Character: Charlie Swan

Played by Billy Burke (24)

As a senior police officer in the sleepy town of Forks, Charlie Swan has few preoccupations other than fishing and watching sports on TV -- that is, until his teenage daughter Bella moves in after leaving her mother Renee in Phoenix to enjoy a second marriage. Charlie’s bachelor tendencies lend themselves to Bella’s grown-up impulses and she ends up playing the role of caretaker with him, as she had with Renee.

Not one for talking, Charlie is quiet-natured and guarded – traits he passed on to Bella. But he is also fiercely protective of her, in his own way, and might not be as quick to welcome Edward into his home if he knew what he truly was.