| Person: | Characters | Episodes | |
| • Al Hunt | played | 15 Episodes | |
| • Ian Bremmer | played | 7 Episodes | |
| • Mark Halperin | played | 6 Episodes | |
| • John Heilemann | played | 6 Episodes | |
| • David Brooks (1) | played | 5 Episodes | |
| • David Sanger | played | 5 Episodes | |
| • Michael Morell | played | 5 Episodes | |
| • Jeff Goldberg | played | 5 Episodes | |
| • David Remnick | played | 4 Episodes | |
| • David Ignatius | played | 4 Episodes | |
| • John Dickerson | played | 4 Episodes | |
| • Julia Louis-Dreyfus | played | 3 Episodes | |
| • Thomas Friedman | played | 3 Episodes | |
| • Doris Kearns Goodwin | played | 3 Episodes | |
| • Kristen Wiig | played | 3 Episodes | |
| • Richard Haass | played | 3 Episodes | |
| • Dexter Filkins | played | 3 Episodes | |
| • Peter Baker | played | 3 Episodes | |
| • Tom Donilon | played | 3 Episodes | |
| • Orville Schell | played | 3 Episodes | |
| • Ron Dermer | played | 3 Episodes | |
| • Bradley Cooper | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • David Oyelowo | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • John Oliver | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Jason Hall (1) | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Mindy Kaling | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • John McCain | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Hillary Rodham Clinton | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Walter Isaacson | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Colin Firth | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Michael Keaton | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Jessica Chastain | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Laurie Garrett | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Bernard-Henri Levy | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Bill Cowher | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Robin Wright | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Jon Meacham | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • David Boies (1) | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • David Martin (2) | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Chuck Hagel | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Michael Lewis (3) | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Jeffrey Toobin | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Kurt Andersen | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Chuck Todd | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Karim Sadjadpour | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Edward O. Wilson | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Nicholas Kristof | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Clarissa Ward | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Anders Fogh Rasmussen | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Stephen Sestanovich | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Michael McFaul | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Recep Tayyip Erdogan | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • David Leonhardt | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Dylan Byers | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Evan Osnos | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • John Micklethwait | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Fiona Hill | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Lloyd Blankfein | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Seth G. Jones | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Tommy Smyth | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Fleur Pellerin | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Robert Costa (2) | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Jay Solomon | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Carol Lee (2) | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Ray Takeyh | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Michael W. Hanna | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Tim Cook | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Mikhail Khodorkovsky | played | 2 Episodes | |
| • Matthew G. Olsen | played | 2 Episodes |