Recurring and minor characters in 24

The following is a list of minor fictional characters from the American television drama "24". The following events are fictional and portrayed from both an in-universe and out of universe perspective. Furthermore, this list contains minor characters whose story arcs lasted anywhere from one or two episodes to two or three seasons. The list is sorted by when the character made their "first" appearance on the series, however may have appeared in subsequent seasons.

Government and political figures

The characters are listed based on the season when they make their first appearance. They may have appeared in subsequent seasons.

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*Patty Brooks is David Palmer's campaign staffer played by Tanya Wright. She is sexually attracted to David through the day, but remains reticent. Sensing this, David's wife Sherry Palmer decides to utilize Patty as a spy with the incentive of giving her tacit approval for Patty to pursue an affair with David. However when Patty begins to make sexual advances toward David he realizes what the scheme is and fires Patty.

*Carl Webb, an associate of David Palmer during his campaign for president, is involved in the cover-up of the accidental death of Lyle Gibson. Webb is played by Zach Grenier.

*Robert Ellis is a National Security Agency floating operative, portrayed by Wade Andrew Williams. He is killed while assisting Jack Bauer and David Palmer recover intelligence on Operation Nightfall.

*Elizabeth Nash is a member of David Palmer's campaign, portrayed by Kara Zediker. She was lovers with Alexis Drazen, who was using her to gain information to assassinate Palmer. After she learns his identity, she agrees to plant a homing device on him, but before the mission is over attacks him with a knife.

*Mark DeSalvo is a Department of Defense warden for a top-secret underground prison, portrayed by Lou Diamond Phillips. He permits Jack Bauer to interrogate Drazen, and is killed during the rescue of Drazen.cite book|last=Cerasini|first=Marc|title=24: The House Special Subcommittee's Findings at CTU|publisher=Harper Collins|date=2003|edition=First|pages=10|isbn=0-06-053550-4] .

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*Eric Rayburn played by Timothy Carhart is the deputy head of the NSA under Roger Stanton. Upon learning about a plot to detonate a nuclear weapon in Los Angeles, Rayburn reinstates Jack Bauer and authorizes an undercover mission. Rayburn acts several times in opposition to fellow advisor Lynne Kresge, at one point thwarting her efforts to assist CTU's evacuation from a bomb threat, leading to the death of CTU personnel; for this, Palmer relieves him of duty.

*Ted Simmons, played by Steven Culp, is a member of President David Palmer's Secret Service. Under the President's order, he secretly interrogates Roger Stanton, the head of NSA, after learning that Stanton knows the location of a nuclear weapon that terrorists intend to use.

*Lynne Kresge is an advisor to President David Palmer, played by Michelle Forbes. Kresge is frequently at odds with Eric Rayburn, who thwarts her efforts to inform the President of a threat at CTU. When Kresge learns of a plot to invoke the 25th Amendment, she turns to Mike Novick for assistance, but he betrays her and prevents her from informing the President. Locked in a storage room, Kresge is seriously injured in her attempt to escape. Producer Jon Cassar listed Lynne Kresge as a character that could 'potentially return'. [Bill Hochman, [http://www.tv.com/tracking/viewer.html?tid=99238&ref_id=3866&ref_type=101 "Audrey? Behrooz? Eating? Burning "24" Questions Answered!"] , (interview with Jon Cassar, executive producer), "TV Guide", Feb. 12, 2007.]

*Jim Prescott, played by Alan Dale, is the Vice-President of the United States in seasons 2 and 3. Prescott led an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment, believing that President David Palmer's decisions are irrational. After assuming the presidency, Prescott orders Palmer confined, and orders a military response based on fabricated evidence. After the forgery is discovered and Palmer assumes the presidency again, Prescott offers his resignation, which Palmer rejects. Prescott also appears in "", as acting president, while Palmer recovers from injuries incurred at the end of Day 2. The character is briefly seen in Day 3, participating in a teleconference with the president.

*Roger Stanton, portrayed by Harris Yulin, is the head of the NSA. Stanton appears after Eric Rayburn is fired. Stanton and Peter Kingsley conspired to allow the nuclear weapon into the country, planning for the paramilitary group Coral Snake to neutralize the threat at the last minute; the plot is intended to "strengthen the presidency". He also testifies via teleconference against Palmer to Prescott detailing the President's use of torture against him.

*Bob Warner is the head of a multi-national corporation and the father of Kate and Marie Warner. His company's financial records are linked to the terrorist Syed Ali, casting suspicion on first Bob, then Reza Nayieer (Bob's employee and Marie's fiancée), before it is revealed that Marie is the culprit.

