# List of Industry characters

Industry is a British-American television drama series created by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, which follows a group of young graduates competing for permanent positions at Pierpoint & Co, a prestigious investment bank in London. The show premiered on November 9, 2020 on HBO.

## Cast timeline
### Key

    Main cast (receives star billing)
    Recurring cast (guest appearances in two or more episodes)
    Guest cast (appearing in one episode or credited as co-starring)
| Actor | Character | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons |
| Actor | Character | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Main characters |||||
| Marisa Abela | Yasmin Kara-Hanani | Main | Main | Main |
| Priyanga Burford | Sara Dhadwal | Main | | |
| Mark Dexter | Hilary Wyndham | Main | Main | |
| Myha'la | Harper Stern | Main | Main | Main |
| David Jonsson | Gus Sackey | Main | Main | |
| Harry Lawtey | Robert Spearing | Main | Main | Main |
| Ben Lloyd-Hughes | Greg Grayson | Main | | Guest |
| Conor MacNeill | Kenny Kilbane | Main | Main | Main |
| Freya Mavor | Daria Greenock | Main | Guest | Guest |
| Derek Riddell | Clement Cowan | Main | | |
| Nabhaan Rizwan | Hari Dhar | Main | | |
| Will Tudor | Theo Tuck | Main | | |
| Ken Leung | Eric Tao | Main | Main | Main |
| Sarah Parish | Nicole Craig | Main | Main | Main |
| Andrew Buchan | Felim Bichan | Main | Main | |
| Amir El-Masry | Usman Abboud | Main | | |
| Sagar Radia | Rishi Ramdani | Recurring | Main | Main |
| Caoilfhionn Dunne | Jackie Walsh | Recurring | Main | Guest |
| Nicholas Bishop | Maxim Alonso | Recurring | Main | Guest |
| Trevor White | Bill Adler | Guest | Main | Main |
| Indy Lewis | Venetia Berens | Guest | Main | Main |
| Alex Akpobome | Daniel Van Deventer | | Main | |
| Katrine De Candole | Celeste Pacquet | | Main | |
| Jay Duplass | Jesse Bloom | | Main | |
| Adam Levy | Charles Hanani | | Main | Main |
| Sonny Poon Tip | Leo Bloom | | Main | |
| Faith Alabi | Aurore Adekunle | | Main | Main |
| Elena Saurel | Anna Gearing | | Main | Recurring |
| Irfan Shamji | Anraj Chabra | | Recurring | Main |
| Kit Harington | Henry Muck | | | Main |
| Sarah Goldberg | Petra Koenig | | | Main |
| Miriam Petche | Sweetpea Golightly | | | Main |
| Andrew Havill | Alexander Norton | | | Main |
| Roger Barclay | Otto Mostyn | | | Main |
| Fiona Button | Denise Oldroyd | | | Main |
| Eliot Salt | Caedi McFarlane | | | Main |
| Georgina Rich | Wilhelmina Fassbinder | | | Main |
| Tom Stourton | James Ashford | | | Main |
| Fady Elsayed | Ali El Mansour | | | Main |
| Gustav Lindh | Xander Lindt | | | Main |
| Joel Kim Booster | Frank Wade | | | Main |
| Asim Chaudhry | Vinay Sarkar | | | Main |
| Harry Hadden-Paton | Tom Wolsey | | | Main |
| Recurring characters |||||
| Joshua James | Justin Klineman | Guest | Guest | Guest |
| Ruby Bentall | Lucinda Young | Recurring | Guest | |
| Branden Cook | Todd Barber | Recurring | | |
| Jonathan Barnwell | Seb Oldroyd | Recurring | | |
| Helene Maksoud | Azar Kara | Recurring | | |
| Alexandra Moen | Candice Allbright | Guest | Guest | |
| Kåre Conradi | Kaspar Zenden | Recurring | | |
| Brittany Ashworth | Diana Ramdani | | Guest | |
| Emily Barber | Diana Ramdani | | | Recurring |
| Anna Wilson-Jones | Holly | | Guest | |
| Adain Bradley | John-Daniel Stern | | Guest | |
| Rick Warden | Robert Spearing Sr. | | Guest | |
| James Nelson-Joyce | Jamie Henson | | Recurring | |
| Naana Agyei-Ampadu | Sadie Sackey | | Recurring | |
| Olivia Grant | Naomi Anderson | | | Guest |
| Chloe Pirrie | Lisa Dearn | | | Guest |
Note:
* ↑ Credited when they appear.
* ↑ Pilot only.

## Pierpoint & Co.
### Yasmin Kara-Hanani

Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela) is a new grad on Pierpoint's Foreign Exchange Sales (FX) desk, and one of the series' protagonists. Yasmin is the wealthy heiress to the Hanani Publishing empire, and fluent in seven different languages. She has strained relationships with both her divorced parents, particularly her philandering father Charles.
Yasmin begins the series working under VP Kenny Kilbane, a temperamental alcoholic who scorns Yasmin's privileged background and subjects her to repeated verbal abuse in the workplace. Yasmin lives in an expensive Notting Hill apartment belonging to her father, and has a sexually unfulfilling relationship with her underachieving boyfriend Seb, who she eventually breaks up with. Yasmin begins aggressively flirting with Robert, enjoying being able to exercise her sexual power over him, but the two never fully consummate their relationship. Yasmin also befriends Harper, who becomes her flatmate, though their friendship is complicated by Harper's unrequited love for Robert. Kenny's boss Hilary Wyndham, aware of Kenny's abusive leadership, nonetheless pressures Yasmin not to report it during her reduction-in-force (RIF) interview, suggesting that being a "team player" would improve her prospects at the company. Yasmin obliges, leading to her being hired full-time. Yasmin is set to join Daria's team, but Harper gets Daria fired in exchange for reinstating Eric, which damages her relationship with Yasmin.
In season 2, Yasmin has grown more comfortable with her role at FX, but remains at odds with Harper. Kenny returns from a stint in rehab and attempts to make amends with Yasmin, but she remains uncomfortable with him. Yasmin begins a sexual relationship with Pierpoint private wealth manager Celeste Pacquet, and becomes interested in joining her division. Yasmin's father Charles unexpectedly shows up in London for business, and Yasmin obtains him as a PWM client. However, she learns that Charles' finances are in disarray thanks to his various NDA settlements with his many mistresses; Yasmin discovers that her childhood nanny was one of the affairs, and realizes her father is a sexual predator who likely groomed other young women. When Yasmin confronts Charles, he berates her for leeching off his wealth, and decides to cut her off financially.
In season 3, Yasmin brings Harper along on a trip to Italy on Charles' yacht. She walks in on Charles having sex with a pregnant boat employee on Yasmin's bed, leading to a vicious argument between the two where Yasmin accuses her father of seeing her in a sexual light all her life. A drunken Charles jumps off the yacht in response to Yasmin wishing him dead, and Yasmin makes no attempt to save him from drowning; Harper helps her cover it up. Six weeks later, Yasmin is hounded by paparazzi over her father's disappearance, amidst a scandal over his historic embezzlement from Hanani Publishing. At Pierpoint, Yasmin is now working under Eric as part of a consolidated CPS/FX desk. Yasmin helps save the tumultuous IPO of green-tech startup Lumi by luring paparazzi to a meeting she brokered between Lumi CEO Henry Muck and an investor from an electricity company, giving Lumi a stock boost. Henry repays Yasmin by getting his uncle Lord Norton, a newspaper proprietor, to erase negative press stories about her. Yasmin and Henry begin a sexual relationship, which she ends after learning about Henry's sexual harassment of his employees.
Charles' body is eventually recovered, making Yasmin anxious. Eric tries to sexually proposition Yasmin, which she angrily rebuffs. Harper tricks an unwitting Yasmin into giving her a list of Pierpoint's investments in ESG stocks, which Harper uses to short Pierpoint. Eric is forced to fire Yasmin after photos of Charles' corpse leak on the Internet, and reveals Harper betrayal to her in the process, leading to a vicious argument between Yasmin and Harper that severs their friendship. Yasmin learns from Hanani Publishing that she is to be the scapegoat for her father's misdeeds, and decides to fight the company in court. She joins Robert on a road trip to meet with a startup for whom he is seeking VC funding; the two emotionally bond on the trip, and Yasmin confides that she has never truly been in love with anyone. Yasmin convinces Henry to provide his investment to the startup; Henry invites Robert and Yasmin to his country estate, where Norton promises Yasmin protection and financial security if she were to marry Henry. Yasmin and Robert finally have sex and declare their love for one another, but Yasmin then agrees to marry Henry in order to reap the benefits of being part of his family empire. Robert accepts her decision, and six months later, Yasmin's public image has considerably improved; she and Harper have also reconciled.

