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Jodie Marie Comer is a 25-year-old actress from Liverpool, and portrayed the antagonist Villanelle / Oksana Astankova in Killing Eve. The last we saw of Eve was that it looked as though Eve had seduced her in her flat, and they lay down next to each other on her bed - before Eve brutally stabbed her in the stomach and Eve fled the building. Jodie started out her acting career way back in 2008 at the age of just 15, having attended a weekend theatre school and winning a competition at a local drama festival. She then had small parts in Holby City, Waterloo Road, Doctors, Casualty and Silent Witness, before landing the role of Chloe Gemell in E4 series My Mad Fat Diary. She played Ivy Bolton in Lady Chatterley's Lover, and got another big break as Kate Parks in Doctor Foster opposite Suranne Jones. Jodie also played Elizabeth of York in The White Princess, a sequel to The White Queen starring Rebecca Ferguson.Jodie will be returning for season two.

Sandra Oh is a Canadian actress who starred as MI5 officer Eve Polastri, the agent who was hunting Villanelle. The last time we saw Eve, it looked as though her marriage to Nico was in tatters, and she'd sought Villanelle out at her flat and proceeded to stab her in the stomach. She began her career in showbiz at an early age, performing in school plays before forgoing a place at university to study at the National Theatre School and going on to star in biographical TV films of two significant female Chinese-Canadians, Evelyn Lau and Adrienne Clarkson.She's most well-known for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang in Grey's Anatomy, having starred in the show from Season 1 to Season 10. She also had voice roles on various Disney Channel TV shows, as well as showing off her more comedic side in The Princess Diaries as Vice Principal Gupta. Sandra will be returning for season two.

Potterheads will recognise actress Fiona Shaw AKA MI6 operative Carolyn Martens as Aunt Petunia Dursley from the Harry Potter film series. Carolyn had rather questionable motives during Killing Eve - although she was on the hunt for Villanelle, she was blind to some facts after viewers discovered she'd had an affair with Russian operatives Vladimir Betkin and Konstantin Vasiliev.The Irish actress was awarded a CBE in 2001, having worked extensively in theatre for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre and winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress twice.During the 1990's, she starred in three period drama films - Persuasion as Mrs. Croft, Jane Eyre as Mrs. Reed and Anna Karenina as Lydia, but her biggest film role was Aunt Petunia, starring in all eight of the films.Fiona will be returning for season two.

Danish actor Kim Bodnia played Villanelle's handler, Konstantin Vasiliev in Killing Eve, and a romantic past was hinted at with Carolyn Martens, Fiona Shaw's character. He has mostly starred in European films throughout his character, and is quite famous for his role in Scandinavian noir crime television series The Bridge as Martin Rohde.

David Haig is a 63-year-old British actor who played Bill Pargrave, Eve's MI5 associate who joins her at MI6 before tragically being stabbed to death by Villanelle. He is most well known for his breakout role, which was as Bernard in Four Weddings and a Funeral before reuniting with fellow co-star Rowan Atkinson in BBC sitcom The Thin Blue Line. He later had a role on The Thick Of It as Steve Fleming alongside Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison and Joanna Scanlan, and was awarded an MBE in 2013. He's also a prolific stage actor, and has even written a play based on the life of Rudyard Kipling, which he later starred in alongside Daniel Radcliffe. He appeared in 2016 film Florence Foster Jenkins with his Four Weddings co-star Hugh Grant, as well as Meryl Streep.David will not be returning for season two.

Darren Boyd played Frank Haleton in Killing Eve - Eve's supervisor at MI5. Although Frank initially seemed to be an overbearing boss who couldn't take a joke, he was later discovered to be a mole for the Russians, and was targeted by three assassins - one of whom was Villanelle. Unfortunately for him, she got him in the end, despite Eve's best efforts.Darren has had an extensive stage career, and has also appeared in TV comedies like Saxondale and Royal Wedding, about the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer alongside Jodie Whittaker. He more recently starred in Sky Atlantic's Fortitude as the creepy Markus Huseklepp, and had roles in Luther and Lucky Man.

Irish actor Owen McDonnell portrayed Eve's Polish-British husband Niko Polastri in Killing Eve. Although he wasn't a huge character, he was shown to be a loving and caring husband to Eve, but as the show went on and she became more obsessed with Villanelle, cracks started to show in their relationship and he eventually left their apartment.Owen is best known for playing Garda Sergeant Jack Driscoll in RTÉ Television's Single-Handed, but has also had roles on Spooks and Silent Witness, as well as sitcom Mount Pleasant.

Kirby Howell-Baptiste is a British actor from London. She played Eve's friend and assistant Elena Felton, who transferred to MI6 with her when she started to work for Carolyn. Fans of The Good Place will recognise Kirby as Simone, the Australian neuroscientist who has a brief relationship with main character Chidi Anagonye. She also appeared in House of Lies, is a recurring character on Netflix's LOVE as well as on HBO comedy-drama Barry with Bill Hader.The BBC have confirmed that Kirby will not be returning for season two.

Sean Delaney plays Kenny Stowton, the hacker and online specialist that Eve and Carolyn hire to assist in their investigation. It later becomes apparent that Kenny is, in fact, Carolyn's son, and even he begins to despair at his mother's actions regarding the case around Villanelle.Sean previously appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders, but Killing Eve has been his breakout performance.