No because Ainsley gets mentioned and even comes back. Mandy seems to be purposefully ignored. In Season 1, it's said that she worked with the Bartlet campaign, but she's completely absent when they flash back to it; not even mentioned.
Whatever happened to Ainsley Hayes? Sorkin has said publicly (including on the west wing weekly) that his single biggest regret of the west wing was not signing Emily Procter to a full time cast member. She, the actress, got signed to CSI Miami and well that was that.
He is fired from the Bartlet administration during a leak investigation, though he is pardoned for his crimes at series' end. He has twin children with his ex-wife who is a congresswoman from Maryland (regular: seasons 1–7). Sam Seaborn ( Rob Lowe) is the deputy communications director to Toby Ziegler.
Oliver Babish is the fifth and final White House Counsel under President Josiah Bartlet. While clearly a highly skilled legalist, Oliver's occasional passionate outbursts are somewhat surprising, though no more so than those of his predecessor, Lionel Tribbey. Oliver has a strict personal moral code, which he will not (apparently) compromise. In the office he appears somewhat …
Toby Ziegler works for seven years as the White House Communications Director under President of the United States Josiah Bartlet. Tobias “Toby” Ziegler was born and raised in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn in New York City. His father, Jules “Julie” Ziegler, was involved in organized crime since before Toby’s birth. He has a brother, David, who is a NASA astronaut. Toby grew to be a ...
Charlie Young was the Deputy Special Assistant to Chief of Staff and formerly the Personal Aide to the President of the United States during the Bartlet Administration. Young's mother was a police officer in Washington, D.C. who was killed in the line of duty in 1999, five months before he began working for the Bartlet Administration. He takes care of his sister, Deana Young, as his …
Character. Donna previously held the position of Senior Assistant to Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman and worked on both the Russell and Santos presidential campaigns in 2006, as well as Bartlet’s election campaigns in 1998 and 2002.. Biography. Donna was born in Warroad, Minnesota to an Italian mother and an Irish father, only to find out toward the end of President …
They would've had to kick me out!" Ainsley's character disappeared after the third season, with a reappearance in the seventh season episode "Requiem"; she appeared in a total of twelve episodes. After her time on The West Wing, Procter was quickly picked up for a part on CSI: Miami.
Babish left his job as White House Counsel shortly before the 2006 Presidential Election to become a partner at a D.C. law firm because he was going to be out of a job soon anyways. However, he eventually became the United States Attorney General under President Matthew Santos.
He left a lucrative law practice in Chicago to serve in the White House. However, he strongly feels that Bartlet is too moderate on affirmative action, capital gains, public schools and free trade (in Ainsley's words). He was replaced by Oliver Babish, however, this was not disclosed until the episode Bad Moon Rising.
Emily ProcterShe played Ainsley Hayes in the NBC political drama The West Wing (2000–2002; 2006) and Det. Calleigh Duquesne in the CBS police procedural drama CSI: Miami (2002–2012)....Emily ProcterBornEmily Mallory Procter October 8, 1968 Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.Alma materEast Carolina UniversityOccupationActress5 more rows
Ainsley Hayes (Emily Procter): Associate (and proposed Deputy) White House Counsel (Seasons 2–3). Conservative Republican from North Carolina. Graduate of Harvard Law School.
Tobias Zachary "Toby" Ziegler is a fictional character in the television serial drama The West Wing, played by Richard Schiff....Toby Ziegler.Tobias Zachary ZieglerSpouseAndrea Wyatt (divorced before series started)ChildrenMolly and HuckReligionJewishNationalityAmerican11 more rows
During the fourth season, Sam decides to run for Congress in his home district—the California 47th in Orange County, California — in an early 2003 special election held after deceased Democratic candidate Horton Wilde posthumously makes history by defeating arch-conservative Republican incumbent Chuck Webb.
She departed from the show without plot explanation after the first season ended. Series creator Aaron Sorkin said that the character was not working out, and the decision for Moira Kelly's departure from the show was amicable: "Moira is a terrific actress, but we just weren't the right thing for her.
He returns in the seventh and final season of the show, and despite waiting six years for it, viewers did get the happy news that they end up married and with children.Oct 11, 2020
A more fun dynamic for Sam was his relationship with Ainsley Hayes (Emily Procter) from the White House Counsel's Office.Mar 24, 2020
Emily Mallory Procter was last seen in television show White Collar. On the film front, her last film was Love Everlasting that released in 2016. She is known for her appearance as Ainsley Hayes in the NBC political drama The West Wing.Sep 22, 2020
In the episode "Wolfe in Sheep's Clothing", Eric is seen waking up nude in Calleigh's bed and they share a bathroom as they get ready in the morning. As of Season 7, they are in a romantic relationship that they are keeping hidden from the rest of the team.
