‘The Agency’ Season 2 Casts 6 Including Christian Ochoa Lavernia, Keanush Tafreshi & Raza Jaffrey

EXCLUSIVE: Christian Ochoa Lavernia (Silo) is set as a series regular and Clayne Crawford (Chad Powers), Keanush Tafreshi (V/H/S/99), Medalion Rahimi (Hacks), Raza Jaffrey (Homeland) and Tessa Ferrer (Swagger) will recur in Season 2 of The Agency: Central Intelligence (fka The Agency) for Paramount+ with Showtime. The title, The Agency: Central Intelligence reflects the focus of the second season.

They join series lead Michael Fassbender, along with Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, Harriet Sansom Harris, John Magaro, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Andrew Brooke, India Fowler, Reza Brojerdi, Alex Reznik and Richard Gere.

Production on Season 2 is currently underway in London.

Based on the French series Le Bureau des Legendes, The Agency follows Martian (Fassbender). a covert CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.

Ochoa Lavernia will play Grandma, undercover agent with Grandpa.

Crawford portrays Viking, wanted by the CIA in connection with a dangerous military group.

Rahimi is Darya, niece of a powerful Mullah and Hassan Zamani’s girlfriend.

Jaffrey plays Craig, data analyst on the Iran Desk. 

Ferrer portrays Robyn, US Air Force nurse in Suffolk, England.

Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth (Ford v Ferrari, Edge of Tomorrow) return as writers and executive producers.

Keith Cox and Nina L. Diaz executive produce for MTV Entertainment Studios, along with David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin and Bob Yari for 101 Studios, George Clooney and Grant Heslov for Smokehouse Pictures; Alex Berger for TOP – The Originals Productions; Ashley Stern and Pascal Breton for Federation Studios/Federation Entertainment of America; Fassbender and Joe Wright.

The series is co-distributed internationally by Paramount Global Content Distribution and Federation Studios.

Ochoa Lavernia is known for his work on The Diplomat, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Halo and Silo among others. He’ll next be seen in Guy Ritchie’s In the Grey. He’s repped by JWM Entertainment Group, TalentWorks Agency (US), and Grantham-Hazeldine (UK).

Crawford just wrapped the Hulu series Chad Powers opposite Glen Powell. He was most recently seen in Lethal Weapon for Fox and was a regular on Rectify, for SundanceTV. He’s repped by Gersh, Principal Entertainment LA and Yorn Levine.

Rising actor Tafreshi’s previous work includes Shudder’s V/H/S/99, and a supporting role in the Weird Al biopic, Weird. Tafreshi is repped by Main Title Entertainment and Realm Talent. 

Rahimi can currently be seen recurring in Season 4 of Hacks. She’s known for her role as Special Agent Fatima Namazi in NCIS: Los Angeles, and on the film side, she is currently producing and starring in The Weekend on Cape Cod When Everything Changed. She’s repped by Untitled Entertainment and Gersh.

Jaffrey will next be seen in the limited series Malice on Amazon, opposite David Duchovny and Jack Whitehall, and in indie horror film The Refuge. Previous credits include Starz’s The Serpent Queen, and his critically acclaimed role of Asair Khan in Showtime’s Homeland. He’s repped by United Agents, Verve and Principal Entertainment.

Ferrer was a series regular for two seasons on AppleTV+’s Swagger, as well as a regular on Grey’s Anatomy and AT&T’s Mr. Mercedes. She recurred on George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Catch 22 for Hulu and FXX’s You’re the Worst, among others. She’s repped by Lasher Group, Innovative Artists Entertainment and Surpin, Mayersohn, Coghill, LLP.