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MI6 Cast
May 30, 2026 at 06:12 PM
Reframed the antagonist hierarchy in the cast: Bawma as a major mid-campaign antagonist, Sir Nicholas Webb as the mastermind and Damien's father, and Damien Webb as the Golden Mask enforcer and final boss
The MI6 cast of 007 First Light is a reimagined ensemble. Recurring figures (M, Q, Moneypenny) appear under different actors and slightly different roles than in the wider Bond canon. Original IO Interactive characters (John Greenway, Charlotte Roth, Selina Tan, Bawma) round out the lineup. Casting and performance capture covers the major recurring roles; the launch trailer and the Beyond the Light dev-diary series introduced each performer in turn.
Character | Actor | Role |
|---|---|---|
Patrick Gibson | 26-year-old recruit; primary playable character | |
Priyanga Burford | Head of MI6 and Bond's superior | |
Alastair Mackenzie | Head of Q Branch; gadget engineer | |
Kiera Lester | MI6 staff officer with an expanded field role | |
Lennie James | Senior field agent and Bond's mentor | |
Noémie Nakai | DGSE agent; field partner across several missions | |
Gemma Chan | Psychology and game theory expert; TacSim architect | |
Lenny Kravitz | Major mid-campaign antagonist |
Patrick Gibson plays a 26-year-old James Bond as arrogant, brash, and impulsive: a Royal Navy aircrewman with talent that outruns his discipline. Gibson provides both voice and full performance capture. IO Interactive has stated that this Bond is an original interpretation rather than a mimicry of any prior film actor.
Priyanga Burford plays M, the head of MI6. M in this game is a self-contained character whose biography is not imported from any prior Bond film or novel; players should treat her in-game backstory as the only canonical version.
Alastair Mackenzie plays Q, the head of Q Branch and chief gadget engineer. Q is portrayed as a hands-on engineer rather than a stage prop. He hands off the Q-Watch, Q-Lens, and other gadgets in person from Q Branch terminals at Malta and at MI6 Headquarters.
Kiera Lester plays Moneypenny. This game gives Moneypenny an expanded field role compared to her traditional administrative position in earlier Bond canon. She coordinates intelligence and supports Bond as a remote handler during several field missions.
Lennie James plays John Greenway, an original IO Interactive character. Greenway is the senior field agent who mentors the young Bond. The pair develop a begrudging friendship across the campaign, anchored by shared field experience.
Noémie Nakai plays Charlotte Roth, an agent of the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), France's external intelligence agency. Roth partners with Bond in the field on several mid-campaign missions, with the partnership reflecting the cross-agency cooperation needed for the conspiracy investigation.
Gemma Chan was announced as a cast member on September 25, 2025 via an official partnership post. She plays Selina Tan, a psychology and game theory expert who designs the Tactical Simulation Mode scenarios as conditioning drills for 00 candidates. Tan is the in-fiction face of the post-credits TacSim loop.
Lenny Kravitz plays Bawma, a Mauritanian warlord and one of the campaign's major mid-campaign antagonists. The casting was confirmed through the cast gallery and trailer materials.
Theresa Lorca: a field contact rescued by Bond during a late-campaign mission. The rescue corresponds to the trophy "Double or die."
Damien Webb: Sir Nicholas Webb's son and the Golden Mask enforcer, the campaign's final boss. His defeat corresponds to the trophy "You know my name."
Sir Nicholas Webb: the conspiracy's mastermind and Damien's father, architect of the THEIA cover-up. His penthouse is infiltrated in Chapter 7 (Knightfall), corresponding to the trophy "All time high."
Isola: a late-campaign target caught at the climax. The capture corresponds to the trophy "The writing is on the wall."
009: a former 00 agent who has gone rogue, pursued during the Slovakia chase. Finding the agent's body corresponds to the trophy "Nobody lives forever."
Niko and Tero Murto: a pair of henchmen who serve as recurring boss fights, encountered in the Uninvited and Time to Die chapters. They work for the Webb conspiracy and are distinct from Damien Webb, the Golden Mask enforcer they serve under.
Per IO Interactive's framing, 007 First Light's cast belongs to this game's continuity. M, Q, Moneypenny, and the other recurring names are reimagined characters whose biographies, ages, and personalities are defined by this game rather than imported from the wider Bond canon. The Story article describes how each character fits the campaign.
