The following is a list of characters that appear in the Canadian drama television series The Border.

Main characters

Immigration and Customs Security Immigration and Custom Security (ICS) is a fictional federal agency established by the Government of Canada to deal with trans-border issues in criminal and terrorist cases, based at the former Rochester ferry terminal in Toronto. It is implied that Public Safety Canada has ICS under its subordination.

ICS is an armed federal agency, similar to most Canadian law enforcement agencies like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. As such, ICS personnel are equipped with small arms such as handguns. Other small arms such as shotguns and submachine guns are readily available when needed according to the situation.

Name Actor/actress Starring seasons Recurring seasons Last season appearance Former Position RankMike Kessler James McGowan 1 1, 2, 3 None Joint Task Force 2 Major Head of the Toronto-based Immigrations and Customs Security, he was formerly a Joint Task Force 2 commando with the rank of Major. He is divorced and has a daughter named Zoe.Maggie Norton Catherine Disher 1 1, 2, 3 None Canada Customs and Revenue AgencyCanada Border Services Agency Superintendent Second-in-command of ICS. She was an ex-Canada Customs officer before her recruitment to the agency.Gray Jackson Graham Abbey 1 1, 2, 3 None Canada Customs and Revenue AgencyCanada Border Services Agency Detective SergeantAn ex-Canada Customs agent, Gray's a womanizer and a former gambler. He had been separated from his father as a young boy, living with various foster families. Although attracted to Layla Hourani, he starts a sexual relationship to DHS agent Liz Carver in season 2 after he meets her. He was suspended from ICS at the beginning of season 3 after going rogue to avenge the death of Hourani and his father. Layla Hourani Nazneen Contractor 1 1, 2 2 Royal Canadian Mounted Police SergeantA Muslim Canadian agent of ICS, she is a recent recruit from the RCMP. Layla can speak 7 languages, including Persian, Spanish, French, Cantonese and Japanese aside from her native English. She was killed alongside Dougie Jackson in a bombing by mobsters working under Andriano Frantangelo.Al Lepinsky Mark Wilson 1 1, 2, 3 None Toronto Police Service Detective Sergeant An ex-Detective Sergeant with the Toronto Police Service's Fugitive Squad, he is known as Moose to his friends and colleagues. He acts as ICS' liaison officer with the police.Darnell Williams Jim Codrington 1 1, 2, 3 None Canadian Security Intelligence Service InspectorAn ex-CSIS agent, he had formerly been assigned to Africa before his transfer to ICS. He is also ICS' liaison officer to CSIS. He is speaks the French language.Heironymous Slade Jonas Chernick 1 1, 2, 3 None Joint Task Force 2 Special AgentICS' resident hacker and computer expert, he is liked by ICS personnel for his expertise in computers despite having some problems with social skills.Khalida Massi Athena Karkanis 3 3 None CSIS Special AgentTransferred from CSIS to ICS upon the loss of Layla Hourani in a bombing by organized crime. A past associate of Darnell Williams; Khalida is a languages expert with formidable linguistic experience as well as being an avid aficionado of motorcycles. Eager to come out from behind the desk she insisted on being made available for active field duty as a condition for recruitment from Major Kessler.

Department of Homeland Security

Name Actor/actress Starring seasons Recurring seasons Last season appearance Former Position RankBianca LaGarda Sofia Milos 1 1, 2, 3 Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy HeadCuban-American agent of Homeland Security. Had been an FBI agent prior to her Homeland Security transfer and her assignment to Toronto as Homeland Security liaison officer. After finding out she has cancer, she is recalled to the United States and promoted as the Deputy Head of Intelligence in DHS.Liz Carver Grace Park 2 2, 3 None Unknown Special AgentAsian-American Homeland Security agent who had replaced LaGarda as liaison officer to ICS. She starts a sexual relationship with Gray after she meets him. Comes from Idaho.

Recurring characters

Canadian Government

Name Actor/actress Starring seasons Recurring seasons Last season appearance Former Position RankSuzanne Fleischer Alberta Watson 1 1, 2 None Canadian Army Public Safety MinisterEx-Canadian soldier who had served with Kessler in various Bosnian peacekeeping operations, she is now the Minister of Public Safety.Holland Ted Atherton 1 1, 2, 3 None Public Safety Minister MPEx-Public Safety Minister, who was seemingly ousted alongside the Deputy Prime Minister after a scandal had emerged with the death of a Russian businessman named Pavel Makarov. He still tries to exert influence over Kessler as a Deputy Minister.Donald Campbell Patrick McKenna None 2, 3 None Minister of External Affairs Minister of JusticePrior to a cabinet shuffle, he was the minister responsible for quietly tendering a contract for private border security services to Turcott Solutions. Later, he antagonized Norton and ICS as they attempted to assist in the search for the mobsters behind Layla's death, and he threatened Kessler over Gray's rogue status. In "Broken", his former intern, Louise Tilden, reveals his secret handling of the Turcott contract before a public inquiry.

Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Name Actor/actress Starring seasons Recurring seasons Last season appearance Former Position RankCharlotte Bates Daisy Beaumont 2 2, 3 None Unknown AgentAn elusive and mysterious past associate of Darnel Williams when he was an agent with CSIS; Charlotte Bates was first known to ICS as a suspect in a drug trafficking case under the name Abi Mitchell. While appearing strictly professional in her outward appearance, she has recently come to be romantically linked to Mike Kessler.Seth Rangarajan RJ Parrish 2 2 None MI6 AgentAn MI6 agent who was assigned to escort a U.K. Tamil gang member into the U.S. for his son's life-saving surgery.

Civilians

Name Actor/actress Starring seasons Recurring seasons Last season appearance Former Position RankYvone Castle Debra McCabe 1 1, 2, 3 None None NoneA human rights lawyer who frequently clashes with Kessler and the rest of ICS over cases involving foreigners and/or human rights violations. She happens to be one of Kessler's lovers in secret.Zoe Kessler Sarah Gadon 1 1, 2, 3 None None NoneOnly daughter of Mike, she is an activist who lives with either Mike or her mom. She had recently decided to live with Mike in order to further cement their ties as father and daughter.Terri Knight-Kessler Julie Stewart 1 1, 2, 3 None None NoneEx-wife of Mike and mother of Zoe, she runs a shelter called Haven House.Andrew Mannering Nigel Bennett 1 1, 2, 3 None CSIS AgentA veteran CSIS agent, he is a complete believer of being friendly to the American government to the point of risking human rights violations to protect Canada from terrorism. Shares an antagonistic relationship with Mike ever since their encounter in Bosnia. Was recruited by Turcott Solutions Inc. after he resigned from his CSIS position.Sally Doctor Sarah Podemski 1 1 1 None NoneFirst appearing as a civilian member of the Seaway Mohawk Reserve Police Detachment, she became romantically linked to Hieronymous Slade for a time. She is a skilled computer hacker, able to get into ICS's computer network in order to inform the squad of criminal activity on the reserve. Eventually she was discovered as an agent working under the specific direction of Andrew Mannering for CSIS.Dougie Jackson Nicholas Campbell 2 2 2 None NoneFather to Gray Jackson; Dougie has recently become involved in his son's life due to a chance meeting during an ICS investigation. Leading, up to this point, an unstable and erratic life and troubled by a gambling addiction, the elder Jackson is constantly looking for his son to help pay off massive gambling debts. He was killed at the end of season 2 with Layla by a bombing attack conducted by Andriano Frantangelo's mobsters.

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