Kahn 'Connie' Souphanousinphone, Jr.

Connie is Bobby Hill's classmate, best friend, and eventual crush—a straight-A overachiever raised under the exacting standards of her Laotian immigrant parents. She's earnest, a little anxious, and quietly loyal, navigating the gap between her mother's sky-high expectations and her own softer, more ordinary teenage wants.

Lauren Tom gives Connie a nervous, rapid-fire sweetness that plays beautifully against Bobby's oddball calm, and the writing never mocks her ambition or her family's culture—it just lets both sit alongside the Hills' Texas normalcy. She's proof the show could do tenderness between kids without irony.