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Mr. Robot is an American drama thriller television series created by Sam Esmail. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker who has social anxiety disorder and clinical depression. Elliot is recruited by an insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot, played by Christian Slater, to join a group of hacktivists called "fsociety".[1] The group aims to destroy all debt records by encrypting the financial data of the largest conglomerate in the world, E Corp.
In addition to Malek and Slater, the first season also starred Carly Chaikin, Portia Doubleday, and Martin Wallström, with Michael Cristofer, Stephanie Corneliussen, Elliot Villar, and BD Wong in supporting roles. For the second season, Cristofer and Corneliussen were promoted to regulars with Grace Gummer joining the main cast. In the third season, Wong was promoted to a regular and Bobby Cannavale joined the cast, and Villar guest starred. In the final season, Villar was promoted to a regular and Ashlie Atkinson joined the cast.
The pilot episode premiered via online and video on demand services on May 27, 2015. The series later debuted on USA Network on June 24, 2015, running for four seasons until its two-part series finale on December 22, 2019.
Main characters
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[edit]Character | Portrayed by | Seasons | |||
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Elliot Alderson | Rami Malek | Main | |||
Darlene Alderson | Carly Chaikin | Main | |||
Angela Moss | Portia Doubleday | Main | |||
Tyrell Wellick | Martin Wallström | Main | |||
Mr. Robot | Christian Slater | Main | |||
Phillip Price | Michael Cristofer | Recurring | Main | ||
Joanna Wellick | Stephanie Corneliussen | Recurring | Main | ||
Dominique DiPierro | Grace Gummer | Main | |||
Whiterose | BD Wong | Recurring | Main | ||
Irving | Bobby Cannavale | Main | Guest | ||
Fernando Vera | Elliot Villar | Recurring | Guest | Main | |
Janice | Ashlie Atkinson | Main |
Elliot Alderson
[edit]Elliot Alderson | |
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Mr. Robot character | |
First appearance | "eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" (2015) |
Last appearance | "Hello, Elliot" (2019) |
Created by | Sam Esmail |
Portrayed by | Young
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Relatives | Darlene Alderson (sister) |
Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a senior network engineer at Allsafe Cybersecurity and a vigilante hacker.[4] He has dissociative identity disorder and deals with other mental illnesses such as clinical depression and severe anxiety, which are partly responsible for his antisocial behavior and drug use.[5][6]
Darlene Alderson
[edit]Darlene Alderson | |
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Mr. Robot character | |
First appearance | "eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" (2015) |
Last appearance | "Hello, Elliot" (2019) |
Created by | Sam Esmail |
Portrayed by | Carly Chaikin |
In-universe information | |
Alias | DoloresH4ze[3] |
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Family |
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Significant other | Francis "Cisco" Shaw (ex-boyfriend) |
Relatives | Elliot Alderson (brother) |
Carly Chaikin portrays Darlene Alderson,[7] Elliot's younger sister,[8] a malware coder and one of the fsociety hackers.[9][10]
Angela Moss
[edit]Angela Moss | |
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Mr. Robot character | |
First appearance | "eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" (2015) |
Last appearance | "Hello, Elliot" (2019) |
Created by | Sam Esmail |
Portrayed by | Young
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Family |
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Significant other | Ollie Parker (ex-boyfriend) |
Portia Doubleday portrays Angela Moss[11] is Elliot's childhood friend and a fellow employee at Allsafe, later PR Manager for E Corp.[9][10][12]
Tyrell Wellick
[edit]Tyrell Wellick | |
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Mr. Robot character | |
First appearance | "eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" (2015) |
Last appearance | "Hello, Elliot" (2019) |
Created by | Sam Esmail |
Portrayed by | Martin Wallström |
In-universe information | |
Occupation | |
Spouse | Joanna Wellick (wife) |
Children | Unnamed son |
Martin Wallström portrays Tyrell Wellick,[13] the ambitious Senior Vice President of Technology at E Corp and later part of fsociety.
