
Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is a graduate student in English in Los Angeles. She moonlights as an operative for SD-6, which she thinks is a black ops division of the CIA. Her fiancée is murdered in the pilot episode, and she learns SD-6 is actually a branch of an international criminal organization known as the Alliance of Twelve. She then becomes a double agent for the real CIA.
Jack Bristow (Victor Garber) is Sydney’s father and also works for SD-6 as a double agent for the CIA. In Season 1, his relationship with Sydney is strained. He was devastated by her mother’s death and kept Sydney at arm’s length for the rest of her childhood. As an agent, he is exceptionally ruthless and skillful as evidenced by his CIA call sign Raptor.
Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin) is the head of SD-6, the show’s main antagonist. Originally a loyal CIA officer, he is obsessed with a 15th century prophet – Milo Rambaldi.

Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan) is Sydney’s CIA handler and later partner. He and Sydney share a mutual attraction, which eventually leads to a relationship. At the end of Season 4, it is revealed that it was not a coincidence that he met Sydney.
Produced by Touchstone Television and Bad Robot Productions, film production primarily took place in the greater Los Angeles area. Studio shooting primarily took place at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, along with some outdoor shots near some of the studio’s famous buildings (such as the original Animation Building or the ABC building, which appeared as a building in Hong Kong in the season 1 episode “The Coup”). Despite its worldwide locales, only one episode was ever filmed outside the Los Angeles region, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Although Alias was never considered a major “hit”, its series run began during a time when the ABC television network was in decline, after Who Wants to Be a Millionaire saw its ratings plummet. In fact, Alias was one of the first shows to be placed in one of the old Who Wants to Be a Millionaire timeslots, which were Sunday nights at 9 p.m. (Eastern & Pacific time) in late 2001.
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