List of Orphan Black characters

Several Orphan Black cast members at NerdHQ in 2014. (L-R: Millen, Bruun, Doyle Kennedy, Bruce, Gavaris, and Maslany).

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, Kristian Bruun and Ari Millen in the third, and Josh Vokey in the fourth.[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.[3]

Appearances

     = Main cast (credited)
     = Recurring cast (3+)
     = Guest cast (1-2)

Main

Actor Character Appearances / Season Total
S1 S2 S3 S4
Tatiana Maslany Sarah Manning 10 10 10 4 34
Cosima Niehaus 9 10 10 4 33
Alison Hendrix 8 9 9 4 30
Helena 7 8 10 3 28
Rachel Duncan 2 8 6 2 18
Elizabeth Childs 1 1 3 5
Krystal Goderitch 3 3
Veera "M.K." Suominen 3 3
Tony Sawicki 1 1
Jennifer Fitzsimmons 1 1
Katja Obinger 1 1
Jordan Gavaris Felix "Fee" Dawkins 10 10 10 4 34
Kristian Bruun Donnie Hendrix 6 9 9 3 27
Maria Doyle Kennedy Siobhán Sadler 9 7 8 3 27
Kevin Hanchard Arthur "Art" Bell 8 8 4 3 23
Dylan Bruce Paul Dierden 10 5 4 3[lower-alpha 1] 22
Josh Vokey Scott Smith 3 7 9 3[lower-alpha 2] 22
Évelyne Brochu Delphine Cormier 6 9 6 21
Ari Millen Mark Rollins 8 7 15
Rudy 1 9 10
Miller 1 5 6
Ira Duncan 2 2
Seth 2 2
Parsons 1 1
Michael Mando Victor "Vic" Schmidt 6 3 9
  1. ↑ Dylan Bruce is only credited for appearing in the first two episodes of season 4. Subsequent appearances are uncredited.
  2. ↑ Josh Vokey is credited as a special guest for his first two appearances of the season in episodes 2 and 3. Subsequent appearances are credited as series regular.

Recurring

Actor Character Appearances / Season Total
S1 S2 S3 S4
Skyler Wexler Kira Manning 9 9 4 3 25
Inga Cadranel Detective Angela "Angie" Deangelis 8 6 1 15
Zoé de Grand'Maison Gracie Johanssen 7 8 15
Millie Davis Gemma Hendrix 4 5 5 14
Matt Frewer Aldous Leekie 5 4 1 10
Drew Davis Oscar Hendrix 4 5 9
Kyra Harper Dr. Virginia Coady 9 9
Ron Lea Lieutenant Gavin (or Mike) Hardcastle 8 1 9
Cynthia Galant Young Rachel Duncan/Charlotte Bowles 3 2 2 7
Terra Hazelton Sarah Stubbs 4 2 1 7
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
Michiel Huisman Cal Morrison 5 1 6
Natalie Lisinska Aynsley Norris 5 1 6
Julian Richings Benjamin Kertland 4 2 6
Nicholas Rose Colin 5 1 6
Ksenia Solo Shay Davydov 6 6
Amanda Brugel Marci Coates 5 5
James Frain Ferdinand Chevalier 3 2 5
Peter Outerbridge Henrik Johanssen 5 5
David Richmond-Peck Olivier Duval 4 1 5
Raymond Ablack Raj Singh 3 1 4
Tom Barnett David Benchman 4 4
Justin Chatwin Jason Kellerman 4 4
Rosemary Dunsmore Professor Susan Duncan 2 2 4
Carlos Gonzalez-Vio Dr. Silva 4 4
Daniel Kash Tomas 3 1 4
Priya Rao Meera Kumar 3 1 4
Diana Salvatore Bobby 1 1 2 4
Jean Yoon Janis Beckwith 3 1 4
Kathryn Alexandre Alexis 1 2 3
Kristi Angus Charity Simms 2 1 3
Sarain Boylan Astrid 1 2 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
Carter Hayden Paul 3 3
Joel Thomas Hynes Dizzy 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
Allie MacDonald Trina 3 3
Danny MacDonald Martin Funt 3 3
Alex Ozerov Ramon 1 1 1 3
Earl Pastko Bulldog 3 3
Gord Rand Detective Marty Duko 3 3
Kent Sheridan Conrad 3 3
Calwyn Shurgold Hell-Wizard 1 2 3
Alison Steadman Kendall Malone 2 1 3
David Vena Joao 1 2 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
Miranda Edwards Roxie 2 2
Jamila Fleming Sherry 2 2
Gavin Fox Lionel 2 2
Eric Johnson Chad Norris 2 2
Natalie Krill Patty 2 2
Ian Matthews Frank 2 2
Earl "Bubba" McLean Teddy 1 1 2
Louise Nicol Mrs. Chubbs 1 1 2
Melanie Nicholls-King Amelia 2 2
Jessica Salgueiro Luisa 2 2
Elizabeth Saunders Dr. Anita Bowers 2 2
Allan Turner Young Ethan Duncan 1 1 2
Ivan Wanis-Ruiz Martinez 2 2
Jessalyn Wanlim Evie Cho 2 2

Grouped by associated storyline, and listed in order of first appearance.

