"ratings continued to drop with the departure of Duchovny and his dynamic partnership with Gillian Anderson; the ninth season of ""The X-Files"" became the show's last until 2016. In 2003, Gish guest-starred on ""The West Wing"" playing Elizabeth Bartlet Westin, eldest daughter of President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen). She appeared several times over the following seasons. In 2006, Gish played the role of Julia in the independent movie ""The Celestine Prophecy"" and costarred in ""Candles on Bay Street"" alongside Eion Bailey and Alicia Silverstone. Also in 2006, Gish began a major role in the Showtime drama ""Brotherhood"" as Eileen Caffee."
"missions. First appearing on ""A Prairie Home Companion"" on November 11, 2004, Sheen became a frequent guest performer, with over a dozen episodes since 2007. Martin Sheen Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American-Irish actor who first became known for his roles in the films ""The Subject Was Roses"" (1968) and ""Badlands"" (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role in ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979) and as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series ""The West Wing"" (1999–2006). In film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San"
"in, four episodes, though she remains a regular cast member. Abbey Bartlet Abigail Anne Bartlet M.D. is a fictional character played by Stockard Channing on the television serial drama, ""The West Wing"". The role earned Channing the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2002. Throughout the series, Abbey is the First Lady of the United States, the wife of President Josiah Bartlet. Abbey is a ""world-class physician"" (in her husband's words) and wife of more than thirty years to President Bartlet. In the first season episode ""Five Votes Down,"" President Bartlet mentions to Charlie"
"of Scientology, Moss defended her beliefs on Instagram, writing that the idea that Gilead in the series and Scientology ""both believe that all outside sources are wrong or evil,"" as the fan describes, is ""actually not true at all."" She continued, ""Religious freedom and tolerance and understanding the truth and equal rights for every race, religion and creed are extremely important to me."" Elisabeth Moss Elisabeth Singleton Moss (born July 24, 1982) is an American actor. She is known for her roles as Zoey Bartlet, the youngest daughter of President Josiah Bartlet, on the NBC television series ""The West Wing"""
"Martin Sheen Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American-Irish actor who first became known for his roles in the films ""The Subject Was Roses"" (1968) and ""Badlands"" (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role in ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979) and as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series ""The West Wing"" (1999–2006). In film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in ""Badlands."" Sheen's portrayal of Capt. Willard in ""Apocalypse Now"" earned a nomination for the"
"Abbey Bartlet Abigail Anne Bartlet M.D. is a fictional character played by Stockard Channing on the television serial drama, ""The West Wing"". The role earned Channing the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2002. Throughout the series, Abbey is the First Lady of the United States, the wife of President Josiah Bartlet. Abbey is a ""world-class physician"" (in her husband's words) and wife of more than thirty years to President Bartlet. In the first season episode ""Five Votes Down,"" President Bartlet mentions to Charlie that they have been married 32 years, meaning they were"
"Elisabeth Moss Elisabeth Singleton Moss (born July 24, 1982) is an American actor. She is known for her roles as Zoey Bartlet, the youngest daughter of President Josiah Bartlet, on the NBC television series ""The West Wing"" (1999–2006); Peggy Olson, secretary-turned-copywriter, on the AMC series ""Mad Men"" (2007–2015), which earned her six Emmy Awards nominations and a Golden Globe nomination; Det. Robin Griffin in the BBC miniseries ""Top of the Lake"" (2013, 2017), which won her a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Film; and Offred on the Hulu series ""The Handmaid's Tale"", for which she"
"Matt Santos Matthew Vincente Santos is a fictional character on the American television show ""The West Wing"", played by Jimmy Smits. His initial appearance was as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Houston, Texas. He was later elected to succeed Josiah Bartlet as President in the final episodes of the series. According to David Remnick's biography of Barack Obama, ""The Bridge"", and other news sources, ""West Wing"" writer and producer Eli Attie used then-Illinois State Senator Obama as a model for the character. Santos, a Catholic, was born at St. Joseph's Hospital in Houston, Texas. He was born in either 1963"
