'The West Wing' Cast: Where Are They Now?

Martin Sheen as Josiah Bartlet

Sheen had already portrayed a Sorkin-penned West Wing denizen in The American President (playing the chief of staff to Michael Douglas' president) when he was tapped to star as the idealistic, paternal president prone to giving speeches in The West Wing. He stayed on the series for its duration, though in the last season stepped back as the show focused on the presidential race for his replacement.

Since the show ended, Sheen has been busy in film (The Departed, Bobby) and TV (Grace and Frankie, Anger Management with his son Charlie Sheen). And he keeps up with his West Wing costars — even inviting them to his birthday party in 2018.

Allison Janney as C.J. Cregg

Janney played the frazzled-but-unimpeachable press secretary, a role for which she won four Emmys during the show's run.

She's since gone on to continued success on TV (winning an Emmy for her role on Mom) and in movies (in films such as The Help, Juno and I, Tonya, for which she won an Oscar). Oh yeah, she took this series of smokin'-hot photos for InStyle.

Rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn

Already a big star at the time the show started thanks to his Brat Pack days, Lowe portrayed the White House deputy communications director until 2003, when he left over differences with the show's writers and producers. He briefly retuned in 2006 for the final episodes.

Since then, Lowe has been a series regular on Parks and Recreation, The Grinder and 9-1-1: Lone Star, and made appearances in numerous TV movies. He also frequently makes headlines for getting roasted on Instagram by his two sons.

Bradley Whitford as Josh Lyman

Whitford won an Emmy for his role as the brash, somewhat neurotic deputy chief of staff. He's worked steadily in movies and television since The West Wing ended. Prominent roles include a lead in The Handmaid's Tale and Jordan Peele's film Get Out. Other post-West Wing television parts include Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Shameless, and Transparent, for which he won an Emmy. He divorced actress Jane Kaczmarek in 2010 and married Transparent star Amy Landecker (who also has a role in The Handmaid's Tale) in July 2018.

Richard Schiff as Toby Ziegler

The actor earned an Emmy for his role as the serious, principled White House communications director.

Since the show ended, Schiff has worked steadily in moves and on TV, notably having roles on Ballers and The Good Doctor, as well as in Man of Steel and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Janel Moloney as Donna Moss

Moloney's character Donnatella "Donna" Moss started the show as Josh Lyman's assistant and ended it as the chief of staff to the incoming First Lady (and Josh Lyman's girlfriend).

Moloney was part of the main cast of The Leftovers and has appeared in episodes of American Crime, The Undoing, Bull, FBI and Law & Order: Organized Crime, among other shows.

Dulé Hill as Charlie Young

Charlie was the young, devoted aide to the president, who in turn eventually became like a father figure (and a possible father-in-law figure: Charlie seriously dated the president's daughter, Zoey Bartlet). By the series' end, he had been accepted to law school with the president's guidance.

Since then, Hill had starring roles on Psych, Suits and The Wonder Years reboot. He married actress Jazmyn Simon in 2018 and the two welcomed a son, Levi, in May of 2019.

John Spencer as Leo McGarry

Spencer's take on the president's warm, wise chief of staff made the character a fan favorite and earned him an Emmy.

Sadly, Spencer died of a heart attack in 2005, a few episodes into the final season. As the character had coincidentally experienced a heart attack in season 5, the writers incorporated Spencer's death into the plotline, but kept his name in the opening credits until the show ended.

Stockard Channing as Abbey Bartlet

Channing was long-established (starting with her role as Betty Rizzo in Grease) and had Oscar, Tony and Emmy nominations to her name by the time she was cast as the no-nonsense First Lady in The West Wing.

In 2002 she won two Emmys, for her West Wing role as well as for her part in The Matthew Shepard Story — and she has continued to be active in film, TV and theater, including post-West Wing Broadway turns in Pal Joey, Other Desert Cities and It's Only a Play.

NiCole Robinson as Margaret Hooper

After playing quirky secretary to Leo McGarry for the show's duration, Robinson took a role on All My Children before stepping away from acting in 2014 and mostly staying out of the spotlight since.

In 2008, Robinson and her (now ex) husband Craig Snyder created the 3 Angels Memorial Fund in honor of their son and two of Snyder's children from a previous marriage, who died in infancy of Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia (ACD).

Elisabeth Moss as Zoey Bartlet

After a breakout turn as the headstrong First Daughter (She dated Charlie! She got abducted!) Moss went on to be one of TV's biggest stars, with lauded turns on Mad Men and The Handmaid's Tale (for which she won two Emmys in 2017 for outstanding lead actress in a drama series and as part of the producing team for outstanding drama series).

She has also appeared in movies including Us, The Kitchen and The French Dispatch. She married Fred Armisen in 2009, though they divorced two years later.

Melissa Fitzgerald as Carol Fitzpatrick

After her stint playing the unflappable assistant to C.J. Cregg, Fitzgerald continued to act a bit (including a role on Grey's Anatomy) before stepping away to focus on leadership and public policy. (But she remains friends with Janney, who played C.J., even Instagramming a shot from a concert they attended together!)

In 2007, she won an essay contest in the New York Times about the genocide in Darfur. In 2013, she became the senior director of Justice for Vets, an organization that advocates for and provides resources to veterans in the justice system.