Simon Banks (Christopher Sieber)

Show:  It's All Relative
Year Introduced: 2003 

Christopher Sieber played Simon Banks
Photo credit: Evan Agostini/Getty Images

Bio: Simon Banks and his husband Philip Stoddard are a wealthy gay couple whose adopted daughter is marrying the son of a stereotypical, working-class Boston Irish couple. At first, the couple is horrified that their somewhat spoiled daughter is marrying "beneath" her, but eventually the two very different families come together for their children.

The cast of It's All Relative

Significance: Simon and Philip were the first same-sex couple with a child to be main characters on a sitcom. The show only lasted one season, despite solid ratings.

Sieber and co-star John Benjamin Hickey