Both Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx are Back in Action in Netflix’s latest spy comedy movie from Seth Gordon and Brendan O’Brien. This marks the pairs long-awaited reunion ever since they both starred in 2014’s Annie.
Of course, other characters factor into Diaz and Foxx’s characters’ mission in the film, such as one Foxhunter (Glenn Close), Baron (Andrew Scott) and Nigel (Jamie Demetriou) among others.
For the full cast of Netflix’s Back in Action (2025) and where you may have seen them before, read on
Emily (Cameron Diaz) and Matt Reynolds (Jamie Foxx)
Matt Reynolds used to be a spy for the CIA with Cameron Diaz’s character Emily. They started sleeping together as well as working together, and then Emily got pregnant with Matt’s first child Alice. From there, they decided to have a family. They also have a son.
Jamie Foxx recently came back to screens with his Netflix comedy special Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was (2024). He is known for playing Max in Collateral (2004), Ray Charles in Ray (2004) for which he won an Oscar, Curtis Taylor Jr. in Dreamgirls (2006) and Django in Django Unchained (2012). More recently, he played Bud Jablonski in Day Shift (2022), Slick Charles in They Cloned Tyrone (2023).
Cameron Diaz took a big break from acting after she starred alongside Foxx in Annie (2014) as Hannigan. She is most well known for playing Kimberly Wallace in My Best Friend’s Wedding (1998) Mary in There’s Something About Mary (1998), Natalie in Charlie’s Angels (2000), Julie Gianni in Vanilla Sky (2001). She also voices Princess Fiona in the Shrek films, and other credits include The Holiday (2006) in which she stars as Amanda, My Sister’s Keeper (2009) in which she plays Sara Fitzgerald, The Green Hornet (2011) in which she plays Lenore Case, Bad Teacher (2011) in which she plays Elizabeth Halsey and The Other Woman (2014) in which she plays Carly Whitten.
Baron (Andrew Scott)
Baron and Emily have history. He also worked with her back in the day, and he is on her tail the entire film.
Andrew Scott is known for playing C in Spectre (2015), Inspector Turpin in Victor Frankenstein (2015), Gethin Roberts in Pride (2014) and Adam in All of Us Strangers (2023). He also played Tom Ripley in Netflix’s Ripley, Lord Rollo in Catherine Called Birdy (2022) and The Priest in Fleabag.
Ginny aka FoxHunter (Glenn Close) & Nigel (Jamie Demetriou)
Ginny, or Virginia, aka “Foxhunter,” is Emily’s MI6 mother who gave her the spy gene. She lives in a sprawling mansion in England. She is dating Nigel, an incompetent aspiring spy.
Glenn Close is known for playing Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction (1987), Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Joan Castleman in The Wife (2017) and Mamaw in Hillbilly Elegy (2020).
Nigel is Ginny’s much younger boyfriend who desperately wants to help out on the spy and action front.
Jamie Demetriou appeared as Bus Rodent in Fleabag, The Professor in Paddington 2 (2017), Stath in Stath Lets Flats and Gerald in Cruella. He also played Walt in The Afterparty, and he appeared as Mattel Executive #1 (Will Ferrell’s right-hand man) in Barbie (2023).
Chuck (Kyle Chandler)
Chuck used to guide Emily and Matt on their missions.
Kyle Chandler is known for playing Hamilton Jordan in Argo (2012), Deputy Jackson Lamb in Super 8 (2011), Joe Chandler in Manchester by the Sea (2016) and Bruce Baxter in King Kong (2005).
Alice (McKenna Roberts) & Leo (Rylan Jackson)
Alice and Leo are Emily and Matt’s kids. McKenna Roberts appeared as one of Ariana Greenblatt’s character’s friends in Barbie (2023). She also plays 10-year-old Rue in Euphoria and Matilda Ashby in The Young and the Restless. Rylan Jackson played young Xenk in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023).