List of characters on The West Wing

The television series "The West Wing" is a political drama series which was originally broadcast on NBC.

In addition to the main (regular) cast, there are numerous secondary characters who only appear periodically, and some characters who are mentioned but never appeared. Some have "disappeared" without explanation, and others who haven't been seen for a year or more who have reappeared without explanation.

Many actors noted for work in sitcoms, such as John Goodman, John Larroquette, Christopher Lloyd, Ed O'Neill, Matthew Perry, and Patricia Richardson have appeared in dramatic roles on "The West Wing".

=White House staff=

* Josiah "Jed" Bartlet — Martin Sheen: President of the United States (Seasons 1–7).
* Leo Thomas McGarry — John Spencer: White House Chief of Staff (Seasons 1–6); Special Counselor to the President (Season 6); Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee (Season 6–7) and Vice President-elect of the United States (Season 7), who died of a heart attack shortly before his election victory. He was also a former Secretary of Labor.
* Claudia Jean "C.J." Cregg — Allison Janney: White House Press Secretary (Seasons 1–6); White House Chief of Staff (Seasons 6–7).
* Charles "Charlie" Young — Dulé Hill: Personal Aide to the President (Seasons 1–6); Deputy Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff (Seasons 6–7).
* Joshua "Josh" Lyman — Bradley Whitford: Deputy White House Chief of Staff (Seasons 1–6); Campaign Manager, Santos-McGarry Campaign (Seasons 6–7); White House Chief of Staff in the Santos Administration (Season 7).
* Donnatella "Donna" Moss — Janel Moloney: Senior Assistant to Josh Lyman (Seasons 1–6); Media Specialist and Press Secretary, Bob Russell for President Campaign (Season 6); Press Secretary, Santos-McGarry Campaign (Season 7); First Lady's Chief of Staff (Season 7).
* Tobias "Toby" Zachary Ziegler — Richard Schiff: White House Communications Director (Seasons 1–7); Dismissed by the President (Season 7).
* Samuel "Sam" Norman Seaborn — Rob Lowe: Deputy White House Communications Director (Seasons 1–4); resigned to run for Congress; Deputy White House Chief of Staff in the Santos Administration (after the end of the series).
* William "Will" Bailey — Joshua Malina: Deputy White House Communications Director (Seasons 4–5); Chief of Staff to the Vice President (Seasons 5–7); White House Communications Director (Season 7) Congressman from the Oregon 4th (After end of series).
* Annabeth Schott — Kristin Chenoweth: Deputy Press Secretary for Media Relations (Season 6); Campaign Staffer, Santos/McGarry Campaign (Season 7); First Lady's Press Secretary (Season 7).
* Madeline "Mandy" Hampton — Moira Kelly: Political consultant during Bartlet's first campaign. Worked as a media consultant at Lennox-Chase after the campaign. Briefly consulted for Democratic senator Lloyd Russell before being hired by the White House as a political consultant and Media Director (Season 1).
* Angela Blake — Michael Hyatt: Worked for Leo McGarry while he was Secretary of Labor. Later, while a political consultant, was hired to be Director of Legislative Affairs (Season 5).
* Clifford "Cliff" Calley — Mark Feuerstein: Majority Counsel for the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee during the Bartlet censure proceedings (Season 3); Deputy White House Chief of Staff (Season 6).
* Amelia "Amy" Gardner — Mary-Louise Parker: Head of the Women's Leadership Coalition and influential women's rights activist. Worked as a political consultant for Sen. Howard Stackhouse when he ran for president after she was fired. Later hired as the Chief of Staff for the Office of the First Lady. Resigned after she upset the president (Seasons 3–5). Director of Legislative Affairs in the Santos Administration (Season 7).

