Zoey Bartlet
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| Zoey Bartlet | |
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 Elisabeth Moss as Zoey Bartlet |
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| First appearance | The Crackpots and These Women |
| Last appearance | Requiem |
| Created by | Aaron Sorkin |
| Portrayed by | Elisabeth Moss |
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| Occupation | Student at Georgetown University (Seasons 1-4) Post-Graduate (Seasons 5-7) |
| Family | Josiah Bartlet (father) Abbey Bartlet (mother) Elizabeth Bartlet Westin (sister) Eleanor Faison (sister) |
| Spouse(s) | Charlie Young (on/off again boyfriend) Jean Paul Pierre Claude Charpentier (ex-boyfriend) |
| Relatives | Doug Westin (brother-in-law) Vic Faison (brother-in-law) Thomas Broom Weathergill (ancestor) |
Zoey Patricia Bartlet is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Moss on the television serial drama The West Wing. Zoey is the youngest of President Josiah Bartlet and Abbey Bartlet's three daughters, and is more prominently featured in the series than either of her sisters.
Zoey and presidential aide Charlie Young became romantically involved in the first season of The West Wing. Their interracial relationship prompted a white supremacist organization to target Young unsuccessfully for assassination, although both President Bartlet and Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman were badly wounded in the shooting.[1][2]
Zoey and Charlie's relationship ended in the second season, largely due to Charlie's demanding work schedule. By the fourth season, Zoey is seen dating a young French man named Jean-Paul Pierre Claude Charpentier.
Zoey graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University. On her graduation day, she was kidnapped and held for several days, which led President Bartlet to invoke the 25th Amendment, transferring presidential authority to Speaker of the House Glen Allen Walken as Acting President of the United States. Jean-Paul's unintentional complicity in the kidnapping (he spikes her drink with what he thinks is ecstasy, but is actually GHB) ended their relationship. Later, in the sixth season, Charlie and Zoey are shown to have resumed their relationship, with Charlie even considering asking Zoey to marry him. No mention is made of the relationship, or her occupation, in the seventh and final season.
According to President Bartlet, she speaks fluent Italian. Her Secret Service codename is "Bookbag". There's some debate about whether she was born in 1979, 1980, or 1981 due to a continuity issue within the first two seasons when writers retroactively decreased her age from 19 in season one to 17 in season two. That her birthday is in December is established in the episode "In The Room" which was aired on December 1, 2004.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Dicker, Rory Cooke and Piepmeier, Alison (2003) Catching a wave: reclaiming feminism for the 21st century Northeastern University Press, Boston, Massachusetts, page 75, ISBN 1-55553-570-4
- ^ Parry-Giles, Trevor and Parry-Giles, Shawn J. (2006) The prime-time presidency: The West Wing and U.S. nationalism University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, page 74, ISBN 0-252-03065-6
