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MI6 Double-0 agent Carol Aird is close to aging out at 55. She's still fit, brilliant, and beautiful, but policy is policy in His Majesty's Secret Service. Agent 009 has employed her License to Kill fifty-one times. Her English father was in the Secret Service, spending most of his early career in the Asian offices. He met and married Carol's mother in Sydney. Carol was born on British soil while her parents summered with Mr. Aird's Dorset family in 1969. After five more years in Hong Kong, the family returned to London. Excelling at Wycombe Abbey, a private girl's boarding school in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, Carol applied to and was accepted at the Royal Naval College Greenwich. Serving in Naval Intelligence, Carol had recently made Commander when her Queen came calling in 2005 with something new in mind. Portrayed by Cate Blanchett.
CIA Case Officer Therese Belivet is in the prime of her career at age 39. She's petite, 5-3 and 108 lbs, but well-trained in close-quarters battle (CQB). The best Therese can recall, she's killed thirty foreign operatives: twenty-one in dust-ups and nine via assassination. Therese is an orphan raised in foster homes across the Northeast. She shone in high school and was 'brought' into 'The Company' at 18. For some tasks, her employer loves pieces of clay with no living relatives: Therese grades highly in intelligence and functions best under stress. Belivet's Special Activities Center (SAC) is a division of the United States Central Intelligence Agency responsible for covert and paramilitary operations. SAC has two groups: covert political action (SAC/PAG) and tactical paramilitary operations (SAC/SOG). Therese has served with both groups but is presently in a ten-year stint with the SOG. Portrayed by Rooney Mara.
'M' has served as MI6 Director for five years. He is 51 years old. M and Carol often knock heads, but The Director respects the talented secret agent and hates to think of her looming forced retirement. His legal name and background are sealed. Portrayed by Idris Elba.
Abigail 'Abby' Gerhard is M's personal assistant. She is 49, smartly attractive, irritatingly efficient, and witty. She and Aird are close, long-time friends and short-time lovers. Abby was born in the UK, but her Foreign Service parents raised her from age five in New York City. She can shift her accent at a whim. Recruited by MI6 at age 18 from her Manhattan girl's school, Abby received her higher education under the Service's watchful eye at Oxford. Portrayed by Sarah Paulson.
Scottish MI6 R&D savant 'Q,' of Q Division, has an IQ of 181. She is 37, Scottish, and cute, especially when wearing her horn-rimmed glasses and auburn mane down. Her legal name and background are sealed. She has an obvious crush on 009, much to the subtle amusement of Carol, Abby, and even M. Portrayed by Rose Leslie.
Russian SVR agent Sofiya Sokolova is the complete package: brilliant, beautiful, and ruthless. She has been with the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (FISRF SVR) since she was 14 and is now 37. Her agency works under the Main Intelligence Directorate. Sofiya is utterly devoted to Vladimir Putin. He has decorated her twice in closed ceremonies. Portrayed by Lynka Gryu.
Genevieve Cranell, age 40, is an SVR operative buried deep within MI6. She frequently works with Sofiya and sleeps with her on occasion. She delivers daily intelligence briefings to M. The real Genevieve Cranell has lain beneath the fertile soil of the New Forest, Hampshire, for 25 years. Portrayed by Felicity Jones.
Let the games begin! Oh, in Chapter 2.
There will be a test. ;-)