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Revision as of 16:38, 16 November 2010
The following is a list of characters for the CBS television series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Main characters
Current and former characters
| Name | Portrayed by | Status | First Appearance | Last Appearance | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raymond Langston | Laurence Fishburne | Alive | "19 Down" | Current | Three seasons |
| Catherine Willows | Marg Helgenberger | Alive | "Pilot" | Current | Eleven seasons |
| Nick Stokes | George Eads | Alive | "Pilot" | Current | Eleven seasons |
| Sara Sidle | Jorja Fox | Alive | "Cool Change" | Current | Eleven seasons (starring 1–8, 11-[1]; recurring 9–11[2]) |
| Greg Sanders | Eric Szmanda | Alive | "Pilot" | Current | Eleven seasons (starring 3–; recurring 1–2) |
| Al Robbins | Robert David Hall | Alive | "Who Are You?" | Current | Eleven seasons (starring 3–; recurring 1–2) |
| David Hodges | Wallace Langham | Alive | "Recipe for Murder" | Current | Nine seasons (starring 8–; recurring 3–7) |
| David Phillips | David Berman | Alive | "Friends & Lovers" | Current | Eleven seasons (starring 10–; recurring 1-9) |
| Jim Brass | Paul Guilfoyle | Alive | "Pilot" | Current | Eleven seasons |
| Wendy Simms | Liz Vassey | Alive (Resigned) |
"Secrets and Flies" | "Pool Shark" | Six seasons (starring 10; recurring 6–9; guest 11[3]) |
| Riley Adams | Lauren Lee Smith | Alive (Resigned) |
"Art Imitates Life" | "All In" | One season |
| Gil Grissom | William Petersen | Alive (Retired) |
"Pilot" | "One to Go" | Nine seasons |
| Warrick Brown | Gary Dourdan | Deceased (killed in the line of duty) |
"Pilot" | "For Warrick" | Nine seasons |
| Sofia Curtis | Louise Lombard | Unknown | "Formalities" | '"Dead Doll" | Four seasons (recurring 5–6, 8; starring 7) |
Crime lab
Regular staff
| Name | Portrayed by | Status | First Appearance | Last Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bobby Dawson Ballistics |
Gerald McCullough | Alive | "Cool Change" | Current |
| Archie Johnson Audio/Video analysis |
Archie Kao | Alive | "Chaos Theory" | Current |
| Mandy Webster Fingerprints |
Sheeri Rappaport | Alive | "Anonymous" | Current |
| Henry Andrews Toxicology |
Jon Wellner | Alive | "Iced" | Current |
| Judy Tremont Secretary |
Victoria Reiniger (credited as Victoria Prescott) |
Alive | "Blood Lust" | Current |
| Mia Dickerson DNA |
Aisha Tyler | Alive | "Harvest" | "Grave Danger" |
Consultant specialist
| Name | Portrayed by | Status | First Appearance | Last Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teri Miller Anthropologist |
Pamela Gidley | Alive | "Who Are You?" | "Snuff" |
Recurring characters
CSIs
| Name | Portrayed by | Status | First Appearance | Last Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conrad Ecklie Undersheriff, formerly Crime Lab Asst. Director, Day Shift supervisor |
Marc Vann | Alive | "Blood Drops" | Current |
| Ronnie Lake | Jessica Lucas | Alive | "Go to Hell" | "Goodbye and Good Luck" |
| Michael Keppler | Liev Schreiber | Deceased (Killed in the line of duty) |
"Sweet Jane" | "Law of Gravity" |
| Holly Gribbs | Chandra West | Deceased (Killed in the line of duty) |
"Pilot" | "Cool Change" |
Detectives, sheriff, and uniformed officers
| Name | Portrayed by | Status | First Appearance | Last Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dt. Frankie Reed[1] | Katee Sackhoff | Alive | "Cold Blooded" | Current |
| Officer Mitchell | Larry Mitchell | Alive | "Room Service" | Current |
| Officer Metcalf | Joseph Patrick Kelly | Alive | "Sounds Of Silence" | Current |
| Dt. Luis Vartann | Alex Carter | Alive | "Grissom Versus the Volcano" | Current |
