Designated Survivor: Virginia Madsen Joins ABC's Kiefer Sutherland Drama
Kiefer Sutherland hasn’t even been sworn in yet, and he already has a challenger for the office of President of the United States — in Virginia Madsen.
In the freshman ABC drama Designated Survivor (premiering Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 10/9c), 24 alum Sutherland plays Tom Kirkman, a lowly Secretary of Housing and Urban Development who, as the “designated survivor” during the State of the Union Address, finds himself next in line to occupy the Oval Office following a terrorist attack on the Capitol.
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Per our sister site Deadline, Madsen (who is currently playing the family matriarch on CBS’ American Gothic) will heavily recur on the series as — and boy is this a name! —Kimble Hookstraten, the “designated survivor” from the rival political party. A conservative Congresswoman, she throws her support to Kirkman… for now, while harboring a quite different true agenda.
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Madsen’s previous TV credits also include Elementary (where she is set for an encore as Captain Gregson’s girlfriend), Witches of East End, Hell on Wheels, The Event and Scoundrels.
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