### Sara Dhadwal

Sara Dhadwal (Priyanga Burford) is the president of Pierpoint London in season 1, and oversees its new hire program. Firm and principled, she initially clashes with Gus Sackey when he castigates her for promoting Pierpoint's cutthroat culture, which he blames for the death of his colleague Hari Dhar. However, Sara gradually becomes more in favor of culture change at the company; she views Eric as the primary embodiment of Pierpoint's toxicity, and fires him after Harper reports Eric locking her in a conference room to berate her. She also tries to become a more supportive figure to Gus, but he grows increasingly disillusioned with the firm, and purposely sabotages his interview on reduction-in-force (RIF) day. The same day, Pierpoint's global head of FICC, Bill Adler, offers Harper a chance to retract her complaint against Eric to bring him back to the firm; Sara takes her aside and tries talking her out of it, telling her she has the power to fundamentally change the culture of Pierpoint. Harper, however, rebuffs Sara for seeing her as a victim, and agrees to have Eric rehired.

### Hilary Wyndham

Hilary Wyndham (Mark Dexter) is the managing director (MD) of the FX desk at Pierpoint. Throughout the first season, he is shown to be a more measured leader than his subordinate Kenny, an alcoholic and a bully who repeatedly subjects Yasmin to verbal abuse. However, nearing reduction-in-force (RIF) day, Hilary advises Yasmin not to report Kenny's behavior, telling her that being a "team player" would benefit her career prospects. Yasmin caves to Hilary's advice during her RIF interview when she denies having any negative experiences at Pierpoint, and Hilary vouches for her, ensuring that she is hired.
In season 2, Hilary becomes paranoid about contracting COVID-19 at the office, wearing a mask to work and exhibiting germaphobe tendencies. Ironically, it is he who ends up falling ill and having to take time off from the office. Yasmin tells Hilary that she will be spending less time on the FX desk as she explores a move to the Private Wealth Management (PWM) division; Hilary, feeling numb and burnt out from the job, grants her his blessing.
Hilary does not appear in season 3, having presumably left Pierpoint after the FX and Cross-Product Sales (CPS) desks were consolidated.

### Harper Stern

Harper Stern (Myha'la) is a new grad on Pierpoint's Cross-Product Sales (CPS) desk, and one of the series' protagonists. Harper is highly intelligent, calculating, and fiercely driven, often resorting to underhanded means to achieve her goals. She grew up in Binghamton, New York, and was raised by a domineering, abusive mother alongside her twin brother John-Daniel, who ran away from home when the two were teenagers. Harper herself never graduated from college, having suffered a panic attack during one of her final exams; she hides this fact from others in order to keep her employment. Harper moves to London in part to escape her own traumatic past, and finds a mentor in Eric Tao while at Pierpoint.
Upon joining Pierpoint, Harper forges college transcripts to send to HR. She begins renting out a room in Yasmin's expensive flat, and the two become friends. At work, Harper quickly finds herself caught between Daria - her direct line manager who wants to foster a respectful, professional relationship with her - and Eric, whose fiery hunger to succeed appeals more to her own ambition. Harper and Eric bond over their struggle to succeed in a hyper-competitive, largely white work environment, and Eric reveals he is aware that Harper never graduated from college, but does not care. Harper has a difficult time with clients during her first year: her first client meeting with hedge fund manager Nicole Craig ends with Nicole sexually assaulting her in the car, and she fails to win back Felim Bichan, Pierpoint's biggest client who cut ties with them due to a personal fallout with Eric. The latter incident leads to Eric locking Harper in a conference room to berate her; Daria pushes Harper to report the incident to senior management, getting Eric fired. During this time, Harper also struggles with her unrequited feelings for Robert, who is enamored with Yasmin. On reduction-in-force (RIF) day, FICC head Bill Adler asks Harper to retract her complaint against Eric to get him reinstated at Daria's expense; Harper agrees, feeling only Eric fosters her drive to succeed, whereas Daria expects her to know her place. Daria's firing drives a wedge between Harper and Yasmin.
In season 2, Harper and Yasmin remain at odds, while she and Robert have been having casual sex for a year. Harper befriends Jesse Bloom, an independent investor who profited heavily from the COVID-19 pandemic; she wins Jesse as a client by helping him obtain a controlling stake in healthcare startup Rican, at the expense of Felim - who had returned to Pierpoint - as well as Eric, whose permanent loss of Felim as a client leads to his removal from the trading floor. Harper begins a sexual relationship with Daniel Van Deventer (DVD), Eric's former protegé who replaces him as CPS MD. Harper joins Yasmin on a work trip to Berlin, where she has tracked down her estranged brother John-Daniel; she attempts to reconcile with him, but he harshly rebuffs her. Upon learning that Pierpoint's London office will be absorbed into the New York HQ, Harper teams up with Eric - and later Rishi and DVD - for a bid away from Pierpoint, only for them to receive an offer from another New York firm. Unwilling to move back home, Harper and Eric pitch a leaner London office to Adler, offering Rishi and DVD as disloyal sacrifices. After Jesse tricks Harper into helping him commit insider trading, Eric protects Harper by reporting her forgery of her college transcripts to HR, getting her fired for that instead.
Six weeks prior to the main events of season 3, Harper joins Yasmin on a cruise in Italy on her estranged father Charles' yacht; Yasmin neglects to save Charles from drowning, and Harper helps cover it up. In season 3, Harper is working as executive assistant to Anna Gearing, head of ethical investment fund FutureDawn Partners. Harper befriends FutureDawn portfolio manager Petra Koenig, and wins her respect by helping her hedge her exposure on the chaotic IPO of green-tech startup Lumi (in which FutureDawn has a stake). Disillusioned with Anna's leadership, Harper and Petra start their own hedge fund, LeviathanAlpha, with seed funding from powerful investor Otto Mostyn. The two also enlist Pierpoint as their broker, which Harper uses to humiliate Eric as revenge for firing her. While visiting Pierpoint's offices, Harper overhears that the debt Pierpoint used to fund its pivot to ESG investments has reached maturity, but cannot be paid off due to the failure of those IPOs; she illegally uses this info to plan a short of the firm alongside Petra. Petra urges Harper to use an unwitting Yasmin to obtain list of Pierpoint's ESG investments; upon being fired for this, Yasmin has a vicious and bitter argument with Harper, ending their friendship. Harper and Petra ultimately call off the short after Harper admits to her insider trading, but Harper later joins forces with Otto to start a New York-based hedge fund dedicated to shorting corrupt companies over which they would have leverage.

### Gus Sackey

Gus Sackey (David Jonsson) is a new grad at Pierpoint, initially assigned to the Investment Banking Division (IBD) and transferred to the CPS desk after the death of his colleague Hari Dhar. Gus is openly gay and hails from an elite background, having graduated literae humaniores from both Eton College and the University of Oxford. Despite his upper-class upbringing, Gus is shown to be humble and morally principled, and feels undervalued within Pierpoint's cutthroat work culture.

### Robert Spearing

Robert Spearing (Harry Lawtey) is a new grad on Pierpoint's CPS desk, and one of the series' protagonists. Robert is an Oxford graduate born to a working-class family, and is determined to prove his worth at Pierpoint. Throughout the series, Robert is shown to be humble, personable, and good with clients, but frequently gets carried away indulging in alcohol and hard drugs. He also had a toxic relationship with his late mother, who was controlling and possessive, and is estranged from his father Robert Sr.

### Greg Grayson

Greg Grayson (Ben Lloyd-Hughes) is a VP on Pierpoint's Cross-Product Sales (CPS) desk. He is initially romantically interested in Harper; she rejects his advances, but the two remain friends afterwards. Greg copes with Pierpoint's ruthless culture using drugs, and also explores writing in his spare time, which Eric publicly mocks him for. During an office Christmas party, Harper tells Robert to look after Greg and make sure he stays sober, but Robert and Greg end up indulging in heavy drug use with a client, culminating in Greg running headfirst into a window and injuring himself. Greg leaves Pierpoint after the incident.
Greg reappears at the end of season 3, now working as a venture capital investor in California. He listens to a sales pitch from Robert for Little Labs, a startup producing medicinal psilocybin.