=Assistants and secretaries=

* Delores Landingham — Kathryn Joosten: The President's executive secretary (Season 1–2). Killed in a car accident (Season 2). Included in flashbacks to her character (Seasons 3–4).
* Deborah "Debbie" Fiderer — Lily Tomlin: The President's executive secretary. Hired after the death of Mrs. Landingham (Seasons 4–7).
* Margaret Hooper — NiCole Robinson: Secretary to the Chiefs of Staff Leo McGarry (Seasons 1–6) and C.J. Cregg (Seasons 6–7).
* Bonnie — Devika Parikh: Assistant to the Communications Director Toby Ziegler (Seasons 1–5).
* Carol Fitzpatrick — Melissa Fitzgerald: Assistant to the Press Secretary C.J. Cregg (Seasons 1–7).
* Cathy — Suzy Nakamura: Assistant to the Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn (Season 1).
* Elsie Snuffin — Danica McKellar: Assistant to the Deputy Communications Director Will Bailey (Season 4).
* Ginger — Kim Webster: Assistant to the Communications Director Toby Ziegler (Seasons 1–7).
* Marina ("Rena") — Melissa Marsala: Assistant to the Communications Director (Season 5).
* Nancy — Renée Estevez: President's Secretarial Assistant (Seasons 1–7).
* Ed — Peter James Smith: White House Staffer. Usually seen with Larry.
* Larry — William Duffy: White House Staffer. Usually seen with Ed.
* Ryan Pierce — Jesse Bradford: White House intern assigned to Josh. The nephew of a powerful Senator. Related to Franklin Pierce (Season 5).
* Curtis Carruthers — Ben Murray: Succeeded Charlie Young as personal aide to the President (Season 6).

White House Counsel

* Lionel Tribbey — John Laroquette (Ep 2.5): White House Counsel. Known for his hot temper and very liberal views. In the words of Ainsley Hayes, "I'm a Republican and Lionel Tribbey is incredibly not." According to Hayes, President Josiah Bartlet is "too moderate for [his] taste."
* Oliver Babish — Oliver Platt: Succeeded Lionel Tribbey as White House Counsel (Season 2). Chief crises: the President's MS disclosure (Seasons 2–3); Toby confessing to leaking military shuttle information. Santos Administration nominee for Attorney General (Season 7).
* Ainsley Hayes — Emily Procter: Associate (and proposed Deputy) White House Counsel (Seasons 2–3). Republican. Briefly reappeared in Season 7, wanting to become White House Counsel for the Santos Administration.
* Joseph 'Joe' Quincy — Matthew Perry: Associate White House Counsel (Seasons 4–5). Republican. Uncovered Vice President Hoynes's leaking of information in his affair with local socialite, Helen Baldwin, ultimately leading to Hoynes' resignation.
* Mike Wayne — Benjamin Brown: Associate White House Counsel (Season 4–7). Dealt with Toby after he admitted being the source of the shuttle leak.

=Situation Room=

* Admiral Percy "Fitz" Fitzwallace — John Amos: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Seasons 1–5). Killed by terrorists while on a diplomatic mission following his retirement.
* General Nicholas Alexander — Terry O'Quinn: Succeeded Admiral Fitzwallace as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Season 5-6).
* Dr. Nancy McNally — Anna Deavere Smith: National Security Advisor (Season 2–7).
* Lieutenant Commander Jack Reese — Christian Slater: Aide to the National Security Advisor (Season 4).
* Commander Kate Harper — Mary McCormack: Deputy National Security Advisor (Seasons 5–7).
* General Alan Adamle: Pentagon official.
* General Ed Barrie — Tom Bower: Army Chief of Staff. Appeared in episode (2.05) when he came under fire for planning to criticize the President upon retirement.
* General Shannon — Daniel Von Bargen: Appeared in (2.01) and (2.10). He appears to be an Air Force official; he is referred to as "Jack" in his first episode and "Ken" in his second appearance. He seems to be senior officer in the Sit. Room in 2.01 until Nancy McNally arrives.
* Cashman - often mentioned alongside Secretaries Hutchinson and Berryhill, implied to be a senior official at one of the Executive Branch Departments, the Department of either State or Defense (Seasons 1-2).
* Ted Barrow - Ron Canada: Under Secretary of State. Appears in Season 7 in meeting with C.J. Gregg and Kate Harper.

