List of Sleeper Cell characters

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The following are a list of descriptions for characters on the Showtime television series Sleeper Cell.

Contents 1 Main characters 1.1 Darwyn al-Sayeed 1.2 Faris al-Farik 1.3 Ilija Korjenić 1.4 Gayle Bishop 2 First season characters 2.1 Christian Aumont 2.2 Tommy Emerson 2.3 Ray Fuller 2.4 Patrice Serxner 3 Second season characters 3.1 Salim 3.2 Mina 3.3 Benito Velasquez 3.4 Warren Russell 4 Supporting characters 4.1 Bobby Habib 4.2 Samia 4.3 Khalid 4.4 Jason 4.5 Asma 4.6 Karrar

[edit] Main characters

[edit] Darwyn al-Sayeed

Darwyn al-Sayeed (played by Michael Ealy) is the protagonist of Sleeper Cell. An African-American Muslim FBI agent, Darwyn was assigned to infiltrate an Islamist terrorist sleeper cell.

[edit] Faris al-Farik

Saad bin Safwan (played by Oded Fehr) is the charismatic leader of the terrorist cell. Though his real name is Saad, he is more well-known as Faris al-Farik (the "deadly knight"), one of his aliases.

[edit] Ilija Korjenić

Ilija Korjenić (played by Henri Lubatti) is a Bosnian who became a terrorist after his entire family was killed in the Bosnian Genocide.

[edit] Gayle Bishop

Gayle Bishop (played by Melissa Sagemiller) is a single mom who falls in love with Darwyn.

[edit] First season characters

[edit] Christian Aumont

Christian Aumont (played by Alex Nesic) is a former skinhead from Paris who converted to Islam after falling in love with a Moroccan Muslim.

[edit] Tommy Emerson

Thomas "Tommy" Allen Emerson (played by Blake Shields) is the blonde-haired, blue-eyed son of two liberal college professors from Berkeley, California.

[edit] Ray Fuller

Ray Fuller (played by James LeGros) is an FBI agent and Darwyn's supervisor.

[edit] Patrice Serxner

Patrice Serxner (played by Sonya Walger) is the FBI agent who takes over Fuller's position after he is killed.

[edit] Second season characters

[edit] Salim

Salim (played by Omid Abtahi) is a young Iraqi-born Muslim who was brought up in the UK after his family left Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War. After being sent to an Islamic boarding school when his parents found out he was gay, he found his way to militant extremism. The combination of his homosexuality and his Islamic fundamentalism have made him self-loathing and violent.

[edit] Mina

Mina (played by Thekla Reuten) is a Dutch woman and former prostitute who converted to Islam after falling in love with and marrying an Islamic Extremist man. When the two went to Iraq to join the insurgency, he was killed by American forces while she survived, although miscarrying their child in the process. In America, she serves as a nanny to a family, taking care of their two children.

[edit] Benito Velasquez

Benito 'Benny' Velasquez (played by Kevin Alejandro) is a Latino gang member who converted to Islam and befriended Darwyn while in prison.

[edit] Warren Russell

Warren Russell (played by Jay R. Ferguson) is Darwyn's latest supervisor, who replaces Serxner after she is killed in Sudan. Young and inexperienced, he got the job only because his uncle is a powerful Deputy Director of the FBI, and his incompetence causes him to clash with Darwyn.

[edit] Supporting characters

[edit] Bobby Habib

Bobby Habib (played by Grant Heslov) was a member of the original Los Angeles sleeper cell and Gayle's next-door neighbor. Farik had the other terrorists stone him to death because he had talked about their plans to an uncle, putting them in danger as someone else could have overheard. Darwyn ultimately shot him in the head as a mercy killing to to save him from being killed by the stoning. Because Habib had still been loyal, Farik made sure his family was looked after.

[edit] Samia

Samia (played by Susan Pari) is Farik's wife.

[edit] Khalid

Khalid (played by Aasif Mandvi) was the leader of the second Los Angeles sleeper cell. Darwyn killed him when he discovered Darwyn was a law enforcement agent.

[edit] Jason

Jason (played by Michael Rady) is a gay man who Salim starts a relationship with after the two meet in a health club.

[edit] Asma

Asma (played by Jasmine Di Angelo) is Farik and Samia's daughter.

[edit] Karrar

Karrar (played by Saïd Taghmaoui) is a Muslim terrorist who Farik has replace Darwyn as the new leader of the second Los Angeles sleeper cell. When the cell's attack starts, Darwyn reveals that he's a member of the FBI and tells Karrar to surrender. Calling him a hypocrite, Karrar tries killing Darwyn. When Darwyn manages to subdue him, Karrar tries to get Darwyn to kill him by revealing how he was involved in Serxner's death, but Darwyn refuses to.