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This is a '''list of characters from the TV [[sitcom]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]'''''.

==Major characters==

===Overview===

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{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Main cast of ''Red Dwarf''
|-
! rowspan="2" width="14%" scope="col" | Character
! rowspan="2" width="14%" scope="col" | Actor
! colspan="13" | Seasons
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! style="width:4%;"| I
! style="width:4%;"| II
! style="width:4%;"| III
! style="width:4%;"| IV
! style="width:4%;"| V
! style="width:4%;"| VI
! style="width:4%;"| VII
! style="width:4%;"| VIII
! style="width:4%;"| IX {{ref|IX|n}}
! style="width:4%;"| X
! style="width:4%;"| XI
! style="width:4%;"| XII
! style="width:4%;"| XIII {{ref|XIII|n}}
|-
| [[Arnold Rimmer]]
| [[Chris Barrie]]
| colspan="6" {{CMain}}
| colspan="1" {{CRecurring}}
| colspan="6" {{CMain}}
|-
| [[Dave Lister]]
| [[Craig Charles]]
| colspan="13" {{CMain}}
|-
| [[Cat (Red Dwarf)|The Cat]]
| [[Danny John-Jules]]
| colspan="13" {{CMain}}
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Kryten]]
| [[David Ross (actor)|David Ross]]
| {{N/a|}}
| {{CGuest}}
| colspan="11" {{N/a|}}
|-
| [[Robert Llewellyn]]
| colspan="2" {{N/a|}}
| colspan="11" {{CMain}}
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]]
| [[Norman Lovett]]
| colspan="2" {{CMain}}
| colspan="4" {{N/a|}}
| {{CGuest}}
| {{CMain}}
| colspan="3" {{N/a|}}
| {{CGuest}}
| {{CMain}}
|-
| [[Hattie Hayridge]]
| colspan="2" {{N/a|}}
| colspan="3" {{CMain}}
| colspan="8" {{N/a|}}
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Kristine Kochanski]]
| [[Clare Grogan]]
| colspan="2" {{CRecurring}}
| colspan="3" {{N/a|}}
| colspan="1" {{CGuest}}
| colspan="7" {{N/a|}}
|-
| [[Chloë Annett]]
| colspan="6" {{N/a|}}
| colspan="2" {{CMain}}
| {{CGuest}}
| colspan="4" {{N/a|}}
|-
| [[Captain Hollister]]
| [[Mac McDonald]]
| colspan="2" {{CRecurring}}
| colspan="5" {{N/a|}}
| colspan="1" {{CMain}}
| colspan="3" {{N/a|}}
| colspan="1"{{CGuest}}
| colspan="1" {{N/a|}}
|}
{{note|IX|n|Season IX is officially titled "Back to Earth", with the numbering being retconned later.}}
{{note|XIII|n|Season XIII is officially titled "The Promised Land".}}

