Bones guest stars
1,967 actors have guest-starred in Bones across 246 episodes and 12 seasons. The most-credited is Patricia Belcher, Asst. U.S. Attorney Caroline Julian in 56 episodes. 1,328 of them have also guest-starred in five or more of the other shows in this catalogue.
Who came back most
| Actor | Character | Eps |
|---|---|---|
| Patricia Belcher | Asst. U.S. Attorney Caroline Julian | 56 |
| Michael Grant Terry | Wendell Bray | 43 |
| Eugene Byrd | Dr. Clark Edison | 38 |
| Carla Gallo | Daisy Wick | 33 |
| Pej Vahdat | Arastoo Vaziri | 31 |
| Sunnie Pelant | Christine Booth | 29 |
| Ryan O'Neal | Max Keenan | 24 |
| Joel David Moore | Colin Fisher | 16 |
| Ty Panitz | Parker Booth | 12 |
| David Greenman | FBI Forensic Tech Marcus Geier | 11 |
| Laura Spencer | Jessica Warren | 11 |
| Ryan Cartwright | Vincent Nigel-Murray | 11 |
| Ignacio Serricchio | Rodolfo Fuentes | 10 |
| Tiffany Hines | Michelle Welton | 10 |
| Andrew Leeds | Christopher Pelant | 9 |
| Brian Klugman | Dr. Oliver Wells | 8 |
| Nathan Dean | FBI Agent Charlie Burns | 8 |
| Billy F. Gibbons | Billy F. Gibbons | 7 |
| Katheryn Winnick | Hannah Burley | 7 |
| Luke Kleintank | Finn Abernathy | 7 |
| Sara Rue | Karen Delfs | 7 |
| John M. Jackson | Dep. Director Sam Cullen | 6 |
| Stephen Fry | Dr. Gordon Wyatt | 6 |
| Blaine Holtkamp | Lab Tech, Dr. Domick Dupont, Rock 'N' Roll Guy | 5 |
| Brendan Fehr | Jared Booth | 5 |
Bones guest stars by season
| Season | Guests | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 213 | John M. Jackson, Adam Lieberman, Heavy D, Anne Dudek, Chris Conner, Coby Ryan McLaughlin, David Roberson, John Sterling Carter, José Zúñiga, Aaron Paul, Adam Baldwin, Adam Grimes and 201 more |
| Season 2 | 203 | Eddie McClintock, Nathan Dean, Patricia Belcher, Ryan O'Neal, Stephen Fry, Christie Lynn Smith, Eric Stonestreet, Heath Freeman, Jessica Capshaw, Ty Panitz, A.J. Buckley, Aalok Mehta and 191 more |
| Season 3 | 164 | Patricia Belcher, David Greenman, Nathan Dean, Ryan O'Neal, Loren Dean, Bess Wohl, Burnadean Jones, Eugene Byrd, Houston Graham, Skye Casey Arens, Abigail Spencer, Ace Young and 152 more |
| Season 4 | 264 | Eugene Byrd, David Greenman, Michael Grant Terry, Ryan Cartwright, Brendan Fehr, Carla Gallo, Joel David Moore, Patricia Belcher, Marisa Coughlan, Nichole Hiltz, Pej Vahdat, Sean Blakemore and 252 more |
| Season 5 | 161 | Carla Gallo, Eugene Byrd, Michael Grant Terry, Patricia Belcher, Diedrich Bader, Pej Vahdat, Tiffany Hines, Ryan Cartwright, Ryan O'Neal, Ty Panitz, Adam Paul, Adrienne Smith and 149 more |
| Season 6 | 179 | Katheryn Winnick, Michael Grant Terry, Patricia Belcher, Ryan Cartwright, Arnold Vosloo, Carla Gallo, Eugene Byrd, Elon Gold, Joel David Moore, Pej Vahdat, Ryan O'Neal, Tiffany Hines and 167 more |
| Season 7 | 131 | Patricia Belcher, Carla Gallo, Michael Grant Terry, Wendy Worthington, Andrew Leeds, Eugene Byrd, Luke Kleintank, Ryan O'Neal, Tina Majorino, Abhi Sinha, Alice Rietveld, Alla Korot and 119 more |
