Brittany Snow, Berto colon, Louis Herthum, Arienne Mandi, and Teddy Sears have signed on to join the Season 2 cast of Netflix‘s “The Night Agent,” the streamer announced on Thursday. Season 2 begins filming in 2024.
They join returning cast Gabriel Basso (Peter), who leads the series, and Luciane Buchanan (Rose), as well as previously announced Amanda Warren (Catherine). Fola Evans-Akingbola, Sarah Desjardins, Eve Harlow, Phoenix Raei, Enrique Murciano, D. B. Woodside, and Hong Chau starred in the first season.
Snow (“Pitch Perfect”) stars as Alice, Peter’s partner and mentor in his first assignment in Night Action, while colon (“Power Book II: Ghost”) portrays Solomon: a former Marine turned right-hand man/fixer for a powerful businessman.
Herthum (“Westworld”) plays Jacob Monroe, an international businessman with powerful global connections that he uses to obtain valuable information. Mandi (“Tatami”) stars as Noor, a low level aide in the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York, Noor is looking to leverage her access to top secret information into a better life for her and her family, and Sears (“Masters of Sex”) plays Warren, a high level intelligence officer who becomes the subject of a Night Action investigation.
based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, “The Night Agent” follows, Peter, “a low level FBI Agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings — until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office,” per the official logline.
Netflix quickly renewed the show for Season 2 after the series proved to be a ratings success, scoring 168.71 million hours viewed within its first week of availability. Netflix has since transitioned to covering its ratings by showing total views of a title, which in this case would be approximately 20.62 million total views for the first week of viewing (Netflix calculates total views by dividing a project’s total hours viewed by the total runtime). The series ranked third overall for premiere week of viewing across all Season 1 TV.
Shawn Ryan serves as creator, showrunner, and executive producer through his MiddKidd productions banner. David Beaubaire, Seth Gordon, Julia Gunn, Marney Hochman, Paul Neinstein, William Sherak, Nicole Tossou, James Vanderbilt executive produce.
