The Night Manager Cast: The 16 Actors in Seasons 1 and 2

The Night Manager cast is led by Tom Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine, a former British soldier turned luxury hotel night manager, with Hugh Laurie as arms dealer Richard Roper and Olivia Colman as intelligence officer Angela Burr. The BBC spy drama returned in 2026 after a ten-year gap, and season 2 added Diego Calva, Camila Morrone, Indira Varma, Paul Chahidi and Hayley Squires to the lineup.

Adapted by David Farr from John le Carré's 1993 novel, season 1 aired on BBC One from February 21 to March 27, 2016, and reached American viewers on AMC that April. Season 2 began on BBC One on January 1, 2026 and on Prime Video outside the UK on January 11. Below are the 16 main actors across both seasons, with the character each plays and the work they are known for. Expect spoilers for both seasons.

The Night Manager Cast List: 16 Actors, Characters and Seasons

#	Actor	Character	Seasons	Who they are
1	Tom Hiddleston	Jonathan Pine	1 and 2	Night manager turned spy
2	Hugh Laurie	Richard Roper	1 and 2	Arms dealer
3	Olivia Colman	Angela Burr	1 and 2	Intelligence officer
4	Tom Hollander	Lance "Corky" Corkoran	1	Roper's right-hand man
5	Elizabeth Debicki	Jed Marshall	1	Roper's girlfriend
6	Diego Calva	Teddy Dos Santos	2	Colombian arms dealer
7	Camila Morrone	Roxana Bolaños	2	Colombian businesswoman
8	Indira Varma	Mayra Cavendish	2	Chief of MI6
9	Alistair Petrie	Sandy Langbourne	1 and 2	Roper's financial director
10	Douglas Hodge	Rex Mayhew	1 and 2	Burr's superior
11	Noah Jupe	Danny Roper	1 and 2	Roper's son
12	David Harewood	Joel Steadman	1	American ATF agent
13	Tobias Menzies	Geoffrey Dromgoole	1	Corrupt MI6 official
14	Paul Chahidi	Basil Karapetian	2	MI6 head of technical
15	Hayley Squires	Sally Price-Jones	2	MI6 surveillance officer
16	Michael Nardone	Frisky	1 and 2	Roper's henchman

Every Main Night Manager Actor and the Role They Play

1. Tom Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine

Character: Jonathan Pine, former soldier and hotel night manager | Seasons: 1 and 2 | Known for: Loki, Thor, Crimson Peak, Kong: Skull Island

Pine is working the night shift at the Nefertiti Hotel in Cairo during the 2011 revolution when he passes documents about an arms deal to Angela Burr. The leak gets his lover, Sophie Alekan, murdered, and four years later Burr recruits him to infiltrate Richard Roper's organisation under a new identity. In season 2 he runs an MI6 surveillance unit called the Night Owls, fakes his own death and goes undercover in Colombia as a banker named Matthew Ellis. The season ends with him wounded and collapsing in the jungle, his fate left open.

Hiddleston won a Golden Globe for the role and received two Primetime Emmy nominations for the show, and he is also an executive producer. He became a global name as Loki in Thor (2011), a part he repeated in six more films and the Disney+ series Loki, and our guide to the Marvel movies in order tracks every appearance. On stage he won an Olivier Award for Cymbeline and earned a Tony nomination for Betrayal on Broadway in 2019.

2. Hugh Laurie as Richard Onslow Roper

Character: Richard "Dickie" Onslow Roper, international arms dealer | Seasons: 1 and 2 | Known for: House, Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, Veep

Roper is a charming British businessman whose real trade is selling weapons, hidden behind a shell company called Tradepass. Season 1 ends with his arrest in Cairo and his furious buyers driving him away. Season 2 opens with Pine and Burr identifying what appears to be his corpse in Syria, then reveals in episode 3 that he is alive in Colombia under the alias Gilberto Hanson. By the finale he has shot his own son and returned to England to collect Danny from boarding school.

Laurie won a Golden Globe for Roper, adding to the two he received for playing Dr. Gregory House from 2004 to 2012. Before that he was half of the comedy double act Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry and appeared in three series of Blackadder. Writer David Farr has said Laurie tried to option the novel when he was younger because he wanted to play Pine himself. He is an executive producer on season 2.

