Madeleine Albright to Guest Star on ‘Madam Secretary’
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will share the small-screen with her fictional counterpart this fall on the CBS drama “Madam Secretary. ”
The one-time secretary of State will appear as herself to advise the show’s top diplomat — Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord — on “a sticky situation … threatening to fracture her relationship with [faux] President Conrad Dalton,” CBS said in a statement.
Albright, a Czech immigrant who served during the Clinton administration as the nation’s first female secretary of State, this week visited the set of “Madam Secretary.”
On set with @TheTeaLeoni – always good to be with another @MadamSecretary! #matchingpins pic.twitter.com/pdHcogLNTc
— Madeleine Albright (@madeleine) July 14, 2015
Both she and the show’s star, Téa Leoni, tweeted out a picture of themselves wearing matching pins — a trademark accessory of the real-life diplomat. Leoni’s co-star, Tim Daly, and executive producer Lori McCreary also showed Albright some Twitter love, sharing behind-the-scenes photos of the former secretary during filming of the show’s sophomore season.
Secretary Albright @madeleine “Madam Secretary makes foreign affairs less foreign…” #MadeOurDay @MadamSecretary pic.twitter.com/Wgaw1dj4Ph
— Lori McCreary (@LoriMcCreary) July 14, 2015