### Kenny Kilbane

Kenny Kilbane (Conor MacNeill) is a VP on Pierpoint's Foreign Exchange Sales (FX) desk, and Yasmin's direct line manager. Throughout the first season, Kenny subjects Yasmin to repeated bullying and verbal abuse in the workplace, which he often blames on his alcoholism. In one case, Yasmin brings Kenny to a client dinner she arranged with her family friend Maxim Alonso, but Kenny embarrasses her when he orders a stripper to perform a lap dance on Yasmin in front of her disgusted clients. On reduction-in-force (RIF) day, however, Kenny's boss Hilary Wyndham advises that Yasmin not report his behavior during her interview, suggesting that being a "team player" would help her career prospects.
In season 2, Kenny returns to work following a long stint in rehab during the COVID-19 pandemic, noticeably kinder to his colleagues and vocal about his commitment to self-improvement and repentance. Yasmin, though still uncomfortable around Kenny, invites him to another client dinner, which ends up going well after Kenny and the client bond over both attending AA. When Yasmin announces her departure from the FX desk for a role in private wealth management (PWM), Kenny takes her aside and offers a sincere, tearful apology for his behavior. Later, however, new FX hire Venetia Berens reports to Kenny that CPS client Nicole Craig sexually assaulted her, and that Yasmin dismissed her concerns. Kenny confronts Yasmin about her response, but Yasmin berates him for his hypocrisy given his own history of abusive conduct towards her, and brands him a narcissist lording his sobriety over others.
In season 3, Kenny is said to have helped Eric through his drinking problem after the dissolution of the latter's marriage. Kenny also reveals he recently got married himself. Eric admits to Yasmin that he regrets showing Kenny a vulnerable side of himself. Eric, recently promoted to partner, is told by Adler that he needs to fire someone on the trading floor to prove his worth. Instead of firing Yasmin or Robert like he initially considered, Eric fires Kenny, threatening to expose his past treatment of Yasmin if he does not go quietly. Kenny is later shown to have joined Goldman Sachs alongside fellow ex-Pierpoint employees Daria Greenock and Jackie Walsh, and the three agree to help Harper short Pierpoint.

### Daria Greenock

Daria Greenock (Freya Mavor) is a VP at Pierpoint's CPS desk, and Harper's direct manager during her internship. Daria works to foster a poised, professional relationship with Harper, who nonetheless finds herself drawn more to Eric's fiery, cutthroat management style, frequently undercutting Daria in the process. When Harper confides to Daria that Eric locked her in a conference room to berate her for a mistake, Daria tells Sara and the two push Harper to file a formal complaint, getting Eric fired and positioning Daria to become CPS' managing director in his place. Harper is initially allowed to keep the outsize bonus that Eric paid her as long as she keeps it quiet, but Daria later has Harper pay it back after Harper talks about it during a party. On RIF day, Harper accepts a deal to retract her complaint against Eric and get him rehired, leading to Daria's firing.
In season 2, Daria is revealed to have joined Goldman Sachs; though she is on maternity leave, she visits the office during a sham interview with Harper, Eric, and Rishi to revel in their humiliation. In season 3, however, Daria agrees to help Harper short Pierpoint alongside Kenny and Jackie, who have also joined Goldman Sachs, out of spite towards their ex-employer.

### Clement Cowan

Clement Cowan (Derek Riddell) is a VP at Pierpoint's CPS desk, and Robert's manager during his internship. Clement covers only one account: Kaspar Zenden, a Dutch investor he has known for 20 years. Though initially distant and aloof, Clement forms a kinship with Robert over their shared working-class origins. He reveals to him that he is actually Scottish, but hides his background and accent to fit in with Pierpoint's elite. Robert also learns that Clement is heroin addict. Clement is eventually fired at the end of season 1 during a Pierpoint reorg. In season 2, Robert learns that Clement died and left him half a million pounds in his will, which Robert uses to buy himself a house in season 3.

### Hari Dhar

Hari Dhar (Nabhaan Rizwan) is a new grad assigned to Pierpoint's Investment Banking Division (IBD) alongside Gus. Having come from a family of Indian immigrants and graduated from a state school, Hari feels out of place among Pierpoint's new grads, and overcompensates by working through the night at the office, sleeping in the bathrooms, skipping nights out with his colleagues, and abusing energy drinks and stimulant pills to stay awake. Within days, Hari dies of a heart attack in Pierpoint's bathroom stalls. Pierpoint does brief damage control before going back to business as usual. However, Hari's death causes many Pierpoint employees to reflect on the cutthroat culture of investment banking, and plays a role in Gus' eventual decision to leave the firm.

### Theo Tuck

Theo Tuck (Will Tudor) is a second-year research analyst at Pierpoint. He and Gus were classmates at Eton College, where they were romantically involved till Gus moved to Oxford. The two rekindle their affair once Gus joins Pierpoint, but Theo remains closeted and lives with his girlfriend, Alice. During an office Christmas party, Alice catches Theo and Gus being intimate, and Theo breaks off his relationship with Gus shortly thereafter. Theo does not reappear after season 1, presumably having left Pierpoint.

### Eric Tao

Eric Tao (Ken Leung) is an MD on Pierpoint's CPS desk, and one of the series' protagonists. A longtime Pierpoint employee, Eric is a fiery, hot-tempered manager who frequently crosses ethical lines to succeed, adhering to a ruthless and Machiavellian business philosophy. Eric came up at Pierpoint's New York headquarters under late MD Newman; he continues to feel conflicted between his admiration for Newman and Newman's racism towards him. Eric is also longtime friends with FICC head Bill Adler, whom he personally hired to the company only for Adler to eventually outrank him. Eric has a wife, Candice Allbright, with whom he shares two young daughters. He takes on Harper as a protegé, admiring her tenacity and ambition.
Early in season 1, Eric helps salvage a botched trade of Harper's, which could have led to major losses for the firm. He reveals he knows she never graduated from college but does not care, and the two commiserate over having both overcome personal obstacles to secure their positions in life. Eric's longtime client Felim Bichan severs ties with him over offensive comments Eric made in front of Felim's wife. A flabbergasted Eric asks Harper to try salvaging the relationship, but Felim warns Harper against falling under Eric's influence. Eric is furious upon learning of Harper's failure to win Felim back as a client, and locks her in a conference room to berate her. Harper's line manager Daria Greenock has her report Eric's behavior to senior management, leading to Eric's firing. However, on reduction-in-force (RIF) day, Adler makes a deal with Harper to retract her complaint and return Eric to his job, feeling Eric is too valuable to the firm. Harper, realizing Eric is the only one who truly encourages her hunger to succeed, agrees, leading to Eric's return and Daria's firing.
In season 2, Eric gets Felim back as a client, only to lose him for good after Harper goes behind Eric's back to sell a controlling interest of healthcare startup Rican (in which Felim was set to purchase a block of shares) to investor Jesse Bloom. Eric takes time off work to visit the New York office, where he confronts Adler over underpaying Eric's team; Adler tells Eric he has been underperforming for four quarters in a row, and relegates him to a corner office away from the trading floor. Before he leaves, Eric cheats on his wife with Newman's widow Holly, who he dated back when the two were new grads.
Harper and Eric later join forces to make a bid away from Pierpoint upon learning that the London and New York trading floors will be merged. The two enlist Rishi and DVD - Eric's former protegé - in their plan. However, upon receiving an offer from a New York firm, Eric and Harper - wanting to stay in London - pitch a leaner London trading floor to Adler, offering Rishi and DVD up as disloyal sacrifices. When Harper unwittingly helps Jesse commit insider trading, Eric preemptively gets her fired for a lesser offense by reporting her falsified college transcripts to HR.
In season 3, the CPS and FX desks have been merged, and Eric has returned to the trading floor to manage the consolidated desk. He and Candice have separated between the seasons, with Kenny having helped Eric overcome his ensuing drinking problem. Eric is promoted to partner, but Adler tells him to fire a senior member of his team to prove his mettle. Eric, resenting having shown a vulnerable side of himself to Kenny, impulsively fires him. Eric begins sleeping with Yasmin's attorney and friend Denise Oldroyd, while harboring a growing sexual attraction towards Yasmin herself.
Eric later learns from recent hire Sweetpea Golightly that the debt Pierpoint issued to fund their ESG pivot is reaching maturity, but cannot be paid off due to the failure of every ESG IPO Pierpoint has underwritten. Eric realizes Pierpoint is on the brink of collapse. Adler returns from a sabbatical and reveals to Eric that he is dying of a brain tumor. Eric takes Yasmin out for lunch and drunkenly makes a pass at her, which she angrily rebuffs. Eric learns that Harper - who has launched her own hedge fund - is shorting Pierpoint using information on the firm's ESG positions that she tricked Yasmin into giving her; he storms into Harper's office to berate her. He fires Yasmin after images of her father's drowned body leak on the Internet, implicitly for rejecting his advances.
Pierpoint's stock drops by 50% on their 150th anniversary as their debt crisis becomes public knowledge, and Eric joins Adler and other executives in an emergency meeting with new CEO Tom Wolsey to save the firm. Though Adler promises Eric fortune and security for staying by his side, both Tom and CFO Wilhelmina Fassbinder warn Eric that Adler is using him. Eric sabotages Adler during an acquisition meeting he arranged with Mitsubishi executives, using Adler's illness to gaslight him into believing he overlooked an error in the deal documents. Eric ultimately engineers Pierpoint's acquisition by Al-Mi'raj, a holding company for the Egyptian sovereign wealth fund, having reached out to Adler's own new hire Ali El Mansour to leverage his family ties to the Egyptian wealth. However, Eric himself loses his job thanks to the acquisition due to Al-Mi'raj's decision to close the London trading floor, but is given a hefty severance package. He calls Harper to wish her well, and uses his decommissioned trading desk one last time to personally call his employees to break the news.

