Top 10 Banshee characters

1. Kai Proctor

''Banshee'' has plenty of colourful characters, especially villains. Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen) is our favourite. Banished from his Pennsylvania Amish family, Proctor is a psychopathic businessman and Banshee's number one kingpin, who has a semi-incestuous relationship with his niece and is endowed with crazy survival skills. Proctor is a fully realized bad guy who is complex enough to verge on being nice, yet never fails to live up to his evil potential. Wears a huge crucifix tattoo on his back, which the directors of the show never waste an opportunity to show off. 









2. Burton

Clay Burton (Matthew Rauch) is Kai Proctor's bodyguard. Watch his hipster glasses; when they come off, he means business. Not much is known about his past, other than that Proctor found him in a torture dungeon, where he was apparently castrated, which makes him the perfect watchdog since it renders him irresistible to temptation. Hardly ever speaks and always dresses to the nines in a suit and a bow tie, he has shown on several occasions to be seemingly impervious to pain and unfazed by any injury, no matter how grievous.  





3. Chayton

Despite being a grown man in braids with a voice so deep it makes him sound like a cow, Chayton Littlestone (Geno Segers) is a formidable and charismatic enemy whose stand on racial purity makes the neo-nazis seem pale by comparison. He's the leader of the Kinaho gang the Redbones and has a personal vendetta against the Banshee police after the death of his brother. He's not alone in being heavily inked in "Banshee," and like Kai sports an impressive full-size tat on his back.

  
4. Job

Job (Hoon Lee) is the series' resident hacker, always handy and always in a bitchy mood. Job is at his most entertaining when he's butting heads with Sugar Bates. He's also the most machismo asian-american drag queen that has ever been on television. Anyone interested in a list of Job's top ten crazy outfits?
 












5. Brock

Brock Lotus (Matt Servitto) is Banshee Sheriff Department's deputy, a serious man who struggles with wanting to be a good by-the-numbers cop but leans more towards Lucas Hood's unconventional style of policing. Actor Servitto is a veteran when it comes to playing TV cops, which may be why he manages to imbue an otherwise grumpy and humourless character with enough charisma to merit him a place on our list.   










6. Nola

Nola Longshadow (Odette Annable) should have had a much bigger role in the series. A Kinaho warrior girl whose pride and fury is only matched by Chayton. We love her because of her stunning beauty, her combat skills and because she fights with a tomahawk. Killed by Burton in one of the show's many amazing fight scenes.







7. Colonel Stowe

Although his role in the show's third season wasn't very big, Colonel Douglas Stowe (Langley Kirkwood) was one of the show's most interesting antagonists. Introduced as Carrie's one night stand, he later became a main bad guy as he's targeted by our thieving heroes and grew more and more evil for each episode. Stowe was a U.S. Marine with a dirty business set-up involving millions of war dollars from Afghanistan, operating out of an army camp in Banshee. 









8. Anastasia / Carrie Hopewell

There is no shortage of strong female characters in "Banshee;" Nola, Siobhan Kelly, Rebecca Bowman, even Carrie's daughter Deva. But Carrie Hopewell (Ivana Milicevic) is the foremost of them all, much thanks to Milicevic's courage as an actress. She can kick some serious ass, she's ready to provide the show with some full frontal nudity at the drop of a hat, and she's not afraid to run around bloodied and bruised in an unglamorous hospital gown. Carrie is a former safe-cracker and girlfriend of Lucas Hood whose Serbian mafia roots is the driving force behind the first two seasons.   




9. Kurt Bunker

A reformed white supremacist with a very guilty conscience, Kurt Bunker (Tom Pelphrey) joins the show in the third season as the newest addition to the Banshee Sheriff's Department, but his swastika tattoos and his disreputable past are not going to leave him alone any time soon. 









10. Raymond Brantley

Brantley (Shuler Hensley) was a bureaucratic mobster who traveled across country to retrieve his stolen money, but instead ended up splattered across the interstate. Despite his brief appearance in only one episode, Brantley was interesting enough to make it on our list. We sure would've liked to ride around in his truck decorated like a mobile office a little while longer.