Annabeth Schott

Annabeth Schott
Kristin Chenoweth as Annabeth Schott
First appearance	"Liftoff"
Last appearance	"Tomorrow"
Created by	Debora Cahn
Portrayed by	Kristin Chenoweth
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Occupation	Deputy Press Secretary/Media Consultant (Season 6), Santos Campaign Aide (Season 7), Press Secretary of the First Lady (end of Season 7)

Annabeth Schott, played by Kristin Chenoweth, is a fictional character on the political drama The West Wing. She joins the Bartlet administration in Season 6 as Deputy Press Secretary for media relations following the promotion of C.J. Cregg to White House Chief of Staff, although she applied for a different position after working for and reportedly "discovering" political talk show host Taylor Reid. She holds a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Maryland.

As Deputy Press Secretary, Annabeth is often called upon to brief the press, particularly as Toby Ziegler, who has been filling in for C.J., is often occupied by his duties as White House Communications Director. Although able to talk to reporters effectively outside of the realm of press briefings, Annabeth finds herself nervous in the formal briefing setting. Instead, she does her best to coach Toby, who is prickly and mumbly with the press, to use his natural "watchable quality" to turn him into an able Acting Press Secretary.

Toward the end of Season 6, Annabeth assists Leo McGarry in running the 2006 Democratic National Convention. Leo is announced as the vice-presidential running mate of Matt Santos at convention and in Season 7, Schott joins the Santos-McGarry campaign as Leo's chief aide. The two bond quickly and are rarely seen apart in the first half of the season. At one point when Leo suggests they get dinner, Annabeth says she thinks it would be best if they kept their distance when not working "because of the tension." After walking away, Leo wonders to himself "What tension?"

Leo uses Annabeth's name to leak to the press that he is a poor debater, lowering expectations for his performance in the vice-presidential debate, in which he performs spectacularly. When confronted by Annabeth on this, Leo mentions that she should never use her cat's name as her computer password. The two continue to be close and at one point when Annabeth is singing to herself, Donna Moss muses that it is because of Leo.

On the night of the 2006 election, Annabeth goes to Leo's room where she believes he is taking a nap. She finds him unconscious on the floor, having suffered a second heart attack. He is rushed to the hospital and soon pronounced dead. Annabeth is the only one of his friends and family with him when he dies.

Following Leo's death and the election of Matt Santos as President, Annabeth is selected by First Lady Helen Santos as her Press Secretary, working alongside Donna Moss, who is named Helen Santos' Chief of Staff.

References

The West Wing

Main characters

Recurring characters

Episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc" "A Proportional Response" "Five Votes Down" "The Crackpots and These Women" "Mr. Willis of Ohio" "The State Dinner" "Enemies" "The Short List" "In Excelsis Deo" "Lord John Marbury" "He Shall, from Time to Time..." "Take out the Trash Day" "Take This Sabbath Day" "Celestial Navigation" "20 Hours in L.A." "The White House Pro-Am" "Six Meetings Before Lunch" "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet" "Mandatory Minimums" "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics" "What Kind of Day Has It Been"

Season 2	"In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I" "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II" "The Midterms" "In This White House" "And It's Surely to Their Credit" "The Lame Duck Congress" "The Portland Trip" "Shibboleth" "Galileo" "Noël" "The Leadership Breakfast" "The Drop-In" "Bartlet's Third State of the Union" "The War at Home" "Ellie" "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail" "The Stackhouse Filibuster" "17 People" "Bad Moon Rising" "The Fall's Gonna Kill You" "18th and Potomac" "Two Cathedrals"

Season 3	"Isaac and Ishmael" "Manchester, Part I" "Manchester, Part II" "Ways and Means" "On the Day Before" "War Crimes" "Gone Quiet" "The Indians in the Lobby" "The Women of Qumar" "Bartlet for America" "H. Con-172" "100,000 Airplanes" "The Two Bartlets" "Night Five" "Hartsfield's Landing" "Dead Irish Writers" "The U.S. Poet Laureate" "Stirred" "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" "The Black Vera Wang" "We Killed Yamamoto" "Posse Comitatus"

Season 4	"20 Hours in America, Part I" "20 Hours in America, Part II" "College Kids" "The Red Mass" "Debate Camp" "Game On" "Election Night" "Process Stories" "Swiss Diplomacy" "Arctic Radar" "Holy Night" "Guns Not Butter" "The Long Goodbye" "Inauguration, Part I" "Inauguration: Over There" "The California 47th" "Red Haven's on Fire" "Privateers" "Angel Maintenance" "Evidence of Things Not Seen" "Life on Mars" "Commencement" "Twenty Five"

Season 5	"7A WF 83429" "The Dogs of War" "Jefferson Lives" "Han" "Constituency of One" "Disaster Relief" "Separation of Powers" "Shutdown" "Abu el Banat" "The Stormy Present" "The Benign Prerogative" "Slow News Day" "The Warfare of Genghis Khan" "An Khe" "Full Disclosure" "Eppur Si Muove" "The Supremes" "Access" "Talking Points" "No Exit" "Gaza" "Memorial Day"

Season 6	"NSF Thurmont" "The Birnam Wood" "Third-Day Story" "Liftoff" "The Hubbert Peak" "The Dover Test" "A Change Is Gonna Come" "In the Room" "Impact Winter" "Faith Based Initiative" "Opposition Research" "365 Days" "King Corn" "The Wake Up Call" "Freedonia" "Drought Conditions" "A Good Day" "La Palabra" "Ninety Miles Away" "In God We Trust" "Things Fall Apart" "2162 Votes"

Season 7	"The Ticket" "The Mommy Problem" "Message of the Week" "Mr. Frost" "Here Today" "The Al Smith Dinner" "The Debate" "Undecideds" "The Wedding" "Running Mates" "Internal Displacement" "Duck and Cover" "The Cold" "Two Weeks Out" "Welcome to Wherever You Are" "Election Day" "Election Day Part II" "Requiem" "Transition" "The Last Hurrah" "Institutional Memory" "Tomorrow"

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