### Rishi Ramdani

Rishi Ramdani (Sagar Radia) is an associate trader and market maker on Pierpoint's CPS desk. He is known for his profane sense of humor and high appetite for risk, and his colorful commentary is frequently heard in the background of scenes taking place on the trading floor. He is largely a background character in season 1, taking a more prominent place in the story from season 2 onwards.
Rishi and Harper begin season 2 at odds, with Rishi resenting Harper for continuing to work remotely for months even after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Harper wins back Rishi's respect after narrowly succeeding in selling a block of shares in healthcare startup Rican to Jesse Bloom, following Felim Bichan's exit from the deal. Rishi again helps Harper when she also sells Anna Gearing' stake in Rican to Jesse behind Eric's back, thereby granting him a controlling interest in the company. Rishi and Harper's friendship sours again when she tricks Rishi into helping her get rid of Jesse's holdings in drugstore chain FastAide against Pierpoint's interest. However, Rishi later joins forces with Harper, Eric, and DVD in their bid away from Pierpoint after they learn that Bill Adler plans to merge the London and New York offices. The three get an offer from a major New York firm, but Harper and Eric, unwilling to leave London, secretly make a deal with Adler for a leaner London office, offering up DVD and Rishi as disloyal sacrifices. The day of Rishi's wedding to his fiancée Diana, an anxious Rishi has cocaine-fueled sex with Harper in a bathroom, unaware of her planned betrayal. After Harper unwittingly helps Jesse commit insider trading, Eric preemptively gets her fired for falsifying her college transcripts, while Rishi gets to keep his job.
In season 3, Rishi and Diana have a baby, and have purchased a country estate near where Diana's family lives. Rishi struggles to get along with Diana's wealthy white family due to the disparity in their cultural backgrounds. Rishi habitually cheats on Diana, including an affair with new Pierpoint hire Sweetpea Golightly (whose OnlyFans account he subscribes to), and sustains a major gambling addiction that has left him with over £200,000 in debt to his loan shark and former school friend Vinay. Rishi has also taken a £300 million long position on pound sterling against the US dollar on Pierpoint's behalf, relying on a rumored federal tax cut to raise the value of the pound. Mounting pressure from his debts causes Rishi to behave unstably at the office; he frequently takes out his anger on junior trader Anraj Chabra, and his vulgar comments on the trading floor begin getting HR's attention.
To pay off his debts, Rishi collects a total of £8,000 from several colleagues — ostensibly for betting on horse races — and gambles it at a casino. He initially wins big, parties (getting injured from a fight with a patron), then gambles his winnings, only to lose it all. Rishi goes home and has an argument with Diana over his infidelity and gambling addiction, during which she admits to an affair with a family friend whose cricket pavilion Rishi is renovating. Diana agrees to cover Rishi's loan debts. The next day, however, Pierpoint receives word that the UK chancellor is approving the tax cut, finally raising the value of the pound and netting Rishi £18 million. Rishi celebrates by ransacking the cricket pavilion, and calls Vinay to take out a new gambling loan.
On Pierpoint's 150th anniversary, its stock plummets due to outsize debt that has finally matured. Rishi notices the Barclays CEO arriving for a meeting, and correctly guesses that Pierpoint is attempting to get acquired. He asks Harper to hire him along with Sweetpea and Anraj to her hedge fund; when Harper says she only has room for one, Rishi brazenly cuts out the other two. On his birthday, Rishi arrives for an interview with Harper, only to learn that her offer was a sham designed to humiliate him, whereas she has already hired Sweetpea and Anraj (who despise Rishi due to his workplace bullying). He visits Diana in a London apartment she has purchased following their separation, only to find Vinay waiting for them; Vinay reveals to Diana that Rishi owes him over half a million pounds. When Diana begins to berate Vinay for his predatory behavior, Vinay shoots her dead and escapes, leaving Rishi traumatized.

### Jackie Walsh

Jackie Walsh (Caoilfhionn Dunne) is a VP on Pierpoint's FX desk, working alongside Kenny. She is shown to have a kind nature despite her crass sense of humor and seemingly blasé attitude about Pierpoint's work culture. Throughout the first season, she appears to play along with Kenny's workplace bullying, but chastises Yasmin for emulating it in season 2 during Kenny's absence, telling her she is above such behavior. Jackie joins Yasmin and Harper on a trip to Berlin to take over for Yasmin as Anna Gearing's FX contact, after Yasmin announces her departure from FX to private wealth management. Anna takes an immediate liking to Jackie for her acerbic wit.
In season 3, Jackie is shown to have left Pierpoint for Goldman Sachs, joining Daria and Kenny in helping Harper short Pierpoint.

### Bill Adler

Bill Adler (Trevor White) is the global head of FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities) at Pierpoint, and is based out of the New York headquarters. Adler is a ruthless pragmatist fiercely devoted to the firm; he is also a longtime friend of Eric, who initially hired him, but as his senior, he is shown to feel entitled to Eric's loyalty and support.
Adler first appears in the first-season finale to vet new grads on reduction-in-force (RIF) day. He makes Harper a deal to reinstate Eric after she got him fired for his verbal abuse in the workplace.
In season 2, Eric visits Adler in the New York office while taking two weeks off following his loss of Felim Bichan as a client. Eric confronts Adler on paying him and his team less, accusing him of trying to merge the New York and London offices. He asks to have Daniel "DVD" Van Deventer fired, but Adler tells Eric that he has been underperforming for several quarters in a row; rather than firing Eric, he relegates him to a corner office away from the trading floor. DVD later goes to Adler to report client Nicole Craig's sexual assault of new hire Venetia Berens, but Adler tells him to bury the case. Harper and Eric later go to Adler proposing a leaner London office, offering up Rishi and DVD as disloyal sacrifices, and threatening to go publicize Pierpoint's culture of suppression. Adler accepts their terms, leading to CPS and FX being consolidated, and DVD fired.
In season 3, the board promotes Eric to partner, but Adler tells Eric to fire one of his traders to prove his mettle. Eric impulsively fires Kenny on the day of green-tech startup Lumi's IPO, angering Adler. Adler himself joins the trading floor to help assuage buyers' concerns in light of the tumultuous IPO. Afterwards, Adler takes extended time away from work, eventually revealing to Eric that he has a malignant brain tumor, and may not live longer than a year. Pierpoint's stock later plummets when the debt they issued years ago to fund their unsuccessful pivot to ESG hits maturity. Adler is one of the many executives summoned by newly-appointed CEO Tom Wolsey to help the firm find a buyer. Adler clashes with CFO Wilhelmina Fassbinder over her desire to sell to Barclays, fearing that Pierpoint's legacy is at stake. Adler brokers a meeting with Mitsubishi executives, promising Eric major rewards for remaining by his side. However, Eric, realizing he needs to break free from Adler's influence, exploits Adler's illness during the meeting by gaslighting him into believing he overlooked a major error in the deal sheet. Adler has a breakdown and reveals his prognosis to the room; Eric escorts him out, and Adler realizes Eric betrayed him. Six months later, Adler has died, with Pierpoint organizing his memorial.

