Vice President William Walden

William Walden is the Vice President, a hardened political operator with a hawkish record on national security. He carries himself with the calm authority of a man used to command, weighing threats and enemies with cold pragmatism. Beneath the polished public composure lies someone comfortable making brutal calculations in the name of protecting the country.

Jamey Sheridan plays Walden with a controlled, patrician menace that never tips into cartoon villainy. The writing lets him embody the machinery of power at its most unsentimental—decisions made from conference rooms rather than battlefields—so that his charm and his ruthlessness feel like the same instinct wearing different clothes.