Netflix’s untitled Mike Schur/Ted Danson comedy series has an official title – A Classic Spy – and 13 new cast members. The comedy, based on the Oscar-nominated documentary The Mole Agent, follows Ted Danson as Charles, a retired man who fills his hours working for a private investigator as a mole inside a secret organization.
Mike Schur created the series and serves as an executive producer. Additional executive producers include Morgan Sackett, David Miner, Maite Alberdi, Marcela Santibañez, Julie Goldman, and Christopher Clements. The series is produced by Universal Television.
Netflix released the following A Classic Spy cast and character descriptions:
- Mary Elizabeth Ellis (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) plays EMILY, a married mother of three boys who has to adjust when her father Charles (Danson) makes a surprising late-life career move and becomes an undercover detective.
- Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) plays DIDI, the all-seeing, all-knowing managing director of the Pacific View Retirement Residence in San Francisco.
- Lilah Richcreek Estrada (Chicago Med) plays JULIE, a San Francisco-based private investigator, Julie hires Charles to be her mole and pretends to be his daughter to maintain the ruse at the retirement home.
- Two-time Tony nominee Stephen Mckinley Henderson (Fences, Dune) plays CALBERT, a transplant from Washington, D.C., Calbert is the stoic eyes and ears of the Pacific View community.
- Two-time Emmy Award winner Sally Struthers (All In The Family) plays VIRGINIA, the vivacious life of the party, Virginia immediately takes a shine to Charles.
- Eugene Cordero (The Good Place) plays JOEL, Emily’s husband, a supportive and exceedingly competent 10th grade science teacher.
- Academy Award nominee Margaret Avery (The Color Purple) plays FLORENCE Virginia’s sweet best friend, Florence loves poetry and the Golden State Warriors in equal measure.
- John Getz (Transparent) plays ELLIOTT, Pacific View’s resident lothario. Elliott immediately feels threatened by all the attention Charles gets when he moves in.
- Four-time Emmy nominee Susan Ruttan (L.A. Law) plays GLADYS, a glamorous former costume designer from New York, Gladys lives next door to Charles at Pacific View.
- Lori Tan Chinn (Joy Ride) plays SUSAN, the President of the Pacific View resident council, which she rules with an iron fist.
- Clyde Kusatsu (Young Rock) plays GRANT, a Princeton grad at Pacific View, who is deeply concerned with you knowing he is a Princeton grad.
- Marc Evan Jackson (Lessons In Chemistry) plays Evan, the client who hires Julie to investigate the theft of his mother’s necklace.
- Jama Williamson (The Good Place) plays Beatrice, the Pacific View Activities Director, Beatrice has never had a bad day in her life.
