Spooks
It's a fine line between safety and terror. Meet the rulers.
Premiered: May 13, 2002 | 10 seasons | 86 episodes
Popularity: 14
| Creator: | David Wolstencroft |
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| Updated: | Feb 10, 2025 (Update) |
| Entered: | Feb 10, 2025 |
| Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Firth | Harry Pearce | 86 |
| Nicola Walker | Ruth Evershed | 56 |
| Rupert Penry-Jones | Adam Carter | 41 |
| Miranda Raison | Jo Portman | 37 |
| Hermione Norris | Ros Myers | 34 |
| Rory MacGregor | Colin Wells | 30 |
| David Oyelowo | Danny Hunter | 26 |
| Richard Armitage | Lucas North | 24 |
| Keeley Hawes | Zoe Reynolds | 22 |
| Raza Jaffrey | Zafar Younis | 22 |
| Shauna Macdonald | Sam Buxton | 20 |
| Matthew Macfadyen | Tom Quinn | 19 |
| Shazad Latif | Tariq Masood | 17 |
| Gemma Jones | Connie James | 16 |
| Alex Lanipekun | Ben Kaplan | 14 |
| Anna Chancellor | Juliet Shaw | 14 |
| Robert Glenister | Home Secretary | 14 |
| Max Brown | Dimitri Levendis | 14 |
| Olga Sosnovska | Fiona Carter | 11 |
| Matthew Marsh | Bob Hogan | 10 |
| Gugu Mbatha-Raw | Jenny | 9 |
| Jenny Agutter | Tessa Phillips | 8 |
| Sophia Myles | Beth Bailey | 8 |
| Megan Dodds | Christine Dale | 8 |
| Simon Abkarian | Dariush Bakhshi | 8 |
| Iain Glen | Vaughan Edwards | 7 |
| Genevieve O'Reilly | Sarah Caulfield | 7 |
| Simon Russell Beale | Home Secretary | 7 |
| Esther Hall | Ellie Simm | 7 |
| Laila Rouass | Maya Lahan | 7 |
| Lara Pulver | Erin Watts | 6 |
| Jonathan Hyde | Ilya Gavrik | 6 |
| Alice Krige | Elena Gavrik | 6 |
| Richard Harrington | Will North | 6 |
| William Hope | Jim Coaver | 6 |
| Tom Weston-Jones | Sasha Gavrik | 6 |
| Simon Russell Beale | William Towers | 6 |
| Geoffrey Streatfeild | Calum Reed | 6 |
| Naoko Mori | Annette | 6 |
| Tim McInnerny | Oliver Mace | 5 |
| Natasha Little | Vicki Westbrook | 5 |
| Enzo Cilenti | Carlo Franceschini | 4 |
| Richard Johnson | Bernard Qualtrough | 4 |
| James Laurenson | Sholto | 4 |
| Claire Cox | Magritte | 4 |
| Paloma Baeza | Elizaveta Starkova | 3 |
| Sam Reid | Young Harry | 3 |
| Robert East | Richard Dolby | 3 |
| Tobias Menzies | Andrew Lawrence | 2 |
| Hugh Laurie | Jools Siviter | 2 |
| Phyllis Logan | Diana Jewell | 2 |
| Simon Kassianides | Mourad | 2 |
| Matt Day | Neil Sternin | 2 |
| Nicholas Jones | Michael Collingwood | 2 |
| Colin Salmon | Alton Beecher | 2 |
| Roger Allam | Paul Millington | 2 |
| Stuart Wilson | Arkardy Katchimov | 2 |
| Jeff Rawle | Home Secretary | 2 |
| Martine McCutcheon | Tash | 2 |
| Lisa Faulkner | Helen Flynn | 2 |
| Steve Nicolson | Steve Jensen | 2 |