3. Olivia Colman as Angela Burr

Character: Angela Burr, head of the Foreign Office's International Enforcement Agency | Seasons: 1 and 2 | Known for: The Favourite, The Crown, Broadchurch, Fleabag

Burr runs a small Foreign Office task force that has spent years trying to prove Roper is an arms dealer, and she is the one who recruits Pine and protects him from the corrupt officials at MI6. In season 2 she has retired to France with her young daughter. She confesses to Pine that Roper forced her to help stage his death by threatening both of their families. In the final episode she confronts Mayra Cavendish with evidence of the conspiracy, and she is shot dead at her home in France.

Colman won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for season 1 and later an Academy Award for The Favourite (2018). She played Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, winning an Emmy, and was nominated for another Oscar opposite Anthony Hopkins in The Father, which sits high on our list of Anthony Hopkins movies. Her television work runs from Peep Show and Broadchurch to Fleabag and The Bear.

4. Tom Hollander as Major Lance "Corky" Corkoran

Character: Major Lance "Corky" Corkoran, Roper's second in command | Seasons: 1 | Known for: Pride & Prejudice, Rev., The White Lotus, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans

Corky is Roper's front man and the member of his circle most suspicious of Pine. He interrogates the new arrival about his invented criminal past and grows more hostile as Pine replaces him as the face of Tradepass. His heavy drinking makes him easy to discredit, and after Jed quietly frames him as the mole, he catches Pine slipping out of Roper's compound in Turkey in episode 5. Pine kills him in the fight that follows and tells Roper that Corky had been meeting someone outside the fence.

Hollander won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role. He is known for playing Mr. Collins in Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Lord Cutler Beckett in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. He co-wrote and starred in the BBC sitcom Rev., which won the 2011 BAFTA for best sitcom, and later appeared in The White Lotus and played Truman Capote in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.

5. Elizabeth Debicki as Jemima "Jed" Marshall

Character: Jemima "Jed" Marshall, Roper's girlfriend | Seasons: 1 | Known for: The Crown, Tenet, Widows, The Great Gatsby

Jed is Roper's American girlfriend, and she lives at the center of his world without asking too much about it. Her attraction to Pine turns into an affair, which Corky discovers, and she becomes Pine's ally inside the household, framing Corky and later getting the code to Roper's hotel safe in Cairo. Roper catches her and has her waterboarded, but Burr rescues her before the final deal. She returns to America at the end of the season, and Pine promises to visit her.

Debicki was born in Paris and raised in Melbourne, where she trained in dance before studying drama. Her first major screen role was Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby (2013), followed by the thrillers Widows and Tenet. She played Diana, Princess of Wales, in the last two seasons of The Crown and became the first Australian to win the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

6. Diego Calva as Teddy Dos Santos

Character: Teddy Dos Santos, Colombian philanthropist and arms dealer | Seasons: 2 | Known for: Babylon, Narcos: Mexico

Teddy presents himself as a Colombian philanthropist, but Pine discovers he is a former disciple of Roper who is importing British weapons into the country. A private detective digs further and finds that his real name is Eduardo Vidal and that he is Roper's illegitimate son. When Teddy learns his father plans to leave him behind, he sides with Pine and tries to wreck Roper's coup plot from the inside. Roper sees through the plan in the final episode and shoots him.

Calva is a Mexican actor who broke through as the lead in Damien Chazelle's Babylon (2022), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. Before that he appeared in the Netflix crime series Narcos: Mexico in 2021. Teddy is his first major role in a British drama, and he spends most of the season opposite Hiddleston and Laurie.

7. Camila Morrone as Roxana Bolaños

Character: Roxana Bolaños, a businesswoman working with Teddy Dos Santos | Seasons: 2 | Known for: Daisy Jones & the Six, Death Wish, Mickey and the Bear

Roxana first appears as the secret contact on Rex Mayhew's burner phone. Pine learns she was sent to deceive Mayhew without knowing he would be killed, and he recruits her to gather evidence against Teddy in exchange for a promise of immunity. When Pine admits he can no longer guarantee that deal, she hands herself over to Roper and agrees to lure Pine to a meeting. She leaves Colombia at the end of the season.