Rep. Jeff Haffley ( Steven Culp ): Republican from Washington; House Majority Whip, 1997–2003, Speaker of the House, 2003–2007. Senator Howard Stackhouse ( George Coe) Democrat from Minnesota. Ran a liberal third-party candidacy for the Presidency in 2002 but later endorsed President Bartlet.
Sheila Brooks ( Patricia Richardson ): Senator Vinick's chief of staff and Vinick-Sullivan campaign manager; She, like Vinick, is portrayed as level-headed and not overtly partisan. Often at odds with the more conservative voices in the party, she leaves the campaign weeks before election day to placate the Republican base (Season 6–7). In her final appearance, Brooks is mentioned as possibly being hired as Chief of Staff to the Republican Senate Majority Leader. Having renewed her friendship with Vinick, she makes an argument that convinces the Senator that he shouldn't run for president again—and that he should accept President-elect Santos' offer to become the next Secretary of State.
Bruno Gianelli ( Ron Silver ): A sharp political operative and consultant introduced in the third season as the campaign manager of Bartlet's 2002 bid for reelection, and continues in this role through the fourth season. His unmatched track record of victories includes a House district that no Democrat has won for decades, several different U.S. senators and state governors, as well as a win for an unspecified Israeli prime minister. The character reappears as Eric Baker's campaign manager for the 2006 Democratic primary, only to become an independent consultant to Republican nominee Arnold Vinick after Baker withdraws from the race. The change of political affiliations mirrored Ron Silver's real-world change of party affiliation, as the noted liberal actor campaigned for President George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election.
Greg Brock ( Sam Robards ): White House correspondent for The New York Times. Greg Brock is also the name of a real editor for The New York Times. One of the most regularly referred to White House correspondents, second only to Danny Concannon.
Lt. Colonel Gantry: pilot of Air Force One, heard several times on personal announcements on the plane. Colonel Jesse Weisskopf ( James Morrison ): pilot of Air Force One, seen in the episode "Angel Maintenance" (Season 4) informing the President on the status of the plane.
Delores Landingham ( Kathryn Joosten and Kirsten Nelson in flashback in " Two Cathedrals "): The President's executive secretary (Season 1–2). Killed in a car accident (Season 2 episode "18th and Potomac"). Appears in flashbacks (Seasons 3–4). Often referred to simply as "Mrs. Landingham".
Under the Bartlet Administration, Dr. Nancy McNally served as the National Security Advisor to the president and West Wing on Seasons 2 - 7. However, many viewers continuously wonder where she was in Season 1.
When President Bartlet decides to run for re-election in 2002, he faces off against Florida's Republican governor Robert Ritchie in the general election. Bartlet and Ritchie could not be further apart in their beliefs. While Josiah Bartlet is a New England-born Nobel-winning economist who champions the underprivileged, Ritchie is a southern populist who strongly opposes intellectuals, Hollywood, taxes, and the Federal government.
Following the lives of President Josiah Bartlet and his cabinet members through White House campaigns and political drama, The West Wing ran for seven seasons and stole the hearts of American audiences for seven years.
Working as the White House Media Consultant, Hampton worked closely with the president's staff and White House press secretary C.J. Cregg.
After being shot in the episode titled "In The Shadow of Two Gunmen" during the show's second season, Josh Lyman then struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder. In the following episode, "Noël," Lyman is seen being urged by his colleagues to seek help and eventually finds a psychiatrist to speak to about the events of the past few days.
Established early in Season 1, flirtations and close encounters between White House press secretary C.J. Cregg and reporter Danny Concannon seemed very evident. It was a relationship that many viewers wanted to see unfold a little more, considering how both Cregg and Concannon were so dedicated to their jobs.
Seaborn feels an instant connection with Laurie and takes interest in the fact that she was currently studying law. However, when his colleagues find out about his relationship with her, it causes quite a bit of tension that lasts the entire first season. Many staff members quickly realized the bad press this could draw on the administration, but despite all the speculation, the resolution to this storyline was never seen.
The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 1999 to May 2006.
Real people mentioned in The West Wing include Muammar Gaddafi, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, Queen Elizabeth II, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Carl XVI Gustaf, Thabo Mbeki and Osama bin Laden .
The West Wing offers a glimpse into the inner workings of the fictional Bartlet White House. The show's legitimacy, political slant, and idealist representations of Washington, as well as its notable writing and film merits, have generated considerable discussion.
The series developed following the success of 1995 theatrical film The American President, for which Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay, and in which Martin Sheen played the White House Chief of Staff. Unused plot elements from the film and a suggestion from Akiva Goldsman inspired Sorkin to create The West Wing.
Hartsfield's Landing is a fictional town in New Hampshire. It is stated to be a very small community of only 63 people, of whom 42 are registered voters, that votes at one minute past midnight on the day of the New Hampshire primary, hours before the rest of the state, and has accurately predicted the winner of every presidential election since William Howard Taft in 1908. It is based on three real-life New Hampshire communities, one of which is Hart's Location, which indeed vote before the rest of the state during the primaries.
