Orphan Black
Summary
BBC sci - fi seriesOrphan Blackisn’t just a gripping story of illegal experimentation in human cloning — it also featured an acting tour de force by star Tatiana Maslany . The Canadian actress played five independent characters throughout the series , and seem in many " guest " role as other dead ringer that they see . In theOrphan Blackseries finale it was revealed that there were 276 Leda clones created in total , and Maslany played 17 of them on - screen . create by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett , Orphan Black ’s story begins with petty vicious Sarah Manning get in on a gear chopine and encountering a char who looks incisively like her .
While Sarah is still in shock , the woman perpetrate suicide by stepping in front of a train . Over the course of the next five time of year , Sarah follows the dead cleaning lady down a coney cakehole that reveals her own true origins , and puts both her and her girl in grave danger . As the mystery ofOrphan Blackunravels , Sarah learns that she is one of hundreds of clones created in 1984 as part of the mysterious Project Leda . She encounters multiple copies of herself throughout the show , with Tatiana Maslany playing 17 different anddistinct clones in Orphan Black .
The clones played by Tatiana Maslany are all copy of Kendall Malone , who is play in the show by Alison Steadman .
Orphan Black ’s time of year 5 finis " To Right The Wrongs Of Many " render an vivid , emotional ending to the saga of the Clone Club .
Sarah Manning
First Appears In Season 1, Episode 1, “Natural Selection”
The main Project Leda clone played by Tatiana Maslany inOrphan Blackis Sarah Manning , who is introduce in the first sequence of the show , " Natural Selection . “Sarah is one of only two clones that escaped Neolution ’s watchful gaze . Her birth female parent , Amelia , take to the woods before giving birthing to her twins . She give one to the church and one to the state , and Sarah was the Twin Falls who conk out to the state .
Sarah is the only Leda clone who was able to conceive a child naturally — a miracle , given that the clones were deliberately made unfertile — and she loves her daughter Kira intensely .
She end up in the care of Siobhan Sadler , who moved Sarah and her foster brother , Felix , to America in decree to keep Sarah out of the clasp of people who were look for for her . Sarah got her love of thug rock candy from Siobhan , who sharply pointed out that Sarah " took all of the mental attitude , none of the politics " from the euphony . Sarah is the only Leda clone who was able to consider a child of course — a miracle , devote that the knockoff were deliberately made aseptic — and she have it away her girl Kira intensely .
Beth Childs
This culminated in Beth killing a Prolethean called Maggie Chen , result in her break and an interior investigation into the civilian shot . Between the trauma of the shot and her unrequited love for her boyfriend and monitor , Paul , Beth ’s genial wellness took a down spiral that eventually took her to the train weapons platform .
Katja Obinger
Once Sarah starts investigating why Beth , the fair sex she saw jump in front of a geartrain , was superposable to her , she soon encounters other Project Leda clon . The next copy of Sarah that Tatiana Maslany play inOrphan Blackis Katja Obinger , a dead ringer carry in Germany , one of only a fistful of clones in Europe . Commonly referred to as " The German , " poor Katja Obinger ’s visual aspect inOrphan Blackwas short - lived . The new summation to Clone Club , Katja aviate all the way to Canada with documents and samples from dead ringer in Europe .
Katja was suffering from the respiratory unwellness that smite many of the Leda clones , and hop that with her sisters ' help she could witness a curative .
It ’s through Katja was stomach from the respiratory illness that afflicted many of the Leda clones , and hoped that with her sister ' help she could find a remedy . She soon get word through Sarah ’s pretense of being Beth , but before she could chance out who she was really speak to , Helena ended Katja ’s lifetime with a sniper bullet to the brain .
When streetwise hustler Sarah Manning witnesses the suicide of a woman who appears to be her doppelganger, she assumes the woman’s identity to investigate. Soon Sarah discovers that she is one of many clones created by illegal experimentation, and someone is after her and her “sisters."
Aryanna Giordano
First Appears In Season 1, Episode 2, “Instinct” (Photo Only)
It ’s through Katja that Sarah learns of many of the other Project Leda ringer . Tatiana Maslany still plays all of them , though there are several that only appear as photograph , as many of them are ( presumptively ) beat by the fourth dimension the show starts , having either been kill or fall dupe to the mysterious illness Katja is hoping to find a cure for . One of the Project Leda clones in Europe was Aryanna Giordano .
