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Cast

Cast Table

= Main cast (credited)

= Recurring cast (2+)

Character	Actor	Seasons
Character	Actor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Reunion Special
Sam Seaborn	Rob Lowe	Main						Recurring	Main
Mandy Hampton	Moira Kelly	Main
Charlie Young	Dulé Hill	Main
C. J. Cregg	Allison Janney	Main
Toby Ziegler	Richard Schiff	Main
Leo McGarry	John Spencer	Main
Leo McGarry	Sterling K. Brown								Main
Josh Lyman	Bradley Whitford	Main
Jed Bartlet	Martin Sheen	Main
Donna Moss	Janel Moloney	Recurring	Main
Abbey Bartlet	Stockard Channing	Recurring		Main
Will Bailey	Joshua Malina				Main
Kate Harper	Mary McCormack					Recurring	Main
Matt Santos	Jimmy Smits						Main
Arnold Vinick	Alan Alda						Main
Annabeth Schott	Kristin Chenoweth						Recurring	Main

Main characters

Jed Bartlet

Matt Santos

Arnold Vinick

Leo McGarry

C. J. Cregg

Claudia Jean Cregg, played by Allison Janney, was the White House Press Secretary from the series pilot until the sixth season.^[1] She was then promoted to White House Chief of Staff, serving in this role until the series finale inaugurated Matt Santos as president.^[2]^[3] It has been speculated that the character was based to some extent off of Dee Dee Myers, who served as the White House Press Secretary to Bill Clinton and as a consultant on The West Wing^[4] – Sorkin, however, has denied this notion.^[5]

Josh Lyman

Toby Ziegler

Sam Seaborn

Mandy Hampton

Charlie Young

Donna Moss

Will Bailey

Abbey Bartlet

Kate Harper

Annabeth Schott

Recurring characters

Introduced in season one

Mrs. Landingham

Dolores Landingham, played primarily by Kathryn Joosten, is Jed Bartlet's personal secretary in the first two seasons. Rather than playing a central political role, Mrs. Landingham often served as guidance for other characters, grounding them in the show's reality to remind the characters "who they should be working for".^[6]

She was killed off in the second-season episode "18th and Potomac", but reappeared for multiple flashbacks afterwards.

Lord John Marbury

I am John, Lord Marbury, Earl of Croy, Marquess of Needham and Dolby, Baronet of Brycey, England's Ambassador to the United States, and a terrorist is a terrorist even if he wears a green necktie and sings "Danny Boy." Yes, you can call me John.

Margaret Hooper

Percy Fitzwallace

Ed and Larry

John Hoynes

Danny Concannon

Mallory O'Brien

Andy Wyatt

Zoey Bartlet

Laurie

Roberto Mendoza

Introduced in season two

Lionel Tribbey

Ainsley Hayes

Nancy McNally

Mark Godfrey

Introduced in season three

Amy Gardner

Cliff Calley

Oliver Babish

Howard Stackhouse

Robert Ritchie

Simon Donovan

Introduced in season four

Debbie Fiderer

Glenn Allen Walken

Bruno Gianelli

Introduced in season five

Joe Quincy

Taylor Reid

Liz Westin

Introduced in season six

Helen Santos

Ray Sullivan

Introduced in season seven

Vic Faison

Sheila Brooks

Jane Braun

Guest characters

Introduced in season one

Morris Tolliver

Morris Tolliver is the president's physician. He appears only in "Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc", the second episode of the first season. The president is trusting and fond of Morris throughout the episode; when Bartlet expresses worry about interacting with his military advisors, Tolliver comforts him.^[7] At the end of the episode, Leo tells the president that a plane carrying Morris to a humanitarian mission in Amman exploded in midair, destroyed by a missile launched on the order of the Syrian Defense Ministry.^[7] This creates the events of the next episode, "A Proportional Response", in which an angry and grieving Bartlet has to be talked out of drastic retaliation measures for the attack.^[8]^[9]

