Ophelia Yates

"Let Ophelia shop for the costumes. She's unspeakably rich, and she has great taste."

-Viola James about Ophelia, S1 E4, Popular.

Ophelia Yates is a main character in Glee: NDNG. She's a junior, at the start of Season 1, trying to be a queen bee and make her way to the top of the pyramid, by any means possible, but always losing out to Beth Corcoran. As of the end of Pilot, she was a member of the New Directions.

Early Life
Ophelia is the daughter of a doctor and a debutante. She was incredibly spoiled, her entire life, but, with every gift, or large cheque, there came more and more pressure to be perfect. Eventually, Ophelia started to put the same pressure on herself.

Season 1
In Pilot, Ophelia's first introduced after a cheer rehearsal, where her boyfriend, Tobias Turner, obediently fetches her water, and carries her bag. When she hears of Beth and Quentin Talley's plans for the Glee Club, she's skeptical. She claims that the old New Directions is all Beth talks about, then insists that surely Beth won't have time for Glee, and the Cheerios. When Damien Russo correctly guesses that she's just trying to get Beth's position for herself, Ophelia's quick to dismiss him.

Despite her skepticism, Ophelia's next seen at the Glee auditions, where she sings World Burn, and shocks Beth and Quentin. During Tobias' audition, she has to push him onto the stage.

During the first rehearsal, Ophelia's seen arguing with Magnolia Berry. She acts reluctant to actually rehearse.

In Edge, Ophelia joins the performance of You Can't Stop the Beat. She's one of the first to agree with Jude Moody, when he expresses his displeasure with the song choices. When September Puckerman says she wants to sing Corner of the Sky, Ophelia laughs, and makes Tobias do the same.

When Beth offers to give her solo to Ophelia, she acts unfazed, but quickly insists that Tobias will take the male lead, despite his reluctance.

At the end of the episode, she argues with Magnolia once more, and then Beth.

In Coming Out of My Cage, she joins the performance of Totally Fucked, and walks off with Damien, afterwards.

During My Junk, Tobias watches her at cheer rehearsal, while singing about her. She dances with him in the dream sequence, of course. Later, she joins Love Myself, with the girls.

Towards the end of the episode, Damien reveals to Liam Cook that Ophelia is the only other person who knows that he lives alone.

In Popular she's first seen when Beth admits her crush on Ricky Vincent to Quentin. When Quentin says that everyone but Beth and Ricky knows, Ophelia reveals that she knew.

She's mentioned in a few scenes, in-between appearances. In September and Blue Brooks' discussion of popularity, the former says that Ophelia is only unhappy because she isn't more popular. Later, when Quentin tries to convince Viola to make costumes for the club, she tells him to get Ophelia to shop for them, due to the reasons mentioned at the top of this page. Quentin knows that she has great taste, as they've shopped together before. He tells Viola, and Lyra Harper some of the things that Ophelia's said about him, before.

In the lunchtime rehearsal, Ophelia tells Beth to eat, and Ricky to grow a brain. She teases Liam, and questions Beth's affection for September. Later, she tells Tobias that their reputations are already on the line from Glee Club, and that Beth spending so much time with the unpopular freshman is making it even worse. She denies being jealous, of course.

At the after school rehearsal, she's unconcerned by Blue and September's absence, as they barely feature in the number.

Ophelia opens Invitationals in cheer practice, (half-)jokingly threatening to drop Beth for looking so ridiculously happy at the top of the pyramid. She tells Damien off for flirting when she sees Liam admiring him, and then has to find out everything that has happened between them, swearing her confidentiality.

On her break from practice, Tobias brings her water and massages her shoulders after she gives him a kiss. When they leave, he carries all of her belongings.

Later, Ophelia acts unimpressed when Magnolia and Logan Abrams are publicly making out, but soon questions why Tobias doesn't show her that much affection. He promises to prove his affection later.

Ophelia is described by Tobias later as smelling of 'A Lush store, and superiority... And rage.'

During Beth and Quentin's conflict, Ophelia eats and passes around popcorn, appearing thrilled. She slowly puts it away when Quentin brings everyone else's opinion of Beth into the conversation and the situation gets more serious. Afterwards, she privately questions a disoriented Beth, both of them knowing that Beth's behaviour was out of character.

Ophelia appears in the performance of Good For You and pushes Beth to the ground at the end of the song.

When helping Quentin prepare for Invitationals at lunchtime, the group are surprised to see Tobias without Ophelia. It turns out she instructed him to come. Before Viola's costumes appear, Quentin suggests that Ophelia could shop for them.

Ophelia questions Quentin's decision to give Beth leading vocals after her earlier behaviour. He responds by joking about her 'heart made of stone. Or possibly metal' and she retaliates that it's made of diamonds. When Beth finally shows up before the performance, Ophelia doesn't hesitate to ruin the moment, and tell her that everyone is happy for Misty Erickson to take over the lead.

In the wings, just before the performance, Ophelia is disappointed to see that nobody is in the audience for her. Damien notices and comforts her. In the medley, she has multiple solo lines.

Personality
Ophelia's personality depends on who you ask about it. She can go from sickly sweet, to ice-cold, and calculating, in a second flat. However, underneath her carefully crafted exterior, is a truly loyal friend.

Style/Appearance
When not in uniform, Ophelia likes clothes that show off her figure. Her style tends to be on the preppy side, though no one would dare call her a prep.

Trivia

 * Ophelia was one of the hardest roles to cast, and has been recast twice.