Characters / Utopia Others

Characters who are neither central protagonists nor antagonists in Utopia.

Grant Leetham's arc

Alice Ward

Portrayed by: Emilia Jones

A schoolgirl Grant befriends.

• Break the Cutie: Her mother is shot dead in front of her, leading her to have a complete mental breakdown.
• Happily Adopted: At the end of Series One by Dugdale.

Michael Dugdale's arc

Anya

Portrayed by: Anna Madeley

A Russian prostitute whom Dugdale unintentionally impregnates.

• Deep Cover Agent: So deep she even has sex with her target just to complete her disguise as a prostitute.

Jen Dugdale

Portrayed by: Ruth Gemmell

Michael Dugdale's unfortunate wife.

• Beware the Nice Ones
• Nice Girl: She's such a kind-hearted woman that even she can't find herself hating Dugdale after realizing he's been sleeping with a prostitute. Even more so, she actually gets Grant (the main characters' resident Bratty Half-Pint) into following her orders to be orderly in her home, something that Dugdale himself can't do.

Becky's arc

Christian Donaldson

Portrayed by: Simon McBurney (Series One), Michael Maloney (Series Two)

• Asshole Victim: Absolutely no one grieves for him when he's killed off by Lee in Series 2.
• Hate Sink: He is nothing short of irredeemable throughout the series, treating Becky like a plaything, and he actually occupies the spot for being the single most despicable character in the series even when compared to the likes of the Network's members. It says a lot when Arby, a man who literally killed several innocent children, has more humanity than him.
• I Coulda Been a Contender!: He was a rising star in Corvadt Inc. until he discovered that the SARS virus was engineered, and sought to tell everyone. In response, Corvadt propped up a sex scandal involving him, and he was subsequently demoted. He now wants the Utopia Experiments manuscript as leverage to strike a new deal with The Network.
• Jerkass
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
• Manipulative Bastard: Throughout the entire series, he's been manipulating Becky to get her the Utopia Experiments manuscript under the promise of treatment for her illness. He's just been drugging her the whole time, and her symptoms were the body withdrawing from the opium she was actually given.
• Money, Dear Boy: Donaldson doesn't care about what The Network is planning to do, he even on some level agrees with them: He just wants the manuscript to cut a deal with The Network, and get rich, caustically noting that a mere pension plan will not save you from the global economic meltdown that will happen once The Network's plan goes into fruition.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: For claiming to his superiors that SARS wasn't a real epidemic, and hit with a sex scandal to boot.
• The Reveal: He turned out to be the mysterious contact Becky spoke to over the phone.

Marius

Portrayed by: Emil Hostina

A Romanian immigrant who Becky hires to translate Anton's ramblings.

• Everybody Has Standards: As Jerkass as he is, even he is shocked upon learning Carvel's (Anton's) past as a Holocaust survivor from the Belzec extermination camp, the third-deadliest extermination camp after Treblinka and Auschwitz.
• Jerkass: He may be invaluable to the group in learning Anton's past, but he proves to be a massive prick outside of that.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Is killed in the same episode he's introduced. Not that it stops Becky from having hallucinations of him taunting her.

Jessica Hyde's arc

Christos

Portrayed by: Simon Blackhall (Series One), William Belchambers (Series Two)

A mysterious man who decades ago saved Philip Carvel from The Network and took Jessica Hyde under his wing.

• Defiant to the End: Arby says he did not say a single word while he was tortured to death.
• Mysterious Past: By the end of the series he is possibly the biggest mystery that remains. Who was Christos? Why did he come to save Carvel and adopt Jessica? How did he know about anything that was going on? Was he working alone or as part of some organization? All unknown.
• Posthumous Character: He is long dead when the series begins. He gets a brief appearance in the whole-episode flashback at the start of the second season.

Other Characters

Bejan

Portrayed by: Mark Stobbart

The first member of the group to get a hold of The Utopia Experiments, which he was killed soon afterward.

• Decoy Protagonist: Unceremoniously killed in the very first episode.
• He Knows Too Much: The Network shows him as little mercy as they do anyone else who endangers their plans.
• Sacrificial Lamb: You may think he becomes part of the Protagonists. Nope, doesn't even live through the first episode.
• The Team Benefactor: Was going to be this, as a wealthy man and the original owner of the manuscript. Unfortunately, the Network gets to him first.

Anton (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Portrayed by: Ian McDiarmid

An elderly, senile Romani man Becky meets through Donaldson, with a clear interest in science and the Janus formula. In truth, he is Philip Carvel himself - hiding from the Network under a new identity.

For tropes related to him, see here.