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JAKAR
Actor: Jon Brazier
Biography: One of the bigots who was involved in the murder of Lyla. Jakar grew worried when Deric began to kill members of the mob and kidnapped Deric's son Kefor as insurance. Kefor was rescued and it was all Hercules could do to stop Deric killing Jakar. Jakar was forced to stand trial for his actions.
JANA
Actress: Portia Dawson
Biography: Jana joined the band of travelling war refugees heading for Parthis along with a 9 year old boy Ixion who she cared for. As she was a former prostitute, the villagers treated her and Ixion as scum apart from Broteus who was hoping to take advantage of her. She befriended Hercules who stood up for her and Ixion agsinst the other refugees. She became convinced that Broteas had stolen the cursed chalice and when he caught her snooping in his bags he tried to have her and Ixion exiled from the group. Jana and Ixion got trapped in the Stymphalian Swamp and Hercules had to save them from both the deadly Stymphalian birds and quicksand. Hercules finally managed to get the group safely to Calydon and Jana and Ixion were grateful for all his help.
JANISTA
Actress: Marise Wipani
Biography: When Hercules found Janista's husband dying, he tracked her down to tell her of her husband's demise. Janista was grateful to Hercules and Aurelius, the teenage servant of Ares, told her son Titus that she and Hercules were in love in order that Titus would join his child army in their crusade against Hercules. Although Titus was convinced for a while his mother convinced him that Hercules was not his enemy.
JARTON
Actor: Reb Brown
Biography: The King of tantalus' most trustworthy soldier. While on a mission for his king, Jarton was mudered by Ares, who stole and possessed his body and had him murder the King of Tantalus. Ares then told the king's daughter Poena that the murder was her brother's doing in order to start a civil war. The real Jarton's ghost found Hercules and told him Ares' plot. Ares wanted war so he could feed the corpses to Graegus, the Dog of War. Hercules defeated Graegus and exposed Ares. Ares fled and Jarton's spirit was allowed to go to the Underworld.
KARIS
Actress: Leslie Wing
Biography: Queen of Corinth and wife to King Sisyphus. She could not have children and Sisyphus desperately wanted an heir. Knowing he was about to die, he swapped places with Timuron, one of the guards, who died in his place. Sisyphus then tried to get Timuron's wife Daphne be the mother of his child. When Karis was told of this she aided Hercules and Iolaus against her husband.
LEAH
Actress: Kim Michalis
Biography: The fiance of Amphion. When he was framed for murder, Leah posed as a Hestian Virgin claiming to know the whereabouts of the Sword of Veracity, which when pointed at someone forces them to tell the truth. Hercules and Iolaus therefore let her travel with them and Iolaus took a liking to her. When she revealed who she was, Iolaus was disappointed, but he celebrated hers and Amphion's wedding once they had freed him.
LEUTIS
Actor: Stuart Turner
Biography: A prisoner and gladiator of Menas Maximus. When his friend Gladius had to fight to the death he knocked him out nad took his place. When he made a stand against Menas at the arena he was killed.
LUCINA
Actress: Maria Therese Rangel
Biography: Lucina blamed herself for her children's death and so left her husband Atticus and wound up working in a seedy pleasure palace. When Atticus found her she agreed to go back to him, but a regular at the palace called Pilot had taken a shine to her and beat up Atticus. Hercules arrived to help and Pliot fled only to run into Lucina's sword. With Pilot dead, Lucina and Atticus were re-united.
LYDIA
Actress: Lisa Chappell
Biography: Lydia was determined to get help from the town of Thrace which was being threatened by bandits as well as satyrs in the nearby forest. While travelling in the forest to find help, she was captured by the satyrs and discovered that they were the bandits who had been terrorizing Thrace and had been masqerading as satyrs to keep people away from their base. Iolaus was also captured by the fake satyrs and using his old hunters tricks they were able to escape the bandits and outwit a hydra.
LYLA
Actress: Lucy Lawless
Biography: Lyla didn't have much time for other humans, far preferring centaurs as company. This gave her a bad reputation and even her old friend Penelope didn't make her a bridesmaid at her wedding. Lyla fell in love with the centaur Deric and she aided his frend Nemis by temporarily blinding Hercules so the demi-god could not stop Nemis abducting Penelope from her wedding. She and Deric later repented and warned Hercules that Nemis had a magic club to use against him. Deric and Lyla later married, but she was treated badly for marrying a centaur and was eventually killed by bigots. Zeus restored her to life.
LYSIA
Actress: Lucy Lawless
Biography: Hippolytia's second-in-command, Lysia hates men even more than her Queen. She led the raiding party that killed Iolaus and captured Hercules and she took great delight in subjugating the demigod. After an encounter with Zeus in atent, Lysia became less resentful of men, and began to question Hippolytia's orders when her Queen was possessed by Hera. What happened to her when Zeus reversed time is unknown.
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