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*Dr. Anne Packard, played by Wendy Crewson, is personal physician to President David Palmer, and romantically involved with him. Anne's ex-husband Ted Packard attempts to implicate her in a drug scandal during Palmer's re-election campaign. Although Ted eventually changes his mind and exonerates her, she ends her relationship with Palmer, claiming she cannot handle the media pressure.
*Foxton is a political operative with ties to Wayne and David Palmer. He and Wayne break into Sherry's house in an attempt to find incriminating evidence about the death of Alan Milliken that she has. They are caught when she returns home early from a meeting with David, but Foxton coldcocks her and finds the evidence taped to her back.

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*John Keeler, played by Geoff Pierson, first appears as a potential presidential candidate in Season 3, attempting to work with Sherry Palmer to blackmail David Palmer out of office. In Season 4, Keeler is President, and Air Force One is shot out of the air by terrorists, while Keeler and his son are aboard. Keeler himself survives, but in critical condition, unable to continue his duties as President. Charles Logan is inducted into office as President, in Keeler's place.

*Walt Cummings, played by John Allen Nelson, is head of security for Charles Logan. In Day 4, he orders that Bauer be executed rather than permit him to be turned over to the Chinese, to possibly reveal sensitive information under torture. During Day 5, it is revealed that Cummings helped Russian separatists acquire Sentox nerve gas for use against the Russians. After Cummings' confession, he is found dead, an apparent suicide that is later suggested to be murder.

*Koo Yin is the member of the Chinese Consul, killed by friendly fire during an attack authorized by David Palmer on the Chinese consul led by Jack Bauer to try and capture suspect Lee Jong.

*Su Ming is a member of the Chinese Consulate who interrogates Howard Bern and extracts information that Jack Bauer leads an attack on the Chinese Consulate. Su calls Palmer and Logan to give them evidence from Bern about Bauer. Su demands that Bauer be handed over to the Chinese.

*James Nathanson is a former CIA Agent, played by Geraint Wyn Davies. Nathanson first appears as a mediator between the terrorists and Walt Cummings. Nathanson, a businessman, sells nerve gas to terrorists, hoping to engineer a plot to gain US control of Central Asian oil reserves. Nathanson seeks to exchange information in exchange for protection, but is fatally shot by Bierko's operatives.

*Justin Adams, played by Tracy Howe, is a Secret Service agent who works for Charles Logan at the Presidential retreat. Adams is ordered by the president to lock First Lady Martha Logan in a room and keep her under watch. Adams is later ordered by Logan to kill Agent Aaron Pierce and dispose of his body. However, Martha Logan confronts her, and during an ensuing fight, she shoots and kills Adams. Later Mike Novick finds out and, with the help of Pierce, disposes of his body.

*Hal Gardner, played by Ray Wise, is vice president to Charles Logan. Originally, Gardner is suspected to be the manipulator behind the terrorist incidents, but Logan is revealed as the manipulator.

*Yuri Suvarov (Юрий Суваров), played by Nick Jameson, is the president of the Russian Federation. Suvarov visits the United States to sign an anti-terrorism accord. During Day 6, Suvarov authorises an American raid on the Russian consulate, leading to the rescue of Jack Bauer. Suvarov is then involved in the incident over the handing over of Russian nuclear technology to the Chinese. Suvarov demands the technology destroyed or American bases in central Asia will be under threat.

*Hamri Al-Assad (played by Alexander Siddig) is a former terrorist who is disillusioned with the violence that he has seen. Assad is offered a full pardon for all past crimes by President Wayne Palmer, under the condition that Assad continue to help stop Fayed and that he bring his and all other affiliated organizations to peace talks. Before he is about to give a televised statement on behalf of Palmer, he is killed by a bomb placed under the podium.

*Noah Daniels, played by Emmy winner Powers Boothe, is the Vice President of the United States, serving under President Wayne Palmer. Daniels briefly becomes the Acting President of the United States after an assassination plot. It is revealed that in , Daniels assumed office, and served for all of Wayne Palmer's term, due to the fact that Season 6 started 3 months after Wayne's inaugration.

*Bruce Carson, played by Michael Reilly Burke, is a private sector security corps specialist. Carson plots with Reed Pollock to assassinate President Wayne Palmer, in order for the hard-liner Vice President Daniels to take the office. Carson is arrested with Pollock after the assassination attempt.

*Reed Pollock, played by Chad Lowe, is the Deputy White House Chief of Staff. He was involved in an assassination plot to remove President Wayne Palmer from office, however the assassination failed. Palmer was still injured, and Pollock was taken into custody shortly afterwards.