"Zoey Bartlet Zoey Patricia Bartlet is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Moss on the television serial drama ""The West Wing"". Zoey is the youngest of President Josiah Bartlet and Abbey Bartlet's three daughters, and is featured more prominently in the series than either of her sisters. Zoey and presidential aide Charlie Young become romantically involved in the first season of ""The West Wing"". Their interracial relationship prompts a white supremacist organization to target Young unsuccessfully for assassination, although President Bartlet is shot and Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman is badly wounded in the shooting. Zoey and Charlie's relationship"
"well known for playing Sam Seaborn in the television series ""The West Wing"" from 1999 - 2003 (and briefly in 2006). His performance in the show garnered Lowe a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor in a Drama Series. Lowe was drawn to the role because of his personal love of politics, and his longstanding personal relationship with Martin Sheen, who was cast as President Bartlet. When the show premiered, Seaborn was considered the lead, and the pilot centered on the character. But the acclaimed cast of the show—including Allison Janney, Richard Schiff,"
"Eleanor Bartlet Eleanor ""Ellie"" Emily Bartlet Faison is a fictional character played by Nina Siemaszko on the television serial drama ""The West Wing"". Ellie is the middle daughter of President Josiah Bartlet and Abbey Bartlet. In her self-titled debut episode in Season 2, Ellie, then a 24-year-old medical student at Johns Hopkins University, causes problems for the administration by saying her father would never fire the Surgeon General (who also happens to be her godmother) for her comments regarding the medical facts of marijuana. Ellie's intervention surprises both President Bartlet and his staff, as Ellie had always been the Bartlet"
"August 2006, Alda won an Emmy for his portrayal of Vinick in the final season of ""The West Wing"". Alda appeared in a total of 28 episodes during the show's sixth and seventh seasons. Alda had been a serious candidate, along with Sidney Poitier, for the role of President Josiah Bartlet before Martin Sheen was ultimately cast in the role. In 2004, Alda portrayed conservative Maine Senator Owen Brewster in Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning film ""The Aviator"", in which he co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio. Throughout his career, Alda has received 31 Emmy Award nominations and two Tony Award nominations, and"
"Leo McGarry Leo Thomas McGarry is a fictional character played by American actor John Spencer on the television serial drama ""The West Wing"". The role earned Spencer the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2002. McGarry's character, the former United States Secretary of Labor, begins the series as the White House Chief of Staff. He is President Josiah Bartlet's best friend and a father figure to the Senior Staff, particularly White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman and Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn. In crafting the character of Leo McGarry, series creator Aaron"
"BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, including Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Oliver Stone. Sheen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989. In television, Sheen has won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the role of President Josiah Bartlet in ""The West Wing,"" and an Emmy for guest starring in the sitcom ""Murphy Brown."" In 2012, he portrayed Uncle Ben in ""The Amazing Spider-Man"" directed by Marc Webb. Born and raised"
"Josh Lyman Joshua Lyman is a fictional character played by Bradley Whitford on the television drama ""The West Wing."" The role earned Whitford the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2001. For the majority of the series, he is White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief Political Advisor in the Josiah Bartlet administration. Josh is portrayed as having one of the sharpest minds on the President's staff; he is a witty, somewhat cocky, boyishly charming know-it-all. He is described by Will Bailey as ""after Leo... the finest political mind in the party"". Aaron"
"helping govern the country. Sam's final appearance of the series comes in the final episode, meeting with new President Matt Santos and Josh Lyman in the Oval Office. Sam Seaborn Samuel Norman Seaborn is a fictional character portrayed by Rob Lowe on the television serial drama ""The West Wing"". He is Deputy White House Communications Director in the Josiah Bartlet administration throughout the first four seasons of the series. The show was designed with Sam as the main character, and as such he is the protagonist of the pilot episode and remains a focal point and lens for the show"
"""The West Wing""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s 2002 presidential election puts Bartlet and Vice President John Hoynes against Florida Governor Robert Ritchie (James Brolin) and his running mate, Jeff Heston. Bartlet faces no known opposition for renomination, though Minnesota Democratic Senator Howard Stackhouse launches a brief independent campaign for the presidency. Ritchie, not originally expected to contend for the nomination, emerges from a field of seven other Republican candidates by appealing to the party's conservative base with simple, ""homey"" sound bites. Bartlet's staff contemplates replacing Vice President John Hoynes on the ticket with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Percy Fitzwallace (John"
