Zinn-verse

Zinn-verse
Creator	Ava Zinn
Original work	Vote for the Girls
Films and television
Television series	Amanda & Elisa Queen of the Willis Hoosier Anchorwoman! Vote for the Girls Vape Back! with Ava Zinn Ava Zinn's Retail Nightmares The Souzas Caprice & Ella Quillsville Cold Case

The Zinn-verse is a media franchise that consists of a group of seven interconnected that share a universe, and their related media. Nine television series make up the bulk of the Zinn-verse franchise: Amanda & Elisa, Queen of the Willis, Hoosier Anchorwoman!, Vote for the Girls, Vape Back! with Ava Zinn, Ava Zinn's Retail Nightmares, The Souzas, Caprice & Ella, and Quillsville Cold Case.

Development

This article is part of a series about Ava Zinn
Career Zinn-verse Personal life Criticism 9/27 Deaths of mother and brother Friend realignment Move to Fort Wayne Web sites Filmography Discography Awards and honors Aeverine Zinn Productions INNewsCenter Amanda & Elisa Queen of the Willis Hoosier Anchorwoman! Vote for the Girls American Britain Australian Vape Back! with Ava Zinn Ava Zinn's Retail Nightmares The Souzas Caprice & Ella Breaking Boiling Point Caprice & Ella: The Movie Quillsville Cold Case

In 1989, Ava Zinn met Robyn Hurd and Holly Everman, who would eventually form a stong friendship that would last until Hurd's death on May 23, 2012 and Everman's death on May 23, 2017. From there until 1999, Zinn moved from ATE Media to NoSirGifts, which was founded by her mother in 1987, to work with Jackson Steele and Bob Imperial, both news anchormen.

Zinn first came to prominence in 1999 while serving as news director at WRDS-FLP (channel 47, now WXXC) in Fort Wayne, Indiana. WRDS station owner Rachel Dean, Sr. founded the station while at the same time Zinn launched INNewsCenter. Dean invested heavily in pouring most of the station's resources into its news department. With Dean's backing, Zinn adopted the "News Directors and Producers Have a Choice, Viewers Don't" format heavy on two-woman anchor teams. Zinn is often criticized for an emphasis on all-female news teams, as it was often overlooked that diversity was a major concern for the people of Fort Wayne at the time. However, the "INNCD 47 News" format revived a station that had low ratings prior to its merger with WTOR (channel 41). It also heavily influenced what other NoSirGifts stations' newscasts and other Aeverine Zinn Productions would look like for many years to come, therefore creating the Zinn-verse.

INNewsCenter began on November 1, 1999, and its original run ran for twelve full seasons. It initially featured clips from only the Indianapolis and Fort Wayne markets until 2004 when South Bend, Terre Haute, Lafayette, Evansville, Cincinnati, Dayton, Louisville, and Chicago were added covering all of Indiana's 92 counties and Indiana's ten media markets. INNewsCenter began with Inside Indiana Business and the original run concluded on June 30, 2011 with the May 11, 2011 announcment that Fox announced that it would drop its Evansville affiliation with WTVW and affiliate with a subchannel of WEVV-TV that already carried programming from MyNetworkTV, effective July 1 (WEVV's main channel remains with CBS)—in effect, resulting in Fox returning to its original affiliate in Evansville. The move came as Fox aggressively sought a higher share of retransmission earnings gained by its affiliates as part of affiliation agreements, an approach that openly irked WTVW owner Nexstar. Nexstar would subsequently be stripped of its Fox affiliations in Springfield, Missouri (KSFX-TV), and Fort Wayne (WFFT-TV) as well, and Nexstar decided to drop the Fox affiliation from its Terre Haute affiliate (WFXW), which would regain its former ABC affiliation under the new callsign WAWV-TV. The rebooted version began on December 28, 2014, with ironically another major netowrk affiliation change in Indianapolis that was announced on August 11, 2014. That day, wikipedia:Tribune Broadcasting announced that CW affiliate WTTV would become Indianapolis' CBS affiliate on January 1, 2015, as part of an agreement that also renewed the CBS affiliations on Tribune-owned stations in five other markets. The deal, which resulted in the end of WISH-TV's 58-year relationship with CBS, was reportedly struck as a result of WISH station management balking at the network's demands for sharing of retransmission consent revenue from its affiliates. This led to CBS reaching a deal with WTTV, which Tribune was eager to land since until 2023, the network held the broadcast television rights to the AFC, which included rights to most of the Indianapolis Colts' regular season games. In 2023, the Sunday afternoon packages for Fox and CBS became conference-agonistic, still allowing both WTTV and WXIN to carry the bulk of Colts games throughout the season.

