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CAST: 06 08 10 ELIZABETH JENNINGS PHILIP JENNINGS STAN BEEMAN 14 16 18 PAIGE JENNINGS HENRY JENNINGS NINA 20 24 26 MARTHA HANSON SANDRA BEEMAN AGENT FRANK GAAD 28 30 ARKADY OLEG BUROV PRODUCTION CREDITS PRODUCTION: WRITERS: 33 JOE WEISBERG DARRYL FRANK 34 37JOSH BRAND STEPHEN SCHIFF38 33 JOEL FIELDS JUSTIN FALVEY35 37 LARA SHAPIRO STUART ZICHERMAN38 34GRAHAM YOST DANIEL SACKHEIM 36 37PETER ACKERMAN TRACEY SCOTT WILSON38 DIRECTORS: A ER O D I E: 39 THOMAS SCHLAMME LARYSA KONDRACKI 40 M ST S F ISGU S 39 KEVIN DOWLING GREGORY HOBLIT 40 JENNY GERING (WARDROBE) 41 39 DAN ATTIAS JOHN DAHL 40 LORI HICKS (MAKEUP) 42 39 STEPHEN WILLIAMS PEG SCHIERHOLZ (HAIR) 42 IS A PER IOD D R A MA ABOUT THE COMPLEX M ARRIA GE O F TWO KGB SPIES POSI NG AS AMERICANS IN SUBURBA N WASHINGTON D.C. SHORT LY A F TER RONA LD R EAG AN IS ELEC TED P RESIDENT . The arranged marriage of Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell), who have two children – 14-year-old Paige (Holly Taylor) and 12-year-old Henry (Keidrich Sellati), who know nothing about their parents’ true identity – grows more passionate and genuine by the day, but is constantly tested by the escalation of the Cold War and the intimate, dangerous and darkly funny relationships they must maintain with a network of spies and informants under their control. The trickiest of Philip’s sources continues to be Martha (Alison Wright), the assistant to Special Agent Gaad (Richard Thomas). In order to ensure her continued loyalty, Philip, in the guise of FBI bureaucrat “Clark,” one of his numerous cover identities, marries her. Things were going smoothly until Martha began pressuring Clark to start a family. Their neighbor, FBI Agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), could also prove to be a renewed threat. When forced to choose between betraying his country or his KGB double-agent and paramour Nina (Annet Mahendru), Stan chose the USA. Nina has been sent back to Moscow to face charges of treason, much to the dismay of her boss Arkady (Lev Gorn), Director of the KGB Rezidentura. In addition to his rededication to his mission of uncovering the identities of the Russian spies living among them, Stan is also attempting to rebuild a relationship with his estranged wife Sandra (Susan Misner). Meanwhile, in the Jennings’ house, Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over Paige’s future now that the KGB has made it clear that they want her to join the family business. 00050006 RECENT PHOTO: A FAMILIAR FACE TO AUDIENCES WORLDWIDE, Keri Russell has starred in a number of major EMBEDDED AGENT motion pictures, independent films and Elizabeth Jennings television shows. Most recently, Russell was seen in the hit summer film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which reunited her with director Matt Reeves who created Felicity with J.J. Abrams. She also starred in the romantic comedy film Austenland opposite Jennifer Coolidge and Bret McKenzie, and directed by Jerusha Hess, and the thriller Dark Skies from Dimension Films. Russell’s other film credits include August Rush, The Girl in the Park, Mission Impossible III, The Upside of Anger, We Were Soldiers, Mad About Mambo, Dead Man’s Curve, Eight Days A Week, Leaves of Grass, Goats, Bedtime Stories PROJECT The Americans with Adam Sandler, Extraordinary Measures with Harrison Ford, and of course the romantic film Waitress, for which she received rave reviews. Russell first garnered attention when she starred in the title role of the hit television series Felicity from J.J. Abrams. Just four months after the show’s acclaimed premiere on the WB, she was honored with a Golden Globe® Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama Series. Some of Russell’s other television credits include the miniseries Into the West, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the Hallmark SPECIFICS Cast Hall of Fame Presentation The Magic of Ordinary Days, Running Wilde with Will Arnett and The All New Mickey Mouse Club. In 2005, Russell made her Off-Broadway stage debut in Neil LaBute’s play, Fat Pig, opposite Jeremy Piven. Russell and her family live in Brooklyn, New York. INFORMATION KNOWN: ELIZABETH J E N N INGS I S MAN Y THINGS : A M OTHER OF TW O BOGGED DOWN IN T H E M INUTIA OF EVERYDAY S