50 Fun Facts About Orphan Black

Which actress plays all of the Leda clones?

She built a different music playlist for each clone to help switch between personalities on set.

In which year did the series premiere?

It launched on the same night in Canada and the United States, on March 30.

On which Canadian channel did the show first air?

It later made its broadcast-network debut on CTV in August 2013.

Which two people created the series?

Manson was the screenwriter and Fawcett the director; both also co-wrote the IDW comic tie-in.

What is the name of the con artist at the centre of the story?

She is British by origin and living in Toronto when the story begins.

What job did Beth Childs hold when Sarah took over her identity?

Her partner on the force, Art Bell, is played by Kevin Hanchard.

What is the name of Sarah's foster brother?

He is the first person Sarah tells about the clones, and he returns in the 2024 spin-off.

Which actor plays Felix?

Felix identifies as a modern artist and moonlights as a sex worker in the early seasons.

What is the scientific movement behind the cloning called?

Its public face in the early seasons is Dr. Aldous Leekie, played by Matt Frewer.

Which biotech corporation serves as the movement's institutional base?

It placed "monitors" in each clone's personal life under the guise of scientific study.

What is the secret religious group that hunts the clones called?

A faction of the group uses Sarah's twin sister as its assassin.

Which clone is Sarah's biological twin?

The two share a surrogate birth mother, making them twins in both genes and early environment.

What is the name of Sarah's daughter, the only known child of a clone?

All the other clones were designed to be sterile, which makes her a target for study.

The female cloning programme takes its name from which Greek myth?

Sarah first sees the name on the caption of a photograph handed to her.

What is the military's male cloning initiative called?

Unlike the women, the male clones were all raised together knowing what they were.

Which actor plays the male clones, including Mark Rollins?

He was promoted to the regular cast in season three, with Nick Abraham as his acting double.

Who raised the male clones in a military setting?

Kyra Harper plays the military doctor, who was also illegally sterilising ordinary women.

Who is revealed as the original genetic source of both clone lines?

She could seed both lines because she is a chimera, carrying male and female DNA.

How is the original genetic source related to Mrs. S?

She also murdered Mrs. S's husband John decades before the events of the show.

Which novel did Ethan Duncan use to encode his research?

Rachel, the daughter he abandoned, was the one who translated his coded edition.

How many Leda clones exist in total, according to the series finale?

The finale introduces Camilla Torres, a Colombian clone, as one of those receiving the cure.

In which city were six self-aware Leda clones executed, per the season 3 premiere?

The show dates the killings to 2006; the comics later moved them to 2001.

What animal mask does the reclusive clone M.K. wear?

M.K. turns out to be Veera Suominen, a survivor first introduced in the IDW comics.

What is the profession of Krystal Goderitch, the clone unaware of her origins?

She first appears in the season 3 premiere and gets a full episode later that season.

Who plays Cosima's monitor and girlfriend, Delphine Cormier?

She was originally announced as a graduate student in molecular and cellular biology, and she returns in the spin-off.

Which fertility company does Evie Cho run?

Jessalyn Wanlim was cast in the role in February 2016 for the fourth season.

Who plays P.T. Westmorland, the founder of the movement, in season five?

The character claims to have been born in 1842 and to have vanished into Borneo in 1898.

Who played Jesse, the love interest of Sarah's twin, in guest appearances?

He appeared in season 2, episode 6 and again in the season 3 finale.

Which future Marvel star played Mr. Mitchell, Kira's teacher, in season five?

The season-five castings also included Andrew Moodie as Rachel's consultant Mr. Frontenac.

Which Canadian actor was considered for the lead before the eventual casting?

The lead casting was announced on September 17, 2012, with production starting that October.

Which broadcaster asked for Sarah to be made British?

Co-creator John Fawcett saw it as a gift: the accent instantly set Sarah apart from the other clones.

Who is the acting double who performed opposite the lead in clone scenes?

She also appeared on camera as Alexis, a minor character, in three episodes.

What nickname did the crew give the motion-control camera rig used for clone scenes?

The rig is a Technodolly; each multi-clone scene was shot at least four times.

What everyday object was suspended on set to help the star keep her eyelines?

In post-production the objects and the double were replaced with footage of the star in the other role.

The clone Cosima is named after whom?

Cosima Herter, a science historian and friend of Graeme Manson, also fields fan questions on the writers' blog "The Hive".

In which city was the series shot on location?

Bridgepoint Health and the Don Jail stood in for the exterior of the Dyad building.

How did Graeme Manson describe the show's deliberately vague setting?

Details still slipped through: Ontario licence plates, Scarborough references and a Pearson Airport ticket.

What did the show's online fans call themselves?

The name refers to those in the story who are in on the secret of the clones.

In which year did the lead actress win her Primetime Emmy for the show?

Being passed over at the 2013 and 2014 Emmys had been widely called a snub.

Which prize did the series win in its first year?

It also collected several Canadian Screen Awards over its run.

How many seasons did the show run?

Every season was ten episodes; the finale aired on August 12, 2017.

What was the title of the aftershow that began during season three?

It started on Space in Canada and was picked up by the US network for season four.

Which company published the Orphan Black comic book series?

The first issue arrived in February 2015; the series was cancelled in 2018 before its contract ended.

Which streaming service won exclusive US rights to the show in 2014?

The show's "binge-worthy" quality was cited as a major reason for the deal.

What was the 2019 audio-series continuation called?

It is set eight years after the finale and was released through Serial Box from September 2019.

Which country produced a 2017 remake titled 7 Genes?

It aired on Fuji Television and starred South Korean singer Kang Ji-young as Sara Aoyama.

Who stars as the amnesiac Lucy in the 2024 spin-off?

The spin-off, created by Anna Fishko, was cancelled after a single season in September 2024.

In which year is the 2024 spin-off set?

That places it thirty-seven years after the end of the original series.

Who plays Sarah's grown-up daughter in the spin-off?

The character is now a scientist, married to neuroscientist Eleanor Miller with a son named Lucas.

In which country was the entire first season of the spin-off released first, in 2023?

It dropped on Stan in November 2023, seven months before its AMC debut in the United States.