Everyone on the Klaus family tree
| Portrait | Person | In the story | Life | On the chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E | Esther’s parentsParents of Esther and Dahlia | Unseen | Drawn as one symbol to join the sisters. Sources2 | Find on the chart |
 | EstherWitch, mother of the Originals | Tenth century onward | She turned her children into vampires and returns. | Find on the chart |
 | MikaelViking, husband of Esther | Tenth century onward | He raised Klaus, who kills him, and returns. | Find on the chart |
 | AnselWerewolf, father of Klaus | Tenth century | The reason Klaus is a hybrid. Sources1 | Find on the chart |
 | DahliaEsther’s sister | The Originals, season 2 | Promised Esther’s firstborn. Sources2 | Find on the chart |
| FM | Freya MikaelsonFirstborn | From The Originals, season 2 | Revealed as the eldest sibling. Sources2 | Find on the chart |
| FM | Finn MikaelsonEldest son | Dies in The Vampire Diaries, season 3 | His bloodline dies with him, and he returns. | Find on the chart |
 | Elijah MikaelsonOriginal vampire | Dies in The Originals, season 5 | He dies beside Klaus. | Find on the chart |
 | Klaus MikaelsonThe Original hybrid, played by Joseph Morgan | Dies in The Originals, season 5 | Son of Esther and Ansel. Sources1 | Find on the chart |
 | Kol MikaelsonOriginal vampire | Both series | Returns in a witch’s body. Sources2 | Find on the chart |
 | Rebekah MikaelsonOnly Original sister | Both series | Half-sister of Klaus. Sources2 | Find on the chart |
| HM | Henrik MikaelsonYoungest son | Tenth century | Killed by a werewolf as a boy. Sources1 | Find on the chart |
 | Hayley MarshallWerewolf, mother of Hope | Dies in The Originals, season 5 | Returns as a hybrid after her murder. | Find on the chart |
 | JacksonWerewolf, Hayley’s husband | Dies in The Originals, season 3 | Killed by Tristan. Sources2 | Find on the chart |
| HM | Hope MikaelsonDaughter of Klaus and Hayley | Born in The Originals, season 1 | Klaus names her. | Find on the chart |
 | Marcel GerardKlaus’s adopted son | The Originals | Raised by Klaus. Sources1 | Find on the chart |
| LC | Lucien CastleFirst vampire sired by Klaus | The Originals, season 3 | Returns at the start of the season. Sources2 | Find on the chart |
 | TristanFirst vampire sired by Elijah | The Originals, season 3 | He kills Jackson. Sources2 | Find on the chart |
 | AuroraFirst vampire sired by Rebekah | The Originals, season 3 | Returns with Tristan. Sources2 | Find on the chart |
 | Katherine PierceDoppelganger of 1492 | The Vampire Diaries | Born Katerina Petrova, in Klaus’s line. | Find on the chart |
 | Elena GilbertDoppelganger of the present day | The Vampire Diaries | Turns into a vampire at the end of season 3. | Find on the chart |
 | Stefan SalvatoreVampire of Klaus’s line | The Vampire Diaries | Would die with Klaus. Sources4 | Find on the chart |
 | Damon SalvatoreVampire of Klaus’s line | The Vampire Diaries | Would die with Klaus. Sources4 | Find on the chart |
 | Caroline ForbesVampire of Klaus’s line | The Vampire Diaries | Would die with Klaus. Sources4 | Find on the chart |
 | Tyler LockwoodOf Klaus’s line | The Vampire Diaries | Would die with Klaus. Sources4 | Find on the chart |
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Sources and credits
The series are under copyright, so this page shows no stills or posters and quotes no dialogue. The portraits are photographs of the actors who play the characters, credited under the sources. The chart draws a sire line only where a source names it. Who turned Katherine, the Salvatores and Caroline one by one is not drawn, because the sources opened for this page give only the bloodline they share. Each fact was checked on 10 November 2026 in the references below.
Wikipedia
Picture credits
The portraits are photographs of the actors who play the characters, not stills of the series. Each name leads to the photograph on Wikimedia Commons, and each line names the photographer and the licence, links to the licence where it has one and says when the photograph was cropped to the face.
- Lloyd Owen, who plays Ansel, S Pakhrin, 2006, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Alice Evans, who plays Esther, Department of Defense/William D. Moss, 2006, public domain.
- Sebastian Roché, who plays Mikael, vagueonthehow, 2013, cropped, CC BY 2.0.
- Claudia Black, who plays Dahlia, John Manard, 2026, cropped, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Daniel Gillies, who plays Elijah, iDominick, 2014, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Joseph Morgan, who plays Klaus, iDominick, 2014, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Phoebe Tonkin, who plays Hayley Marshall, iDominick, 2014, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Nathan Parsons, who plays Jackson, Nehrams2020, 2014, cropped, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Nathaniel Buzolic, who plays Kol Mikaelson in The Vampire Diaries, Anastasiarasputin, 2013, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Claire Holt, who plays Rebekah, Dulce Osuna, 2017, cropped, CC BY 3.0.
- Oliver Ackland, who plays Tristan, Gordon Correll, 2011, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Charles Michael Davis, who plays Marcel Gerard, iDominick, 2014, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Rebecca Breeds, who plays Aurora, Eva Rinaldi Photography, 2011, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Nina Dobrev, who plays Katherine Pierce, JoshPopov, 2025, cropped, CC BY 4.0.
- Nina Dobrev, who plays Elena Gilbert, JoshPopov, 2025, cropped, CC BY 4.0.
- Paul Wesley, who plays Stefan Salvatore, Gage Skidmore, 2025, cropped, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Ian Somerhalder, who plays Damon Salvatore, John Manard, 2026, cropped, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Candice King, who plays Caroline Forbes, Gage Skidmore, 2015, cropped, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Michael Trevino, who plays Tyler Lockwood, Gage Skidmore, 2012, cropped, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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