| Corey Johnson | Richard Boyd | 2 |
| Lindsay Duncan | Angela Wells | 2 |
| Sam Spruell | Jason Belling | 2 |
| John Castle | Jocelyn Myers | 2 |
| Simon Woods | Rowan | 2 |
| Nigel Terry | Professor Stephen Curtis | 2 |
| Tomas Arana | Herman Joyce | 2 |
| Paul Jesson | Guy Facer | 2 |
| Peter Sullivan | Viktor Sarkisian | 2 |
| Peter Brooke | Peter | 2 |
| William Armstrong | Alex Roscoe | 2 |
| Dhafer L'Abidine | Sharaf | 2 |
| Lorcan Cranitch | Patrick McCann | 2 |
| Ian Bartholomew | Daniel Wise | 2 |
| Andrew Byron | Pavel Zykov | 2 |
| Guy Williams | Henry Wyndham | 2 |
| Ania Sowinski | Lydia | 2 |
| Gerald Lepkowski | Joe Kennedy | 2 |
| Brian Protheroe | Samuel Walker | 2 |
| John Elmes | Alan Taylor | 2 |
| Richard Braine | Phil | 2 |
| Hi Ching | Yimou | 2 |
| Benedict Cumberbatch | Jim North | 1 |
| Pip Torrens | Charles Lee | 1 |
| Adrian Rawlins | Andrew Forrestal | 1 |
| Andy Serkis | Riff | 1 |
| Ralph Ineson | Sam Walker | 1 |
| Saskia Reeves | Sally | 1 |
| Saskia Reeves | Sally Bernard | 1 |
| Vincent Regan | Alec White | 1 |
| Richard Armitage | Armed Police Officer | 1 |
| Tom McKay | Saul De Vries | 1 |
| Sophie Okonedo | Amanda Roke | 1 |
| Benedict Wong | Kai | 1 |
| Rade Šerbedžija | Viktor Schvitkoy | 1 |
| David Threlfall | Keith Moran | 1 |
| Paul Freeman | Levi Cohen | 1 |
| Nicholas Farrell | Richard Maynard | 1 |
| Samantha Coughlan | Lisa Joyce | 1 |
| Mark Bazeley | Paul Mills | 1 |
| Raad Rawi | Saudi Ambassador | 1 |
| Raad Rawi | Ambassador | 1 |
| Jasper Jacob | Bill Watson | 1 |
| Luke Neal | City boy | 1 |
| Michael Carter | Sir Maurice Clark | 1 |
| Ariyon Bakare | Nadif Abdelrashid | 1 |
| Teresa Churcher | Sarah | 1 |
| Amelda Brown | Bag Lady | 1 |
| Lydia Leonard | Martha Ford | 1 |
| Annabelle Apsion | Bridget Sands | 1 |
| George Baker | Hugo Ross | 1 |
| David Yelland | Stephen Castledine | 1 |
| Corin Redgrave | David Swift | 1 |
| Ian McNeice | Judge | 1 |
| Anthony Stewart Head | Peter Salter | 1 |
| James Faulkner | Robert Westhouse | 1 |
| Oona Chaplin | Kate | 1 |
| Cheryl Campbell | Deputy Prime Minister | 1 |
| Haluk Bilginer | Emre Celenk | 1 |
| Alexander Siddig | Ibhn Khaldun | 1 |
| Harriet Walter | Deep Throat | 1 |
| Kevin McNally | Robert Osborne | 1 |
| Anton Lesser | Nicholas Ashworth | 1 |
| Ian McDiarmid | Prof. Fred Roberts | 1 |
| Barnaby Kay | John Fortescue | 1 |
| David Calder | Sergei Lermov | 1 |
| John Lynch | Davie King | 1 |
| Andrew Tiernan | Forster ( | 1 |
| Andrew Tiernan | Forster | 1 |
| Kayvan Novak | Sevilin Ozal | 1 |
| Selina Cadell | Gillian Calderwood | 1 |
| Ellora Torchia | Aala Hall | 1 |
| Julie Cox | Maxi Baxter | 1 |