U BURBAN LIFE, A BUSINESS W O MAN WHO H ELPS R UN A V E R Y S UCC ESS FUL T RAVE L A GENCY , A N D A N INDEFATIGABL E RUS SIA N PATRIOT P O SING A S A N AMERI CAN CITI Z E N, WHO W ORKS TIRELESSLY TO ADVANC E HE R NA TIONíS AGENDA BY ANY MEA N S N ECESS ARY. B UT W HEN HER P ATRIOTISM THRE ATENS TO U NRAV E L H E R E L IZA B E THH F AMILY , ELIZABE T H H AS T O FIND A WA Y T O MEET RESPONSIBILI T IES MOST O F US COULD NEVE R I MAGINE F ACIN G . JJ E N N INN G SS DO NOT WRITE BELOW THIS LINE. elizabeth jennings 0006 * * * * RECENT PHOTO: WITH HIS ACCLAIMED PERFORMANCES ON TELEVISION, film and the stage, Matthew Rhys has solidified his place in the industry as a reputable and versatile actor. For his portrayal of “Philip Jennings” on the critically acclaimed FX drama series The Americans, Rhys has garnered nominations for the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series, and the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama. EMBEDDED AGENT Rhys recently wrapped production on two films: Philip Jennings the untitled John Wells-directed culinary project opposite Bradley Cooper, and Christian Carion’s Darling Buds of May. Rhys starred in Daniel Percival’s Death Comes to Pemberley, taking on the iconic role of “Mr. Darcy.” The BBC and PBS adaption of the novel of the same name, takes the characters from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and plunges them into a murder mystery. After premiering in the UK in December PROJECT 2013, the miniseries aired in the U.S. as part of PBS’s Masterpiece Mystery in the fall of 2014. In 2008, Rhys starred as legendary poet Dylan The Americans Thomas in The Edge of Love, opposite Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller. This performance earned him a BAFTA Cymru Award nomination for Best Actor. Other film credits include Love and Other Disasters, Virgin Territory, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones, Very Annie Mary, Peaches, Tabloid and Deathwatch. Most recently, he starred in Charles Sturridge’s Cast independent film, The Scapegoat, in which he played the roles of both “John” and “Johnny” in a story about two men who realize they are each other’s SPECIFICS exact double. On the small screen, Rhys is widely recognized for his role on ABC’s hit drama Brothers & Sisters, where he played “Kevin Walker.” Additional television credits include the lead role in Metropolis, a drama series following the lives of six twenty-somethings living in London; BBC’s The Lost World, which recreated Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tale of British explorers searching for an undiscovered plateau inhabited by prehistoric beasts; and the 2012 BBC miniseries The Mystery of Edwin Drood. On stage, Rhys opened to huge critical acclaim when he starred as “Benjamin” opposite Kathleen Turner INFORMATION KNOWN: in the 2000 world premiere of the stage adaption of The Graduate at the Gielgud Theatre in London’s PHILI P J ENNIN G S , FA THER OF TW O , IS GOOD AT E V E RYTHIN G H E DOES, B E IT West End. In 2011, Rhys made his off-Broadway debut playing the lead role in the Sam Gold-directed A R R ANG ING TRAVE L F OR A PRE FERRED C O RPORATE CUSTOM E R OR K I D N APPIN G A KGB revival of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger. DEF ECTOR . T T H E B IGG E S T TRUG GLE F OR P HILI P , A R USSIA N Y WHO’S I T I N TO BU S SP F Rhys attended the prestigious Royal Academy of H IS DECADES-LONG R O LE AS A N “AL L-A M ERIC A N” A L ITTLE T O O W ELL, I S T R YIN G Dramatic Art in London, where he was awarded the Patricia Rothermere Scholarship. T O S T A Y FAITH F UL TO HIS M ISSION W HILE K E E PING H IS FAM I LY R EMOVED FROM THE P HIH LIL P Born and raised in the historic city of Cardiff, South D A N GERS O F HIS R K. WHEN N EW ORDERS I N O LVE R ECRUITI G T H E I R D AUG H T WO V N ER Wales, Rhys currently splits his time between Los PAI G E INT O T H E F AMI LY BUSI NESS, PHI LIP MUST G R APP LE WITH WH AT IT COU L D JENJ N N INGG SS Angeles and New York. MEAN TO BREAK TH E FAC ADE OF H IS “ P I CTU RE PERFEC T FA M ILY” A N D R E V E AL TH E R E ALI T Y BENEA TH T O P A IGE. 00090006 RECENT PHOTO: NOAH EMMERICH’S BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE was in Ted Demme’s cult hit Beautiful Girls (Natalie Portman, Uma Thurman, Matt Dillon).