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Modern Warfare 4's cast is led by Barry Sloane as Captain Price, Young Mazino as Private Park Hyun Jun, Maria Elisa Camargo as Valeria Garza and Mads Mikkelsen as the villain known as the Archer, with Samuel Roukin (Ghost), Elliot Knight (Gaz), Rya Kihlstedt (Laswell), Prisca Kim (Ri Ju-Young) and Lanny Joon (Ko Jin Hyuk).
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's main characters are Private Park Hyun Jun (played by Young Mazino), a South Korean conscript, and Captain John Price (Barry Sloane), now an outlaw, with Valeria Garza (Maria Elisa Camargo) as Price's uneasy ally and Mads Mikkelsen as the arms dealer known as "the Archer" (GameSpot, May 29, 2026; Dexerto, read Oct 25, 2026). The cast splits along the campaign's two stories: Park's squad and the North Korean army in Korea, and Price, Task Force 141 and the cartel abroad (Story). Roles below are spoiler-free; a marked section at the end says who dies. The clip is Activision's Campaign Trailer, from the hunt for Price and his work with the cartel to Laswell's warning about the Archer.
Quick facts
| Lead actors | Barry Sloane (Price), Young Mazino (Park) |
| Villain | Mads Mikkelsen as the Archer |
| Returning | Price, Ghost, Gaz, Laswell, Valeria, Graves, Makarov |
| New | Park, Cho, Dunn, West, Jae, Moon, Ri Ju-Young, Ri Seung-Ho, Ko Jin Hyuk, the Archer |
| Casting directors | Emily Schweber and Karan Sadow |
| Playable as Operators | Park, Cho, Dunn, West and others, as campaign rewards |
Sources: Dexerto, read Oct 25, 2026; GameSpot, May 29, 2026; PCGamesN, Oct 18, 2026; Call of Duty, Oct 16, 2026.
Every character and actor
| Character | Role | Played by |
|---|---|---|
| Captain John Price | Former leader of Task Force 141, now an outlaw | Barry Sloane |
| Pvt. Park Hyun Jun | South Korean soldier, the campaign's other lead | Young Mazino |
| Valeria Garza ("El Sin Nombre") | Leader of the Las Almas Cartel | Maria Elisa Camargo |
| "The Archer" | Mercenary and black market arms dealer | Mads Mikkelsen |
| Simon "Ghost" Riley | Task Force 141 lieutenant | Samuel Roukin |
| Kyle "Gaz" Garrick | Task Force 141 sergeant | Elliot Knight |
| Kate Laswell | CIA Station Chief | Rya Kihlstedt |
| Phillip Graves | Shadow Company commander and CEO | Warren Kole |
| Vladimir Makarov | Ultranationalist leader and terrorist | Julian Kostov |
| Ri Ju-Young | North Korean Army commander | Prisca Kim |
| Ri Seung-Ho | Supreme Leader of North Korea | Jeongmin Cho |
| Ko Jin Hyuk | North Korean soldier | Lanny Joon |
| Cho | South Korean soldier | Joon Lee |
| So Jae-Woo ("Sgt. Jae") | South Korean Marine sergeant | Jae Kim |
| Moon | South Korean Marine | Daniel J. Kim |
| Cpl. Joseph Dunn | US Marine corporal | William Lipton |
| 1st Lt. Reggie West | US Marine officer | Luke Tennie |
| Colonel Shaw | US Army colonel | Shawn Hatosy |
| Milena Romanova | The Konni Group's financier | Not named in sources |
| Shin | A guard in Assassins | Not named in sources |
Sources: Dexerto, read Oct 25, 2026 (an undated list that calls itself incomplete); GameSpot, May 29, 2026; Windows Central, Oct 17, 2026; Call of Duty, Sep 17, 2026; Insider Gaming, Oct 20, 2026; Game Rant, Oct 19, 2026. Nintendo Insider's Switch 2 review names the same actors for Price, Ghost, Valeria, Park, Ri Seung-Ho, Ri Ju-Young, Ko and the Archer (Nintendo Insider, Oct 23, 2026).
