EXCLUSIVE: Showtime‘s The Agency for Paramount+ is rounding out its cast with Reza Brojerdi in a series role; Adam Nagaitis, Ambreen Razia, Bilal Hasna, David Harewood, Kurt Egyiawan, Ray BLK, Sabrina Wu and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor are set to recur.
They join the previously announced Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, John Magaro, Alex Reznik, Andrew Brooke, Harriet Sansom Harris, India Fowler, Saura Lightfoot-Leon and Richard Gere.
The Agency, a new take on the French series Le Bureau des Legendes, follows Martian (Fassbender), a covert CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.
Brojerdi plays “Reza,” a university professor who runs a sought-after exchange program to Tehran.
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Nagaitis plays “Grandma,” a Security Officer and strong arm; Razia plays “Blair,” an undercover CIA agent and former handler; Hasna plays “Simon,” a CIA agent and intelligence analyst; Harewood plays “Dalaga,” a Sudanese businessman.
Egyiawan plays “Osman,” a Sudanese Mukhabarat agent running security for secret negotiations; BLK plays “Dozer,” a security officer on the surveillance team; Wu plays “Raine,” assistant to the Director of Operations at the CIA’s London Station; Vaughan-Lawlor plays “Ben,” the signals intelligence expert.
Currently in production in London, The Agency is commissioned by Showtime Studios and produced in association with 101 Studios. Executive producers include Keith Cox and Nina L. Diaz (Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios); David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin and Bob Yari (101 Studios), George Clooney and Grant Heslov (Smokehouse Pictures); Alex Berger (TOP – The Originals Productions); and Ashley Stern and Pascal Breton (Federation Studios/Federation Entertainment of America); and Michael Fassbender. Jez and John-Henry Butterworth are writers and executive producers; Joe Wright is executive producer and director for the first two episodes.
Reza is represented by Steinfeld PR & Management; Nagaitis is repped by Independent Talent Group; Razia is repped by Curtis Brown Group; Hasna is repped by Insight Management and Production and Circle Management and Production; Harewood is repped by Authentic Talent and Literary Management, Independent Artists Group, and Conway van Gelder Grant; Egyiawan is repped by Gersh and Lou Coulson Associates; BLK is represented by B-Side Management; Wu is represented by Conway van Gelder Grant and Principal Entertainment LA; Vaughan-Lawlor is repped by Gersh (US), The Curtis Brown Group (UK) and Lisa Richards Agency (Ireland).
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