Glee: Will Schuester

Will Schuester Biography

Young, optimistic Schuester Spanish teacher jump if the opportunity to lead the Glee Club at McKinley High - after all, when he was a student there, he loved to perform and liked by Glee kids like a star. But when only a handful of marginalized registered, he realized how much things have changed. So the power of football star Hudson Finn to join the group, hoping to bring more children will follow the popular quarterback.

Determined to raise Glee again and take the "New Direction" the club all the way to the citizens, he faces the wrath of tyranny cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester. When Sue heard about Will's plan for Glee, which may require attention and money from Cheerios, she vowed to drop the club.

Glee: Brittany

Brittany Biography

Although Brittany joined the Glee Club with fellow members of Santana Cheerios, Quinn to become a spy Coach Sylvester, it is clear that she was one of the unique. She a master at dramatic hair tossing ("hairography") who sometimes can not distinguish left from right and thought her cat secretly read her diary.

When the list of outstanding rating Popularity scandal club and association members, Brittany surprised ... that she was only in fourth place. She tries to seduce Kurt (the only guy at school he has not to date) to improve her ranking.

Glee: Finn Hudson

Finn Hudson Biography

Finn Hudson is a star at McKinley High. Quarterback of the football team, he rules the school with a beautiful cheerleader girlfriend, Quinn Fabray. But his life upside down when the Glee Club coach Will Schuester listen him singing and purpose for the choir.

Finn loves the show, but the joy of clubbers who are under the social ladder, and then have the opportunity to decide whether to be popular is more important than being happy.

When Quinn said to Finn, that he was was pregnant, he was ready to become a person that thinks he should - that is, until he discovers that his friend, Puck, is the biological father of the child from Quinn.

Glee: Rachel Berry

Rachel Berry Biography

Rachel Berry uses every opportunity to push herself to be a celebrity, so when Will Schuester turn Glee Club, she enthusiastically signed up, confident that it will display her many talents. This puts a gold star after his name, as it always did, because she would be a star one day.

Rachel lives with two fathers, who supports his dream of glory on Broadway, but his ambition and perfectionism did not win her friends. She was often targeted by the popular cheerleader, and she looked sad romantic prospects.

Glee: Artie Abrams

Artie Abrams Biography

In fact if the accident as a child of Artie Abrams paralyzed from the waist down, do not let his wheelchair stop him from playing guitar, popping wheelies, beat-boxing, or playing Dance Dance Revolution with your hands. But his disability distinguish it from other kids, who sometimes make easy money for school bullies.

Will Schuester welcomes Artie into the glee club. Although he is projecting his disability opportunities, Artie bad joy when the team initially rejected Will's suggestions that raise money to pay bus handicapable so they all can go together to the Sectionals. Will orders the kids who live in a wheelchair for a week to better understand the difficulties Artie fight with every day. The team of choreographers now a special wheelchair routine to "Proud Mary" in his honor.

Glee: Emma Pillsbury

Emma Pillsbury Biography

McKinley High School guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury could use some guidance herself. Her interests include hand-washing and rug-fringe-straightening, and she's a charter member of the Western Ohio Disinfectant Society. Her obsessive-compulsive disorder, which originated in a childhood trauma at a dairy farm, shadows her every move. Now her love life lies dormant while she longs for her secret crush, married glee club coach Will Schuester.

Her attempts to get closer to Will don't go unnoticed, particularly by hulking football coach Ken Tanaka, who's harboring a crush of his own. Ken persuades Emma not to waste her affections on Schuester, but even after she and Ken get engaged, it's clear she's still pining for Will. When Emma upends their wedding day schedule so she can take the glee kids to Sectionals as a favor for Will, Ken finally has had enough.

Glee: Sue Sylvester

Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester

Sue Sylvester Bio

McKinley High cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester likes to remind people that she was named Splits Magazine's Cheerleading Coach of the Decade because she does not tolerate losing, a doctrine she instills in her crack squad, the Cheerios. When Will Schuester tries to revive the past glory of glee -- possibly stealing some of the spotlight and funding from her team -- Sue goes to extreme lengths to undercut him and keep his kids in their place, even recruiting her own cheerleaders to infiltrate the club as spies. She delights in insulting Will, especially his hair, at every opportunity.

Sue arouses Will's suspicion with her improbable welcome of a disabled girl to the Cheerios, but the truth about her motivation belies her heartless public persona.

