List of Orphan Black characters
Orphan Black is a Canadian science fiction television series broadcast on Space in Canada and on BBC America in the United States.[1][2] The series' first season stars Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris, Kevin Hanchard, Michael Mando, and Maria Doyle Kennedy, with the addition of Évelyne Brochu to the regular cast in the second season and Kristian Bruun and Ari Millen in the third.[3][4][5] Orphan Black revolves around the main character of Sarah Manning as she discovers the existence of several of her genetic identicals.[3] Numerous actors appear in the series as recurring cast members, but some guest actors are featured in only a few. Particularly, Skyler Wexler often recurs as Sarah's daughter Kira, and Josh Vokey recurs as Cosima's lab assistant Scott.[3]
Cast and characters
Main
- Key:
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- = Recurring/Guest cast (opening credits billing)
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Actor | Character | Appearances / Season | Total | ||
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S1 | S2 | S3 | |||
Tatiana Maslany | Various | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Jordan Gavaris | Felix "Fee" Dawkins | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Kristian Bruun | Donnie Hendrix | 6 | 9 | 9 | 24 |
Maria Doyle Kennedy | Siobhan Sadler | 9 | 7 | 8 | 24 |
Évelyne Brochu | Delphine Cormier | 6 | 9 | 6 | 21 |
Kevin Hanchard | Arthur "Art" Bell | 8 | 8 | 4 | 20 |
Dylan Bruce | Paul Dierden | 10 | 5 | 4 | 19 |
Ari Millen | Various | 8 | 9 | 17 | |
Michael Mando | Victor "Vic" Schmidt | 6 | 3 | 9 |
- Tatiana Maslany as a number of clones (Sarah Manning, Beth Childs, Katja Obinger, Alison Hendrix, Cosima Niehaus, Helena, Rachel Duncan, Jennifer Fitzsimmons, Tony Sawicki, Krystal Goderitch), all born in 1984 to various women by in vitro fertilisation. Their creation was referred to as Project Leda. The series focuses on Sarah Manning, a small-time con woman and orphan who is the only clone to have a biological daughter. (All other clones were presumed to be sterile before Sarah was discovered, with one of the original scientists revealing that the clones, as 'prototypes', were all designed to be sterile, although there is speculation that Helena may also be able to conceive given her origin as Sarah's specific twin.) Other clones include Elizabeth "Beth" Childs, a police detective whose suicide at the start of the series leads Sarah into the conspiracy; Alison Hendrix, a soccer mom who tries to be the perfect housewife, but suffers from pill and drink addiction as well as jumping to conclusions; Cosima Niehaus, a bisexual[6] graduate student studying evolutionary developmental ("evo-devo") biology who researches the clones' biology; Helena, twin sister of Sarah, a fanatic assassin trained by the Proletheans who has suffered severe abuse throughout her life; Rachel Duncan, an executive at the Dyad Institute, who was raised knowing that she is a clone from childhood.[3] Maslany also voiced the scorpion, called Pupok, that speaks to Helena in her hallucinations in Season 3.[7]
- Dylan Bruce as Paul Dierden, an ex-military mercenary, who was blackmailed into being Beth's monitor under the guise of being her boyfriend. Following the discovery of Beth's death and Sarah's impersonation of her, he chooses to continue trying to protect Sarah, calling it his job. The two continue a sexual relationship. However Dyad still holds his past over him and makes him Rachel's new monitor, with Rachel forcing him into a sexual relationship with her. In the season 2 finale it is revealed he is still in the military and was a double agent from Project Castor spying on Dyad and Project Leda.[3] Paul checks on Rudy and Seth's cognitive functions and orders them to return to the military base. He also warns Cal that Sarah needs to stop investigating Castor for her own safety. Paul begins to investigate Dr. Coady at the military compound, and he finds that she has been illegally sterilizing common women with the contagious Castor disease in order to collect data and potentially produce a deadly biological weapon. Paul helps Sarah escape the military compound, and he confesses that, even though he never loved Beth, his love for Sarah was genuine. During their escape, Miller stabs Paul several times to stop him from fleeing. Paul breaks Miller's neck and then sends Sarah away on her own in an attempt to destroy Coady's research in order to prevent the development of the weaponry. When Coady and Rudy rush to retrieve Coady's scientific work, they confront Paul who is attempting to stop the two from reclaiming Coady's unethical scientific data. Coady shoots Paul multiple times in the chest who then releases a grenade while he is dying. Rudy reacts quickly to the danger, allowing him and Coady a few extra seconds of escape before Paul's grenade detonates. (seasons 1–3)
- Jordan Gavaris as Felix "Fee" Dawkins, Sarah's gay foster brother and confidant; when none of her sister are available, he acts as Sarah's backup. He identifies as a modern artist, but moonlights as a prostitute. He is the first person Sarah confides in about the existence of clones, and has developed his own friendship with Alison in particular while helping her cope with the stress of her existence as a clone.[3] During Seasons 2 and 3, Cosima stays with him, due to her declining health.
- Kevin Hanchard as Detective Arthur "Art" Bell, Beth's police partner. He cares for Beth and tries to guide her through tough times even when she is dead as he unknowingly is helping Sarah as Beth. After he learns of Beth's stolen identity and death he decides to side with the clones over the police department, carrying out off-the-books research for them.[3] In Season 3, Sarah figures out that Art was in love with Beth, but wasn't able to bring himself to tell her. It turns out Art was close enough to Beth that she called him for help prior to her suicide to explain about the clones; however, Art dismissed the call, believing Beth was high on her perscription drugs.
- Michael Mando as Victor "Vic" Schmidt, Sarah's abusive, drug-dealing ex-boyfriend. Vic is something of a nosy idiot, as he cannot accept facts when told to his face (such as Sarah hating him and never wanting him around) and investigates anything suspicious. After being tricked by Felix into thinking Beth's corpse was Sarah, Vic grieves; however, he later meets Alison, thinking she's Sarah. He invites himself to Alison's potluck, thinking Sarah is pulling a scam; however, Paul manages to scare him off. He becomes a police informant for Angie and under her orders he befriends Alison at rehab. He is later intimidated by Donnie to stay away from the Hendrix family. (regular season 1; recurring season 2)
- Maria Doyle Kennedy as Siobhan Sadler, Sarah's and Felix's Irish foster mother; they call her "Mrs. S.". Despite never having married her lover John Sadler, Siobhan took his name after her mother murdered him back in 1978. She acts as guardian to Sarah's daughter Kira while Sarah is away. She is shown to be intelligent and resourceful, hiding Sarah for years and protecting her and Kira. Mrs. S used her network to hide Ethan Duncan and find Sarah as a child, claiming to have protected her from Dyad Sarah's whole life. Mrs. S makes a deal with Paul and the military to work with them and abduct Helena in exchange for a way to help Sarah and Kira. She eventually is forgiven by both sisters and is stunned as everyone else to learn that the genetic original for both clone lines is her mother Kendall Malone.[3] This would technically make Sarah Siobhan's aunt.
- Évelyne Brochu as Dr. Delphine Cormier, Cosima's monitor, girlfriend, and fellow scientist. She is torn between her job at Dyad and her love for Cosima. After finding out about Cosima's illness she works with her in the Dyad to try to find a cure. She is promoted to the public leader of Dyad after Leekie's death and unintentionally helps Rachel kidnap Kira. Rachel then bans her from working with clones and tries to send her away to Frankfurt. However, Marion promotes Delphine to take over Rachel's position and Delphine enacts her revenge on Rachel. Rachel returns to Dyad, supposedly after learning that Sarah was kidnapped and has been missing for five days, but it is later revealed that her jealousy has led her to spy on Cosima and Shay's relationship, photographing and videotaping the two on their various dates. Delphine interrogates Shay, believing her to be the Castor mole. She is about to begin cutting Shay when Cosima calls to inform her that Gracie admitted to being the Castor mole. Delphine finds out that Dr. Nealon replaced Rachel with an induced Krystal and sent her to Vienna. She confronts him in an enclosed room, and he reveals that Rachel now belongs to Neolution, the group that he has been working for all along, attempting to procure the Leda and Castor original genomes for scientific advancement. Delphine calls for the guards to take Nealon away, but she receives no responses, and Dr. Nealon suddenly attacks her as he bleeds from the mouth. He leans over her, spilling blood onto her face, as a regurgitated worm spills from his mouth. Delphine shoots Nealon before the worm can reach her. As he dies, he proclaims that Delphine will be dead before morning. Delphine confronts Shay to apologize and tells her that she is giving Cosima permission to reveal everything to Shay, stating that the two are right for each other. She then visits Cosima at Bubbles, discreetly saying goodbye to Cosima and the other Leda clones. Delphine parks her car in a parking garage and is followed by unseen pursuer. Delphine asks "what will happen to [Cosima]?" and receives no response; instead, the pursuer shoots Delphine, whose death is implied but not seen. (recurring season 1; regular seasons 2–3)[3]
- Ari Millen as a number of male clones (see here) – the result of a sister project to Project Leda: Project Castor, a top-secret military program. Unlike their Leda counterparts, the Castor clones have always been aware of what they are, being raised together by the US military. They suffer a mental defect, which basically turns their brains to, quoting Scotty, "Swiss cheese" after set amount of time. The first Castor clone to be introduced to the viewers is Mark Rollins, coming off as a homicidal Prolethean, before being exposed as an undercover Castor agent. He marries fellow Prolethean Gracie Johanssen after running away from the Prolethean farm. Other major Castor clones includes the menacing scarefaced Rudy, the tormented Seth, and the crippled Miller. (recurring season 2; regular season 3)[4]
- Kristian Bruun as Donnie Hendrix, husband to Alison Hendrix. He was once Alison's monitor, working for Dyad. His and Alison's marriage was strained for a long time, especially after Alison cornered him and tortured him to find out if he was a monitor or not. He lied, and they reconciled. However, she then found out the truth: that he really was a monitor but was unaware of his true purpose and that Alison was a clone. He then cornered his boss, Dr. Leekie, in his car and killed him with an accidental pistol shot to the head. He fled back to Alison, begging her to help him do away with the body. They buried Leekie under their garage. This "bonding" helped to jump-start their relationship, giving it newfound passion, trust, and happiness. (recurring seasons 1–2; regular season 3) In season 3, he got fired after telling his boss Susan Teller that she was a bitch, something he found "frickin' glorious". He and Alison later briefly sold drugs for Pouchie, and got the Hendrix family soup store Bubbles from Ali's mother. Helena comes to live with them, and Donnie comes to see that she means well; he even helps find her boyfriend as a "thank you" present. After Pouchie's daughter threatens Oscar and Gemma, Donnie is left with all the drug lord's money after Helena murders them to protect the children.
