Characters / The Amelia Project

The Amelia Project

The Interviewer

Played By: Alan Burgon
Nationality: English(?)

Interviews clients of the Amelia Project to decide if they will take their case, listening to their story, and plans their fake deaths, disappearances and re-emergences.

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• Absurd Phobia: He has a very specific dislike of penguins, of all things.
• Affably Evil: He is a master at faking people's deaths and has no issue doing unethical things to pull that off, however he's also Wicked Cultured, talkative, and loves a good story.
• Allergic to Routine: He hates being bored and will actively make his job more difficult in order to make it more interesting.
• Cannot Spit It Out: In the first couple of seasons, he is implied to have a big crush on Alvina, in spite of the way he bosses her around, but can't seem to open up about it.
• Disco Dan: Especially in the first season, he is pretty averse to modern technology and pop culture, refusing to own a cell phone, doing office work on a typewriter and preferring old legendary actors like Humphrey Bogart and Grace Kelly and their movies to modern ones.
  • In Episode 59, "Thuggy Trashmouth (1979)", we see that he was still styling himself as a classic hippie at the time even though the hippie generation had largely moved on at the time the episode took place.
• Ditzy Genius: He is a bit of a Manchild and more interested in taking interesting cases than making money, but when it comes to making people disappear, no one's better.
• No Name Given: He is almost only ever referred to as "The Interviewer"; the closest we get to a real name is his middle name, Arthur.
  • The Season 4 finale reveals his full birth name to be Maine Moepirt Arthur, son of Athramail.
• Really 700 Years Old: He makes a lot of references to having been alive for centuries, and it becomes clear throughout the podcast that he's telling the truth.
• Sanity Slippage: His mental state deteriorates throughout season 4 thanks to not having Kozlowski with him to give him Patience and its life-extending effects, first just having forgetful moments and later having whole hallucinated meetings with clients.
• Secretly Dying: In the Season 4 finale it's revealed that The Interviewer is actually dying without Kozlowski to give him "patience."
• Trademark Favorite Food: He absolutely loves cocoa and drinks it constantly, especially the one imported from Les Deux Magots in Paris. Second to that, Maltesers, and to a lesser extent, Mars bars.
• Vague Age: It's unclear how old The Interviewer is. He claims that he's been working for The Amelia Project since before Amelia Earhart was with them which would imply that he's potentially over a hundred years old. Season 4 exaggerates this by implying that he faked the death of Martin Luther.
• The Wonka: The Interviewer behaves as this to most potential clients, his odd mindset allows him to come up with suitably creative ways for them to fake their deaths.

Alvina Wright

Played By: Julia C. Thorne
Nationality: English

An administrator at the Amelia Project; tends to serve as the Interviewer's assistant. Birth name: Julia C. Thorpe.

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• Allergic to Routine: It's implied that Alvina has this in common with the Interviewer since she joined Amelia because it wasn't boring.
• Beleaguered Assistant: She does much of the duller day-to-day work at The Amelia Project that the Interviewer especially tends to ignore, which can get exhausting sometimes.
• Character Name Alias: She chose "Alvina" as her new name when she joined the Amelia Project after the main character of her favorite novel, Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence.
• Former Teen Rebel: In "Thuggy Trashmouth", she reveals that she was a punk as a teenager, though it was hard to be much of a rebel in the little island community in which she grew up.
• Hidden Depths: Alvina is a brilliant administrator, but she's also implied to be an accomplished engineer and is badass enough to gun down an armed gangster.
• Only Sane Man: Until Amelia starts appearing physically, she tends to be the only level-headed, sensible figure at the office.
• Sarcastic Devotee: She constantly complains about the Interviewer's eccentricities but she's still his friend and partner.
• Trademark Favorite Food: She likes pastries, but has a particular love for scones.

Amelia

Played By: Julia Morizawa
Nationality: American

The boss of the current incarnation of the Amelia Project; also the granddaughter of Amelia Earhart, the agency's namesake.

