Characters in Love, Theoretically

Elsie Hannaway

An adjunct theoretical physicist teaching across three Boston campuses who moonlights through the Faux app as a paid fake girlfriend.

Jack Smith (Love, Theoretically)

An experimental physicist who heads MIT's physics institute and publishes as Jonathan Smith-Turner. He sits on the committee deciding Elsie's tenure-track job, and is Greg's older brother.

Greg Smith

Elsie's regular Faux client and friend, who hires her as a girlfriend to deflect his family while he is not yet out to them. Jack's younger brother.

Cece (Love, Theoretically)

Elsie's roommate and closest friend, a linguistics PhD candidate who also works for the Faux app.

Dr. Laurendeau

Elsie's doctoral mentor in theoretical physics, whose career was damaged by Jack's earlier public attack on theorists.

Adam Carlsen

Also in The Love Hypothesis

Jonathan Smith-Turner, Ph.D.

Olive Smith, Ph.D

Monica Salt, Ph.D.

Dr. Georgina Sepulveda