Mary Steenburgen Cast Alongside Husband Ted Danson for A Man on the Inside Season Two

Oscar winner Mary Steenburgen has landed a leading role in season two of A Man on the Inside. Created by Mike Schur, A Man on the Inside centers on Charles (Danson), a retired man who gets a new lease on life when he answers a private investigator’s ad and becomes a mole in a secret investigation.

A Man on the Inside follows an anthology format, with Charles tackling a new case each season. In the first season, he went undercover in a retirement home. In season two, he goes undercover at a liberal arts college. The new destination was revealed at the end of the first season when Charles, a retired engineering professor, began offering his services as a guest lecturer.



Steenburgen (pictured, next to her husband Ted Danson) will play Mona Margadoff, a former musician who plays a major role in the case Charles is trying to solve. No further details were provided, but sources say Mona is a professor at the university Charles will investigate in season two and that sparks may fly between them.

In addition to being a couple in real life, Steenburgen and Danson also starred together on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. Steenburgen and Danson co-starred on the short-lived 1996 comedy Ink, and she has guest-starred on all of Danson's series over the past two decades, including Becker, Bored to Death, The Good Place, and Mr. Mayor.

The first season of A Man on the Inside debuted at the top of Netflix's weekly English series chart and remained in the Top 10 for five weeks. It was named one of AFI's 2024 Television Shows of the Year, and Danson was nominated for a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance.