Christian Ochoa Lavernia to Star on Season 2 of Paramount+/Showtime’s “The Agency: Central Intelligence”

Christian Ochoa Lavernia is joining The Agency.

The Cuban American actor has been cast as a series regular for Season 2 of The Agency: Central Intelligence (fka The Agency) for Paramount+ with Showtime.

Christian Ochoa LaverniaMeanwhile, Tessa Ferrer will recur in Season 2 of the series.

They join series lead Michael Fassbender, along with Jeffrey WrightJodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, Harriet Sansom Harris, John Magaro, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Andrew Brooke, India Fowler, Reza Brojerdi, Alex Reznik and Richard Gere.

Production on Season 2 is currently underway in London.

Based on the French series Le Bureau des Legendes, The Agency follows Martian (Fassbender). a covert CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.

Ochoa Lavernia will play Grandma, undercover agent with Grandpa.

Ferrer portrays Robyn, a US Air Force nurse in Suffolk, England.

Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth return as writers and executive producers.

Keith Cox and Nina L. Diaz executive produce for MTV Entertainment Studios.

The series is co-distributed internationally by Paramount Global Content Distribution and Federation Studios.

Ochoa Lavernia is known for his work on The Diplomat, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Halo and Silo among others. He’ll next be seen in Guy Ritchie’s In the Grey.

Ferrer was a series regular for two seasons on AppleTV+’s Swagger, as well as a regular on Grey’s Anatomy and AT&T’s Mr. Mercedes. She recurred on George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Catch 22 for Hulu and FXX’s You’re the Worst, among others.