*Arthur Welton, played by Jim Holmes, is a doctor for President Wayne Palmer, who is critically injured from an assassination plot.

*Lisa Miller, played by Kari Matchett, is an aide and lover of Noah Daniels. She unsuccessfully attempts to help him obtain the office of the President. She is later attacked by her lover, lobbyist and Russian spy Mark Bishop, while trying to feed the Russians false information.

*Mark Bishop, played by Michael Shanks, is a Washington lobbyist and a Russian spy, who is secretly involved with Lisa Miller. Tom Lennox attempts to trick, and then coerces, Mark into transmitting false information to the Russians.

*Ethan Kanin, portrayed by Bob Gunton, is the Secretary of Defense under President Wayne Palmer. Kanin recommends invoking the 25th amendment to allow Vice-President Daniels to become President. He will also serve as the Chief of Staff in Season 7. [cite web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20070919fox01|title="24" Resets the clock|date=September 19, 2007|publisher=The Futon Critic|accessdate=2008-08-13]

Antagonists

"The following are terrorists, mercenaries, and minor non-political conspirators whose actions go against those of the protagonists."

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*Victor Drazen, played by Dennis Hopper, Victor Drazen is a Balkan warlord and mercenary. In Operation Nightfall, he was allegedly killed. During the events of Day 1, the two-year anniversary of his alleged death, Drazen and his sons led a personal vendetta against Bauer and Senator David Palmer, who authorized the mission. When Jack believed that his daughter was killed, he killed both Andre and Drazen in a fit of rage.
*Bridgit is Mandy's lover and accomplice, later killed by conspirators with Mandy's knowledge.
*Kevin Carroll, played by Richard Burgi is a terrorist working for Ira Gaines, helping Gaines' men capture Teri. He is assassinated by Alexis Drazen.
*Ted Cofell, played by Currie Graham, is the CEO of Cofell Enterprises. He died when Jack punched him in the heart during an interrogation.
*Alexis Drazen, played by Misha Collins, is the younger brother of Andre Drazen and son of Victor Drazen. He is stabbed by his lover Elizabeth Nash when Nash discovered his identity.
*Ira Gaines, played by Michael Massee, is a terrorist working for the Drazen family. Gaines hires Mandy to blow up the aircraft with Martin Belkin aboard and masterminds the plot to kidnap Teri and Kim Bauer and assassinate David Palmer. Gaines recruits Jamey Farrell to be a spy and monitor the CTU. He is eventually killed by Jack Bauer.
*Rick Allen is played by Daniel Bess. Allen and his friend, Dan Mounts, trick Kim Bauer and Janet York into a date, and then kidnap them. After delivering Kim to terrorist Ira Gaines, Rick has second thoughts. He is wounded helping Kim and Teri Bauer escape. Kim later goes to him for help after she is separated from her mother and Rick is arrested during a botched drug deal with Dan's brother Frank.
*Dan Mounts, played by Matthew Carey, is one of Kim Bauer's kidnappers, hired by Ira Gaines. Contacting Kim's friend Janet York, Dan sets up a double-date with himself and Rick, telling her that he and Rick are sophomores at San Diego State University. After kidnapping Kim and Janet, Dan and Rick leave Janet for dead and deliver Kim to Gaines. Gaines kills Dan for lying about Janet's death.
*Eli Stram, played by Silas Weir Mitchell, is a young criminal working for Ira Gaines during Day 1. Eli guards Teri Bauer and Kim Bauer when they are taken to Gaines' compound. He attempts to rape Kim but rapes Teri Bauer instead, who uses the assault to steal his cellphone. Later, Teri takes his gun and kills him to protect Kim.
*Jonathon Matijevich is a terrorist sniper working for Ira Gaines. He kills Bridgit, who tries to blackmail Gaines, and poses as photographer Martin Belkin, to gain access to Palmer. Bauer is forced to help Matijevich, but causes a disturbance to foil the assassination. In the ensuing scuffle, Matijevich escapes. He has not been seen on the show since and his status remains unknown.
*Jovan Myovic, played by Henri Lubatti, is the assassin sent to kill Teri Bauer and Kim Bauer by Andre Drazen. He fails when Tony Almeida shoots him three times from behind, killing him.

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*Syed Ali, played by Francesco Quinn, plans to load nuclear bomb over Los Angeles on a plane, then detonate it over the city. He intends to fly the plane himself. Before heading to the airfield, he stops at a mosque to pray, where he is captured by Jack Bauer. After being forced to watch the mock execution of his family, Ali reveals where the bomb is held. On his way to Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Ali is killed by Jonathan Wallace.

