U.S. Poet Laureate Tabatha Fortis is a fictional character portrayed by Laura Dern in the TV series The West Wing.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled The U.S. Poet Laureate (season 3), they were 35 years old.
They appear in 1 episodes out of a total of 155 aired
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The U.S. Poet Laureate
episode S3.E17 march 2002Poet laureate Tabitha Fortis visits D.C. to attend a White House dinner in her honor, and Toby develops a bit of a crush on her, but he also must admonish the somewhat flighty beauty against publicly criticizing the president for his refusal to sign an international anti-land mine treaty; Donna discovers a website devoted to Josh, and he soon becomes sucked into the online chat about his activities and ego; speaking via remote to a local morning show in Philadelphia and unaware that the mike is on, Bartlet makes a stray comment impugning opponent Robert Richie's intelligence, for which the staff, particularly C.J., takes a lot of heat from Richie campaign and the press.