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Madam Secretary

2014

After years away from the CIA, Elizabeth McCord is pulled back into the political arena. The newly appointed Secretary of State is tough, fair, and smart, driving international diplomacy, wrangling office politics, and circumventing protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, both at the White House and at home.

Sam Hoffman

Producer · Known for Madam Secretary

Hoffman produces and periodically directs the CBS drama Madam Secretary. He is also developing, with producing partner Frances McDormand, an adaptation of Michael Pollan’s best-seller The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Hoffman created the web series Old Jews Telling Jokes, which has been viewed over 50 million times, released on DVD, and broadcast on the BBC. His book, based on the series, is now in its sixth printing and the off-Broadway play derived from the series currently tours throughout North America. Feature films he has produced include Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, John Carney’s Begin Again, and Richard Loncraine’s 5 Flights Up. Earlier in his career, Hoffman also assistant directed such acclaimed titles as The Royal Tenenbaums, School of Rock, Donnie Brasco, Dead Man Walking, and Groundhog Day.

Jason Hite

Jason Hite is known for The Punisher (2017), The Good Wife (2009) and Madam Secretary (2014).

Charles Socarides

Charles Socarides is an actor, known for When We Rise (2017), Madam Secretary (2014) and Virgin (2003).

Brian Hutchison

Brian Hutchison is an American actor based in New York City. He has appeared on such network shows as The Gilded Age, The Equalizer, Blue Bloods, Madam Secretary, Chicago Med, Jessica Jones, Elementary, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Godfather of Harlem, The Sinner, FBI: Most Wanted and Lisey's Story. He has appeared on and off Broadway in several shows including Downstate, Exit the King with Geoffrey Rush, Looped opposite Valerie Harper, and Man and Boy with Frank Langella. Hutchison has also performed at major regional theaters throughout the United States. In 2018, Hutchison played the part of Alan in the Tony Award-winning revival of The Boys in the Band on Broadway. Directed by Joe Mantello, the cast included Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Tuc Watkins, Charlie Carver, Robin de Jesus, and Michael Benjamin Washington. The full cast reprised their roles in a movie version of the play that was filmed in 2019 and released on Netflix in September 2020. In addition to acting, Hutchison is also a SOVA and Audie award-winning narrator who has recorded over 300 audio books for Audible. He is also a professional photographer, specializing in shooting publicity head shots for other actors. His portfolio also includes a wide range of candid portraits, landscapes and architectural detail.

Cole Vallis

Cole Vallis is a rising Director of Photography and Steadicam operator based in the New York/ New Jersey area. His career started at an early age as a professional youth actor on television (Gotham, Madam Secretary, Stephen Colbert), in independent films and commercial voice overs. imdb.me/colevallis His interest in production and creative development of projects has become the platform for his growing resume. He has worked heavily alongside ARRI and was a leader in the introduction of the “Trinity 2” and “Artemis 2” systems to the United States. His reputation as a dedicated, honest, resilient, confident team-player that embraces a challenge along with being resourceful in finding ways to create, innovate and ultimately solve problems makes him a solid team member. He continues his passionate quest for knowledge and he is never afraid to ask the proverbial “stupid question”. His production company “Save Art Media” is an independent film company creating work to bring awareness to otherwise unrepresented stories, projects of passion, artistic expression and art that is not funded by Hollywood studios.

Quentin Earl Darrington

Quentin Earl Darrington (born July 9, 1977) is an American actor and singer, known for Elementary (2012), Madam Secretary (2014) and The Good Fight (2017).

Gordon Winarick

Gordon Winarick is an American actor and artist whose film & TV credits include Jordan Peele's Hunters on Amazon, The Duplass Brothers' The Miseducation of Bindu, Gotham on Fox, John Crowley's The Goldfinch and Madam Secretary on CBS. Born in New Jersey, his training includes studies at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England, as well as The Maggie Flanigan Studio in New York City. Gordon is also a visual artist with gallery shows in New York City & in London. He resides in New York City.

Kathrine Herzer

Cast · Known for Madam Secretary

Kathrine Herzer was born on January 17, 1997 in Los Angeles, California. She is an actress and assistant director, known for Madam Secretary (2014) and Men, Women & Children (2014).

Evan Roe

Cast · Known for Madam Secretary

Evan Christopher Roe (born February 9, 2000) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the CBS political drama series Madam Secretary (2014-2019), the Amazon Studios drama film Selah and the Spades (2019), and the Netflix miniseries A Man in Full (2024).

Clara Stack

Clara Stack is an American actress known for playing Young Kate Bishop in Marvel’s Hawkeye (2021). She began her career in theater before appearing in shows like Madam Secretary, Bull, and Almost Family. Her recent credits include Rose in Disney’s The Naughty Nine (2023) and Lilly Bainbridge in IT: Welcome to Derry (2025). She continues to be recognized as a rising young talent in film and television.