*Mamud Rasheed Faheen, played by Anthony Azizi is a terrorist who was Nina Myers' contact in Visalia. He was killed by Nina after he told her everything he knew about the bomb.

*Marie Warner (played by Laura Harris) is a terrorist who helps arm a nuclear bomb after being radicalized by Syed Ali while traveling in the Middle East. She is the daughter of Bob Warner, and Kate Warner's sister.

*Joseph Wald is one of the terrorists who works with Syed Ali in a terrorist organization called Second Wave. When he is arrested, he chooses death over helping Jack.

*Captain Jonathan Wallace, USMC, played by Gregg Henry, is secretly working for Peter Kingsley to detonate a nuclear weapon in the United States. When the plot fails, Wallace kills Syed Ali hoping that Jack Bauer will help him escape, and offers to provide evidence incriminating Kingsley. He is killed before providing the evidence, but a post-mortem X-ray reveals an implanted chip which holds the evidence. Wallace was part of the Coral Snake team that was supposed to stop the bomb, but killed his squadmates.

*Max, played by Thomas Kretschmann, is a German arms dealer with terrorist clients. Max masterminds a plot to start a war between the United States and three Middle Eastern nations, to increase oil prices. Max returned in 24:The Game. In the game he is killed by Jack Bauer.

*Alexander Trepkos, played by Eugene Robert Glazer, is a conspirator working with Max and Peter Kingsley who want to increase the value of their oil holdings by provoking a war and allowing terrorists to detonate a nuclear weapon within Los Angeles.

*Alex Hewitt, (played by Rick D. Wasserman), is a computer hacker who designed the Cyprus recording. He fell off a roof and died from his injuries.

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*Ramon Salazar, played by Joaquim de Almeida, is a Mexican narcoterrorist, who runs one of the largest drug smuggling rings in Mexico, and is also involved in drugs for arms sales. Bauer and Hector convince him to buy the Cordella virus from Michael Amador. Ramon is outbid for the virus by Nina Myers, but kidnaps Myers and forces her to hand over the virus. Ramon kills Hector after Myers convinces Hector to back out of the deal. While Bauer negotiates to hand over the vial, Ramon is killed when the vial explodes, exposing the virus sold as a fake.

*Hector Salazar, played by Vincent Laresca, together with his older brother Ramon, runs one of the largest drug smuggling rings in Mexico. Hector runs the Salazar drug ring while Ramon is in prison and, working with Jack Bauer, obtains Ramon's freedom by threatening to release a deadly virus. Jack, undercover, is working with Hector to locate the source of the virus. Hector is killed by Ramon, when Myers convinces Hector that Bauer is playing each brother off against each other.

*Michael Amador, played by Greg Ellis, is an international arms dealer and the middle-man involved in Stephen Saunders' purchase of the Cordilla virus from the Ukrainians. Before bringing the virus to Los Angeles, Amador holds an auction in Mexico where he dupes Jack, the Salazars, and Nina Myers into competing for a mere fake of the virus. Although the deception is successful, the ploy incures the spite of Saunders, resulting in Amador's death by way of a hidden bomb.

*Marcus Alvers, played by Lothaire Bluteau, is an associate of Arms Dealer Michael Amador. He arms a vial of the Cordella virus in a hotel, and dies from unwilling exposure to the virus.

*Arthur Rabens, played by Salvator Xuereb, is a terrorists who plots a biological attack on the United States. While he is attempting to escape from the country, Rabens fights Chase Edmunds, who is badly beaten. Moments before he is about to kill Chase, Rabens is shot and killed by Jack Bauer.

*Stephen Saunders, played by Paul Blackthorne, is a former MI6 agent and terrorist, previously thought killed during Operation Nightfall. Saunders releases a sample of the Cordella virus in a hotel, and planned to release many more samples throughout the United States. He gave up the location of the attacks when CTU threatened to kill his daughter Jane. The character was shot and killed by the widow of a CTU agent that died as a result of Saunders's terrorism.

*Kalil Hasan played by Anil Kumar, is a member of Habib Marwan's terrorist cell. While on the run, Hasan realizes he is being tracked by CTU; he deliberately turns his car into the path of an oncoming truck and dies in the resulting explosion.

*Omar, played by Tony Plana, works with Habib Marwan by holding Secretary of Defense James Heller and his daughter Audrey Raines hostage. Omar announces on a live broadcast his group's intention to try Heller for war crimes and execute him. Heller refuses to sign a confession and only cooperates after Omar threatens the life of his daughter. When Jack Bauer and the United States Marine Corps raid the compound to rescue Heller, Omar is injured by Audrey Rains and Jack Bauer. Later he is shot by Marines.