Among the file that Katja brings with her are the Idaho of several knockoff around Europe who had already been assassinated by Helena . Aryanna Giordano was a Leda ringer raised in Italy , and little else is known about her . Her photo was then seen once again inOrphan Blackseason 1 , episode 8 , " Entangled Bank " . Cosima , one of the other Project Leda clone , has a chart document all the known knockoff . Aryanna ’s picture is on the chart with a red X next to it , signify that she had indeed been vote out .
BBC sci - fi serial Orphan Black featured two circle of dead ringer : Leda and Castor . Though only a handful were check , there were really one C of them .
Janika Zingler
Another of the I.D. that Katja brings with her is that of Janika Angler , a ringer who was wear in Salzburg , Austria . Like Aryanna , Janika is dead beforeOrphan Blackbegins , having been assassinate by Helena . Her pic is also visible on her recommendation when Sarah collects Katja ’s written document from the hotel , though the briefcase also contain some of Janika ’s hair and line of descent sample .
While clones like Janika and Aryanna did n’t have a significant bearing in the show , the cellular inclusion of their passport show just how far-flung the range of Neolution and Project Leda truly was
She is also present on Cosima ’s chart in " Entangled Bank " and , like Aryanna , has a reddish X next to her name alongside the date of her death . She was assassinated by Helena in July 2012 . She was the third knockoff that Helena belt down , the first being an unnamed European clone and the second being Aryanna . While clones like Janika and Aryanna did n’t have a significant presence in the show , the comprehension of their passport showed just how far-flung the reach of Neolution and Project Leda truly was , and helped flesh out the immersion and lore ofOrphan Blacksignificantly .
Danielle Fournier
The last European clone seen only via a recommendation photograph in theOrphan Blackseason 1 episode , " Instinct " , was Danielle Fournier . Danielle lived in Paris , France , and was the concluding clone pop by Helena prior to Sarah encountering Beth Childs and the events ofOrphan Blackbeginning . It ’s unknown who was creditworthy for monitoring Danielle , which is also the case for Janika and Aryanna .
Just like Janika Zingler and Aryanna Giordano , Danielle Fournier only appear in an ID photo and not much is known about her . She had a healthy head of curly hair , which facilitate distinguish her somewhat from the photograph of Janika and Aryanna . Her blood samples were also in Katja ’s briefcase , and the tube was label " Patient # 84 - 2389263 . "
Alison Hendrix
First Appears In Season 1, Episode 2, “Instinct”
After Catja and Beth , the next clone play by Tatiana Maslany introduce inOrphan Blackis Alison Hendrix , who is also the first audiences encounter in season 1 ’s " Instinct " who ’d go on to be a regular presence on the show . Alison Hendrix is the third fellow dead ringer that Sarah converge in the form , and Alison quickly removes from Saraha any belief that soccer momma are n’t a force to be reckoned with .
Alison is desperate to just lead a normal life and hat being a clone
Alison is married to her monitor , Donnie , and they have two children that they adopted . Alison is part of the original Clone Club and , since she did n’t have constabulary admission like Beth or science expertise like Cosima , she bestow to the sisterhood by giving Beth a $ 75,000 " self - defense fund . " Alison is desperate to just lead a normal life and hates being a knockoff so much that she tries to forbid use of goods and services of the Holy Writ in Clone Club — though , clearly , she was n’t successful in this exceptional endeavour .
Cosima Niehaus
One of the most significant ringer flirt by Tatiana Maslany inOrphan Blackis Cosima Niehouse , who is first introduce in " Instinct” . Hippie scientist Cosima leads the charge on trying to rule a curative for the clon ' mystifying unwellness , which becomes all the more urgent when she herself starts coughing up blood . Studying for her PhD in Experimental Evolutionary Developmental Biology ( or " Evo - Devo , " as she prefers to call it ) , Cosima roleplay as a arbitrate force between the hot - headed Sarah and the tightly - wounding Alison .
However , even Cosima let her emotion get the better of her when she suspects that the attractive Gallic woman trying to befriend her , Delphine , is a monitor sent by Neolution to keep an heart on her . Cosima ’s disceptation that she could larn something by getting close to Delphine and doing a bit of reverse - monitoring is motivated by something a slight more primal than the scientific method .
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Helena
First Appears In Season 1, Episode 3, “Variation Under Nature”
easy the most serious knockoff play by Tatiana Maslany inOrphan Blackis Helena , the murderous and unmonitored Project Leda experiment who is a master opposer in the show ’s first season . InOrphan Blackseason 1 , Sarah acquire from her birth mother that the psychotic clon stalking and assassinate the others is in reality her matching , Helena . Sarah and Helena were separated at birth , and while Sarah was go away in the fuck aid of Siobhan Sadler , Helena was left with a Ukrainian Convent .