Martha Millan

Martha Millan is an actress best known for her role as Fiona De La Rosa on FOX/WBTV’s The Cleaning Lady—a performance that has earned Honorable Mentions from the Gracie Awards, presented by the AWM Foundation. She also appeared as Mercy in Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen and recently as Faith Valentine on Apple TV+’s Cape Fear, executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. Across network and global streaming platforms, Millan has built a career defined by emotionally grounded, commanding performances. Her additional credits include Netflix’s The OA, HBO’s Emmy-winning Succession, Madam Secretary, and the Law & Order franchise. Born in the Philippines and raised in Australia, she studied at the University of Sydney before graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, launching an international career across film and television. She is also the founder of Nice AF Productions, dedicated to developing bold, inclusive, character-driven stories for film and television. The company’s inaugural project, Short Thin Lines, is currently in post-production.

Pooya Mohseni

Pooya Mohseni is an Iranian American actress, writer, filmmaker and Trans activist, born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She moved to New York in her teens, where she discovered her love of acting and story telling. She has guest starred on Primetime shows, like Law and Order : SVU , Falling Water and Madam Secretary and Big Dogs on Amazon Prime. She is the first middle eastern trans actor to play the role of judge on a prime time procedural. Her latest starring role in a feature is the lead role of Mari Walker's "See You Then", coming out in 2021. She is a graduate from the esteemed Maggie Flanigan Studio, and continues to build her resume of a wide range of characters, while exploring their humanity and fragility. She is fluent in Persian/Farsi and a transgender advocate, as well as a voice for immigrant and women's issues. She is also involved in writing and consulting on original LGBT stories to shed light on an otherwise under represented community.

John Cullum

Cast · Known for Great Performances

John Cullum (born March 2, 1930) is an American actor and singer. He is a five-time Tony Award nominee and two-time winner, both for Best Leading Actor in a Musical (Shenandoah in 1975 and On the Twentieth Century in 1978). On screen, Cullum is best known for his starring role as tavern owner Holling Vincoeur in Northern Exposure (1990 - 1995), which earned him an Emmy nomination. He also had recurring roles on ER, Law & Order: SVU, The Middle, and Madam Secretary. His film appearances include Hawaii (1966), 1776 (1972), All Good Things (2010), Kill Your Darlings (2013), Before We Go (2014), and Christine (2016).

Julian Acosta

Julian Acosta is a Puerto Rican actor. He was born and raised in Puerto Rico and moved to El Paso, TX as a teenager. Upon college graduation, he moved to New York where he was quickly cast in Denis Leary's heralded but short-lived comedy series "The Job" on ABC. Acosta has held recurring roles on "NCIS: New Orleans" on CBS, "Madam Secretary" on CBS, "Hand of God" on Amazon, "Being Mary Jane" on BET, "Dirt" on F/X, "Strong Medicine" on Lifetime, "The Defenders" on CBS, "Hollywood Heights" on NICK, "Franklin and Bash" on TNT, and "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" on ABC Family. He has made guest starring turns on "Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders", "Elementary", "NCIS: Los Angeles," "The Mentalist," "The Unit," and "NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service" [CBS], "The Librarians", "Proof" [TNT], "Grimm," "Law & Order," "Law & Order LA," "King Pin" and "The West Wing" [NBC], "Covert Affairs" [USA], "Castle," "George Lopez" and "Scrubs" [ABC], "Entourage" [HBO], to name a few. On the film front, Acosta has been seen in THE THREE CHRISTS directed by Jon Avnet, CBGB playing Legendary Punk Rock guitarist Johnny Ramone, THE LORDS OF SALEM directed by Rob Zombie, THE ATTICUS INSTITUTE directed by Chris Sparling, BOUND BY LIES with Stephen Baldwin and Kristy Swanson and TRUE LOVE directed by Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize Nominee Henry Barrial. Julian is also the creator of several original series for Television currently in development through his company Broken Toy Works.

Rocco Sisto

Rocco Sisto is an Italian-American stage, film, television, and voice actor. Sisto was born on February 18, 1953, in Bari, Italy, and later moved to Addison, Illinois. He attended and graduated Addison Trail High School in 1970 and studied acting at New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1977. On TV, he played the young Junior Soprano in the HBO series The Sopranos. He has appeared as well in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Law & Order, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Blue Bloods, and Madam Secretary. In film he has been seen in After Hours, Far and Away, Carlito's Way, Donnie Brasco, Illuminata, and The American Astronaut. His voice work includes Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and The Warriors. Sisto has acted in the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Delacorte Theater. In 1996 he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for his acting in the play Quills.