Morrone is an Argentine American actress and model who made her debut in the James Franco film Bukowski (2013). She appeared in Death Wish (2018) and the independent films Never Goin' Back and Mickey and the Bear. Her role as Camila Alvarez-Dunne in Prime Video's Daisy Jones & the Six (2023) earned her a Primetime Emmy nomination.

8. Indira Varma as Mayra Cavendish

Character: Mayra Cavendish, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service | Seasons: 2 | Known for: Game of Thrones, Rome, Luther, Present Laughter

Cavendish is the head of MI6 and Pine's boss, and she shuts down his Night Owls unit after the bombing in Spain. Her links to Roper's old mercenaries are the first sign that something is wrong. She turns out to be working with Roper and Lord Langbourne to back a coup in Colombia, and she orders the killing of Rex Mayhew. She also has Basil Karapetian tortured and killed. Burr confronts her with the evidence in the final episode.

Varma made her film debut in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996) and built a long television career as Niobe in Rome, Suzie Costello in Torchwood, Zoe Luther in Luther and Ellaria Sand in Game of Thrones. On stage she won a Laurence Olivier Award for Present Laughter in 2019 and was nominated again for Oedipus in 2025.

9. Alistair Petrie as Sandy Langbourne

Character: Alexander "Sandy" Langbourne, Lord Langbourne, Roper's financial director | Seasons: 1 and 2 | Known for: Sex Education, Rogue One, Rush

Lord Langbourne handles Roper's money and gives his operation an aristocratic gloss. In season 1 he is one of the people an MI6 official tips off about Burr's secret operation, and Roper later lists him among the possible moles. He survives the collapse of Tradepass and returns in season 2 as one of the conspirators backing Roper's coup alongside Mayra Cavendish. Burr confronts him with evidence of his corruption in the final episode.

Petrie is best known to younger viewers as Mr. Groff, the strict headmaster in Netflix's Sex Education. His film credits include The Bank Job (2008), Cloud Atlas (2012), Rush (2013) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). On television he has also appeared in Utopia, Sherlock and Undercover.

10. Douglas Hodge as Rex Mayhew

Character: Rex Mayhew, Burr's supportive superior at the Foreign Office | Seasons: 1 and 2 | Known for: The Great, Joker, Penny Dreadful, Catastrophe

Mayhew is the senior official who backs Burr's operation when MI6 tries to take it over. His loyalty costs him: the Foreign Office leaks his evidence to Roper's allies and moves him to a post in the Royal Household. In season 2, Pine reports to him at MI6 headquarters. Mayhew is murdered in the first episode shortly after telling Pine he has discovered something, and his death is staged to look like a suicide.

Hodge is an actor, director and musician with a long theatre career. On screen he has appeared in Robin Hood (2010), Penny Dreadful, Catastrophe, Joker (2019) and Lost in Space, and in Hulu's period comedy The Great, which ran from 2020 to 2023.

11. Noah Jupe as Danny Roper

Character: Daniel "Danny" Roper, Roper's son | Seasons: 1 and 2 | Known for: A Quiet Place, Wonder, Ford v Ferrari, Honey Boy

In season 1, Danny is the young boy at the center of Burr's plan. Her agents stage his kidnapping at a restaurant in Majorca so that Pine can rescue him, take a beating and be welcomed into Roper's villa out of gratitude. In season 2 he is an older and more cynical young man, and Pine fails to get anything useful out of him. The final scene shows Roper picking him up from boarding school for the first time in years.

Jupe was a child when he made season 1, and the show helped launch a busy film career: Suburbicon and Wonder in 2017, then A Quiet Place and its sequel, and Ford v Ferrari. He earned a Critics' Choice nomination for Honey Boy (2019) and has since appeared in The Undoing, Lady in the Lake and Hamnet (2025).

12. David Harewood as Joel Steadman

Character: Joel Steadman, an American ATF agent working with Burr | Seasons: 1 | Known for: Homeland, Supergirl, Blood Diamond

Steadman is an agent of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who works with Burr and Mayhew on the Tradepass evidence. After the failed border inspection he suspects Pine has switched sides, an accusation Burr rejects. He travels to Cairo with her for the final stage of the operation, and the two of them steal the weapons' registration certificates from Roper's hotel safe.

