House of Cards season 1

House of Cards
Season 1
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Showrunner	Beau Willimon
Starring	Kevin Spacey Robin Wright Kate Mara Corey Stoll Michael Kelly Sakina Jaffrey Kristen Connolly Sebastian Arcelus Boris McGiver Constance Zimmer Mahershala Ali Michel Gill Sandrine Holt Nathan Darrow Rachel Brosnahan
No. of episodes	13
Release
Original network	Netflix
Original release	February 1, 2013 (2013-02-01)
Season chronology
Next → Season 2
List of episodes

The first season of the American television drama series House of Cards premiered exclusively via Netflix's web streaming service on February 1, 2013.^[1] The season was produced by Media Rights Capital, and the executive producers are David Fincher, Kevin Spacey, Eric Roth, Joshua Donen, Dana Brunetti, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs, John Melfi, and Beau Willimon.

House of Cards was created for television by Beau Willimon. It is an adaptation of a previous BBC miniseries of the same name by Andrew Davies, which was based on the novel by Michael Dobbs. Set in present-day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), a Democrat from South Carolina's 5th congressional district and the House Majority Whip, who, after getting passed over for appointment as Secretary of State, decides to exact his revenge on those who betrayed him. The series also stars Robin Wright, Kate Mara, and Corey Stoll in lead roles.

The fifth and sixth episodes of this season marked the final directing work of Joel Schumacher.