Recurring
Actor | Character | Appearances / Season | Total | ||
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S1 | S2 | S3 | |||
Skyler Wexler | Kira Manning | 9 | 9 | 4 | 22 |
Josh Vokey | Scott Smith | 3 | 7 | 9 | 19 |
Zoé De Grand Maison | Gracie Johanssen | 7 | 8 | 15 | |
Inga Cadranel | Angela "Angie" Deangelis | 8 | 6 | 14 | |
Millie Davis | Gemma Hendrix | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
Drew Davis | Oscar Hendrix | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
Matt Frewer | Aldous Leekie | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
Kyra Harper | Dr. Virginia Coady | 9 | 9 | ||
Ron Lea | Gavin Hardcastle | 8 | 8 | ||
Tom McCamus | Dr. Nealon | 1 | 6 | 7 | |
Matthew Bennett | Daniel Rosen | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
Kristin Booth | Bonnie Johanssen | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
Andrew Gillies | Ethan Duncan | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
Terra Hazelton | Sarah Stubbs | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
Michiel Huisman | Cal Morrison | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
Natalie Lisinska | Aynsley Norris | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
Nicholas Rose | Colin | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
Ksenia Solo | Shay Davydov | 6 | 6 | ||
Amanda Brugel | Marci Coates | 5 | 5 | ||
Cynthia Galant | Young Rachel Duncan/Charlotte Bowles | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
Peter Outerbridge | Henrik Johanssen | 5 | 5 | ||
Tom Barnett | David Benchman | 4 | 4 | ||
Justin Chatwin | Jason Kellerman | 4 | 4 | ||
Carlos Gonzalez-Vio | Dr. Silva | 4 | 4 | ||
Daniel Kash | Tomas | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Priya Rao | Meera Kumar | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Julian Richings | Benjamin Kertland | 4 | 4 | ||
David Richmond-Peck | Olivier Duval | 4 | 4 | ||
Diana Salvatore | Bobby | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Raymond Ablack | Raj Singh | 3 | 3 | ||
Kathryn Alexandre | Alexis | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Kristi Angus | Charity Simms | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Christy Bruce | Young Susan Duncan | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Tony Cianchino | Pouchy | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Raven Dauda | Yvonne | 3 | 3 | ||
Michelle Forbes | Dr. Marion Bowles | 3 | 3 | ||
James Frain | Ferdinand Chevalier | 3 | 3 | ||
Carter Hayden | Paul | 3 | 3 | ||
Anika Johnson | The "Blood Ties" pianist | 3 | 3 | ||
Barbara Johnston | Kelsey | 3 | 3 | ||
Alex Karzis | Alexander | 3 | 3 | ||
Trenna Keating | Vera | 3 | 3 | ||
Allen Keng | Painmaker | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Danny MacDonald | Martin Funt | 3 | 3 | ||
Earl Pastko | Bulldog | 3 | 3 | ||
Kent Sheridan | Conrad | 3 | 3 | ||
David Vena | Joao | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Jean Yoon | Janis Beckwith | 3 | 3 | ||
Patrick J. Adams | Jesse | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Michelle Arvizu | La Camerera | 2 | 2 | ||
Ryan Blakely | Reverend Mike | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Marqus Bobesich | Rockabilly Bob | 2 | 2 | ||
Rosemary Dunsmore | Professor Susan Duncan | 2 | 2 | ||
Jamila Fleming | Sherry | 2 | 2 | ||
Gavin Fox | Lionel | 2 | 2 | ||
Eric Johnson | Chad Norris | 2 | 2 | ||
Natalie Krill | Patty | 2 | 2 | ||
Earl "Bubba" McLean | Teddy | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Louise Nicol | Mrs. Chubbs | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Melanie Nicholls-King | Amelia | 2 | 2 | ||
Alex Ozerov | Ramon | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Jessica Salgueiro | Luisa | 2 | 2 | ||
Elizabeth Saunders | Dr. Anita Bowers | 2 | 2 | ||
Alison Steadman | Kendall Malone | 2 | 2 | ||
Allan Turner | Young Ethan Duncan | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Grouped by associated storyline, and listed in order of first appearance.
- Sarah's acquaintances
- Skyler Wexler as Kira Manning (Tag #615C33), Sarah's biological, naturally-conceived, daughter. The only child of a clone, she has inherited the apparent accelerated healing ability demonstrated by Sarah and Helena, and has shown the ability to tell the clones apart even when they are posing as each other. (season 1–present)[3] After Rudy threatens Kira, Sarah sends Kira to Iceland with her father Cal; they reunite in the season finale.
- Diana Salvatore as Bobby, the owner of a bar that Sarah and Felix frequent. (season 1–present)
- Jamila Fleming and Marqus Bobesich as Sherry and Rockabilly Bob, Sarah's friends, who attended her staged funeral. (season 1)
- Nicholas Rose as Colin, a morgue attendant, and sometimes lover of Felix. (seasons 1–2)
- Earl "Bubba" McLean as Teddy, one of Felix' recurring clients. (seasons 1–2)
- Melanie Nicholls-King as Amelia, Sarah and Helena's surrogate birth mother. (season 1)
- Michiel Huisman as Cal Morrison, one of Sarah's past con-victims and Kira's father. He used to make weapons for the military and became wealthy as a war profiteer. (season 2–present)[3][5]
- Michelle Arvizu as La Camerera, the owner of a restaurant bar in Mexico that Sarah and Helena utilize as a rendezvous to reconnect with Mrs. S after their escape from the Castor compound. (season 3)
- Beth's acquaintances
- Inga Cadranel as Detective Angela "Angie" Deangelis, Art's new partner, trying to uncover the clone conspiracy behind Art's back. (seasons 1–2)[8]
- Ron Lea as Lieutenant Gavin Hardcastle, commanding officer of Beth, Art and Angie. (season 1)
- Elizabeth Saunders as Dr. Anita Bower, Beth's psychiatrist who prescribed her conflicting drugs and later questions Sarah-as-Beth in regards to Beth's shooting of Maggie Chen. (season 1) Sarah is able to force Dr. Bower to list her able to be on active duty by threatening to reveal the drugs, for which would transfer the blame to her.
- Jean Yoon as Janis Beckwith, coroner and co-worker of Beth, Art, and Angie. (season 1)
- Raymond Ablack as Raj Singh, a police technician smitten with Sarah-as-Beth. (season 1)
- Alison's acquaintances
- Drew Davis and Millie Davis as Oscar and Gemma Hendrix, Allison's and Donnie's adopted kids. (season 1–present) As of Season 3, they are aware of the clones, but think they are simply Alison's sisters. Gemma has the most bizarre talent of showing up at the wrong times, such as when Sarah (dressed as Alison) was trying to keep Paul from killing Vic, and when Alison and Donnie were having some time to themselves.
- Natalie Lisinska as Aynsley Norris, Alison's nosy neighbor. Believing Aynsley was her monitor, Alison slept with Chad; this ruined their friendship. Aynsley accidentally dies when her scarf catches in the food disposal; Alison didn't shut it off, leaving to question if it counts as murder or accident. (seasons 1–2)
- Kristi Angus as Charity Simms, neighbor of Alison and Aynsley. (seasons 1–2)
- Priya Rao as Meera Kumar, neighbor of Alison and Aynsley. (seasons 1–2)
- Eric Johnson as Chad Norris, Aynsley's promiscuous husband. (season 1) He divorces Aynsley as their marriage is nothing more than a sham held together for the sake of their kids.
- Louise Nicol as Mrs. Chubbs, Donnie's mother. (seasons 1–2)
- Ryan Blakely as Reverend Mike, the Hendrix' clergyman. (seasons 1–2)
- Alex Ozerov as Ramon, Alison's drug and weapons dealer who assists Sarah in her initial confrontation with Rachel and later sells his drug supply to the Hendrixes. (season 2–present)
- Terra Hazelton as Sarah Stubbs, Alison's co-star in the community theatre production of the musical "Blood Ties." (seasons 2-present)
- Alex Karzis as Alexander, the director of "Blood Ties". (season 2)
- Carter Hayden, Barbara Johnston, and Kent Sheridan as Paul, Kelsey, and Conrad, the supporting cast of "Blood Ties". (season 2)
- Anika Johnson as the pianist of "Blood Ties". Johnson is also the co-creator of the musical, which exist in real life.[9] (season 2)
- Raven Dauda as Yvonne, Alison's therapist at the rehabilitation center. (season 2)
- Amanda Brugel as Marci Coates, a woman against whom Alison defeats in Bailey Downes's school trustee election. It seems many people dislike her, as Marci has been manipulating retail prices for houses to gain votes. (season 3)
- Trenna Keating as Vera, a soccer mom who buys drugs from Alison and Donnie in exchange for her loyalty to Alison in the school trustee election. (season 3)
- Gavin Fox as Lionel, one of Pouchy's agents who works to recover drugs from defaulted dealers. (season 3)
- Justin Chatwin as Jason Kellerman, Alison's ex-boyfriend from high school and now hers and Donnie's new boss and supplier in the drug trade. (season 3)
- Jessica Salgueiro as Luisa, Pouchy's niece who works as Pouchy's English-to-Portuguese translator. (season 3) She and Pouchy are likely murdered by Helena, who was covered in a lot of blood, after they threatened the Hendrixes' children.
