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Criminal Minds Season 8
The eighth season of ''Criminal Minds'' premiered on CBS on September 26, 2012. The series was renewed on March 14, 2012. In Canada, season eight aired one day earlier on CTV than on CBS in the United States. Cast On February 15, 2012, ''Deadline Hollywood'' reported that Paget Brewster (Emily Prentiss) would leave the show once season seven was over. All other main cast members had secured deals for the season. On June 13, 2012, CBS announced that Jeanne Tripplehorn would join the cast of the show. Main * Joe Mantegna as Supervisory Special Agent David Rossi (BAU Senior Agent) * Shemar Moore as Supervisory Special Agent Derek Morgan (BAU Agent) * Matthew Gray Gubler as Supervisory Special Agent Dr. Spencer Reid (BAU Agent) * A. J. Cook as Supervisory Special Agent Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (BAU Agent) * Kirsten Vangsness as Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia (BAU Technical Analyst & Co-Communications Liaison) * Jeanne Tripplehorn as Supervisory Special Agent Dr. Alex Blake (B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Mantegna
Joseph Anthony Mantegna (, ; born November 13, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring on CBS's ''Criminal Minds'' since 2007 as FBI Supervisory Special Agent David Rossi. He has voiced the recurring role of mob boss Fat Tony on the animated series ''The Simpsons'', beginning with the 1991 episode " Bart the Murderer", as well as in ''The Simpsons Movie'' (2007). Mantegna began his career on stage in 1969 in the Chicago production of the musical ''Hair''. He earned a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and a Joseph Jefferson Award for portraying Richard Roma in the first American productions of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize–winning play '' Glengarry Glen Ross'', the first of many collaborations with Mamet. His long-standing association with Mamet includes the premieres of '' A Life in the Theatre'', ''The Disappearance of the Jews'', and '' Speed-the-Plow'' on Broadway. Mantegna also directed a highly lauded production of Mamet's '' Lakeboat'', which enj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Riesgraf
Beth Riesgraf (born August 24, 1978) is an American actress and television director. She is known for her portrayal of Parker on the TNT television series '' Leverage'' (2008–2012) and the revival '' Leverage: Redemption'' (2021–present), which streams on Amazon Prime. Early life and education Originally from Belle Plaine, Minnesota, Riesgraf graduated from Cimarron-Memorial High School in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1996. Career Riesgraf appeared with then-fiancé Jason Lee as the character Natalie Duckworth on the show ''My Name Is Earl'' in 2005 and 2007, and in Tim Hill's film ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'' as a mother in the supermarket in 2007. In 2008, she played the bride in the official music video for " Cath..." by Death Cab for Cutie. From 2008 to 2012, she played the main role of Parker in the TNT series '' Leverage''. In 2013, she guest-starred on Criminal Minds in the episode titled Zugzwang as Dr. Maeve Donovan, Dr. Spencer Reid's secretive girlfriend. In 2015, Riesg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego
San Diego ( , ) is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a population of over 1.4 million, it is the List of United States cities by population, eighth-most populous city in the United States. San Diego is the county seat, seat of San Diego County. It is known for its mild Mediterranean climate, extensive List of beaches in San Diego County, beaches and List of parks in San Diego, parks, long association with the United States Navy, and recent emergence as a wireless, electronics, List of hospitals in San Diego, healthcare, and biotechnology development center. Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego has been referred to as the ''Birthplace of California'', as it was the first site visited and settled by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. In 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California, 200 years later. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Gaviola
Karen Gaviola is an American television producer and director. She was the winner of the 2007 NAACP Image Award for directing the episode " The Whole Truth" of the ABC hit series '' Lost''. Gaviola was also nominated for the 2013 WIN (Women's Image Network) Award for best directing of the "Georgia on My Mind" episode of the Shonda Rhimes series '' Private Practice''. Life and career Karen is a second-generation Filipina American. She is a graduate of Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles) and Harvard College. Gaviola has directed over 140 TV episodes, including the shows ''Lucifer'', '' Shadow and Bone'', ''Empire'', ''Sons of Anarchy'', ''The Blacklist'', '' Hawaii Five-0'', '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', ''Grimm'', ''Criminal Minds'' and '' Chicago Fire''. More recently, she has worked as a co-executive producer/director on a number of projects including ''Lucifer'', '' Hawaii Five-0'', '' Magnum P.I.'' and '' Love Is'' for Oprah Winfrey. Her latest project is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janine Sherman Barrois
Janine Sherman Barrois is an American television writer, producer, and showrunner. She is known for her work on '' ER'', '' Third Watch'' and '' Criminal Minds''. From 2017 to 2022, she executive produced crime comedy-drama '' Claws'' on TNT. She also produced Netflix miniseries '' Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker'', the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, '' The Kings of Napa'', and Apple TV+ thriller '' The Big Cigar''. She owned production banner, Folding Chair Prods., which she launched at Warner Bros. Television Group in 2015. Career Sherman Barrois began her career as an assistant on the 1994 television series, '' South Central'' and later in films '' The Glass Shield'' (1994) and '' Major Payne'' (1995). Her first producer credit was in the 1996 film '' Bulletproof''. From 1997 to 1998, Barrois worked as a writer on '' The Jamie Foxx Show''. She wrote three episodes across the second and third seasons. She went on to become a co-producer of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Marshals Service