===Details===

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|- style="color:white"
!style="background:#69c; width:40%;"| Character
!style="background:#69c; width:30%;"| Actor
!style="background:#69c; width:30%;"| Series
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| [[Arnold Rimmer]] || [[Chris Barrie]] || Main: I–VI & VIII–[[Red Dwarf: The Promised Land|XIII]]; Recurring: VII
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| colspan="3" |Arnold Judas Rimmer (BSC & SSC) is Lister's bunkmate brought back to life as a hologram (his character wore an "H" symbol on his forehead, which stands for "[[Holography|Hologram]]") to keep Lister sane. He is unpopular with his crew mates, and is often the target of insults and pranks. Prior to his death, Rimmer was the ship's second technician, which makes him the second-lowest ranking crew member. He retains the rank, even though being a hologram makes him physically incapable of fulfilling his duties. He is technically the highest-ranking member of the crew for much of the shows' run, so he appoints himself as the interim captain. He is only respected as such by [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]] and [[Kryten]], although begrudgingly. He is petty, jealous and often dim-witted.
Because he is a hologram, he cannot leave the ship unless someone else is carrying a portable device made by Kryten. Also, he is a "non-essential resource", so if the ship runs low on power or Lister dies, Rimmer will be shut down. In season 6, Legion ("Legion"–S6E2) upgrades Rimmer's hardware to 'Hard Light', making Rimmer immortal and indestructible, and also allowing him to touch and feel things. In the middle of Series VII, a chance encounter with an old acquaintance leads him to temporarily depart the crew to do something meaningful with his existence ("Stoke Me a Clipper"–S7E2). This Rimmer hologram is not seen again until "Back to Earth"—other than in a dream ("Blue", S7E5)—but a non-hologram Rimmer is part of the resurrected crew in Series VIII. From "Back to Earth" onwards, the original hologram Rimmer has re-joined the crew, with no explanation as to what happened to the human Rimmer from series VIII.
He has had a poor relationship with practically everyone he has ever known, especially his own father. Even he finds himself unbearable when he encounters an alter ego or a hologram of himself. It is implied that Rimmer caused the original catastrophe due to his shoddy maintenance work, a suspicion he himself harbours. In early episodes, he claims to not believe in God or religion due to his upbringing in an unusual denomination. In later episodes, he proves that he is rather open-minded about theology and philosophy.
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| [[Dave Lister (fictional character)|Dave Lister]] || [[Craig Charles]] || I–XIII
|-
|colspan="3"| Dave Lister is the last human male in the known universe due to an accident leading to him being kept in stasis for three million years. His best clothes have only two [[curry]] stains down the front—and he wrongly believes himself to be a fantastic guitarist.<ref>'''Lister:''' Don't patronize me. I can't play the guitar. Anyone with half an ear can tell that. '''Kryten:''' Sir as soon as your personality's fully restored, you will firmly believe that you can play the guitar like the ghost of Hendrix. – {{cite episode |title=Psirens |episode-link=Psirens |series=Red Dwarf |series-link=Red Dwarf |season=VI |number=1}}</ref> As a technician, third class, he is also the lowest ranking member of the crew. He is obsessed with former crewmate Kristine Kochanski. He makes returning to earth or reuniting with Kochanski his two main goals. He mainly eats Indian food and drinks [[lager]], and often considers a lack of either as a "crisis situation".
Lister long claims to have never known his father. Lister is put in stasis for 18 months as punishment for bringing a cat on board the ship. He is woken three million years later, long after all other humans have died out. He sees "future echoes" ("Future Echoes"–S1, E2) which confirm that he will have at least 2 sons (Jim and Bexley) and will live to at least 175. He also learns that Cat's species believed him to be their god 'Cloister' ("Waiting for God"–S1, E4), but Cat never makes this connection. He later becomes pregnant after having intercourse with his female alter ego in another dimension ("Parallel Universe"–S2, E6). Lister discovers that he is his own father in a 'failsafe' that prevents the universe from ending ("Orobouros"–S7, E3). A wormhole shows Lister an alternative timeline in which Kochanski survived the accident and he is the Hologram and Kochanski's husband. Kochanski gets stuck in their timeline, but she and Lister never properly get together. He also loses his arm when he is infected by a virus ("Epideme"/"Nanarchy"–S7, E7-8), but this is restored with the ''Red Dwarf'' ship by Kryten's nanobots. In series IX, he is the last human again, but the ship believes he is two people (himself and his own son). Lister realises how close he came to winning Kochanski and becomes even more determined to get her back.
While he is normally sarcastic and lazy, he can be self-sacrificing and intelligent when someone's life is in danger.
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| [[Cat (Red Dwarf)|The Cat]] || [[Danny John-Jules]] || I–XIII
|-
|colspan="3"|The character has no name besides "The Cat". He is the humanoid descendant of a modern house cat called Frankenstein, who had been Lister's pet cat. The cat society (''[[Felis sapiens]]'') left ''Red Dwarf'' seeking the promised land ("Waiting for God"–S1, E4), leaving behind those who were too ill or old to travel. The Cat is the son of the cripple and the idiot.
The Cat's personality mirrors that of a [[cat]]—thinking only of his own well-being, vain and superficial. Despite all of his boasting, he has never had any genuine experience with a female. In early episodes, he serves no purpose but to be extra company to Lister and Rimmer. But he eventually becomes a self-trained navigator and shuttle-pilot, as well as helping with scavenging raids. His sense of smell allows him to detect floating objects outside of the shuttle. He almost never refers to anyone by the name, instead using insulting nicknames (e.g. Kryten is called "Peanut-head" or "Tin Can"). His vanity gives him false illusions about his singing and dancing abilities, but genuinely becomes better at these as the show progresses.
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| rowspan=2|[[Kryten]] || [[David Ross (actor)|David Ross]] || Guest: II
|-
| [[Robert Llewellyn]] || III–XIII
|-
|colspan="3"|Kryten is a [[neurosis|neurotic]] Series 4000 mechanoid robotic servant. He is humanoid, with the exception of the flat cubical face and head. Once the personal servant of three attractive female crew members of the ''Nova 5,'' he was found and rescued ("Kryten"–S2, E1) by Lister who has been teaching Kryten to "break his programming" in order to develop his own personality and develop human character faults (such as the ability to lie). Despite leaving to live independently, he has become the crew's service mechanoid by series III, having been rescued by Lister once again and rebuilt following a spacebike accident. Despite restoring functionality, Lister was unable to restore Kryten's former personality (S3, E1). His programming forces him to be obedient to Lister and Rimmer, even when he knows Rimmer's instructions do not make sense. He also has encyclopedic knowledge on almost all known subjects (all having been uploaded to his memory). In series VII, after Rimmer leaves, Kryten is the most neurotic member of the crew and becomes jealous of Kochanski.
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| rowspan=2|[[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]] || [[Norman Lovett]] || Main: I–II, VII & VIII, XIII; Guest: XII
|-
| [[Hattie Hayridge]] || III–V
|-
|colspan="3"|Holly is an [[artificial intelligence|intelligent]] [[computer]]. Holly's [[user interface]] appears on the ship's screens as a disembodied human [[head (anatomy)|head]] on a black background, he can also be downloaded onto most television screens, and can roam around on a monitor mounted on a cart. Holly regularly proclaims that he has an IQ of 6,000, though there are frequent references to the fact that it is now much lower due to three million years alone—"computer senility". He is briefly replaced by a female Holly program having undergone a computer head sex change operation (as explained in the opening of S3, E1), with the new appearance based on Hilly (Holly's alter ego in "Parallel Universe"–S2, E6). The male version is restored when the crew find his original hardware. Early episodes opened with Holly giving a brief synopsis of the series, closing with an added joke.
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| rowspan=2 |[[Kristine Kochanski]] || [[Clare Grogan]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0342931/ Clare Grogan's IMDb page]</ref> ||Recurring: I, II; Guest: VI
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|[[Chloë Annett]] || Main: VII, VIII; Guest: [[Red Dwarf: Back to Earth|IX]]
|-
|colspan="3"|Kristine Z Kochanski is ''Red Dwarf''{{'}}s Navigation Officer who was the object of Lister's lust before she was killed by a [[radiation]] leak. In Series VII, the crew discover an alternative universe where Kochanski survived with Lister as her hologram ("Orobouros"–S7, E3). She ends up stuck on ''Starbug'' and takes [[Arnold Rimmer|Rimmer]]'s place in the crew.
|}

==Alter egos==
===Ace Rimmer===
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'''Arnold "Ace" Rimmer''' is an [[alter ego]] of Arnold Rimmer, also played by [[Chris Barrie]]. Ace first appears in the episode "[[Dimension Jump (Red Dwarf episode)|Dimension Jump]]" (S4, E5) and is the [[antithesis]] of Rimmer. He is modest despite being a popular, knowledgeable, charming, daredevil hero. He comes from a seemingly perfect universe, in which Rimmer and Lister lived happy, successful lives and were good friends.

Ace's childhood paralleled Rimmer's up until the age of seven, when one of them was kept down a year at school while the other was not. The one kept down became Ace, who claimed that the shame of being a clear foot taller than his classmates inspired him to buckle down, fight back and work hard, while Arnold spent the rest of his life making excuses for his many failures.

Ace travels from planet to planet wearing a gold, fur-lined flight suit and saving people's lives. He was originally a test pilot for the Space Corps in his own universe, which also features an alter ego of Lister (nicknamed 'Spanners' by Ace) who is a flight engineer married to [[Kristine Kochanski|Kochanski]] and has twin sons, Jim and Bexley (the exact family to which the regular Lister always aspired). Ace's other friends included the Space Corps chaplain (played by the [[Cat (Red Dwarf)|Cat]] actor [[Danny John-Jules]]), a receptionist named Mellie (played by [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]] actress [[Hattie Hayridge]]), and Admiral Sir James Tranter, a superior officer whom Ace nicknames 'Bongo' (played by [[Kryten]] actor [[Robert Llewellyn]]). Despite being a happily married heterosexual, Bongo has a crush on Ace, who takes it in stride despite not reciprocating his feelings. Unlike Rimmer who desperately wanted to be an officer but turned out to be a vending machine attendant—Ace is a commander, but is always modest about the attention he receives. He spends time with Spanners, the engineering crew, and the enlisted men/[[Naval rating|ratings]]. He even refused to attend a lavish party his fellow officers threw for him, instead planning to go to a smaller one with Spanners and the enlisted.

Ace was offered the chance to pilot a brand-new spacecraft, one that can cross dimensions—leading to him meeting the ''Red Dwarf'' crew. Rimmer was instantly bitter that Ace was everything he dreamed of becoming himself. Ace had hoped that Rimmer was like him, but later regarded him as a "weasly maggot". In contrast, Ace and Lister became firm friends, prompting a lot of snide remarks from Rimmer about their 'relationship.'