Zinn then created animated sitcoms Amanda & Elisa and Queen of the Willis, of which the former ran from 2004 until 2009 and the latter initially running from 2006 until 2012 and again from 2019 until 2026. Amanda & Elisa was a successful adult animated series which was in production from 2004 to 2009. To date along with Hoosier Anchorwoman! and The Souzas, Amanda & Elisa are Zinn's animated series to have suffered an official cancellation. Amanda & Elisa ended on June 27, 2009, with a total of 5 seasons and 100 episodes, and the title characters moved to Queen of the Willis in the episode The Story of Amanda and Elisa.

Queen of the Willis first aired on August 12, 2006. Zinn's work in animating Queen of the Willis has been influenced by Jack Klugman along with examples from King of the Hill, Family Guy and Growing Pains. In addition to writing various episodes, including "Pilot", "Ten Years to Life" and "The Rape of Heather Willis", Zinn voices Queen of the Willis's main transgendered female characters – Ava Willis, Tabby Willis, Addison Ellissong, Michelle Wilson – as well as male characters Ron Willis, Dr. Mario Coxson, Zach Mullins, Robert "Crob Bob" Craven and Mullins' grandson Caleb Mullins – and female characters Shushu Willis, Heather Willis, Anna Pamhouser, Angelika Mullins, Amanda Dawson, and Elisa Donovan and additional characters. Queen of the Willis has been cancelled twice, although strong fan support and YouTube views have caused CBS Television Distribution to reconsider. Zinn mentioned how these cancellations affected the lineup of writers each time. "One of the positive aspects of Queen of the Willis constantly being pulled off [the air] is that we were always having to restaff writers and recasting". In Fort Wayne, the show has moved from then-ATE Media owned ABC affiliate WMRI (now an ABC O&O) to NoSirGifts-owned CBS affiliate/independent station (and flagship) duopoly WTOR/WXXC-FDT in 2007 where it aired since while in Indianapolis, the show has moved from WHOO-FTV to WIFX-FTV in 2007 where it aired from 2007 to 2018 before moving to United Broadcasting owned CW affiliate WEVI.

