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Bad Moon Rising

Episode Number: 41    Season Num: 2    First Aired: Wednesday April 25, 2001    Prod Code: 226219
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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 Rob Lowe
Role: Sam Seaborn (Episodes 1-84)

Rob Lowe was a member of the infamous "Brat Pack" in the 1980s. Some other members included Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, and Judd Nelson.

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

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Emily Procter
Role: Ainsley Hayes

Emily Procter was born in 1968 in Raleigh, North Carolina. While she was studying Journalism and Dance at East Carolina University, she got a job as a weather anchor for the local NBC affiliate, WNCT. Procter soon moved and began acting in various television comedies and dramas. Her break... Read More

Devika Parikh
Role: Bonnie
Kim Webster
Role: Ginger
Nicole Robinson
Role: Margaret
Melissa Fitzgerald
Role: Carol Fitzpatrick

Divorced from Noah Emmerich.

Kathryn Joosten
Role: Delores Landingham

Mother died of cancer in 1963. In her twenties, she was entering into a new career as a psychiatric nurse in a medium security wing for disturbed teenagers. Through that job she met and married a psychiatrist, gave birth to two boys and settled down as a suburban housewife in Lake Forest,... Read More

Oliver Platt
Role: Oliver Babish

Oliver Platt was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada... often reported as Washington because that is where his parents resided at the time. Oliver married Camilla in 1992 and has three children. Lili (1994), George (1997), and Claire (1999). Oliver's parents are Sheila and former Ambassador... Read More

William Duffy
Role: Larry
Peter James Smith
Role: Ed
Timothy Davis-Reed
Role: Mark
Randy Brooks
Role: Arthur Leeds
Charles Noland
Role: Steve

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Jacqueline Kim
Role: Lt. Emily Lowenbrau

Jacqueline Joan Kim was born on March 31, 1965 in Detroit, Michigan. She was raised in Detroit by her Korean parents with her two older sisters. Jacqueline later earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She has acted in theatres in Chicago, Washington,... Read More

Eric Stonestreet
Role: Staffer # 1
Shishir Kurup
Role: Zach
Michael Mantell
Role: Congressional Staffer

B.F.A. from the Pratt Institute of the Arts Trained with the Uta Hagen Company Theater Appearances: The 1989 Lincoln Center production of "The Tenth Man" directed by Ulu Grobard (as the Rabbi). The American Shakespeare Festival production of "The Taming of the Shrew" directed by Zoe... Read More

Scott Lawrence
Role: Congressional Staffer
Jossie Thacker
Role: Staffer #3
Robert Curtis Brown
Role: Jamie Hotchkiss
Tracy Beaulieu
Role: Cal
David Ackert
Role: Babish Staffer
Scott Atkinson
Role: Staffer # 2
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Episode: Bad Moon Rising
Season Number: 2
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