| Karel Roden | Miroslav Gradic | 1 |
| Santiago Cabrera | Camilo Henriquez | 1 |
| Fiona Glascott | Danielle Ortiz | 1 |
| Ewen Bremner | Ryan Baisley | 1 |
| Shaun Dingwall | Steven Paynton | 1 |
| Robert Hardy | Sir John Barry | 1 |
| Paul Rhys | Alexis Meynell | 1 |
| Douglas Hodge | Gary Hicks | 1 |
| Rupert Graves | William Sampson | 1 |
| Lisa Eichhorn | Mary Kane | 1 |
| Christopher Fulford | Johnny Marks | 1 |
| Simon Williams | Francis Denham | 1 |
| Alec Utgoff | Chief Hacker | 1 |
| Jonathan Aris | Azis Aibek | 1 |
| Anastasia Hille | Marina Connolly | 1 |
| Leo Bill | Corporal Eric Woods | 1 |
| Larry Lamb | Iain Kallis | 1 |
| Michael Maloney | John Russell | 1 |
| Ralph Brown | Paul Seymour | 1 |
| Vera Filatova | Anastasya Poselskaya | 1 |
| Phaldut Sharma | Harish Dhillon | 1 |
| Adam Kotz | Dr. Mike Lynott | 1 |
| Josette Simon | Julia Dennison | 1 |
| Christopher Fairbank | Gordon Blaney | 1 |
| David Burke | Fiona's Father | 1 |
| Roshan Seth | Fazul Azzam | 1 |
| Owen Teale | Robert Morgan | 1 |
| Kika Markham | Maria Korachevsky | 1 |
| Martin McDougall | Russian Agent | 1 |
| Richard Dillane | John Richardson | 1 |
| John Salthouse | James Crowe | 1 |
| Andrew Havill | Roger Maynard | 1 |
| Jack Doolan | Jason Sweeney | 1 |
| Predrag Bjelac | Edik Kuznetzov | 1 |
| George Harris | Gabriel Sekoa | 1 |
| Nikki Amuka-Bird | Michelle Lopez | 1 |
| Jo Joyner | Stephanie Mills | 1 |
| Jimi Mistry | Nazim Malik | 1 |
| Bentley Kalu | CIA Security Officer | 1 |
| Roger Yuan | Heng | 1 |
| Alec Newman | Richard Dempsey | 1 |
| Dragan Mićanović | Rado | 1 |
| Amanda Hale | Meg Kirby | 1 |
| Dinah Stabb | Rosie - Registry Queen | 1 |
| Stephen Boxer | Jack Coleville | 1 |
| Penny Downie | Prosecution QC | 1 |
| James Greene | Charlie Holland | 1 |
| Dolya Gavanski | Katerina | 1 |
| David Fynn | Policeman at Ruth's House | 1 |
| Alan Williams | Charles Grady | 1 |
| Shaheen Khan | Ruby MacKenzie | 1 |
| Donald Sumpter | Stephen Kirby | 1 |
| Frances Tomelty | Carmen Joyce | 1 |
| Robert Glenister | Nicholas Blake | 1 |
| Ruth Gemmell | Miranda | 1 |
| Alex Jennings | James Allan | 1 |
| Lennie James | David Newman | 1 |
| Ben Daniels | Oleg Korsakov | 1 |
| Anupam Kher | Harakat | 1 |
| Bruce Payne | Michael Kaharias | 1 |
| Peter McDonald | Tim Prachett | 1 |
| Mark Lewis Jones | Mark Wooley | 1 |
| Badria Timimi | Khatera Abuzeid | 1 |
| David Cann | Chief of Airstaff | 1 |
| Augustus Prew | Peter Ellis | 1 |
| Ray Panthaki | Chalak Ahmed | 1 |
| Thomas Lockyer | Sir Robin Ashenden | 1 |
| Dermot Crowley | Eric Newland | 1 |
| Joseph Long | Raed Elwan | 1 |
| Stanley Townsend | Roy Woodring | 1 |