Mr. Robot
[edit]Mr. Robot | |
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Mr. Robot character | |
First appearance | "eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" (2015) |
Last appearance | "Hello, Elliot" (2019) |
Created by | Sam Esmail |
Portrayed by | Christian Slater |
In-universe information | |
Full name | Edward Alderson |
Occupation |
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Spouse | Magda Alderson (wife) |
Children |
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Christian Slater portrays Mr. Robot,[14] an insurrectionary anarchist who recruits Elliot into an underground hacker group called fsociety.[15] Slater also portrays Edward Alderson, Elliot's father.[16]
Phillip Price
[edit]Phillip Price | |
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Mr. Robot character | |
First appearance | "eps1.2_d3bug.mkv" (2015) |
Last appearance |
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Created by | Sam Esmail |
Portrayed by | Michael Cristofer |
In-universe information | |
Occupation | CEO at E Corp |
Children | Angela Moss (daughter) |
Michael Cristofer portrays Phillip Price,[17] the CEO of E Corp and Angela's biological father.
Joanna Wellick
[edit]Joanna Wellick | |
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Mr. Robot character | |
First appearance | "eps1.2_d3bug.mkv" (2015) |
Last appearance | "eps3.1_undo.gz" (2017) |
Created by | Sam Esmail |
Portrayed by | Stephanie Corneliussen |
In-universe information | |
Spouse | Tyrell Wellick (husband) |
Significant other | Derek (boyfriend) |
Children | Unnamed son |
Stephanie Corneliussen[17][18] portrays Joanna Wellick (née Olafsson)[3], Tyrell's wife.
Dom DiPierro
[edit]Dom DiPierro | |
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Mr. Robot character | |
First appearance | "eps2.0_unm4sk-pt2.tc" (2016) |
Last appearance | "Hello, Elliot" (2019) |
Created by | Sam Esmail |
Portrayed by | Grace Gummer |
In-universe information | |
Occupation | FBI field agent |
Family | Trudie DiPierro (mother) |
Relatives |
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Grace Gummer portrays Dominique DiPierro,[19] an FBI field agent investigating the E Corp hack.
Whiterose
[edit]Whiterose | |
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Mr. Robot character | |
First appearance | "eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v" (2015) |
Last appearance | "eXit" (2019) |
Created by | Sam Esmail |
Portrayed by |
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In-universe information | |
Full name | Zhi Zhang |
Occupation |
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Significant other | Grant (lover) |
BD Wong portrays Whiterose, a trans woman who works as a cyber-terrorist and leader of the Dark Army. Whiterose also operates under her birth name Zhi Zhang, China's male Minister of State Security.[20][21]
Irving
[edit]Irving | |
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Mr. Robot character | |
First appearance | "eps3.0_power-saver-mode.h" (2017) |
Last appearance | "410 Gone" (2019) |
Created by | Sam Esmail |
Portrayed by | Bobby Cannavale |
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Bobby Cannavale portrays Irving, a used car salesman who works as a fixer for the Dark Army.[21]
Supporting characters
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[edit]fsociety
[edit]- Ron Cephas Jones as Leslie Romero, a member of fsociety.[18]
- Sunita Mani as Shama "Trenton" Biswas, a member of fsociety.
- Azhar Khan as Sunil "Mobley" Markesh, a member of fsociety and Bank of E employee.
Allsafe
[edit]- Michel Gill as Gideon Goddard, CEO of Allsafe Security.[22]
- Ben Rappaport as Oliver "Ollie" Parker, Angela's boyfriend and an employee at Allsafe.[23]
- Aaron Takahashi as Lloyd Chong, Elliot's co-worker at Allsafe.
E Corp
[edit]- Bruce Altman as Terry Colby, the former CTO of E Corp who is framed by fsociety for a hack attack.
- Brian Stokes Mitchell as Scott Knowles, the CTO of E Corp following Colby's arrest.
- Sandrine Holt as Susan Jacobs, an E Corp General Counsel, known as Madame Executioner.[24]
- Ramy Youssef as Samar Swailem, Elliot's co-worker at E Corp.
- Christine M. Campbell as Janet Robinson, a high-level manager at E Corp.
- Kathryn Danielle as Bobbi, the HR manager at E Corp.
Law enforcement
[edit]- Craig Robinson as Ray Heyworth, a prison warden who secretly runs a Tor routed website involving human trafficking, drugs and weapons.[25]
- Michael Maize as "Lone Star" Lockwood, a Texas native and an off-balanced prison guard and associate of Ray.[24]
- Omar Metwally as Ernesto Santiago, DiPierro's superior at the FBI who also works for the Dark Army to protect Tyrell Wellick.
