'Gossip Girl': Meet the Cast

Zoya is the main character of Gossip Girl and moves to the big city to find out Julien is her half-sister, and her world is full of a lot of drama.

Julien is the rich half-sister of Zoya. She's tried turning a new leaf in life and takes a page out of Zoya's playbook.

Audrey is best friends with Julien and is dating Aki. She is trying to hold it all together while handling hard times in her family life and her love life. 

Shan has joined the cast of season 2 as Zoya's new BFF. She creates a safe space for Zoya in all the Manhattan chaos.

Luna is apart of the IT crowd and loves to play both sides of the field to shake things up.

Akeno -- aka Aki -- is Audrey's boyfriend who starts to have some realizations about himself and experiences some self-discovery.

Max is the wild one of the group and unpredictable. He would be compared to Chuck Bass of the original series. 

Kate is faculty at Constance, where all the teens attend high school. She is a spectator to all the gossip happening around her and, at times, part of it.

Otto -- or Obie to those closest to him -- is an ex to both Julien and Zoya. He navigates his friend group trying to discover himself. 

Monet is Julien's PR person tasked to keep her in the limelight at Constance. She also enjoys stirring up trouble.

A familiar face from the original series. Georgina the old rivalry is back! 

Wendy is part of the faculty at Constance, and she's also in on the drama.

Davis is Julien's father and has some of his own secrets that come to surface.

Katherine -- or Kiki -- is Audrey's mother and a fashion designer, similar to Blair Waldorf's mother from the original series. 

Nick is Zoya's father who just moved to Manhattan to help better his daughter's life but doesn't have the means like the rest of Constance.

Rafa is apart of the faculty that is too comfortable with some students. 

Jordan is yet another faculty member at Constance, intertwined in all the high school drama.