| Oliver Ford Davies | Sir Richard 'Dickie' Bowman | 1 |
| Rosalie Craig | Red Headed Woman | 1 |
| Lucian Msamati | Manu Buffong | 1 |
| Phoebe Nicholls | Janet Wheeler | 1 |
| Tom Beard | Andrew Starkey | 1 |
| John Hopkins | Anton | 1 |
| Jay Villiers | Simon | 1 |
| Khalid Abdalla | Yazdi | 1 |
| Katie Jones | Leyla Ahmed | 1 |
| Mary Nighy | Jemma Roberts | 1 |
| Richard Durden | Irvin Perrot | 1 |
| Darrell D'Silva | Farook Sukkarieh | 1 |
| Wendy Nottingham | Sarah Mitchell | 1 |
| Alastair Galbraith | John MacLeish | 1 |
| Tim Pigott-Smith | Hampton Wilder | 1 |
| Kieran Bew | Bryant | 1 |
| Jessica Turner | Helen Roberts | 1 |
| Pete Lee-Wilson | Nick Ronson | 1 |
| William Tapley | Victor Elliott | 1 |
| Michael Cochrane | Ross Vaughan | 1 |
| Guy Henry | Sam Stevens | 1 |
| Patrick Kennedy | Radio Operator | 1 |
| Daniel Cerqueira | Rafael Morientes | 1 |
| Jacob Anderson | Dean Mitchell | 1 |
| Derek Riddell | Steven | 1 |
| Richard Clothier | Michael Sands | 1 |
| James Weber Brown | Summit Journalist | 1 |
| Nigel Whitmey | Senior Suit | 1 |
| Richard McCabe | Matthew Plowden | 1 |
| Jonny Phillips | Rustam Urazov | 1 |
| Roger Brierley | Mr. Getty | 1 |
| Adrian Lukis | John Sylvester | 1 |
| Nigel Lindsay | Jacob Chapman | 1 |
| Julian Wadham | Derek Morris | 1 |
| Colin Stinton | Traynor Styles | 1 |
| Henry Goodman | DG | 1 |
| Vincenzo Nicoli | Rudolphino Ponti | 1 |
| Chris Wilson | C019 Officer | 1 |
| Mido Hamada | Butterfly | 1 |
| Antonia Campbell-Hughes | Nina Gevitsky | 1 |
| Anthony Flanagan | Craig Fletcher | 1 |
| Rod Hallett | Andrew Dorland | 1 |
| Philip Arditti | Louis Khurvin | 1 |
| Ace Bhatti | Amish Mani | 1 |
| Kevork Malikyan | Ozan Cosar | 1 |
| Michael Hodgson | Derek Hanson | 1 |
| Demetri Goritsas | Frank Lowell | 1 |
| Georgina Rich | Dana Morrison | 1 |
| Georgina Rich | Natalie Grier | 1 |
| Jan Chappell | Patricia Norton | 1 |
| Stephen Greif | Claude Denizet | 1 |
| Ian Virgo | Private Andy Sullivan | 1 |
| Adhir Kalyan | Samir | 1 |
| Tom Mannion | Thomas Mickelson | 1 |
| Amanda Drew | BBC Woman | 1 |
| Dave Legeno | French Assassin | 1 |
| Cristian Solimeno | Townley | 1 |
| Dominic Mafham | DS Loughton | 1 |
| San Shella | Johnny Patel | 1 |
| Constantine Gregory | Uri | 1 |
| Goran Kostić | Bodyguard | 1 |
| Tim Woodward | Peter Reddon | 1 |
| Reece Dinsdale | Major Sam Curtis | 1 |
| David Michaels | Diplomat | 1 |
| James Laurenson | Lord Young | 1 |
| Akin Gazi | Baltasar Jad | 1 |
| Sagar Arya | Victor Chatterjee | 1 |
| Adam Deacon | Billy | 1 |
| Steve Toussaint | Felix Osuba | 1 |
| Sam Dastor | Riyad Barzali | 1 |