"Paulsen in the 1995 video game """". Spencer's subsequent film and television work primarily consisted of supporting roles such as a colleague and friend to Billy Crystal's basketball ref in ""Forget Paris"" and a prickly FBI official in Michael Bay's film ""The Rock"". In 1999, Spencer was cast as Leo McGarry on the NBC political drama series ""The West Wing"". Spencer's character was White House Chief of Staff to the fictional U.S. President Josiah Bartlet. Both McGarry and Spencer were recovering alcoholics. Spencer's role on the show earned him a Primetime Emmy Award in 2002, after being judged on the"
"between 1993 and 1997, says that of all the characters, Charlie is the most realistic in his relationship with the President, ""accurately [portraying] the typical young, obliging White House staffer."" Charlie Young Charles Young is a fictional character played by Dulé Hill on the television serial drama ""The West Wing"". For the majority of the series, he is the Personal Aide to President Josiah Bartlet. The character of Charlie Young was originally to appear in the pilot, with a draft dated February 6, 1998, describing him as a ""fresh-faced"" 19-year-old who is taking a year off from Georgetown University to"
"and the mother of their sons Michael Douglas and Joel Douglas was a Bermudian). Sheen has played U.S. President John F. Kennedy in the miniseries ""Kennedy""; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in the television special ""The Missiles of October;"" White House Chief of Staff A.J. McInnerney in ""The American President;"" White House Counsel John Dean in the Television mini-series ""Blind Ambition""; sinister future president Greg Stillson in ""The Dead Zone;"" the President in the Lori Loughlin-Chris Noth television mini-series, ""Medusa's Child""; and fictional Democratic president Josiah ""Jed"" Bartlet in the acclaimed television drama, ""The West Wing."" In November 2010, Sheen"
"Baker under the terms of the once his term has begun, rather than submitting his name to the Electoral College for virtually automatic appointment. Matt Santos Matthew Vincente Santos is a fictional character on the American television show ""The West Wing"", played by Jimmy Smits. His initial appearance was as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Houston, Texas. He was later elected to succeed Josiah Bartlet as President in the final episodes of the series. According to David Remnick's biography of Barack Obama, ""The Bridge"", and other news sources, ""West Wing"" writer and producer Eli Attie used then-Illinois State Senator Obama"
"Bradley Whitford Bradley Whitford (born October 10, 1959) is an American actor and political activist. He portrayed White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman in the NBC television drama ""The West Wing"", for which he was nominated for three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards from 2001 to 2003, winning in 2001. This role also earned him three consecutive Golden Globe Award nominations. Whitford also played Danny Tripp in ""Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"", Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy-comedy ""The Good Guys"", Timothy Carter, a character who was believed to be Red John, in the CBS series ""The"
"Actor in a Dramatic Series and one for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Dramatic Series (shared with other ""West Wing"" co-stars). In 2005, Tomlin received another SAG nomination for Outstanding Ensemble, shared with her co-stars. Deborah Fiderer Deborah Fiderer is a fictional character in the NBC television series ""The West Wing"". She is Executive Assistant to the President, and is portrayed by actress and comedian Lily Tomlin. The character first appears during the program's third season and remains until the finale. After the death of President Josiah Bartlet's previous private secretary Mrs. Dolores Landingham, Bartlet is extremely reluctant"
"The West Wing (season 2) The second season of the American political drama television series ""The West Wing"" aired in the United States on NBC from October 4, 2000 to May 16, 2001 and consisted of 22 episodes. The second season made frequent use of flashbacks, revealing Bartlet's campaign for the presidency in the period prior to events covered in the first season. The first two episodes, ""In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I and ""In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II"", showed how many of the central characters were introduced to Josiah Bartlet, his campaign for the"
"Charlie Young Charles Young is a fictional character played by Dulé Hill on the television serial drama ""The West Wing"". For the majority of the series, he is the Personal Aide to President Josiah Bartlet. The character of Charlie Young was originally to appear in the pilot, with a draft dated February 6, 1998, describing him as a ""fresh-faced"" 19-year-old who is taking a year off from Georgetown University to work as the President's personal aide. The character was written out of later drafts, and was not introduced in the show until ""The West Wing""'s third episode after the all-Caucasian"
