Name: Captain Jack Harkness

Played by: John Barrowman
First Appearance: Everything Changes
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: Torchwood's team leader. Jack's origins are obscure and he likes it that way. However, he has vast practical experience of working with aliens and dealing with crisis situations. He has come through a lot of scrapes intact, and is unafraid of dangerous situations. In fact, he's usually ready with a flirtatious quip whatever the threat.

Name: Gwen Elizabeth Cooper
Played by: Eve Myles
First Appearance: Everything Changes
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: A former police officer, Gwen brings procedural skills to the team and a sensitivity that helps them greatly in dealing with victims. She is grounded, straightforward and very determined, and in the murky world of Torchwood she often acts as the team's conscience. Her ability to co-ordinate activity has led to her being recognised as the team's deputy leader.

Name: Ianto Jones
Played by: Gareth David-Lloyd
First Appearance: Everything Changes

Last Appearance: Children of Earth 
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: Ianto deals with all the team's administrative issues. His knowledge is eclectic, his attention to detail unrivalled and his ability to anticipate the team's needs before they have arisen is uncanny. He dislikes it when his remarkable efficiency is taken for granted, however, and when required, he is also more than capable of undertaking field work for the team.

Name: Owen Harper
Played by: Burn Gorman
First Appearance: Everything Changes
Last Appearance: Exit Wounds
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: Owen trained as a medical doctor, but since joining Torchwood has expanded his expertise massively. As well as attending to the team's emergency medical needs and working on the human victims of alien activity, he has gained much expertise in alien anatomy. He is very confident in his abilities - some would say over-confident - but his commitment to his duty has never been doubted.

Name: Toshiko Sato
Played by: Naoko Mori
First Appearance: Everything Changes
Last Appearance: Exit Wounds
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: The team's technical expert is quiet but highly intelligent. One of the main purposes of Torchwood is to assess the potential application of alien technology for humanity's use, and this is Toshiko's job. She also has a keen understanding of practical physics, which makes her useful as a field agent. She is focused and intensely professional, though sensitive.

Name: Rhys Williams
Played by: Kai Owen
First Appearance: Everything Changes
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: Rhys Williams is Gwen Cooper's husband. Although he had no idea of Gwen's secret Torchwood life, he later found out in "Meat", and he married Gwen in "Something Borrowed".

Name: PC Andy Davidson
Played by: Tom Price
Appeared in: Everything Changes, Day One, End of Days, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Adrift, Exit Wounds
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: PC Andy Davidson was Gwen Cooper's former police partner. He was aware that Gwen worked for Torchwood and showed interest in joining, but Gwen didn't want him to.

Name: Weevil
Appeared in: Everything Changes, Day One, Combat, End of Days, Sleeper, Reset, Dead Man Walking, Fragments, Exit Wounds, Lost Souls
Home Planet: Unknown
Species: Unknown
More Information: The Weevils are a race of savage alien humanoids found in Cardiff, presumably due to the Cardiff Rift. They are roughly humanoid in shape and size, but were a bit taller and had flattened faces with many sharp, fang-like teeth.

Name: Myfanwy
Appeared in: Everything Changes, Cyberwoman, Meat, Fragments
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Pteranodon
More Information: Myfanwy is a pteranodon kept by Torchwood 3 as a pet. It was originally found hunting in the countryside, killing sheep at night. Eventually, Ianto Jones was able to trap it in a warehouse and persuaded Jack Harkness to help him catch it.

Name: Sex Gas
Appeared in: Day One
Place of Origin: Unknown
More Information: Sex Gas is a type of intelligent cloud of gas, one of which came to Earth in an meteorite which fell near Cardiff and possessed a local girl named Carys Fletcher after being released accidentally by Gwen Cooper.

