Daniel Faraday

Daniel Faraday
Lost character
Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday
First appearance	"The Beginning of the End"
Last appearance	"The End"
Created by	J. J. Abrams Damon Lindelof
Portrayed by	Jeremy Davies Spencer Allyn (Young)
Centric episode(s)	"Confirmed Dead" "The Variable"
In-universe information
Full name	Daniel Faraday
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Occupation	Physicist Musician (flash-sideways)
Relatives	Charles Widmore (father) Eloise Hawking (mother) Penny Widmore (half-sister) Charlie Hume (nephew)
Nationality	American
Former residence	Essex, Massachusetts, USA Oxford, England

Daniel Faraday is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Jeremy Davies. Faraday is introduced in the Season 4 premiere as a physicist from the Queen's College, University of Oxford. He suffers from short-term memory loss, possibly due to his experiments with radioactivity. He is part of the team aboard the freighter Kahana that is offshore the island. Throughout his time on the series, Faraday plays an important role by sharing his knowledge of time travel. After time traveling to 1977, Faraday is shot and killed by Eloise Hawking (Alice Evans) who is unaware that he is her son.

Jeremy Davies was cast in the role because of the "tremendous intelligence that seems to emanate from him"^[1] and was one of the writer-producers' favorite character actors. Davies was critically praised for his performance and critics were generally disappointed by the character's death in season five. UGO.com named him one of the best TV nerds.^[2]