The United States Marshals Service (USMS) is a Federal law enforcement in the United States, federal law enforcement agency in the United States. The Marshals Service serves as the enforcement and security arm of the United States federal judiciary, U.S. federal judiciary. It is an Government agency, agency of the United States Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice and operates under the direction of the United States Attorney General, U.S. attorney general. U.S. Marshals are the original U.S. federal law enforcement officers, created by the Judiciary Act of 1789 during the presidency of George Washington as the "Office of the United States Marshal" under the United States district court, U.S. district courts. The USMS was established in 1969 to provide guidance and assistance to U.S. Marshals throughout the United States federal judicial district, federal judicial districts. The Marshals Service is primarily responsible for locating and arrest warrant, arresting Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas
Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and has Mexico-United States border, an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest. Texas has Texas Gulf Coast, a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Covering and with over 31 million residents as of 2024, it is the second-largest state List of U.S. states and territories by area, by area and List of U.S. states and territories by population, population. Texas is nicknamed the ''Lone Star State'' for its former status as the independent Republic of Texas. Spain was the first European country to Spanish Texas, claim and control Texas. Following French colonization of Texas, a short-lived colony controlled by France, Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Kershaw
Glenn Kershaw is an American television writer, director, and producer known for his directorial works on American Television series, including ''Third Watch'', ''Criminal Minds'', and ''Army Wives ''Army Wives'' is an American drama television series that followed the lives of four army wives, one army husband, and their families. The series premiered on Lifetime on June 3, 2007, and ran for seven seasons, ending on June 9, 2013. The sh ...''. Filmography As producer * ''Somewhere, Tomorrow (1983)'' * ''Twisted (1986)'' * ''The Night Train to Kathmandu (1988)'' * ''Third Watch (2001-2005)'' * ''Criminal Minds (2006 - 2020)'' * ''Home Burial (2013)'' * ''98% Human (2017)'' As director Army Wives * ''Rules of Engagement (2007)'' * ''First Response (2009)'' * ''Hearts & Minds (2010)'' * ''Handicap (2012)'' Criminal Minds * ''2.12 Profiler, Profiled - December 13, 2006'' * ''2.22 Legacy - May 9, 2007'' * ''3.13 Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica Messer
Erica Messer is an American television writer, producer, and story editor. Since 2011, she has been the showrunner of ''Criminal Minds'' after being one of the main writers since the premiere in 2005. She has written episodes for television such as '' Alias'', '' The O.C.'', ''Charmed'', and ''Criminal Minds''. She has also co-produced two shows: ''Charmed'' and ''Criminal Minds'', as well as acting as a story editor on ''Alias'' and executive story editor on ''The O.C.'' Career Messer began her career with the television series '' Alias'' in 2001 as a screenwriter. In 2002, she was promoted to story editor on ''Alias''. Messer, then in 2003–04, wrote several episodes for '' The O.C.'' and serving as executive story editor. She wrote one episode for ''Charmed'' in 2004. From 2004 to 2005, Messer was the co- producer of ''Charmed''. From 2005 to the present, she has been with the television series ''Criminal Minds'' as a screenwriter, producer, supervising producer, and execu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Hamill
Mark Richard Hamill (; born September 25, 1951) is an American actor. He is best known for starring as Luke Skywalker in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, and the Joker (character), Joker in various animated DC Comics projects, starting with ''Batman: The Animated Series'' in 1992. Through the 1980s, Hamill distinguished himself from his role in ''Star Wars'' by pursuing a theatre career on Broadway theatre, Broadway, starring in productions of ''The Elephant Man (play), The Elephant Man'', ''Amadeus (play), Amadeus'' and ''The Nerd (play), The Nerd''. His other live-action film and television roles include Kenneth W. Dantley Jr. in ''Corvette Summer'' (1978), Private Griff in ''The Big Red One'' (1980), Crow in ''Sushi Girl'' (2012), Ted Mitchum in ''Brigsby Bear'' (2017), and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Arthur Pym in the Netflix miniseries ''The Fall of the House of Usher (miniseries), The Fall of the House of Usher'' (2023). Hamill has also had a prolific ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skipp Sudduth
Robert Lee "Skipp" Sudduth IV (born August 23, 1956) is an American theater, film and television actor. He appeared in the 1998 film '' Ronin'' and the TV drama ''Third Watch''. Early life and education Born in Wareham, Massachusetts, the son of an engineer and a nurse, Sudduth attended George Washington High School in Danville, Virginia. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Hampden–Sydney College. He is the older brother of actor Kohl Sudduth. Sudduth received his Masters of Fine Arts degree in acting from the University of Virginia in 1985. Career Sudduth worked for a year as director of alumni relations at his alma mater in the administration of the college's president Josiah Bunting III, author of '' The Lionheads'' and future commandant of Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. Sudduth then worked for a year as apprentice to the winemaker with poet and vintner Tom O'Grady at Rose Bower Vineyard and Winery. During this period, Sudduth was acting in co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
