List of Spooks characters


This is a list of characters in the television series Spooks, 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.
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Final series leads

Main characters for Series 10:
  • Sir Harry Pearce KBE – Head of Counter-Terrorism Department, MI5
  • Dimitri Levendis – Piracy & Terrorism Case Officer Section D
  • Erin Watts – Chief of Section & Senior Case Officer, Section D
  • Calum Reed – Junior Case Officer, Section D
  • William Towers – Home Secretary
  • Ruth Evershed – Section D Intelligence Analyst, Home Secretary's Assistant, originally seconded to MI5 from GCHQ

    Former characters

MI5 staff

  • Tariq Masood – Technician & Data Analyst, Section D
  • Beth Bailey – Junior Case Officer, Section D
  • Lucas North – Chief of Section & Senior Case Officer, Section D
  • Ros Myers – Chief of Section & Senior Case Officer, Section D; formerly Senior Case Officer at MI5 and MI6
  • Jo Portman – Junior Case Officer, Section D
  • Malcolm Wynn-Jones – Technician & Data Analyst, Section D
  • Adam Carter – Chief of Section & Senior Case Officer, Section D; formerly Senior Case Officer at MI6
  • Connie James – Senior Analyst, Section D
  • Ben Kaplan DSO – Junior Case Officer, Section D
  • Zafar Younis – Junior Case Officer, Section D
  • Colin Wells – Technician & Data Analyst, Section D
  • Sam Buxton – Administrative Officer, Section D
  • Fiona Carter – Seconded MI6 Officer, Section D
  • Zoe Reynolds – Junior Case Officer, Section D
  • Tom Quinn – Chief of Section & Senior Case Officer, Section D
  • Danny Hunter – Junior Case Officer, Section D
  • Tessa Phillips – Senior Analyst
  • Jed Kelley – Administrative Officer, Section D
  • Helen Flynn – Junior Case Officer, Section D

    Other officers

  • Vaughn Edwards – Deniable intelligence operative who seemed to work for the highest bidder
  • Sarah Caulfield – CIA agent
  • Viktor Sarkisian – Head of the FSB's London office
  • Bob Hogan – Senior CIA liaison
  • Oliver Mace – Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, later Director-General of MI5
  • Juliet Shaw – National Security Co-ordinator; status uncertain following end of Series 6
  • Christine Dale – CIA agent
  • Jools Siviter – MI6 Section Chief

    Significant others

  • Maya Lahan – Lucas's ex-girlfriend
  • Elizabeta Starkova – Lucas's ex-wife
  • Ana Bakshi - Iranian diplomat's wife, Adam's lover
  • Will North – Zoe Reynolds' fiancé
  • Ellie Simm – Tom's ex-girlfriend
  • Maisie Simm – Ellie's young daughter
  • Vicki Westbrook – Tom's ex-girlfriend
  • Carlo Franceschini – 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 – ; killed 2010
  • Rachel Beauchamp – Foreign Secretary –
  • Gillian Calderwood – Chancellor of the Exchequer –
  • Caroline Fox – Deputy Prime Minister –
  • James Allan – Foreign Secretary –
  • Ruth Chambers – Foreign Secretary –
  • unnamed Home Secretary –
  • Alan Taylor – Cabinet Secretary –
  • Richard Maynard – Defence Secretary – mentioned but resigned later
  • Daniel Wise – Foreign Trade Minister –
  • Andrew Lawrence – Home Secretary –
  • William Towers – Home Secretary –

    Other guest stars

Series 1

Series 7

  • Paul Rhys as Alexis Meynell – Episode 5