Glee: Terri Schuester

Jessalyn Gilsig as Terri Schuester

Terri Schuester Bio

Will Schuester's wife, Terri, believes she deserves the finer things in life, even if it means maxing out her Pottery Barn credit card and demanding Will take on a second job. When not complaining about the demands of her four-hour, three-day-a-week job at Sheets N' Things, she loves crafting and watching Jerry Bruckheimer films.

Terri and Will have been together since high school, where she was a cheerleader and he was a glee star. But as Will starts to focus more on his glee kids than on her, she knows their marriage has bigger problems than finances.

Will is so happy to learn she's pregnant that Terri is sure a baby will solve all their problems. When she finds out hers is a hysterical pregnancy, she runs with the lie, rather than risk losing Will.

Glee: Kurt Hummel

Chris Colfer as Kurt Hummel.

Kurt Hummel Bio

Fashion-forward soprano Kurt Hummel stands out at McKinley High, which unfortunately makes him an easy target for bullies. He finds an unlikely hero in quarterback Finn Hudson, a glee teammate and the object of Kurt's crush.

Kurt's interests include promoting and marketing his new fragrance, "Hummel." His best friend is diva Mercedes Jones, and though their friendship is briefly rocked by a Cheerios scheme, they're closer than ever after Kurt confides in her that he's gay. When they feel overshadowed by glee leads Finn and Rachel, Kurt and Mercedes join the Cheerios, expecting more opportunities for the spotlight.

Kurt lives with his widower dad, Burt, a sports fan Kurt is desperate not to disappoint. To win his father's approval, Kurt joins the football team and his success as a kicker gives Kurt the courage to come out to him. To Kurt's relief, Burt tells him he'll love him no matter what.

Glee: Quinn Fabray

Quinn Fabray Bio

Dianna Agron as Quinn Fabray

Popular head cheerleader Quinn Fabray is Finn Hudson's girlfriend and a true mean girl who delights in tormenting social outcast Rachel Berry at every opportunity. Despite being president of the Christ Crusaders (aka the Celibacy Club), Quinn shared a drunken romp with Puck that resulted in a pregnancy she attributes to Finn, believing him to be the better prospect.

Quinn joins the glee club to keep an eye on her boyfriend as well as to satisfy her scheming, glee-hating coach, Sue Sylvester. When Quinn's pregnancy is made public, she's cut from the Cheerios and experiences life on the outs for the first time. But between glee and her pregnancy, she's learning there's more to life than popularity.

After her parents kick her out out of their house, Quinn moves in with Finn. But when the identity of the baby's father is revealed, Finn leaves her and she and Puck begin a brief relationship. Newly unpopular Quinn bonds with newly popular Mercedes, and Quinn even requests that Mercedes be in the delivery room for the birth of her daughter, Beth. Her estranged mother appears at the birth as well, having recently left Quinn's father. Later, baby Beth is adopted by Vocal Adrenaline coach Shelby Corcoran.

Glee Music and Choreography

The series features numerous song covers sung onscreen by the characters. Murphy is responsible for selecting all of the songs used, and strives to maintain a balance between show tunes and chart hits, as: "I want there to be something for everybody in every episode. That's a tricky mix, but that's very important — the balancing of that." Song choices are integral to script development, with Murphy explaining: "Each episode has a theme at its core. After I write the script, I will choose songs that help to move the story along."

Glee Conception

Ian Brennan conceived Glee based on his own experience as a member of the Prospect High School show choir in Mount Prospect, Illinois. He initially envisioned Glee as a film, rather than a television series, and wrote the first draft in August 2005 with the aid of Screenwriting for Dummies. He completed the script in 2005, but could not generate interest in the project for several years. Mike Novick, a television producer and a friend of Brennan's from Los Angeles, was a member of the same gym as Ryan Murphy, and gave him a copy of Brennan's script. Murphy had been in a show choir in college, and felt he could relate to the script. Murphy and his Nip/Tuck colleague Brad Falchuk suggested that Glee be produced as a television show. The script was entirely rewritten, and was picked up by Fox within 15 hours of being received. Murphy attributed that, in part, to the network's success with American Idol. "It made sense for the network with the biggest hit in TV, which is a musical, to do something in that vein", he said. Murphy and Falchuk became the show's executive producers and showrunners, while Brennan is a co-executive producer and Novick is a producer. Brennan, Falchuk and Murphy write all of the show's episodes.

Glee Overview

Glee is a musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationship, sexuality and social issues. The initial main cast encompassed club director and Spanish teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), Will's wife Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig), and eight club members played by Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Amber Riley, Mark Salling and Jenna Ushkowitz. For the second season, formerly recurring cast members Mike O'Malley, Heather Morris and Naya Rivera were promoted to the main cast.