Charlie Hesketh

A failed Kingsman recruit who comes back as a cybernetic henchman of the Golden Circle.

Charles "Charlie" Hesketh is a character in Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kingsman: The Golden Circle, played by Edward Holcroft. A failed Kingsman recruit, he discovers Eggsy inside Richmond Valentine's bunker in the first film. In the sequel he works with Poppy Adams and her drug cartel, the Golden Circle.

Lore & Background

Charlie lost his arm and vocal cords during the Valentine incident and had them replaced with cybernetics. A year later he ambushes Eggsy in London; Eggsy gets away after a car chase, but Charlie's severed cybernetic arm hacks into the Kingsman database through Eggsy's car. Charlie hands the information to Poppy Adams, who launches the missiles that destroy the Kingsman headquarters. Eggsy later plants a tracking device on Charlie's ex-girlfriend Clara, which leads the agents to the Golden Circle's antidote factory in Italy; Charlie destroys the factory, killing Clara. Eggsy kills Charlie during the assault on Poppy Land in Cambodia.