### Venetia Berens

Venetia Berens (Indy Lewis) is a new grad who joins Pierpoint's FX desk in the second season. She is first seen in season 1 at a Pierpoint recruiting event, pressing Robert and Yasmin on the firm's toxic culture. Ambitious and idealistic, Venetia is determined to prove herself within Pierpoint's cutthroat work environment, provoking resentment from Yasmin over not having to face the same mistreatment she suffered in her first year. While scouting new recruits, Venetia grows closer to Robert, to whom she is attracted, but Robert humiliates her when he makes an aggressive pitch to a student while on cocaine, wherein he suggests that Venetia is merely using achievement to seek external validation. Venetia later barges into a client dinner between Robert and Nicole Craig, unaware that they are in a sexual relationship; after Robert leaves the two alone, Nicole sexually assaults Venetia. Venetia confides this to Yasmin, but she dismisses her concerns. Venetia then goes to Kenny, who attempts to report the assault up the chain of command, but to no avail.
In season 3, Venetia and Robert have begun dating. Venetia, growing increasingly tired of Pierpoint's abusive work environment, eventually quits the firm. While leaving, she reveals to Rishi that she was the one who anonymously posted to a Reddit page called "Overheard At Pierpoint", which contained many of Rishi's lewd and inappropriate comments on the trading floor.

### Daniel Van Deventer

Daniel Van Deventer (Alex Akpobome), nicknamed "DVD", is a Pierpoint trader who arrives in the London office from New York amid a rumored push to consolidate the two locations. DVD is a former protegé of Eric's, and his rise to a position of authority within Pierpoint makes Eric feel threatened. DVD takes over Eric's duties after Eric takes two weeks off while reeling from the loss of Felim Bichan as a client; DVD and Adler later maneuver to have Eric relegated to a menial position in a corner office, while DVD takes over for him as CPS MD. DVD begins a sexual relationship with Harper, and invites her to join the New York headquarters amid plans to shut down the London office; Harper is apprehensive due to her traumatic upbringing in New York. DVD is later forced to suspend Harper from the trading floor after listening in on one of her calls to Jesse Bloom, during which she helps him get rid of his holdings at Pierpoint's expense, deceiving Rishi along the way.
DVD becomes disillusioned with Pierpoint after Adler tells him to ignore Nicole Craig's sexual assault of new hire Venetia Berens. He also sympathizes with Harper after learning that she too was sexually assaulted by Nicole, and agrees to join Harper, Eric and Rishi in their move away from Pierpoint. However, upon receiving an offer that would require them to relocate to New York against their wishes, Harper and Eric secretly go to Adler with a pitch for a leaner London office, offering DVD and Rishi up as disloyal to the firm. DVD is hence fired alongside much of the London office, and only finds out when he realizes his employee badge no longer works.

### Celeste Pacquet

Celeste Pacquet (Katrine De Candole) is a private wealth manager at Pierpoint. Yasmin meets her at a party hosted by her family friend Maxim Alonso, and Celeste plays along with Yasmin's assumption that she is a sex worker before eventually revealing her actual job. Yasmin, growing disgruntled with the FX desk, becomes increasingly drawn to working for PWM, in part due to her escalating flirtation with Celeste. Yasmin and Celeste eventually have sex, but Celeste reveals she is already in an open marriage with her wife and resents the power imbalance in their relationship, making Yasmin realize their affair is not as significant as she imagined. Yasmin brings in her father, Charles Hanani, as a PWM client, but soon regrets it after learning about his various affairs and subsequent NDA settlements, realizing he is a sexual predator. Celeste refuses to cut ties with Charles despite knowing about his inappropriate behavior firsthand, telling Yasmin that it is "better to work within a system and succeed than to wish for it to change and be left behind." A disillusioned Yasmin cuts ties with Celeste shortly thereafter.

### Anraj Chabra

Anraj Chabra (Irfan Shamji) is a mild-mannered junior trader at Pierpoint working under Rishi, who frequently takes his anger out on him. Rishi uses Anraj's account to run a £300 million long on pound sterling against the US dollar, raising major flags at Pierpoint's risk division (and jeopardizing Anraj's job and FCA license) until Rishi miraculously nets £18 million from the investment due to a last-minute tax cut by the UK government. Rishi also steals some of Anraj's money (claiming he is using it to bet on horse races) to gamble away at a casino. Anraj later admits that he is afraid to come to work because of Rishi's volatile behavior. Anraj and Sweetpea become friends over the course of their time at Pierpoint, in part due to their mutual frustration with Rishi, and the two are ultimately hired by Harper at her hedge fund, LeviathanAlpha, after Pierpoint's new owners shut down the London trading floor.

### Sweetpea Golightly

Sweetpea Golightly (Miriam Petche) is a new Pierpoint hire with TikTok and OnlyFans businesses on the side. She is revealed to have had an affair with Rishi, who subscribes to her OnlyFans page. Sweetpea is shown to be a shrewd and competent trader despite her seemingly carefree and social media-obsessed personality. She eventually discovers that a hefty debt Pierpoint issued five years ago to fund their pivot to ESG is reaching maturity, but cannot be paid off since the firm's ESG investments are not making any returns. She reports this to Eric, who tells her to keep it quiet; Harper later overhears Sweetpea telling Yasmin in the bathroom, and uses this information to plan a short of Pierpoint. After Pierpoint is sold to Al-Miraj Holdings, Sweetpea leaves the firm to go work for Harper alongside Anraj.

### Wilhelmina Fassbinder

Wilhelmina Fassbinder (Georgina Rich) is the ambitious new CFO of Pierpoint, and an early champion of the firm's pivot to ESG. She is frequently at odds with Adler, whose influence she warns Eric not to succumb to. Wilhelmina helps new Pierpoint CEO Tom Wolsey salvage the company's future amid a debt crisis, advocating for an ultimately unsuccessful acquisition by Barclays. After Eric brokers a sale to the Egyptian sovereign wealth fund at Adler's expense, Wilhelmina retains her title while both Eric and Tom lose their jobs. Eric admits to being impressed by Wilhelmina's Machiavellian attitude towards her principles.

### Ali El Mansour

Ali El Mansour (Fady Elsayed) is a new trader Adler hired due to his family ties to the Egyptian sovereign wealth fund. To rescue Pierpoint from a fatal debt crisis, Eric reaches out to Ali to have him bring in his family as the firm's buyers. Pierpoint is thereby absorbed into Al-Miraj, a holding company for the Egyptian sovereign wealth, who decide to consolidate the firm's trading to the New York headquarters.

### Frank Wade

Frank Wade (Joel Kim Booster) is a research analyst at Pierpoint covering the energy sector. After the tumultuous IPO of green-energy startup Lumi, Wade publishes a research report with a "hold" recommendation on Lumi stock, which is tantamount to a "sell" given that Pierpoint underwrote the IPO.

### Tom Wolsey

Tom Wolsey (Harry Hadden-Paton) is the newly-appointed CEO of Pierpoint, brought on to help steer the firm through its debt crisis. Tom assembles an emergency committee of senior executives to help salvage Pierpoint when its stock plummets the day of its 150th anniversary. After several failed attempts to find a buyer for the firm, Eric finally brokers a sale with Al-Miraj, a firm representing the Egyptian sovereign wealth fund. Tom is fired as CEO because the Egyptian government would not approve of his homosexuality.