- Cosima's acquaintances
- Josh Vokey as Scott Smith, a fellow student of Cosima at the University of Minnesota, who develops a crush on her and later joins her and Delphine at the Dyad Institute. Always helping Cosima however he can, he becomes the only scientist of Dyad that the clones consistently trust. (season 1–present)
- Allen Keng as Painmaker, one of Scott's friends whom Cosima meets through the Runewars parties that are frequently held in her lab at the Dyad. (season 2-present)
- Ksenia Solo as Shay Davydov, a holistic healer whom Cosima meets through a dating app called Sapphire; however, she later admits to being a simple RMT. When the two first meet in Bobby's bar, an unknown person takes photographs of the two from a distance. This person is revealed to be Delphine, who is shown to have countless photographs and video footage of the two meeting for the first time. Shay quickly becomes intimate with Cosima only to break up with her after Delphine threatens her, believing she is a mole for Project Castor. Once this is disproved, Delphine apologizes and encourages her to give Cosima another chance, even letting her have permission to learn about the clones. (season 3)
- Helena's acquaintances
- Patrick J. Adams as Jesse, a man who Helena meets in a bar in Cold River. The two quickly develop an intimate relationship which is later interrupted by Helena's arrest. The two reconnect after Alison and Donnie arrange for the two to meet at their home. He has a similar mindset to Helena, although more stable. [3] Helena has settled on Jesse as her boyfriend, wanting a life with him. (season 2-present)
- The Dyad Institute and Project Leda
- David Richmond-Peck as Olivier Duval, Paul's handler within the Institute. He blamed Sarah (posing as Beth) for the deaths of the other LEDA clones, even when she tell him to his face that Helena was responsible; he learned the truth the hard way. Dr. Leekie later has him poisoned for failure. (season 1)
- Matt Frewer as Dr. Aldous Leekie, frontman of the Institute and the face of the Neolution movement. It's suggested Delphine was his lover. He is accidentally killed by Donnie, and buried under the Hendrix's garage. (seasons 1–2)[3]
- Matthew Bennett as Daniel Rosen, a Dyad associated lawyer, assigned to do Rachel's shady work. He had a sexual relationship with Rachel and also acted as her monitor with her knowledge. (seasons 1–2)
- Cynthia Galant as Young Rachel Duncan, seen in the home videos from Rachel's childhood; and as Charlotte Bowles, the last living clone of the 400 attempts that were made to perpetuate Project Leda. (season 2-present)
- Christy Bruce as Young Susan Duncan, Rachel's adoptive mother and one of the scientists behind Project Leda. Thought to have been killed years prior to the series. Her young self only appears in video footage from Rachel's childhood. (season 2-present)
- Andrew Gillies as Ethan Duncan, alias Andrew Peckham, Rachel's adoptive father and the other Leda scientist. Living off-grid since his wife's alleged death. Commits suicide in front of Rachel to prevent Dyad from getting the science to make more clones. (season 2-present) As shown through Season 3, Rachel is still the little girl he cared for deep inside; his death actually causes her to cry at times.
- Michelle Forbes as Dr. Marion[10] Bowles, a high-ranking official within Topside–a group controlling Dyad–who outranks both Leekie and Rachel. She contacts Cal and Mrs. S to free Sarah and Kira from Dyad. It is revealed she is raising the youngest Leda clone Charlotte, and is battling the military and their male clones of Project Castor, holding one of the male clones in her home. Her current fate is unknown with Charlotte currently in the care of Susan Duncan. (season 2)[3]
- Danny MacDonald as Martin Funt, assigned to assist/guard Ethan Duncan, while held at the Dyad labs. (season 2)
- Tom McCamus as Dr. Alan Nealon, a doctor who examined Sarah in her sleep when she was impersonating Beth. He is a high-ranking Dyad official who processes and interrogates Sarah after she surrenders and he then arranges her oophorectomy. After Rachel's trauma, he works to reconstruct her memories from before her brain injury. He is still loyal to Rachel even after Delphine is promoted and helps her con everyone to escape. He is revealed to be possessing a hidden agenda: attempting to acquire the original Leda and Castor genomes to utilize for Neolution. Delphine shoots him after he attacks her and attempts to regurgitate a bloody worm into her mouth, supposedly one of his adaptations from Neolution. As he dies, he warns Delphine that she will be dead before morning. (seasons 2–3)
- Allan Turner as Young Ethan Duncan, a younger version of Ethan Duncan who is seen in Rachel's childhood home videos. (season 2-present)
- James Frain as Ferdinand Chevalier, a Topside official that is conspiring with Rachel to eliminate the Leda clones; he also had a sexual relationship with her, seeming to actually have some affection for her as he flew into a rage at hearing Neolution has Rachel. After learning of the Neolutionists manipulations he sides with Sarah and her allies. He hates Neolutionists, stating "They're like ticks! You never know when you have one on you." (season 3)
- Earl Pastko as Bulldog, Ferdinand's right-hand-man and bodyguard. Revealed to be a Neolutionist mole and is then killed by Ferdinand via sulfuric acid. (season 3)
- Rosemary Dunsmore as Professor Susan Duncan, Rachel Duncan's mother who was believed to be dead. She is revealed to be alive in the season three finale when she confronts a recovering Rachel, whom she is caring for in her home. She is connected to Neolution and arranged with Dr. Nealon for Rachel to be transferred to her personal care. (season 3)
- Alison Steadman as Kendall Malone, Mrs. S's mother and genetic original to both the Castor and Leda clones. She absorbed her male twin in the womb and possesses her female DNA as well as her brother's male DNA. When she was an inmate in prison, Ethan Duncan ran tests on the inmates for supposed cancer research, and he found Kendall's DNA to be suitable for his cloning project. Five years later, Duncan returned to her out of grief to confess his true motivations for harvesting her DNA. He divulged his utilization of her DNA in order to produce a line of clones, and informed her of a female clone that had been lost in the foster system. Kendall brings Siobhan and Sarah together due to her being a "regretful mother". She does this in order to give Siobhan a piece of herself that is better than the person she turned out to be. (season 3) It's possible some of her genetic material could be used to extend Mark's life, along with the LEDA clones.
- The Proletheans
- Daniel Kash as Tomas, responsible for the kidnapping and training of Helena; as a result, she ended up "batshit crazy", but was later helped in becoming more mentally stable by her sisters. (seasons 1–2)
- Peter Outerbridge as Henrik "Hank" Johanssen, a Prolethean leader, attempting to revalue their view on science and proliferate Helena's miraculous genes at the expense of everyone closest to him. Revealed to have been Ethan Duncan's lab assistant who produced a son, Abel, from the original Castor DNA. (season 2)[3]
- Kristin Booth as Bonnie Johanssen, Henrik's devoted wife who travels to find more "breeding mares" for Henrik to artificially inseminate. She disowns Gracie because of her miscarriage of Henrik and Helena's baby, which wasn't her fault; Mark accidentally sterilized her. (season 2–present)
- Zoé De Grand Maison as Grace Rollins (née Johanssen), Henrik and Bonnie's teenage daughter who eventually rebels against the Prolethean way of life. After being artificially inseminated with Henrik and Helena's genetic offspring, she runs away from the Prolethean farm and marries Mark in an official ceremony. She suffers a miscarriage, and is disowned by her family; the reason for the miscarriage is due to Mark's genetic defect being an STD, which sterilizes women. Despite this, she still loves Mark and betrays the Leda clones in an effort to help the military cure the Castor clones. Reunited with Mark the two plan to spend as much time as they can together before he gets sick and dies although Gracie convinces Mark to help Sarah in the Season 3 finale. (season 2–present)[5]
- Kathryn Alexandre as Alexis, a Prolethean midwife and preschool teacher. She considers the LEDA clones to be abominations; upon hearing her sister called this, Sarah retorted "If Helena's an abomination, I'm much worse" and Art warned figuratively that Sarah would bite Alexis' had off next time. Art accidentally allows her to learn when Gracie fled as his radio reported the location Johanssen's stolen truck. Alexandre is also Maslany's acting double when a scene requires more than one clone on screen.[11] (season 2–present)
- The Birdwatchers
- Julian Richings as Benjamin Kertland, one of Mrs. S's most trusted allies who has no association with the Dyad Institute or the Proletheans. Most of his past history with Mrs. S is unknown, but he has been referred to as a "Birdwatcher", a term used to describe the network of individuals who helped shelter Mrs. S, Sarah, and Felix after they fled Brixton. (season 2)
- The Military and Project Castor
- Kyra Harper as Dr. Virginia Coady, a doctor who is overseeing Helena at the military compound to which she was taken by Project Castor. She raised the Castor clones when they were boys. They refer to her as "mother", and she in turn sees them as her children, even keeping pictures of them in her office. She has been utilizing the contagious Castor disease in order to sterilize innocent civilian women (mainly prostitutes), collect data, and attempt to produce biological weapons for the military. Rudy loyally serves her in this task, being a mentally unstable "mama's boy". Paul confronts Coady so she shots him. As he dies Paul releases a grenade, destroying her scientific research. She then pursues Sarah and Kendall for the original genome but is betrayed by Mark, resulting in her capture by Ferdinand. (season 3)
- Carlos Gonzalez-Vio as Dr. Silva, a military doctor for Project Castor who is collecting data on Project Leda through the testing of Helena and also working to discover the original Castor gene sequence. (season 3)
- Natalie Krill as Patty, a woman assaulted by Castor clones Rudy and Seth. She is revealed to have contracted the same sexually-transmitted disease as Gracie, which causes her eyes to appear red. She has a daughter, and seems to live with her mother. (season 3)
- Tom Barnett as David Benchman, a military informant in Arlington who transfers information from Paul to the military directors. He betrayals Paul to Rudy and Dr. Coady, getting him killed. He makes a deal with Dr. Coady after she learns he has a mole inside Project Leda. The mole is Gracie whom David reunites with Mark as a reward for her help. David meets with Dr. Coady again to send Rudy after Alison. (season 3)
- Miscellaneous
- David Vena as Joao, one of Pouchy's bodyguards and enforcers. (seasons 1,3)
- Tony Cianchino as Pouchy, Jason Kellerman's boss and drug supplier. He previously supervised Vic's deals and cut off his finger for withholding payment. When Donnie accidentally gives him the wrong envelope during a drug deal, Pouchy reacted most unreasonably by holding him hostage and nearly ruining Alison's chance to make a speech during the election for school trustee (as his niece wasted Alison's time to count the money when she went to get it). He and his gang are killed by Helena after threatening Alison's kids, and all his money ended up with the Hendrixes. (seasons 1,3)
Non-recurring
Notable non-recurring characters, listed in order of appearance.