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• Ace Pilot: She is a well-trained pilot who has been trained to handle any airplane, at the insistence of her late grandmother.
• Nerves of Steel: She is generally unflappable in the face of danger, staring down a serial killer and an armed agent of a rival agency without batting an eye.
• No One Sees the Boss: For the first two seasons, she is only heard in the answering machine message at the start of episodes. She doesn't appear in person until the season 2 finale.
• Secret-Keeper: She is fairly clued-in on the Interviewer and Kozlowski's mysterious backgrounds and the Brotherhood of the Phoenix's long history, but only shares it with Alvina in portions over time.

Joey & Salvatore

Played By: Gianluca Iumiento (Joey), Ravdeep Singh Bajwa (Salvatore)
Nationality: Italian

Formerly a pair of Italian gangsters, they now work for The Amelia Project as field operatives and overall muscle. Birth names: Mario Drago and Angelo Russo, respectively.

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• The Big Guy: They serve as the Amelia Project's muscle, doing physical work at the office and taking part in death-faking operations.
• Demolitions Expert: Salvatore is said to be very good with explosives and seems quite fond of them. In the Christmas episode "Mr. Love, Actuary", the Interviewer mentions that a New Year's rocket he made put London on terrorist alert.
• The Dividual: They are together pretty much all the time and, while they sometimes do individual tasks, are usually referred to as a pair.
• Put on a Bus: They get separated from the rest of the Amelia core team when they flee the London office; since then, they have only appeared in special standalone episodes and flashbacks.
• Sleepyhead: For some reason, Joey has a habit of falling asleep at odd moments.
• Supreme Chef: Salvatore is a drink based version.
  The Interviwer: Salvatore can whip up a double shot, extra hot, white chocolate mocha with caramel drizzle, cinnamon, and peppermint sprinkles in less than thirty seconds.
• Token Religious Teammate: While it doesn't come up much, Joey and Salvatore are both devout Catholics.

Piotr Kozlowski

Played By: Hemi Yeroham
Nationality: Unknown

The Amelia Project's surgeon in charge of doing plastic surgery on clients to disguise them, as well as anything else that requires bodies or medical expertise. Birth name: Itthobaal of Phoenicia.

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• Crazy-Prepared: He apparently grafted Crocodile skin over parts of his body so people can't feel his pulse, had each of his fingerprints swapped with someone else, and has an autopsy report for himself at the ready if he needs to fake his death (which is apparently protocol for all Amelia employees).
• Gentle Giant: He is described as being 7 feet tall and very large, but is a soft-spoken, intelligent man who never resorts to violence.
• The Ghost: He is often mentioned, but doesn't appear in person until he briefly fakes his death in late Season 3.
• Mad Scientist: A good version; while he is very competent as a surgeon, some of his projects fall into this territory, like giving himself a third arm and making meat pies that somehow come alive.
• Really 700 Years Old: He is even older than The Interviewer, who is himself many centuries old. In the season 4 finale, he estimates his age to be roughly 3000 years.
• Storyboard Body: He is covered in tattoos; many of them seem to be based on Amelia Project cases we've heard, but others are unknown, like Katy Perry lyrics and a snake exactly where you think.

Walter Gervitch

Played By: Tomi "Tomix" Zandshtein
Nationality: Israeli

The Amelia Project's head of corpses, responsible for signing off on official paperwork used by them to get replacement corpses from morgues. Real name: Efrayim Kahn.

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• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: In his past life, he was a neuroscientist whose love of Where's Wally? got him interested in the process by which human brains and eyes scan and process visual data.
• Character Name Alias: Outside of official paperwork, he goes by "Walter" after the English name of Wally of Where's Wally?.
• The Ghost: Much like Kozlowski, he is often mentioned in passing, but doesn't appear in person until late in the podcast.
• Meaningful Name: He loves Where's Wally? and his nickname "Effie" happens to be Wally's name in Israel.