Sarah's acquaintances
Beth's acquaintances
Alison's acquaintances
Cosima's acquaintances
Helena's acquaintances
M.K.'s acquaintances
The Dyad Institute and Project Leda
The Proletheans
The Birdwatchers
The Military and Project Castor
Miscellaneous

Non-recurring

Notable non-recurring characters, listed in order of appearance.

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.

In March 2016, the new Castor clone Ira was revealed on the website for the show.

Project Leda

Name Place of origin Date of birth Status
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. At the start of Season 4, Sarah is woken up in the middle of the night to be warned by MK and Art that the Neolutionists are coming. Burning down their hideout and returning to the other clones, Sarah is hurt that Kira seems distant over missing Cal. Sarah and Art find old footage of Beth in her apartment and Sarah tries to find MK and an old Neolution lead. Sarah reconnects with Felix who has been ignoring her and ropes him into going to Club Neolution with her, though he is annoyed at how she uses him and wants to focus on finding his own birth family. Sarah posed as MK and is shown a video of the "Maggot-Bot" implant of Neolution that kills its hosts if tampered with. Stealing Dizzy's phone she talks with MK and learns a bit more of why Beth killed herself. She is attacked by the paramedic couple who think she is MK, they back off when they realize she is Sarah; but also reveal to Sarah she has a Maggot-Bot inside her. Scared and unsure of what it is doing to her, she tries to recruit Felix to help, but he has found his biological half-sister Adele. She is a disbarred lawyer whose father admitted to having an affair with a British dancer when he died. Felix's mother died when he was little and the two found each other. Not admitting to the danger she's in, Sarah and Felix coldly dismiss each other. Tracking down Dizzy, she and Art try and reverse track the man in the video. Sarah ends up in a dental clinic thinking they can remove the Maggot-Bot, and a hygienist mistakes her for Beth. The hygienist says she can remove it but is actually a Neolutionist who deflected Beth before, and says the test subjects are lucky to have the Maggot-Bots. Sarah is saved by Ferdinand who kills the hygienist and tells her Susan Duncan is alive. Reconnecting with Siobhan and Felix,they work with Ferdinand who wants to protect Rachel. Sarah tries to get MK to reverse track Rachel's online message but MK disconnects when she hears about Ferdinand. Telling Dizzy they are clones, the two break into MK's trailer and learn MK is Veera from Helsinki. Realizing she has lured Ferdinand to Beth's, she is barely able to convince Veera not to kill him, but Veera refuses to help the still living clones and departs with Ferdinand's money.
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 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. The Season 4 premiere reveals much about Beth's life prior to her suicide. After being contacted by the clone MK and finding Alison and Cosima, MK tells her to investigate the murder of a low-level Neolutionist. Her journey alerts Oliver and she briefly meets Leekie and Evie Cho. MK has convinced her Paul is a spy fueling her paranoia of her boyfriend. High on pills and drunk she tries to throw herself at Paul with passion; he acts cold but will also not be the one to end their relationship. In her misery, Beth almost shoots him. She runs to Art and has sex with him. Later that night she gets a tip from Trina who is concerned about her boyfriend, who has undergone an experimental procedure and was subsequently abducted by Neolutionists. While investigating, she is follows Trina's directions to an alleyway, where she sees a parked ambulance. Trina instructs her to climb the fire escape, and when she does, she looks into a room and she sees the Neolutionist paramedics, Frank and Roxie, and Detective Dunko, a detective from her police precinct, removing a worm implant from Trina's boyfriend's cheek. Still high, she crashes into boxes on the fire escape, startling the Neolutionists inside the building who then motion to follow her. While fleeing, she accidentally shoots Maggie Chen on impulse, who she believed was associated with the Neolutionists that were after her. Although Maggie Chen's sinister motives were revealed after Beth's death, Beth believed she had shot an innocent bystander. After learning Dunko would be her legal representative, she flees to MK's trailer emotionally broken. MK promises to do the thinking for both of them. Beth is visited in her home and threatened by Dunko. On the night of her, suicide Beth wore a disguise with a blonde wig, taking a gun and a card somewhere. She returns home with someone else's blood on her hands and meets MK. Ditching her disguise, she refuses to say what happened, giving MK the gun and telling her everything is over and to go back into hiding. She gives MK a hug and leaves to kill herself on the train platform. In the present, while Sarah tracks the dental lead, Art confronts Dunko about visiting Beth's home and he tries to play it off as regular business. Present day information reveals she had a falling out with Trina, who was some kind of "carrier" and the night Beth wore a disguise, she was carrying a card for the Life Spring fertility clinic.
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 learn Ania was killed in her room. After warning the others, Katja is spotted by Helena. The next day, Katja vanished from her monitor's watch.
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. Flashbacks reveal Alison funded Cosima moving from Berkeley to help the clones and that she gave Beth a clean urine sample to pass the police drug testing. Alison tries to be happy that Helena is having twins but is clearly jealous. She also encourages Felix to be honest about his search for his biological family. Upon learning of the Neolution implants, she assumes Leekie must have one, and she and Donnie dig him up while being repulsed by the decomposing body. After Donnie and Helena deflect the detectives investigating the murder of the drug dealers, Alison and Donnie tell Cosima how Leekie died and that they now have a Maggot-Bot to study. Alison wants to prepare for another musical but it mistaken for Beth by Trina. Once Sarah snaps at her to pull her weight for the clones, Alison sends Felix and Donnie to the Life Spring clinic to pose as a gay couple looking to have children. After dirty talking Donnie through a sperm sample, she notices a friend who also had fertility problems is now pregnant. Fishing for information and her genuine desire for her own child, Alison is told about the BrightBorn program which ties to the Neolutionists.
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. Early flashbacks reveal she moved and started studying biology specifically to help Beth and Alison. When Sarah returns, Cosima and Scott have set up a hidden lab in the basement of "The Rabbit Hole" comic shop, buying some equipment and stealing some from Dyad before they were locked out. With all their contacts at Dyad fired or disappeared they search for a cure on their own. Cosima is getting weaker and is comforted by Mrs. S over Delphine's disappearance. While investigating the implants, Kira gets angry and begins zoning out and warns Cosima she had a dream where all the other Ledas set Sarah on fire because Sarah is "changing." Cosima is shocked to learn the truth of Leekie's demise and the Maggot-Bot the Hendrixes have. Dissecting Leekie's head she and Scott find the Maggot-Bot is still feeding on his body like a tumor and believe it is meant to change a person's DNA code. After warning Sarah, Felix brings Cosima a BrightBorn DVD featuring Evie Cho. Cosima believes the Neolutionists are creating genetically altered babies.