| Season 8 | 183 | Eugene Byrd, Patricia Belcher, Luke Kleintank, Michael Grant Terry, Pej Vahdat, Andrew Leeds, Carla Gallo, Joel David Moore, Danielle Panabaker, Patrick Brown, Reed Diamond, Ryan O'Neal and 171 more |
| Season 9 | 209 | Patricia Belcher, Carla Gallo, Eugene Byrd, Michael Grant Terry, Pej Vahdat, Brian Klugman, Joel David Moore, Mather Zickel, Andrew Leeds, Eileen Grubba, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Ryan O'Neal and 197 more |
| Season 10 | 177 | Sunnie Pelant, Patricia Belcher, Carla Gallo, Michael Grant Terry, Eugene Byrd, Ignacio Serricchio, Laura Spencer, Pej Vahdat, Gabriel Salvador, Jason Gray-Stanford, Sam Sarpong, Alex Skuby and 165 more |
| Season 11 | 146 | Sunnie Pelant, Michael Grant Terry, Patricia Belcher, Pej Vahdat, Gil Darnell, Brian Klugman, Eugene Byrd, Sara Rue, Bridgett Newton, Carla Gallo, Gavin MacIntosh, Ignacio Serricchio and 134 more |
| Season 12 | 114 | Sunnie Pelant, Michael Grant Terry, Patricia Belcher, Pej Vahdat, Sara Rue, Brit Shaw, Carla Gallo, Eugene Byrd, Laura Spencer, Gerardo Celasco, Ignacio Serricchio, Ryan O'Neal and 102 more |
Guest stars you know from somewhere else
The hardest-working character actors in this show's guest cast, ranked by how many other shows in this catalogue they have also guest-starred in. Not the most famous names, the most prolific ones.
| Actor | In Bones | Other shows |
|---|---|---|
| Raphael Sbarge | Doug Doyley | 54 |
| Tom Virtue | Dr. Ted Reardon | 48 |
| Robert Curtis Brown | Dr. Noah Itzkowitz | 45 |
| Michael Reilly Burke | Luke Nicholson | 44 |
| George Wyner | Judge Marcus Haddoes | 41 |
| John Rubinstein | Mick Warren | 40 |
| Patrick Fischler | Gil Bates | 40 |
| Sam Anderson | Hugo Sanderson | 38 |
| Christopher Darga | Andrew Harding | 38 |
| James Hong | Joseph Han | 38 |
| John Billingsley | Dr. Edward Harkness | 38 |
| Patrick Fabian | Terry Stinson | 38 |
| Glenn Morshower | Colonel Bob Reid | 37 |
| Michael B. Silver | Dr. Anton Kostov | 37 |
| Scott Michael Campbell | Gary Nesbitt | 37 |
Played more than one character
| Actor | Characters | Eps |
|---|---|---|
| Blaine Holtkamp | Lab Tech, Dr. Domick Dupont, Rock 'N' Roll Guy | 5 |
| Camille Chen | Amy Caputo, Karen Garelik | 2 |
| Charles Carpenter | D.C. Cop, FBI Deputy Field Director Thomas Mordick | 2 |
| Christopher Goodman | Ben Mansfield, State Police Instructor | 2 |
| Colby French | Daryl Patterson, Greg Braley | 2 |
| Cyd Strittmatter | Dr. Pamela Gould, Tina Kent | 2 |
| Dave Thomas | Andrew Jursic, Dick Scarn | 2 |
| David Starzyk | Jake Winters, Ken Wright | 2 |
| Ewan Chung | Chip Yap, CSI Technician | 2 |
| James Earl | Gordy, Kid at the Center | 2 |
Shares a cast with
- Bones and NCIS — 682 shared actors
- Bones and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — 515 shared actors
- Bones and Criminal Minds — 492 shared actors
- Bones and ER — 490 shared actors
- Bones and Grey's Anatomy — 410 shared actors
- Bones and Castle — 402 shared actors
- Bones and The Mentalist — 401 shared actors
- Bones and CSI: Miami — 378 shared actors
Cast data from TVmaze, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.