Aria Montgomery

 Aria Montgomery is a main character on Glee, who made her first appearance in I Am Unicorn. Aria is a senior, and a member of the New Directions, at William McKinley High School.

She was initially introduced during I Am Unicorn when Sue discovered that her competitor in the congress elections Byron Montgomery had a daughter attending Mckinley. Sue used Aria to further herself in the elections and kept her eye on her. She found and read Aria's personal journal pages and exposed her father's affair in her campaign, resulting in the destruction of Aria's family. When Aria discovered who was behind it she was furious. When a video was created using Santana's outing to hurt Sue's campaign Aria became the main suspect and left the school due to peoples judgements. It was later revealed that Sue in fact made the video too disgrace the Montgomery name. This was discovered by Santana who told Aria.

Aria returned in Saturday Night Glee-ver when Santana visits her making her aware that she knows who made the video weeks ago. Aria also reveals that her parents divorced because of everything Sue did. Aria rejoins Mckinley in the next episode and takes her revenge on Sue by performing a song about her. After this Aria is invited to join the Glee Club.

In season 4 Aria begins a relationship with Ezra Fitz un-unaware that he will be her AP English teacher. When she learns of this he ends the relationship making her heartbroken however the couple reconcile eventually and remain together.

When Sue becomes principal in Season Five Aria gets nervous due to her history with Sue.

She is portrayed by actress and singer Lucy Hale.

Season Three
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 * I Am Unicorn
 * Asian F
 * Stirring The Pot
 * Mash Off
 * I Kissed A Girl
 * Big Brother
 * Saturday Night Glee-ver
 * Dance With Somebody
 * Choke
 * Prom-asaurus
 * Props
 * Nationals