Alias (television)
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| Genre |
Action thriller Espionage thriller Drama |
| Created by | J. J. Abrams |
| Starring |
Jennifer Garner Ron Rifkin Michael Vartan Bradley Cooper Merrin Dungey Carl Lumbly Kevin Weisman Victor Garber David Anders Lena Olin Greg Grunberg Melissa George Mía Maestro Rachel Nichols Balthazar Getty Élodie Bouchez Amy Acker |
| Composer(s) | Michael Giacchino |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 105 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | J. J. Abrams Ken Olin John Eisendrath Alex Kurtzman Roberto Orci Jeffrey Bell Jeff Pinkner Jesse Alexander |
| Producer(s) | Sarah Caplan Robert M. Williams Jr. Monica Breen Alison Schapker Chad Savage Jennifer Garner |
| Running time | 42 – 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Bad Robot Productions Touchstone Television |
| Distributor |
Buena Vista Home Entertainment Disney–ABC Domestic Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | September 30, 2001 – May 22, 2006 |
| Website | www |
Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams, that was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001, to May 22, 2006. It stars Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, a double-agent for the Central Intelligence Agency posing as an operative for SD-6, a worldwide criminal and espionage organization.
The main theme of the series explores Sydney's obligation to conceal her true career from her friends and family, even as she assumes multiple aliases to carry out her missions. This theme is most prevalent in the first two seasons of the show. A major plotline of the series is the search for and recovery of artifacts created by Milo Rambaldi, a fictitious Renaissance-era figure with similarities to both Leonardo da Vinci and Nostradamus. This plot and some technologies used in the series place Alias into the genre of science fiction.
The series was well received among critics and has been included in several "best of" lists. Alias was in the American Film Institute's top ten list for television programs in 2003. The show also received numerous awards and nominations.
Alias featured an ensemble cast portraying the various people in Sydney's life. During the course of the series, every main character becomes involved in the world of espionage in some form or another.
Characters are listed in order of appearance on the show.
In addition, Alias also featured many other famous actors in roles ranging from single-episode guest appearances to semi-recurring characters, including Jonathan Banks as Frederick Brandon, Raymond J. Barry as Senator George Reed, Tobin Bell as Karl Dreyer, Peter Berg as Noah Hicks, David Carradine as Conrad, David Cronenberg as Dr. Brezzel, Faye Dunaway as Ariana Kane, Griffin Dunne as Leonid Lisenker, Vivica A. Fox as Toni Cummings, Ricky Gervais as Daniel Ryan,John Hannah as Martin Shepard, Rutger Hauer as Anthony Geiger, Ethan Hawke as James Lennox,Djimon Hounsou as Kazari Bomani, Richard Lewis as Mitchell Yaeger, Peggy Lipton as Olivia Reed, Sir Roger Moore as Edward Poole,Richard Roundtree as Thomas Brill, Jason Segel as Sam Hauser, Christian Slater as Neil Caplan, Quentin Tarantino as McKenas Cole, Justin Theroux as Simon Walker, Keone Young as Professor Choy, and Danny Trejo as Emilio Vargas.
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