*Henry Powell, played by Robertson Dean, helps Marwan install device with his knowledge in computers. He unsuccessfully arranges for a group of men to kill Jack and Audrey. As he is taken into custody, Powell attempts to bribe Tony Almeida and Jack, but to no avail. Before Tony and Jack can secure Powell in their car, he is killed by one of Marwan’s snipers from a nearby building.

*Mitch Anderson, played by Ned Vaughn, assists Habib Marwan by killing an Air Force pilot and stealing a stealth aircraft. He is presumably killed by F-16 planes.

*Dave Conlon, played by Tomas Arana, is the head of security for McLennan-Forster. Attempted to impede Jack Bauer and Paul Raines's search at McLennan-Forster on his employer's orders to prevent their connection to Habib Marwan damage their company's reputation. Led a mercenary team to recover material that Jack and Paul printed and was eventually killed by Jack, but not before Colon tries to kill him and Paul injures himself to protect Jack.

*Habib Marwan (played by Arnold Vosloo) is a "massive" baddie. His alias is "Harris Barnes," which he uses to acquire technology that eventually leads to meltdown or near-meltdown of several nuclear power plants. After Air Force One is shot down with a stolen stealth fighter, the Nuclear Football containing the President's nuclear launch codes is stolen. Marwan is killed after a fight with Jack Bauer which ultimately leads to Marwan falling from the parking lot to the ground below.

*Conrad Haas played by Jeff Kober, is the assassin who kills former President David Palmer. His goal is to kill Chloe O'Brian, one of four people who helps fake Jack Bauer's death. Although he finds Chloe and Derek at the oil refinery, he is wounded by Jack and Chloe. Jack tells Haas he will receive medical treatment if he tells him why his team wants to kill the four targets. Haas confesses that Chloe, Tony Almeida and Michelle Dessler are secondary targets in order to frame Jack, but his main goal is to kill Palmer. After hearing the confession and consumed with rage, Jack executes Haas in front of Chloe and Derek.

*Anton Beresch (Антон Берещ) is a terrorist henchmen, played by David Dayan Fisher. Beresch, a former Russian Army officer, joins the Dawn Brigade, a militant Russian separatist movement. He takes hostages at the Ontario airport to stop the Russian president from signing an anti-terrorism measure with Charles Logan. When he is ambushed by CTU agent, Beresch detonates an explosive vest on a dead terrorist, killing himself.

*Jacob Rossler, played by Patrick Bauchau, is a freelance mercenary working for Ivan Erwich. At first, CTU is led to draw the conclusion that Rossler helped the terrorists release the nerve gas and goes after him. After they imprison him, they allow him to tell Erwich he will meet him to set up the canisters (even though it's a trap). His female companion, a fifteen year old Russian sex slave, shoots him shortly thereafter. This forces Bauer to pose as Rossler.

*Polakov releases Sentox VX-1 Nerve Gas in a shopping mall with Bauer posing as Rossler. Although Bauer kills some of the terrorists, Pokalov manages to escape. After Polakov realizes he is being followed by Bauer, he goes into an abandoned warehouse and shoots himself.

*Joseph Malina, played by Jose Zuniga was an arms dealer who did business with Vladimir Bierko and Christopher Henderson.

*Ivan Erwich is a terrorist working for Vladimir Bierko played by Mark Sheppard. He is a member of the Dawn Brigade separatist movement responsible for taking hostages at the Ontario Airport and releasing a nerve gas at an American mall. After Erwich tells Bierko that the nerve gas is effective, Bierko stabs Erwich in the chest, killing him for putting too much faith in their American contacts which almost jeopardized their mission.

*Ostroff is an Eastern European terrorist working for Vladimir Bierko. He steals a key card from Lynn McGill and uses this to release a nerve gas in the ventilation system of the CTU building. While he tries to escape from the building, Jack kills him.

*Collette Stenger (played by Stana Katic) is an information broker hired by terrorist cells all over the world. She works for Russian separatist Vladimir Bierko to provide the schematics for a secure building. She is captured by CTU after Theo, an agent for the German counterintelligence, informs the agents. Although she demands a full presidential pardon to give information, her pardon is taken away for withholding information.

*Christopher Henderson (played by Peter Weller) is a former CTU agent who assists terrorists in a nerve gas attack. He is killed by Jack Bauer. Henderson is seen as a member of CTU in the pre-season-one 24: Declassified novels, Vanishing Point and Trinity (In Trinity it was Christopher who managed to successfully convert Jack Bauer from a CIA agent to a CTU agent).

