Jason was in all 22 episodes of Season 2
French Kiss autographed script
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| CBS, 2 seasons, 2001-2003
Jason was in all 22 episodes of Season 2 |
Officer A.B. Stiles
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Produced by: Radiant Productions and Universal Network Television, in association with CBS Productions
Executive Producers: Wolfgang Petersen, Gail Katz, Shaun Cassidy
Created by: Michael Frost Beckner
Nominated for 'Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Dramatic Underscore)'
The Agency for episode The Great Game on CBS
Radiant Productions and Universal Television in association with CBS Productions
Composers: Jon Ehrlich and Jason Derlatka
| The Agency Season 2 Cast
Jason O'Mara..............A.B. Stiles Paige Turco................Terri Lowell Richard Speight Jr.........Lex Will Patton................Jackson Haisley Daniel Benzali..............Robert Quinn Rocky Carroll..............Carl Reese Beau Bridges..............DCI Tom Gage Joshua Nankin..............David Clennon Lolita Davidovich...........Avery Pohl Leslie Silva................FBI Special Agent Shelton Bazzel Baz................Captain SOG Team |
Stiles' ID badge
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Official websites for "The Agency"
As the first television series ever granted permission to film inside CIA headquarters, each episode focuses on the individuals who put their lives on the line in the name of national security, the means by which their objectives are realized and the moral and ethical questions they face in the course of duty. Senator Tom Gage, is the recently appointed CIA Director, who is also a former war hero and a future presidential candidate who isn't afraid to ask the questions that might shake things up in his new post. Gage enlists Robert Quinn to be the Head of Homeland Security but Quinn doesn't always see eye to eye with Gage.
Gage's deputy, Carl Reese, is often put in the unenviable position of consigliere/hatchet man. A.B. Stiles is the newly recruited operative who is willing to risk his life in the field to secure national safety. Terri Lowell is a wizard in the graphic design department but her ambition and good instincts have made her a prime candidate for fieldwork. Also in the graphics design department is Lex, the young computer wizard who works side by side with Terri on her missions. Guiding them is their boss, Joshua Nankin, the head of the Office of Technical Services. The purpose of this office is to supply undercover operatives with the tools of their trade. Jackson Haisley is a widowed father of two and a master intelligence officer who longs for the overseas transfer he was once promised. The mission of this formidable group is to combat terrorism, nuclear threats, biological warfare and any and all assaults on the United States.
THE AGENCY, a suspense-filled drama about the people who work for the Central Intelligence Agency, is the first television series ever granted permission to film inside CIA headquarters. Each episode focuses on the agents who put their lives on the line in the name of national security, the means by which their objectives are realized and the moral and ethical questions they face in the course of duty.
Senator Tom Gage (Beau Bridges), a former war hero and a presidential hopeful, is the recently appointed director of the embattled agency, a man who isn't afraid to ask the questions that might shake things up in his new post. He enlists Robert Quinn (Daniel Benzali) to be the Head of Homeland Security despite the fact the two don't always see eye-to-eye. Gage's deputy, Carl Reese (Rocky Carroll), is often put in the unenviable position of consigliere/hatchet man. A.B. Stiles (Jason O'Mara) is the newly recruited operative willing to risk his life in the field to secure national safety. Terri Lowell (Paige Turco) is a wizard in the graphic design department whose ambition and good instincts have made her a prime candidate for fieldwork. She's assisted by Lex (Richard Speight Jr.), a young computer wizard who works side-by-side with her on time-sensitive missions. Guiding them is Joshua Nankin (David Clennon), head of the Office of Technical Services, who oversees the race to supply the agency's undercover operatives with the tools of their trade. Jackson Haisley (Will Patton) is a widowed father of two and a master intelligence officer who longs for the overseas transfer he was once promised.
The mission of this formidable group is to combat terrorism, nuclear threats, biological warfare and any an all assaults on the United States.
Hollywood 411, sometime pre-season 2, 2002
[Shaun] Cassidy has been reworking the show since he took the reins last season, and this year, he's added Jason O'Mara, a young Irish actor who shines at the press conference, so I promise to give it a second look.
July 10, 2002
O'Mara...will play a newly recruited CIA paramilitary officer heading the Incident Response Team from the field and reporting to Robert Quinn... Mr. O'Mara's character will be a "part of the central dynamic affecting the CIA, FBI and all the other government agencies today as they are being challenged to work together more effectively in response to the changes resulting from the Sept. 11 tragedies."
http://entertainment.excite.com
July 11, 2002
Brit actor Jason O'Mara has joined the cast of CBS's "The Agency." When its second season begins in September, his para-military officer will "bring new energy and sex appeal to the series," says exec producer Shaun Cassidy. Translation: They're kickin' the hunk-o-meter up a notch.
