The second season of Netflix’s comedy mystery series A Man On The Inside has rounded out its cast with nearly a dozen actors who are all suspects in Charles and Julie’s next case.
A Man On The Inside premiered last November and features Ted Danson as Charles Nieuwendyk, a retired college professor and widower who answers an ad from a private investigator looking for a retiree to go undercover in a retirement home for a stolen necklace. Starring alongside Danson were Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Lilah Richcreek Estrada and Stephanie Beatriz.
Season two will see Charles on a new assignment by going undercover at a college. Joining fellow newcomer Mary Steenburgen will be Constance Marie (With Love), David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck), Gary Cole (NCIS), Jason Mantzoukas (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Jill Talley (Mr. Show), Linda Park (Bosch), Lisa Gilroy (Interior Chinatown), Madison Hu (The Brothers Sun), Max Greenfield (New Girl), Michaela Conlin (Bones) and Sam Huntington (Being Human).
- Marie will play Vanessa, a former con-artist who serves as a part-time-source on the criminal underworld for Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada).
- Straitharn will be Dr. Cole, head of the English Department at Wheeler College, and the most famous and popular professor on campus.
- Cole will portray Brad Vinick, a successful businessman whose sizable donation to his alma mater starts a chain reaction that leads to Charles getting hired.
- Mantzoukas is Apollo Lambrakis, an affable contractor who dreams of writing the Great American Novel.
- Talley will portray Holly Bodgemark, the overworked, perpetually-frazzled Provost of Wheeler College.
- Park will be Elizabeth Muki, the director of the Fine Arts Department at Wheeler College.
- Gilroy will play Kelseigh Rose, a budding photographer, is the new wife of billionaire Brad Vinick.
- Hu will portray Claire, a Wheeler College Junior who works multiple campus jobs to pay for her tuition.
- Greenfield will be Jack Beringer, the charismatic President of Wheeler College, whose job requires him to raise money from wealthy graduates.
- Conlin will portray Andrea Yi, who teaches economics at Wheeler College, and is excited about the changes coming to the school.
- Huntington will play Max Griffin, a rabble-rousing professor of journalism at Wheeler College.
A Man On The Inside was created by Mike Schur (The Good Place, Parks and Recreation) and is based on the 2021 documentary The Mole Agent.
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