Eleanor Bartlet
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Eleanor "Ellie" Emily Bartlet Faison, M.D. is a fictional character
played by Nina Siemaszko
on the television
serial
drama
The West Wing. Ellie is the middle daughter of President Josiah Bartlet
and Abbey Bartlet
.
In her self-titled debut episode
in Season 2, Ellie, then a 24-year-old medical student at Johns Hopkins University
, causes problems for the administration by saying her father would never fire the Surgeon General
(who also happens to be her godmother) for her comments regarding the medical facts of marijuana. Ellie's intervention surprises both President Bartlet and his staff, as Ellie had always been the Bartlet daughter who shied away most from the limelight. In the episode it becomes apparent that Ellie and her father have often not got along, with Ellie claiming that only her sisters, Elizabeth and Zoey, have ever made him happy, and President Bartlet claiming that "she always belonged to Abbey." Jed nevertheless maintained to her at the end of the episode that "all [she] ever had to do to make [him] happy was to come home at the end of the day."
Ellie also appears in the fifth season when her sister Zoey was kidnapped by terrorists and that her father stepped down from office under the 25th Amendment. In this episode, despite Abbey's hostility towards Jed, Ellie shows support to him when she comforts him after a fight with Abbey and when they are seen holding hands before a private mass for Zoey. She also reappears when her medical research into HPV in sex workers comes under fire by some Republicans in Congress. In this episode, a partial shot of a diploma suggests that she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University
.
In the seventh season, Ellie becomes engaged to her boyfriend, Vic Faison, referred to by her mother and father as "The Fruit Fly Guy." As Ellie was pregnant at the time of her engagement, the engagement is brief. The wedding takes place in The White House. Despite concerns that an international crisis with China will cause President Bartlet to be unable to walk his daughter down the aisle, he makes it in time.
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
played by Nina Siemaszko
Nina Siemaszko
Nina Siemaszko is an American film and television actress.-Biography:Siemaszko was born Antonina Jadwiga Siemaszko in Chicago, Illinois to a Polish American father, a fighter in the Polish Underground who survived the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and an English mother...
on the television
Television
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serial
Serial (radio and television)
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drama
Drama
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The West Wing. Ellie is the middle daughter of President Josiah Bartlet
Josiah Bartlet
Josiah Edward "Jed" Bartlet is a fictional character played by Martin Sheen on the television serial drama The West Wing. He is President of the United States for the entire series until the last episode, when his successor is inaugurated...
and Abbey Bartlet
Abbey Bartlet
Dr. Abigail Anne "Abbey" Barrington Bartlet, MD, is a fictional character played by Stockard Channing on the television serial drama, The West Wing. In the show, she is the First Lady of the United States, the wife of President Josiah Bartlet.-Overview:...
.
In her self-titled debut episode
Ellie (The West Wing)
-Plot:The President is put in a tricky spot when Millicent Griffith his Surgeon General publicly supports the legalization of marijuana, and his daughter Ellie makes a controversial comment to Danny Concannon...
in Season 2, Ellie, then a 24-year-old medical student at Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
, causes problems for the administration by saying her father would never fire the Surgeon General
Surgeon General of the United States
The Surgeon General of the United States is the operational head of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government...
(who also happens to be her godmother) for her comments regarding the medical facts of marijuana. Ellie's intervention surprises both President Bartlet and his staff, as Ellie had always been the Bartlet daughter who shied away most from the limelight. In the episode it becomes apparent that Ellie and her father have often not got along, with Ellie claiming that only her sisters, Elizabeth and Zoey, have ever made him happy, and President Bartlet claiming that "she always belonged to Abbey." Jed nevertheless maintained to her at the end of the episode that "all [she] ever had to do to make [him] happy was to come home at the end of the day."
Ellie also appears in the fifth season when her sister Zoey was kidnapped by terrorists and that her father stepped down from office under the 25th Amendment. In this episode, despite Abbey's hostility towards Jed, Ellie shows support to him when she comforts him after a fight with Abbey and when they are seen holding hands before a private mass for Zoey. She also reappears when her medical research into HPV in sex workers comes under fire by some Republicans in Congress. In this episode, a partial shot of a diploma suggests that she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
.
In the seventh season, Ellie becomes engaged to her boyfriend, Vic Faison, referred to by her mother and father as "The Fruit Fly Guy." As Ellie was pregnant at the time of her engagement, the engagement is brief. The wedding takes place in The White House. Despite concerns that an international crisis with China will cause President Bartlet to be unable to walk his daughter down the aisle, he makes it in time.
See also
- The West Wing
- List of characters on The West Wing
- List of politicians on The West Wing
- List of The West Wing episodes