The Americans guest stars
409 actors have guest-starred in The Americans across 75 episodes and 6 seasons. The most-credited is Frank Langella, Gabriel in 31 episodes. 169 of them have also guest-starred in five or more of the other shows in this catalogue.
Who came back most
| Actor | Character | Eps |
|---|---|---|
| Frank Langella | Gabriel | 31 |
| Danny Flaherty | Matthew Beeman | 23 |
| Kelly AuCoin | Pastor Tim | 22 |
| Vera Cherny | Tatiana Evgenyevna Vyazemtseva | 19 |
| Aaron Roman Weiner | Agent Brooks | 18 |
| Amy Tribbey | Marilyn | 14 |
| Anthony Arkin | Stavos | 14 |
| Peter Mark Kendall | Hans | 14 |
| Russell G. Jones | Norm | 14 |
| Boris Lee Krutonog | Igor Pavlovich Burov | 13 |
| Cotter Smith | Deputy Attorney General | 13 |
| Laurie Holden | Renée | 12 |
| Michael Aronov | Anton Baklanov | 12 |
| Peter Jacobson | FBI Agent Arnold Wolfe | 12 |
| Snezhana Chernova | Yelena Burova | 12 |
| Suzy Jane Hunt | Alice | 12 |
| Todd Faulkner | Agent Loeb | 11 |
| Irina Dvorovenko | Evgheniya Morozova | 10 |
| Ivan Mok | Tuan Eckert | 10 |
| Julia Garner | Kimberly Breland | 10 |
| Peter Von Berg | Vasili Nikolaevich | 9 |
| Дарья Екамасова | Sofia Kovalenko Bystrov | 9 |
| Joe Lanza | Rick | 8 |
| Lee Tergesen | Cpt. Andrew Larrick | 8 |
| Alex Ozerov-Meyer | Mikhail "Mischa" Semenov | 7 |
The Americans guest stars by season
| Season | Guests | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 103 | Danny Flaherty, Peter Von Berg, Vitaly Benko, Anthony Arkin, Cotter Smith, Derek Luke, Tim Hopper, Aaron Roman Weiner, Betsy Aidem, Gregory Abbey, Isaiah Stokes, Matthew Stocke and 91 more |
| Season 2 | 98 | Lee Tergesen, John Carroll Lynch, Owen Campbell, Wrenn Schmidt, Aaron Roman Weiner, Aimee Carrero, Michael Aronov, David Adkins, Kelly AuCoin, Trish McCall, Anthony Arkin, C.J. Wilson and 86 more |
| Season 3 | 69 | Frank Langella, Peter Mark Kendall, Vera Cherny, Svetlana Efremova, Julia Garner, Karen Pittman, Kelly AuCoin, Rahul Khanna, Jefferson Mays, Luke Robertson, Michael Aronov, Aaron Roman Weiner and 57 more |
| Season 4 | 65 | Frank Langella, Kelly AuCoin, Vera Cherny, Danny Flaherty, Ruthie Ann Miles, Suzy Jane Hunt, Peter Mark Kendall, Aaron Roman Weiner, Blythe Sim, Kasey Lee, Michael Aronov, Rob Yang and 53 more |
| Season 5 | 98 | Irina Dvorovenko, Ivan Mok, Snezhana Chernova, Frank Langella, Peter Jacobson, Alexander Sokovikov, Boris Lee Krutonog, Russell G. Jones, Alex Ozerov-Meyer, Laurie Holden, Ravil Isyanov, Zack Gafin and 86 more |
| Season 6 | 74 | Joe Lanza, Amy Tribbey, Andy Taylor, Anthony Arkin, Laurie Holden, Miriam Shor, Scott Cohen, Aaron Roman Weiner, Alex Feldman, Irene Sofia Lucio, Joseph Melendez, Russell G. Jones and 62 more |
Guest stars you know from somewhere else
The hardest-working character actors in this show's guest cast, ranked by how many other shows in this catalogue they have also guest-starred in. Not the most famous names, the most prolific ones.
| Actor | In The Americans | Other shows |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Gaston | Agent Mark Bartholomew | 32 |
| Lee Tergesen | Cpt. Andrew Larrick | 31 |
| Jordan Baker | Charlotte | 25 |
| Željko Ivanek | John Skeevers | 24 |
| Ilia Volok | Russian Man | 23 |
| Peter Jacobson | FBI Agent Arnold Wolfe | 22 |
| Erik Jensen | Bruce Dameran | 22 |
| John Bedford Lloyd | Jim Halliwell | 21 |
| Paul Fitzgerald | Richard Patterson | 20 |
| Marceline Hugot | Theresa Rawlings | 20 |
| Richard Kline | Bill Hanson | 19 |
| Jeremy Davidson | Emmett Connors | 19 |
| Scott Cohen | Glenn Haskard | 18 |
| David Furr | Ted Paaswell | 17 |
| Cotter Smith | Deputy Attorney General | 16 |
Played more than one character
| Actor | Characters | Eps |
|---|---|---|
| Ted Koch | CIA Officer, Uniformed Security Guard | 2 |
Shares a cast with
- The Americans and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — 135 shared actors
- The Americans and The Blacklist — 132 shared actors
- The Americans and Blue Bloods — 109 shared actors
- The Americans and Elementary — 85 shared actors
- The Americans and Person of Interest — 76 shared actors
- The Americans and The Good Wife — 70 shared actors
- The Americans and Madam Secretary — 68 shared actors
- The Americans and Bull — 63 shared actors
Cast data from TVmaze, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.