Portia Brighton

Portia Brighton is a major recurring character on season 1 of Arrowheads and the cousin of Pennie Brighton.

She is portrayed by Claire Julien.

Personality
Portia is like a more wild version of Pennie. She loves to party, drink, and smoke, but also has her inner hippie that comes out when she's with Pennie. Portia is also very flirtatious, and sometimes gets her and Pennie into trouble.

Background
Portia is the daughter of Pennie Brighton's father's brother, thus making her the first-cousin of Pennie and niece of Devika Brighton. Since they're the same age, Portia and Pennie have been close since childhood, and consider each other best friends. She attends a school near Rocky Point High School.

Season 1
Portia is first introduced in Pilot, when she accompanies her cousin Pennie Brighton to a club, ANNiKA. While at the club, Portia runs off to the bathroom with an unknown man.

Portia does not appear in Running Up That Hill, but at the end of the episode Pennie receives a phone call from a distraught Portia, crying about how her friend Geoff had passed away.

In Our Lips Are Sealed, Pennie accompanies Portia to the wake of Geoff. There, Pennie discovers that Geoff was the man Portia ran off with to the bathroom at ANNiKA. While at the wake, Pennie suggests that Portia is a prostitute and Geoff was one of her clients, leading to Portia to becoming angry and getting into a fight with Pennie.