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*A dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film.
*The following listing only includes recurring characters in the films series. Characters which only appear in one film are not included here.
*'M' and 'Q' are MI6 posts, not character names, so a change of actors may reflect an in-universe replacement; this was explicit for M in both ''GoldenEye'' (Judi Dench's character is referred to as a newcomer) and ''Skyfall'' (Ralph Fiennes' character, Gareth Mallory, replaces Dench's character as M), as well as Q in ''Die Another Day'' (John Cleese's character was an assistant to Desmond Llewellyn's Q in ''The World Is Not Enough''). There is only one clear case of a single M, Q or Moneypenny character switching actor: when Q, Major Boothroyd, switches from Peter Burton (''Dr. No'') to Desmond Llewellyn (''From Russia with Love'').