Santana Lopez

Santana Lopez is a member of New Directions and a former top cheerleader of The Cheerios. Santana prides herself on her sexual activities and popularity and will go as far as getting into physical fights with others to get what she wants. Santana is Hispanic and has recently admitted to herself that she is a lesbian with feelings for her best friend, Brittany Pierce.

Santana is portrayed by Naya Rivera "(Pilot)" and by Alexys Alonzo during a hallucination "(The Substitute)."

About
Santana is an extremely proud Hispanic teenager who, while open about her sexual activities, deeply struggles with her sexuality. Santana is a renowned bad girl and has bullied almost every member of the glee club at one point or another. However, despite her actions Santana is also a very protective friend and is not afraid of standing her ground against the likes of Lauren Zizes and David Karofsky and is not afrad to use techniques such as blackmail and lies to get what she wants. After joining the glee club Santana has come to terms with her feelings for Brittany Pierce, her best friend although she continues to hide her newfound love out of fear.

Season One
Santana joins Quinn Fabray and Brittany Pierce in tormenting their fellow student Rachel Berry and, after witnessing a disturbing performance from the glee club, decides to join New Directions. Sue Sylvester then appoints the three Cheerios her spies and tasks them with bringing down the glee club.

Relationships
Pucktana

Brittana

Finntana

Samtana

Santofsky

Mattana

Performances
For a list of Santana performances during Season One, click here.

For a list of Santana performances during Season Two, click here.