- Jean-Michel Le Gal as Stephen Riggs, the manager of the bank at which Beth has a bank account. He accepts Sarah's bribe of sponsoring his charity run in exchange for expediting the withdrawal of Beth's $75,000 balance. (episode 1.01)
- Miriam McDonald as Madison, Paul's secretary at Trexcom Consulting. (episode 1.05)
- Sarain Boylan as Astrid, Olivier's right-hand-woman who often runs club Neolution and assists Olivier with problems relating to Paul's reluctance as a monitor. (episode 1.07)
- Rob deLeeuw as Barry, one of Mrs. S's birdwatchers who is later revealed to be connected with the Proletheans. (episode 2.02)
- Roger R. Cross as Carlton Redding, another one of Mrs. S's birdwatchers. He was mentioned in episode 1.07 as the man who brought Sarah to Mrs. S. It is later revealed that he and Mrs. S had a romantic relationship which is temporarily rekindled. (episode 2.04)
- Bishop Brigante as Sammy, Tony's closest friend and likely monitor, who wishes to pass along a message to Beth Childs as he dies from a gun shot wound. It is revealed that, like Paul, he was a "ghost," a military mole infiltrating Leda. (episode 2.08)
- Nicholas Campbell as Willard Finch, an associate of Henrik's who is entrusted with the storage of important genetic samples. Gracie confronts Willard and asks for the samples that her father left in his possession. He gives her a locked box full of apparently useless files; Mark, likely due to his degenerating mind, wasn't able to deduce that they could hold valuable information. Mark tortures him in an attempt to recover the actual genetic samples, but Willard dies before he can divulge the information that Mark is seeking. (episode 3.03)
- David Fox as Jonah Appleyard, an elderly, blind, Prolethean who offers shelter to the Johanssen family following Henrik's death. (episode 3.04)
- Sheila McCarthy as Connie Hendrix, Alison's mother and the founder and owner of Bubbles a soap store. She signs the store over to Alison, unknowingly helping Alison and Donnie continue their drug deals, and moved to Florida. (episode 3.07) She is conservative, and constantly points out flaws in others, tending to babble a lot; she dislikes Donnie, who she keeps calling by his original last name "Chubbs".
- Daniel Fathers as Terrance, one of Mrs. S's old friends and contacts. (episode 3.09)
- Nigel Bennett as Kassov, Mrs. S's old connection who tracked down young Sarah Manning and moved her between safe houses. Felix and Sarah contact him in an attempt to find the Castor original. (episode 3.09)
Clones
By the end of the first season, 10 clones are revealed. They are of various nationalities and stations in life. Additional clones are revealed in the second season, including Jennifer, who died from the same respiratory illness that affected Katja and Cosima.[12] In episode 8 of season 2, Tony, a transgender clone is introduced.[13] In the season one finale, Cosima discovers each clone has a different DNA tag based on ASCII coded basepairs. In addition to the identification code is the text "THIS ORGANISM AND DERIVATIVE GENETIC MATERIAL IS RESTRICTED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" followed by a series of patent numbers. Sarah is given a photograph whose caption suggests that the cloning project that produced her was called "Project Leda". In the season 2 finale, Charlotte, an 8-year-old clone with a leg disability, is introduced. At the start of Season 3 a non self-aware clone, Krystal, was almost kidnapped by the military. In Season 3 episode 8, a Polish clone is revealed to have recently died from the clone illness.
Season 2's finale reveals that the military carried on with a male cloning project called Project Castor, which created Mark (the Prolethean), Miller (the soldier clone), Rudy (a male clone held in the home of Marion Bowles), Seth (a mustachioed clone) and Parsons a clone kept barely alive by the military to study the cognitive defect. All of the Project Castor clones are self-aware of their clone nature[14] and were raised together in a military-like environment.[15]
In the Season 3 premiere it is revealed in 2006 Ferdinand of Topside was involved in the execution of six self-aware Project Leda clones in the Helsinki area. All were believed to be dead within 24 hours with another 32 people killed as collateral damage.
In the third episode of Season 3 it is revealed the originals for Projects Leda and Castor were brother and sister, making all the clones genetic siblings.
It is also revealed the DNA of the original Castor donor was stolen by Henrik Johnassen who wanted a son. This created Abel Johnassen who died as an infant.
The Castor and Leda original genetic source is revealed at the end of season three. It is Siobhan's mother, Kendall Malone, a genetic chimera who provided DNA for both the Leda and Castor lineages of clones, explaining the clones' relationship as genetic brother and sister.
In August 2015, at the conclusion of the Orphan Black comic book, a survivor of Helsinki was revealed: Veera Souminen. She will star in her comic series starting in November 2015 called Orphan Black: Helsinki [16] and then appear in Season 4 of the show in 2016.
Project Leda
Name | Place of origin | Date of birth | Status |
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Sarah Manning | London, England, United Kingdom | March 15, 1984 | Alive |
A con artist and thief. Sarah took on Beth Childs' identity upon witnessing Beth's death, originally as a scam to steal Beth's savings, but then got drawn into the hidden conspiracy of illegal human cloning. Sarah has a seven-year-old biological daughter, Kira; a foster brother, Felix; a twin sister Helena, and a foster mother, Siobhan Sadler. Street-smart and tough, Sarah at first wants no part of the other clones, caring only about getting together enough money to start over somewhere else with Kira and Felix, but discovers that she cares about others more than she thought. Although Sarah was born in the UK, she and Felix were raised in North America by their Irish foster mother Mrs. S. Upon retrieving Kira she leaves her daughter with her ex, Cal, refusing to tell him about the clone conspiracy. Sarah battles Dyad and Rachel and soon discovers Helena survived much to her shock. When she digs into the origins of the experiment she is stunned to learn Mrs. S helped Ethan Duncan many years ago and remains distrustful of her foster mother. Sarah reluctantly considers bringing Kira to Dyad in order to try and save Cosima's life. Sarah arranges for Kira's bone marrow to be extracted and taken to Dyad for Cosima's treatment, however Rachel manages to kidnap Kira. Sarah surrenders to Dyad in hopes they will release Kira, Dyad plans on extracting one of her ovaries. Sarah's allies and Marion Bowles are able to arrange for Sarah and Kira to escape. Marion introduces Sarah to one of the male clones created by the military. Sarah is outraged at Mrs. S. giving Helena to the military and agrees to help Delphine trick Ferdinand into thinking Rachel is unharmed in exchange for help in saving Helena. After she, Kira and Cal are attacked by Rudy and Seth, Sarah has Cal take Kira to safety in Iceland and sets her sights on finding Mark. Working with Art to track the Proleathans Sarah learns of Helena and Gracie's pregnancies and reveals Mark's clone heritage to Gracie. She finds Mark and informs him that they are siblings and watches as he is shot by Gracie's mother Bonnie. Sarah saves Mark and removes a bullet from his leg, while things are tense between them she learns the Castor clones were raised not to make any personal connections outside their brothers. They work together to find the remains of the original Castor DNA in Abel Johnassen's body. Sarah is then captured by Mark and Rudy. Upon waking up at the military base she is rebuffed by Helena who believes Sarah is why she has been put there. Sarah is furious at Paul for working with the military now and the deal he made with Mrs. S to sell out Helena. Paul claims the military is a family and everything he has done has been to protect them just as Sarah does for her sisters. Paul is unhappy she is a captive but is assured by Dr. Coady she will be unharmed, however she takes a gallon of Sarah's blood as a possible alternative to cure the Castor brothers. After telling of how she left Kira again to find Helena, the two sisters work together to escape. But once Helena is free she leaves Sarah behind, claiming they are now even. Sarah is injected with Rudy's blood and while fighting off the Castor sickness hallucinates and is told by Beth to stop focusing on why the clones were made but for who. Paul learns Dr. Coady is testing and researching the Castor defect that leaves their sexual partners sterile. It is the same defect the Leda's suffer from, attacking men's brains and women's fertile tissue. Once Paul realizes the higher ranks of the military are supporting Dr. Coady's efforts to weaponize the defect, he frees Sarah who fought off the illness. Killing Miller, Paul leads Sarah to freedom, telling her he regrets Beth's death and became her boyfriend to infiltrate Dyad trying to find a cure for the Castors. But he only ever loved Sarah. Going to Dr. Coady's lab, Coady refuses to focus on only finding a cure and shoots Paul several times. Paul detonates a grenade before he dies, destroying Coady's research. The blast knocks down Sarah in the nearby tunnels who is met and rescued by Helena. At a Mexican bar the sisters are reunited with Mrs. S. Despite her concern Sarah lets them work out their issues alone. Sarah and Mrs. S later reunite as family informing each other of recent events and Sarah admitting she is very tired to her "Mom." Returning home Sarah reluctantly decides to have Rachel decode the book for a cure despite the other ways it could be misused and Mrs. S's concern that breaking the alliance with Delphine will leave them vulnerable to Topside. After unhappily stealing Krystal's information with Felix, Sarah watches as Rachel decodes one page of information before pulling her own con to escape. Believing Rachel to be in a coma, Sarah, Felix and Mrs. S decide to return to London to search for the Castor original. Once there Siobhan's old contacts are friendly and a man named Terrance says he is close to finding the original so Siobhan can kill him. However, Terrance is tortured by Ferdinand and his bodyguard Bulldog, before dying of his wounds he tells Siobhan something. After Siobhan refuses to tell Sarah and Felix anything, they track the original themselves, leading them to Kendall Malone. Siobhan reveals this is her mother. Kendall explains her history with Ethan Duncan making them realize Kendall is the original donor for both sets of clones. Siobhan still considers killing her while Sarah pleads for her not too. They take Kendall back home, to a safe house provided by Art, so Scott and Cosima can examine her. Sarah and Delphine make a deal with Ferdinand to kill the Castors and neutralize Dr. Coady in exchange for genetic material from Kendall so Topside can make more clones. Her plan works, resulting in the death of Rudy and Dr. Coady's capture. She prepares to have some samples given to Ferdiand but is warned by Delphine the Neolutionists have manipulated everyone to get to this point including Ferdinand. Realizing Bulldog is a Neolutionist, Ferdinand kills him with a baseball bat and agrees to work with Sarah long-term. Sarah happily attends the dinner party with her family and friends. She, Siobhan and Kendall then reunite with Kira in the Icelandic snow. | |||