Harewood is known for playing CIA director David Estes in Homeland and J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter, in Supergirl. His films include Blood Diamond and The Merchant of Venice, and he has voiced characters in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Alan Wake II. He was appointed OBE and has been president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art since February 2024.

13. Tobias Menzies as Geoffrey Dromgoole

Character: Geoffrey Dromgoole, a senior MI6 official opposed to Burr | Seasons: 1 | Known for: The Crown, Outlander, Game of Thrones, Rome

Dromgoole leads the MI6 officials, based at the building the show calls the River House, who try to take control of Burr's operation. The Tradepass documents reveal why: he is "Halo", one of two codenames receiving commissions from Roper's sales, and he helps falsify paperwork for the deals. In the finale Burr blackmails him into withdrawing his support for Roper, which leaves the arms dealer exposed.

Menzies won an Emmy for playing Prince Philip in seasons 3 and 4 of The Crown, and he earned a Golden Globe nomination for his dual role as Frank and Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall in Outlander. He also played Brutus in Rome and Edmure Tully in Game of Thrones.

14. Paul Chahidi as Basil Karapetian

Character: Basil Karapetian, Head of Technical at MI6 | Seasons: 2 | Known for: The Death of Stalin, This Country, Wicked Little Letters

Basil is a senior MI6 officer who suspects Mayra Cavendish and helps Pine fake his death and build the Matthew Ellis identity. From London he quietly runs surveillance on Cavendish, deceives her about the Roper account and keeps Pine alive when the funds are nearly pulled. He is caught trying to leave London in episode 5, but he gets his laptop to Burr first. Cavendish has him tortured, and he is killed after refusing to reveal Pine's plan.

Chahidi was born in Iran and moved to the UK with his family in 1979. He is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company and earned Tony and Olivier nominations for playing Maria opposite Mark Rylance in an all-male Twelfth Night. On screen he played Nikolai Bulganin in The Death of Stalin and the vicar in This Country, and he appeared alongside Colman in Wicked Little Letters.

15. Hayley Squires as Sally Price-Jones

Character: Sally Price-Jones, an MI6 officer in the Night Owls unit | Seasons: 2 | Known for: I, Daniel Blake, Adult Material, Collateral

Sally is a member of Pine's Night Owls surveillance team and is suspended after the unit is disbanded. She helps him fake his death, follows him to Colombia and becomes his most reliable partner on the ground. In the finale she helps Chief Justice Consuelo Arbenz slip her military escort and gathers prosecutors and journalists to witness the weapon's arrival. Roper sends a decoy plane, and the container she opens is empty. She is one of the few main characters still alive at the end.

Squires broke through in Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake (2016), which earned her a BAFTA nomination. She won an International Emmy for the Channel 4 drama Adult Material and has starred in Collateral and The Essex Serpent. In 2025 she was nominated for an Olivier Award for All My Sons in the West End.

16. Michael Nardone as Frisky

Character: Frisky, one of Roper's henchmen | Seasons: 1 and 2 | Known for: Rome, River City

Frisky is one of Roper's two enforcers in season 1, working alongside Tabby to guard the household and handle its violence. He is a quiet, constant presence in the villa in Majorca and at the compound in Turkey. In season 2, Roper rehires him once Teddy has been sidelined, and Pine only escapes him after a meeting with Roper with help from the private detective Martín Álvarez.

Nardone is a Scottish actor raised in Ballingry, Fife, who trained in drama at Queen Margaret College in Edinburgh. He played Mascius in the BBC and HBO series Rome and DCI Richard Whiteside in BBC Scotland's River City, and his stage work includes Macbeth and King Lear at the National Theatre.

Supporting Actors in The Night Manager Season 1

Several more actors carry important parts of the first season's story:

• Natasha Little as Caroline "Caro" Langbourne, Sandy's wife and Jed's friend.
• Adeel Akhtar as Rob Singhal, Burr's second in command at the International Enforcement Agency.
• Antonio de la Torre as Juan Apostol, Roper's lawyer, who is killed after Roper wrongly decides he is the leak.
• Hovik Keuchkerian as Tabby, Roper's other henchman.
• Aure Atika as Sophie Alekan, whose murder in Cairo drives Pine into the mission.
• Russell Tovey as Simon Ogilvey, Pine's diplomat friend in Cairo.
• Neil Morrissey as Harry Palfrey, the MI6 officer who tells Burr who "Halo" is.
• Katherine Kelly as Pamela, the Foreign Office's Permanent Secretary.