Secret Service / FBI

* Ron Butterfield — Michael O'Neill: Head of the President's Secret Service detail (Seasons 1–7).
* Simon Donovan — Mark Harmon: Secret Service agent assigned to protect (and later developed a close relationship with) C. J. Cregg. Killed when he walked into an armed robbery (Season 3).
* Gina Toscano — Jorja Fox: Secret Service agent assigned to protect Zoey Bartlet (Seasons 1–2).
* Wesley Davis — Taye Diggs: In charge of Zoey Bartlet's secret service detail when she was abducted (Season 4).
* Molly O'Connor - Kimberly Bigsby: A young agent on Zoey's France detail. Shot dead during the kidnapping of Zoey. One of Toby and Andy's twins was named in her memory. (Season 4)
* Randy Weathers - Shannon Marshall: Another young agent on Zoey Bartlet's France detail (Season 4)
* Jamie Reed - John Antonini: Another young agent on Zoey Bartlet's France detail (Season 4)
* Tom Connelly (Ep. 1.03): FBI Director.
* George Arnold — Michael Kagan (Ep. 5.18; 6.1): FBI Director.
* Mike Casper — Clark Gregg: FBI Special Agent (Seasons 2–5).

=Campaign staff=

* Bruno Gianelli — Ron Silver: General Chairman (Campaign Manager), Committee to Re-elect Bartlet/Hoynes in 2002 (Seasons 3–4). Campaign Manager of Eric Baker for Democratic nomination for president in 2006, prior to him dropping out. Became an independent consultant to Republican nominee Arnold Vinick (Seasons 6–7).
* Josephine "Joey" Lucas — Marlee Matlin: Deaf political consultant, pollster often consulted by the White House and Democratic campaigns (Seasons 1–7).
* Kenny Thurman — Bill O'Brien: Joey Lucas's sign interpreter (Seasons 1–7).
* Connie Tate — Connie Britton: Bartlet-Hoynes re-election campaign staffer (Season 3).
* Doug Wegland — Evan Handler: Bartlet-Hoynes re-election campaign staffer and speechwriter (Season 3).
* Kevin Kahn — Patrick Breen: Former friend of Sam Seaborn. Staffer on Ritchie's 2002 presidential campaign (Season 3).
* Dylan Clark — Tim Kelleher: Hoynes' Campaign Manager (Season 6).

=Santos campaign=

* Louise "Lou" Thornton — Janeane Garofalo: Santos-McGarry Deputy Campaign Manager for Communications. Santos Administration Communications Director (Season 7).
* Ronna Beckman — Karis Campbell: Aide to Congressman Santos, Santos-McGarry Campaign (Seasons 6–7); President's Personal Secretary in the Santos Administration (Season 7).
* Edie Ortega — Diana-Maria Riva: Santos-McGarry Deputy Campaign Manager for Strategic Planning (Season 7).
* Bram Howard — Matthew Del Negro: Staffer, Santos-McGarry Campaign (Seasons 6–7); Personal Aide to President Santos (Season 7).
* Ned Carlson — Evan Arnold: Aide to Congressman Santos (Season 6); Staffer, Santos-McGarry Campaign (Seasons 6–7).
* Otto — Ramon De Ocampo: Speechwriter, Santos-McGarry Campaign (Season 7); Staffer in the Santos Administration (Season 7).

=Vinick campaign=

* Sheila Brooks — Patricia Richardson: Senator Vinick's Chief of Staff and Vinick-Sullivan Campaign Manager; later resigned to play to the Republican base (Season 6–7).
* Jane Braun — Melinda McGraw: Vinick-Sullivan Campaign Manager after Brooks' resignation (Season 7).
* Bruno Gianelli — Ron Silver: (See above).
* Bob Mayer — Stephen Root: Vinick-Sullivan speechwriter (Season 6–7).