Elizabeth "Beth" Childs | East York, Ontario, Canada | Birth certificate: April 1, 1984 Cosima's chart: March 13, 1984 |
Died on November 23, 2012 |
Police detective. The series begins with her suicide by stepping in front of a train. Prior to the start of the series, she was suspended from the police department pending an investigation into her shooting of a civilian, Maggie Chen, who she knew was an agent of the Proletheans. Beth was prescribed a large number of psychoactive drugs by the psychiatrist treating her during her suspension, which she reportedly mixed and abused. She was infertile. Beth found out about the clones when Katja Obinger contacted her about the assassinations in Europe; Beth then tracked down Alison and Cosima and they formed a group (the "clone club") for mutual protection. Paul, her live-in boyfriend, was Beth's monitor. The reason for her suicide has yet to be revealed, but Sarah suspects that it was because she felt out of control of her life after discovering her nature as a clone. Before she stepped off the train platform, in a deliberate manner she removed, neatly folded, and set down her jacket, her high heels, and her handbag in an orderly row. In Season 3 it is revealed Art had fallen in love with her and regretted not saving her life, motivating him to help Beth's sisters. While Sarah is ill she hallucinates meeting Beth who is initially angry at Sarah for taking over her life and tells her of when Paul moved in. Sarah claims she is trying to finish what Beth started and protect their sisters, while she regrets letting Beth die. Beth says suicide was her choice because she got too caught up in the nature of the clones, telling Sarah to find out who is behind everything and recognizing her as a sister. At the dinner party in the Season 3 finale, Art and Sarah toast Beth's memory. | |||
Katja Obinger | Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany | Passport: March 24, 1984 Driving license: March 12, 1984 |
Died on November 25, 2012 |
Killed by Helena via sniper rifle while meeting with Sarah as "Beth". She is the second clone Sarah encountered (Beth being the first) and it was Katja's death that got her directly involved in the conspiracy. Katja contacted Beth and told her about the existence of the clones and that their counterparts in Europe were being killed. At the time of her death, Katja was suffering from a serious respiratory illness that made her cough blood; Cosima is trying to determine if this is a genetic risk to all the clones. The Helsinki comic revealed Katja learned she was a clone when she was 17 years old. She had found a medical swab under her bed and had a cut on the back of her neck she didn't remember getting, and also suffered from nightmares about surgery. Katja was contacted by Ania Kaminska who had similar experiences. She would meet Veera and several other European clones in 2001. Going to the hospital to check on Ania, she is shocked to learned Ania was killed in her room. After warning the others, Katja is spotted by Helena. | |||
Alison Hendrix | Scarborough, Ontario, Canada | Birth certificate: April 4, 1984 Cosima's chart: April 18, 1984 |
Alive |
A suburban woman whom Sarah calls a "soccer mom", she is married and has two adopted children. She is the clone with whom Beth, then Sarah, is in the most direct physical contact, due to their geographical proximity. Conservative, orderly and highly protective of her family, she is prone to emotional instability when taken out of her comfort zone. Upon discovery that each clone is assigned a "monitor", she suspected both her husband Donnie and her neighbour and friend Aynsley of being her monitor. After interrogating and torturing her husband with a hot-glue gun, she became convinced that it was Aynsley. She repeatedly tried to get Aynsley to admit her role, and finally had sex with Aynsley's husband as revenge. She became obsessed with getting Aynsley to admit she's the monitor and let Aynsley die during an accident. In the first season finale, however, the identity of her monitor was revealed to the audience as her husband, Donnie. She signed a contract offered individually to herself, Sarah, and Cosima with the Neolutionists that supposedly freed her from further monitoring without knowing that they had "patented" the clones when they were created. Alison soon discovers that Donnie is her real monitor, this coupled with her guilt over Aynsley's death led her to abuse alcohol and prescription pills. Eventually she is forced into rehab by Donnie and befriends Vic, not knowing Vic is monitoring her for the police. Felix and Sarah are able to discredit Vic. It is revealed Donnie had no idea about the clones and thought he was part of a long-term sociology study he started in college. Donnie is furious Dr. Leekie ruined his family and accidentally kills him. Alison and Donnie bond over the deaths they caused, burying Leekie under their garage floor and rekindling their romance. Donnie intimidates Vic and Angie into staying away from their family. Donnie is fired from his job and Alison decides to run for school trustee after helping Sarah and Delphine fool Ferdinand. Alison buys the prescription pill supply from her drug dealer who leaves town, intending to sell them for income and use the customer list as her voter support in the school election. Alison begins making and selling her products as well as gaining political support, turning down a bribe from Marcie to move to a nicer house outside the school district. Alison is confronted by higher-up drug dealers only to discover their boss is her ex-boyfriend from high school, Jason. They reunite on friendly terms and she agrees to increase his profits from her sales. Alison and Donnie enjoy twerking in their underwear while throwing their drug money around. Donnie buys a new car, to Alison's annoyance. They continue their operation and Alison informs Jason she intends to buy her mother's beauty shop Bubbles to make a drug front. Alison's mother Connie is very manipulative, condescending and judgmental initially refusing to sell them the store as she doesn't want Donnie as a co-owner. The same day as the school debate, Donnie and Jason try to buy more pills from the same drug dealer that cut off Vic's finger, Pouchy. A mix-up of the money and campaign materials almost costs Donnie his nose. Fortunately, with Felix and Cosima covering for her Alison is able to get the money in time to save Donnie. Alison is able to give a rousing speech about family to the voters. Jason convinces Connie to sell the store as Alison would be the true boss. Jason then kisses Cosima, thinking she is Alison. Connie reveals she did everything to get the best child, even going so far as to secretly request a sperm donor at the clinic instead of her ex-husband's material in order to have a baby with better genes; and hopes Alison will find the same courage to leave Donnie, perhaps for Jason. Out of spite Alison introduces Cosima as her clone, but Connie doesn't believe her and thinks the clinic gave another family the same sperm, making Cosima her half-sister; to Alison's exasperation. While making soap in the shop as a cover for the drugs Alison happily takes in Helena and Gracie. When confronting Jason about his feelings for her they kiss and she enjoys it but reiterates that she is married and this is just business. Jason warns they are all stuck with each other now. Donnie confronts Jason alone in the shop and Jason mocks him and beats Donnie in a fistfight. Alison spends the next day campaigning while drug dealers from Pouchy demand the pills back from Donnie since Jason is no longer backing them. Donnie returns the pills but they laugh at his request for his money back. Once they threaten the Hendrix children, Helena slaughters them and gets back more money then Donnie expected. Alison is surprised by Donnie's bruised face and the cash when she returns home. On the voting day, Donnie surprises Helena by finding Jesse for her to her delight. Rudy follows the Hendrixes from the school, fortunately they were expecting him and lead him to a trap where Helena kills him. That night they host a dinner party at Bubbles for Sarah, Felix, Siobhan, Art, Cosima, Scott, and Helena where Alison learns she won the election by 56 votes and gives a speech on how they can face whatever comes next together as a big family. | |||
Cosima Niehaus (tagged 324B21 by Dyad) | San Francisco, California, United States | March 9, 1984 | Alive |
PhD microbiology student focusing and majoring in evolutionary developmental biology at the University of Minnesota. She has the most scientific understanding of herself and her sister clones and the possible reasons as to why the illegal project started and why Helena wants to kill them, but is somewhat overconfident in science and her own ability to pursue risky courses of action. She is originally from San Francisco, California, and is believed to have received her bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley. She suspects, correctly, that her girlfriend, Delphine, is her monitor. Cosima eventually reveals to Delphine that she knows, and Delphine decides to betray the Neolutionists to help her. It is revealed that she is experiencing respiratory problems (coughing up blood) like Katja Obinger, but has not told any of her fellow clones, only revealing her affliction to Delphine. Leekie later informs Sarah of her illness. Cosima begins treatment at the Dyad Institute with stem cells but when Delphine discovers the stem cells are from Kira she keeps it secret from Cosima. When Cosima learns the truth she is angered with Delphine and reluctantly asks Sarah to bring Kira to Dyad so she can continue treatment. Ethan claims he can cure her and begins working with her just as Cosima goes into critical condition, needing Kira's bone marrow to survive. Sarah gives some bone marrow to Delphine, but Delphine is tricked into helping Rachel kidnap Kira. Ethan claims the disease is an unintentional autoimmune defect of making the clones infertile, and he will cure her, but he will not give Dyad the science to create more clones. Ethan kills himself to prevent them from getting the original genome and Rachel destroys the bone marrow when Sarah cannot tell her where the information is. Cosima and Scott build a contraption that allows Sarah to stab Rachel in the eye with a pencil. Cosima finds the genome written in a book Ethan gave Kira, giving her a chance to live. After Delphine dumps her she begins working on the genome in secret with Scott. The two meet with Dr. Nealon of Dyad and are told the originals that Projects Leda and Castor were based from were chosen by the Duncans and the data on both has been long lost. They then dissect Seth's body in Felix's bathtub, removing the brain and discovering the sibling relationship between the cloning projects. Their research hits a roadblock without some DNA from the