Netflix has rounded out the cast of A Man on the Inside’s second season, adding 11 actors to the comedy’s ensemble.
Constance Marie, David Strathairn, Gary Cole, Jason Mantzoukas, Jill Talley, Linda Park, Lisa Gilroy, Madison Hu, Max Greenfield, Michaela Conlin and Sam Huntington have joined the series from creator Mike Schur (Parks and Recreation, The Good Place) and Universal Television. Mary Steenburgen was previously cast in season two; Ted Danson and Lilah Richcreek Estrada will reprise their roles from the first season.
The first season of A Man on the Inside followed Charles Nieuwendyk (Danson), a retired professor who took a job with private investigator Julie (Estrada) and went undercover in a retirement home to see who was behind a robbery there. Season two will see Charles taking on a new assignment at a college.
Steenburgen (who is married to Danson) will play a former musician who plays a key role in the new case. The other character descriptions are below.
Marie (With Love) plays Vanessa, a former con-artist and part-time-source on the criminal underworld for Julie. Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck) plays Dr. Cole, head of the English department at Wheeler College and the most famous and popular professor on campus. Cole (NCIS, Veep) plays Brad Vinick, a successful businessman whose sizable donation to his alma mater starts a chain reaction that leads to Charles getting hired. Mantzoukas (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Big Mouth) plays Apollo Lambrakis, a contractor who dreams of writing the Great American Novel.
Talley (Mr. Show, Spongebob Squarepants) plays Holly Bodgemark, the perpetually frazzled provost of Wheeler College. Park (Bosch) will play Elizabeth Muki, the director of the Fine Arts department at Wheeler College. Gilroy (Interior Chinatown, Jury Duty) plays Kelseigh Rose, a budding photographer and the new wife of Brad Vinick. Hu (The Brothers Sun) will play Claire, a Wheeler College junior who works multiple campus jobs to pay for her tuition.
Greenfield (The Neighborhood) plays Jack Beringer, the president of Wheeler College, whose job requires him to raise money from wealthy graduates. Conlin (Bones) will play Andrea Yi, who teaches economics at Wheeler College and is excited about the changes coming to the school. Huntington (Being Human) plays Max Griffin, a rabble-rousing professor of journalism at the college.
A Man on the Inside is based on the Oscar-nominated documentary The Mole Agent. Schur executive produces with Morgan Sackett, David Miner of 3 Arts Entertainment, Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibañez of Micromundo Producciones and Julie Goldman and Christopher Clements of Motto Pictures.