Following his visit to ''Red Dwarf'', Ace extended his adventures through the multi-verse and meeting many alternative versions of himself. When he finally became unable to carry on ("Stoke Me a Clipper"–S7, E2), he passed his legacy on to another version of himself, who became a new Ace. In turn, when it was the new Ace's time, he passed the torch on. As each Ace died, their light bees were sent in orbit in small yellow 'coffins' around an unknown planet, and by the time ''Red Dwarf''{{'}}s Rimmer took on the mantle in "[[Stoke Me a Clipper]]", the billions of Ace Rimmers who came before him had formed a golden ring similar to Saturn's (and resembling the logo of the TV series).

Ace's catchphrase is "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!", and a [[running gag]] in the series is that everyone who encounters Ace exclaims "What a guy!" in adoration, once even in German: "Was für ein Kerl!"<ref>The proper German phrase would be “Was für ''einen'' Kerl!”.</ref>

After encountering a polymorph in "[[Emohawk: Polymorph II]]" (S6, E4), the original hologram Rimmer is robbed of his emotional bitterness, and as result takes on a personality identical to Ace. The now brave and heroic Rimmer saves the lives of the crew when the Emohawk turns into a grenade, but must reluctantly return to his cowardly ways upon defeating the creature.

===Duane Dibbley===
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'''Duane Dibbley''' is the [[wikt:dork|dork]]y [[alter ego]] of the [[Cat (Red Dwarf)|Cat]], played by [[Danny John-Jules]] with a [[Bowl cut|bowl]] haircut and a large [[Malocclusion|overbite]]. He first appears in the Series V episode "[[Back to Reality (Red Dwarf)|Back To Reality]] (S5, E6)", as part of a [[Psychedelic experience|hallucinogenic]] experience, designed to cause despair in the Dwarfers. He then returns in "[[Emohawk: Polymorph II]]," caused by a polymorph absorbing the Cat's cool (Rimmer described him as "looking so geeky, he couldn't even get into a science fiction convention", Ace later being unable to even mercy-kill Duane in order to defeat the Emohawk as he was so pathetic it would be like killing [[Bambi (character)|Bambi]]). In the BBC's ''Red Dwarf Night'' he appears in the ''[[Can't Cook, Won't Cook]]'' parody (''Can't Smeg Won't Smeg'') after The Cat refuses to take part in the show on the same team as Rimmer.

In Series VIII episode "[[Back in the Red]]" (S8, E1–3), the Cat, Lister, Kochanski and Kryten disguised themselves as "The Dibbley Family" by wearing mop heads on their heads and large false teeth.

Duane has the opposite personality to the Cat—he is a lot more nervous and shy than the Cat. He is very clumsy lacking the Cat's grace, he also treats others with more respect. Not having the Cat's ego he referred to Rimmer as 'sir', something the real Cat would not do.
Duane appears to possess a great deal of self-hatred as he is aware of his differences and often states that he hates Duane Dibbley.

The character's brief appearances have proved incredibly popular. John-Jules' explanation for this was "No-one's ever written a black [[nerd]] before."

===Arlene Rimmer, Deb Lister, the Dog and Hilly===
Played by [[Suzanne Bertish]], [[Angela Bruce]], [[Matthew Devitt]] and [[Hattie Hayridge]].
They are alternative versions of [[Arnold Rimmer]], [[Dave Lister (Red Dwarf)|Dave Lister]], the [[Cat (Red Dwarf)|Cat]] and [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]] from a [[Parallel universe (fiction)|parallel universe]] in the episode "[[Parallel Universe (Red Dwarf)|Parallel Universe]]" (1988). With the exception of the Dog, the others are female versions of the regular characters. Dog has dog-like traits—for example a hatred of bathing. The Cat takes an instant dislike to him, but the Dog does not pick up on this and continues to mistake Cat for another dog.

===Queeg 500===
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'''Queeg 500''' ([[Queeg (Red Dwarf)|S2, E5]]) is a "back-up" [[computer]] [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] system with an [[IQ]] of 500, played by [[Charles Augins]]. Queeg claims that Holly's IQ is not 6,000 but 6 and that Holly gets his information from a children's science book, called the ''Junior Colour Encyclopaedia of Space''. He demotes Holly to night-watchman and takes over the ship.

Queeg soon makes the crew's lives hell. Rimmer is forced to take regular long-distance runs whilst Cat and Lister are made to work for tiny amounts of food. They appeal to Holly who challenges Queeg to a game of chess, with the loser being deleted. Holly loses the game and fades from view. He then returns and announces that he was Queeg all the time. The whole thing was a [[practical joke]] to teach the crew to appreciate Holly even though he has gone a bit "computer [[Wiktionary:senile#English|senile]]".

"Queeg" is a reference to Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg, USN, a fictional character in [[Herman Wouk]]'s 1951 novel ''[[The Caine Mutiny]]'' and 1954 [[The Caine Mutiny (1954 film)|film of the same name]]. Both Queeg and Queeg 500 are in command of a vessel and prone to eccentric behaviour. Both display an oppressive command style and are prone to unprovoked angry outbursts.

==Shipboard robots==
===The Skutters===<!-- This section is linked from [[List of fictional robots and androids]] -->
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The '''skutters''' are motorized [[Domestic service|service]] and [[Maintenance, repair and operations|maintenance]] [[robot]]s that stand at around {{convert|2|ft|cm|spell=in}} tall, appearing as motorized boxes with a single limb each, ending in a three-clawed hand with an electronic eye. They perform menial tasks around the ship, such as sweeping the cinema floors after a movie, or painting the corridor walls. The skutters are unable to speak (except with bleeping noises), but can usually make their feelings clear. Their hands are particularly well designed for giving "[[flipping the bird]]" (a.k.a. "up yours") gestures with one or two digits, most often to Rimmer. Their behavior is rather more human-like than might be expected for such crudely designed robots; they play cowboys-and-Indians, enjoy watching films, are highly emotional and appear to be somewhat unstable and malfunctional, presumably as a result of three million years of continuous operation.

The tiny, motorized, three-clawed service droids were actual working models, save the episode "[[The End (Red Dwarf)|The End]]" (S1, E1), where the skutters were a post-production addition to the chicken soup nozzle scene. They were made up of various parts including old shoe boxes and the engines of [[radio-controlled car]]s. [[Radio interference|Interference]] originating from the radios of a nearby [[taxicab]] company, which was particularly busy during filming of the episode "[[Future Echoes]]" (S1, E2), caused havoc with the skutter models on set. One reportedly poked [[Craig Charles]] in the eye, and another launched an attack on [[Chris Barrie]]'s groin. Coincidentally, the skutters had been scripted as very inept towards their maintenance work and mischievous towards humans.