one of the originals. Spending time with Felix he gets her into online dating to get over Delphine. Meeting Shay, a holistic healer, the two bond quickly and Cosima briefly mentions her break-up with Delphine. While on the date someone takes pictures of them in the distance. Cosima is nervous, but decides to have sex with Shay in Felix's apartment. The two quickly develop an intimate relationship. Returning to Dyad to examine Gracie, she acts cold to Delphine who is upset that Cosima has been keeping secrets and misses her. Cosima considers slowing down with Shay and is informed by Scott that Rachel may know the code to the Leda genome. Delphine is revealed to be the one behind the pictures and video of Cosima and Shay, watching them obsessively while drinking. Delphine interrupts them one morning demanding a urine sample from Cosima for further testing while Shay secretly listens. Not trusting Delphine's new position at Dyad Cosima seeks urine form Alison. She begins coughing again while posing as Alison for the campaign and fumbles the opening of Alison's debate speech. Alison refuses to give her any urine and chastises Cosima for shutting out Dyad when she needs them for her health. Cosima admits to Shay she has a serious disease and begins heavily bleeding from her crotch. She returns to Dyad, bringing Shay as a visitor who glimpses Ethan's coded book. Still not trusting Delphine she works to free Rachel with Scott and Sarah in order to decode the book, but not tell Topside so they can't make more clones. After Rudy gets the book they lie to Delphine again by saying they made no copies of it. While Scott sends Rachel to Sarah, Cosima distracts Delphine by telling her she is resigning from Dyad and of her near-death experience. Delphine briefly softens kissing her again but warning her anyone outside Dyad could be a mole-perhaps Shay. Dr. Nealon gets the copy of the book but it is useless with Rachel apparently comatose. Delphine accepts Cosima's resignation and fires Scott for all the lies they told but gives them a file on Shay. The file reveals Shay is involved with the military making Cosima think she is the mole, so Cosima goes back to Delphine. Delphine intimidates and threatens Shay who says she has no idea what Castor is and eventually cries. Delphine is stunned when Cosima tells her Shay is not the mole. Returning to Dyad, Ferdinand calls her revealing he knows Sarah is in London. Delphine agrees to meet him to discuss the leverage they have on each other. Ferdinand agrees to Sarah and Delphine's terms so they don't have Kendall killed so nobody can get her DNA. Cosima apologizes to Shay for Delphine's actions. Shay admits she was in the military but quit and lied before only to improve her dating profile. Cosima cannot tell her what is really going on so she breaks up with her. Once Delphine discovers Krystal in Rachel's place she has Dr. Nealon arrested. Dr. Nealon admits Rachel was taken to the Neolutionists who have been manipulating Dyad, Topside and the military all along to get DNA from the original and want Delphine to join them. Delphine warns Sarah and Ferdinand of this when Nealon attacks her, showing a mutated tongue. Delphine shoots and kills Nealon who warns Delphine will be dead by morning for this. Delphine admits to Shay she was wrong and gives her a Dyad card, telling her she is a good match for Cosima and has Delphine's permission to learn everything. Delphine meets Cosima outside Bubbles. Cosima apologizes for pushing Delphine away, now understanding the hard choices she made. Delphine passionately kisses her. In a parking garage Delphine knows she is about to die and asks "What will happen to (Cosima)?"[17] before being shot by someone unseen by the audience.
The character is based on Cosima Herter, the show's science consultant. Herter was a PhD student at the University of Minnesota, working on the History and Philosophy of Biology, but left the program to work on the show and her writing.[18] | |||
Helena (tagged E302A by the Proletheans) | Born: London, England, United Kingdom Nationality: Ukraine |
March 15, 1984 | Alive |
Assassin, known to have killed Katja Obinger, and probably the other deceased European clones. Her last name has not been revealed. A highly disturbed religious fanatic, she has been manipulated by the Proletheans to believe she is the "original" while the other clones are satanic doppelgängers, and that it is her duty to kill them all. Mentally unstable, she self-mutilates by cutting. Her self-harm is focused on her back, and her cuts give the appearance of feathered angel wings. She is often seen eating or trying to experience tactile sensations with her fingertips. Her caretaker Tomas, a member of the Proletheans, subjected her to physical and emotional abuse and instructed her to kill her fellow clones. Helena has no monitor because the Neolutionists lost track of her after her surrogate birth mother hid her in a Ukrainian convent, where she was reared. She and Sarah are twin sisters, both gestated by the same surrogate birth mother. Sarah shoots her in the season 1 finale after Helena stabs and kills their surrogate birth-mother. In season 2, Helena is revealed to have survived the gunshot, contrary to previous beliefs,[19] because she is a mirror twin of Sarah, meaning her organs were formed on the opposite side of her body, including her heart, which is a rare occurrence in mirror twins. Henrik and his new group of Proletheans believe the clones are part of God's Work and should be used to understand the world. Henrik kidnaps and "marries" Helena then extracts one of her eggs and fertilizes it intending Helena to carry the pregnancy, believing that Helena's connection to Sarah means that she is the only other clone capable of conceiving a child. Helena allows Henrik to impregnate her because she wants a family. However, she learns he also implanted another of her embryos in his own daughter Gracie, and intends to do so to many other women. Helena lets Gracie and her boyfriend Mark escape and then takes her revenge on Henrik, before burning down the Prolethean's farm. Helena meets Alison and Cosima in Felix's apartment and has a dance party with them, Sarah and Kira before leaving her other eggs behind. In the season 2 finale, Helena is abducted by the military and put on a plane while Paul and Mrs. S watch. In captivity Helena imagines a talking scorpion telling her this is a test. She is subjected to torturous "stress tests" but those are stopped after Dr. Coady learns Helena is pregnant. Helena initially disbelieves the claim Sarah sold her out and is told the military will find out how she has been able to survive so much. Dr. Coady believes she can be used as a cure for the Castor clones neurological condition if the original tissue cannot be found. Helena taunts Rudy and Paul, saying she will kill them one day. Helena manages to scout out the area and make a weapon for herself, while attempting to leave she sees the suffering Project Castor clone Parsons, giving up her chance to flee by killing him out of mercy. When Sarah arrives at the base Helena is cold to her believing Sarah gave her to the military. After learning the Castors clones are her brothers and Paul confirms the deal between the military and Mrs. S, Helena begins working with Sarah using materials around the base to free herself. However, she abandons Sarah as revenge for what she still thinks is Sarah's role in sending her to the desert base and escapes by herself. Stumbling in the Mexican desert, her imaginary scorpion mocks her as weak for regretting leaving Sarah, so she eats it. She returns to help Sarah out of the tunnels around the base. Once safe Helena says she wants to kill Mrs. S who refuses to fight her because Helena's pregnant. After hitting Mrs. S a few times, Helena is punched back once and then hugs and cries with Mrs. S as they mend things as family. Helena is taken to live with the Hendrixes despite Donnie's protests. Helena shows Alison's daughter Gemma the canister of her eggs which she retrieved from Felix's. Helena finds Donnie attractive and likes his jokes causing him to warm up to her. Gracie also moves in and Helena is happy to see her. She doesn't blame Gracie for miscarrying the other baby and is happy to have Gracie be an Aunt to her child. Helena patches up Donnie's face and is angered when she learns the drug dealers have taken the canister as collateral until they get the pills back. Briefly posing as Alison with Donnie she gets it back and then kills all the drug dealers for threatening Alison's kids. At home she thanks Donnie for trying to protect her babies. Donnie reunites her with Jessie who loves Helena's wild side. Helena prepares to lose her virginity in Jesse's pickup truck but is interrupted by Sarah's plan. Helena kills Rudy and rejects his claim that they are similar, him being just a disgusting rapist. She later makes a strange dessert for the dinner party. | |||
Danielle Fournier | Paris, France | Birth certificate: March 20, 1984 Cosima's chart: March 12, 1984 |
Died on September 24, 2012 |
Presumed dead before the events of the series. | |||
Aryanna Giordano | Rome, Italy | Birth certificate: April 4, 1984 Cosima's chart: April 28, 1984 |
Died on April 11, 2012 |
Presumed dead before the events of the series. | |||
Janika Zingler | Salzburg, Austria | March 10, 1984 | Died on July 13, 2012 |
Presumed dead before the events of the series. | |||
Rachel Duncan | Cambridge, England, United Kingdom | 1984 | Alive |
Raised by the Neolutionists after the alleged death of her adoptive parents Ethan and Susan Duncan, working as a high-ranking official within the Dyad Institute. Sarah refers to her as the "Proclone". Rachel speaks fluent German. Ethan and Susan were the scientists behind Project LEDA, and were supposedly killed in a lab explosion that destroyed all data on the original person the clones were created from. However, Ethan was hidden by Mrs. S's network in exchange for giving them Sarah's location when she was a child. Ethan claims the Neolutionists hijacked Project LEDA and changed it from its original purpose, also revealing that Leekie allegedly killed Susan after the Duncans destroyed the data and planned on escaping with Rachel. When Rachel hears Ethan's story, she contacts Marion Bowles who orders Leekie's death. Rachel lets him run as one act of mercy because he raised her. Upon learning the clones were designed to be infertile, her psyche begins to crack, which results in her abducting Kira. She admits to Ethan she cannot feel love like she did as a girl and is forced to watch as Ethan kills himself saying she does not deserve him anymore. After Rachel destroys Cosima's cure in a rage, Sarah shoots her in the eye with a makeshift weapon, using a pencil propelled by a fire extinguisher. In the Season 3 premiere it is revealed the pencil gave her brain damage. Under Delphine's torture it is revealed she was working with Ferdinand to execute her self-aware sisters similar to the incident in 2006, this is stopped by Delphine. Now wheelchair-bound, Rachel begins various therapies with Dr. Nealon and is told Delphine told Topside that Rachel has died in a plane crash. She begins painting to pass the time and is confronted by an enraged and desperate Felix for information on Castor. When Rachel offers no information, Felix roughs her up and mocks her saying nobody cares about her, ignoring Rachel's desire to leave. Rachel weeps while she continues painting and looking at a childhood picture with Ethan. Scott realizes her paintings may have the symbols of Ethan's genome in them. Scott is able to secretly talk this over with Rachel who reveals the symbols are a secret language she made up as a child with Ethan. Rachel will only translate the code for Sarah. Rachel demands Sarah steal Krystal's identity information for her so she can start a new life in Taiwan. Once Rudy steals the book from Scott, Delphine is convinced Rachel told the military about it despite the fact she had no means to do so. Scott breaks her out of Dyad and has her taken to Mrs.S's house where she decodes one page of a photocopy of the book, hinting the Castor original is London. They are interrupted by Dr. Nealon, on Delphine's orders when Rachel fakes a seizure. Once her body is swapped out for a comatose Krystal, Rachel leaves the country, thanking Dr. Nealon for his help. She receives a prosthetic eye implant, while in the care of a mysterious blonde woman. Rachel wakes up with a new eye, unaware of who is keeping her now. Rachel meets Charlotte and is stunned she is under the care of her adoptive mother Susan Duncan. Amelia, Sarah's and Helena's surrogate birth mother, was originally supposed to give birth to the clone raised by the Duncans. | |||
