Stan Beeman (The Americans)

Stan Beeman
The Americans character
First appearance	"Pilot"
Created by	Joe Weisberg
Portrayed by	Noah Emmerich
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Occupation	FBI agent
Spouse(s)	Sandra Beeman (separated)
Children	Matthew Beeman

Stan Beeman is a fictional character in the American television drama series The Americans on FX, and the supporting male character. He was created by series creator Joe Weisberg and is portrayed by Noah Emmerich. Stan is an FBI agent and a neighbor of the lead characters, Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), who are undercover Russian spies.

Stan is an FBI counter-intelligence agent and moves to Northern Virginia with his wife, Sandra (Susan Misner) and his son, Matthew (Daniel Flaherty) across the street from Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys). Stan is unaware of the fact that Philip and Elizabeth are undercover KGB agents but becomes suspicious when he learns that a car similar to Philip's is seen near the site of Timoshev's, a Soviet defector, abduction but finds nothing when he covertly inspects Philip's trunk.

In the second episode, Stan blackmails Nina Sergeevna (Annet Mahendru), a Soviet embassy clerk, to spy for the FBI. Nina feeds Stan information about a Soviet agent who was killed the night Timochev went missing. As Stan gets to know Nina, he subsequently grows further apart from Sandra from how much he works and isn't home to spend family time together. After Stan misses a family dinner due to work, a co-worker takes him to a bar and tells him to pick out a woman to have casual sex with. Stan calls Nina instead and they sleep together but the way Nina conducts herself leads him to believe that she is using Stan and may be a double agent. She is tasked to try and turn Stan but starts to fall in love with him instead. Agent Frank Gaad (Richard Thomas) is Stan's FBI supervisor, gives him the keys to a safe house and tells him to take Nina there which then becomes their "love nest".

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