who is caliban in penny dreadful
By Penny Dreadful Recap | June 4, 2014 - 10:03 pm | Characters, Penny Dreadful. Caliban is a main male character in Showtime TV show Penny Dreadful.He is played by actor Rory Kinnear. Caliban, or The Creature as he is often called, is the first humanoid monster created by Dr. Victor Frankenstein. His unusual birth left him tortured and anguished, leaving him a lonely and misunderstood outcast. Episode 2 -Caliban brutally kills Proteus by tearing him apart. 2  He then tells Frankenstein that his âfirst bornâ has returned. 3  Episode 3 â We see Calibanâs âbirthâ and abandonment by Victor. 4  After Victor left him for dead, Caliban lived on the streets of London.