Brenock O'Connor as Tom Harris, Alex's best friend.
Andrew Buchan as Ian Rider (season 1), an agent of the Department of Special Operations and Alex's uncle.Vicky McClure as Mrs Jones, deputy head of the Department of Special Operations and Alex's handler.Stephen Dillane as Alan Blunt, the shrewd head of the Department of Special Operations.Otto Farrant as Alex Rider, a highly skilled teenager who is recruited by the Department of Special Operations.London teenager Alex Rider is recruited by the Department of Special Operations, a subdivision of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to infiltrate a controversial corrective academy for the wayward offspring of the ultra-rich. The show is available on Amazon Prime Video or Amazon's IMDb TV now renamed FreeVee, depending on the country. The second season premiered on 3 December 2021.
In November 2020, the series was renewed for a second season, adapting the book Eagle Strike. The series received generally positive reviews, with critics praising Farrant's lead performance. The eight-episode first season, based on Point Blanc, premiered on the Amazon Prime Video streaming service in the United Kingdom on 4 June 2020. The show is jointly produced by Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television, and is the second screen adaptation of the novels, following the 2006 feature film version of the first novel, Stormbreaker. The series is Amazon's first scripted British Amazon Original series. Adapted by Guy Burt, it stars Otto Farrant as the eponymous character, who is recruited by a subdivision of MI6 as a teenage spy to infiltrate places that others are unable to. Alex Rider (stylized as △LEX RIDER) is a British spy thriller television programme based on the novel series of the same name by Anthony Horowitz.