PART OF THE fun of any good spy story or secret agent thriller is seeing the evolution of the cast of characters around our hero. Who are these new people? Who can be trusted? What do we make of this charismatic new superior or that angry bureaucrat? These are all questions that we tend to ask with each new Mission: Impossible movie or, in the past, with new seasons of shows like 24 or Homeland, and now we’re finding ourselves wondering the same things in the new season of The Night Agent.
Our story picks up a bit after the events of the first season of The Night Agent, and our hero, Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) is on an important mission. Peter looks a little different—to start the season he’s got a beard!—and almost all of our characters from last season (even Rose Larkin, Peter’s charge and eventual love interest) are gone. We’re a little disoriented, and that’s the point.
But there’s one familiar face. Despite the fact we’ve never seen her before, Alice, Peter’s new Night Agent partner, should look familiar to just about everyone watching at home. That’s because she’s played by actress Brittany Snow, who for the last 20 years has been appearing in all sorts of popular shows and movies. We don’t know Alice, but because we recognize Brittany Snow—and she’s usually playing someone pretty nice!—we feel like we can trust her. But should we?
That’s part of what makes any good spy story or political thriller so much fun.
Brittany Snow plays Alice in The Night Agent season 2
If you’re wondering why Alice from The Night Agent looks so familiar, it means you’ve probably seen Brittany Snow in one of her many projects; she’s been working consistently for more than 20 years at this point.
Snow started her career in television, first appearing in 12 episodes of the soap opera Guiding Light before landing the lead role on American Dreams, which was NBC’s American Bandstand drama that ran for three seasons between 2002 and 2005; it was a modest hit.
She would go on to star in all sorts of popular movies, starting with her feature film debut in 2005’s The Pacifier, the family action comedy starring Vin Diesel as a babysitter. She appeared in hits like John Tucker Must Die and Hairspray along with the horror remake Prom Night and the indie The Vicious Kind, alongside Severance and Party Down star Adam Scott. Her most famous role to this day, though, is probably in the Pitch Perfect franchise, where she played Chloe Beale in all three films.
For anyone who likes the tense energy that some of The Night Agent tends to offer, we can direct you to the 2022 horror film X, which marked the first film in director Ti West‘s Pearl/Maxine trilogy; she played adult film actress Bobby-Lynne Parker in the film, which took much inspiration from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and other grungy horrors of the like. It’s certainly more intense than The Night Agent, but it comes with similar thrills and excitement. And Snow is excellent in it.
Anyone hoping to see more of Snow on the big screen should keep an eye out for The Hunting Wives, which should be out on Starz at some point in 2025. The series is based on the book of the same name by May Cobb, and Snow plays the main character, a woman who moves to a new suburb and falls into a web of obsession and seduction involving a popular socialite.
