True Blood Season 3: Who Is Crystal Norris?

This is part 4 in our series of features about the new characters coming to True Blood in season 3. We’ll be taking a look at these new characters using both information from casting calls and from the novels on which the show is based. Beware, spoilers ahead!

Who is Crystal Norris?

Lindsay Pulsipher is Crystal Norris

Introduced in the second episode of season 3, the interestingly titled “Beautifully Broken”, Crystal Norris is set to be one of the more complicated characters in the series. A full-blooded werepanther, we don’t meet her in the books until the fourth in the series, Dead to the World. Her early arrival on True Blood appears to be a way to bulk up Jason Stackhouse’s storyline this season as her story is intimately entwined with his. The book describes her as a “short, thin, dark twenty-one-year-old” while the casting call simply describes her as “hauntingly beautiful”.

Crystal’s story in the book is one of secrets, lust, anger and poor choices. She and Jason are instantly attracted to each other which results in Jason – and then Sookie – being drawn into the world of Hotshot, LA, the were community located about 10 miles from Bon Temps. Crystal’s uncle, Calvin Norris, is the leader of the community and administers its sometimes harsh rules. In the books Crystal ends up pregnant with Jason’s child and they marry. Sadly it’s not a happy marriage and it ends tragically for both of them. It’s unknown how closely True Blood will follow the book storyline, but the fact that we are being introduced to the weres and Hotshot suggests that Crystal and Jason’s story will not end quickly.

The Beast‘s Lindsay Pulsipher has been cast as Crystal Norris.

Crystal Norris In Brief

Sex: Female
Species: Werepanther
Age: 21
Status: Single
Relatives: Uncle, Calvin Norris
Occupation: Unknown
Location: Hotshot, Louisiana