List of Spooks characters

The main recurring characters in the TV series Spooks include (principals shown in bold):

Current characters

• Sir Harry Pearce KBE (Peter Firth) (2002-2011) - Head of Counter-Terrorism Department, MI5.
• Dimitri Levendis (Max Brown) (2010-2011) Piracy and Terrorism Case Officer Section D ^[1]
• 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.

Former characters

MI5 staff

• Ruth Evershed (Nicola Walker) (2003–2006, 2009-2011) - Intelligence Analyst, Section D, originally seconded to MI5 from GCHQ.
• Tariq Masood (Shazad Latif) (2009-2011) - Technician and Data Analyst, Section D
• Beth Bailey (Sophia Myles) (2010) Formerly Junior Case Officer Section D ^[2]
• 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 and Data Analyst, Section D.
• Adam Carter (Rupert Penry-Jones) (2004–2008) - Chief of Section & Senior Case Officer, Section D.
• 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 and 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.
• Viktor Sarkisian (Peter Sullivan) (2008–2009) - Head of the FSB's London Office
• Bob Hogan (Matthew Marsh) (2007) - Senior CIA Liaison to Britain.
• Oliver Mace (Tim McInnerny) (2004, 2006) - Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.
• 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 North's ex-wife
• Will North (Richard Harrington) (2004) - Zoe Reynolds' fiancé.
• Ellie Simm (Esther Hall) (2002–2003) - Tom Quinn's ex-girlfriend.
• Vicki Westbrook (Natasha Little) (2003) - Tom Quinn's ex-girlfriend.
• Carlo Franceschini (Enzo Cilenti) (2003) - Zoe Reynolds' 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
• Andrew Lawrence (Tobias Menzies) (2009) - Home Secretary
• William Towers - Home Secretary (2010-)

Other guest stars

Series 1

• Hugh Laurie - Traitor's Gate, The Rose Bed Memoirs

• 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 6

Series 7

• Paul Rhys as Alexis Meynell - Episode 5

Timeline

Episode	Head of Counter-Terrorism Department	Section Chief	Senior Case Officer	Junior Case Officer	Junior Case Officer	Junior Case Officer	Admin. Officer	Intelligence /Senior Analyst	Technician and Data Analyst	Technician and Data Analyst	Home Secretary
1.1	Sir Harry Pearce KBE (Peter Firth)	Tom Quinn (Matthew Macfayden)		Zoe Reynolds (Keeley Hawes)	Danny Hunter (David Oyelowo)	Helen Flynn (Lisa Faulkner)	Jed Kelley (Graeme Mearns)	Tessa Phillips (Jenny Agutter)	Malcolm Wynn-Jones (Hugh Simon)	Colin Wells (Rory MacGregor)
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
2.1							Sam Buxton (Shauna Macdonald)
2.2								Ruth Evershed (Nicola Walker)
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9
2.10
3.1
3.2
3.3		Adam Carter (Rupert Penry-Jones) (Introduced Series 3, Episode 1)
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7				Fiona Carter (Olga Sosnovska) (Introduced Series 3, Episode 4)
3.8
3.9
3.10						Zafar Younis (Raza Jaffrey)
4.1
4.2
4.3				Fiona Carter (Olga Sosnovska)
4.4
4.5					Jo Portman (Miranda Raison)
4.6
4.7
4.8
4.9
4.10
5.1											Nicholas Blake (Robert Glenister)
5.2		Adam Carter (Rupert Penry-Jones)	Ros Myers (Hermione Norris) (Introduced Series 5, Episode 1)
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10
6.1											Nicholas Blake (Robert Glenister)
6.2								Connie James (Gemma Jones)
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6				Ben Kaplan DSO (Alex Lanipekun) (Introduced Series 6, Episode 5)
6.7
6.8
6.9		Adam Carter (Rupert Penry-Jones)									Nicholas Blake (Robert Glenister)
6.10
7.1
7.2		Ros Myers (Hermione Norris)	Lucas North (Richard Armitage) (Introduced Series 7, Episode 1)
7.3											Nicholas Blake (Robert Glenister)
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7											Nicholas Blake (Robert Glenister)
7.8
8.1	Ruth Evershed (Nicola Walker)
8.2								Tariq Masood (Shazad Latif)
8.3
8.4
8.5									Nicholas Blake (Robert Glenister)
8.6
8.7									Andrew Lawrence (Tobias Menzies)
8.8
9.1		Lucas North (Richard Armitage)		Dimitri Levendis (Max Brown)	Beth Bailey (Sophia Myles)				William Towers (Simon Russell Beale)
9.2
9.3
9.4
9.5
9.6
9.7
9.8
10.1		Erin Watts (Lara Pulver)			Calum Reed (Geoffrey Streatfeild)
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5	Ruth Evershed (Now Home Secretary's Assistant)
10.6

References

1. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/spooks/aps/dimitri.shtml
2. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/spooks/aps/beth.shtml