*Graem Bauer (played by Paul McCrane) is Jack's brother who masterminds most of the terrorist plots. He sells the Sentox nerve gas to Vladimir Bierko and the Russian separatists. He is also the man manipulating President Logan. He reappears in Day 6, during which he and his father are connected to a nuclear attack. After an interrogation by Jack Bauer, Phillip Bauer, his father, kills him to prevent him from releasing information.

*Vladimir Bierko (Владимир Бьерко) (played by Julian Sands) is a millionaire and the leader of a Russian separatist group. He plans to kill the Suvarovs through their motorcade route, but his plot is foiled by Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce. He then releases nerve gas in a hospital but he is again unsuccessful. He releases nerve gas at CTU, which is successful. He is apprehended at a natural gas distribution center. Although the terrorists take him to a Russian submarine, Jack Bauer interferes and kills Bierko by snapping his neck.

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*Ahmed Amar (played by Kal Penn) is collaborating with Fayed, for whom he must deliver a package. He coerces Ray, father of his classmate Scott, to complete his task. When the CTU storms into Scott's house, he is fatally wounded during a showdown with Jack Bauer, and dies en route to a hospital.

*Hasan Numair (played by Shaun Majumder) is one of the 110 "enemy combatants" held at Palmdale Military Prison that Abu Fayed demands be released. He escapes before being put on a plane and meets Fayed in Valencia, to make a suitcase nuke. As Numair finishes work, the CTU TAC team finds him. To prevent the weapon from being confiscated, he detonates the bomb.

*Abu Fayed, played by Adoni Maropis), is a senior leader of the Islamic terrorist group once headed by Hamri Al-Assad. Fayed intends to launch suitcase nuclear bombs in suburban areas of the United States. After unsuccessfully working with Gredenko to launch a drone containing a nuclear weapon, he escapes by hijacking a vehicle. Hiding under the vehicle, Bauer finds the location of the remaining nuclear weapons. In a confrontation between the two, Bauer strangles him with a hydraulic chain hanging from the ceiling.

*Darren McCarthy (played by David Hunt) is a wealthy British businessman who sells Fayed the suitcase nukes. After the first programmer dies from a blast in Valencia, he kidnaps Morris O'Brian with the help of his girlfriend Rita, who later kills McCarthy for money. Originally, Darren McCarthy was to be played by Eddie Izzard, who had to drop out after the first day of filming, because of scheduling conflicts. [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412850/bio Eddie Izzard biography] at the IMDb ]

*Anatoly Markov (Анатолий Марков) (played by John Noble) is the Russian consul in Los Angeles. As a close friend of Dmitri Gredenko, he protects his interests, helping him bring five suitcase nukes to the United States. He is killed by CTU agents.

*Zhou Yong (played by Ian Anthony Dale) is a mercenary for hire that is contracted by Cheng Zhi. He raids the CTU office killing Milo Pressman, who claims to be the Director of CTU to save Nadia Yassir. In a brief hand-to-hand combat scuffle, Jack Bauer chokes Zhou with the latter's necklace and then breaks his neck, killing him.

*Dmitri Gredenko (Дмитрий Греденко) (played by Rade Šerbedžija) supplies the terrorists with five suitcase nuclear bombs developed by Soviet Russia in the late 1980s, and works with Abu Fayed to detonate the bombs in the United States. Gredenko is taken into custody by CTU, and agrees to serve as bait in a trap to capture Fayed. He betrays CTU and cuts off his arm to remove CTU's tracking device. He eventually dies from loss of blood.

*Mohmar Habib (played by Sam Kanater) was a general from Fayed's country, who supported his cause.

Other characters

"The following are minor characters (mostly neutral) not associated with CTU, government, or terrorist/mercenary cells."