- Rizwan Manji as Norm Gill, an FBI agent and DiPierro's new partner working with her to investigate the 5/9 hack.[26]
Dark Army
[edit]- Michael Drayer as Francis "Cisco" Shaw, Darlene's ex-boyfriend who was the U.S. liaison to the Chinese hacker group Dark Army.
- Stephen Lin as Hamburger Man, Elliot's contact with the Dark Army.
- Joey Badass as Leon, a close friend of Elliot and an inmate, as well as an agent for the Dark Army responsible for Elliot's safety.[27]
- Grant Chang as Grant, Whiterose's assistant and lover.
- Jing Xu as Wang Shu, Whiterose's assistant after Grant.
Others
[edit]- Gloria Reuben as Krista Gordon, Elliot's psychiatrist.[28]
- Frankie Shaw as Shayla Nico, Elliot's drug dealer and girlfriend.[29]
- Armand Schultz as Lenny Shannon, Krista's ex-lover who used the pseudonym Michael Hansen on Ashley Madison to cheat on his wife, and one of Elliot's early hacking targets.
- Don Sparks as Donald Moss, Angela's adopted father.
- Michele Hicks as Sharon Knowles, Scott's wife.
- Vaishnavi Sharma as Magda Alderson, Elliot's mother.
- Jeremy Holm as Donald "Mr. Sutherland" Hoffman, a fixer under Tyrell and Joanna Wellick.
- Elliot Villar as Fernando Vera, Shayla's drug supplier and Elliot's only supply of suboxone who has a unique dangerous philosophy and is obsessed with Shayla and later Elliot.[18]
- Rick Gonzalez as Isaac Vera, Vera's brother.
- Erik Jensen as Frank Cody, a conspiracy theorist and talk show host.
- Chris Conroy as Derek, Joanna's secret lover who works as a bartender and a DJ.[27]
- Bernadette Quigley as a chaplain who hosts a prayer group attended by Elliot.
- Luke Robertson as RT, Ray's former system admin.[24]
- Josh Mostel as Bo, Elliot's landlord.
Guest stars
[edit]- Samrat Chakrabarti as Rohit "Ron" Mehta, a local coffee shop owner who Elliot exposes for possession of child pornography. (season 1)
- Randy Harrison as Harry Davis, Gideon's husband. (season 1)
- Dorothi Fox as Nell Romero, Leslie Romero's mother (season 2)
- Laurie Segall as herself, a CNN reporter. (seasons 2–3)
- Jeremy Bobb as Joseph Green, Angela's supervisor in PR at E Corp. (season 2)
- Jordan Gelber as an FBI agent. (season 2)
- Paul Fusco as ALF, the character from the television series of the same name who appears in a hallucination created by Mr. Robot. (season 3)
- Hailie Sahar as Lady of the Night, a prostitute Darlene befriends. (season 3)
- Wallace Shawn as Mr. Williams, a member of the Dark Army who interrogates Tyrell. (season 3)
- Pat Kiernan as himself, a news reporter for NY1. (season 3)
- Soledad O'Brien as herself, a broadcast journalist who hosts Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien. (season 3)
- Chloe Levine as Erica, a petty thief who tries to rob Darlene. (season 3)
- Julia Crockett as Emily Moss, Angela's deceased mother and Price's ex-girlfriend. (season 3)
- Amber Nash as a spokesperson during the E Corp bombings. (season 3)
- Richard Masur as an ice cream man who helps Elliot. (season 3)
- Dileep Rao as Sandesh Markesh, Mobley's brother. (season 3)
- Elisha Henig as Mohammed Biswas, Trenton's younger brother. (season 3)
- Jake Busey as Freddy Lomax, a low-level Dark Army lawyer. (season 4)
- Liz Larsen as Trudie DiPierro, Dom's mother. (season 4)
- Emmy Rossum as a Christmas caroler. (season 4)
- Dominik García-Lorido as Olivia Cortez, an employee of the Cyprus National Bank. (season 4)
- Jon Glaser as Tobias, a Santa Claus for hire that befriends Darlene. (season 4)
References
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