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  • Michael J. Fox
    Michael J. Fox

    …2009; The Good Wife; and Designated Survivor. He briefly starred in The Michael J. Fox Show (2013–14), a comedy in which he played a news anchor with Parkinson disease.

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    …2009; The Good Wife; and Designated Survivor. He briefly starred in The Michael J. Fox Show (2013–14), a comedy in which he played a news anchor with Parkinson disease.

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  • Kiefer Sutherland in 24
    Kiefer Sutherland

    …starred in the TV series Designated Survivor (2016–19), in which he was cast as a low-ranking cabinet member who becomes president after many in the U.S. government are killed in an attack on the U.S. Capitol during the State of the Union address; ABC canceled the show in 2018, but…

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    …starred in the TV series Designated Survivor (2016–19), in which he was cast as a low-ranking cabinet member who becomes president after many in the U.S. government are killed in an attack on the U.S. Capitol during the State of the Union address; ABC canceled the show in 2018, but…

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