Spooks hunk Rupert Penry-Jones is leaving after five years as spy Adam Carter. The actor, 37, said he wants to leave the hit BBC1 series on a high.

Spooks was revived on the big screen this year - and ex-star Rupert Penry-Jones has admitted he wishes he'd been part of it. His character Adam Carter met a spectacular end on the BBC spy thriller ...

Rupert Penry-Jones had portrayed Adam Carter as a slightly tougher, albeit equally human successor to Matthew Macfadyen's Tom Quinn. Having lost a great deal in stepping into Quinn's shoes at ...

Rupert Penry-Jones plays Adam Carter Adam just about made it to the end of the last series intact – any more near misses this series? He catches bubonic plague, he nearly drowns, he goes through ...

After becoming the lead star of Spooks from series 4, Rupert’s character Adam Carter was the new chief in town. However, his role was axed after he was dramatically killed off in a huge car ...

An enigmatic natural performer, Adam Carter is in his perfect job. Ruthless and pragmatic, he has the power to push himself and his colleagues to the edge to get the job done – then pick up the ...

Heartthrob Adam Carter, played by Rupert Penry-Jones, was one of the best loved of the Spooks gang, but it didn’t stop the character from being written out of the series in a truly spectacular ...

Since Spooks stuck unswervingly to its grand tradition of bumping off leading characters – diehards will still be wiping away a tear at memories of Rupert Penry-Jones's Adam Carter, Richard Armitage's ...

Helen Flynn's death by deep fat fryer has been named the most shocking in Spooks's history. A poll carried out by LastBroadcast saw the demise of Lisa Faulkner's character in 2002 voted into the ...

Rupert Penry-Jones plays Adam Carter Adam just about made it to the end of the last series intact – any more near misses this series? He catches bubonic plague, he nearly drowns, he goes through ...

Spooks, also known as MI-5, ran for ten series from 2002 to 2011 before its conclusion, briefly returning for a big screen outing in 2015. Something that made the show essential viewing was its ...