Major Characters
| Character | Actor | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Arnold Rimmer | Chris Barrie | I – X |
| Arnold Judas Rimmer is Lister's bunkmate brought back to life as a hologram to keep Lister sane. He is unpopular with his crew mates, and is often the target of insults and pranks. Throughout the first seven series, his character wore an "H" symbol on his forehead, which stands for "Hologram." In series VIII, he was brought back to life, along with the other members of the original Red Dwarf crew. | ||
| Dave Lister | Craig Charles | I – X |
| 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 wrongly believes he is a fantastic guitarist. | ||
| The Cat | Danny John-Jules | I – X |
| 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, 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. |
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| Kryten | David Ross | II (guest star) |
| Robert Llewellyn | III – X | |
| Kryten is a 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 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). | ||
| Holly | Norman Lovett | I-II, VII & VIII |
| Hattie Hayridge | III – V | |
| Holly is an intelligent computer. Holly's user interface appears on the ship's screens as a disembodied human 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 6000, though there are frequent references to the fact that it is now much lower due to three million years alone - "computer senility." | ||
| Kristine Kochanski | Clare Grogan | I,II & VI (guest star) |
| Chloë Annett | VII, VIII, Back to Earth (guest star in Back to Earth) | |
| 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 alternate universe where Kochanski survived with Lister as her hologram. She ends up stuck on Starbug and takes Rimmer's place in the crew. | ||
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