Jennifer Fitzsimmons | United States | 1984 | Dead |
A teacher and swim coach from the Midwest who suffers from respiratory illness, similar to both Katja and Cosima. She received treatment for her illness at the Dyad Institute and was asked to document her experience in a video journal. She is unaware that she is a clone and was being monitored by her boyfriend Greg. Delphine shows Jennifer's dead body to Cosima to give her a deeper look into the terminal condition. Cosima's autopsy of Jennifer leads her to speculate that the illness begins in the uterus, which could also cause the infertility of most of the clones. | |||
Tony Sawicki | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States | 1984 | Alive |
A transgender clone, apparently born through in utero fertilization; he noted that he always felt unsure in his birth family, which he attributes to his clone status after meeting Sarah. He rejected Beth's call when she said she was a cop. He worked as a thief with his friend (and probable monitor) Sammy, who was killed in an ambush. Sammy was an ex-military man who had contact with Beth and had some sort of history with Paul. Tony learns of the clones from Sarah and Felix before they send him away for his own safety. He is shown injecting testosterone. Tony also has a brief romantic interaction with Felix Dawkins, sharing a kiss before Felix backed off on the grounds that he felt uncomfortable, Tony being a clone like his foster sister. When Paul meets Mark at the military base, Paul says Mark was originally with Sammy's team. | |||
Charlotte Bowles | Unknown | 2006 | Alive |
An eight-year-old clone with one disabled leg. She is the sole survivor of 400 attempts to make new clones. She is being raised by her adoptive mother Marion Bowles. While ill Sarah hallucinates Charlotte leading her to Beth. In the Season 3 finale Charlotte says Rachel will be her new mother, according to Susan Duncan. | |||
Krystal Goderitch | Sudbury, Ontario, Canada | May 5, 1984 | Alive |
A non-self-aware clone whom Rudy and Seth attempted to abduct while she was taking Rudy to a hotel room. She was rescued by agents from Dyad though two of them were killed by Rudy. She was being monitored by her boyfriend Hector with whom she had an open relationship, though he was killed in the crossfire when Castor attacked. Krystal is naive and knows she isn't the smartest but is also not stupid. Delphine checks on her at the salon where she works to see Krystal has rationalized the incident and confirms with Dr. Nealon that she has three candidates for a new monitor in her life. Felix poses as a customer to steal her financial and identification information as part of the deal with Rachel. Krystal is lonely and paranoid since Hector's death and can sense something more is going on. Felix sympathizes with her but does not tell her the truth after Sarah's insistence. After getting the information and seeing she has started her own search for information on the Castors, Felix inspires Krystal with kind words. She is abducted by Dr. Nealon and placed in a medically induced coma in Rachel's place to fool Delphine and the self-aware clones while Rachel escapes posing as her. While Delphine examines the person in the medical bed she notices the manicured nails and Krystal suddenly wakes up, alarmed and confused about why "weird" things keep happening to her. | |||
Polish Clone | Poland | 1984 | Dead |
A clone that died during Season 3 of the Leda defect disease when Dyad couldn't figure out Ethan's genetic sequences. Her file is shown to Cosima by Delphine to make Cosima realize how serious her sickness is and stop the drama between them to cure her. Delphine will not tell her this clone's name. | |||
Veera Suominen (tagged 3MK29A by Dyad) | Helsinki, Finland | March 3, 1984 | Alive |
A self-aware clone, who was supposed to have been killed, along with the five other clones in Helsinki, by Ferdinand and Topside. The character first appeared in the epilogue of the Orphan Black comic book miniseries' fifth issue. In that issue, Veera briefly met Rachel in Cambridge during 1991 when they were girls. At the time Rachel was unaware they were clones and they were separated by Dr. Leekie due to the explosion thought to have killed Rachel's parents. Veera survived but was badly burned. While she was recovering and unconscious in Dyad, the young Rachel tried to attack her, angry that she had lost her parents while Veera survived. The comic revealed it was partially at Rachel's urging that Topside decided Veera should die.[20] In 2001, the school Veera was attending caught fire, presumably by Topside in an attempt on her life. Unknown to everyone else, who think she died in the fire, Veera escaped through a back door of the facility. Veera will star in the upcoming comic book miniseries, Orphan Black: Helsinki, which is a continuation of the former comic book series, before making her live-action debut in Season 4 of the TV series.[21] The first issue of the comic reveals a 17-year-old Veera found out her uncle was monitoring her and used her hacking abilities to discover two other girls and tracked one named Niki Lintula down. Veera doesn't remember how she got her scars but hates them for being ugly. She is a very skilled hacker and suffers from Asperger syndrome. She has been home-schooled her entire life. While the Neolutionists were trying to make more Leda clones they needed another "test subject," Dr. Dmitri decided to target Veera, her isolation minimizing the risk of collateral damage or outside complications. Left alone in the church she researches Dr. Dmitri as Ania remembered the name from her dreams. He comes in dressed as priest and captures Veera. | |||
Niki Lintula (tagged 509VT4 by Dyad) | Tapiola, Finland | 1984 | Unknown |
The first clone that Veera meets during 2001 in the comic. Veera had sneaked into Niki's high school thinking they were both being spied on and exploited by Veera's Uncle Matti. Veera's social anxiety prevents them from seeing each other until Veera walks in on Niki having sex at a house party. Niki is bisexual. When she was ten years old Niki was in London on vacation and caught a glimpse of one of her clones: Sarah, in the company of Felix and Siobhan. Her monitor, most likely Aleks reported to Dyad that the clones were meeting in the church that night. | |||
Ania Kaminska | Gdansk, Poland | 1984 | Died on September 8, 2001 |
Veera learned of her existence while looking through her monitor's email. Veera, Niki and her boyfriend Aleks track Ania down and manage to get to her high school, where they are told by one of Ania's friend's that she is in the hospital. Ania had suffered a high velocity ballistic trauma, apparently because of being shot by Helena and failing off a building. She is later killed by Helena in the hospital. She was the one who had found the others in 2001 and arranged the meeting in the church basement, theorizing they were clones. Ania's memories of her own medical tests helped her find Katja, Justya and Sofia. She investigated her dreams of those memories because of her Catholic beliefs, thinking it was a message from God. She later saw a photo of the "twins" in the newspaper and arranged the meeting. | |||
Justyna Buzek | Czech Republic | 1984 | Unknown |
A friend of Ania's. Veera and Niki go looking for her after talking to Ania in the hospital. She is with four other Leda clones in a church basement. They had all been contacted by Ania to meet that night. She is aggressive but easily accepts the clone theory. She repeatedly tried to run away from home but always woke up back in her bed with no memory of how she got there. She believes the guys she met on the train to Paris must have drugged her food to make her pass out during her last escape attempt. After learning Ania is dead, Aleks offers to drive her to the train station to go home. | |||
Sofia Jensen | Denmark | 1984 | Unknown |
Another of the clones contacted by Ania. Sofia is introverted but made one friend at a summer camp recently. She then overheard the other girl reporting about her to someone on the phone. Sofia confronted her but the monitor denied it and vanished the next day. Sofia has a verbal stutter. The "twins" force her to leave with them after learning Ania was shot. | |||
Fay | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1984 | Unknown |
A clone raised to think she and her sister Femke were twins born from the same mother and raised by adoptive parents. Fay and Femke do not believe in Ania's clone theory. She abruptly leaves after learning Ania is hurt. | |||
Femke | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1984 | Unknown |
Raised to think she and Fay were natural-born twins. Femke and her sister started to think their adoptive mother was cheating on her husband. They were contacted by Ania who said their adoptive mother was keeping medical logs on them. She resists the thought she is a clone. She quickly abandons the meeting, departing with her sister and Sofia. | |||
Medical Patient Clone | Unknown | 1984 | Unknown |
A very sick clone with a bald head. She is mistreated by her doctors in a hospital who keep taking genetic material from her and leave the her feeling sicker, around the time Veera was meeting the other clones. She calls out for someone named Effie. | |||
Project Castor
Name | Status | ||
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Mark Rollins | Alive | ||