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*Janet York (played by Jacqui Maxwell) is one of Kim Bauer's high school friends. She and Kim Bauer sneak out of their houses to meet with two guys, Dan Mounts (Janet's boyfriend) and Rick Allen, who are actually kidnappers. They drug Janet with rohypnol, break her arm, and eventually leave her for dead after she is hit by a car. She is eventually murdered in her hospital bed by Kevin Carroll, the man who impersonates her father.
*Alan York is the father of Janet York.
*Martin Belkin, portrayed by Rudolf Martin, is a world-renowned photographer hired to take pictures of David Palmer on the day of the California Presidential Primary. Flying in to Los Angeles, Mandy seduces him, takes his wallet and identification, and then crashes the plane. Belkin's ID is later used by Ira Gaines's henchman Jonathon, who has plastic surgery to be an imposter.
*Keith Palmer is the son of David and Sherry Palmer and older brother to Nicole Palmer. He was played by Vicellous Reon Shannon. Information comes to light that suggests Keith may have killed a man named Lyle Gibson, who had raped Keith's sister Nicole. The journalist Maureen Kingsley seems likely to release this story, until she is blackmailed and her source, Keith's psychiatrist, Dr. George Farragamo, is murdered. Keith tapes his father's associate, Carl Webb, confessing to responsibility for the murder of Farragamo, and helps his father come clean about the incident and the cover-ups.
*Nicole Palmer is the daughter of David and Sherry Palmer and younger sister to Keith Palmer, played by Megalyn Echikunwoke.
*Dr. Phil Parslow (played by Vincent Angell) is a surgeon and friend of Teri Bauer.

*Gary Matheson is Kim Bauer's employer, and an abusive, violent man. After Kim flees with Megan, Gary murders his wife, Carla, and pursues Kim and Megan. Gary attacks Kim and tries to snatch Megan back at the hospital, but Kim's boyfriend Miguel intervenes and knocks Gary out in a brawl in the car park, enabling Kim and Megan to escape. Later on, when Gary attempts to kill Kim in his house, she knocks him out, grabs his gun, and kills him.

*Carla Matheson (played by Tracy Middendorf) is Kim Bauer's employer and the mother of Megan Matheson. She urges Kim to flee with Megan to protect her, and is then murdered by her husband, Gary. Kim and her boyfriend Miguel are arrested when Carla's body is discovered in Gary's car, which Kim and Miguel had stolen to escape Los Angeles, although the police later discover that Gary was the murderer.

*Megan Matheson (played by Skye McCole Bartusiak) is the abused daughter of the Mathesons. Kim Bauer runs away with Megan to save her from her father's abuse, and tries, with her boyfriend Miguel, to save Megan from the threatened nuclear attack. Megan is later taken by her aunt to Santa Barbara, California, a safe distance from Los Angeles.

*Miguel, played by Innis Casey, is Kim Bauer's boyfriend. Miguel helps Kim and Megan escape Gary in the hospital. He is seriously injured after he and Kim try to escape from police custody resulting in his right leg being amputated which causes him to break up with Kim.

*Lonnie McRae, played by Kevin Dillon, is a survivalist that lives alone in the wilderness. Lonnie attempts to trick Kim Bauer into believing that the threatened nuclear bomb has actually detonated and destroyed Los Angeles. After she discovers his ploy, she insists on leaving; he apologizes, and gives her a revolver to protect herself from cougars in the mountains.

*Yusuf Auda (played by Donnie Keshawarz) is an Intelligence officer from an unnamed Arab country. Auda is sent to Los Angeles CTU by his government, after Syed Ali is detained. After tailing Jack Bauer and Kate Warner, Auda, being of Middle Eastern decent, is severely beaten to death by angry racist civilians during civil unrest.

*Kyle Singer (played by Riley Smith) provides for his family by smuggling cocaine from Hector Salazar's business into the U.S. from Mexico. Jack Bauer and Chase Edmunds tracks Kyle and sent HAZMAT units over to the Singer's home in order to apprehend the cocaine, which they believe contains the Cordilla virus, but is later revealed to be silicone. He is then assumed to be carrying the virus, but is later proven to be fine when no trace of the virus was found in his system.

*Claudia Hernandez (played by Vanessa Ferlito) is Hector Salazar's girlfriend, and secretly lovers with Jack Bauer while he is on an undercover operation in Mexico. Bauer promises that he can help get Hernandez as well as her father and brother out of Mexico if she assists him. Hernandez complies and helps to free Chase Edmunds from his captors, but is killed during the escape.

*Alan Milliken is one of President David Palmer's longest financial supporters, portrayed by Albert Hall. Alan attempts to use his influence with David Palmer to have Wayne Palmer fired, after learning that Wayne and Alan's wife, Julia Milliken, had had an affair. During a confrontation between Alan, Julia, and Sherry Palmer, Alan has a heart attack, and Sherry and Julia withhold the medication, leading to his death.

*Julia Milliken (portrayed by Gina Torres) is the wife of Alan Milliken, one of President David Palmer's most important and influential supporters. Julia begins a year-long affair with Wayne Palmer while her husband is recovering from a stroke. During a tense confrontation, Julia and Sherry withhold medication from Alan Milliken, who dies as a result. After confessing her role to the police, Julia shot Sherry Palmer and committed suicide.

