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The State Dinner

Episode Number: 7    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Wednesday November 10, 1999    Prod Code: 225906
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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

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 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 Moira Kelly
Role: Mandy Hampton (Episodes 1-22)

The vibrant Moira Kelly was born on March 6, 1968 in Queens, New York. She is the third of six children. Her parents are Irish immigrants. Her father, Peter, was trained as a concert violinist while her mother, Anne, is a nurse. Moira was raised in Ronkonkoma, New York, USA. Influenced by a... 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 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 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 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

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Mindy Seeger
Role: Chris
Jana Lee Hamblin
Role: Bobbi
J.P. Stevenson
Role: Jonathan
Bradley James
Role: Donnie
Janel Moloney
Role: Donna Moss

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

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

Stockard Channing
Role: Abbey Bartlet

Lisa Edelstein
Role: Laurie

Lisa Edelstein is probably best remembered for her season-long role as "Rhonda Roth" on Relativity. You might also remember her as "bratty 'Patty'" on Almost Perfect, or as "Lauren" on the final seasons of Felicity or "Cyndi McCaully" on Ally McBeal. Or you heard her on Superman: The Animated... Read More

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

Melissa Fitzgerald
Role: Carol Fitzpatrick

Divorced from Noah Emmerich.

Guest Stars

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Nelson Mashita
Role: Minaldi
Tyler Bowe
Role: Gomez
Jacqueline Torres
Role: Sondra
Colin Gray
Role: Bruce
Rod Porter
Role: Harry
Ariono Suriawinata
Role: Rahm Siguto
Jeff Williams
Role: Harold Lewis
Steve Rankin
Role: FBI Agent #2
Sal Landi
Role: Chafey
John Kapelos
Role: Seymour Little
William Lucking
Role: Bobby Russo
Peter Kors
Role: Rahmadi Sumahidjo Bambang
David Rasche
Role: Carl Everett

Graduate of Elmhurst Col, U. Chicago. Broadway debut in 1977 "Shadowbox"

Dennis Cockrum
Role: Captain
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