- Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer and playwright. After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre in 1983, Sorkin spent much of the 1980s in New York as a struggling, largely unemployed actor. He found his passion in writing plays however, and quickly established himself as a young promising playwright. - Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen (born August 3, 1940) is a three-time Emmy-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning Spanish American actor and perhaps best known for his role as Captain Willard in the film "Apocalypse Now" and, most recently, as President Josiah Bartlet on the acclaimed and long-running television drama series "The West Wing". - Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford (born October 10, 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor. Whitford majored in English and Theater at Wesleyan University and then went on to receive a fine arts degree from The Juilliard School. Whitford is best known for his role as Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama "The West Wing", which he began with the show's premiere in 1999. - Allison Janney
Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an Emmy-winning American actress, best known for her portrayal of President Josiah Bartlet's (played by Martin Sheen) press secretary and Chief of Staff, C.J. Cregg on the American television series "The West Wing". - Rob Lowe
Robert Hepler Lowe (born March 17, 1964) is an American actor. He became famous after appearing in popular 1980s movies that included other members of the Brat Pack, such as "St. Elmo's Fire". Lowe is also known for his role as Sam Seaborn on "The West Wing". - John Spencer
John Spencer was an Emmy Award-winning American actor best known for his role as Leo McGarry, the White House Chief of Staff on the television drama "The West Wing". - Alan Alda
Alan Alda (b. January 28, 1936) is a five-time Emmy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is perhaps most famous for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series "M*A*S*H". During the 1970s and 1980s he was viewed as the archetypal sympathetic male, though in recent years he has appeared in roles which counter that image. - John Wells
John Marcum Wells (born May 28, 1956) is a theater and television producer and writer. He was born in Alexandria, Virginia. He graduated from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in 1979. He is best known for his role of producer of the television series "ER", "Third Watch", "The West Wing", "China Beach", and recently "The Evidence". He also worked on movies such as "Doom" and "White Oleander". - Denise Richards
Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. She came to fame in the late 1990s, after a string of films that highlighted her sex appeal, including "Wild Things" and "The World Is Not Enough". Richards is also known for her marriage to (and divorce from) actor Charlie Sheen, son of The West Wing's Martin Sheen. - Jimmy Smits
Jimmy Smits (born July 9, 1955) is a Golden Globe and Emmy winning American actor, primarily in movies, soap operas and television perhaps best known for his long-running roles on the TV series "L.A. Law" as Richard Dysart's youngest uptight law partner, Victor Sifuentes, who was also the firm's pro-bono lawyer (a role he played from 1986 to 1991), and as Dennis Franz's second partner, Det. - Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, best known for playing Toby Ziegler on the NBC television drama "The West Wing", a role for which he won his Emmy Award. Schiff also made his directorial debut with "The West Wing", directing an episode entitled "Talking Points." Schiff is the middle of three sons born to a real estate lawyer and a cable television and publishing executive. - Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing has received two Emmy Awards out of nine nominations, an Academy Award nomination, two SAG Awards out of nine nominations, and a Tony Award. She earned her Academy Award nomination and one of her Golden Globe nominations when she reprised her Tony-nominated performance in the film version of "Six Degrees of Separation." She received a SAG Award nomination for the film "Smoke" and won a People's Choice Award for her role in "Grease." - Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2 1964 in Fort Jackson, South Carolina) is an American actress whose work in theatre and film has won her international acclaim. She has been the recipient of the prestigious Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe awards. Her best-known works include "Fried Green Tomatoes", "Boys on the Side", "Proof", "The West Wing", "Angels in America", and her current role on Showtime's "Weeds". - Janel Moloney
