Who is Chrisjen Avasarala in The Expanse?

The foulest mouth in Earth's government · Earth / UN

Chrisjen Avasarala (The foulest mouth in Earth's government) is a character in The Expanse, part of Earth / UN. Chrisjen Avasarala is the UN's Deputy Undersecretary of Executive Administration, which fools no one: she runs Earth's real foreign policy from behind a sari and a vocabulary that could blister hull plating. A grandmother who interrogates suspects between family dinners, she plays the system's factions against each other with decades of accumulated leverage — always, by her own lights, to keep Earth's children out of a war. The methods are filthy. The purpose, inconveniently for her enemies, is not.

When does Chrisjen Avasarala first appear?

Chrisjen Avasarala first appears in Season 1, Episode 1 (“Dulcinea”) of The Expanse (2015–2022, Prime Video).

Who else is introduced in this episode?

• James Holden — The reluctant captain who can't stay quiet
• Naomi Nagata — The engineer with a Belter's past
• Amos Burton — The mechanic you don't want to meet last
• Alex Kamal — The pilot who found his ship
• Josephus Miller — The detective who fell for a missing girl

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