Alias

American spy-action television series

TV series · TMDB

★ 6.8

Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.

Aired: 2001–2006
Seasons: 5 · 105 episodes
Status: Ended
Created by: J.J. Abrams
Network: ABC
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama

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Genre: Action Drama Science fiction Spy thriller
Created by: J. J. Abrams
Showrunners: J. J. Abrams (seasons 1–3), Jeff Pinkner (seasons 4–5)
Starring: Jennifer Garner Ron Rifkin Michael Vartan Bradley Cooper Merrin Dungey Carl Lumbly Kevin Weisman Victor Garber David Anders Lena Olin Greg Grunberg Melissa George Mía Maestro Rachel Nichols Balthazar Getty Élodie Bouchez Amy Acker

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Alias is an American spy action thriller television series created by J. J. Abrams that was broadcast on ABC for five seasons from September 30, 2001, to May 22, 2006. It stars Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, a double agent for the Central Intelligence Agency posing as an operative for SD-6, a worldwide criminal and espionage organization. Main co-stars throughout all five seasons included Michael Vartan as Michael Vaughn, Ron Rifkin as Arvin Sloane, and Victor Garber as Jack Bristow.

The first two seasons of Alias mainly explore Sydney's obligation to hide her true career from her friends and family as she assumes multiple aliases to carry out missions as well as her efforts to take down SD-6 with the help of the CIA. The series' later seasons deal with multiple character and plot-driven storylines, with a recurring focus on the search for and recovery of artifacts created by Milo Rambaldi, a fictitious Renaissance-era figure with similarities to both Leonardo da Vinci and Nostradamus.