Hoosier Anchorwoman! was first shown in April 2009, three months after the the Indianapolis Colts' loss to the Saints debuting with the episode "Pilot", which Zinn co-wrote. Zinn has described the initial seasons of Hoosier Anchorwoman! as being INNewsCenter, likening title character Kendra Kendall's originally bigoted persona after a sex change. Zinn has also stated that her inspiration to create Hoosier Anchorwoman! derived from her experience of never seeing to anchormen anchor a newscast after the main female anchor takes the day off for any reason from 1987 until 2009, yet does not mind watching two anchorwomen on a tellevision news broadcast. Zinn was described as having difficulty understanding the series in its early going; however, she heavily warmed up to the series after its early seasons once he felt the show truly came into its own. Her fellow co-creators have sensed this through Zinn's greatly increased attention to the series after its early seasons. Zinn has also revealed she is a Hoosier Anchorwoman! fan herself. She has taken note of the positive reaction to the "Joyce" character by fans via her Twitter. The show focuses on the Kendall family: Kendra Kendall, the endangering, dog-eat-dog, rash and inconsiderate head of the household. She has an exaggeratedly large chin and feminine manner about her. As the family's breadwinner, she works as a news anchor/reporter and was initially portrayed in the series as an old-fashioned conservative bigot but has since grown out of these traits ; Kendra's paradoxically moralistic yet simultaneously inappropriate, corrupt wife, Miles; and their three children, new-age hippie daughter Samantha, daughter Allison and nerdy daughter Jackie. Accompanying the Kendall family are three additional main characters, two of which belong to non-human species: zany, shocking, blithely cruel and rascally cow Joyce, who's full of disguises/alter egos and has few if any limits on her behaviors. She was rescued by Kendra from a slaughterhouse; Kayla, the woman-in-a-snake-body pet. Kayla's unenviable situation came about from the brain of an Russian Olympic gymnist being shrunk and transplanted into a snake body; and Alec Dailey, Samantha's boyfriend turned "whipped" husband, known for his homosexual infatuation with Samantha's mom, Miles. Hoosier Anchorwoman! ended on May 19, 2013, with a total of 4 seasons and 88 episodes, and the character of Kendra moved to Queen of the Willis in the episode The Girls Are Back in Quillsville.

Zinn's 2004 gender transition and 2018 move to Fort Wayne provided a major windfall for Zinn in 2010, with Holly Everman, Robyn Hurd, and villain Archibald Coolranch, Zinn was a moderator and host on the first season of the American web site Vote for the Girls, which she created using her production company, Aeverine Zinn Holdings (later Aeverine Zinn Digital Media Group and Aeverine Zinn Productions). Vote for the Girls premiered on April 28, 2010 and was a surprise hit and success with the public launched the Vote for the Girls franchise in the United Kingdom and Australia. In 2011, Haley Reinhart and Lauren Alaina, two female contestants on the tenth season of American Idol were prominently featured on the site after the elimination of Pia Toscano. Zinn returned for a third season alongside Everman and Hurd, as well as auditioning for the 11th season of American Idol herself and exposing the previous season's gender bias, the site gained popularity and overtook Vote for the Worst. After launching Vote for the Girls (which was launched to compete with VFTW), in response Zinn stated "It's becoming clear that people want a change that we all believe in. It's only about what you're doing and supposed to do, and like I'm supposed to be doing this." The site's YouTube videos featured screaming matches among Zinn, her guests, and audience members. Using a large black bowl for an ashtray, she would chainsmoke during the video and blow cigarette smoke (later e-cigarette smoke) in her guests' faces. In 2016, as she celebrated 10 Vote for the Girls victories (So You Think You Can Dance victories of Lauren Froderman, Melanie Moore, Eliana Girard, and Amy Yakima; The Voice victories of Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Tessanne Chin and Alisan Porter and Chloe Kohanski; American Idol victories of Nick Fradiani and Trent Harmon; The Voice Moderators Saves of Christina Grimmie and Meghan Linsey; American Idol Moderator Saves of Angie Miller and Jena Asciutto) in the United States and four United Kingdom victories (Strictly Come Dancing double victory of Caroline Flack and Frankie Bridge; X Factor Moderator Save of Fleur East and victory Louisa Johnson; and The Voice UK Moderator Save of Lucy O'Byrne). with Vote for the Girls site and recently began to wear strapless tops and dresses with thong panties to strongly reflect her gender identity as a woman along with the punishment for failure with Christina Grimmie's third place finish on The Voice and Jena Irene's runner-up finish on American Idol. Zinn returned for her ninth consecuitive season in 2017 and did not appear in as much of the season, as she was launching Vape Back!, Ava Zinn's Retail Nightmares and Ava Zinn's Housing Hell in addition to her move to Fort Wayne though her final two picks for The Voice 13 were runner-up Addison Agen and winner Chloe Kohanski. Zinn returned for a tenth consecuitive season in 2018 and did not appear in as much due to her relaunching Queen of the Willis and her move to Fort Wayne. Zinn appeared for an 11th season in 2019 on a regular basis and a 12th/initial final season in 2020. Vote for the Girls concluded its initial run on May 23, 2021 after 12 seasons. On April 19, 2023, in a Facebook post by Karly Jameson it was revealed that Vote for the Girls was confirmed to return after she launched a Change.org petition in May 2021. Ava Zinn followed up in a Twitter post saying, "Ending Vote for the Girls in May 2021 is something I regret ever doing and thanks to Karly's (Jameson) Change.org petition, I'm happy to bring the show back!" In an Instagram post by Ava Zinn, it was revealed that Vote for the Girls would officially return on April 7, 2024.

