Madam Secretary stars Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, the shrewd, determined, newly appointed Secretary of State who drives international diplomacy, battles office politics and circumvents protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, both at the White House and at home.
A college professor and a brilliant former CIA analyst who left for ethical reasons, Elizabeth returns to public life at the request of the President following the suspicious death of her predecessor.
The President values her apolitical leanings, her deep knowledge of the Middle East, her flair for languages and her ability to not just think outside the box, but to not even acknowledge there is a box.
McCord’s team includes her Chief of Staff Nadine Tolliver (Emmy Award winner Bebe Neuwirth), speechwriter Matt Mahoney (Geoffrey Arend), press coordinator Daisy Grant (Patina Miller) and her charming assistant, Blake Moran (Erich Bergen). As McCord debates third world problems and finesses foreign dignitaries at work, that’s just a warm-up for when she goes home to her supportive husband Henry (Tim Daly) and their two bright children (Katherine Herzer and Evan Roe), where ‘politics’ and ‘compromise’ take on new meaning.
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production details
USA | CBS | 45 minutes | Broadcast from 21 September 2014
Barbara Hall as Creator/Executive Producer
Lori McCreary as Executive Producer
Morgan Freeman as Executive Producer
Tracy Mercer as Executive Producer
cast
Mozhan Marnò as Roxanne Majidi
Bebe Neuwirth as Nadine Tolliver
Tom Kemp as Major Hicks
William Sadler as George
Sara Ramirez as Kat Sandoval
Eric Stoltz as Will Adams
Keith Carradine as Conrad Dalton
Nicholas Guest as President Salnikov
Sakina Jaffrey as Foreign Minister Chondita Samant
Jordan Baker as Susan Cole
Victor Slezak as Prime Minister Vlad Diacov
Kevin Kilner as Robert Cole
Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord
Tim Daly as Henry McCord
Zeljko Ivanek as Russell Jackson
Patina Miller as Daisy Grant
Erich Bergen as Blake Moran
Geoffrey Arend as Matt Mahoney
Kathrine Herzer as Alison McCord
Evan Roe as Jason McCord
Wallis Currie-Wood as Stephanie ‘Stevie’ McCord
Sebastian Arcelus as Jay Whitman