| Dt. Sam Vega Formerly of LVPD gang unit |
Geoffrey Rivas | Alive | "Too Tough to Die" | Current |
| Det.-Sgt. Ray O'Riley | Skip O'Brien | Alive (fired) |
"Pilot" | "Homebodies" |
| Det. Cavaliere | Jose Zuniga | Alive | "Getting Off" | "Say Uncle" |
| Sheriff Rory Atwater | Xander Berkeley | Alive | "Invisible Evidence" | "Formalities" |
| Det. Cyrus Lockwood | Jeffrey D. Sams | Deceased (Killed in the line of duty) |
"Primum Non Nocere" | "Inside the Box" |
| Jeffrey McKeen Former Undersheriff |
Conor O'Farrell | Alive (In police custody) |
"Grave Danger" | "For Warrick" |
Family and friends of CSIs
| Name | Portrayed by | Related To | Status | First Appearance | Last Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lady Heather | Melinda Clarke | Gil Grissom (Close Friend) |
Alive | "Slaves of Las Vegas" | "Leave out All the Rest" |
| Dr. Tina Brown | Meta Golding | Warrick Brown (Ex-Wife) |
Alive | "Shooting Stars" | "For Warrick" |
| Judge Bill Stokes | Andrew Prine | Nick Stokes (Father) |
Alive | "Grave Danger: Part 1" | "Grave Danger: Part 2" |
| Jillian Stokes | Lois Chiles | Nick Stokes (Mother) |
Alive | "Grave Danger: Part 1" | "Grave Danger: Part 2" |
| Ellie Rebecca Brass | Nicki Lynn Aycox, Teal Redmann |
Jim Brass (Adopted Daughter) |
Alive | "Ellie" (Aycox) | "Way To Go" (Redmann) |
| Hank Peddigrew | Christopher Wiehl | Sara Sidle (Ex-Boyfriend) |
Alive | "Bully for You" | "Crash & Burn" |
| Lindsey Willows | Madison McReynolds, Kay Panabaker |
Catherine Willows (Daughter) |
Alive | "Pilot" (McReynolds) |
"World's End" (Panabaker) |
| Sam Braun | Scott Wilson | Catherine Willows (Father) |
Deceased (Murdered) |
"Burked" | "Built to Kill, Part 2" |
| Lily Flynn | Anita Gillette | Catherine Willows (Mother) |
Alive | "Weeping Willows" | "The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp" |
| Eddie Willows | Timothy Carhart | Catherine Willows (Ex-Husband) |
Deceased (Murdered) |
"Who Are You" | "Lady Heather's Box" |
Notable villains and serial killers
| Name | Portrayed by | Crime | Status | First Appearance | Last Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown (Ian Moone; Sqweegel) |
Daniel Browning Smith | Murder One (2 counts) |
Alive | "Sqweegel" | |
| Charlie DiMasa (Dr. Jekyll; Michelangelo) |
Matt Ross | Murder One (5 counts) |
Deceased (Line of fire) |
Hinted in "Ghost Town" | "Meat Jekyll" |
| Nate Haskell (The Dick and Jane Killer) |
Bill Irwin | Murder One (9 counts) |
Incarcerated (Double life sentence) |
"19 Down" | "Shock Waves" |
| Natalie Davis (The Miniature Killer) |
Jessica Collins | Murder One (5 counts) |
Unknown (Shown to be suicidal) |
"Living Doll" | "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda" |
| John Mathers (Supposed Blue Paint Killer) |
Victor Bevine | Murder One (1 count, posthumously exonerated) |
Executed (Lethal injection) |
"The Execution of Catherine Willows" | "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?"[4] |
| Kevin Greer (The Blue Paint Killer) |
Taylor Nichols | Murder One (6 counts) |
Deceased (Self-suffocation) |
"The Execution of Catherine Willows"[5] | "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?" |
| Paul Millander (The Bathtub Killer) |
Matt O'Toole | Murder One (4 counts) |
Deceased (Suicide by gun) |
"Pilot" | "Identity Crisis" |
| The West siblings Hannah and Marlon West |
Juliette Goglia Douglas Smith |
2 counts of murder | Hannah: Alive (in custody) Marlon: Deceased (suicide) |
"The Unusual Suspect" | "Goodbye and Good Luck" |
Guest stars
- Dakota Fanning, in one of her earliest roles, played a molestation victim in Season 1's episode "Blood Drops". List Of CBs Characters
- Misha Collins appeared in Season 5's episode "Nesting Dolls", as Vlad.