Gail

Gail is a goldfish, given as a gift from Danny to C. J. in the first season. Danny, after being told by Josh that C. J. liked goldfish, bought Gail for C. J. without realizing that Josh was referring to a cracker brand with the same name.^[10] Gail made numerous reappearances throughout the show, sporting various contextually significant decorations in her fishbowl. Sorkin donated Gail's fishbowl to the National Museum of American History, along with the Christmas tree shown in the first season episode "In Excelsis Deo".^[11]

Introduced in season two

Josephine McGarry

Dr. Bartlet

Bernard Thatch

Ann Stark

Stanley Keyworth

Millie Griffith

Mike Casper

Introduced in season three

Will Sawyer

Jordon Kendall

Tabitha Fortis

Albie Duncan

Introduced in season four

Talmidge Cregg

Jean Paul

Jack Reese

Introduced in season five

Angela Blake

Colin Ayres

Introduced in season six

Greg Brock

Introduced in season seven

References

^ Finn 2003, p. 114.
^ Shister, Gail (November 4, 2004). "Hail to the new chief of staff on 'The West Wing'". Orlando Sentinel. The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on March 6, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022 – via newspapers.com.
^ Gilbert, Matthew (May 16, 2006). "'West Wing' exits with dignity". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on March 6, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022 – via newspapers.com.
^ Crawley 2006, pp. 123, 203.
^ Waxman 2003, p. 204.
^ Bauder, David (June 13, 2001). "Fans still mourning Mrs. Landingham". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. Archived from the original on September 9, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
^ ^a ^b Fahy 2005, p. 196.
^ McCabe, Janet; Akass, Kim (2007). Quality TV: Contemporary American Television and Beyond. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 9780857731708.
^ Fahy 2005, p. 196-197.
^ Webster 2020, p. 65.
^ BredenbeckCorp, Hannah (January 19, 2017). "Why does the Smithsonian have objects from a fake presidency on "The West Wing?"". National Museum of American History. Retrieved February 22, 2022.

Works cited

Webster, Patrick (2020). Windows Into The West Wing. MacFarland. ISBN 9781476639369.
Fahy, Thomas (2005). Considering Aaron Sorkin. MacFarland. ISBN 9780786421206.
Finn, Patrick (2003). "The West Wing's Textual President". In Rollins, Peter C. (ed.). The West Wing: The American Presidency as Television Drama. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815651833.
Crawley, Melissa (2006). Mr. Sorkin Goes to Washington: Shaping the President on Television's The West Wing. McFarland Press. ISBN 9780786424399.
Waxman, Sharon (2003). "Inside The West Wing's New World". In Rollins, Peter C. (ed.). The West Wing: The American Presidency as Television Drama. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815651833.

[FOOTNOTEFinn2003114-1] Finn 2003, p. 114.

[2] Shister, Gail (November 4, 2004). "Hail to the new chief of staff on 'The West Wing'". Orlando Sentinel. The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on March 6, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022 – via newspapers.com.

[3] Gilbert, Matthew (May 16, 2006). "'West Wing' exits with dignity". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on March 6, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022 – via newspapers.com.

[FOOTNOTECrawley2006123,_203-4] Crawley 2006, pp. 123, 203.

[FOOTNOTEWaxman2003204-5] Waxman 2003, p. 204.

[2001-06-13_LA_Times-6] Bauder, David (June 13, 2001). "Fans still mourning Mrs. Landingham". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. Archived from the original on September 9, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2021.

[FOOTNOTEFahy2005196-7] Fahy 2005, p. 196.

[8] McCabe, Janet; Akass, Kim (2007). Quality TV: Contemporary American Television and Beyond. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 9780857731708.

[FOOTNOTEFahy2005196-197-9] Fahy 2005, p. 196-197.

[FOOTNOTEWebster202065-10] Webster 2020, p. 65.

[11] BredenbeckCorp, Hannah (January 19, 2017). "Why does the Smithsonian have objects from a fake presidency on "The West Wing?"". National Museum of American History. Retrieved February 22, 2022.

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