Dedra Meero

Dedra Meero is a supervisor in the Imperial Security Bureau, a rising officer overlooked by the men around her because she is a woman in a rigid, male hierarchy. She is meticulous, ambitious, and utterly convinced of the Empire's righteousness, piecing together scattered incidents into a pattern nobody else has noticed.

Andor refuses to make her a snarling villain; she is a true believer, and that's what makes her frightening. Denise Gough plays her with clipped, coiled precision, all suppressed hunger and contempt for incompetence. You watch her out-think everyone in the room and understand, uncomfortably, why the Empire runs on people exactly like her.