Archer: 10 Best Supporting Characters
7. Malory
Malory Archer is Sterling's snake-tongued, overbearing mother and, as the Chief Executive Officer of ISIS, the person responsible for Archer's code-name - Duchess - shared by her beloved pet Afghan hound.
Voiced by Arrested Development matriarch, Jessica Walter, Malory is often the perfect foil to Sterling's misdeeds, with a typically no-nonsense approach. All being said, she also bears the brunt of responsibility for his alcoholism, as she is rarely seen without a drink in hand and left most of his upbringing to their heroin-addicted butler, Woodhouse.
Most recently, Malory has appeared in Archer: 1999 as Mother, a glowing ball of light and apparently autonomous system, in some ways akin to 2001's HAL 9000, on the space salvage freighter M/V Seamus.
"If I wanted to sit around all day going nowhere, I'd be a teacher!"