List of Spooks characters

This is a list of characters in the television series Spooks (known as MI-5 in some countries) is a British television spy drama series. It originally aired its first run on BBC One, for 10 series, from 13 May 2002 to 23 October 2011.


 * Notes

Final Series Leads
Main characters for Series 10:
 * Sir Harry Pearce KBE (Peter Firth) (2002–2011) – Head of Counter-Terrorism Department, MI5
 * Dimitri Levendis (Max Brown) (2010–2011) – Piracy & Terrorism Case Officer Section D
 * Erin Watts (Lara Pulver) (2011) – Chief of Section & Senior Case Officer, Section D
 * Calum Reed (Geoffrey Streatfeild) (2011) – Junior Case Officer, Section D
 * William Towers (Simon Russell Beale) (2010–2011) – Home Secretary
 * Ruth Evershed (Nicola Walker) (2003–2006, 2009–2011) – Section D Intelligence Analyst, Home Secretary's Assistant (two episodes), originally seconded to MI5 from GCHQ

MI5 staff

 * Tariq Masood (Shazad Latif) (2009–2011) – Technician & Data Analyst, Section D
 * Beth Bailey (Sophia Myles) (2010) – Junior Case Officer, Section D
 * Lucas North (Richard Armitage) (2008–2010) – Chief of Section & Senior Case Officer, Section D
 * Ros Myers (Hermione Norris) (2006–2009) – Chief of Section & Senior Case Officer, Section D; formerly Senior Case Officer at MI5 and MI6
 * Jo Portman (Miranda Raison) (2005–2009) – Junior Case Officer, Section D
 * Malcolm Wynn-Jones (Hugh Simon) (2002–2009, 2010) – Technician & Data Analyst, Section D
 * Adam Carter (Rupert Penry-Jones) (2004–2008) – Chief of Section & Senior Case Officer, Section D; formerly Senior Case Officer at MI6
 * Connie James (Gemma Jones) (2007–2008) – Senior Analyst, Section D
 * Ben Kaplan DSO (Alex Lanipekun) (2007–2008) – Junior Case Officer, Section D
 * Zafar Younis (Raza Jaffrey) (2004–2007) – Junior Case Officer, Section D
 * Colin Wells (Rory MacGregor) (2002–2006) – Technician & Data Analyst, Section D
 * Sam Buxton (Shauna Macdonald) (2003–2005) – Administrative Officer, Section D
 * Fiona Carter (Olga Sosnovska) (2004–2005) – Seconded MI6 Officer, Section D
 * Zoe Reynolds (Keeley Hawes) (2002–2004) – Junior Case Officer, Section D
 * Tom Quinn (Matthew Macfadyen) (2002–2004) – Chief of Section & Senior Case Officer, Section D
 * Danny Hunter (David Oyelowo) (2002–2004) – Junior Case Officer, Section D
 * Tessa Phillips (Jenny Agutter) (2002–2003) – Senior Analyst
 * Jed Kelley (Graeme Mearns) (2002) – Administrative Officer, Section D
 * Helen Flynn (Lisa Faulkner) (2002) – Junior Case Officer, Section D

Other officers

 * Vaughn Edwards (Iain Glen) (2010) – Deniable intelligence operative who seemed to work for the highest bidder
 * Sarah Caulfield (Genevieve O'Reilly) (2009) – CIA agent
 * Viktor Sarkisian (Peter Sullivan) (2008–2009) – Head of the FSB's London office
 * Bob Hogan (Matthew Marsh) (2007) – Senior CIA liaison
 * Oliver Mace (Tim McInnerny) (2004, 2006) – Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, later Director-General of MI5
 * Juliet Shaw (Anna Chancellor) (2005–) – National Security Co-ordinator; status uncertain following end of Series 6
 * Christine Dale (Megan Dodds) (2002–2004) – CIA agent
 * Jools Siviter (Hugh Laurie) (2002) – MI6 Section Chief

Significant others

 * Maya Lahan (Laila Rouass) (2010) – Lucas's ex-girlfriend
 * Elizabeta Starkova (Paloma Baeza) (2008) – Lucas's ex-wife
 * Will North (Richard Harrington) (2004) – Zoe Reynolds' fiancé
 * Ellie Simm (Esther Hall) (Main cast Series 1, 2002–2003) – Tom's ex-girlfriend
 * Maisie Simm	(Heather Cave) (Main cast Series 1, 2002–2003) – Ellie's young daughter
 * Vicki Westbrook (Natasha Little) (2003) – Tom's ex-girlfriend
 * Carlo Franceschini (Enzo Cilenti) (2003) – Zoe's ex-boyfriend

UK Ministers
These fictional UK cabinet ministers managed the team or have been characters in some episodes.
 * Nicholas Blake – Home Secretary – (Robert Glenister) (2006–2009); killed 2010
 * Rachel Beauchamp – Foreign Secretary – (Jill Baker) (Series 7, Episode 6)
 * Gillian Calderwood – Chancellor of the Exchequer – (Selina Cadell) (Series 7, Episode 5)
 * Caroline Fox – Deputy Prime Minister – (Cheryl Campbell) (Series 5, Episode 10)
 * James Allan – Foreign Secretary – (Alex Jennings) (2006)
 * Ruth Chambers – Foreign Secretary – (Angela Bruce) (2007)
 * unnamed Home Secretary – (Jeff Rawle) (2005)
 * Alan Taylor – Cabinet Secretary – (2006)
 * Richard Maynard – Defence Secretary – mentioned but resigned later
 * Daniel Wise – Foreign Trade Minister – (Ian Bartholomew) (2006)
 * Andrew Lawrence – Home Secretary – (Tobias Menzies) (2009)
 * William Towers – Home Secretary – (Simon Russell Beale) (2010–2011)

Series 1

 * Anthony Head – Traitor's Gate (1#4)
 * Tim Pigott-Smith – (1#5)

Series 2

 * Alexander Siddig – Series 2, Episode 2

Series 3

 * Anton Lesser – Series 3, Episode 4
 * Andy Serkis – Series 3, Episode 8

Series 4

 * Martine McCutcheon – Series 4, Episode 2
 * Andrew Tiernan – Surreal World and The Possibility of a Mole (4#1 and 4#2)
 * Jimi Mistry – Series 4, Episode 6

Series 5

 * Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Jenny

Series 7

 * Paul Rhys as Alexis Meynell – Episode 5