Professor Nick Cutter
Played by Douglas Henshall

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Evolutionary zoologist and team leader, Professor Nick Cutter, is a maverick. Hard-bitten and cynical he struggles with rules and authority – to the extent that he doesn’t even turn up for his own lectures. There are rumours he has a softer side but he’s keen to dispel those (he insists those tears during Titanic were down to an eye infection).

He prefers fossils to live animals, the Stones to the Beatles and thinks there’s more chance of finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe than there is in the government.

His mission is to make sense of the anomalies which are allowing creatures from the past, and the future, to roam the modern world.

For Cutter this is not just a professional mission, he has a personal interest. His wife, Helen, went missing and was presumed dead for eight years. In series one he discovered that she was actually travelling through the anomalies. Her return has left a lot of questions unanswered.

Can he keep his private battles under control and manage even more monster mayhem? Only time will tell…