Park and his squad
Private Park Hyun Jun is "a young South Korean soldier facing live combat for the first time alongside his squad" (Call of Duty, Jun 12, 2026), a conscript whom GameSpot calls "a nice moral balance" to Price's revenge story (GameSpot, Oct 16, 2026). Infinity Ward calls his arc a "zero to hero journey" (Insider Gaming, May 28, 2026). Young Mazino played Jesse in HBO's The Last of Us and starred in Beef (GameSpot, May 29, 2026), and Game Rant's 10/10 review singled out his Park alongside Sloane's Price (Game Rant, Oct 23, 2026). In the clip, from Infinity Ward's From The Ward series, the developers describe Park as a conscript who never asked for the war.
Park's squad is Sierra-1. In the opening, the South Korean conscripts serve with two American Marines, Corporal Joseph Dunn and First Lieutenant Reggie West, who has introduced them to Wu-Tang Clan's "C.R.E.A.M." (Windows Central, Oct 17, 2026). PC Gamer reads the squad as familiar types: "a serious guy, an audience insert who doesn't talk much, an American who fills every silence with a joke" (PC Gamer, Oct 16, 2026). Luke Tennie, who plays West, is Sean in Apple TV's Shrinking (GameSpot, May 29, 2026). The ROK Marine sergeant So Jae-Woo is the "Sgt. Jae" whom you follow up the beach in Mission 12: Counter Attack. In theRadBrad's playthrough the squad trades jabs about Wu-Tang and heavy metal on patrol, and the lieutenant says, "You want to be a better Marine, listen to Wu."
Price, Task Force 141 and Laswell
Captain John Price is "Former leader of Task Force 141, now working independently," played again by Barry Sloane (Dexerto, read Oct 25, 2026). After killing General Shepherd in Modern Warfare 3 he is on the run, and he now wears "a full beard instead of his ridiculous mustache" (GamesRadar+, Oct 16, 2026). His own page is Captain Price.
Ghost (Samuel Roukin) and Gaz (Elliot Knight) are what remains of Task Force 141, "tasked to capture or kill their former captain," while CIA Station Chief Kate Laswell (Rya Kihlstedt) "remains in touch with the operator-turned-outlaw" (Call of Duty, Sep 17, 2026). In Mission 7: Gone Dark the game switches to Gaz as he hunts Price through a dark building (GameSpot, Oct 16, 2026).
Valeria, Graves and Makarov
Valeria Garza, leader of the Las Almas Cartel and also known as "El Sin Nombre," returns from Modern Warfare 2 with Maria Elisa Camargo reprising the role (GameSpot, May 29, 2026). She is Price's partner of convenience: her cartel does not mind "blasting through civilians," Price tries to limit the damage, and she calls him "Papi" and "old man" (GameSpot, Oct 16, 2026). Her trailer line: "Why sit on the high ground and watch the world burn when we can fight fire with fire?" (Call of Duty, Sep 17, 2026).
Phillip Graves (Warren Kole), the Shadow Company commander who betrayed Task Force 141 in Modern Warfare 2, and Vladimir Makarov (Julian Kostov), the Konni Group's ultranationalist leader, return from the earlier games (Dexerto, read Oct 25, 2026; Call of Duty, Sep 16, 2026). Graves is the boss of Mission 4: Hired Gun, and Makarov is the melee boss of Mission 2: Out in the Cold.
The Archer
Mads Mikkelsen plays "the Archer," a "Mercenary and Black Market arms dealer" (Dexerto, read Oct 25, 2026). Activision revealed him at the end of the Tokyo Game Show campaign trailer on Sep 17, 2026, threatening to make Price "cry for mercy"; his earlier game roles include Cliff Unger in Death Stranding (Game Rant, Sep 17, 2026). PC Gamer found him underused (PC Gamer, Oct 16, 2026).
The North Korean side
Commander Ri Ju-Young (Prisca Kim, of Beef and Loot) leads the invasion; her trailer line is "Shut down the peninsula, then we invade" (Call of Duty, Sep 17, 2026). Her brother Ri Seung-Ho (Jeongmin Cho) is Supreme Leader (Dexerto, read Oct 25, 2026; Game Rant, Oct 19, 2026). Lieutenant Ko Jin Hyuk (Lanny Joon, of Baby Driver) is a North Korean officer whose story runs through Mission 3: Following Orders and Mission 8: Assassins; GamesRadar+ called Joon's Ko "a stellar performance" (GamesRadar+, Oct 16, 2026).