Sharon Washington

Cast · Known for Joker: Folie à Deux, Joker

Sharon Washington is an American playwright as well as a stage, TV, film, and voice actress. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama and her BA from Dartmouth College. She got her start doing soap operas such as the 1996 season of "One Life to Live" in addition to having a recurring role on the mini-series follow-up "Heaven & Earth: North & South, Book III". She has had guest star appearances in TV series including Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and in the final season of Madam Secretary. She’s also had recurring roles in For Life, City On A Hill, The Code, Gotham, Law & Order: SVU, and Damages. Other television credits include the Hulu series The Looming Tower, Blue Bloods, The Blacklist, Golden Boy, White Collar, Royal Pains, NYC 22, Law & Order and Law & Order: CI. She has appeared in numerous television commercials both on-camera and voice-over and is an accomplished audiobook and documentary film narrator. She played Lena in the webseries Hustling for which she was awarded an Indie Series award for Best Supporting Actress (2015). Her film appearances include Joker, The Bourne Legacy, Michael Clayton, Wiener Dog, Rocksteady, Taking Chance, Freedomland, The School of Rock, Half Nelson, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Malcolm X, and Die Hard With A Vengeance. She also appeared in the short film Approaching A Breakthrough, directed by Noah Pritzker, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.  She is the narrator of several documentary series for Animal Planet, Discovery, NOVA and TV One. She has also narrated a diverse range of PBS, Nova, National Geographic, and Discovery Channel programs. She voiced different characters in two installments of the successful Grand Theft Auto video game saga. She added playwright to her resumé, writing and performing her solo play Feeding The Dragon which received it’s world premiere at City Theatre in Pittsburgh followed by a production at Hartford Stage and from there to a successful run Off-Broadway at Primary Stages at the Cherry Lane Theater in the Spring of 2018 where she was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show and won an Audelco Award for Solo Performance. On Broadway, she appeared as The Lady in the critically-acclaimed The Scottsboro Boys musical by Kander & Ebb directed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. A role she originated at The Vineyard Theatre and The Guthrie. Other Off-Broadway credits include roles in Dot at the Vineyard Theatre, written by Colman Domingo and also directed by Susan Stroman; While I Yet Live by Billy Porter at Primary Stages; Luce by JC Lee at Lincoln Center Theater (LCT3); and Wild With Happy also by Colman Domingo at the Public Theater for which she received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination and an Audelco Award. She has worked many times on the New York Shakespeare Festival stage including playing Lady Anne to Denzel Washington's Richard III and Valeria to Christopher Walken's Coriolanus; as well as in the award-winning adaptation of Caucasian Chalk Circle directed by George C. Wolfe and Stuff Happens directed by Daniel Sullivan.

Kadia Saraf

Born in Switzerland and raised in both Israel and Switzerland, Kadia is multilingual and speaks English, Hebrew, German, Swiss-German, and ASL. She volunteers at the Animal Care Center, caring for cats and helping them find forever homes. Kadia is a former Israeli National Champion in Kenpo Jitsu and is currently training for the USA Boxing Masters division in Las Vegas in February 2025. She is a Forensic Astrologer, assisting detective all over the country in finding missing people. Her work includes the recurring role of US Attorney Anya Avital on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2021–2023), a recent episode of Blue Bloods (2023), FBI: International (2022), The Good Fight (2020), Counterpart (2018), The Blacklist (2017), Madam Secretary (2017), Blindspot (2015) and Rescue Me (2006).

Carol Schultz

Carol Schultz has performed in over 40 plays with the Drama Desk and Obie Award winning Pearl Theatre Company, including Terrence McNally's And Away We Go, Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals (for which she won the Actors Equity Callaway Award) and Mrs. Wire in Vieux Carré directed by Austin Pendleton. Other NY credits include Abe Lincoln in Illinois (with Sam Waterston) at Lincoln Center Theater, Marvin's Room at the Minetta Lane, and two seasons with Classic Stage Company. Regional credits include Cincinnati Playhouse (Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Birdie in The Little Foxes), Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Goodman Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, and more. TV/film credits include House of Cards, Madam Secretary and the upcoming Poker Face.