While creating the series Caprice & Ella, Zinn had just finished off her twelve-year run on Vote for the Girls with Ava Zinn & Alexandra Moffitt and was looking for another project. Karly Jameson, Thia Tola, and Rachael Passalt were respectively working as a producer for Queen of the Willis, The Karly Jameson Show, The Souzas, respectively. The four got together to form the basis for Caprice & Ella. The series is filmed on the southeast side of Fort Wayne, Indiana for its first four seasons. From the halfway point of season 4 onwards, it is filmed in various locations around Fort Wayne, yet mostly on the northeast side of the city. Caprice & Ella premiered on February 27, 2021 after Zinn adopted a cute 10-month-old female American domestic short hair cat named Caprice, named after the Chevrolet Caprice as Zinn's late brother was an automobile mechanic prior to his death. A month later, Ava adopts an 8-week-old female Chihualua puppy, whom she names Ella.

Franchise overview

Television series

Series	Television seasons
	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16	2016–17	2017–18	2018–19	2019–20	2020–21		2021–22		2022–23		2023–24		2024–25		2025–26
INNewsCenter	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12				13	14	15	16	17	18	19		20		21		22		23		24
Amanda & Elisa						1	2	3	4	5
Queen of the Willis								1	2	3	4	5	6							7	8	9		10		11		12		13	14	15
Hoosier Anchorwoman!											1	2	3
Vote for the Girls											1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12						13		14		15
Vape Back! with Ava Zinn																		1
Ava Zinn's Retail Nightmares																			1	2							3
The Souzas																					1	2		3		4
Caprice & Ella																							1	2	3		4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Quillsville Cold Case

Season overview

Vote for the Girls, Amanda & Elisa, Queen of the Willis, and Hoosier Anchorwoman! spun off from INNewsCenter; The Souzas and Quillsville Cold Case spun off from Queen of the Willis; Caprice & Ella, Vape Back! with Ava Zinn, and Ava Zinn's Retail Nightmares spun off from Vote for the Girls , some of which were via backdoor pilot episodes.