A major fan convention, "West Wing Weekend" took place in September 28–30, 2018, at the Marriott Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland. The convention featured guest appearances from some members of the series' cast, as well as a number of panels, fan-based programming, and special events.
In 2010, Twitter accounts for many of the primary characters on The West Wing began to appear, including accounts for President Bartlet, Josh Lyman, Leo McGarry, Matt Santos and Mrs. Landingham. Tweets from the fictional characters have been featured on The Rachel Maddow Show, CNN and questions from the fictional accounts have been answered by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs during a White House Press Conference and from Vice President Joe Biden during a Twitter Town Hall. The success of The West Wing accounts has resulted in several copycats, including accounts from several minor or obscure West Wing characters, including Gail, the fish in C.J.'s office.
Babish attended the University of Chicago for his undergraduate degree in economics before attending Yale University. During his time at Yale, he had a paid internship with the Assistant Attorney General of Connecticut . Babish remarks that the Attorney General reminds him a lot of President Bartlet. After being admitted to the bar, Oliver traveled to California where he "worked off his training wheels" at a small law firm in Malibu called Barnaby, Rackhouse, Summers, Mitchfort, and Saunders-which had the name of every lawyer in the firm in the title. Originally, they were going to add Babish to the name, but he thought "that would just be silly".
His first wife was Michelle-a woman he met and married during undergraduate school. They divorced when Oliver's graduate school studies put a strain on their relationship. His second wife was Liz Cohen-the daughter of Dwight Cohen, one of the partners at Bronstein and Cohen; a law firm that Oliver worked at.
While clearly a highly skilled legalist, Oliver's occasional passionate outbursts are somewhat surprising, though no more so than those of his prede cessor, Lionel Tribbey. Oliver has a strict personal moral code, which he will not (apparently) compromise. In the office he appears somewhat slapdash with regard to the day-to-day details of business, but when the President needs him he seems to be utterly focused.
Tobias “Toby” Ziegler was born and raised in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn in New York City. His father, Jules “Julie” Ziegler, was involved in organized crime since before Toby’s birth. He has a brother, David, who is a NASA astronaut.
Toby is close friends with the other senior staff members and has a good working relationship with assistants Ginger and Bonnie . His prickly, dour personality is sometimes unsettling to strangers, but endearing to friends.
A longtime professional political operative, Toby worked on a Bronx borough president race, a city council campaign, two Congressional races, Senatorial and gubernatorial races and the two Bartlet presidential campaigns. The 1998 Presidential Election was his first win.
He attended the City University of New York, but his undergraduate major is unknown. It’s known that amongst his postgraduate degrees is a law degree, although his alma mater is unknown.
Early in Bartlet’s first term, Toby separates from, and later divorces, his wife Congresswoman Andy Wyatt of Maryland. They had clashed over her desire to keep trying to conceive a child, while he wanted to consider adoption (“a stop date” he said, before correcting himself).
In Clement Rollins’s list of subpoenas, his name is given as "Toby Zachary Ziegler". However, while being deposed by Freedom Watch regarding a lawsuit brought against Andrea for failing to disclose her pregnancy during the 2002 election, he states his full name as “Tobias Zachary Ziegler”.
Charlie Young was the Deputy Special Assistant to Chief of Staff and formerly the Personal Aide to the President of the United States during the Bartlet Administration .
Zoey and Charlie start dating shortly after meeting at the White House in 1999. They later break up, though Charlie professes his love for her, much to her chagrin (and secret delight). Charlie briefly sees someone else, but eventually asks Zoey out on a date and they were later sighted sitting next to one another at Zoey's birthday party in the East Room watching Penn and Teller burn a flag. They reunite, as evidenced by Charlie sneaking out of Zoey's room and being caught by the President.
Donna spent nearly six years as Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman’s primary assistant. She was among several White House staffers subpoenaed during the House of Representatives ’ investigation into the concealment of President Bartlet’s multiple sclerosis. Around that time she met and dated Republican House Minority Counsel Cliff Calley ; later while testifying, she stated not to keep a diary, which he knew to be false, having seen it in her bedroom the previous night. Josh worked with Cliff to ensure Donna’s lapse, which she said was an honest mistake, wouldn’t lead to a perjury case.
Donna took an interest to Helen Santos ’s initial troubles with her husband’s advancing campaign, offering her support and experience, and eventually became the First Lady’s Chief of Staff.
Ainsley Hayes is a fictional character played by Emily Procter on The West Wing, an American serial political drama. Primarily appearing in the second and third seasons for a total of twelve episodes, Ainsley served as the Associate White House Counsel under the show's president, Josiah Bartlet. Reception for Ainsley has ranged from mixed to positive; she is characterized as smart and flirtatious, but also vulnerable to sexism from other characters and the show's writing.