Summary

• The Morning Show season 3 cast features Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, who portray two co-anchors with conflicting personalities.
• The show achieved success with Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, as well as critical acclaim for Billy Crudup's performance.
• New additions to the cast for season 3 include Jon Hamm, Nicole Beharie, Tig Notaro, Mark Duplass, and more, promising an exciting continuation of the series.

The Morning Show season 3 cast returns a strong lineup of actors for the third season of the Apple TV+ series. Starring Jennifer Anniston and Reese Witherspoon, The Morning Show about a fictional television morning show (also called The Morning Show) that has more than its fair share of turmoil. The Morning Show premiered on November 1, 2019, and examined the culture behind the broadcast morning news programs. Based on the book, Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV by Brian Stelter, the show opens with a male co-anchor forced off the show after allegations of sexual misconduct.

The remaining co-anchor Alex (Jennifer Aniston) has to work with a new partner, a former field reporter named Bradley (Reese Witherspoon), and their conflicting personalities threaten both women's careers and the fictional morning show itself. While critics' ratings were mostly average, the show did achieve great success with Golden Globes and Emmy nominations, including a win at the Emmy's in 2020 for Billy Crudup as Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. The Morning Show was also a success for Apple TV+ and its three seasons show how fans have embraced The Morning Show, thanks in no small part to its cast.

Jennifer Aniston as Alexandra Levy

Jennifer Aniston plays Alexandra Levy in The Morning Show season 3 cast. Alex is the host of the fictional in-universe The Morning Show on UBA and found her job in danger when her long-time co-host Mitch Kessler was fired for sexual harassment allegations. She is of course portrayed on-screen by Jenniefer Aniston, known mostly for her role in Friends (although she began acting much earlier, when she was 11. Aniston ended up enrolling in the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. This led to her career starting in off-Broadway productions.

While The Morning Show is perhaps her most notable current role, Jennifer Aniston is a veteran when it comes to both the small and big screen. Aniston had a few roles on TV and in smaller movies, including the horror classic Leprechaun, before she finally achieved her breakout role on the TV sitcom Friends, where she played Rachel. That led her to tremendous success in movies. She has appeared in movies as varied as Office Space, Bruce Almighty, Rumor Has It, and Horrible Bosses. She has since moved back to TV, with the two Murder Mystery movies on Netflix and her role in The Morning Show cast.

Reese Witherspoon as Bradley Jackson

Reese Witherspoon's The Morning Show season 3 character is Bradley Jackson. Bradley is a former field reporter whom the network chose to replace Mitch when he was fired. However, her impulsive decisions threatened the show's popularity and success. Bradley is of course portrayed by Reece Witherspoon, on of the co-stars of The Morning Show alongside Jennifer Aniston. Prior to acting, Witherspoon who was an English literature major in college who attended an open casting call for The Man on the Moon for a small role. She ended up cast as the lead, which helped her break out in her acting career. She received awards nominations for that movie and her career took off when she picked up a role in Return to Lonesome Dove​​​​​​.

After a decade of smaller, memorable roles in movies like Fear, Pleasantville, Election, Cruel Intentions, and American Psycho, she got her worldwide breakout role with Legally Blonde. That movie launched Witherspoon to the top of the box office, where she played it off with romantic comedies like Sweet Home Alabama before picking up an Oscar in the drama biopic Walk the Line, where she played June Carter Cash. In recent years, she moved to television with roles in Big Little Lies, Little Fires Everywhere, and The Morning Show cast.

Jon Hamm as Paul Marks

Jon Hamm joins the cast of The Morning Show season 3 as Paul Marks​​​​​​. Hamm is a huge addition to the third season of the series, playing Paul, a huge name in the corporate world who will have close relationships with Alex, Bradley, and Cory. Hamm began acting as a child and actually started out as a high school teacher teaching acting. However, he moved to Los Angeles in 1995 and began to audition. He finally got his first big break in the NBC series Providence.

However, it was in 2007 when Hamm enjoyed his breakout pre-The Morning Show role as Dan Draper in AMC's Mad Men. Hamm won one Emmy and two Golden Globes awards for Mad Men. However, this led to Hamm developing a career as a fun supporting actor in everything from 30 Rock and Good Omens as well as movies like Baby Driver and Top Gun: Maverick.

Nicole Beharie as Christina Hunger

Nicole Beharie plays Christina Hunger in The Morning Show season 3 cast​​​​​​. Beharie is another new addition to the Apple TV+ series. Christina is another new news anchor who joins the network, but there is nothing else known about the character heading into the new season. Beharie is an actor from Miami who made her movie debut in 2008 in American Violet as the lead character. In 2011, she had a chance to work with acclaimed director Steve McQueen in his Michael Fassbender movie Shame.

Another notable role prior to The Morning Show came in 2013 in the biopic 42, where Beharie played Rachel Robinson, the wife of Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman). She also picked up the role of Abbie Mills in the fantasy series Sleepy Hollow, which she starred in until the end of its third season. She also starred in the movies Jacob's Ladder and Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

Tig Notaro as Amanda Robinson

Tig Notaro's The Morning Show season 3 character is Amanda Robinson​​​​​​. Another new season 3 cast member, with Amanda as Paul's chief of staff. Actor Tig Notaro is a comedian from Mississippi who got her start in entertainment as part of the music industry before moving on to work standup in the 1990s. She released a standup album called Good One in 2011 and then released Live, which she released after her breast cancer diagnosis.

