EXCLUSIVE: Maria Zhang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) has joined the series regular cast of the Fox drama series The Interrogator.
The series centers on former MI6 agent Conrad Henry (Stephen Fry) and his elite team. When conventional methods have failed, Henry’s quirky charm, superior intellect, and mind-bending behavioral maneuvers make him the only man able to lockpick the minds of the world’s most dangerous criminals.
Zhang will play Florence, the most idealistic and optimistic of the team. She handles all things computers, from hacking, gathering, and decrypting evidence to creating forgeries and deepfakes to lead Henry’s subjects astray. She’s a multi-lateral puzzle master, a game theory guru, a cognitive gymnast. Florence’s fiancée, Dana, still thinks she works in game development, not spy craft. She’s so deftly divided these worlds in her mind, she’s even having a (mostly physical) affair with her teammate, Voss (Luke Kleintank).
In addition to Fry and Kleintank, the series regular cast also includes Michael Beach as Henry’s best friend and the first member of his team, Louis, Jenna Elfman as rising CIA star Woodrow, and Jessica Sula as criminal psychologist and Henry’s estranged daughter, Astrid.
The Interrogator, from Lionsgate Television and Fox Entertainment, received a 12-episode straight-to-series order for the 2026-27 season earlier this year.
The pilot script was written by Fry, with revisions from Matt Pyken as well as William Harper. Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie are executive producers and showrunners. Fry also executive produces alongside Harper and Paul McGuigan, who will also direct. Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and Miriam Mintz, Matt Pyken, Neil Burger, and Anonymous Content also serve as executive producers on the series.
Zhang is best known for playing Suki in Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender. Her other credits include ABC’s The Rookie and Netflix’s A Man on the Inside. Zhang will next be seen in a leading role in the feature film Busted. A Polish-Chinese actress, Zhang has performed with Beijing Playhouse as part of China’s English-language Broadway theatre community, as well as with a nonprofit community theatre group in Poland. Zhang is repped by Artium Talent, Authentic Talent and Literary Management, and Granderson Des Rochers.