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From left: Star Rami Malek, creator Sam Esmail, and star Christian Slater at 2016 South by Southwest.

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

Cast table

CharacterPortrayed bySeasons
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Elliot AldersonRami MalekMain
Darlene AldersonCarly ChaikinMain
Angela MossPortia DoubledayMain
Tyrell WellickMartin WallströmMain
Mr. RobotChristian SlaterMain
Phillip PriceMichael CristoferRecurringMain
Joanna WellickStephanie CorneliussenRecurringMain
Dominique DiPierroGrace GummerMain
WhiteroseBD WongRecurringMain
IrvingBobby CannavaleMainGuest
Fernando VeraElliot VillarRecurringGuestMain
JaniceAshlie AtkinsonMain

Elliot Alderson

Elliot Alderson
Mr. Robot character
First appearance"eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" (2015)
Last appearance"Hello, Elliot" (2019)
Created bySam Esmail
Portrayed by
Young
  • Aidan Liebman (seasons 1–2)
  • Alex Bento (season 3)
  • Evan Whitten (season 4)
In-universe information
Alias
Occupation
  • Senior network engineer at Allsafe Cybersecurity
  • Vigilante hacker
  • Leader of fsociety
Family
RelativesDarlene Alderson (sister)
Rami Malek

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

Darlene Alderson
Mr. Robot character
First appearance"eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" (2015)
Last appearance"Hello, Elliot" (2019)
Created bySam Esmail
Portrayed byCarly Chaikin
In-universe information
AliasDoloresH4ze[3]
Occupation
  • Vigilante hacker
  • Member of fsociety
Family
Significant otherFrancis "Cisco" Shaw (ex-boyfriend)
RelativesElliot 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

Angela Moss
Mr. Robot character
First appearance"eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" (2015)
Last appearance"Hello, Elliot" (2019)
Created bySam Esmail
Portrayed by
Young
  • Mabel Tyler (season 3)
  • Eva Jette Putrello (season 4)
In-universe information
Occupation
Family
Significant otherOllie Parker (ex-boyfriend)
Portia Doubleday

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

Tyrell Wellick
Mr. Robot character
First appearance"eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" (2015)
Last appearance"Hello, Elliot" (2019)
Created bySam Esmail
Portrayed byMartin Wallström
In-universe information
Occupation
  • Senior VP of Technology (later CTO) at E Corp
  • Vigilante hacker
  • Member of fsociety
SpouseJoanna Wellick (wife)
ChildrenUnnamed son

Martin Wallström portrays Tyrell Wellick,[13] the ambitious Senior Vice President of Technology at E Corp and later part of fsociety.

Mr. Robot

Mr. Robot
Mr. Robot character
First appearance"eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" (2015)
Last appearance"Hello, Elliot" (2019)
Created bySam Esmail
Portrayed byChristian Slater
In-universe information
Full nameEdward Alderson
Occupation
  • Vigilante hacker
  • Member of fsociety
SpouseMagda Alderson (wife)
Children
Christian Slater

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

Phillip Price
Mr. Robot character
First appearance"eps1.2_d3bug.mkv" (2015)
Last appearance
Created bySam Esmail
Portrayed byMichael Cristofer
In-universe information
OccupationCEO at E Corp
ChildrenAngela Moss (daughter)

Michael Cristofer portrays Phillip Price,[17] the CEO of E Corp and Angela's biological father.

Joanna Wellick

Joanna Wellick
Mr. Robot character
First appearance"eps1.2_d3bug.mkv" (2015)
Last appearance"eps3.1_undo.gz" (2017)
Created bySam Esmail
Portrayed byStephanie Corneliussen
In-universe information
SpouseTyrell Wellick (husband)
Significant otherDerek (boyfriend)
ChildrenUnnamed son
Stephanie Corneliussen

Stephanie Corneliussen[17][18] portrays Joanna Wellick (née Olafsson)[3], Tyrell's wife.

Dom DiPierro

Dom DiPierro
Mr. Robot character
First appearance"eps2.0_unm4sk-pt2.tc" (2016)
Last appearance"Hello, Elliot" (2019)
Created bySam Esmail
Portrayed byGrace Gummer
In-universe information
OccupationFBI field agent
FamilyTrudie DiPierro (mother)
Relatives
  • Joseph DiPierro (brother)
  • Jerry DiPierro (brother)
  • Jamie DiPierro (niece)
  • Thomas DiPierro (nephew)
  • Chris DiPierro (uncle)

Grace Gummer portrays Dominique DiPierro,[19] an FBI field agent investigating the E Corp hack.

Whiterose

Whiterose
Mr. Robot character
First appearance"eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v" (2015)
Last appearance"eXit" (2019)
Created bySam Esmail
Portrayed by
In-universe information
Full nameZhi Zhang
Occupation
Significant otherGrant (lover)
BD Wong

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

Irving
Mr. Robot character
First appearance"eps3.0_power-saver-mode.h" (2017)
Last appearance"410 Gone" (2019)
Created bySam Esmail
Portrayed byBobby Cannavale
In-universe information
Occupation
  • Used car salesman
  • Fixer for the Dark Army
Bobby Cannavale

Bobby Cannavale portrays Irving, a used car salesman who works as a fixer for the Dark Army.[21]

Supporting characters

Cast table

CharacterPortrayed bySeasons
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Gideon GoddardMichel GillRecurringGuest
Krista GordonGloria ReubenRecurring
Shayla NicoFrankie ShawRecurring
Ollie ParkerBen RappaportRecurringGuestGuest
Lloyd ChongAaron TakahashiRecurringGuestGuest
Leslie RomeroRon Cephas JonesRecurring
Shama Biswas
Trenton
Sunita ManiRecurring
Sunil Markesh
Mobley
Azhar KhanRecurring
Terry ColbyBruce AltmanRecurringGuest
Lenny Shannon
Michael Hansen
Armand SchultzRecurringGuest
Francis Shaw
Cisco
Michael DrayerRecurringGuest
Donald Hoffman
Mr. Sutherland
Jeremy HolmRecurringGuest
Scott KnowlesBrian Stokes MitchellRecurring
Antara NayarSakina JaffreyRecurringGuest
Donald MossDon SparksRecurringGuest
Sharon KnowlesMichele HicksRecurringGuest
Magda AldersonVaishnavi SharmaRecurringRecurring
Isaac VeraRick GonzalezRecurring
Hamburger ManStephen LinGuestRecurringGuest
LeonJoey BadassRecurring
ChaplainBernadette QuigleyRecurring
Susan JacobsSandrine HoltRecurring
Frank CodyErik JensenRecurring
DerekChris ConroyRecurringGuest
Ray HeyworthCraig RobinsonRecurring
Lone StarMichael MaizeRecurring
Ernesto SantiagoOmar MetwallyRecurring
GrantGrant ChangRecurring
RTLuke RobertsonRecurring
Norm GillRizwan ManjiRecurring
Samar SwailemRamy YoussefRecurring
Wang ShuJing XuRecurring
PeanutsYoung M.ARecurring
NaviJahneer E. WilliamsRecurring

fsociety

Allsafe

E Corp

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

References