| Stewart Wright | Alan Jackson, Barrier Guide | 1 |
| Jo McInnes | Sally Curtis | 1 |
| Serge Soric | Yachek | 1 |
| Mac McDonald | Hard-faced Man | 1 |
| Todd Boyce | Troy | 1 |
| Rod Culbertson | Leon Gevitsky | 1 |
| James Barriscale | John | 1 |
| Bijan Daneshmand | Bashir Shalhoob | 1 |
| Charles Daish | Phil Norton | 1 |
| David Hounslow | Graham Hall | 1 |
| Linda Marlowe | Madge / Housekeeper | 1 |
| Leemore Marrett Jr. | CIA Officer | 1 |
| Emil Hostina | Oleg Darshavin | 1 |
| Aleksandar Mikic | Toung Man | 1 |
| Christian Howard | Currier | 1 |
| Mark Dexter | Mark Hodd | 1 |
| Jane Perry | Laurie Werner | 1 |
| Joey Ansah | Abbud | 1 |
| Gary Sefton | MI5 Operative | 1 |
| Anthony Ofoegbu | Belhadj | 1 |
| Alisdair Simpson | MI6 Officer | 1 |
| Christopher Goh | Chinese Operative | 1 |
| Owen Oakeshott | Paramedic | 1 |
| Angela Bruce | Ruth Chambers | 1 |
| Michael Culver | Hugo Weatherby | 1 |
| Alan McKenna | Lee MacKenzie | 1 |
| Robert Morgan | Andrei | 1 |
| Margot Leicester | Auntie May | 1 |
| Paul Broughton | Paul | 1 |
| Shane Zaza | Aaqib Faris | 1 |
| Aaron Neil | Ibraham | 1 |
| Marty Cruikshank | Dot | 1 |
| Pascal Langdale | Finn Lambert | 1 |
| Daphne Cheung | Jiang Li | 1 |
| Philip Bowen | Ambassador Wright | 1 |
| Joanna Horton | Leigh Bennett | 1 |
| Jalaal Hartley | Lawrence Sayle | 1 |
| Jules Werner | Istvan Vogel | 1 |
| Andrew Scarborough | Stephen Hillier | 1 |
| Bhasker Patel | Professor Lal Rei | 1 |
| Jeffry Wickham | Levrov | 1 |
| Jeffry Wickham | Mikhail Levrov | 1 |
| Selva Rasalingam | Nirav Maruti | 1 |
| Rebecca Palmer | B | 1 |
| Khalid Laith | Ali | 1 |
| Aneirin Hughes | Carl Mortimer | 1 |
| John Owens | Old Man | 1 |
| William Gaminara | Victor Gleeson | 1 |
| Paul Herzberg | James Vine | 1 |
| Liam McKenna | Martin Lewis | 1 |
| Tom Binns | Search Officer | 1 |
| Qarie Marshall | Mohammed Rachid | 1 |
| Peter Barrett | MI5 Officer | 1 |
| Jeff Mash | Officer Glenn | 1 |
| Paul Oldham | Ferguson | 1 |
| Steve Garti | Stan | 1 |
| Ben Peel | MI5 Officer | 1 |
| Zubin Varla | Ahmed | 1 |
| Nicholas Lamont | John / Spoddy Guy | 1 |
| Faraz Ayub | Kamlesh | 1 |
| Stephen Noonan | Asa Darlek | 1 |
| Nila Aalia | Juliet Taylor | 1 |
| Paul Bhattacharjee | Muhammed Khordad | 1 |
| Paul Bhattacharjee | Mohammed Khordad | 1 |
| Arabella Weir | Michelle Molby | 1 |
| Philippe De Grossouvre | Bertrand | 1 |
| Debra Stephenson | Claire Osborne | 1 |
| Jane Lowe | Fiona's Mother | 1 |
| Josephine Butler | Flight Attendent | 1 |
| George Georgiou | Theo (First Mate) | 1 |
| Nicholas Sidi | Russian Ambassador | 1 |
| Shanika Warren-Markland | Sophie Brewster | 1 |