Behind the cast
Grigsby said South Korean advisors guided dialect, culture and casting (PCGamesN, Jul 25, 2026). The casting directors were Emily Schweber and Karan Sadow; after early access opened, the cast said they were "overwhelmed" by players' reactions, and Sloane asked fans for "No spoilers" (PCGamesN, Oct 18, 2026). Sloane and Camargo talked through their roles on the official COD POD Ep 12 on Oct 16, 2026. The clip shows the COD POD's hosts and guests around the table, then footage from a performance capture stage.
Characters as Operators
Eight Base Operators unlock for Multiplayer and DMZ when you finish their missions: Cho, Dallas, Luca, Oh-Ji, Kal, Dunn, West and Park (Call of Duty, Oct 16, 2026). Price, Valeria and Ghost are Operators in the Vault Edition's Hostile Alliance pack, with masked and unmasked skins for Price and Valeria (Call of Duty, May 28, 2026). See Campaign Rewards and Difficulty and Operators.
Who dies (spoilers)
Spoilers for the whole campaign follow. Game Rant lists eight deaths: Makarov (Mission 2: Out in the Cold, beaten to death by Price), Graves (Mission 4: Hired Gun), Valeria (Mission 7: Gone Dark, shot by the Archer), Ri Seung-Ho (Mission 8: Assassins, shot by his sister), Gaz (Mission 13: Escape, shot by the Archer), Ri Ju-Young (Mission 15: Decapitation, shot by Park), and the Archer and Price (Mission 16: Greater Good) (Game Rant, Oct 19, 2026). That leaves Ghost the only surviving member of Task Force 141. The Archer is revealed as Makarov's father (Insider Gaming, Oct 20, 2026), and Kotaku describes him as Russia's Defense Minister (Kotaku, Oct 20, 2026). Ko defects to help South Korea. More on Ending and Post-Credits Scene.
Frequently asked questions
Who plays Captain Price in Modern Warfare 4? Barry Sloane plays Captain Price in Modern Warfare 4, as he has since Modern Warfare (2019).
Who is the main character of MW4? MW4 has two leads: Private Park Hyun Jun, a South Korean conscript played by Young Mazino, and Captain John Price, played by Barry Sloane.
Who plays the Archer in Modern Warfare 4? Mads Mikkelsen plays the Archer, Modern Warfare 4's arms dealer villain, revealed in the Tokyo Game Show campaign trailer on Sep 17, 2026.
Is Soap in Modern Warfare 4? Soap was shot by Makarov in Modern Warfare 3, and Dexerto's Modern Warfare 4 cast list does not include him; no review describes him alive in the new campaign.
Who plays Valeria in MW4? Maria Elisa Camargo returns as Valeria Garza, leader of the Las Almas Cartel, in MW4.
Who plays Ghost and Gaz in Modern Warfare 4? Samuel Roukin plays Ghost and Elliot Knight plays Gaz in Modern Warfare 4.
Can you play as campaign characters in MW4 multiplayer? Yes. Finishing MW4's missions unlocks eight Base Operators, including Park, Cho, Dunn and West, and the Vault Edition adds Price, Valeria and Ghost.
