The Day Of The Jackal: Character Guide, Groups, Locations, and Key Details

This is a show and character guide for Peacock and Sky’s “The Day Of The Jackal” with character descriptions, quotes, information on groups and locations, and more.

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Groups & Organizations

  • DagHaus (Season 1): UDC’s (Ulle Dag Charles) company

Notable Locations & Items

  • Cadiz, Spain (1.1): Where Nuria, Carlito, and The Jackal call home
  • Valmarin Island, Croatia (Season 1): UDC’s private island

Terminology

  • River (1.2): River is the software which is supposed to create full financial transparency across the world and bring global economic justice
  • Dark Core (1.2): The dark web site that The Jackal uses to communicate with his employers

Noteworthy Information

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The Jackal

Alexander (Eddie Redmayne) looking down the scope of a rifle
The Jackal (Eddie Redmayne)

General Information

Character Description

Upon initial introduction, “The Jackal” is a master sniper who makes his money off high profile hit jobs – politicians, the rich, you name it. However, as we learn as the first season goes on, there is more to him than a hired killer. He is also a husband, and a father, a potential family man who does what he knows best to support the lifestyle he thinks his loved ones deserve.

Additional Information

  • The Jackal’s Record Shot(Season 1/ Episode 1): The Jackal’s killing of Manfred Fest had him make a shot 3815 meters, around 2.3 miles, away
  • Other Names
    • Name Given At Birth (1.4): Alexander Duggan
      • Full Name (1.8): Alexander James Gordon Duggan
    • Name Nuria Knows Him By (1.2/1.10): Charles Calthrop
  • Background (1.8): Alexander was a Strapp 2 soldier, two levels higher than top secret, operating in Helmand, Afghanistan in 2013. His career includes becoming an officer cadet in Sandhurst, taking a sniper commander’s course at Warminster, joining the Pathfinder Platoon, doing missions in North Ireland, Norway, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraw, and then Afghanistan. His final position was a covert special force that was tasked with killing Taliban leaders and it is believed on or about April 23, 2013 he died in a IED explosion.

Bianca

Lashana Lynch as Bianca

General Information

Character Description

Bianca is an MI6 agent with a specialty in sniper rifles who appears to be good at her job but not the politics of it. At the same time, while she is a wife and mother and loved by her family, she may not be good at the politics of family either.

Additional Information

  • Alternate Name(Season / Episode 1): When speaking with Alison, she goes by Nadine
  • Parents (1.3): Bianca’s father is missing and mother is an alcoholic living in sheltered housing

Paul

Paul telling Bianca to just go and seek out a resolution to her Jackal case
Paul (Sule Rimi)

General Information

Character Description

Paul is Bianca’s husband, a university professor (specifically a senior lecturer), on his second marriage and third kid.

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Jasmine

Jasmine (Florisa Kamara) talking to her mom
Jasmine (Florisa Kamara)

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Character Description

Jasmine is Bianca and Paul’s child, a fan of UDC, and who, for the most part, is a regular teenager.

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Alison

Kate Dickie as Alison

General Information

Character Description

Alison is the wife of a man whose brother is one of the top rifle makers in the world, especially covert rifles that can still shoot long distances.

Additional Information

  • Codename(Season 1/ Episode 1): She is referred to as Sparrow by Bianca when speaking with her peers

Emma

Katherine Devlin as Emma

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Character Description

Emma is Alison’s daughter, who often attends protests. She was supposed to be a pawn to get her mother to do as Bianca wanted.

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Nuria

Ursula Corbero as Nuria

General Information

Character Description

Nuria is Charles’s wife. She lives on their estate in Spain and has a very comfortable life. However, after more than two years of knowing Charles, she may have stumbled over his actual work, not his being a buyer and seller of rare items.

Additional Information

  • Full Name(Season 1/ Episode 10): Nuria Gonzalez Martin

Larry

Patrick O’Kane as Larry

General Information

Character Description

Larry is Alison’s husband, Norman’s older brother, the connection Bianca needs to track Norman down.