| Stuart Laing | Richard Hollins | 1 |
| Matthew Cottle | Alex Smith | 1 |
| Robert Willox | Interrogator | 1 |
| David Fleeshman | Malcolm Stackley | 1 |
| Daniel Evans | Defence QC | 1 |
| Ashwin Bolar | Hassan Khan | 1 |
| Huw Rhys | Andy North | 1 |
| Kate Silverton | TV Newsreader | 1 |
| Simon Slater | Caldwell | 1 |
| Sam Vincenti | Hussein Hadrami | 1 |
| Mem Ferda | Doorkeeper | 1 |
| Daniel Adegboyega | Nigerian Operative | 1 |
| Georg Nikoloff | Alexander Beletsky | 1 |
| Mark Aiken | Russell Price | 1 |
| Matthew Delamere | Christine Dale | 1 |
| Matthew Delamere | Ringo | 1 |
| Derek Hutchinson | Robert Cash | 1 |
| Marcia Ashton | Mrs. Moore | 1 |
| Jeffery Kissoon | Zubier Al-Saad | 1 |
| Alicya Eyo | Raoula | 1 |
| Caroline Paterson | Jessica Mortimer | 1 |
| Julia Krynke | Bibi Saparova | 1 |
| Hassani Shapi | Khalid Mansoor | 1 |
| James Vaughan | Deputy Assistant Commissioner | 1 |
| James Vaughan | Head of MET | 1 |
| Mel Raido | Johnny Grier | 1 |
| Danny Nussbaum | Baz | 1 |
| Ed Cooper Clarke | British Scientist | 1 |
| Jenny Howe | Mrs. Sayle | 1 |
| David K.S. Tse | Shao | 1 |
| Royce Mills | Toby McInnes | 1 |
| Laurentiu Possa | Andrei Delneko | 1 |
| Ben Smith | Mani Jones | 1 |
| Harmage Singh Kalirai | Hamid Ahmed | 1 |
| Suan-Li Ong | Teng-Mei Zen | 1 |
| Caroline Carver | Catherine Townsend | 1 |
| Michael Klesic | Andre Borodin | 1 |
| Ben Loyd-Holmes | Marcus Collison | 1 |
| Robert Stone | Hank | 1 |
| Yuri Klimov | Valentino | 1 |
| Kirsty Wark | Newsnight Presenter | 1 |
| Kirsty Wark | Newsreader | 1 |
| Pasha Bocarie | Secretary | 1 |
| George Khan | Sheikh | 1 |
| Tariq Jordan | Jawad | 1 |
| Tara Moran | Guest 1 | 1 |
| Michelle Bonnard | Delphine Lapin | 1 |
| Emma Barton | MI5 Officer | 1 |
| Tom Marshall | Nurbeck Omosheva | 1 |
| Alan Parnaby | Businessman | 1 |
| Rad Lazar | Gradic Henchman | 1 |
| Silas Carson | The Prince | 1 |
| Trevor Cooper | Deery | 1 |
| Anatole Taubman | Fernando Torres | 1 |
| Marcel Iureș | Niko Grecic | 1 |
| Charles Mayer | Michael Fitzgerald | 1 |
| Sarah Matravers | Caroline | 1 |
| Paul Birchard | Libby McCall | 1 |
| Geoffrey Newland | Jack Hughes | 1 |
| Richard Betts | Operator | 1 |
| Tom Goodman-Hill | Nick Thomas | 1 |
| Philippe Caroit | Jean-Luc | 1 |
| Benny Young | Yves Cuvier | 1 |
| John Sharian | Michael Gorman | 1 |
| Alki David | Badrak Madjid | 1 |
| Julian Rivett | Chauffeur | 1 |
| Patrick Regis | Chief Pirate | 1 |
| Joe Montana | Ryan Millar | 1 |
| Emilio Doorgasingh | Marlin | 1 |
| Jeanie Gold | Northern Rock Customer | 1 |
| Stephen Hudson | Hack | 1 |
| Jeremy Bulloch | Roger Welks | 1 |
| Chris Walker | Driver | 1 |