October 1999

The West Wing: Moira Kelly

SYNOPSIS: The White House staff grapples with turf battles, huge egos, and daily compromises between integrity and survival, all while it helps run a country.

PEDIGREE: Created by Aaron Sorkin, who brought us Sports Night and scripted The American President.

SIGNATURE TOUCHES: Personal and professional goals merge and collide in fast, overlapping dialogue ripe with despair, idealism, irony, and humor.

MOIRA ON HER CHARACTER: "Madeline Hampton is a really smart woman who can get the job done.  She's really, really intelligent.  And that intelligence makes her comfortable in a man's world.  She's really sexy and very intuitive.  Also a little whimsical.  Also, she has a big heart, and that gets in her way. She's in a pretty ruthless profession, but she handles people she's involved with in a delicate manner, and that could be her downfall.  
    She's nothing like me, primarily because you would never catch me even near Washington.  Politics isn't my bag."