Name: Lisa Hallett/Cyberwoman
Played by: Caroline Chikezie
Appeared in: Cyberwoman, End of Days, Lost Souls
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: Lisa Hallett worked at Torchwood Tower in London during the time of the Battle of Canary Wharf. Along with many others of the Torchwood personnel she was partially upgraded into a Cyberman. Not a victim of the full cyber-conversion process, she had Cyber-technology added on to her Human body. After the battle, her boyfriend, Ianto Jones, also in the employ of the Torchwood Institute, transported her to Torchwood 3 in Cardiff.

Name: Fairies
Appeared in: Small Worlds
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Fairy
More Information: Fairies, as Humans call them, are a dangerous humanoid species native to Earth. Fairies are not alien life-forms, but have lived alongside Humanity since they first developed.

Name: Mary
Appeared in: Greeks Bearing Gifts
Home Planet: Arcateen 5
Species: Arcateenian
More Information: Physically, the Butterfly People are tall humanoids, whose bones and internal organs show faintly through their skin. They have tendril "hair" on the top of their head and on their backs. They have five long, slender fingers and have a blue tint to their skin.

Name: Diane Holmes
Played by: Louise Delamere
Appeared in: Out of Time, End of Days
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: In 1953 Diane Holmes was a pilot. On December 18th she, John Ellis and Emma-Louise Cowell were on their way to Dublin. But somehow the plane flew through the Cardiff Rift and ended up in present day Cardiff. Diane and Owen had a relationship, but she decided to fly away and try to find the Rift again, to get back to 1953. Whether she succeeded, or if she was killed or otherwise lost in the attempt, remains unknown.

Name: Eugene Jones
Played by: Paul Chequer
Appeared in: Random Shoes
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: Eugene Jones was a young man from Wales who found a Dogon eye, which he later swallowed. He was then hit by a car, the Dogon eye shifted his consciousness from his body making him exist in a half way point between life and death.

Name: Bilis Manger
Played by: Murray Melvin
Appeared in: Captain Jack Harkness, End of Days
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: A dangerous enemy, Bilis Manger has the power to effortlessly time travel, apparently without technical aid. Manipulating Torchwood 3 in various ways, he eventually tricked them into opening the Cardiff rift.

Name: Abbadon, son of the Great Beast
Appeared in: End of Days
Home Planet: Unknown
Species: Demon
More Information: Abaddon was a Demon and the son of the Beast, imprisoned beneath the Cardiff rift. The shadow of Abaddon killed any person who it fell upon and fed upon their life energy. Only the undying Jack Harkness stood in his way. The Demon died in the process due to the excess life.

Name: Blowfish
Appeared in: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Fragments
Home Planet: Unknown
Species: Unknown
More Information: Blowfish was a name given to an unknown race of piscene humanoids with a face strongly resembling a blowfish. Toshiko Sato described them as some sort of "landfish" and her scan of one member of the species revealed high levels of algae.

Name: Captain John Hart
Played by: James Marsters
Appeared in: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Fragments, Exit Wounds
Home Planet: Unknown
Species: Human
More Information: Another Time Agent, Captain John Hart was a rogue who traveled to Cardiff. He was an old friend and lover of Captain Jack Harkness.

Name: Cell 114/Sleeper Agents
Appeared in: Sleeper
Home Planet: Unknown
Species: Unknown
More Information: Cell 114 was the official designation for a group of sleeper agents of a species that Jack Harkness was aware. Very little was known about them, since they didn't usually leave survivors, though he did know that he carried out stealth alien invasions.

Name: Thomas Reginald Brockless
Played by: Anthony Lewis
Appeared in: To the Last Man
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: Tommy was born on 7th February 1894 in Blackley, Manchester, son of Constance May Bassett and Thomas Campbell Brockless. He fought for Britain in World War I, in the 10th West Yorkshire regiment. In 1918 he suffered shell shock and was admitted to St Teilo's Military Hospital in Cardiff.