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Series	Original Run	Network
INNewsCenter	November 1, 1999 (1999-11-01)–June 30, 2011 (2011-06-30)	First-run syndication
	December 28, 2014 (2014-12-28)–present
Amanda & Elisa	Season Episodes Originally aired First aired Last aired 1 3 December 4, 2004 (2004-12-04) December 18, 2004 (2004-12-18) 2 26 December 3, 2005 (2005-12-03) May 27, 2006 (2006-05-27) 3 36 August 12, 2006 (2006-08-12) May 12, 2007 (2007-05-12) 4 36 September 3, 2007 (2007-09-03) May 26, 2008 (2008-05-26) 5 25 August 22, 2008 (2008-08-22) April 3, 2009 (2009-04-03)
Queen of the Willis	Season Episodes Originally aired First aired Last aired 1 12 August 12, 2006 November 11, 2006 2 23 November 26, 2007 March 24, 2008 3 24 September 5, 2008 May 8, 2009 4 45 August 14, 2009 April 9, 2010 5 38 August 20, 2010 April 22, 2011 6 16 January 27, 2012 May 11, 2012 7 (a) 7 (b) 34 March 1, 2019 July 12, 2019 May 17, 2019 November 22, 2019 8 13 January 17, 2020 May 15, 2020 9 30 October 2, 2020 May 7, 2021 10 22 September 17, 2021 May 13, 2022 11 22 September 2, 2022 February 24, 2023 12 22 August 18 2023 May 17,2024 13 12 August 16, 2024 November 29, 2024 14 22 February 2025 Summer 2025 15 40 Fall 2025 August 7, 2026
Hoosier Anchorwoman!	List of Hoosier Anchorwoman! episodes
Vote for the Girls	April 28, 2010 (2010-04-28)–May 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
	April 7, 2024 (2024-04-07)–future
Vape Back! with Ava Zinn	2017
Ava Zinn's Retail Nightmares	List of Ava Zinn's Retail Nightmares episodes
The Souzas	Season Episodes Originally aired First aired Last aired 1 18 September 19, 2020 (2020-09-19) May 8, 2021 (2021-05-08) 2 19 November 7, 2021 (2021-11-07) May 14, 2022 (2022-05-14) 3 TBA September 10, 2022 (2022-09-10) May 20, 2023 (2023-05-20)
Caprice & Ella	Season Episodes Originally aired First aired Last aired 1 19 February 27, 2021 (2021-02-27) April 12, 2021 (2021-04-12) 2 22 August 9, 2021 (2021-08-09) November 8, 2021 (2021-11-08) 3 24 January 3, 2022 (2022-01-03) April 11, 2022 (2022-04-11) 4 44 January 9, 2023 (2023-01-09) May 18, 2023 (2023-05-18) 5 15 September 4, 2023 (2023-09-04) November 1, 2023 (2023-11-01) 6 TBD April 7, 2024 (2024-04-07) May 2024 (2024-05) 7 TBD August 2024 (2024-08) December 2024 (2024-12) 8 TBD January 2025 (2025-01) May 2025 (2025-05) 9 TBD August 2025 (2025-08) December 2025 (2025-12) 10 TBD January 2026 (2026-01) May 2026 (2026-05) Films 2 2023 (2023) 2024 (2024)
Quillsville Cold Case	Season Episodes Originally aired First aired Last aired