## Other main cast members
### Nicole Craig

Nicole Craig (Sarah Parish) is the CEO of investment fund Mallon Mercer, and a major Pierpoint client. Despite being an outspoken feminist in public, Nicole is in fact a serial sexual predator who preys on young targets. She initially makes a drunken advance on Harper in the car ride home from their first client meeting together; Harper continues a business relationship with Nicole to keep her job, but eventually antagonizes Nicole into cutting ties with her herself.
In season 2, Robert, looking to make more outgoing calls, wins Nicole back as a Pierpoint client by being endearingly honest about feeling out of his depth at the job. The two connect over dinner, and Nicole masturbates him in the car on the way home. The two continue an illicit sexual relationship for months onward, with Robert projecting many of his unresolved issues with his late mother onto the domineering Nicole. Robert later learns from Harper that Nicole made an advance on her the previous year. Nicole later sexually assaults new hire Venetia Berens, who Robert left alone with Nicole during a client dinner that went sideways. Venetia attempts to report the assault, to no avail. Robert tries to cut ties with Nicole afterwards, but she reestablishes her control over him after bailing him out when he is arrested for cocaine possession.
In season 3, Robert and Nicole are still engaged in their affair; Robert spends a night with her, only to suddenly find her dead the next morning. He later returns to her house to retrieve a necklace Venetia gave him, and discovers that she has an estranged 15-year-old daughter who is well aware of her numerous affairs. Nicole's exact cause of death is not specified, but is said to be of natural causes.

### Felim Bichan

Felim Bichan (Andrew Buchan) is a Scottish hedge fund manager and initially Pierpoint's biggest client with a decades-long client relationship with Eric. A firm, principled man who ascended from humble beginnings, Felim decides to cut ties with Eric and Pierpoint after Eric drunkenly makes offensive comments in front of Felim's wife. On Eric's orders, Harper attempts to coax Felim back to the firm, but Felim gently warns Harper not to fall prey to Eric's malign influence.
In season 2, Felim returns as Pierpoint's client so long as Harper act the intermediary between he and Eric. Harper, however, blows off a client meeting with Eric and Felim to meet with notorious independent investor Jesse Bloom, who she is courting as a client. Felim is initially the anchor on a $3.3 billion block trade for shares of healthcare startup Rican, with Eric promising him pre-buy stock options. Felim, however, pulls out of the trade after Harper misses the client meeting, as it reaffirms his distrust of Eric, and Harper sells the shares to Bloom at the last minute instead.
Felim, Bloom, Harper and Eric attend a duck shoot in Wales for Rican investors, which Pierpoint initially organized to celebrate Felim's planned purchase of Rican stock. Felim and Bloom remain at odds since Felim rejects his modest beginnings while Bloom embraces his, and Felim chastises Harper for gravitating towards bullies. Bloom later injures Felim's face with shrapnel while trying to shoot a rare pheasant. Eric plans to have Bloom to sell his shares to Felim at the shoot, but Harper instead covertly helps Bloom buy a controlling stake in Rican from FutureDawn Partners, a socially-conscious investment fund, seeing as Rican is underperforming and hiding it from Felim to ensure his investment. Felim, realizing Eric has yet again failed to deliver on his promises, cuts ties with him for good.

### Usman Abboud

Usman Abboud (Amir El-Masry) is the assistant to Kaspar Zenden, Clement's sole client. Usman puts on a professional facade for Kaspar, pretending to be conservative and abstinent from alcohol and drugs, but reveals himself as a hard-partying, homosexual playboy to Robert and later Greg. After Clement is fired from Pierpoint, Usman tells Robert that Kaspar no longer wishes to continue his relationship with Pierpoint.

### Maxim Alonso

Maxim Alonso (Nicholas Bishop) is a hedge fund manager and old family friend of Yasmin's, placed in charge of overseeing her father Charles' assets. Maxim has a tense, quasi-brotherly relationship with Yasmin throughout season 1, especially after a client meeting with him goes south thanks to the misbehavior of Yasmin's abusive boss Kenny. In season 2, Maxim's fund goes bankrupt, prompting him to throw an excessive, drug-fueled party where and Yasmin end up having sex. While initially continuing their tryst, Yasmin grows distant from Maxim after becoming privy to Charles' numerous extramarital affairs and subsequent NDA settlements, which she is angry at Maxim for not telling her about. Maxim later drunkenly tries to force himself on Yasmin in bed, causing her to cut ties with him.
In season 3, Maxim reaches out to Yasmin while camping in Northern California to tell her that Hanani Publishing was complicit in Charles' sexual misconduct, providing several of his victims with sham jobs in exchange for their silence. He explains that the company primarily wants to make Yasmin the face of the scandal to hide their own involvement.

### Jesse Bloom

Jesse Bloom (Jay Duplass) is an independent hedge fund manager who profited heavily from the COVID-19 pandemic.

### Charles Hanani

Charles Hanani (Adam Levy) is Yasmin's father, and the wealthy CEO of the Hanani Publishing company. Charles is a serial philanderer, long divorced from Yasmin's mother Azar. He has a strained relationship with Yasmin, whom he treats like a child, and who carries trauma from growing up around her father's sexually inappropriate behavior.
Charles unexpectedly reenters Yasmin's life in season 2 when he arrives in London for business. Yasmin, seeking a move to Pierpoint's private wealth management (PWM) division, sees an opportunity to recruit Charles as a client. Charles, however, reveals that a significant portion of his expenses has gone towards settling NDAs with women he had affairs with. Yasmin discovers that her former nanny was one of Charles' mistresses, and realizes he likely groomed her. When Yasmin confronts him, Charles berates Yasmin for her hypocrisy in criticizing him while depending on his wealth for her career and lifestyle. He decides to cut her off financially.
In season 3, Yasmin joins her father on a cruise in Italy on his yacht, where she catches him performing oral sex on a pregnant boat employee. He tries to apologize, and reveals that he is about to be sued by his own company for his historic embezzlement from the firm, which has left it in deep debt. The two have a vicious fight on the yacht deck, where Yasmin accuses him of viewing her in a sexual light her whole life. A drunken Charles jumps off the boat in response to Yasmin wishing him dead, and Yasmin makes no attempt to save him from drowning. Harper, who is also on the boat, helps Yasmin cover up her involvement in Charles' death.
Months later, Charles' body is recovered, and Hanani Publishing decides to name Yasmin the scapegoat for her father's misdeeds, in part to cover up their own complicity: the company offered jobs to many of Charles' victims to ensure their silence. Yasmin decides to fight her family's company in court. After marrying Henry Muck, Yasmin hires Alondra, the woman she caught Charles with on the boat, as her assistant; Alondra reveals that Charles sometimes had girls as young as 12 on the boat, and offers Yasmin her sympathy if she was ever abused as a child. Yasmin vehemently denies this, but then breaks down crying in embrace with Alondra, leaving the issue ambiguous. Henry's uncle Lord Norton, a former classmate of Charles' from Oxford, also tells Yasmin that he always knew her father to be a sexual predator.

### Leo Bloom

Leo Bloom (Sonny Poon Tip) is Jesse's wayward, estranged 19-year-old son. Jesse hires Gus to tutor Leo on his college admissions essays to Oxford and Cambridge despite Leo's disinterest in school, and Leo and Gus soon begin a sexual relationship. Over time, Gus helps Leo discover his academic ambitions, and Leo is grateful for the experience despite not being admitted to either of his choice schools. Gus later utilizes his connections at Oxford to land Leo an admission, and Jesse hires Gus as his assistant in return after Gus loses his government job.

### Anna Gearing

Anna Gearing (Elena Saurel) is the head of FutureDawn Partners, a socially conscious investment fund. Despite her ethical business philosophy, Anna is shown to have expensive personal tastes, and micromanages employees at her fund. She has two daughters, Boadicea and Olympia, and named her longtime portfolio manager Petra Koenig as their godmother.
Anna is initially Yasmin's FX client, as Pierpoint helps hedge her investments. Harper meets Anna at a Pierpoint-organized duck shoot in Wales for investors in US-based healthcare startup Rican. Anna tells Harper that Rican is underperforming and cannot deliver on its promises to make healthcare more accessible and affordable in the US market, ending its chances of expanding into the UK. Harper uses this information to convince Jesse - to whom she already sold $3.3 billion in Rican shares - to buy Anna's shares as well, granting him a controlling stake in the company and ensuring long-term profits. Later, when Yasmin plans a move from FX to private wealth management, she passes her client relationship with Anna over to Jackie, to whom Anna takes an immediate liking. Harper tags along on the trip in hopes of courting Anna as her own client.
In season 3, after Harper is fired from Pierpoint, she starts working for Anna as her executive assistant. Harper, however, allies herself with Petra Koenig, who is becoming disillusioned with Anna's leadership. Anna comes at odds with both of them after Harper helps Petra hedge her exposure on the chaotic IPO of green-tech startup Lumi by buying credit default swaps on oil and natural gas shares, which contradicts FutureDawn's commitment to ethical investments. Harper and Petra later branch off to start their own hedge fund, which Harper announces at a Swiss climate conference that Anna is attending alongside Pierpoint and Lumi.