Despite her other villainous behavior , however , Helena ends up becoming a substance phallus of Clone Club and find a existent sept .
After Amelia give Helena to the Christian church , she ended up in the hands of the Proletheans , who weaponized her against her fellow clone . At the start of the series , Helena has been brainwashed into thinking that she ’s the original and all the other ringer are aberrations that must be eliminated . Despite her former nefarious behavior , however , Helena terminate up becoming a core fellow member of Clone Club and finding a real family .
Rachel Duncan
First Appears In Season 1, Episode 9, “Unconscious Selection”
One of the most remorseless , cold , and forecast clon play by Tatiana Maslany inOrphan Blackis Rachel Duncan — an opponent who , unlike Helena , does n’t have any sort of redemption discharge or large-hearted qualities . Most of the Leda clon were keep back oblivious to their true nature ( unliketheir Castor brother , who were raised in the military and are self - cognisant ) . Rachel Duncan is the exception : a child raised by Neolution .
Rachel takes her last name from the scientists Ethan and Susan Duncan , who developed the LEDA and CASTOR cloning labor and take her up as their own daughter in an apparently loving home . Rachel serves as an example of what the Leda clones military capability - Cosima ’s word , Sarah ’s rebelliousness , Alison ’s fierceness when threatened , and Helena ’s killer inherent aptitude - depend like when they take a really villainous material body .
M.K.
First Appears In Season 4, Episode 1, “Unconscious Selection”
One of the clones Tatiana Maslany played that appeared later inOrphan Blackwas M.K. , who also had one of the most tragic storylines in the show . Introduced inOrphan Blackseason 4 and expanded upon in the funny Holy Writ seriesOrphan Black : Helsinki , Veera " M.K. " Suominen ( referred to dear as " Mika " by the Clone Club ) is disclose to have been exercise with Beth to reveal the conspiracy behind the clon . M.K. was hit harder by Beth ’s suicide than perhaps any of the other clones , as Beth was one of the few people in her life she could trust .
Like Cosima , M.K. get the respiratory illness that affects so many of the Leda clone .
Later , M.K. reaches out to the remaining clones to warn them that Neolution is catching up to them . An adept data processor hacker , she prefers to convey via webcam while wearing a sheep mask . Like Cosima , M.K. contracts the respiratory sickness that pretend so many of the Leda clones . Sadly , she ’s slay before Cosima is able to find the cure .
Jennifer Fitzsimmons
First Appears In Season 2, Episode 3, “Mingling Its Own Nature With It”
Jennifer is a youthful clone played by Tatiana Maslany ( though only because she die several years before the show takes blank space ) and is seen only through her telecasting journal . A teacher and swim coach , Jennifer Fitzsimmons was the first of the Leda clone to show mark of the respiratory unwellness that also affected Cosima and Katja . While she does n’t have much impact on the narrative of the show from her perspective of Sarah ’s story , she does deliver some key exposition when it comes to the secret respiratory illness that affect the knockoff .
Cosima is introduced to Jennifer inOrphan Blackseason 2 via a series of picture diaries that she kept from the jump of her sickness all the manner up until her destruction . For Cosima , Jennifer is a vision of her own time to come — one that she gets uncomfortably near to when she do an autopsy on the departed knockoff . Delphine Cormier also expose that Jennifer was the first dead ringer to show symptoms of the sickness , falling victim to it around half a yr before Katja .
With a compelling story and iconic characters like Cosima and Delphine , it ’s not surprising that Orphan Black gave fans these memorable lines .
Krystal Goderitch
First Appears In Season 3, Episode 1, “The Weight Of This Combination”
A clone that Tatiana Maslany only played for seven episode ofOrphan Blackwas Krystal Goderitch , though she was emphatically one of the most humourous and memorable . Though she might seem like a dumb blonde stereotype , manicurist Krystal Goderitch proves that she has the same driving force , cheek , and ( confessedly misguided ) intelligence as her sisters . After being attacked by Castor clones Rudy and Seth , Krystal comes to realize that there ’s a confederacy afoot and starts independently investigate it .
Unlike the other ringer , Krystal flat - out dismisses the ringer history as hokum on the basis that Sarah looks nothing like her ( " she ’s like a seven on a honest day , and I ’ve been told I ’m a ten " ) .
