CHARACTER | ||
Kate Gregson | ||
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Gender | Female | |
Date of Birth | c. 1989
(retconned to 1987 in Season 3) | |
First Appearance | Pilot | |
Last Appearance | - | |
Occupation | Student Fast food restaurant employee Debt collector Flight Attendant | |
Number of episodes | 12 | |
Relatives | Tara Gregson (mother) Max Gregson (father) | |
Portrayed by | Brie Larson |
Kate Gregson (Brie Larson ) is Tara and Max's troubled 15 year old teenage daughter. Kate works in a local outlet of a chain family restaurant in season 1 . She briefly enters into a casual relationship with her manager, Gene , but grows uncomfortable with his advances and initiates a sexual harassment complaint against him. Also, their relationship is criminal because she's a minor. She received her high school diploma early and then worked at a collection agency. In her free time she smoked marijuana withMarshall and made super heroine videos with her friendLynda . She briefly did internet peep shows as Princess Valhalla Hawkwind in exchange for gifts on her online gift registry. She soon stopped, when she met a man named Zac (over the internet in a webcam chat), and started dating him, but she broke things off near the end of season 2 . She is eager to leave town and find a new, alters-free life elsewhere yet she is ultimately unable to abandon her mother in her unending personal crisis. In season 3 , she plans to teach English in Japan but abruptly changes career goals, taking a job as an airline stewardess instead. She meets a man while working, Evan, and engages in a long-distance relationship with him. They continue the relationship past season 3. She is retconned as being 19 in Season 3 despite the show taking course over a 6 month period.