Juan Francisco Villa

Cast · Known for The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

Juan Francisco Villa is a New York City 1st generation Colombian-American who grew up in LOISAIDA. He proudly calls Chicago his artistic home and has made the recent move to Los Angeles. He is an artistic creator focusing on Acting, Directing, Writing and Teaching Artist. TV Acting Highlights include being Directed by Eric Stoltz on MADAM SECRETARY (CBS) and acting with Tea Leoni, working with the cast of CHICAGO PD (NBC), and his first Guest Starring role as Detective Orjuela on BETRAYAL (ABC). Theater Acting Highlights include the NY Times Critics Pick OEDIPUS EL REY by MacArthur Genius Luis Alfaro, Directed by Chay Yew at the lauded Public Theater and playing the iconic role of TENNESSEE WILLIAMS in THE GENTLEMAN CALLER by Phillip Dawkins, Directed by Tony Especiale at the infamous Cherry Lane Theater in NYC. He will be shooting an upcoming Independent Feature EYES UPON WAKING by Jennifer Scott, playing a suicidal American War Vet whom has been working through PTSD after serving 4 tours in the Iraq War. Theater Directing highlights include Co-Directing the upcoming docu-drama COLUMBINUS, April 2019, in Washington D.C. at 1st Stage Theater which is based on interviews with those affected by the Columbine shooting 20 years ago. 1st Stage is the same theater that provided him with an opportunity to Co-Direct JESUS HOPPED THE A-TRAIN by Stephen Adley-Guirgis which received 2 Helen Hayes Awards along. Playwriting Highlights include his autobiographical solo play EMPANADA FOR A DREAM which chronicles his life growing up in The Lower East Side of NYC. It has been presented in NYC, Chicago, LA, San Diego and Washington DC along with cracking the list of Top Ten Shows for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader and Los Angeles Times. His ensemble play DON CHIPOTLE World Premiered at the Chicago DCASE Storefront Theater presented by terraNOVA Collective and The Playground Theater. He is currently developing his follow up solo play FINDING PANCHO which traces his relationship to his father who has disappeared deep into Colombia. This past summer Juan was accepted into the Maria Irene Fornes Playwriting Workshop in Chicago developing his newest work False Evidence Appearing Real or Cosmic Lovers. He has partaken in writing workshops led by MacArthur Geniuses Luis Alfaro and Han Ong along with Erin Courtney, John Jesurun, Zakiyyah Abdul-Rahim Alexander and April Yvette-Thompson. He is a 4 time recipient of the Chicago DCASE grant, PBS Latino New Media Finalist. Juan's other written works include THE BIG APPLE (Brooklyn Generator), TEARS OF HOPE (Something Marvelous Theater ), CAN YOU HEAR ME... (Chicago Blue Ring Radio Play), WANNA BE STARTING SOMETHING (Chicago Black Box Academy) COPPAZZ and WHEN MY FATHER DIED... (NYC INTAR OMPF).

Luis Moreno

Luis Moreno is an American actor with a double major in Drama/Dance and Philosophy from Bard College, upstate NY. After attending graduate school in acting at Columbia University, he's worked in many theaters in NY and around the United States, and started to work in film and tv, on shows such as "Person of Interest", "Blue Bloods", "Madam Secretary", and "Daredevil".

Tim Daly

Cast · Known for Wings, Madam Secretary, Private Practice

James Timothy Daly (born March 1, 1956) is an American actor, producer and director, best known for his roles as Joe Hackett on the NBC sitcom Wings and his recurring role as drug-addicted screenwriter J.T. Dolan on The Sopranos. He starred as Pete Wilder on the ABC medical drama Private Practice from 2007 to 2012. He is also known for his voice role as Clark Kent/Superman in Superman: The Animated Series and several animated Superman movies. From 2014 until 2019, he portrayed Henry McCord, husband of the Secretary of State, on the CBS political drama Madam Secretary, starring Téa Leoni. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Daly, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Lisa B. Tharps

Lisa Blythe Tharps is an American actress who graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA. Tharps got her first on-screen role in 1999, when she was cast as Lauren Miller in the crime-drama series Third Watch. Since then, Tharps has appeared in TV shows and movies such as The Blacklist, Cold Case, Elementary, Madam Secretary, Jessica Jones, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Do No Harm, Applesauce, Saving Grace, ER, Medium, Person of Interest, and Criminal Minds.

Robert Ray Manning Jr.

Robert Ray Manning Jr. is an American actor, producer and director. His acting roles in film include The Drummer (2020), The Chaperone (2018, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013),  Kate & Leopold (2001), and Disappearing Acts (2000). His acting roles on TV series include The Time Traveler's Wife (2022), Madam Secretary (2018), Blue Bloods (2017), Elementary (2015), The Good Wife (2015), Blindspot (2015), The Blacklist (2014), Southland (2009), The Unit (2006), Criminal Minds (2006), NCIS (2005), Numb3rs (2005), and Now and Again (1999), among others. He had a recurring role on Person of Interest (2014-2016). He has also appeared on General Hospital and Days of Our Lives. He has produced, directed, edited, and acted in numerous shorts.