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* Angela Chase, played by Claire Danes, is a 15-year-old sophomore at Liberty High School in Three Rivers, Pennsylvania, a fictional suburb of Pittsburgh.

Like most teens in the throes of self-evaluation, Angela is attempting to discover and assert her identity.

To do this, she distances herself from her past and pulls away from her parents and her childhood friends, Sharon Cherski and Brian.

In their place, she befriends Rayanne Graff and Rickie Vasquez.

Angela has a crush on Jordan Catalano and admires him from afar ; they later begin dating, and inevitably break up.

With these new relationships, Angela finds herself in precarious and sometimes dangerous situations ; despite temptation, she always remains true to her values.

Angela narrates 17 of the 19 episodes in voice-over.