Cast and characters

Main characters

Series	Character	Appearances									Actor	Duration
		Franchise					Universe
		AM&EL	QOTW	HA!	Souzas	QCC	INNews	VFTGUSA	AZRetail	Caprice
Amanda and Elisa
	Amanda Dawson	Main	Recurring	Guest	Guest		Cameo	Cameo			Ava Zinn	2004-26
	Elisa Donovan
	Carla Mughmaw	Recurring	Guest	Guest	Guest
	Debbie Shorthair
	Dana Carson
	Carly Stevens
	Breeanna Sellars		Recurring								Robyn Hurd (2004-09) Breeanna Sorensen (2019-26)
	Dylan Porter										Ava Zinn
	Stan Hicks
	Dominique Hicks										Holly Everman (2004-09) Hannah Wilson (2019-26)
	Averi Planucchio		Guest	Guest	Recurring						Holly Everman (2004-09) Karly Jameson (2020-22)	2004-22
Queen of the Willis
	Ava Willis		Main	Guest	Recurring	Main	Cameo	Cameo			Ava Zinn	2006-present
	Angie Willis										Holly Everman (2006-12) Karly Jameson (2019-26)	2006-26
	Tom Willis										Leonard Lai (2006-12)	2006-12
	Deanna Willis				Main	Recurring					Candis Cayne (2006-12) Rachael Passalt (2019-present)
	Tabby Willis				Recurring						Ava Zinn	2006-26
	Shushu Willis
	Heather Willis
	Brittany Willis										Ava Zinn	2019-25
	Emilie Willis										Jacqui Fountaine	2019-25
	Hillary Willis										Andrea Coolranch	2019-25
	Rhonda Willis										Ava Zinn	2019-25
	Luanne Willis										Cathryn Everman	2019-26
	Suzanne Willis										Alexandra Moffitt (2019-20) Nadia Lorenzo (2020-25)
	Mandy Willis					Recurring					Ava Zinn	2006-present
	Brynn Willis										Karly Jameson	2019-present
	Melissa Rose					Guest					Alexis Arquette (2006-09) Kendra Ray (2009-23) Lorri Fink (2023-26)	2006-26
	Stephanie Rose		Recurring								Alexandra Moffitt (2006-20) Nadia Lorenzo (2020-26)	2006-26
	Connie Rose										Nadia Lorenzo	2006-26
	Tiffani Donovan		Main								Alexandra Moffitt	2006-19
	Anna Pamhouser					Recurring		Cameo			Ava Zinn	2006-
	Normani Hamilton		Recurring								Normani	2021-26
	Karly Jameson		Main								Karly Jameson	2019-present
	Josh Kaufman		Guest								Josh Kaufman	2019-26
	Alisan Porter		Main								Alisan Porter	2019-26
	Avril Lavigne										Avril Lavigne	2019-26
	Lee Kelso	Guest	Recurring								Lee Kelso	2006-19
	Nicole Pence				Guest	Guest					Nicole Pence	2019-
	Kellie Martin		Guest			Recurring					Kellie Martin (2026) Breeanna Zinn (2026-)
Hoosier Anchorwoman!
	Kendra Kendall		Recurring	Main		Recurring					Ava Zinn	2009-
	Kaity Kendall			Recurring							Kaitlyn Kendall (2010-19) Kylie Dwyar (2020-26)	2010-
	Miles Kendall		Guest	Main							Luka Runecaft	2009-
	Jackie Kendall					Guest					Jacqui Fountaine	2009-
	Allison Kendall										Nadia Lorenzo	2009-
	Samantha Kendall										Samantha Zinn (2009-13) Shanna Ryder (2019-)	2009-
	Kayla the Snake				Guest							2009-
	Joyce the Cow										Ava Zinn	2009-
The Souzas
	Brandi Willis		Recurring		Main	Recurring					Kassie DePavia	2011-26
	Lina Willis		Guest
	Tessanne Willis
	Maggie Willis
	Alexandra Souza
	Chereice Souza
	Telissa Souza
	Donna Doogan				Recurring						Donna Doogan	2020-
	Tammie Souza										Tammie Sousa	2020-
	Laura Emerson										Laura Emerson	2020-
Quillsville Cold Case
	Lilly Rush		Recurring			Main					Kathryn Morris	2011-
	Chelsea Wolf										Sophia Blanca	2019-
	Deann McCall
	Brad Hunter										Ava Zinn	2019-
	Nick Jeffries										Melvin Runecraft	2011-
	Naomi Brannigan											2019-
