{ref|Stop-Loss|E-22}} and aligns with Priya, Echo, and the senior staff of the LA Dollhouse against Rossum. {{ref|The Attic|E-23}} In the series finale set ten years in the future, Anthony and Priya share a tense relationship due to his reliance on imprinting technology which Priya considers a dangerous obsession. Priya later realizes he
* [[Sierra (Dollhouse)|Sierra]] ([[Dichen Lachman]]) is introduced as the newest Active in the Dollhouse; her original mind wipe occurs in the first episode of the first season. She is instinctively drawn to Echo, but lacks her growing self-awareness. Sierra is a painter named Priya Tsetsang prior to having her mind wiped and becoming an Active.{{ref|Belonging|E-17}} Unlike the other Actives, Sierra was committed to the Dollhouse against her will by a powerful man, Nolan Kinnard, after she rejected his advances. He then hires her out periodically for sexual encounters.{{ref|Needs|E-8}} During Season 1, she is also raped by her handler in her blank state, only adding to her trauma.{{ref|Man|E-6}} When Sierra is sent to her original rapist and captor permanently, Topher sends Sierra as her original personality Priya, and she kills Kinnard in self-defense. Boyd and Topher dispose of the body and Priya agrees to return to the Dollhouse to be with Victor, whom she loves.{{ref|Belonging|E-17}} Priya is later awakened to help retrieve Anthony/Victor when he is captured and enslaved by Rossum,{{ref|Stop-Loss|E-22}} and the two unite with Echo and the senior staff of the LA Dollhouse against Rossum. {{ref|The Attic|E-23}} Ten years after the events of the series, Priya is shown to have a child with Anthony whom she raises alone, as she mistrusts him and his obsession with imprinting technology. Near the end of the series, Priya realizes Anthony's unwavering devotion to her and introduces their son to him, reuniting the family.{{ref|Epitaph 2|E-26}}
* Adelle DeWitt ([[Olivia Williams]]) is the highest-ranking official at the Los Angeles Dollhouse. She claims to believe that the aims of the Dollhouse are truly benevolent; however, she displays an increasingly cynical attitude in Season 2, eventually joining the conspiracy against Rossum.{{ref|The Attic|E-23}} Although DeWitt is the head of her Dollhouse (as the L.A. Dollhouse is just one of more than twenty worldwide){{ref|Man|E-6}} she answers to a number of superiors at the Rossum Corporation. It is revealed that she has been hiring out Victor as her lover, though she has concealed these activities from others in the Dollhouse by inventing a client referred to as "Miss Lonelyhearts". {{ref|A Spy|E-9}}
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