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. Posing as Alison with Donnie to get health care, an ultrasound reveals she is carrying identical twins, giving Helena joy. Helena finally calls Sarah to tell her the news but hopes the twins won't grow up to be like her. Two detectives come into the Hendrix home and mistake her for Alison. They are investigating the homicide of the drug dealers and went to Alison because some of her school election advertising was left behind at the crime scene. Donnie and Helena are able to deflect their questions. As Helena gets more excited about her twins, Donnie cautions her of Alison's jealousy. The fertilized eggs in the canister have expired without liquid nitrogen so Helena buries it in the Hendrix garden and then packs up and leaves the house.
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 March 31, 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 Helsinki, 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. She and Charlotte are kept in isolation and Susan disappears for six weeks, further angering Rachel. Her new eye and physical therapy is administered by Ira, who she mocks as not being a man like the other Castors. Ira rebuffs that he's never met them and points out her little flaws like growing facial hair and needing treatment to turn her eye to a normal color. When Susan returns, Rachel lashes out and assumes Susan failed to find Kendall again. Susan calls Rachel a disappointment. Rachel has Charlotte send online messages to Ferdinand, who agrees to help Sarah remove the Maggot Bot in his search for Rachel. Rachel is alarmed that Charlotte is coughing blood while the two talk. Susan apologizes to Rachel, saying she may be leader of Neolution one day but that she must be patient; they both must focus on the greater good of advancing human evolution. Concerned for Charlotte she theorizes immune-repressive therapy could help her since she is so young, though Susan points out that if they leave her untreated, her death could provide a way to find a cure for the clones sickness, including the Castor version. Susan leaves it up to Rachel to decide. Rachel still tries to get messages to Ferdinand through Charlotte but ultimately decides the data is more important then possibly saving Charlotte. Susan agrees but must leave her again to clean up a mess; Rachel's contacting Ferdinand.