### Aurore Adekunle

Aurore Adekunle (Faith Alabi) is a Tory MP. She is introduced in season 2 as an ally of Anna Gearing, joining her on a duck shoot in Wales hosted by Pierpoint for investors in healthcare startup Rican. Gus strikes up a friendship with Aurore at the shoot, and she hires him to work at her government office to help handle her mounting meetings with constituents. Gus later leaks to Harper that the government is allowing Amazon to acquire drugstore chain FastAide, jeopardizing Jesse's planned short of the company; Harper tells Jesse, who criticizes the acquisition on live TV, thereby reviving the government inquiry - boosting Aurore's reputation - while saving his own short. Aurore, however, is forced to fire Gus after he lets slip that he was the source of the leak, even though the information ended up helping her.
Aurore reappears in season 3, having been promoted to Energy Secretary; she publicly champions Henry Muck's green-energy startup Lumi, while privately scheming with Henry's uncle Lord Norton and godfather Otto Mostyn to elevate her own position in government. Aurore publicly takes responsibility for Lumi's collapse during a government inquest, thereby positioning her for a future bid for Prime Minister. She and Norton later capitalize on the news of Barclays' failed acquisition of Pierpoint, framing it in the news as an antitrust win for Aurore.

### Henry Muck

Henry Muck (Kit Harington) is the CEO of Lumi, a green energy startup. Henry is a spoiled, wealthy aristocrat with a history of depression following his father's suicide, and an erratic, mercurial business leader.
Henry is introduced in season 3 as Lumi is about to make an IPO underwritten by Pierpoint, as part of their pivot to ESG investing. Robert has spent months working closely with Henry to assess Lumi's business, and the two continue to have a prickly relationship. Henry makes a number of erratic decisions the day of the IPO: he returns lead investor James Ashford's shares after Ashford confronts him about inflating the company's quarterly earnings reports, takes psychedelics, and talks to journalists against Robert's advice. He and Robert later have a physical fight when Robert snaps at Henry over his flippant behavior and corrupt business practices. Yasmin eventually saves the IPO when she lures paparazzi to a meeting she arranged between Henry, his godfather Otto Mostyn, and a potential investor from a power company; the resulting photographs give Lumi a life-saving stock boost. As gratitude, Henry, who is sexually attracted to Yasmin, invites her to dinner; he reveals that he had his uncle Lord Norton, a newspaper proprietor, erase negative tabloid coverage of Yasmin amidst her father's embezzlement scandal.
Henry joins Pierpoint on a climate conference in Switzerland, amidst rumors of Pierpoint overvaluing Lumi. He brings Yasmin along in hopes of courting her. Pierpoint's own energy analyst publishes a damning "hold" recommendation on Lumi stock, which Harper announces during a live Q&A with Henry, Eric and Anna. Henry accepts that Lumi is doomed, and confides to Yasmin in a swimming pool that he started the company just to fight his own depression. He and Yasmin have sex on the flight back to London, in view of Eric and Robert. The two continue their relationship offscreen for some time afterwards.
Lumi is later subject to a government inquest following its collapse and subsequent £2 billion bailout by the government, which was funded by taxpayers and left millions of low-income households using Lumi with mounting energy bills. The prosecutor also makes note of sexual harassment complaints against Henry, which were anonymously filed by his personal assistant Caedi MacFarlane. Tory MP Aurore Adekunle, who is in cahoots with Otto and Norton, saves Henry by taking responsibility for Lumi's downfall, positioning herself for a future PM bid. Yasmin breaks up with Henry after he dismisses her questions about the harassment, and after Henry's friend mocks Yasmin for submitting to Henry's urination fetish. Henry has Robert join him on an ayahuasca trip afterwards.
Henry's depression returns in the weeks following his breakup with Yasmin. He invites Yasmin and Robert to his uncle's palatial country estate, ostensibly to provide VC funding to a health startup for which Robert is seeking investors. Norton tells Yasmin that her PR problems will disappear if she were to marry Henry; Yasmin agrees, seeking the personal and financial security that Henry's family empire would afford. Months later, Yasmin has successfully turned around her public image, having become a celebrity thanks to her marriage to Henry.

### Petra Koenig

Petra Koenig (Sarah Goldberg) is a portfolio manager at FutureDawn Partners, and one of Anna's closest associates. Her relationship with Anna has soured over the years: Petra is godmother to Anna's children, but feels she was forced to accept the role due to Anna's seniority, and notes that it was Anna who pushed for a personal friendship with her. Petra's shrewd pragmatism also puts her at odds with Anna's dogged commitment to FutureDawn's socially conscious ethos, which Petra considers vain and naive.
While working as Anna's executive assistant, Harper helps Petra hedge her exposure on the chaotic Lumi IPO by enabling her to buy credit default swaps on oil and natural gas shares, leveraging her relationship with Yasmin to do so. Petra, impressed with Harper and growing disillusioned with Anna's leadership, decides to start her own hedge fund with Harper, which the two later name LeviathanAlpha. The two obtain seed funding from Otto Mostyn, and hire Pierpoint as their broker.
Harper and Petra decide to short Pierpoint after learning that the firm's ESG investments are spiraling and that no one wants custody of the company's maturing debt used to fund their ESG pivot. The two enlist Daria, Kenny and Jackie - all having moved to Goldman Sachs - help them short their former employer. However, Harper later admits to Petra that she first overheard talk of Pierpoint's debt crisis while using their restroom, which would make the short illegal. A panicked Petra reports this to Otto, who privately tells Harper that he admires her ruthlessness. Harper reconciles with Petra, and the two agree to no longer make unilateral decisions. They decide to call off their Pierpoint short and end their relationship with Otto. However, Harper later secretly partners with Otto to start her own fund in New York dedicated to shorting corrupt companies.

### Alexander Norton

Viscount Alexander Norton (Andrew Havill) is Henry Muck's uncle, and a powerful newspaper proprietor who owns a number of tabloids. Norton is a wealthy nobleman who owns a large estate in the English countryside, and a former classmate of Charles Hanani during their time at Oxford. Norton and Otto are also secretly allies of Aurore Adekunle, helping her take advantage of both the downfall of Lumi and the failed acquisition of Pierpoint by Barclays to publicly position herself as a PM candidate. At the end of season 3, Norton convinces Yasmin to marry Henry, telling her that he is fiercely protective of his family, and that he can stop the negative press coverage she is facing amid her father's embezzlement scandal and subsequent death. He also tells Yasmin that he was always aware Charles was a sexual predator, dating back to his college days. Yasmin ultimately agrees to marry Henry due to the protection and financial security she is guaranteed from joining his clan.

### Otto Mostyn

Otto Mostyn (Roger Barclay) is Henry's godfather, and a fellow classmate of Charles Hanani from Oxford alongside Norton. A sinister, calculating businessman, Otto takes interest in Harper due to her cunning and ruthlessness, and agrees to provide seed funding to LeviathanAlpha, the hedge fund she is starting with Petra Koenig. Otto, Norton, and Aurore are also in a secretive cabal to advance their interests via the government. Petra calls Otto after learning that Harper committed insider trading by acting on confidential information she overheard to short Pierpoint. Otto summons Harper to a meeting, where instead of reprimanding her, he tells her he wants her to succeed him in running his investment fund. Harper and Petra ultimately decide to call off the short and end their partnership with Otto to keep their fund above-board, but Harper later teams up with Otto to start her own fund in New York dedicated to shorting corrupt companies over whom she and Otto would have leverage.

### Denise Oldroyd

Denise Oldroyd (Fiona Button) is Yasmin's lawyer, and sister of her ex-boyfriend Seb. Denise represents Yasmin following the publication of her father's historic embezzlement from the family publishing company. She also has a brief affair with Eric that begins after he joins her and Yasmin on a cocaine bender. When Hanani Publishing decides to pay off Charles' various legal settlements in exchange for making Yasmin the face of the scandal, Denise encourages Yasmin to go along with the deal to protect the victims of Charles' sexual abuse, but Yasmin decides to fight her father's company in court.

