Netflix announced today that Academy Award® and Golden Globe winner Mary Steenburgen joins Season 2 of the critically acclaimed comedy series A Man on the Inside.
Steenburgen will play Mona Margadoff, a former musician who factors heavily in the case Charles is trying to solve.
Season 1 of A Man on the Inside debuted atop Netflix’s most popular English TV List and remained in the Top 10 for five weeks. It was named one of AFI’s 2024 TV programs of the year, and Ted Danson was nominated for a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance by an actor in a comedy series.

About A Man on the Inside S1:
Charles (Ted Danson), a retired man, gets a new lease on life when he answers an ad from a PI and becomes a mole in a secret investigation. From creator Mike Schur, A MAN ON THE INSIDE is based on the documentary The Mole Agent, a 2021 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary feature.
Executive Producers: Mike Schur (Fremulon), Morgan Sackett, David Miner (3 Arts Entertainment), Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibañez (Micromundo Producciones), Julie Goldman and Christopher Clements (Motto Pictures)
Studio: Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group
![]() |
A Man on the Inside |
Network: NetflixGenre: ComedySeasons: 1Episodes: 8 | |
OverviewA retired professor gets a new lease on life when a private investigator hires him to go undercover inside a San Francisco retirement home. |