The Raid Cast and Characters Explained

Which films does this cast guide cover?

The Raid, also released as The Raid: Redemption and known by the Indonesian title Serbuan Maut, is the apartment-building film. Torino’s archive records it as a 2011 film; Sony’s US campaign belongs to its wider 2012 theatrical circulation. Those dates do not identify two different casts or a separate Redemption sequel. The Raid 2: Berandal followed in 2014.

This is a selected character guide, not every performer, stunt double or background role in either set of credits. It contains spoilers about identities, family connections and Mad Dog’s fate. The table’s dashes mean that no principal character is mapped in that cell; they are not a blanket claim that a performer never contributed to that production in another capacity. Read the credited names and story roles separately.

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Rama, Andi and Bunawar: what actually continues

Iko Uwais plays Rama in both films. In the original, Rama is a member of the police team entering Tama’s building. In the sequel, he works undercover under Bunawar, played by Cok Simbara. His route into Bangun’s organisation runs through the boss’s son, Uco. The assignment changes, but the central character does not.

Andi, played by Donny Alamsyah, is Rama’s brother. His story connects the original operation to the sequel’s opening and Rama’s personal motivation. This is a fictional family relationship, not evidence that Alamsyah and Uwais are brothers in real life. Sony’s original credits spell the actor’s first name Doni; the Indonesian Film Center’s sequel record uses Donny.

The sequel’s press kit identifies Yuda as Rama’s undercover identity. The same kit separately identifies Yuda as Uwais’s protagonist in Merantau. Shared actor and name do not make Merantau an earlier chapter of Rama’s life: one is another film’s character, the other a cover identity inside The Raid 2.

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Jaka, Tama and Wahyu belong to the original operation

Joe Taslim’s Jaka commands the police team, while Ray Sahetapy’s Tama is the crime boss they are sent to capture. Pierre Gruno plays Wahyu, another police figure involved in the operation. Keeping the chain of command separate from the criminal hierarchy makes the first film easier to follow: Tama is not the team leader, and Jaka is not the building’s owner.

The encounter between Jaka and Mad Dog is also a meeting of different performers’ strengths. Gareth Evans explained that the team adjusted the choreography after casting Taslim, incorporating his judo background. That is an account of designing a screen fight around an actor’s skills, not a sporting result or an actual lethal contest between Taslim and Ruhian.

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Mad Dog and Prakoso: same actor, different lives

Yayan Ruhian plays Mad Dog in The Raid and Prakoso in The Raid 2. Mad Dog dies in the first story. The sequel does not explain his apparent survival through a new name, disguise or family revelation; it gives Ruhian a different role. The official production biography explicitly distinguishes the two characters.

Prakoso is a killer trusted by Bangun, with an estranged family of his own. Ruhian said the dramatic scenes with the character’s former wife challenged him more than the fights. That emotional task helps explain why reusing the performer was more than a visual callback. For viewers, the useful continuity is Ruhian’s acting and action work; Prakoso’s family history belongs to Prakoso, not retrospectively to Mad Dog.

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Bangun, Uco, Eka and Bejo: the sequel’s power relationships

The Raid 2 moves beyond the building into an organised-crime story. Tio Pakusadewo plays Bangun, the established boss; Arifin Putra plays Uco, his son. Rama cultivates Uco to reach the organisation. Oka Antara’s Eka is another trusted figure within that world, not an alternate name for Rama’s police handler.

Alex Abbad’s Bejo is a rival criminal figure whose offer to Uco connects personal ambition with the wider conflict. In the press kit, Uco’s desire for greater authority is set against Bangun’s preference for maintaining his position and avoiding an open war. Those are story relationships among characters, whereas training Putra for the action required collaboration with Uwais, Ruhian and other production workers.

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Hammer Girl, Baseball Bat Man and the kitchen-fight Assassin

Julie Estelle plays Hammer Girl, while Very Tri Yulisman plays Baseball Bat Man. Estelle described them as sister and brother in a 2014 interview. She also identified Yulisman as an important trainer during preparation. That is a real working relationship behind their fictional sibling partnership, not proof that the actors are related.

Cecep Arif Rahman plays the Assassin who confronts Rama in the kitchen. He is not Mad Dog, Prakoso or Baseball Bat Man. Uwais explained that their trust came partly from earlier silat exhibitions together. Evans likewise discussed their different silat backgrounds when describing how the fight was built. The role’s memorable action grew from a collaboration that existed before viewers knew the character.

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Who directed the films and shaped the choreography?

Gareth Evans directed both films. Uwais and Ruhian combined acting with action choreography; their responsibilities were not limited to the characters seen fighting on screen. In his 2014 interview, Evans described a process in which they proposed movements, developed them together and recorded rehearsals with camera angles and edits in mind. A visible star is therefore not automatically the sole author of a finished sequence.

Evans also explained that Berandal began as an earlier project before being reworked to continue Rama’s story. He described designing action and camera coverage over an extended development period. That production history helps explain the sequel’s larger cast and setting, but does not reverse the recommended viewing order. The story progresses from The Raid to The Raid 2 even though development did not follow that simple sequence.

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Follow the characters, then explore the actors

For a first viewing, start with The Raid / The Raid: Redemption, then watch The Raid 2: Berandal. Follow Rama as the continuing protagonist and treat Prakoso as a new supporting character when Ruhian reappears. The table can then help distinguish the police assignment, Bangun’s organisation and the separate opponents encountered along the way.

For the lives behind the films, use the connected biographies of Uwais, Ruhian, Taslim, Rahman and Estelle below. They cover different routes through silat, teaching, competitive judo and filmmaking. These biographies are not fictional character histories. Likewise, neighbouring Thai action films are useful comparisons within Southeast Asian cinema, not further episodes in the Raid storyline. This guide does not audit streaming availability or speculate about an unverified next instalment.

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