Sources
- All Modern Warfare 4 characters & actors, Dexerto, read Oct 25, 2026
- Call Of Duty: MW4 Cast Includes Leading Actors From Two Very Popular TV Shows, GameSpot, May 29, 2026
- CoD: Modern Warfare 4 Has A Thrilling Campaign, Exciting DMZ, And Strong Multiplayer, GameSpot, Oct 16, 2026
- Modern Warfare 4: Campaign Early Access Confirmed, Call of Duty, Jun 12, 2026
- Modern Warfare 4: Campaign Early Access Now Live, Call of Duty, Oct 16, 2026
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- Modern Warfare 4: Tokyo Games Show Campaign Trailer, Call of Duty, Sep 17, 2026
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4: All Game Editions and Pre-order Benefits Detailed, Call of Duty, May 28, 2026
- Barry Sloane & María Elisa Camargo Bring MW4's Price and Valeria Garza to Life | COD POD Ep 12, Call of Duty, Oct 16, 2026 (video)
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- CALL OF DUTY MODERN WARFARE 4 Campaign Walkthrough Gameplay Part 1 - INTRO (FULL GAME), theRadBrad, Oct 17, 2026 (video)
Moments
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | Campaign Trailer
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- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's main characters are Private Park Hyun Jun (played by Young Mazino), a South Korean…
- Valeria Garza, leader of the Las Almas Cartel and also known as "El Sin Nombre," returns from Modern Warfare 2 with…
- Mads Mikkelsen plays "the Archer," a "Mercenary and Black Market arms dealer" (Dexerto, read Oct 25, 2026). Activision…
- Commander Ri Ju-Young (Prisca Kim, of Beef and Loot) leads the invasion; her trailer line is "Shut down the peninsula…
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Campaign Rewards and DifficultyEach of Modern Warfare 4's 16 missions gives one reward for Multiplayer and DMZ: 8 Base Operators, 3 Double XP Tokens, 2 Double Weapon XP Tokens, a Calling Card, a Loading Screen and an Emblem. Rewards are the same on any of the six difficulties (Recruit, Regular, Hardened, Veteran, Realism, YOLO); only beating YOLO adds the "YOLO Completer" Calling Card.
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Ending and Post-Credits SceneModern Warfare 4 ends with Captain Price killing the Archer in the final mission, Greater Good, then dying of his wounds after Ghost forgives him. In the post-credits scene, CIA officer Kate Laswell deletes the files on Gaz, Ghost and Price, erasing Task Force 141 from the record, with Ghost its last survivor.
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DMZDMZ is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's PvPvE extraction mode: you deploy solo or in a squad of up to three into the Hajin Exclusion Zone, loot, complete missions, fight North Korean forces and rival players, and keep only what you carry out on an exfil. It is part of the paid game, not free like Warzone.
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DMZ Bounties and Dynamic OpsIn Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's DMZ, killing a player puts a Bounty on you, and four kills across deployments make you Wanted; others claim it by extracting with your Dog Tag. Dynamic Ops are multi-step objectives made fresh each match that pay DMZ XP, DMZ Cash and a Supply Drop that improves with every Op in the same run.
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DMZ Story MissionsDMZ Story Missions are the story deployments of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's DMZ: replayable missions at set places in Hajin, on servers shared with other players, that follow a power struggle after the campaign. Named ones include Breaking New Ground, the Fallout mission, the Dark Zone mission, the Shopping Mission and Operation Iron Citadel; Activision has published no full list.
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HajinHajin is the DMZ map of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, an exclusion zone where Russia, North Korea and South Korea meet, with 13 major points of interest from the 14th Political Prison and Chang-san Air Base in the North Korean west to The Grid and the Haneul Nuclear Reactor in the South Korean east. It becomes a Warzone Battle Royale map in Season 1.
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Beginner's GuideIn your first hours of Modern Warfare 4, set sensitivity, FOV and audio, play the campaign for eight Operators and five XP tokens, reach Level 4 for Create-a-Class, learn that Tactical Sprint lives on the Blood Rush perk, expect a 5-kill UAV, and treat DMZ as a mode where you can lose your gear.
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Mission 12: Counter AttackCounter Attack is Modern Warfare 4's twelfth mission, a large beach landing and push into the city in which Park's squad follows Sgt. Jae off the beach, takes an enemy hardpoint, secures a hotel and then gives sniper overwatch. Sniping all four mortar crews earns the Long Shot trophy, and finishing it gives the "Dunn" Base Operator.
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Mission 7: Gone DarkGone Dark is the seventh mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, played as Price and then Gaz: Price follows Valeria to a meeting with the Archer, Gaz clears a darkened tower with night vision, and Price fights Ghost and Gaz hand to hand; it unlocks the "Gone Dark" Emblem.
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Mission 4: Hired GunHired Gun is the fourth mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, a running fight with Valeria's cartel out of a train yard, through a warehouse, containers and a maintenance building to a showdown with Graves and Shadow Company; it holds the Bullet Train trophy (50 kills on train cars) and unlocks the "Dallas" Base Operator.
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Mission 2: Out in the ColdOut in the Cold is the second mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, played as Captain Price five days before the invasion; you tail Milena through a nightclub, fight up to the rooftops, chase Makarov and beat him in a hand-to-hand fight, and it unlocks the "No More Rules" Calling Card.