Played by Keri Russell. Felicity is the main character of the show. The series opens with Felicity's high school graduation. She intends to attend Stanford University and study pre-med. A sudden change of heart, after a conversation with her high school crush, leads her to abandon those plans and go to the University of New York instead. Once there she quickly realizes that she came, not to follow her crush, but to find herself, away from her parents' sometimes overbearing influence and expectations. She begins her freshman year as an intelligent and thoughtful yet extremely impulsive person; however, as the show progresses, she grows into a more secure and centered young woman.