### Caedi McFarlane

Caedi McFarlane (Eliot Salt) is Henry Muck's personal assistant at Lumi, whose presence often calms him during his erratic outbursts. Caedi later files an anonymous complaint against Henry for repeated sexual harassment, which is mentioned in the government inquest against Lumi following its collapse.

### James Ashford

James Ashford (Tom Stourton) is an investor from Bear Stearns, and one of Lumi's primary investors. The day of the company's IPO, he confronts Henry about Lumi's inflated quarterly earnings reports and asks whether Pierpoint overvalued the company; Henry dismisses Ashford's concerns and returns his shares, forcing Pierpoint to scramble to find new investors. Harper later runs into Ashford in the park and learns from him that most banks are backtracking on their ESG investments, corroborating what she overheard Sweetpea telling Yasmin about Pierpoint's impending debt crisis. Harper uses what Ashford told her as legal cover for shorting Pierpoint.

### Xander Lindt

Xander Lindt (Gustav Lindh) is a cocky young heir of the Lindt chocolate empire, and a member of Henry's entourage. He repeatedly demeans Yasmin after she rejects his sexual advances at a Swiss climate conference.

### Vinay Sarkar

Vinay Sarkar (Asim Chaudhry) is Rishi's loan shark, and primary source of his gambling money. Rishi initially owes Vinay £200,000, which he is able to pay off after netting £18 million from his long on cable following a federal tax cut. Rishi, however, takes out another £50,000 loan to gamble away, and in the following months, his debt to Vinay inflates beyond £500,000. Vinay shows up unannounced to Rishi's apartment on the latter's birthday to tell Rishi and Diana how much he is owed; when Diana begins to berate Vinay for his predatory behavior and for enabling Rishi's gambling addiction, Vinay shoots her in the head and leaves.

## Recurring characters and guest stars
### Justin Klineman

Justin Klineman (Joshua James) is Pierpoint's head of HR. He is first seen pressing Harper to send over her college transcripts, unaware she never graduated; Harper sends forged documents. Eric, aware of Harper's past, reports her deceit to HR at the end of season 2, and Justin fires her. In season 3, Justin and another HR rep confront Rishi over his lewd and inappropriate comments on the trading floor, which he angrily dismisses. After Pierpoint is acquired by Al-Miraj, a holding company for the Egyptian sovereign wealth, the London trading firm is shut down, and Justin presides over a slew of employee terminations including Eric's.

### Lucinda Young

Lucinda Young (Ruby Bentall) is a VP on Pierpoint's Investment Banking Division (IBD), overseeing Gus and Hari. She tacitly encourages Hari to overwork during his first week on the job; after Hari dies of a heart attack, Lucinda feels guilty, and worries whether she will be held culpable for Hari's death, telling Gus to vouch for her with HR. Lucinda is briefly seen in season 2 meeting with executives from healthcare startup Rican, for whom Pierpoint is helping engineer a major trade.

### Seb Oldroyd

Sebastian Oldroyd (Jonathan Barnwell) is Yasmin's deadbeat, underachieving boyfriend. He lives in her expensive Notting Hill apartment, and spends most of his time getting high with his childhood friends. The lack of sexual passion in their relationship leads Yasmin to flirt with Robert. Seb attempts to make homemade sushi at a party thrown by Yasmin, but he accidentally cuts his hand with a knife, and the party is overall a failure. Yasmin decides to finally break up with Seb that night. Seb later visits Yasmin at work on reduction-in-force (RIF) day trying to make amends, but Yasmin rejects him for good, telling him he nearly killed her sex life.

### Todd Barber

Todd Barber (Branden Cook) is Harper's ex-boyfriend from New York. The two remain sexually involved after their breakup, and he helps her forge her university transcripts when she is hired to Pierpoint. Todd later visits Harper in London; the two have a fight after Harper discovers he stole an expensive jacket from a patron at the nightclub they went to, where Todd calls Harper a coward and a hypocrite. Harper cuts ties with him for good.

### Azar Kara

Azar Kara (Helene Maksoud) is Yasmin's mother, long divorced from her philandering husband and Yasmin's father Charles Hanani. She and Yasmin also have a strained relationship.

### Candice Allbright

Candice Allbright (Alexandra Moen) is Eric's wife, with whom he has two daughters. She and Eric share a profane sense of humor. She later divorces Eric between seasons 2 and 3.

### Kaspar Zenden

Kaspar Zenden (Kåre Conradi) is a Dutch hedge fund manager, and the sole client of Pierpoint VP Clement Cowan. He cuts ties with Pierpoint after Clement is fired.

### Diana Ramdani

Diana Ramdani (Brittany Ashworth, season 2; Emily Barber, season 3) is Rishi's fiancée and later wife. Though she and Rishi have similar personalities, Rishi struggles to get along with Diana's wealthy white family due to racial and class disparities. In season 3, Diana is a housewife raising she and Rishi's newborn on a country estate the two purchased; their marriage is strained due to mutual infidelity and Rishi's gambling addiction, which has put him in severe financial debt. The two are separated by the end of season 3, with Diana living in an apartment in the city; Rishi comes to visit her for his birthday, but his loan shark Vinay is waiting for him, revealing to Diana that Rishi owes him over half a million pounds. When Diana begins to berate Vinay for his predatory behavior, Vinay shoots her dead and escapes.

### Holly Newman

Holly Newman (Anna Wilson-Jones) is the widow of Eric's first boss and mentor, Newman. She and Eric were in a relationship while working as junior associates in New York, but Holly began an affair with Newman and later married him. She and Eric reconnect after Newman's death when Eric visits the New York office, and Eric secretly cheats on his wife with Holly before flying back to London.

### John-Daniel Stern

John-Daniel "JD" Stern (Adain Bradley) is Harper's estranged twin brother, who disappeared from her life when the two were teenagers. In season 2, Harper tracks down her brother to Berlin, where he works as a line cook. The two spend the night at a club, and the next morning, JD relapses on his meth addiction. The two have a vicious argument over their childhood growing up with an abusive mother; JD reveals he ran away in part due to Harper exacerbating the pressure their mother put on him to be a star tennis player, but Harper maintains that she too escaped a traumatic upbringing. Harper begs JD to come home with her, but rebuffs her, branding his sister a selfish narcissist who was complicit in the abuse he suffered. Harper is left deeply shaken by the encounter.

### Robert Spearing Sr.

Robert Spearing Sr. (Rick Warden) is Robert's working-class father, who works as a bartender. Robert Sr. was largely absent throughout his son's upbringing, which he left to Robert's domineering mother who died prior to the events of the series. Robert Sr. since remarried and had two children with his new wife, while remaining estranged from Robert. Robert visits his father in season 2, and breaks his sobriety after an argument with him. Robert Sr. finds his son drunk and passed out outside his apartment, and lets him stay the night; the two reconcile the morning after, with Robert Sr. assuring his son he has nothing to apologize for.

### Jamie Henson

Jamie Henson (James Nelson-Joyce) is a constituent of Aurore Adekunle. He suffers from mental illness and repeatedly visits her office demanding to speak with her, claiming that unspecified people are harassing him and defecating on his street. Gus, working for Aurore, takes time to listen to Jamie's concerns, and refers him to a therapist. The two form a friendship that makes Gus realize he enjoys helping everyday people more than working in finance, until Aurore is forced to fire Gus.

### Sadie Sackey

Sadie Sackey (Naana Agyei-Ampadu) is Gus' older sister, who works as a doctor for the National Health Service. Gus is closer to her than the rest of his overbearing family, but she too admonishes him to leave his low-paying but emotionally fulfilling job at Aurore Adekunle's public office in favor of something more lucrative and high-profile.

### Naomi Anderson

Naomi Anderson (Olivia Grant) is a Pierpoint attorney who helps the company through a government inquest against Lumi following its collapse. She and Eric decide to make Robert the scapegoat, which she reluctantly reveals to him following his tense testimony.

### Lisa Dearn

Lisa Dearn (Chloe Pirrie) is a fiery, crusading prosecutor leading the government inquest against Lumi following its collapse. She presses Robert and Henry with pointed questions about Pierpoint's overvaluation of Lumi, as well as Henry's sexual harassment of his employees.