Janel Moloney (born October 3 1969) is an American actress, best known for her role as Donna Moss on "The West Wing". Born in 1969, in Woodland Hills, California, Moloney is the niece of Christine Ebersole, and attended the acting conservatory at SUNY Purchase. Her early work included television guest roles on "ER", "Sports Night", "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." and "Murder, She Wrote". - Thomas Schlamme
Thomas Schlamme (born May 22, 1950) is an American television director. In 1973 he moved from his native Houston to New York. After serving in several low level positions for production companies, he founded his own company, Schlamme Productions, in 1980. From there, he produced campaigns for a number of musicals, including "Cats". Throughout the 1980s, he produced a number of specials on various entertainers including Whoopi Goldberg and Rowan Atkinson. - Joshua Malina
Joshua Malina (born 17 January 1966) is an American film and stage actor. He is perhaps most famous for portraying character Will Bailey on the NBC drama The West Wing. - Dulé Hill
Karim Dulé Hill is an Emmy Award-nominated American actor, primarily in movies, soap operas and television. He's best known for his roles as Josiah Bartlet's (played by veteran actor Martin Sheen) presidential aide Charlie Young on the television series "The West Wing" and as Burton Guster ("Gus") in the television dramedy "Psych". - Mary McCormack
Mary Catherine McCormack (born February 8, 1969) is an American television and film actress. - Timothy Busfield
Timothy Busfield (born June 12, 1957, in Lansing, Michigan), is an American actor and director best known for his Emmy-winning role as Eliot Weston on the television series "thirtysomething" and his recurring role as Danny Concannon on the television series "The West Wing". - Oliver Platt
Oliver James Platt (born January 12, 1960) is a Canadian film and television actor. - Moira Kelly
Moira Kelly (March 6, 1968 in Queens, New York) is an American actress. She is the third of six children. Her father, Peter, was trained as a concert violinist. Her mother, Anne, is a nurse. Both are Irish immigrants. Moira was raised in Ronkonkoma, NY. She attended Connetquot Senior High School in Bohemia, Long Island, graduating in the class of 1986. Later Moira attended Marymount Manhattan College. - Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr. (born 1955) is a MSNBC political analyst who has appeared on "The McLaughlin Group" and "The Al Franken Show". Born in Boston, he was also an Emmy Award-winning producer and writer for the NBC series "The West Wing" and creator and executive producer of the late NBC series, Mister Sterling. He also appears as a recurring supporting character on the HBO series Big Love, portraying an attorney. - Gary Cole
Gary M. Cole (born September 20, 1956) is an American actor, known for numerous roles, including the television series "Fatal Vision", "The West Wing", "Midnight Caller", "Arrested Development", "American Gothic", "Wanted" and "Crusade", and the films "Office Space", "In the Line of Fire", "Kiss the Sky", "Dodgeball", "The Brady Bunch Movie", "A Very Brady Sequel", … - Emily Procter
Emily Mallory Procter (born October 8, 1968 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American actress best known for her roles of Ainsley Hayes in "The West Wing" and Calleigh Duquesne in "CSI: Miami" - Ron Silver
Ron Silver (born July 2 1946) is an American actor, director, and producer. Born in New York City, Silver was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and attended Stuyvesant High School. He went on to graduate from the University at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Chinese, and received a Master's Degree in Chinese History from St. John's University in New York and the College of Chinese Culture in Taiwan. - Elisabeth Moss
Elisabeth Moss (born October 15 1983) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of first daughter Zoey Bartlet on the television serial drama "The West Wing". She had the role of Christina on the television serial drama "Invasion". Moss has also appeared in several commercials, including an ad for Secret brand deodorant and one for Excedrin Migraine. Moss is a member of the Church of Scientology. - Kathryn Joosten
Kathryn Joosten (born December 20, 1939) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, known for her roles as secretary/aide Delores Landingham to President Josiah Bartlet on "The West Wing", and Mrs. McCluskey on "Desperate Housewives". Joosten was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Although she had dreamed of acting, Joosten did not begin to hone her craft until middle age in the 1980s, after taking acting classes in Chicago, Illinois. - Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actress, playwright, and professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She formerly taught in the drama department at Stanford University. Smith is best known as the author of "Fires in the Mirror", which dealt with the 1991 Crown Heights Riot, and "Twilight: Los Angeles 1992", … - James Brolin