Entertainment Weekly, September 13, 2002
Studly Irish actor Jason O'Mara, who plays elite soldier-turned-spy guy A.B. Stiles...will not only crank up the action--he's an expert in several kinds of combat and can even pull off a mean underwater rescue!--he also turns up the heat: He beds field operative Terri Lowell (Paige Turco) in the first episode.
"I have to pinch myself," says O'Mara. "I'm playing the kind of character I've loved since I was a kid. It's classic leading-man stuff." CBS seconds that. "Jason is reminiscent of a young Steve McQueen," says Stapf. "Men want to be him and women just want him."
September 16, 2002
Hello, Jason O'Mara. Playing brawny A.B. Stiles among the brainiacs is the Irish hottie you probably saw in HBO's Band of Brothers. "He had a lot of faith in us," relates Cassidy, "because he really signed on based on a couple of conversations - the character didn't exist yet." Now that Stiles isn't just a gleam in the writer's eye, what can Cassidy tell us about the new guy? He'll be "a much more visceral character...than existed in the previous ensemble. We have very few people who serve more on action than words. That's what he's going to do."
October 5, 2002
In Air Lex special-operations expert Stiles (new cast regular Jason O'Mara) and technical expert Lex (Righard Speight Jr.) are flying home from a mission when Lex, through his computer-hacking skills, discovers the plane is off-course and likely hijacked.
[Cassidy says] "Tonally, it's a thriller. And it definitely explores people's psyche post-9/11 in terms of air travel. But ultimately, it is nothing like the events of 9/11, and I personally don't think it's exploitive."
"If you're going to bury your head in the sand," O'Mara says, "the problem's not going to go away. We still have to get on planes. I've been on, like, 15 plane rides since Sept. 11. Life goes on."
http://www.canarsiecourier.com
Canarsie Courier, December, 2002
Despite having spent most of his life on the gray, often wet streets of Dublin and London, O'Mara is adjusting very well to life in Los Angeles.
"I have to confess, I'm having a great time. I'm sorry. I love it. Everybody warned me, "L.A., it's bad." A lot of British actors said, "Be careful, you'll lose your soul."
"Whenever I find I'm losing my soul, I just go to the Getty (a Los Angeles museum) and look at some art, and I feel much better. There are things you can do. I think the weather's great. I love waking up to sunshine every morning."
"I don't think he's ever met anybody like this woman [Terri]," O'Mara says. "He's trying to figure this person out. She's not like your average girl. That's what makes him keep coming back for more. He stays interested. She intrigues him, and that's fun, because I'm playing it so that, for him, it's the first time he's met somebody like this. Really, they're not suited to each other at all. It's a real case of opposites attracting, with all the sparks that fly in a scenario like that."
Boston Herald, December 15, 2002
...you might think a drama that goes behind the CIA's doors would be a no-brainer for success. But that's not the case. Perhaps CBS' "The Agency" is too realistic in its depiction of the challenges, dangers and ethical dilemmas our agents face.
This is one band of spies that shouldn't have to come in from the cold. - Mark A. Perigard
The Christian Science Monitor, January 24, 2003
...consultants can do only so much to make the show realistic. It takes actors who really understand to communicate the humanity behind the procedures. "I actually had to take them through a training program," says [former CIA spy Bazzel] Baz about the cast of his show, with additional intervention for some individuals.
People, May 5, 2003
Still, The Agency deserves credit for consistently delivering twisty plots and real suspense. In the April 26 episode it's spy versus spy when the CIA contends with ex-agents involved in an American tycoon's plan to kill members of the Saudi royal family. On May 3 O'Mara is ordered to kill a Russian emigre scientist suspected of aiding terrorists, but doubt grows as to the man's guilt. I don't get why Patton has to talk even more softly than whispery Daniel Benzali, who plays an agency hard-liner whose every word sounds sinister. But I listen closely for fear of missing something. BOTTOM LINE: Good spy games
Scripps Howard News Service, July 16, 2003
[Bazzel] Baz recalls that actor Jason O'Mara played a man who was incarcerated on "The Agency."
"As I sat on-set and watched him, he's an amazing actor, but there was just something missing," Baz says. "And he came up and said, 'I'm missing something.' "
So Baz took O'Mara to another part of the set and put him inside of a small box for 30 minutes and didn't let him out.
"That's the training he went through," Baz says. "If you want to know what it's like to be incarcerated, climb underneath your sink for 30 minutes."