	Jarett Dailey										Frank Davidson (2011-22) Louis Durant (2023-)	2011-
	Elaine Reed											2019-
	Ramona Battishill										Kendra Ray (2019-23) Lorri Fink (2023-)	2019-
	Kymberly Millspaugh										Actor	2019-
	Sharane Hamilton										Eboni Hill	2019-
INNewsCenter
	Ava Zinn	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Host	Host/Moderator	Host	Main	Ava Zinn	1999-present
	Robyn Hurd						Guest	Host/Moderator			Robyn Hurd	1999-2012
	Holly Everman										Holly Everman	1999-2017
	Patrice Rafferty							Guest/Cameo			Patrice Rafferty	1999-2016
	Hank Cash								Guest/Cameo	Recurring	Hank Cash	1999-2021; 2023-present
	George Williamston										George Williamston	1999-2021; 2023-present
	Samantha Zinn †										Samantha Zinn	1999-2020
	Thomas Zinn †										Thomas Zinn	1999-2006
	Tiffani Zinn †							Guest/Cameo	Guest/Cameo		Tiffani Zinn	1999-2021
	Sheryl Zinn †										Sheryl Zinn	1999-2009
	Tabitha Zinn †							Guest/Cameo			Tabitha Zinn	2003-18
	Kenny Zinn †										Kenny Zinn	2015-18
	Margaret Zinn †									Guest	Margaret Zinn	1999-2002
	Albert Zinn †										Albert Zinn	1999-2002
	Michael Zinn I							Guest/Cameo	Guest/Cameo	Recurring	Michael Zinn I	1999-present
	Leanna Zinn										Leanna Zinn	1999-present
	Shayla Zinn										Shayla Zinn	1999-present
	Reneé Zinn										Reneé Zinn	1999-present
	Angie Nieves										Angie Nieves	2001-10
Vote for the Girls
	Phil Allen		Cameo					Judge Moderator or Villain			Phil Allen	2016-
	Kymberly Alvaraz †										Kymberly Alvaraz	2014-17
	Raquel Anderston		Cameo								Raquel Anderston	2016-20
	Sheena Anderston										Sheena Anderston	2016-20
	Steve Baker										Steve Baker	2016-20
	Charlotte Walker										Charlotte Bakula	2016-20
	Liza Black										Liza Black	2016-20
	Maci Blanca										Maci Blanca	2016-21
	Sophia Blanca										Sophia Blanca	2016-21
	Erika Cassidy										Erika Cassidy	2016-20
	Kristin Cassidy										Kristin Cassidy	2016-20
	Leanna Claussen										Leeanna Claussen	2017-21
	Bryant Cortos										Bryant Cortos	2016-20
	Nadine Cole										Nadine Cole	2017-21
	Andrea Coolranch										Andrea Coolranch	2017-21; 2024-
	Archibald Coolranch										Archibald Coolranch	2010-17
	Lydia Delagatto		Cameo								Lydia Delagatto	2016-21
	Hunter Diaz										Hunter Diaz	2016-20
	Dan Doakes										Dan Doakes	2016-20
	Benjamin Donbar †										Ben Donbar	2016-17
	Donna Doogan		Cameo							Recurring	Donna Doogan	2016-21; 2022-
	Tim Doogan †										Tim Doogan	2017-19
	Karen DuBois										Karen DuBois	2016-20
	Louis Durant										Louis Durant	2016-present
	Ann Dwyar										Ann Dwyar	2016-19
	Kylie Dwyar										Kylie Dwyar	2016-20
	Olivia Everman										Olivia Everman	2018-21
	Cathryn Everman										Cathryn Everman	2018-21
	Carrie Ewan										Carrie Ewan	2017-18
	Jacqui Fountaine										Jacqui Fountaine	2006-21; 2024-
	Natasha Gower										Tash Gower	2016-21
	Karla Hansen										Karla Hansen	2017-21
	Lauren Herman										Lauren Herman	2016-21
	Eboni Sorensen									Recurring	2016-present
	Kathi Jameson †										Kathi Jameson	2014; 2016-20
	Karly Jameson									Recurring	Karly Jameson	2013-
	Perri Johnson †										Perri Johnson	2015-17
	Clark Jones		Cameo								Clark Jones	2011-21
	Peta-Alyce Kaizer †										Peta-Alyce Kaizer	2016-17
	Tulissa Kümmert		Cameo								Tulissa Kummert	2016-21