James Brolin (born July 18, 1940) is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning American television, film, character actor, producer, and director. - John Amos
John Amos (born December 27, 1939) is an American former professional football player and film and television actor. - Eli Attie
Eli Attie is a writer and political operative. He served as chief speechwriter for then-Vice President Al Gore from 1997 until Gore's concession of the 2000 election, and before that worked for President Bill Clinton and House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt. He is now the co-executive producer of the NBC show "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip". He also worked on the TV series "The West Wing" throughout its run; according to the IMDb, … - Christopher Misiano
Christopher Misiano is an American television director and producer known most notably for his work on "ER", "The West Wing" and more recently "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip". Misiano has also directed several episodes of "Trinity", "Nash Bridges", "Law & Order" and "Third Watch". - Teri Polo
Teri Polo (born Theresa Elizabeth Polo on June 1, 1969 in Dover, Delaware) is an American actress best known for her role of Pamela Byrnes in the movie "Meet the Parents" (2000) and its sequel "Meet the Fockers" (2004). She was one of the stars in the sitcom "I'm with Her". Recently she could be found on Fox's "The Wedding Bells" (2007) portraying the wedding planner Jane Bell. Polo studied ballet beginning at age five. - Dee Dee Myers
Dee Dee Myers (born Margaret Jane Myers on 1 September 1961 in Providence, Rhode Island) served as White House Press Secretary for the first two years of the Clinton administration, from January 20, 1993 to December 22, 1994. In the first months of the Clinton Administration she was widely seen as something of a pretender, as Clinton advisor George Stephanopoulos actually conducted the daily press briefings instead of Myers. - Nicole Robinson
NiCole Robinson (born April 12 1972 in Burley, Idaho) is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of quirky secretary Margaret Hooper on "The West Wing". When asked about why she capitalizes the "C" in her name, she replied, "Why not? Life is too short to be all lowercase. Seriously, it's what poor people do to look fancy." - Melissa Fitzgerald
Melissa Fitzgerald is an American actress best known for her role on TV's The West Wing as Carol Fitzpatrick, assistant to C. J. Cregg. Melissa Fitzgerald attended and graduated from Springside School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and earned a B.A. in drama and literature from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of prominent Pennsylvania judge James Fitzgerald. She is the founder of Voices in Harmony, a non-profit community theater in Los Angeles. - Ray Wise
Ray Wise (born 29 August, 1947) is an American actor, known for his roles in "Twin Peaks" as Leland Palmer, and as Leon Nash, right-hand henchmen to villain Clarence Boddicker in the sci-fi classic "Robocop". Wise was born in Akron, Ohio and attended Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Wise resides in Southern California. He has two children, Gannon and Kyna. In the late sixties and seventies, Wise played attorney Jamie Rollins on the soap opera, … - Adam Arkin
Adam Arkin (born August 19, 1956) is an American television, film, and stage actor. He has appeared in various television series such as "Northern Exposure" (CBS, 1990-95), where he played the eccentric chef Adam, and "Chicago Hope" (CBS, 1994-2000), where he played neurosurgeon Aaron Shutt. He appeared in "Law and Order": Red Ball (Season 16, 2005) He was a D.A. named Charles Graham. - Ed Begley Jr.
Edward James Begley, Jr. (born September 16, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an actor (son of veteran character actor Ed Begley) and environmentalist who is perhaps best known for his work on the television series "St. Elsewhere" as Dr. Victor Ehrlich, for which he received six consecutive Emmy Award nominations. Other numerous works in television and film include recurring roles on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", "7th Heaven", … - Steven Culp
Steven Bradford Culp (born December 3, 1955) is an American actor.
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