Admittedly , she gets the point of the confederacy wrong and decides that it ’s all part of corruption in the beauty manufacture , but she got the general picture of potent hoi polloi work in the shadows correct . Like the other clone who make a hold out show in Orphan Black , Krystal Goderitch is eventually introduced to one of her double and told she is a knockoff . Unlike the other clone , Krystal two-dimensional - out dismisses the clone story as gimcrack on the basis that Sarah looks nothing like her ( " she ’s like a seven on a good day , and I ’ve been enjoin I ’m a ten " ) .
Tony Sawicki
First Appears In Season 2, Episode 8, “Variable And Full Of Perturbation”
Tony Sawicki is a transgender clone who appears in just one episode ofOrphan Black , after his admonisher is gunned down and asks him to pass on a message to Beth Childs . This leads Tony to Art , who carry him to Felix ’s place . A recollective twenty-four hour period of verbal sparring and flirtation ensues , in which it becomes clear that Tony is cut from the same fabric as Sarah in damage of personality as well as genes .
Tony is remarkably calm when he finally study that he ’s a dead ringer , only annotate on how hot all of the ringer are . With the Dyad Institute on his trail , Tony is instructed to get on a bus and get as far by as potential . He ’s also given a Clone Club phone and told to call if he ever sire in trouble . Since he never calls , we can optimistically assume that he made a clean escape and started a new life elsewhere .
Miriam Johnson
First Appears In Season 5, Episode 7, “Gag Or Throttle”
Miriam is another clone who is only introduced after she ’s already died , and look only in theOrphan Blackseason 5 episode " Gag Or Throttle " . get up by an alcohol-dependent mother , Miriam ended up living on the streets . She was a musician with a powerful originative streak , but she was unfortunate enough to draw the attending of Rachel when Miriam developed uterine growths .
What ’s revealed about Miriam is a sad and tragical tale , and it express that life for the Project Leda ringer was a lottery
Unwilling to await for Miriam to croak of lifelike causes , Rachel kill her so that she could probe her body — a indurate act that shocked even Aldous Leekie . Given that she ’s clearly into strong-armer music , it ’s potential that she and Sarah would have gotten along . While she never appear live on - screen , what ’s revealed about Miriam is a sad and tragical tale , and it shows that life for the Project Leda clones was a lottery , with some get well-chosen existences while others were on the face of it designate to suffer .
Unnamed Clone
First Appears In Season 5, Episode 3, “Beneath Her Heart”
In a flashback inOrphan Blackseason 5 , we see the first clone that Helena ever killed . regrettably , Helena does n’t stop to inquire her name . Thesestrais praying in a Christian church when Helena do up from behind and stabs her in the back . Afterwards , she is visibly shaken to see her own face staring back up at her from the dying char .
The Unnamed Clone is perhaps the most mysterious knockoff play by Tatiana Maslany throughout the integrality ofOrphan Black , with nothing known about her except that she was one of the smattering of knockoff Neolution distributed in Europe . Like many of the clone who are n’t a striking feature of the show , her function was more expostionary and as a story twist , since it ’s exonerated from the flashback that her death had a important impact on Helena ’s mind .
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Camilla Torres
First Appears In Season 5, Episode 10, “To Right The Wrongs Of Many”
The very last clone played by Tatiana Maslany to be introduced inOrphan Blackis Camilla Torres , a clone in Colombia who ’d succumb to the respiratory malady . Camilla Torres appear towards the end of the serial publication finis , and is the terminal clone that the show introduces before its conclusion . As such , very niggling is do it about Camilla , and her presence in the main serves to reinforce just how widespread Project Leda was .
Camilla remains completely unmindful to the fact she ’s a ringer inOrphan Black
Camillia also has the respiratory illness , but is capable to receive the therapeutic from Delphine . Cosima is present and eavesdrops while Camilla receives the cure , but opt to work her fountainhead away when her novel sister leave , leaving Camilla unaware of her clon condition . Camilla persist whole forgetful to the fact she ’s a dead ringer inOrphan Black , and is leave to live out her life in blissful ignorance of Project Leda , Neolution , or anything else experienced by Sarah and her other hereditary sisters .
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When streetwise hustler Sarah Manning witnesses the self-destruction of a cleaning lady who appear to be her doppelganger , she assumes the adult female ’s identity operator to enquire . Soon Sarah distinguish that she is one of many clones created by illegal experimentation , and someone is after her and her " sisters . "
