Kelly Peyton is a fictional character

Fictional character

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 played by Amy Acker

Amy Acker

Amy Louise Acker is an American actress. She is best known for her roles on the television series Angel as Winifred Burkle and Illyria and on Alias as Kelly Peyton. She is also known for her role as Dr. Claire Saunders/Whiskey on Dollhouse.-Early life:Acker was born and raised in Dallas, where she...

 on the television series

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 Alias

Alias (TV series)

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. She works for a terrorist organization known as Prophet Five, which is the focus of the fifth and final season

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 of the series.

Character biography

Peyton initially works under Gordon Dean and is a friend and associate of Rachel Gibson's. When Gibson comes to realize that The Shed is not really a black op

Black op

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s division of the CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

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, Peyton and Dean destroy the Shed, killing everyone except Gibson. After several failed attempts to kill Gibson, Dean is captured and killed and Peyton takes over his role within Prophet Five.

Peyton is later seen aboard a freighter, overseeing the hypnotic interrogation of Sydney Bristow

Sydney Bristow

Sydney Anne Bristow , played by Jennifer Garner, is the main character and protagonist on the television series Alias. She is an American woman with Russian-American family background who works as a spy for the CIA....

, seeking information about a Rambaldi

Milo Rambaldi

Milo Giacomo Rambaldi is a fictional person from the American television series Alias. The work of Rambaldi, often centuries ahead of its time and tied to prophecy, plays a central role in the show.According to Alias creator J.J...

 artifact known as "The Horizon." It is revealed that Irina Derevko

Irina Derevko

Irina Derevko , is a fictional character on the television series Alias, and a main character during the second season of the series. Irina, played by Lena Olin, is the mother of the central character, Sydney Bristow.-Biography:...

 is working with Peyton and Prophet Five to retrieve the Horizon. Sydney attacked Peyton following the interrogation and Sydney escapes.

Sydney, Irina and Jack Bristow

Jack Bristow

Jonathan "Jack" Donahue Bristow, played by Victor Garber, is Sydney Bristow's father on the television series Alias. Jack is widely referred to as "Spy Daddy" in Alias fandom, and consistently ranks as one of the most popular characters on the show...

 travel to Vancouver to retrieve the Horizon. Peyton, who may be betraying Irina, follows but fails to recover the Horizon. Irina escapes with it.

Peyton is instrumental in springing Anna Espinosa

Anna Espinosa

Anna Espinosa is a fictional character from the television series Alias, . Born in Cuba, raised in Russia, Anna was a Soviet spy at some point, until the collapse of the Soviet Union...

 from federal custody, leading to Espinosa's being transformed into a genetic double

Project Helix

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 of Sydney, with a mission to retrieve a computer chip from Michael Vaughn

Michael Vaughn

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 and her eventual death at the hands of Sydney.

In the series finale, Peyton allies herself with Arvin Sloane

Arvin Sloane

Arvin Sloane is a fictional character played by Ron Rifkin. He was the former director of SD-6 on the television series, Alias.-Background:...

 and Julian Sark

Julian Sark

Julian Sark is a recurring fictional character portrayed by David Anders on the ABC television series Alias. The series follows Sydney Bristow, an operative working for an organization called SD-6 which she believes is a covert branch of the Central Intelligence Agency...

 and massacres the leaders of Prophet Five, a mysterious group known as The Twelve. She retrieves the Horizon from Irina in exchange for two missiles, but is later captured by APO. Her former relationship with Rachel Gibson proves her downfall, as Gibson knows what Peyton fears most

Ophidiophobia

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 and uses a snake

Snake

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 to extract vital intel from Peyton. Peyton is in APO custody as the team races around the globe to thwart Sloane's and Irina's endgames.

No mention is made of Peyton in the episode-ending flash forward; her current status is unknown, although given her many crimes against the United States

United States

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it's likely that she would remain in custody for the foreseeable future.