<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.abc.net.au/tv/rake/default.htm </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Production website </Th> <Td> www.essential-media.com/node/385 </Td> </Tr> <P> Rake is an Australian television program, produced by Essential Media and Entertainment, that first aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC1 in 2010 . The fourth series started on ABC TV on 19 May 2016 . It stars Richard Roxburgh as rake Cleaver Greene, a brilliant but self - destructive Sydney barrister, defending a usually guilty client . The show airs in the United States on DirecTV's Audience Network and is available on Netflix in the UK, Ireland, Canada, the United States, the Netherlands, India and Australia . A fifth series will go into production in October 2017 and air on ABC TV in 2018 . </P> <Ul> <Li> Richard Roxburgh as Cleaver Greene, a brilliant but self - destructive criminal defence barrister . The character is loosely based on Sydney's most colourful barrister and author, Charles Waterstreet, and was named after Cleaver Bunton . At the end of the fourth series, he successfully obtains a seat as an independent senator . </Li> <Li> Russell Dykstra as Barney "Barnyard" Meagher, Cleaver's instructing solicitor and best friend . After Cleaver sleeps with his wife Scarlet, Barney feels betrayed and his relationships with both Cleaver and Scarlet are disrupted . In the second series, Barney begins an affair with Cleaver's secretary, Nicole . At the start of the third series, it is revealed that Barney and Nicole are having a child together, and that Barney is receiving treatment for testicular cancer . </Li> <Li> Danielle Cormack as Scarlet "Red" Engles SC, Barney's Jewish wife, a criminal prosecutions barrister . In the second series, she works part - time for Cal McGregor, the Attorney General, before returning to the bar as a criminal defence barrister in the third series . In addition to this, during the third series she has a short - lived affair with David Potter, another barrister with political ambitions, who is prosecuting Cleaver for non-payment of taxes . Scarlet succeeds in being promoted to Senior Counsel . </Li> <Li> Matt Day as David "Harry - Sorry, David" Potter, a tax lawyer prosecuting Cleaver Greene and attempting to get into politics with the help of Attorney General Joe Sandilands . In series 2, Potter is a Member of Parliament and of the Australian Labor Party and is Shadow Attorney General . In the third series, he has become the Leader of the NSW Australian Labor Party, and is having a secret affair with Scarlet . In the fourth series, he runs as a Senator for the Australian Greens . </Li> <Li> Adrienne Pickering as Melissa "Missy" Partridge, a former prostitute now studying law, caught up between being Potter's girlfriend and helping Greene, a former client for whom she has developed feelings . By the end of the first series, she reveals her true identity as Jane Tanner (Turner) to Cleaver and David, and travels to several European countries . In series 2, she writes a book based on her life in prostitution under the name of "J.M. Doolan ." In series 3, the book based on her life is made into a film . In series 4, she returns to Australia after a hiatus in America; she is addicted to a multitude of drugs and has to go through the process of removing the addiction of ice . In the end of series 4 she is pregnant with Finnegan Greene's child . </Li> <Li> Caroline Brazier as Wendy Greene, Cleaver's ex-wife, who is a psychologist in a hospital psychiatric ward . At the end of the second series, she starts dating Roger, an osteopath, and at the beginning of the third series she and Roger are engaged . </Li> <Li> Keegan Joyce as Finnegan "Fuzz" Greene, Cleaver and Wendy's teenage son, who often has sexual relationships with older women . By the end of the second series, he has started dating Tara, an evangelical Christian, and during the third series is planning on doing aid work in the Congo . </Li> <Li> Geoff Morrell as Joe Sandilands, Labor Party Attorney General of New South Wales . After reports of himself being a regular customer of the brothel in which Missy worked, he commits suicide, and is replaced by corrupt Liberal politician Cal McGregor . </Li> <Li> Damien Garvey as Cal McGregor, the successor of Joe Sandilands as Attorney General of New South Wales . He is corrupt and is sent to jail . He hates Cleaver because of an affair Cleaver had with Cal's ex-wife and former NSW Premier, Claudia McGregor, played by Toni Collette . Cal is released on parole at the start of the third series, and becomes a current affairs journalist and popular bombastic tv pundit . </Li> <Li> Robyn Malcolm plays Kirsty Corella, wife of imprisoned crime boss Mick Corella, whom Cleaver defended . Cleaver owes huge gambling debts to Mick and then to Kirsty, who takes over as boss while Mick is in prison . During the second series, she briefly dates Cleaver, before falling in love with Col, her "enforcer," who frequently pays Cleaver visits to "persuade" him to pay his gambling debts . </Li> <Li> Steve Le Marquand as Col, Mick and Kirsty's henchman . He is in love with Kristy and eventually enters a relationship with her, thanks to Cleaver's encouragement . </Li> <Li> Rhys Muldoon as Lincoln Lincoln, an incompetent solicitor who occasionally instructs on matters for Cleaver and Scarlet . </Li> <Li> Kate Box as Nicole Vargas, Cleaver's long - suffering secretary, who has a drunken one - night stand with Barney, days before her marriage . In the third series, she and Barney have a child out of wedlock . </Li> </Ul>

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