Stan Beeman is a fictional character in the American television drama series The Americans on FX , and the supporting male character . Stan is an FBI agent and a neighbor of the lead characters , Elizabeth ( Keri Russell ) and Philip Jennings ( Matthew Rhys ) , who are undercover Russian spies . The Americans is an American television period drama series created and produced by former CIA officer Joe Weisberg . Set in the early 1980s during the Cold War , The Americans is the story of Elizabeth ( Keri Russell ) and Philip Jennings ( Matthew Rhys ) , two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple living in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington , D.C. , with their children Paige ( Holly Taylor ) and Henry ( Keidrich Sellati ) and their neighbor Stan Beeman ( Noah Emmerich ) , an FBI agent working in counterintelligence .
Stan Beeman is a historical figure.