[[Kryten]] referred to a skutter by the name Bob in the episode "[[The Last Day (Red Dwarf)|The Last Day]]" (S3, E6). Series VIII also featured a skutter named Bob along with his "wife" Madge. The skutters are fans of [[John Wayne]], having their broom cupboard filled with Western props and pin-ups of Wayne, and are members of the John Wayne Fan Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/database/index.cfm?section=mechanicals&entry=skutters |title=Skutters &#124; Mechanicals &#124; Space Corps Database |publisher=Red Dwarf |access-date=26 April 2009}}</ref>

Two skutters appeared in the US pilot playing poker until one of them gives Rimmer what looks like "the finger". These skutters were given a revamp in design: a wider, rounded body with a complex neck and a narrow head with concealed eyes that pop up.

The skutters are unusually capable of sex, as in the episode Parallel Universe, a "male" Skutter and its "female" equivalent from the parallel universe are seen with "children".<ref>Episode "[[Parallel Universe (Red Dwarf)|Parallel Universe]]".</ref>

In "[[Red Dwarf: Back to Earth|Back to Earth]]" (S9, E1–3), the skutters had been given a complete redesign, and were added in post as a CG effect rather than being a remote controlled mechanism, as there was not enough money in the budget to even revamp the casing. Due to this, as the actors had no visual cue, [[Danny John-Jules]] was required to step in as a replacement for a skutter so that Chris Barrie had something to react to.

===Talkie Toaster===
'''Talkie Toaster''' is a minor character, a [[monomania]]cal talking [[toaster]] that tries to steer every conversation to the subject of toast.

Owned by Lister, Talkie Toaster is a toaster with [[artificial intelligence]] that is completely obsessed with making toast and annoys everyone on board. In Series I (and a deleted scene in Series II), it appears as a standard 1970s-style toaster made from stainless steel but with a circular light on the side which flashes as he speaks, and is voiced by [[John Lenahan]], with a transatlantic accent. In Series IV, it appears as a red toaster made of plastic, with its name "Talkie Toaster" emblazoned on the side, and rather more flashing red and green lights and is voiced by [[David Ross (actor)|David Ross]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0743335/ David Ross' IMDb page]</ref> (who played Kryten in his title episode).

The Toaster repeatedly interjects in conversations and whenever possible tries to steer the conversation towards toast. Eventually Lister smashes the Toaster with a hammer. Kryten repairs the toaster in order to use it as a guinea-pig for "intelligence compression"—restoring Holly's former intelligence (the ultimate aim is to cure Holly's computer senility) at the cost of reducing her operational lifespan. The toaster's repaired personality is somewhat different from the original: it now has a different voice and no longer tries to hide its obsession with toast.

The Talkie Toaster returns in the Series XII episode "[[Mechocracy]]" (2017), where it is again voiced by David Ross and depicted in its Series IV appearance. In the episode, the toaster has spent nearly two decades switched off in the garbage hold. Kryten and Lister make a deal with the toaster to swing the election for president of the machines on ''Red Dwarf'' in Kryten's favour. After Kryten wins, the Cat locks Rimmer in the garbage hold alone with the toaster until Monday.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Mechocracy |episode-link=Mechocracy |series=Red Dwarf |series-link=Red Dwarf |first=Doug (writer/director) |last=Naylor |author-link=Doug Naylor |network=[[Dave (TV channel)|Dave]] |date=2 November 2017 |series-no=XII |number=4 }}</ref>

Outside the TV series, Talkie Toaster plays a secondary, yet vital role in the book ''Better Than Life'', where Holly revives him in order to have someone to talk to while the crew are stuck in the virtual reality game. In this version, it is toaster who figures out how to restore Holly's IQ after perusing Holly's manuals, and later is also the one who informs the Dwarfers how to survive a black hole, Holly having given him this information while showing off his intelligence before he had to shut himself down (although he 'required' the crew to eat multiple pieces of toast before he gave them the information, Kryten having to eat Rimmer's share).

Talkie Toaster's interviews with various ''Red Dwarf'' characters (complete with offers of toast) can be found on ''Red Dwarf''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s official website.

===The Chocolate Dispenser===
'''The Chocolate Dispenser''' (voiced by [[Tony Slattery]]) has its only appearance in the Series VIII episode "[[Only the Good...]]". Having been stolen from by Rimmer, it sets off an alarm to alert the Captain of chocolate being stolen ("''Alert, alert! A choccie nut bar has been removed without payment!")'' It later goes on to inform Rimmer concerning his becoming its 'nemesis.' His appearance in the last scene involved it telling Rimmer that the formula which he got from the parallel universe, which would stop the virus that was destroying the ship, had in fact become the formula for the virus again; then firing a drink can at Rimmer's head with its final lines, ''"Every dog has its day, and this is the day, and I'm the dog!"'' and Rimmer is knocked unconscious.

In the alternative ending, the virus' antidote in the other world became the virus and the virus in that world became the antidote and then, the ship was saved from destruction, they were no longer in the Tank and later, Rimmer finally pays the money he owes the dispenser, but it still fires a can at Rimmer's head, knocking him unconscious anyway as Rimmer says, ''"Every dog has its day..."'', and after he is knocked unconscious, the Chocolate Dispenser finishes with, ''"...and this is the day, and I'm the dog!"'' and he howls as the audience applauds.

===The Revolving Toilet===

The Revolving Toilet is an artificially intelligent toilet which is located on a revolving plinth behind the washbasin in Lister's bedroom. It speaks in a dull male voice and bears a sign which reads "Now irradiate your hands."

The Revolving Toilet appeared in ''[[Balance of Power (Red Dwarf)|Balance of Power]]'', in which it appeared to Lister when he dismissively responded "Oh crap" to Holly's statement that he thought Rimmer was the best person to bring back as [[hologram]] because he would keep Lister sane. When Lister says he did not want the toilet, the Revolving Toilet apologizes and says that it was not paying attention.

==Other ''Red Dwarf'' crew==
===Captain Frank Hollister===<!-- This section is linked from [[Red Dwarf (TV series)|Red Dwarf]] -->
'''Captain Frank Hollister''' is played by [[Americans|American]] actor [[Mac McDonald]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mac McDonald {{!}} Actor |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567881/ |access-date=2025-08-04 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> in the television series.

Hollister is the captain of the interplanetary mining vessel, the ''Red Dwarf''. He is seen in the first episode, in which he sentences Dave Lister to eighteen months in [[stasis (fiction)|stasis]] for bringing his unquarantined cat on board. When Lister is released, Hollister, along with the rest of the crew, have been dead dust for three million years.

In Series VIII, with the crew resurrected by [[nanobot]]s, Hollister becomes a main character. This is also the series where it is revealed that the captain is in fact "Dennis the Donut Boy" and that he had abused confidential files in order to work his way up the ranks and become captain.