	Leonard Lai †										Leonard Lai	2011-15
	Nadia Lorenzo		Cameo								Nadia Lorenzo	2016-21; 2024
	Devin Martin										Devin Martin	2017-21
	Hillary Matthewson									Guest	Hillary Matthewson	2012-present
	Tracia Matthewson										Tracia Matthewson	2015-present
	Danni McClannahan										Danielle McClannahan	2018-19
	Lanise McClannahan										Lanise McClannahan	2014-19
	Marla McClinton										Marla McClinton	2017-20
	Marti McDaniel										Marti McDaniel	2016-20
	Alexandra Moffitt †										Alexandra Moffitt	2017-20
	Maribel Mort									Guest	Maribel Mort	1999-present
	Kent Morgan										Kent Morgan	2017
	Sally Morgan										Sally Morgan	2017
	Jenna Monroe		Cameo								Jenna Monroe	2017-21
	Julia Passalt									Guest	Julia Passalt	2014-present
	Rachael Passalt		Cameo							Recurring	Rachael Passalt	2016-present
	Kendra Ray †									Recurring	Kendra Ray	2014-23
	Jenny Riva										Jennifer Riva	2016-21
	Stephanie Reeves										Stephanie Reeves	2018-20
	Rhonda Rhodes †										Rhonda Rhodes	2014-15
	Kathy Roberts †										Kathy Roberts	2016
	Lauren Rodriguez		Cameo								Lauren Rodriguez	2017-21
	Kellie Rock †										Kellie Rock	2014-16
Luka Runecraft	Cameo		Luka Runecraft								2016-21
Kye Sanchez		Kye Sanchez	2016-21
Bria Savage		Bria Savage	2016-21
Diane Simon		Diane Simon	2016-18
Ted Shields †		Ted Shilelds	2015-17
Breeanna Sorensen	Cameo	Main	Breeanna Sorensen	2016-present
Michelle Steele †			Michelle Steele	2013-14
Thia Tola	Cameo	Recurring	Malitia "Thia" Tola	2013-23
Ariel Swaringen †			Ariel Swaringen	2013-14
Glenn Swaringen †			Glenn Swarignen	2013-17
Aiden Walker	Cameo		Aiden Walker	2018
Mark Watts			Mark Watts	2018
Janet Webb			Janet Webb	2017-20
Chris Winfrey			Christina Winfrey	2017-18
Sonia Young			Sonia Young	2017-21; 2024-
Zoe Zidanne			Zoe Zidanne	2018-20
Ava Zinn's Retail Nightmares												2018-20; 2023-present
Caprice & Ella
	Jackson Doogan									Recurring	Jackson Doogan (voiced by Louis Durant)	2023-present
	Cami Jameson										Cami Jameson (voiced by Karly Jameson)	2023-present
	Skye Jameson										Skye Jameson (voiced by Karly Jameson)	2023-present
	Jim Sorensen										Jim Sorensen	2006-present
	Caprice Zinn									Main	Caprice Zinn (voiced by Ava Zinn)	2021-present
	Ella Zinn										Ella Zinn (voiced by Ava Zinn)	2021-present
	Lyssa Zinn										Lyssa Zinn (voiced by Breeanna Zinn)	2023-present
	Sierra Zinn										Sierra Zinn (voiced by Breeanna Zinn)	2023-present

Crossovers

See also: Caprice & Ella#Crossovers

Crossover between			Episode	Type	Actors crossing over	Date aired
Series A	Series B	Series C
Vote for the Girls	Caprice & Ella	N/A	"A Heartbreaking End" (Vote for the Girls 12.22) "Cat & Dog Angry at American Idol Results" (Caprice & Ella 2.1)	Two-part crossover	Appearing in Series B: Jacqui Fountaine Andrea Coolranch Maci Blanca Sophia Blanca Maribel Mort Sonia Donbar Breeanna Sorensen Kylie Dwyar Cathryn Everman Kendra Ray Rachael Passalt Donna Doogan Lauren Herman Nadia Lorenzo Thia Tola Louis Durant	May 21, 2021 (2021-05-21) (Vote for the Girls) August 9, 2021 (2021-08-09) (Caprice & Ella)
The final episode of the orginal Vote for the Girls with Ava Zinn & Alexandra Moffitt ended with a heartbreaking loss as heavily favorited Grace Kinstler finished in third place on the nineteenth season of American Idol.