As for acting, Notaro has a series of roles and continues to see success in movies and on TV. Her movie credits include We Have a Ghost, Army of the Dead, Dog Days, and Lucy in the Sky. On TV, she has appeared in Star Trek: Discovery, New Girl, One Mississippi, and has lent her voice to roles in Tuck & Bertie, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures, and the upcoming Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas.

Mark Duplass as Charlie Black

Mark Duplass joins the cast of The Morning Show season 3 as Charlie Black​​​​​. Chip is the executive producer for fiction in-universe The Morning Show, and is the direct boss of Alex and Bradley. The actor playing Charlie, Mark Duplass, was born in New Orleans and started his career in movies by working with his brother Jay Duplass, where they wrote, directed, and produced several movies together. This included the 2010 comedy movie Cyrus, starring Jonah Hill.

There are plenty of other roles prior to The Morning Show in Mark Duplass's filmography too. In 2014, he achieved success with his horror movie Creep and its sequel, and he parlayed that into some acting jobs, including on the TV show The League. He then starred in The Lazarus Effect before signing a deal with HBO where he created the acclaimed shows Togetherness, Animals, and the anthology series, Room 104.

Billy Crudup as Cory Ellison

Billy Crudup plays Cory Ellison in The Morning Show season 3 cast. Cory is the President of the News Division at UBA who fired Mitch after the sexual harassment claims hit. Billy Crudup is an actor from New York who got his start in acting when he attended the University of North Carolina. He got his start with movies in the 1990s, including Sleepers and Inventing the Abbots.

However, Billy Crudup's big breakout prior to joining the cast of The Morning Show came in the Cameron Crowe 2000 movie Almost Famous, where he played Stillwater guitarist Russell Hammond. Since that time, he has appeared in Tim Burton's Big Fish, Mission: Impossible III, and starred as J. Edgar Hoover in Michael Mann's Public Enemies. He might be best known for his roles in the DCU movies Watchmen, where he played Doctor Manhattan, and Zack Snyder's Justice League, where he played Flash's dad, Henry Allen.

Stephen Fry as Leonard Cromwell

Stephen Fry's The Morning Show season 3 character is Leonard Cromwell. Fry joins as a new character in season 3, described as a ruthless UBA board member who wants to get the company right again. There's been a great deal of interest in the character of Leonard Cromwell thanks to his being portrayed by UK icon Stephen Fry. Stephen Fry is an English actor who first came into prominence thanks to his comedy duo with Hugh Laurie, where they starred in the TV series A Bit of Fry & Laurie.

Stephen Fry went on to enjoy a career in some major British properties, including Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, and Doctor Who. He also appeared in some big mainstream movies, with his earliest big critical role coming in Wilde, where he played Oscar Wilde and picked up a Golden Globe nomination. Other popular movies Fry appeared in include The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Gosford Park, V for Vendetta, Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, The Hobbit trilogy, and the 2023 romantic comedy Red, White & Royal Blue.

Natalie Morales as Kate Danton

Natalie Morales joins the cast of The Morning Show season 3 as Kate Danton​​​​​​. Morales is another newcomer for The Morning Show season 3 cast. The character of Kate is described as Stella's (Greta Lee) best friend. They were part of the business started by Jon Hamm's Paul Marks. Morales is a Florida actor who started her acting career in 2006 with a guest appearance on CSI: Miami.

However, her first major breakout role came in the 2008 TV series The Middlemen, where she was one of the main characters, Wendy Watson. This led to a more mainstream role in the USA Network series White Collar, where she played junior FBI agent Lauren Cruz. She also picked up a recurring role in Parks and Recreation. Morales has also appeared in No Hard Feelings, Santa Clarita Diet, and History of the World, Part II.

Lindsay Duncan as Martha Ellison

Lindsay Duncan plays Martha Ellison in The Morning Show season 3 cast​​​​​​. Ellison is a political strategist with a storied history going back to the 1970s and 1980s. She is also Cory's mother. Martha is played by Linsday Duncan, an Olivier and Tony Award-winning actor from Scotland who started her career in theater, working in stageplay adaptations for the first decade of her career. While she appeared in several movies in her early career, her first major role was as the voice of an android named TC-14 in Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace.

Star Wars isn't Lindsay Duncan's only major role prior to The Morning Show, however. Since that role, she has gone on to enjoy an admirable and active career, with movie roles in Mansfield Park, Under the Tuscan Sun, Alice in Wonderland, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), and TV shows like A Discovery of Witches.

Alano Miller as Marcus Hunter

Alano Miller's The Morning Show season 3 character is Marcus Hunter​​​​​​. Marcus is a successful sports agent who is helping his wife Chris navigate the politics at UBA. Miller is an actor from Florida who became best known for his role in the 2016 movie Loving, where he played Raymond Green. He has mostly worked in television, and had a major role in Underground as Cato and was a recurring star in Jane the Virgin as Aaron Zazo.

Clive Standen as Andre Ford

Clive Standen joins the cast of The Morning Show season 3 as Andre Ford. Andre is a photojournalist who is covering the war in Ukraine. Standon is an Irish actor who is best known for playing Bryan Mills in the NBC series Taken, the role that Liam Neeson made famous in the movies. He has also appeared in the movies Planet Zero and Taken and TV shows Vikings (as Rollo) and Council of Dads (as Anthony).