Captain Hollister briefly returns in the Series XII episode, "[[Skipper (Red Dwarf)|Skipper]]" (2017), where Rimmer uses a quantum skipper to travel to a universe shortly before the crew of ''Red Dwarf'' is killed by a radiation leak. Rimmer finds Hollister attempting to use the escape pod, which jams as the radiation leak reaches him.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Skipper |episode-link=Skipper (Red Dwarf) |series=Red Dwarf |series-link=Red Dwarf |first=Doug (writer/director) |last=Naylor |author-link=Doug Naylor |network=[[Dave (TV channel)|Dave]] |date=16 November 2017 |series-no=XII |number=6 }}</ref>  

In the [[Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers|first ''Red Dwarf'' novel]], the captain is a woman named "[[James T. Kirk|Kirk]]" and in the pilot for the unaired American version of the show the captain is a woman named "Tau".

Hollister's characterization is inconsistent. Before the accident, he was a fair, just, responsible leader. After resurrection, he becomes indulgent and corrupt. he is also depicted as indulgent and corrupt in the Series XII episode, "Skipper" (2017), where Rimmer finds Hollister attempting to use the escape pod, when Rimmer is using Kryten's new "Quantum Skipper" to travel to other universes, this one set shortly before the crew of Red Dwarf is killed by a radiation leak.

===Olaf Petersen===
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'''Olaf Petersen''' is played by [[Mark Williams (actor)|Mark Williams]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931247/ Mark Williams's IMDb page]</ref> in the television series. He is a [[Denmark|Danish]] catering officer on the ''Red Dwarf'' mining vessel.

First appearing in the pilot episode, Petersen is the best friend of [[Dave Lister]]. He, Lister, [[#Selby and Chen|Selby and Chen]] spend most of their free time getting drunk. Like the rest of the crew, Petersen is killed in the radiation leak. His remains are found in the Drive Room as a white powder that Lister tasted. He appears in two other episodes in the first two series. Petersen is resurrected along with the rest of the crew in Series VIII, but is [[Unseen character|not seen]], although often referred to.

===Selby and Chen===<!-- This section is linked from [[Red Dwarf (TV series)|Red Dwarf]] -->
'''Selby and Chen''' are played by David Gillespie and [[Paul Bradley (English actor)|Paul Bradley]],<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0103367/ Paul Bradley's IMDb page]</ref> respectively. Chen works in the ship's kitchens and both spend their time drunk. First appearing in the pilot episode, they spend most of their free time with Lister and Petersen getting drunk. Like the rest of the crew they are killed in the radiation leak. When the crew are resurrected in Series VIII, Selby and Chen are the first crew members the regular characters encountered. They have not been seen again.

===George McIntyre===
'''George McIntyre''' was a minor character aboard ''Red Dwarf.''

In the novel ''[[Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers]],'' McIntyre was an officer on ''Red Dwarf'' who was severely depressed due to growing debt problems. After a horrifying experience in the hands of gangsters (he returned to ''Red Dwarf'' carrying his nose in a [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] [[Hilton Hotel]] [[napkin]]), McIntyre committed suicide. He was brought back as a [[hologram]] and replaced the ship's first hologram, Frank Saunders (much to Saunders' relief). Captain Hollister notes in his personal log that McIntyre was not especially crucial to the success of the mission, but was brought back anyway because Hollister was curious to hear his resurrection speech.

According to the original script of "The End", McIntyre was killed by a minor radiation leak from the drive plate that Rimmer failed to repair.

In the [[television series]], McIntyre was only seen at his "Welcome Back Reception" thanking everyone for flowers and turning up at his funeral, and his choice of music at the funeral was "[[See You Later Alligator]]" (in certain broadcasts this song was replaced with football anthem "Here We Go") as his ashes were blasted into space. George was portrayed by Robert McCulley. He was switched off during the radioactive disaster, for [[Arnold Rimmer]] to replace him afterwards by [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]] to keep [[Dave Lister]] sane. The cause of his death is not mentioned in the TV series.

===Frank Todhunter===
'''Frank Todhunter''' appeared in the first episode only and was played by [[Robert Bathurst]]. A well spoken officer, he tries to placate the tension between Rimmer and Lister (before siding with Lister against Rimmer; "Oh, Rimmer, you ''are'' a [[Red Dwarf#Hallmarks|smeghead]]"), and attempts to describe how the stasis booth works to the latter. He is also an exam [[invigilator]] causing him to be someone that Rimmer severely dislikes. As part of [[Kristine Kochanski]]'s story to ease Lister's claustrophobia, she claims the Todhunter from her dimension is gay, despite being a married man and notorious womanizer.

===Yvonne McGruder===
According to "[[Thanks for the Memory (Red Dwarf)|Thanks for the Memory]]", Yvonne McGruder was the ship's female boxing champion, and the only woman Rimmer ever had sex with while he was alive. She is mentioned in a number of episodes, but her only on-screen appearance is inside a simulation in "[[Better Than Life (Red Dwarf episode)|Better Than Life]]", where she is played by [[Judy Hawkins]].

===Prison Governor Ackerman===
'''Prison Governor "Nicey" Ackerman''' is played by [[Graham McTavish]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574615/ Graham McTavish's IMDb page]</ref>

Seen only in the eighth series, Mr Ackerman is a stereotypically sadistic prison governor, enjoying his power over the inmates in Floor 13 (''Red Dwarf''{{'}}s brig), "The Tank". He has a glass eye, which at one point is stolen from him. Prone to overreaction, he is a victim of pranks from the inmates on more than one occasion. After having [[sodium pentothal]] put into his [[inhaler]] as a prank, he shows up late at a meeting with the captain and reveals that he was sorry, but he was busy having "jiggy jiggy" with the Science Officer's wife, and needed time to change out of his Batman costume. Following the prank Lister suggested that a Tarzan costume would be better, since it would take less time to change out of.

According to various interviews on the Red Dwarf website, Ackerman was originally part of the same prison ship that was transporting the simulant encountered in the episode "Justice," but escaped from the ship after accidentally enabling the simulants to get free.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}

===Warden Knot===
'''Warden Knot''' is played by Shend.

Like governor Ackerman, Knot is a fairly sadistic warden. He dies in the episode ''[[Cassandra (Red Dwarf)|Cassandra]]'' when Cassandra predicts that [[Arnold Rimmer]] will die of a heart attack. To evade death Rimmer pretends that Knot is called "Arnold Rimmer" and Knot, as according to prophecy, has a heart attack after learning he is going to die.

===Kill Crazy===<!-- This section is linked from [[Red Dwarf (TV series)|Red Dwarf]] -->
'''Kill Crazy''' is a minor character played by [[Jake Wood]],<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939766/ Jake Wood's IMDb page]</ref> appearing only in Series 8.

Kill Crazy (real name: Oswald Blenkinsop) is a psychopathic inmate who is obsessed with killing things. He is not very bright, thinking that he could fight a [[Tyrannosaurus rex|Tyrannosaurus Rex]] using his fists. His fighting buddy is Baxter (played by comedian [[Ricky Grover]]). When the prisoners arrive at the destination of a mission, Kill Crazy screams "Let's go kill something!" before charging forward at great pace and knocking himself unconscious on a low doorway.