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Zina Jansone

Eleanor Matsuura as Zina Jansone

General Information

Character Description

Ms. Jansone is Charles’s connection to a collective that wishes to kill Ulle Dag Charles and prevent his “River” program from creating global financial transparency.

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Damian

General Information

Character Description

Damian is Bianca’s subordinate, who is accused of being a mole.

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Isabel

Lia Williams as Isabel

General Information

  • Portrayed By: Lia Williams (Original)
    • The Actor Is Also Known For: Kiri

Character Description

Isabel is one of two superiors to Bianca, but Isabel is far more supportive of Bianca’s expertise and initiative.

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Osita

Chukwudi Iwuji as Osita

General Information

Character Description

Osita is Bianca’s direct superior, who originally tried to exclude her from the investigation of the assassination of the German official and who seemingly was ready to shut down her case whenever it seemed possible.

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Vincent Pyne

Nick Blood as Vince

General Information

Character Description

Vincent is a friend of Bianca’s who was trained at Hendon with her, and has been in various parts of the military/ police from close protection, to being a tach adviser, NCA, and he ultimately ended up at Six. He is also known for his advanced driving capabilities.

Additional Information

  • Background(Season 1/ Episode 4): With Bianca, he trained at Hendon, and since then has worked close protection, advanced driver, and tach adviser before going to NCA and then ended up at Siz

Ulle Dag Charles (UDC)

Ulle Dag Charles aka UDC noting River will launch tomorrow
Ulle Dag Charles aka UDC (Khalid Abdalla)

General Information

Character Description

Ulle Dag Charles, commonly known as UDC, is a billionaire whose newest project, “River” is considered a major threat due to its alleged ability to make the entire financial system transparent, including revealing what everyone has in their bank account. Now, it isn’t clear if it will show how the money moves, but it can show what everyone is holding.

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Norman Stoke

Richard Dormer as Norman

General Information

Character Description

While we’ve seen Norman and certainly heard him before this episode, this is when his expertise matched his reputation. From coding and 3D printing guns to building designs that allow people like Charles to do their jobs and be at the top of their professions, Norman is highly sought out in both the criminal underground and by government agencies.

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Angela

Diveen Henry as Angela

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Character Description

Angela is Paul’s ex-wife and, assumingly, the mother of Paul’s two sons.

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Rasmus

Andreas Jessen as Rasmus

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Character Description

Rasmus is a security guard in Estonia, whose employer owns the venue UDC plans to announce the River software to the world.

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Alvaro

General Information

Character Description

Alvaro is Nuria’s brother. He dreams of becoming something but doesn’t seem to have the ability to do so with his own money or efforts. So, with his knowledge, he appears to be banking on Charles to use his wealth to get a leg up.

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Marisa

General Information

Character Description

Marisa is Nuria’s mother, and she seems fine with Charles when things are good between him and her daughter. However, as soon as there is a need to question things, she is ready to plant seeds that Charles is untrue and push her daughter to divorce Charles and take as much money as she can in said divorce.

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Gary

Gary (Gerard Kearns) after an IED killed his team members
Gary (Gerard Kearns)

General Information

Character Description

Gary was Alexander’s best friend and spotter.

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Tim

Tim talking to Jimmy about Alexander
Tim (Carles Dance)

General Information

Character Description

Tim is the head of the collective who hired Alexander to assassinate UDC.

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Jimmy

Jimmy looking out of Tim's office window
Jimmy (Adam James)

General Information

  • Portrayed By: Adam James (Original)
    • This version is introduced in Season 1

Character Description

Jimmy is the British Foreign Secretary who helped Bianca and her team get Alexander’s military file, which pushed the likelihood of him being dead.

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Jeremy Tejaro

Alvaro and Jeremy having a business lunch, waiting for Alexander
Alvaro (Jon Arias) and Jeremy (Vladimir Cruz)

Character Description

Jeremy is a notorious gangster in Spain, known to both Nuria and Alvaro, who Alvaro hopes to use, in conjunction with Alexander, to make his dreams come true.

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