| Name (Sort) | Character (Sort) | |
| •Ted Shackelford | played | Gary Ewing (345Eps.) |
| •Joan Van Ark | played | Valene Clements Ewing Gibson Waleska Ewing (327Eps.) |
| •Michele Lee (1) | played | Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenzie (345Eps.) |
| •Kevin Dobson | played | Marion Patrick 'Mack' MacKenzie (S04-S14) (292Eps.) |
| •Donna Mills | played | Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner (S02-S10) (234Eps.) |
| •William Devane | played | Gregory Sumner (S05-S14) (270Eps.) |
| •Nicollette Sheridan | played | Paige Matheson (S10-S14; recurring previously) (126Eps.) |
| •Michelle Phillips | played | Anne Winston Matheson Sumner (S12-S14; recurring previously) (69Eps.) |
| •Kathleen Noone | played | Claudia Whittaker (S13-S14) (42Eps.) |
| •Stacy Galina | played | Kate Whittaker (S13-S14) (42Eps.) |
| •Don Murray | played | Sid Fairgate (S01-S02) (31Eps.) |
| •James Houghton | played | Kenny Ward (S01-S04) (75Eps.) |
| •Kim Lankford | played | Ginger Ward (S01-S04) (75Eps.) |
| •John Pleshette | played | Richard Avery (S01-S04) (75Eps.) |
| •Constance McCashin | played | Laura Avery Sumner (S01-S08) (190Eps.) |
| •Julie Harris | played | Lilimae Clements (S04-S08; recurring previously) (137Eps.) |
| •Claudia Lonow | played | Diana Fairgate (S05; recurring previously) (25Eps.) |
| •Doug Sheehan | played | Ben Gibson (S05-S08) (115Eps.) |
| •Alec Baldwin | played | Joshua Rush (S06) (30Eps.) |
| •Lisa Hartman | played | Cathy Geary Rush (S06-S07) (60Eps.) |
| •Teri Austin (1) | played | Jill Bennett (S10; recurring previously) (28Eps.) |
| •Pat Petersen | played | Michael Fairgate (S11-S12; recurring previously) (56Eps.) |
| •Tonya Crowe | played | Olivia Cunningham Dyer (S11; recurring previously) (29Eps.) |
| •Larry Riley | played | Frank Williams (S12-S13) (49Eps.) |