“Torchwood” is a series-offshoot (that is, spin-offs) from the Doctor Who universe, the creators of which pleased fans with this work, adding it to the same company with “K9” and “The Adventures of Sarah Jane”. However, “Torchwood” is different from others, because it is a series for an adult audience, and for family viewing it is suitable only with a stretch. However, this does not make him bad, on the contrary: he gained wide popularity, thanks to both the plot and the work of the director, producers, and, of course, the chic cast of the cast. The series "Torchwood", the actors of which, in fact, are the objects of consideration for this article, successfully fit into the list of the best science fiction projects of its time.
John Barrowman - Captain Jack Harkness
The role of Captain Jack Harkness is the most significant and famous in the career of John Barrowman who played him. For the first time, he appears in Doctor Who as a secondary character, but in Torchwood he got one of the main roles. It’s not for nothing that John Barrowman begins our list of “Torchwood: Actors and Roles”, because, both the showman and his hero are very memorable personalities.
Captain Jack Harkness is a charming, charismatic homosexual. Its distinguishing feature is, of course, immortality. It clearly has leadership qualities, which is why he leads the Alien Hunters team (a free translation of the name of the series).
Barrowman carried some of his own manners and habits onto his character. Well, it is difficult to argue with the fact that he succeeded very well. “Torchwood”, whose actors are ideally suited to their heroes, stands out qualitatively among the other spin-offs of the “doctor's” universe.
Eve Miles - Gwen Cooper
Yves Miles also appeared in Torchwood for a reason. She played a small episodic role in one episode of Doctor Who, though not her character, but his ancestor. This, in principle, is characteristic of the sci-fi universe, which includes both the Doctor and Torchwood: the actors intersect, there are several examples of the double roles played by them.
Gwen Cooper is one of the main characters in the series. She is a former police officer, and therefore gets a job at Torchwood in the first episode due to circumstances.
Gwen also has leadership skills, but she’s also much more sensitive than any of the Alien Hunters.
Interestingly, the role of Cooper was written specifically for Yves Miles.
Bern Gorman - Owen Harper
Bern Gorman played in “Torchwood” by Owen Harper - a medical genius, self-confident, and sometimes even arrogant, masterful, but a real expert in his field. Dr. Owen Harper is engaged in research, he is a difficult person, a womanizer and does not recognize any authority. Nevertheless, in the team of "Alien Hunters" he is an indispensable specialist.
Naoko Mori - Toshiko Sato
The character of Naoko Mori - Toshiko Sato - also appeared in one of the episodes of Doctor Who. In addition, Mori participated in a project with Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor), in which he played John Lennon, and she is his beloved Yoko Ono.
Toshiko Sato is a talented programmer and mathematician. She is calm, reasonable, but also somewhat shy and reserved. So, for example, she has long been quite in love with Owen Harper, but she is trying to hide it with all her might.
Like everyone else, it was no coincidence that Toshiko got into the team. We can say that Jack saved her by offering a job at the Torchwood Institute.
Actors (photo - above) Naoko Mori and John Barrowman, by the way, also made good friends in reality, like all the other Alien Hunters, and long before filming the spin-offs, they performed in the same musical on the West End.
Gareth David Lloyd - Ianto Jones
Gareth David-Lloyd got the role of Ianto Jones in Torchwood. He can be called the Guardian of the Institute. The series does not exactly indicate what Yanto does. In turn, he is both the maintenance staff and the unwritten archivist, he drives a car and “cleans the tracks” of the team.
The character of Gareth David-Lloyd at first seems very reserved, but he is capable of strong feelings, for example, to his beloved Lisa, with whom a tragic story happened. In addition, he has a close relationship with his boss, captain Jack Harkness. Their development can be observed throughout the series.