| Nadine Tolliver | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Nadine Tolliver |
| Nationality: |  American
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| Alias(es): | Carlotta Taniston |
| Affiliation: | US State Department |
| Profession: | Chief of Staff |
| Sibling(s): | Unnamed Sister |
| Marital status: | Single |
| Significant other(s): | Mike Barnow (dating)
Glenn (ex-boyfriend) |
| Children: | Roman (son) |
| Played by: | Bebe Neuwirth |
| Season: | 1 |
| First episode: | 1 |
| First appeared: | Pilot |
Nadine Tolliver was Elizabeth McCord's Chief of Staff.
Biography
University
She attended Cornell University. In 1984, she wrote her senior thesis on Charlotte Brontë under the supervision of Dr. Malcolm Taniston, a world-renowned scholar on Victorian literature. This would later inspired the alias she used, Carlotta Taniston, when she was involved with Vincent Marsh.
Career
She worked under the previous US Secretary of State, Vincent Marsh as the US State Department Chief of Staff. Nadine started working for Marsh after she graduated from law school when Marsh was just a senator. She continued her work as the Chief of Staff when Elizabeth McCord became the US Secretary of State, leaving at the end of season 4.
Relationships
She was involved in a 6-year affair with Vincent Marsh since his time as a senator. This ended with his untimely death. She also dated a NASA administrator named Glenn, and dated Mike B. for a short while.
Trivia
- She has an office next to Matt Mahoney's and Daisy Grant's on the 7th Floor of the State Department Building.