"Sam Seaborn Samuel Norman Seaborn is a fictional character portrayed by Rob Lowe on the television serial drama ""The West Wing"". He is Deputy White House Communications Director in the Josiah Bartlet administration throughout the first four seasons of the series. The show was designed with Sam as the main character, and as such he is the protagonist of the pilot episode and remains a focal point and lens for the show through at least the first season. However, by the time of his departure, his significance in the plot had decreased as the show started to focus more on"
"Fruit Fly Guy."" As Ellie was pregnant at the time of her engagement, the engagement is brief. The wedding takes place in The White House. Despite concerns that an international crisis with China will cause President Bartlet to be unable to walk his daughter down the aisle, he makes it in time. Eleanor Bartlet Eleanor ""Ellie"" Emily Bartlet Faison is a fictional character played by Nina Siemaszko on the television serial drama ""The West Wing"". Ellie is the middle daughter of President Josiah Bartlet and Abbey Bartlet. In her self-titled debut episode in Season 2, Ellie, then a 24-year-old medical"
"the President's ability to govern despite obstacles such as his previously undisclosed multiple sclerosis, his campaign for re-election, and an increased focus on foreign policy and terrorism. The character of Sam had never been strongest in these areas, resulting in the elevation of Martin Sheen's character President Josiah Bartlet simultaneously with Sam's decline. The role of Sam Seaborn was initially offered to actor Bradley Whitford, who had auditioned for the part of Josh Lyman. However, Whitford wanted and was eventually given the role of Josh, and the part of Sam went to Rob Lowe, whose audition, said show creator Aaron"
"moving to New York to pursue his career there. With a career stretching through three decades, he usually portrays senior law enforcement or military officers. He played Special Agent Ron Butterfield, the head of President Josiah Bartlet's Secret Service detail, on ""The West Wing"", and CTU Administrative Director Richard Walsh in the first two episodes of ""24"". He played Sgt. Maj. Ron Cheals in CBS' action drama series ""The Unit"". He starred in the Season 6 two-part finale of ""Grey's Anatomy"" as Gary Clark, the broken widower who holds the hospital hostage with a 9mm while pursuing the doctors responsible"
"forward during season seven, before the election. West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin briefly revived the character for Maureen Dowd's September 20, 2008 ""New York Times"" column, where he scripted a hypothetical meeting between Bartlet and then Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. He did the same after Obama's first debate against Mitt Romney in 2012. ""The West Wing""'s portrayal of multiple sclerosis through Bartlet was applauded by Mike Dugan, president of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Dugan stated that the group was especially pleased that the affected character was a world leader, that the show educated viewers about MS and made"
"is actress Constance Anderson, whom he married in 2004. Joe Estevez is the youngest sibling, to his brother Martin Sheen. Joe Estevez sounds very similar to his older brother, a fact he took advantage of when he did a voice-over for a National Shooting Sports Foundation pro-gunmaker commercial in 2000; at the time, his brother was famous for playing a fictional President of the United States on the television series ""The West Wing"". Sheen starred in a pro-gun control commercial that same year. Joe Estevez Joseph ""Joe"" Estevez (born February 13, 1946) is an American actor, director and producer. He"
"John Aylward John Aylward (born November 7, 1946) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the former DNC chairman Barry Goodwin on the NBC television series ""The West Wing"" and for playing Dr. Donald Anspaugh on the NBC television series ""ER"". He also supplied his voice for Dr. Arne Magnusson in ""Half-Life 2: Episode Two"". Aylward was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. He attended St. Joseph's Grade school and went on to Prep High School, but graduated from Garfield High School in 1965. He graduated from the Professional Actor's Training Program at the University of"
"run for the seat, a move also encouraged by Bartlet. By the time of the dedication of the Bartlet Presidential Library in New Hampshire three years later, Will is a Congressman representing the Oregon 4th and sits on the powerful Ways and Means Committee. He describes himself as a ""back bencher who may have a shot at chairman in thirty-two years."" It is not revealed what happens in his relationship with Kate. Will Bailey is portrayed by Joshua Malina, an actor who at that time had appeared in every work (both on stage and on screen) written by ""West Wing"""