===Katerina Bartikovsky===

'''Katerina Bartikovsky''' is played by [[Sophie Winkleman]].

In a hallucination induced by the ink of a despair squid, the crew encounters Katerina Bartikovsky. In this hallucination, Katerina was the science officer of the Red Dwarf before the accident. She is of Russian heritage and speaks with a strong accent. Her personality is strict, serious and judgmental, with a certain amount of scientific genius and arrogance. She suddenly appears as a hard-light hologram in "Back to Earth, Part One" after Rimmer's negligence nearly results in the death of his crewmates. She uses her superior rank to make herself ship's hologram and tries to have Rimmer deactivated and destroyed; it is also evident that she has personal disdain for him. Meanwhile, she attempts to bring Lister home with a device she made with a mining laser and the DNA of a dimension-hopping squid (the hallucination's explanation for the despair squid), which the rest of the crew enters through to get back to Earth, which allows Rimmer to escape deletion. She later encounters Rimmer in a street on Earth, claiming to have gone through a second portal, where they discuss the morals of deleting holograms. Katerina argues that since holograms are simulated dead humans, then killing them is acceptable. Using this logic, Rimmer immediately pushes her into traffic, whisking her away. She is not seen again after this incident.

==Miscellaneous characters==
===The Cat Priest===
'''The Cat Priest''' was, until [[Red Dwarf: The Promised Land|The Promised Land]], the only member of the species ''[[Felis sapiens]]'' seen on the television show ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' apart from The Cat. He was played by [[Noel Coleman]]. One of his hands is depicted with a different skin tone compared to the rest of his body, possibly implying that the Cat race possessed numerous variations in their skin colours (similar to how modern cats have different fur colours).  

The Cat Priest was blind. He was the Cat's teacher and guardian after his parents died, but Cat was never really interested and preferred to go off investigating. The Cat Priest was once a devout follower of the Cat religion, but over time as the Cat race fled Red Dwarf and those who stayed aboard died he lost his faith ("Waiting for God"–S1, E4).

When the Cat Priest was dying, Lister appeared and revealed that he was the Cat god Cloister. The Priest apologized for losing his faith, saying "You tested me, and I failed you." Lister assured him that he had not failed, and he would get into Fuchal. The Cat Priest's last words before he died of a heart attack were "This is the happiest day of my ..."

In the remastered version of the episode in which he appeared, the Cat Priest's body was cremated and the ashes jettisoned into space.

===Mr. Flibble===
'''Mr. Flibble''' is a [[hologram]]atical [[hand puppet|hand-puppet]] [[penguin]]. He is fluffy and malevolent, and often "very cross". In the episode ''[[Quarantine (Red Dwarf)|Quarantine]] (S5, E4),'' [[Arnold Rimmer]] wore Mr. Flibble on his hand and together they terrorized the rest of the crew. Rimmer had been infected by a hologramatical [[virus]], the "''Hex virus''," which gave him [[Psychokinesis|mental powers]], but also made him completely [[psychotic]]. Both Mr. Flibble and Rimmer were armed with the power of Hex vision. When they attack with this power, their eyes glow red, and then a [[death ray|deadly beam of energy]] is discharged from their eyes.

Although he only appears in one episode and had no audible lines, Mr. Flibble became a fan favourite, and is now an interviewer on the ''Red Dwarf'' official website.<ref>{{cite web|author=Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Radio Show) |url=http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/features/index.cfm?category=interviews |title=Features |publisher=Red Dwarf |access-date=27 March 2009}}</ref>

===Hudzen-10===
'''Hudzen-10''' appeared only in the Series III episode "[[The Last Day (Red Dwarf)|The Last Day]]" (S3, E6), and was portrayed by [[Gordon Kennedy (actor)|Gordon Kennedy]]. A replacement for Kryten, Hudzen-10 followed Red Dwarf for many years, eventually being driven insane. After the Red Dwarf crew told him to leave the ship, he deemed them all to be members of non-human species (bar Lister, whom he designated 'What the Hell!', concluding that he was 'Barely Human'), and attempted to kill them all. He was only stopped when Kryten told him that 'Silicon Heaven' did not exist, forcing him into an existential dilemma.

===Rimmer's Dad===
In "[[Future Echoes]]" (1988), Rimmer implies that his father had committed [[suicide]] when he mentions that he had given advice about how you can cope with anything with a short haircut "just before that rather unfortunate suicide business".<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Future Echoes |episode-link=Future Echoes |series=Red Dwarf |series-link=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=Doug Naylor |first3=Ed (director) |last3=Bye |author-link3=Ed Bye |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC2]] |date=22 February 1988 |series-no=I |number=2 }}</ref> However, according to a letter from Rimmer's mum "[[Better Than Life (Red Dwarf episode)|Better Than Life]]" (1988), Rimmer's dad had died peacefully in his sleep (or possibly in his jeep), and Rimmer appeared to have been unaware of this prior to the fact. In "Better Than Life", Rimmer mentions that his father was unsuccessful in his attempts to join the Space Corps and consequently became obsessed with ensuring his sons would (he stretched them on a [[Traction (orthopedics)|traction]] machine to make them tall enough and withheld dinner unless they could answer questions on astronavigation correctly). He admits to Lister that he loathed the man and his dearest wish is to one day hear his father say that he is proud of Rimmer. He is portrayed in the episode by [[John Abineri]], when, while playing the ''Better Than Life'' game, Rimmer encounters a simulation of his father who still does not show any pride in his son, instead calling Rimmer a smeghead, to which the Cat claims is his fantasy in the game.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Better Than Life |episode-link=Better Than Life (Red Dwarf) |series=Red Dwarf |series-link=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=Doug Naylor |first3=Ed (director) |last3=Bye |author-link3=Ed Bye |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC2]] |date=13 September 1988 |series-no=II |number=2 }}</ref>

He next appears in "[[The Beginning (Red Dwarf)|The Beginning]]" (2012), played by [[Simon Treves]]. It is shown that Rimmer's father was also a teacher at Rimmer's school and used him as a guinea pig in an experiment about peer pressure (Rimmer's father instructed the other students to give incorrect answers). Rimmer is shown to have a hololamp containing a message from his father that was to be played when Rimmer achieved his dream of becoming an officer—when stuck for a plan when called upon to mastermind the salvation of ''Red Dwarf'' from Simulants, Rimmer decided to take the Cat's advice and play the message anyway to escape his father's memory. The message shockingly revealed that Rimmer was actually the son of the family's gardener. This does not affect Rimmer badly (as the rest of the crew had worried it would), instead liberating him from his lifelong fear of letting his ancestors down and allowing him to come up with a plan to save the day.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=The Beginning |episode-link=The Beginning (Red Dwarf) |series=Red Dwarf |series-link=Red Dwarf |first=Doug (writer/director) |last=Naylor |author-link=Doug Naylor |network=[[Dave (TV channel)|Dave]] |date=8 November 2012 |series-no=X |number=6 }}</ref>

===Rimmer's Mum===
Rimmer's mother, played by [[Kalli Greenwood]], is referred to several times in the series, not altogether consistently. In "[[Polymorph (Red Dwarf episode)|Polymorph]]" (S3, E3), Rimmer describes her affectionately as "prim and proper", almost austere but with no time for fools. Yet in "[[The Last Day (Red Dwarf)|The Last Day]]" (S3, E6), he indicates that she was overly sexually promiscuous. In "[[Dimension Jump (Red Dwarf episode)|Dimension Jump]]" she is briefly shown as a mother who is concerned for her son's upbringing and education but is insensitive to his feelings (for example, lecturing him about his situation at school while he is hanging upside down as the result of a mean prank by his brothers, rather than help him down first).

