Hector Barbossa
Captain Hector Barbossa is a fictional character of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, portrayed by Australian actor Geoffrey Rush. Barbossa appears in all films of the series. Starting out as a villainous undead pirate in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), the character dies at the end of the film. However, he is revealed to have been brought back to life at the end of Dead Man’s Chest (2006); his body is laying in Tia Dalmas room when Jack and company visit Tia and trade Jack the monkey for information, as Jack the monkey immediately runs over and climbs upon his boats and shrieks in recognition, and appears as a Pirate Lord in At World’s End (2007), a privateer with the Royal Navy in On Stranger Tides (2011), and finally as the rich and influential leader of his own pirate fleet in Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). Throughout the series, the character has been conceptualized as a “dark trickster” and the evil counterpart of Captain Jack Sparrow.
Will Turner
William Turner Jr. is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. He appears in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Dead Man’s Chest (2006), At World’s End (2007), and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). He is portrayed by Orlando Bloom (and as a child by Dylan Smith in the prologue of The Curse of the Black Pearl).
William Turner is a blacksmith’s apprentice working in Port Royal, Jamaica. He secretly loves the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann (played by Keira Knightley), although he occupies a lower social class than she does. Will is the son of Bootstrap Bill Turner, and he works to free his father from service to Davy Jones. He marries Elizabeth Swann in At World’s End, and they have a son named Henry.
Elizabeth Swann
Elizabeth Swann (later Elizabeth Turner) is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. She appears in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and three of its sequels, Dead Man’s Chest (2006), At World’s End (2007) and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). She is portrayed by Keira Knightley (and as a child by Lucinda Dryzek in the prologue of The Curse of the Black Pearl). She is known to use the alias “Elizabeth Turner”, but this later becomes her married name when she weds Will Turner.
Elizabeth is the only child to Weatherby Swann, the love interest (later wife) to Will Turner, mother to Henry Turner and daughter-in-law to William “Bootstrap Bill” Turner.
Joshamee Gibbs
Joshamee Gibbs (often referred to as Mr. Gibbs or Master Gibbs) is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. Alongside Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa, he is one of the few characters to appear in every film.
Gibbs is portrayed by Kevin McNally in the films. He is voiced by Steven Blum in video game adaptations (except for the At World’s End video game, Disney Infinity and Kingdom Hearts III, in which McNally reprised his role).
Writer Terry Rossio has said he actually considers Gibbs to be the most virtuous character in the series.
Davy Jones
Davy Jones is a fictional character and major antagonist of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, portrayed by Bill Nighy.
He was first mentioned in the first film The Curse of the Black Pearl, appears in the second film Dead Man’s Chest as the main antagonist, in the third film At World’s End as one of the two main antagonists, and a cameo antagonist at the end of Dead Men Tell No Tales. He is the tyrannical captain of the Flying Dutchman (based on the ghost ship of the same name), the dark lord of the Seven Seas and the archenemy of Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner.
The computer-generated imagery used to complete Jones was named by Entertainment Weekly as the tenth favorite computer generated film character in film history, behind King Kong in 2007. The work on Davy Jones by Industrial Light and Magic earned them the 2006 Academy Award for Visual Effects for Dead Man’s Chest.
The character is based on the superstition of Davy Jones’ Locker.
Armando Salazar
Armando Salazar was the legendary, yet terrifying pirate hunter who haunted the Caribbean. Hailing from Spain, Salazar was a Spaniard, a man whose family was destroyed by pirates when he was a child. Obsessed with vengeance, he became a high-ranking officer of the Spanish Royal Navy and the decorated Capitán of the powerful pirate-hunting galleon, the Silent Mary. For many years, Salazar terrorized the seas, hunting and killing thousands of pirates until his spectacular fall from grace when a young pirate named Jack Sparrow outsmarted the ruthless Butcher of the Sea and led him to his death in the mysterious Devil’s Triangle.
However, through the dark powers of the Triangle, Salazar was resurrected more powerful than ever, but cursed to wander the world as a ghost for eternity. In addition, Salazar and his crew could not escape from the Triangle, while being forced to live in it and slaughter anyone who entered it, causing legends to originate about why no ship that sailed into the Triangle ever sailed out.
Blackbeard
Captain Edward Teach, or better known as Blackbeard, is the main antagonist of the 2011 live-action Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and a posthumous antagonist in its 2017 sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
He is an infamous pirate, based on the real-life pirate of the same name, who wishes to claim the Fountain of Youth for himself. He is also a pirate that every pirate in the world is afraid of (presumably and arguably apart from Hector Barbossa and Davy Jones), due to his supernatural powers and ruthlessness.
He was portrayed by Ian McShane, who also played Tai Lung in Kung Fu Panda, Leigh Emerson in American Horror Story: Asylum, Judas Iscariot in Jesus of Nazareth, Winston in the John Wick film series, Dr. Brinkman in Agent Cody Banks, Iofur Raknison in The Golden Compass and Other Mr. Bobinsky in Coraline.