Media

* Danny Concannon — Timothy Busfield: White House Press Corps correspondent for "The Washington Post" (Seasons 1–2, 4–5, 7).
* Greg Brock — Sam Robards: "New York Times" White House Reporter, goes to jail for failure to disclose a source (Seasons 5–7).
* Roger Salier — Ivan Allen: Television anchor on News Center 4 (Seasons 1–7).
* Mark Gottfried — Ted McGinley: Talk show host of "Capitol Beat" (Season 2).
* Diane Mathers (5.07 & 6.07): Tough talk show host who interviewed Zoey Bartlet about her kidnapping and John Hoynes about his intentions to run for President again
* Taylor Reid — Jay Mohr: Conservative talk show host, baited C.J. Cregg by calling her a "chicken" (Season 5). (Believed to be based on conservative talk show hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.)
* Katarina "Katie" Witt — Kris Murphy: White House Press Corps Reporter.
* Mark O'Donnell — Timothy Davis Reed: White House Press Corps Reporter. Episode 3:08 - says he is from Canada.
* Steve — Charles Noland: White House Press Corps Reporter.
* Chris — Mindy Seeger: White House Press Corps Reporter.

Family

* Abigail Ann 'Abbey' Bartlet, M.D. — Stockard Channing: First Lady (Seasons 1–7).
* Elizabeth "Liz" Bartlet Westin — Annabeth Gish: The President's eldest daughter (Seasons 5–7).
* Eleanor Emily "Ellie" Bartlet Faison — Nina Siemaszko: The President's middle daughter (Seasons 2, 5, 7).
* Zoey Patricia Bartlet — Elisabeth Moss: The President's youngest daughter (Seasons 1–2, 4–7).
* Hogan Cregg - Evan Rachel Wood: CJ's niece
* Molly Lapham Cregg - Verna Bloom: CJ's former stepmother
* Talmidge Cregg - Donald Moffat: CJ's father. Retired school teacher and Alzheimer's disease sufferer.
* Doug Westin — Steven Eckholdt: Liz's husband. Unsuccessfully runs for the House of Representatives representing New Hampshire in 2006 (Seasons 5–7).
* Vic Faison — Ben Weber: Ellie Bartlet's husband (Season 7). .
* Mallory O'Brien — Allison Smith: Leo McGarry's daughter (Seasons 1–2, 4–7).
* Jenny McGarry — Sara Botsford: Leo McGarry's wife. Divorced him due to his work commitments (Season 1).
* Josephine McGarry — Deborah Hedwall: Leo McGarry's sister, who works as an educator (Season 2).
* Helen Santos — Teri Polo: Matt Santos' wife (Season 6–7); First Lady (Season 7).
* Elsie Snuffin — Danica McKellar: Will Bailey's sister (Season 4).
* Andrea Wyatt - Kathleen York: Ex-wife of Toby Ziegler, Congresswoman from Maryland.

Other characters

* Laurie — Lisa Edelstein: Sam Seaborn's friend. Law student working as a call girl (Season 1).
* Al Kiefer — John de Lancie: Democratic pollsters and had a short relationship with Joey Lucas. (Season 1)
* Larry Claypool — John Diehl: Freedom Watch lawyer (Seasons 1, 4).
* Bernard Thatch — Paxton Whitehead (Ep 2.10, Ep 6.07): Head of the White House Visitor's Office.
* Ann Stark — Felicity Huffman (Ep 2.11): Toby Ziegler's former friend. Chief of Staff to the Senate Majority Leader.
* Dr. Stanley Keyworth — Adam Arkin: Therapist specializing in trauma cases. Staff Therapist for the American Trauma Victims Association (ATVA) (Seasons 2–4).
* Jordan Kendall — Joanna Gleason: Leo McGarry's lawyer during the Bartlet MS hearings and love interest for several months (Season 3–4).
* Jean Paul Pierre Claude Charpentier, Vicomte de Condé de Bourbon — Trent Ford: Zoey Bartlet's French boyfriend (Season 4).
* Colin Ayres — Jason Isaacs: Photographer who has a fling with Donna Moss in "Gaza" (Season 5–6).

Pets

* Bess: Glen Allen Walken's pug.
* Gail: C.J. Cregg's pet goldfish. A gift from Danny Concannon. Josh Lyman told Danny that C.J. likes goldfish. Although Josh was referring to snack crackers of the same name, Danny mistakenly believed he was referring to the fish (Seasons 1–7). [http://homepage.mac.com/nmonks/gail/gail.html] In many episodes, props in Gail's fishbowl had some relation to the episode itself.
* Henry: Amy Gardner's basset hound.

ee also

* "The West Wing"
* List of politicians on "The West Wing"
* List of "The West Wing" episodes