MI-5

Henry Cole and Christopher Haines

Played By: Torgny G. Aanderaa (Cole), Benjamin Noble (Haines)
Nationality: English

A pair of MI-5 agents who investigate The Amelia Project in Season 2 after getting their hands on recordings of their client interviews.

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• Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: They are working to bring down the Amelia Project, but only because they are breaking the law.
• Those Two Guys: They are almost always together.

Northcott

Played By: Gemma Arrowsmith
Nationality: Scottish

Cole and Haines' brash boss.

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• Mean Boss: She's usually pretty reasonable, but has a very angry demeanor.
• No Indoor Voice: Almost always speaks through yelling.

CIA

Jackie Williams and Mia Fox

Played By: Jordan Cobb (Williams), Erin King (Fox)
Nationality: American

A pair of CIA agents who also become involved in investigating The Amelia Project.

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• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Jackie is quite brash and assertive, while Mia is usually gentler and more diplomatic.
• Those Two Guys: Like Cole and Haines, they spend most of their time in the story together.

Panaragua

Presidente Julio

Played By: James Carney
Nationality: Panaraguan

The sitting, long-time dictator of Panaragua.

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• The Generalissimo: He is the dictator of a South American country, having violently assumed control during The Cold War.
• Jerkass: He is a ruthless, brutal dictator, and very unpleasant to be around, even refusing to answer direct questions because he finds it annoying.
• Overly Long Name: He insists on being addressed by his full name and title, "Presidente Julio Che Rodriguez Alvarez de la Fuente, Major General of the Panaraguan Freedom Army of 1972".
• Puppet King: While he is in charge of Panaragua, he is ultimately answering to Mikhail.
• Would Hurt a Child: He cut off the ear of a young Pablo Perez Garcia when the latter was a boy.

Pablo Perez Garcia

Played By: Federico Trujillo
Nationality: Panaraguan

The leader of the Panaraguan Pythons, the rebels against Presidente Julio's regime.

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• Berserk Button: For some reason, he hates Ed Sheeran with a passion, flying into a furious rant if he hears one of his songs and making a special mention of his cameo on Game of Thrones.
• Create Your Own Hero: Presidente Julio's traumatized Pablo when he was a boy, inspiring him to rise up against him as an adult and become a revolutionary.
• Ear Ache: Presidente Julio cut off one of his ears with a pocket knife when he was 12 years old as an intimidation tactic during a face-off between his regime and Pablo's tribe.

Other

Mateo

Played By: Michael Govier (Episode 26), Josh Callahan (later episodes)
Nationality: American(?)

An agent of The Incognito Project, a shoddy competitor to the Amelia Project that specializes in life insurance fraud.

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• Asshole Victim: He is a smug prick who called MI5 on Amelia and kidnapped four people. It's difficult to feel bad when Amelia sends him to a remote island in the northern Atlantic with no inhabitants except "hungry polar bears."
• Big Bad Wannabe: He considers himself to be much smarter than Amelia but is in fact woefully incompetent to the point where several of his clients have to go to Amelia to disappear after he screws up. Also, unlike Amelia herself, he folds pretty quickly when his life is in danger.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: He and his employer might be a joke of an operation, but he has his moments, like having enough foresight to put a tracking device on the business card he gives Amelia, which pays off well for him.
• Smug Snake: He tends to act like this whenever he has the upper hand; it falls flat the second he loses it.

Mikhail

Played By: ???
Nationality: Russian

A ruthless Russian criminal mastermind.

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• Diabolical Mastermind: A sinister figure who covertly runs several countries and criminal operations.
• The Dreaded: Mikhail is feared by everyone who knows who he is, including world leaders, due to how much power he has and his willingness to torture people who displease him.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Mikhail is this for Season 3. The Season revolves around the revolution in Panaragua and the Golovin prison, but Mikhail runs the prison and has a vested interest in keeping the current president of Panaragua in power.
• Hidden Villain: He hasn't yet met face to face with any of the main characters; all interactions with his syndicate have been through intermediaries like Boris.

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