In the episode "[[Polymorph (Red Dwarf episode)|Polymorph]]", the Polymorph makes Rimmer angry so it can suck out his anger; to do this it changes into Rimmer's mum and has [[sexual intercourse]] with Lister, who has lost his sense of fear. Holly repeatedly stresses to Rimmer that this is all a ploy to anger him, so he manages to keep his cool until the Polymorph taunts him, saying "The things this boy can do with [[Alphabetti Spaghetti]]..."

She is briefly mentioned in the episode "[[Terrorform]]" (S5, E3) when Lister, Cat and Kryten hunt for Rimmer in the 'Swamp of Despair' (they find a bloodsucking [[leech]] with her face, a physical embodiment of how Rimmer perceives her).

===Howard Rimmer===
One of Arnold's often mentioned brothers. Howard Rimmer ([[Mark Dexter]]) appeared in the Series 10 episode "[[Trojan (Red Dwarf)|Trojan]]" (S10, E1). Howard is a crew member aboard a ship that makes contact with the Red Dwarf crew. Howard's hologrammatic status suggest that he, like Arnold, died in active service and was resurrected. Originally described by Arnold as a great man, we discover that Howard is very similar in character to Arnold himself—opening the possibility that he also was fathered by the Rimmer family's gardener.

===Frank Rimmer===
Frank Rimmer ([[Chris Barrie]] in a dual role) is another of Arnold's brothers. Frank appeared in the episode "[[Timeslides]]" (S3, E5) when Kryten accidentally mutates one of Frank's wedding pictures, allowing Lister to walk into it. Frank is extremely annoyed at Lister for blocking the shot and hits him several times before Lister disappears back into the present. In the episode, Frank appears to be wearing a Space Corps full-dress uniform.

"Frank" is also the name of his [[paternal]] [[uncle]], his [[namesake]], who is the father of two daughters, Sarah and Alice, is revealed to have been having an affair with his sister-[[in-law]], and who inadvertently gave his nephew, Arnold, his first [[french kiss]] (after having mistaken him for Rimmer's mother in a dark room on a vacation).

==Guest stars==<!-- This section is linked from [[Holoship]]. See [[WP:MOS#Section management]] -->
Many co-stars of the first few episodes have gone on to careers away from ''Red Dwarf'', such as [[Robert Bathurst]], [[Tony Hawks]], Paul Bradley, [[Craig Ferguson]] and [[Mark Williams (actor)|Mark Williams]]. But later series have attracted established stars, some of whom were fans of the show.

