Fola Evans-Akingbola, Ward Horton & Albert Jones Upped To Series Regular In ‘The Night Agent’ Season 3
EXCLUSIVE: Fola Evans-Akingbola, Ward Horton and Albert Jones are being promoted to series regulars for the upcoming third season of Netflix’s The Night Agent, Deadline can reveal.
On the action thriller series based on Matthew Quirk’s novel, Evans-Akingbola plays secret service agent Chelsea Arrington, with Horton as Governor Richard Hagan, and Jones as Deputy Director Aiden Mosely.
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Shawn Ryan, the show’s creator, showrunner and executive producer, confirmed Evans-Akingbola’s Season 3 return in a recent interview with Deadline. A fan favorite, she returns to the series regular status she held in Season 1 after only making a cameo in the second season. Horton’s promotion was presaged by the Season 2 finale, which found his antagonist Hagan poised to become the next president. Looking ahead, the finale teased that the new mission of Night Agent protagonist Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) will be to probe Hagan’s links to shady information broker Jacob (Louis Herthum).
As previously announced, Season 3 new series regular cast additions include Jennifer Morrison, who plays Hagan’s wife, Stephen Moyer, David Lyons, and Genesis Rodriguez. Season 3 returns to film in New York next month, after kicking off in Istanbul at the end of last year. Season 2 premiered on January 23rd.
Produced by Sony Pictures Television, The Night Agent‘s first season introduced Sutherland as a low-level FBI Agent whose efforts to save The President earned him an opportunity to become a Night Agent in Season 2. Working in the secretive organization of Night Action at the same time propelled him into a world where danger is everywhere and trust is in short supply.
In past interviews, Ryan has indicated that each season of The Night Agent will be a self-contained story, opening the door to new plot lines and characters with each go-round. Season 1 was set in and around Washington D.C. and filmed in Vancouver, whereas the second 10-episode season primarily shot in New York City, with additional filming in Thailand and Washington, D.C. Ryan shared in our aforementioned Season 2 postmortem that Season 3 would feature “some carryover,” in terms of both cast and story, while reiterating his intention for “the seasons to feel separate.”
Breaking into Netflix’s Most Popular TV (English) List in its first season at #7, the show has so far reached the Top 10 in 93 countries, garnering over 134M views, with a total of 14 weeks spent in the Global Top 10. While the second season’s premiere week viewership couldn’t quite match that of the first, the show nonetheless topped the English-language TV list from January 20-26 with 13.9M views. Moreover, buzz around Season 2 was sufficient to place Season 1 back onto the Top 10 list at #4 with 4.9M views.
Executive producers on Season 3 include Ryan and Marney Hochman for MiddKid Productions; Seth Gordon and Julia Gunn for Exhibit A; James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and Nicole Tossou for Project X; and David Beaubaire for Sunset Lane Media, as well as Munis Rashid, Paul Bernard, Guy Ferland and Seth Fisher.
Currently, Evans-Akingbola can be seen starring alongside Jamie Fox, Cameron Diaz and Andrew Scott in Netflix’s action comedy Back in Action, the most-watched title of the past two weeks, which has so far scored around 93M views and is expected to break onto the streamer’s list of most popular English-language films. Also seen in Prime Video’s rom-com Upgraded, as well as series like Siren and Black Mirror, she is repped by Hamilton Hodell and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Best known for a lead performance in New Line’s The Conjuring spin-off, Annabelle, Horton can currently be seen recurring on the HBO series The Gilded Age, for which he was SAG nominated for Ensemble in a Drama Series. He’s repped by Amplified and Innovative Artists.
Previously seen in films like Respect opposite Jennifer Hudson, as well as series like David Fincher’s Mindhunter, Jones is repped by SirenSong Entertainment, IAG and Peikoff Mahan.
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