*Jane Saunders (played by Alexandra Lydon) is the daughter of MI6 agent-turned terrorist Stephen Saunders and one of the few people who knew he had survived the mission to eliminate Victor Drazen in Operation Nightfall over six years earlier. CTU takes Jane into custody in order to use her as leverage against her father.

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*Paul Raines, played by James Frain, is the estranged husband of Audrey Raines. After CTU discovers Paul's name on the lease of the building where the terrorist attacks are planned, Jack suspects that Paul might be involved with the terrorists. He uses electrical torture to interrogate Paul, who ultimately cooperates with Jack to make up for his inadvertent assistance to terrorists. After being injured from a bullet, he dies when Bauer forces doctors to operate on Lee Jong instead of Paul.

*Richard Heller (played by Logan Marshall-Green) is the son of Secretary of Defense James Heller and the younger brother of Audrey Raines. He is brought into CTU for interrogation, during which they learn that he made a call to Habib Marwan. He later admits that a man and a woman came to his house while he was in bed with the man. The information Richard provided leads to capture of Mandy.

*Behrooz Araz, played by Jonathan Ahdout, is the son of Navi and Dina Araz, members of a terrorist cell in Los Angeles that is plotting to detonate a nuclear device. Behrooz ultimately elects to abandon his parents' plots, after they kill his girlfriend, Debbie Pendleton. Behrooz's father plans to kill Behrooz, Behrooz's mother betrays her husband to save her son.

*Andrew Paige (played by Lukas Haas) is a friend and former classmate of Chloe O'Brian. Andrew was downloading software when he stumbled onto several internet nodes which had been compromised. When Marwan learns about him, he is abducted, later to be rescued by Jack Bauer.

*Maya Driscoll is the schizophrenic teenage daughter of Erin Driscoll, played by Angela Goethals. She is hospitalized at CTU during Day Four, and commits suicide.

*Kevin Keeler, played by Chris Olivero, is the son of President John Keeler. He is killed when he is aboard Air Force One, which is shot down by a stealth fighter. The missile hits Air Force One, causing it to crash land in the Mojave Desert.

*Dr. Marc Besson, played by Thomas Vincent Kelly, is a doctor in seasons 4 and 5. In season 4, he is forced by Jack Bauer to interrupt an operation on Paul Raines in order to save the life of witness Lee Jong. In season 5, he treats, and is knocked unconscious by, Tony Almeida.

*Diane Huxley, played by Connie Britton, is Jack Bauer's landlady, while he is living under the pseudonym of Frank Flynn.
*Derek Huxley (played by Brady Corbet) Diane's son. He later learns that Frank Flynn is really Jack Bauer. Though initially antagonistic towards Jack, the two part on friendly terms.
*Evelyn Martin, played by Sandrine Holt, is First Lady Martha Logan's personal assistant.
*Anya Suvarov (Аня Суваров), played by Kathleen Gati is the wife of Yuri Suvarov and a friend of Martha Logan. She convinces President Suvarov to intervene in the crisis involving the Russian embassy.
*Jenny McGill (played by Penny Balfour) is the drug addicted sister of Lynn McGill, whose wallet is stolen by Jenny's boyfriend Dwayne. Dwayne's plan is to sell his key-card to a man named Ostroff, not knowing that he is a terrorist working for Vladimir Bierko. Ostroff executes both Jenny and Dwayne after receiving the key-card.
*Barry Landes is Kim Bauer's boyfriend and former therapist, played by C. Thomas Howell. Kim and Barry are in the CTU building when a terrorist releases a canister of nerve gas into the ventilation system, but are protected within a sealed room.

*Ray Wallace, played by Raphael Sbarge, is the father of Ahmed Amar's classmate Scott. After Ahmed takes hostage of his family, he delivers a package. When the CTU locates the bomb and Ray, the bomb is detonated, instantly killing him.

*Rita Brady, played by Missy Crider, is the girlfriend of Darren McCarthy. She is killed by Abu Fayed.

*Sandra Palmer, played by Regina King, is the sister of Presidents Wayne Palmer and David Palmer. Palmer is an attorney working for Walid Al-Rezani, with whom she is also romantically involved, and keeps vigil beside her brother after he became comatose.

*Walid Al-Rezani, played by Harry Lennix, is the regional director of the Islamic-American Alliance, who was detained by the FBI. When agreeing to spy on the other inmates, they were proven innocent, however when they discovered he was a spy, he was assaulted and needed to be hopsitalised.

Further reading

* [http://24.wikia.com/ Wiki 24] - an in-depth coverage of the "24" universe without general interest encyclopedic restrictions.

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