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 2
Series 3
Series 4
- Martine McCutcheon – Series 4, Episode 2
- Andrew Tiernan – Surreal World and The Possibility of a Mole
- Jimi Mistry – Series 4, Episode 6
Series 5
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Jenny
Series 7
- Paul Rhys as Alexis Meynell – Episode 5