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="width:100%; margin-right:auto; background:white;"
|-
! Actor/Actress
! Series
! Episode(s)
! Character
|-
| [[Jenny Agutter]]
| VI
| "[[Psirens]]"
| Professor Mamet
|-
| [[Sarah Alexander]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0018729/ Sarah Alexander's IMDb page]</ref>
| VII
| "[[Stoke Me a Clipper]]"
| Queen of Camelot
|-
|[[Charles Augins]]
|II
|"[[Queeg (Red Dwarf)|Queeg]]"
|Queeg 500
|-
| [[Nicholas Ball (actor)|Nicholas Ball]]
| IV
| "[[Justice (Red Dwarf)|Justice]]"
| Psychopathic Simulant
|-
| [[Morwenna Banks]]
| II
| "[[Stasis Leak]]"
| Lift Hostess
|-
| Daniel Barker
| XI
| "[[Give and Take (Red Dwarf)|Give and Take]]"<br/>"[[Officer Rimmer]]"<br/>"[[Krysis]]"<br/>"[[Can of Worms (Red Dwarf)|Can of Worms]]"
| Lift<br/>Croquet Commentator<br/>The Universe<br/>Alien Natural History Presenter
|-
| [[Rupert Bates]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0061023/ Rupert Bates' IMDb page]</ref>
| I, III, IV
| "[[Balance of Power (Red Dwarf)|Balance of Power]]"<br/>"[[Confidence and Paranoia]]"<br/>"[[Timeslides]]"<br/>"[[Camille (Red Dwarf)|Camille]]"<br/>
| Trout a la Creme/Chef<br/>Food Machine<br/>Bodyguard<br/>Hector Blob<br/>
|-
| [[Robert Bathurst]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0061106/ Robert Bathurst's IMDb page]</ref>
| I
| "[[The End (Red Dwarf)|The End]]"
| Frank Todhunter
|-
| [[James Baxter (actor)|James Baxter]]
| X
| "[[Lemons (Red Dwarf)|Lemons]]"
| Jesus
|-
| [[Hetty Baynes]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0063158/ Hetty Baynes' IMDb page]</ref>
| IV
| "[[Dimension Jump (Red Dwarf episode)|Dimension Jump]]"
| Cockpit Computer
|-
| [[Rebecca Blackstone]]
| X, XI
| "[[Fathers and Suns]]"<br/>"[[Twentica]]"
| Pree<br/>Big Bang Beryl
|-
| [[Gary Cady]]
| X
| "[[The Beginning (Red Dwarf)|The Beginning]]"
| Dominator Zlurth
|-
| [[Dominic Coleman]]
| XI
| "[[Krysis]]"
| Butler
|-
| [[Lee Cornes]]
| I
| "[[Confidence and Paranoia]]"
| Paranoia
|-
| [[Brian Cox (actor)|Brian Cox]]
| VII
| "[[Stoke Me a Clipper]]"
| King of Camelot
|-
| [[Stephen Critchlow]]
| XI
| "[[Officer Rimmer]]"
| Captain Edwin Herring
|-
| [[Mark Dexter]]
| X
| "[[Trojan (Red Dwarf)|Trojan]]"
| Howard Rimmer
|-
| [[Jack Docherty]]
| V
| "[[The Inquisitor (Red Dwarf)|The Inquisitor]]"
| Inquisitor
|-
| [[Anita Dobson]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0229886/ Anita Dobson's IMDb page]</ref>
| VI
| "[[Psirens]]"
| Captain Tau
|-
| Susan Earl
| X
| "[[Trojan (Red Dwarf)|Trojan]]"
| Sim Crawford
|-
| [[Craig Ferguson]]
| I
| "[[Confidence and Paranoia]]"
| Confidence
|-
| [[Ricky Grover]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0344038/ Ricky Grover's IMDb page]</ref>
| VIII
| "[[Pete (Red Dwarf)|Pete: Part I]]"<br/>"[[Pete (Red Dwarf)|Pete: Part II]]"<br/>"[[Only the Good...]]"
| Baxter
|-
| [[Alex Hardy (actor)|Alex Hardy]]
| X
| "[[The Beginning (Red Dwarf)|The Beginning]]"
| Chancellor Wednesday
|-
| [[Ainsley Harriott]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684155/ |title="Red Dwarf" Emohawk: Polymorph II (1993) |publisher=Imdb.com |date=28 October 1993 |access-date=29 March 2009}}</ref>
| VI
| "[[Emohawk: Polymorph II]]"
| GELF Chief
|-
| [[Tony Hawks]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370281/ Tony Hawks' IMDb page]</ref>
| I, II, III, IV
| "[[Future Echoes]]"<br/>"[[Waiting for God (Red Dwarf)|Waiting for God]]"<br/>"[[Me²]]"<br/>"[[Better Than Life (Red Dwarf episode)|Better Than Life]]"<br/>"[[Stasis Leak]]"<br/>"[[Backwards (Red Dwarf episode)|Backwards]]"<br/>"[[Meltdown (Red Dwarf)|Meltdown]]"
| Dispensing Machine<br/><br/>Restaurant Ad<br/>The Guide<br/>Suitcase<br/>Compere<br/>Caligula
|-
| [[Don Henderson]]
| VII
| "[[Beyond a Joke (Red Dwarf)|Beyond a Joke]]"
| Simulant
|-
| [[Liz Hickling]]
| VI
| "[[Gunmen of the Apocalypse]]"<br/>"[[Rimmerworld]]"
| Simulant Lieutenant
|-
| [[Jane Horrocks]]
| V
| "[[Holoship]]"
| Nirvanah Crane
|-
| [[Colin Hoult]]
| X
| "[[The Beginning (Red Dwarf)|The Beginning]]"
| Chancellor Thursday
|-
| [[Indira Joshi (actor)|Indira Joshi]]
| X
| "[[Lemons (Red Dwarf)|Lemons]]"
| Erin
|-
| [[Gordon Kennedy (actor)|Gordon Kennedy]]
| III
| "[[The Last Day (Red Dwarf)|The Last Day]]"
| Hudzen-10
|-
| [[Denis Lill]]
| VI
| "[[Gunmen of the Apocalypse]]"
| Simulant Captain/Death
|-
| Clayton Mark
| IV
| "[[Meltdown (Red Dwarf)|Meltdown]]"
| Elvis Presley
|-
| [[Gary Martin (actor)|Gary Martin]]
| VII
| "[[Epideme]]"
| Epideme (voice)
|-
| [[Geraldine McEwan]]
| VIII
| "[[Cassandra (Red Dwarf)|Cassandra]]"
| Cassandra
|-
| [[Kika Mirylees]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0592576/ Kika Mirylees' IMDb page]</ref>
| VIII
| "[[Back in the Red: Part I]]"<br/>"[[Back in the Red: Part II]]"<br/>
| Doc Newton
|-
| [[Ken Morley]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0605906/|title = Ken Morley|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref>
| VII
| "[[Stoke Me a Clipper]]"
| Captain Voorhese
|-
| [[Richard Ng]]
| IX
| "[[Red Dwarf: Back to Earth|Back to Earth, Part Two]]"
| Swallow
|-
| [[Richard O'Callaghan]]
| IX, X
| "[[Red Dwarf: Back to Earth|Back to Earth, Part Three]]"<br/>"[[The Beginning (Red Dwarf)|The Beginning]]"
| The Creator<br/>Hogey the Roguey
|-
| [[Lucie Pohl]]
| XI
| "[[Twentica]]"
| Harmony de Gauthier
|-
| [[Richard Ridings]]
| IV, VI
| "[[DNA (Red Dwarf)|DNA]]"<br/>"[[Psirens]]
| D.N.A. Computer Voice<br/>Crazed Astro
|-
| [[Kerry Shale]]
| X
| "[[Fathers and Suns]]"
| Medi-Bot, Taiwan Tony
|-
| [[Tony Slattery]]
| VIII
| <br/>"[[Only The Good...]]"
| <br/>Vending Machine (voice)
|-
| [[Arthur Smith (comedian)|Arthur Smith]]
| III
| "[[Backwards (Red Dwarf episode)|Backwards]]"
| Night Club Owner
|-
| [[Timothy Spall]]
| V
| "[[Back to Reality (Red Dwarf episode)|Back to Reality]]"
| Andy the Technician
|-
| [[Koo Stark]]
| III
| "[[Timeslides]]"
| Sabrina Mulholland-Jjones
|-
| [[Maggie Steed]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824353/ Maggie Steed's IMDb page]</ref>
| V
| "[[Quarantine (Red Dwarf)|Quarantine]]"
| Dr Hildegarde Lanstrom
|-
| [[Jeremy Swift]]
| IX
| "[[Red Dwarf: Back to Earth|Back to Earth, Part Two]]"
| Noddy
|-
| [[Simon Treves]]
| X
| "[[The Beginning (Red Dwarf)|The Beginning]]"
| Lecturer Rimmer
|-
| [[Lenny Von Dohlen]]
| V
| "[[Back to Reality (Red Dwarf)|Back to Reality]]"
| Fascist Policeman
|-
| [[Don Warrington]]
| V
| "[[Holoship]]"
| Commander Binks
|-
| [[Ruby Wax]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915375/ Ruby Wax's IMDb page]</ref>
| III
| "[[Timeslides]]"
| TV Presenter Blaize Falconberger
|-
| [[Steven Wickham]]
| VI, X
| "[[Emohawk: Polymorph II]]"<br>"[[Entangled (Red Dwarf)|Entangled]]"
| GELF Bride<br>BEGG Chief
|-
| Nigel Williams
| VI
| "[[Legion (Red Dwarf)|Legion]]"
| Legion
|-
| [[Sophie Winkleman]]
| IX
| "[[Red Dwarf: Back to Earth|Back to Earth, Part One]]"<br>"[[Red Dwarf: Back to Earth|Back to Earth, Part Two]]"
| Katerina Bartikovsky<ref>{{cite web|author=Better Than Life (Radio Show) |url=http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/2009/03/27/red-dwarf-specials/ |title=Specials|publisher=Red Dwarf |access-date=27 March 2009}}</ref>
|}

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{British Comedy Guide|tv|red_dwarf/characters|Red Dwarf: {{noitalic|Character Guide}}}}
*[http://www.thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=67827 Podcast ending with an interview with Hattie Hayridge (Holly the computer) contains anecdotes about ''Red Dwarf'' and about how she got selected to play the computer]

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