Jennifer Westfeldt, John Boyd Join 24 For Day 8

The cast for 24’s eighth season, which is relocating to New York City, is starting to come together.

Jennifer Westfeldt has been cast in the recurring role of Meredith Reed. Westfeldt’s character is described as an ambitious journalist who has ties to Arman Hashemi, a Middle East leader who is in the U.S. on a peacemaking mission. John Boyd will join the cast as systems analyst Jonah Schwartz.

They join Slumdog Millionaire’s Anil Kapoor who will be playing the Middle East leader Arman Hashemi and Chris Diamantopoulos who will play Rob Weiss, President Taylor’s new chief of staff.