Season 5

The fifth season of the ABC series, Lost aired from January 21, 2009 to May 13, 2009. It averaged 16.45 million U.S. live viewers per episode, 1.5 million more than last season, the second season in a row to rise from the previous season in ratings.

Starring

 * Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday (15/17)
 * Michelle Rodriguez as Ana Lucia Cortez (15/17)
 * Rodrigo Santoro as Paulo (14/17)
 * Yunjin Kim as Sun-Hwa Kwon (14/17)
 * Rebecca Mader as Charlotte Lewis (14/17)
 * Ken Leung as Miles Straume (13/17)
 * Maggie Grace as Shannon Rutherford (13/17)
 * Emilie de Ravin as Claire Littleton and The Man in Black in the form of Claire Littleton (12/17)
 * Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah (11/17)
 * Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond Hume (11/17)
 * Daniel Dae Kim as Jin-Soo Kwon (11/17)
 * Matthew Fox as Jack Shepard (9/17)
 * Michael Emerson as Benjamin Linus (7/17)
 * Terry O'Quinn as John Locke (5/17)

Recurring Cast
Cast listed appear in five or more episodes.
 * Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert (9/17)
 * Alan Dale as Charles Widmore (9/17)
 * Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus (7/17)
 * William Blanchette as Aaron Littleton (7/17)
 * Sonya Walger as Penny Widmore (7/17)
 * Brad William Henke as Bram (7/17)
 * Eric Lange as Stuart Radzinsky (5/17)
 * Zuleikha Robinson as Ilana Verdansky (5/17)
 * Patrick Fischler as Phil (5/17)
 * Doug Hutchison as Horace Goodspeed (5/17)
 * François Chau as Pierre Chang (5/17)

Trivia

 * Daniel and Desmond are the only main characters not to get their own centric episode this season, though Daniel's childhood is explored in LaFleur.