A Prolethean, with a past in the military, extremely loyal to Henrik Johanssen, killing Tomas and twice retrieving Helena under Henrik's orders. He eventually turns against Henrik after Henrik impregnates and imprisons Gracie. He and Gracie have an official marriage after running away from the Proletheans. He was sent by the military to spy on the Proletheans but turned his back on them to be with Gracie. He is regularly troubled by nightmares. He secretly burns his Castor tattoo off of his arm in order to separate himself from his military counterparts. After hiding with Gracie and consummating their marriage, he confesses he is still in the military and was sent to collect some genetic samples her father apparently stole. Gracie tries to get them back from her father's friend Willard Finch, but all he gives her is apparently useless files. Gracie seems to return to her mother once learning Mark is a clone. Mark tortures Willard who dies of a heart attack. Mark is enraged Sarah told Gracie he is a clone. Sarah also reveals to Mark that he and his brothers are in fact genetic brothers to the Leda clones, a fact determined by Cosima's autopsy of Seth. Mark rejects them as his family. While trying to leave, he is shot twice by Gracie's mother Bonnie: once in the leg and once in the torso. Sarah helps him to escape from the cornfield in which he was shot, bringing him to an abandoned house and removing the bullet from his leg with a pair of pliers. He supervises Sarah as she unearths the corpse of Henrik's son, Abel, who died as an infant. The baby's DNA is believed to have been replicated from the Castor genome. After pacifying an altercation between Sarah and Rudy, he recovers the boxed corpse and states his intentions to relinquish it to the military for examination, along with Rudy and an unwilling Sarah. Meanwhile, Gracie is taken back to the Proleathans but rejected again after she suffers a miscarriage. Mark is revealed to be Rudy's superior within the military. Back at the desert base Dr. Coady praises his work at getting the DNA and has his arm tattooed again. Mark claims he burned it off and married Gracie only as a cover. Dr. Coady reminds him his bond with Gracie wasn't real, and has Mark log Gracie into a journal of his sexual encounters as is regulation for the Castors. Meanwhile, Gracie seeks out Art who brings her to Mrs. S and Felix. Mrs. S bonds with her by telling her how her husband died in a bar fight. Gracie is eager to get away from her sheltered life, trying alcohol and dancing with Mrs. S and Felix but then suddenly having immense pain and sickly red eyes, a disease apparently infecting everyone who has sex with a Castor clone. Gracie's eyes clear up, and she is examined at Dyad by Delphine and Cosima. Mark formally meets Paul at the desert base, previously being unaware Paul was involved in Castor. After they discover the infection of the Castor clones' sexual partners and Dr. Coady's tracking of them, Mark warns Paul that Rudy did not return with his patrol and someone called him, making Paul realize the director of the military program is supporting Dr. Coady. Gracie overhears Mark and his brothers are dying of a sickness. After staying at Alison's house briefly, Gracie says goodbye to Helena and calls Cosima to apologize. She was the one who told the military about Ethan's book to save Mark. She is reunited with him thanks to David Benchman. Mark and Gracie hide in a hotel wanting to spend their time together before Mark gets sick and dies. Sarah is able to convince him Dr. Coady won't let him be free and he should help the Leda clones. He does so, allowing them to prepare Alison for Rudy's arrival. Mark poses and Rudy in a video call to Dr. Coady telling her where to find Kendall. Dr. Coady takes the bait and is captured by Ferdinand as part of Sarah's plan. | |||
Miller | Dead | ||
A male clone that witnesses Helena being forced onto a military plane. He is first credited as Corp. Styles. He has one prosthetic leg after stepping on a landmine.[22] He handles her after her abduction by the military at the desert base, watching her torturous "stress tests" and disinterest in the logic puzzles. And her violent tantrum in the beginning of an escape attempt. He also hits and taunts Sarah when she is the new captive, unknowingly helping the next plan to escape. He alerts the base that Helena is gone. He is confined to quarters when Paul takes over the base but is freed by Rudy. Paul attacks him while rescuing Sarah, they stab each other, and Paul snaps Miller's neck. | |||
Rudy | Dead | ||
A male clone with a large scar on his face (hence called “Scarface” by Orphan Black's executive producer Graeme Manson[23]) that was initially being held in Marion Bowles' house after the failed abduction of Krystal. He is freed by Seth and they unsuccessfully attempt a threesome with a woman. After his mental tests from Paul he disobeys orders to leave by sneaking into Felix's to try and retrieve the original Castor tissue samples that were supposedly in Ethan Duncan's possession. After holding Kira hostage and realizing Sarah doesn't have the information, he leaves without harming them or Cal after killing Seth out of mercy. Rudy returns to the desert base to be chastised and later comforted (in a very childlike manner) by Dr. Coady over killing Seth. He also fails to make Helena believe Sarah betrayed her. Despite Paul's protests, Rudy is sent back out to find Mark. He does so, along with baby Abel's remains, and captures Sarah after being talked out of killing her by Mark. Returning to the base, he is given two free days by Dr. Coady to stay away from the area and Paul when he sees Sarah is a captive. Dr. Coady injects his blood into Sarah to see if she can fight off the Castor defect. He is sent to retrieve Helena but is called back after Paul takes over the base. Freeing Dr. Coady, they are confronted in her lab by Paul. Rudy is gleefully aware of what happens to his sexual partners. He watches as Dr. Coady shoots Paul and leads her away from Paul's grenade blast. Dr. Coady has several burns from the blast and meets with David Benchman the one who betrayed Paul for her. David says he has a source inside Leda that can find another way to cure the Castors in exchange for something from her. Rudy breaks into Scott's apartment and gets Ethan's Duncan's coded book after threatening Scott's cat. Rudy fails the next round of mental tests from Dr. Coady and knows this is the start of his glitching, asking her how long he has to live. Dr. Coady comforts him by saying she is working on decoding the book to find the Castor original. He begins having mental flashes in a government building while Dr. Coady meets with David. Dr. Coady tells him Sarah has hidden the Castor original and sends him after the only one of Sarah's people that is reachable-Alison. However the Hendrixes know he is following them and lure him to fight Helena in their garage as part of Sarah's large plan. The glitches weaken Rudy so Helena is easily able to kill him. As he dies, Rudy admits to Helena they had similar childhoods and says they both were given a purpose in life. Helena rebuffs Rudy as a simple rapist. | |||
Seth | Dead | ||
A male clone with a mustache. (Described by Graeme Manson as "a little below Rudy in the pecking order."[15]) He tried to help Rudy with kidnapping Krystal and releases him from Marion's. He also beats Mrs. S in her house while looking for Ethan Duncan. He appears to experience some form of mental flashes, and Rudy acknowledges these instances as "glitches." He and Rudy attempt to have sex with the young woman Patti together but fail. Seth holds a knife on Cal while Rudy searches Felix's apartment and has a mental breakdown causing him great physical pain. Rudy kills Seth in order to end this seizure. His brain is later taken to Dyad by Cosima and Scott where is it discovered the "glitches" would have killed him in less than a week and it is also used to reveal the genetic bond between Projects Leda and Castor. Art meets with Patti again for any other information on Castor and sees she has infected red eyes from her contact with Seth and Rudy. | |||
Parsons (tagged CTR093 by the Military) | Dead | ||
A male clone who is the subject of brutal experiments performed by Dr. Coady and other military supervisors. He remains immobile, restrained in a chair, and the top half of his skull has been removed in order to allow for attachment of electrodes directly to his brain. This is a supposed attempt of Castor doctors to study and cure the neurological disorder from which the male clones suffer. When Helena escapes from her cell, she confronts Parsons, who begs her to kill him. She obliges, severing his brain with a knife while soothing him with kind words. Dr. Coady and Paul both claim Parsons willingly let himself be experimented on as he was already dying and chose to be a sacrifice trying to cure his brothers. Paul examines his body, military badges and log of sexual encounters. Paul takes the log to David Benchman in an effort to shut down Dr. Coady's research. | |||
Abel Johanssen | Dead | ||
An infant created by Henrik Johanssen in an effort to have a son from the original Castor DNA stolen from Ethan Duncan. Abel died shortly after Bonnie gave birth to him. It is believed by Mark and Rudy that this baby's remains may be able to cure their neurological condition. The military is hopeful but unsure if his bones will provide a gene therapy for the Castors. However, his remains are destroyed by Paul's grenade detonating right next to them. So the military again pursues Ethan's research for a cure. |
The Original
Name | Place of origin | Status | |
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Kendall Malone | London, United Kingdom | Alive | |
Siobhan Sadler's mother. She met Ethan Duncan while in prison for murdering John Sadler. Ethan was using inmates to search for a genetic donor for the clone project, claiming it was cancer research. He used Kendall after he realized she was a Chimera, having absorbed her twin brother while in the womb, thus containing both male and female DNA. Siobhan considers killing her to stop the Castor clones while Sarah pleads for her to spare Kendall's life, reasoning that the Leda clones need her alive. She is spared and taken back for Cosima and Scott to take genetic material from, but will still be killed if Castor gets close to her. Kendall is angry and afraid she has been cloned and is now a target, but softens after Cosima shows her compassion and sees Kendall as an older sister. Kendall reveals Ethan showed up a few years after they met saying the Neolutionists had corrupted the project and his wife, but have no idea where Kendall is. Ethan feared for his life and Kendall sent him to Siobhan's network to hide in exchange for him having the one free clone-Sarah-given to Siobhan to raise, a secret apology and one last gift to Siobhan from Kendall. After the Neolutionists are exposed to be manipulating everyone, Ferdinand suggests Kendall be hidden again. Kendall is taken to Iceland by Siobhan and Sarah and watches as Kira and Sarah play in the snow. She does not look like the Leda clones because they possess her pure female genetic attributes, while she is a physical mix of both herself and her brother's appearances. |
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External links
- Orphan Black at BBC Programmes
- Orphan Black at BBC America
- Orphan Black at Space
- Orphan Black at the Internet Movie Database