Name: Cash Cow/Alien Meat
Appeared in: Meat
Home Planet: Unknown
Species: Unknown
More Information: The Cash Cow was a large creature used for illegal meat production near Cardiff. It was believed to have been taken from the sea when it was small, but due to a mutation which caused it to constantly grow it soon reached a massive size and nearly filled up the warehouse it was kept in. This mutation allowed the producers to harvest meat from it while it was still alive, as it would just grow back.

Name: Adam Smith
Played by: Bryan Dick
Appeared in: Adam
Home Planet: Unknown
Species: Unknown
More Information: Adam Smith was a memory-changing entity who could survive if people remembered him. He infiltrated Torchwood 3 and passed himself off as one of them.

Name: Martha Jones
Played by: Freema Agyeman
Appeared in: Reset, Dead Man Walking, A Day in the Death, Lost Souls
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: Martha Jones is a good friend of Captain Jack, she used to travel with the Doctor and is now working with UNIT. She became embroiled in Torchwood's investigation of a private medical organization called The Pharm.

Name: Mayfly
Appeared in: Reset
Home Planet: Unknown
Species: Mayfly
More Information: The Mayflies were a species of insectoid aliens used by the Pharm for research and cures. The Mayflies started life as eggs which would be implanted inside a host. They needed an extremely healthy host to survive, which meant that they would produce a chemical which would cure every known disease.

Name: Death/Durac
Appeared in: Dead Man Walking
Home Planet: Unknown
Species: Unknown
More Information: Death, who resembled the Grim Reaper, was a mysterious being and a figure in legends. In the early 21st century, it used the newly resurrected Owen Harper as a gateway into the Universe, and possessed him repeatedly. While doing so, it repeated the same words in a strange language. Durac then arrived at a hospital, having taken taken possession of Owen's body. It was required to claim 13 souls so it could enter the universe completely.

Name: Nostrovite
Appeared in: Something Borrowed
Home Planet: Unknown
Species: Nostrovite
More Information: The Nostrovites are a race of metamorphic humanoids. The Nostrovites, in their natural form, appeared to vaguely resemble a near-Human, but with red eyes, sharp claws and teeth, and visible blood vessels. Nostrovites were carnivores, but only ate living flesh and would normally ignore corpses.

Name: Jonah Bevan
Played by: Oliver Ferriman (Young), Robert Pugh (Aged) Appeared in: Adrift
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human
More Information: Jonah was taken by the Cardiff rift when he was 15 years old. The rift took him to a "Burning Planet" in a solar system about to be destroyed. He was rescued, but was was stuck for 40 years before he was returned by the rift to Earth. During that time he had stared into the heart of a Dark Star and what he had seen had driven him mad, resulting in him screaming continuously for a period of 20 hours each day.

Name: Parasite
Appeared in: Fragments
Home Planet: Unknown
Species: Unknown
More Information: During an operation it turned out that Katie Russell was infected by an alien creature, which in self defence killed both the doctors and Katie herself, to the devastation of Dr. Owen Harper.

Name: The Ghostmaker
Played by: Julian Bleach
Appeared in: From Out of the Rain
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Unknown
More Information: The Ghostmaker was the leader of the Night Travellers. He had the appearance of a ringleader of a circus called The Joshua Joy Travelling Show. He and the rest of the Night Travellers got trapped in film but when the Electro re-opened and a piece of film was played the Ghostmaker and Pearl were released.

Name: Hoix
Appeared in: Exit Wounds
Home Planet: Unknown
Species: Hoix
More Information: The Hoix were a humanoid race. They were slightly shorter than the average Human and had brown skin, sharp teeth and exposed gums. Hoix live to eat, and one Hoix specimen apparently liked to eat everything.

 

Name: Gray
Played by: Ethan Brooke (Young), Lachlan Nieboer (Adult)
Appeared in: Adam, Fragments, Exit Wounds
Home Planet: Boeshane Peninsula
Species: Human
More Information: Gray was the brother of Jack Harkness. While the Boeshane Peninsula was being invaded by an unknown alien race, Jack was told to run away with Gray. But Jack accidentally let go of Gray's hand and ran back.