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7A WF 83429

Episode Number: 89    Season Num: 5    First Aired: Wednesday September 24, 2003    Prod Code: 176051
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More Photos Joshua Malina
Role: Will Bailey (Episodes 78-, recurring previously)

Joshua Malina graduated from Yale University after earning a B.A. in theatre. Josh made his first professional appearance on Broadway as a part of Sorkin's A Few Good Men (He is credited as being in the play from Nov 15, 1989 through Jan 26, 1991). Later he had a bit part as an extra in the... Read More

More Photos Stockard Channing
Role: Abbey Bartlet (Episodes 45-, recurring previously)

More Photos Janel Moloney
Role: Donna Moss (Episodes 23-, recurring previously)

Janel Moloney, was born and raised in Woodland Hills, California. She is the daugther of two hair-dressers named John and Judy, and has two older siblings (Lance, who is a contractor, and Meegan, an attorney) and a twin sister, called Carey, a nurse. She studied ballet for ten years, but... Read More

More Photos Bradley Whitford
Role: Josh Lyman

Brad grew up in Wisconsin, and was involved in theater in high school but never thought that he could do it professionally. He graduated June 4, 1977 from Madison East High School in Madison, Wisconsin. He went to Wesleyan University graduating in 1981 (he majored in both English and Theater)... Read More

More Photos John Spencer
Role: Leo McGarry

John was born in December 1946 in New York, to Mildred, a waitress, and John Speshock, a truck driver. He is of Irish and Ukranian descent. At 16 he attended the Professional Children's School in New York, and later Fairleigh Dickinson University, but did not finish his degree. His TV work... Read More

More Photos Richard Schiff
Role: Toby Ziegler

As the middle child of the three sons of Edward and Charlotte Schiff. Richard Schiff was born and raised on the East Coast. The Emmy Award winner began his career as a theater director in New York and later founded and served as the artistic director of the Manhattan Repertory Theatre where he... Read More

More Photos Allison Janney
Role: Claudia Jean "C.J." Cregg

Allison comes from a family of performers -- her mother was an actress and her father and brother are musicians. Her youthful dreams of becoming an Olympic figure skater were curtailed by an accident in which she was injured colliding with a glass door. Education: Kenyon College,... Read More

More Photos Dulé Hill
Role: Charlie Young

Hill has been cast as one of the City Kids and was in the original cast of Bring in Da' Noise, Bring In Da' Funk . He has had guest roles on shows such as Ghostwriter , Cosby , Smart Guy , and New York Undercover . He also had an important role in the movie Holes in which he played Sam... Read More

More Photos Martin Sheen
Role: President Jed Bartlet

His mother, Mary Ann Phelan, was an Irish immigrant, and his father, Francisco Estevez, was a Spaniard who came to the U.S. by way of Cuba. They met at citizenship school in Dayton. Martin was born Ramon Estévez in Dayton, Ohio in 1940 to an Irish mother (Mary Ann Phelan) and a Spanish father... Read More

Recurring Roles

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Mindy Seeger
Role: Chris
Nicole Robinson
Role: Margaret
Nina Siemaszko
Role: Ellie Bartlet

Nina, a relative unknown, has been doing great work for many years. She began acting from a very young age in the community productions of her hometown of Chicago before breaking into the Silver Screen at age 16. After a few films (including one with the Coreys) Nina tried her hand at television... Read More

Timothy Busfield
Role: Danny Concannon

Timothy Busfield was born in Lansing Michigan. His mother, Jean was the director for Michigan State University Press, and his father, Roger once taught theater arts in university. He attended East Tennessee State University, where he appeared in his first production as Puck, in Robin... Read More

John Amos
Role: Percy Fitzwallace

John Amos is former professional football player and an American actor, best known for playing James Evans, Sr. on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times" from 1974 to 1976, and for playing an adult Kunta Kinte in the groundbreaking mini-series, "Roots." Amos credits also include, Gordy Howard, the... Read More

Steven Eckholdt
Role: Doug Westin
Annabeth Gish
Role: Liz Bartlet Westin

Annabeth was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and grew up in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She attended Duke University and Northern University High School and graduated in 1989. She took a break from acting in order to gain a BA in English in July 1993. Her father was an English Professor. Her... Read More

Anna Deavere Smith
Role: Nancy McNally
Lily Tomlin
Role: Debbie Fiderer
Clark Gregg
Role: Mike Casper

Clark Gregg, actor, writer and director, was born on April 2nd, 1962 in Boston, Massachusetts. He’s best known as a founding member of the acclaimed Atlantic Theater Company, established in New York City in the late 1980’s. Gregg met his co-founders, David Mamet and William H. Macy, during... Read More

Charles Noland
Role: Steve
William Duffy
Role: Larry
Ivan Allen
Role: Roger Salier
Timothy Davis-Reed
Role: Mark
Peter James Smith
Role: Ed
Kim Webster
Role: Ginger
Melissa Fitzgerald
Role: Carol Fitzpatrick

Divorced from Noah Emmerich.

Thomas Kopache
Role: Bob Slattery

Guest Stars

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More Photos Zeljko Ivanek
Role: Steve Atwood
More Photos John Goodman
Role: Glenallen Walken (uncredited)

His first TV appearance was in a Burger King commercial where he had no lines. With a talent as large as his girth, John Goodman proved himself as both a distinguished character actor, and an engaging leading man. Haling from Affton, Missouri, a small unincorporated community in St. Louis... Read More

Richard F. Whiten
Role: Winston
Hira Ambrosino
Role: Reporter #3

Hira Ambrosino was born & raised in Japan. She attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she studied music composition & classical piano. She has a Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laude, from Towson State University. She has a M.A. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University, and has... Read More

John Colella
Role: Reporter #2
Bennet Guillory
Role: Rep. Jackson
Charlotte Colavin
Role: Sheila Fields
Geoff Pierson
Role: Sen. Tripplehorn

A soap opera star of the 1980s who emerged in the 90s as a primetime sitcom star, Geoffrey Pierson was well into his 20 before he embarking on an acting career. He made his professional debut at the Shady Land Summer Theatre in Marengo, IL in 1976. The following year, he enrolled at the Yale... Read More

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Episode: 7A WF 83429
Season Number: 5
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