It’s hard not to see Ainsley as a big-time missed opportunity for The West Wing. This was a possibly dynamic character who could have changed the geography of the show and helped it go in some ...

Another high-profile West Wing character that took a trip to Mandyville was Emily Procter’s Ainsley Hayes. Brought into the Bartlet White House as an Associate Counsel, she was seemingly set up ...

During the final season of “The West Wing,” beloved actor John Spencer, who played Bartlet’s close friend and chief of staff Leo McGarry, died suddenly of a heart attack.

But after a day of getting batted around the West Wing, Ainsley got a particular threatening message from a pair of chowderhead staffers, and Sam finally got it into his head that Ainsley was an ...

Aside from The West Wing, the actor is best known for her role as Calleigh Duquesne in CSI: Miami. From 2002 until 2012, she starred in 232 episodes of the long-running drama.

I only bring this up because I sensed a similar yearning throughout “A West Wing Special,” the HBO Max reunion of Aaron Sorkin‘s early aughts NBC drama. There’s an overt desire to make a ...

"A West Wing Special" readily admits as much and urges people to see beyond the fantasy; to listen to a real president, a real first lady, and real people who are willing to inspire and inform.