Dodo Bellacourt

Dodo Bellacourtundefined, played by Paget Brewster, is the family's matriarch, and mother to her four children, Hortense, Lillian, and twins Beatrice and Frederick, respectively. She begins to suspect her husband is having an affair, and delves deeper into her pre-existing morphine (e.g. heroin) addiction to cope. Her condition worsens as the series progresses, and she attempts to quit cold turkey after forcing the butler Peepers to pose as the Commodore and then having a sexual encounter in the carriage after too much absinthe at a party hosted by Leon Trotsky (Matt Besser) and Mahatma Gandhi (Ravi Patel). Dodo acts as the disgraced, unwanted older woman of the time, notoriously lonely after her selfish children are grown, and although she attempts to keep the romance with her husband alive, grows increasingly distant from him as well. She has no friends or social gatherings and stays confined to her room or the house, mostly talking to Peepers.