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. While discussing options to save Charlotte, Rachel points out immune-repressive therapy might help, Charlotte being younger would spare her the torture Jennifer went through.
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. Charlotte is kept locked up with Rachel and is given online study access. Charlotte has started to fall sick from the clone disease. Susan claims Charlotte was made from Rachel. Rachel is conflicted if they should try and treat Charlotte or let the disease take its course and use her as a sample to find a cure. Rachel tells Susan to let Charlotte die.
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 "M.K." 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 has 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. Veera escapes with Jade, breaking a shelf of failed fetuses onto Dr. Dmitri. Taking his computer, Veera figures she was meant to be the next clone made sick to test their healing capabilities and to donate her genetics to Dyad's attempts to make more clones. Veera decides with Niki and Jade that if all the clones go to the press together they can get answers and be protected in the public eye. Unfortunately, only Justyna joins them and their intended day to reveal themselves is overshadowed by the September 11 attacks. In the Season 4 premiere, the paranoid hacker "MK" is revealed to have contacted Beth, warning her not to trust Paul and of another mole in the police department. MK tries to comfort Beth after Maggie Chen is killed. In the present, she goes to Art to warn Sarah that Iceland is no longer safe, indicating that the Neolutionists are aware of their location and are coming to retrieve Kendall Malone. She was the last person Beth spoke to before her suicide, begging Beth not to leave. She speaks with Sarah when she returns; revealing Beth knew something about the Maggot-Bots and told "MK" to watch over the other clones. She flees before Sarah can meet her and avoids the paramedics. Veera has been tracking down Topside, most of whom are dead, for revenge for the Helsinki Incident, talking with a picture of Niki. When Sarah approaches for a hacker's help in finding Rachel, Veera discovers Ferdinand and is disgusted Sarah is working with him. Hacking Sarah's phone she lures him to Beth's home where she has him sit on a chair with a bomb underneath. She dunks him with gasoline intending to burn him to death for killing 6 clones and 32 of their friends and family. Veera's rage is barely held back by Sarah who convinces her not to kill him. She does however empty Ferdinand's 3.5 million dollars in his bank accounts. She coldly rejects Sarah's plea to help the other clones and leaves. She wears a sheep mask in public to hide her identity. The mask resembles Dolly, the first successfully cloned organism. This has led to her being nicknamed "Dolly" by fans in addition to her chosen pseudonym of MK.[22]
Niki Lintula (tagged 509VT4 by Dyad) Tapiola, Finland 1984 Dead
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. Aleks tries to make her forget about Veera but Veera escapes on her own. Niki, Aleks and her circle of friends protect Veera and Jade. Niki contacts reporter Erik Valo. When Ferdinand hears of this plan, after he was seduced by Rachel, he gets permission from Marion to kill the clones. In Season 4, Veera constantly talks to a picture of Niki as she hunts Topside and is outraged Ferdinand gassed her and her family, burning down their house; stating Niki was her only friend and had just started to live life with her boyfriend Aleks.
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 Prague, 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. She agrees to go to the press conference and notices she is being followed so she wears a disguise to sneak away and meet the others in Finland.
Sofia Jensen Odense, 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. She answers the call to go to a press conference with the other clones, but is captured before she can get on the plane to meet the others.
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. She ignores Niki's call a few days later.
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. She ignores the other clones in Helsinki a few days later.
Jade (tagged C35FE1 by Dyad) 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 her friend named Effie. This clone does not remember her real name and was called "Jade" by Effie and "Cee" by Dr. Dmitri who did not give his clones actual names. Once she escapes with Veera she realizes the treatments she was given are what has made her sick. Though she is scared, she agrees to go to the press with Veera.
Effie Unknown 1984 Died in 2001
Another clone bald from Dmitri's treatments. She was the only one who could remember life outside of his lab and used to promise Jade and the others they could explore it together one day. She dies from the "treatments."
Five other Leda Teenagers Unknown 1984 Dead
Five clones brought to Dmitri, along with Jade and Effie, when they were so little that they forgot their names. Dmitri only referred to them by their Dyad tags so they created names for each other. All were dead by the time Veera was captured, but she takes Dmitri's computer and learns of them and how they suffered.

Project Castor

Name Status
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.[23] 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[24]) 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.
Ira Duncan Alive
Revealed on the show's website in March 2016. Described as slick and cut from an entirely different cloth than his Castor brothers. [25] He works as a doctor for Susan Duncan, observes Rachel, and has always lived separately from the other Castor clones. Susan didn't have much control over the Castor project but managed to raise him differently. He and Rachel both make passive-aggressive comments about each other. He is upset when Rachel angers Susan. He and Rachel later discuss potential treatment options for Charlotte.

The Original

Name Place of origin Status
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. In the season 4 premiere, it is revealed by MK that Neolution is aware of Kendall's location in Iceland and that they have sent people to retrieve her. Returning with her family she reveals to Scott she was previously diagnosed with leukemia but forbids him from telling anyone she is dying.

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