John le Carré also makes a brief cameo in episode 4 as an insulted diner in a restaurant, as he did in film versions of his novels A Most Wanted Man and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

New Faces in The Night Manager Season 2 Cast

Season 2 moved most of its story to Colombia, and the supporting cast reflects that:

• Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Dr. Kim Saunders, Pine's MI6-appointed psychiatrist.
• Unax Ugalde as Juan Carrascal, Teddy's lawyer.
• Slavko Sobin as Viktor, Teddy's chief enforcer.
• Diego Santos as Martín Álvarez, the private detective Pine hires, who dies covering his escape in the finale.
• Alberto Ammann as Alejandro Gualteros, the prosecutor who impounds Teddy's shipment.
• Cristina Umaña as Consuelo Arbenz, head of Colombia's Supreme Court.
• Luis Fernando Hoyos as José Cabrera, the exiled politician at the heart of the coup.
• Gijs Naber as Jaco Brouwer, a former Roper mercenary, and Kerr Logan as broker Adam Holywell.

Filming ran from June 14 to December 6, 2024, with five weeks in Colombia and three in London, plus shoots in Spain, France and Wales. Producers have said more than 75% of the story takes place in Colombia.

Golden Globes, Emmys and BAFTAs Won by the Cast

Season 1 was nominated for 36 awards and won 11, and the cast took several of them:

• Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie and Olivia Colman each won a Golden Globe at the 2017 ceremony.
• All three were nominated for Primetime Emmys for their performances in 2016.
• Tom Hollander won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing Corky.
• Director Susanne Bier and composer Victor Reyes won the show's two Emmys.

Critics were warmer on season 1, which holds a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score and an 82 on Metacritic. Season 2 scored 86% and 75.

Why These 16 Actors Make the Main Cast

The 16 names above are the actors credited in leading roles in at least one season, starting with the three leads and running through the season 1 and season 2 regulars. Hiddleston, Laurie, Colman, Petrie, Hodge, Nardone and Jupe are the seven who appear in both seasons, although several of them have smaller parts the second time. The season 1 regulars who did not return, such as Hollander, Debicki, Harewood and Menzies, are included because their characters drive the first season.

Actors with smaller or single-season parts, such as Natasha Little, Adeel Akhtar and Kirby Howell-Baptiste, are covered in the supporting lists so every character a viewer is likely to look up is on this page.

Will The Night Manager Cast Return for Season 3

Season 3 is confirmed. The BBC and Prime Video ordered seasons 2 and 3 together in April 2024, and Hiddleston has said the two were planned as one story told in two volumes, with the ending already decided. Writer David Farr is developing the scripts, and no filming dates or premiere date have been announced.

The season 2 finale narrows the field. Burr, Teddy, Basil, Mayhew and Martín are dead, so Hiddleston, Laurie, Jupe, Varma, Petrie, Squires and Morrone are the main actors whose characters could carry the story forward. For more spy stories while you wait, our ranking of James Bond movies covers every 007 film.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who plays the night manager in The Night Manager?

Tom Hiddleston plays Jonathan Pine, the former British Army soldier working as a hotel night manager in Cairo and later Zermatt when Angela Burr recruits him. He won a Golden Globe for the role and returns as Pine in season 2.

Is Hugh Laurie in The Night Manager season 2?

Yes. Roper appears to be dead at the start of season 2, but episode 3 reveals he is alive and living in Colombia under the alias Gilberto Hanson. Laurie also serves as an executive producer on the season.

Is Olivia Colman in The Night Manager season 2?

Yes. Colman returns as Angela Burr, now retired and living in France. She appears in fewer episodes than in season 1, and the character is killed at her home in the final episode.

How many episodes are in The Night Manager?

The series has 12 episodes across two seasons, six in each. Season 1 aired weekly on BBC One in 2016, and season 2 ran from January 1 to February 1, 2026. A third season has been ordered.

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