The West Wing (season 1)

Cast

Main cast

• Rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn, Deputy White House Communications Director
• Moira Kelly as Mandy Hampton, Media Consultant
• Dulé Hill as Charlie Young, Personal Aide to the President
• Allison Janney as C. J. Cregg, White House Press Secretary
• Richard Schiff as Toby Ziegler, White House Communications Director
• John Spencer as Leo McGarry, White House Chief of Staff
• Bradley Whitford as Josh Lyman, White House Deputy Chief of Staff
• Martin Sheen as Josiah Bartlet, President of the United States

  Recurring cast

• Janel Moloney as Donna Moss, assistant to Josh Lyman
• Nicole Robinson as Margaret Hooper, Assistant to Chief of Staff McGarry
• Kathryn Joosten as Dolores Landingham, President Bartlet's executive secretary
• Timothy Busfield as Danny Concannon, senior White House correspondent for The Washington Post
• Elisabeth Moss as Zoey Bartlet, the third and youngest of the President's daughters
• John Amos as Admiral Percy Fitzwallace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Tim Matheson as John Hoynes, Vice President of the United States
• Lisa Edelstein as Laurie, law student and part-time high priced call girl Sam sleeps with in the pilot
• Marlee Matlin as Joey Lucas, a Democratic political consultant
• Stockard Channing as Abbey Bartlet, First Lady of the United States
• Kathleen York as Andrea Wyatt, Congresswoman from Maryland's 5th district and ex-wife of Toby Ziegler

  Plot

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