- Marcia Cross, most notable for portraying Bree Hodge on Desperate Housewives, appeared in the episode "Organ Grinder" from Season 2.
- Katey Segal stars as a famous actress in "Two and a Half Deaths".
- Clueless star Stacey Dash played a "newbie" lab tech who flirted with Warrick in "Slaves of Las Vegas" from Season 2.
- Kelly Rowan (Melinda Clarke's co-star on The O.C.) also appeared in "Slaves of Las Vegas" as Eileen Nelson, the wife of a man who hated her. He made a girl from an underground fetish club act like her, and his violence resulted in him killing her. Coincidentally, Clarke and Rowan appeared in the same episode prior to working together in The O.C., though they did not appear in scenes together.
- The Usual Suspects star Stephen Baldwin appeared as Jesse Acheson, who was investigated in Season 5's "Compulsion".
- The Who frontman Roger Daltrey guest starred as a missing mob boss who comes back to Las Vegas to pay back his would-be killers in Season 7's episode "Living Legend".
- Ugly Betty and Disney Channel star America Ferrera had a guest starring role in the Season 5 episode "Harvest".
- Frank Gorshin made his last ever TV appearance in "Grave Danger", the season 5 finale.
- Faye Dunaway played a prominent ex-showgirl and mob mogul's former flame in the episode "Kiss-Kiss, Bye-Bye" in Season 6.
- Danny Bonaduce appeared as Izzy Delancy, the Miniature Killer's first victim, in the two-part Season 7 opener "Built to Kill" as well as "Loco Motives".
- Kevin Federline made his guest appearance in the Season 7 episode "Fannysmackin'", starring as a street hoodlum "Pig".
- Ned Beatty made a guest appearance in the episode "Sweet Jane" in Season 7, playing a serial killing dentist.
- Lost stars Ian Somerhalder, Josh Holloway, Elizabeth Mitchell, M.C. Gainey, Harold Perrineau and William Mapother have all guest starred. Somerhalder portrayed a murder suspect name Tony Del Nagro in Season 3's "Revenge Is Best Served Cold". In Season 4, Holloway played Kenny Richmond in "Assume Nothing", a casino valet who was Nick's college baseball teammate. Both episodes were the third and fourth season premieres respectively. Mitchell appeared as Melissa Winters, a wheelchair-bound prosecutor and friend of Sara's with a deadly secret in Season 3's "One Hit Wonder". M.C. Gainey was a deceased bounty hunter in the fourth season episode "Homebodies". Perrineau played a reverend with a sordid past and an exorcism patient who is missing in "Go To Hell" in Season 8. Mapother played a snuff film maker in the aptly named Season 3 episode "Snuff".
- Before becoming a regular on CSI: NY, Carmine Giovinazzo made a guest appearance in "Revenge Is Best Served Cold", making him one of the several actors to be in all three CSI shows.
- Summer Glau of Firefly and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles played Mandy Cooper in the Season 5 episode "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?".
- Juliette Goglia played Hannah West in two episodes, a child prodigy who muddied the waters in two murder cases her half-brother was involved in. Her cold, calculating actions made Sara Sidle rethink her career choice and she left at the end of the Season 8 episode "Goodbye and Good Luck". Sara left her duty vest for new CSI Ronnie Lake, after removing her name tag and throwing it into the garbage. The first appearance was in the episode "The Unusual Suspect" from Season 6.
- Constance Marie played detective Carolina Flores in "Two and a Half Deaths" from Season 8.
- Guest appearances have been made by no less than four of The Shield cast members, namely: Catherine Dent (Danny) in "Who Shot Sherlock?" in Season 5 as Kay Marquette; Kenny Johnson (Lem) in "Time of Your Death" in Season 6 as Randy Bolen; Walton Goggins (Shane) in "Empty Eyes" in Season 7 as Marlon Frost; and Jay Karnes (Dutch) in "For Gedda" in Season 8 as IA Detective Dutch Wagenbach.
- Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of MythBusters appeared as scientists-observers in the Season 8 episode "The Theory of Everything".
- Pauley Perrette plays as an aspiring singer who befriends Catherine Willows' husband in "Lady Heather's Box".
- Ally Sheedy as Sharon Turner in Season 7 episode "Leapin' Lizards".
- Method Man, as Drops, appeared in the episodes "Poppin' Tags", "Big Shots", "Drops Out", and "Pool Shark"
- Travis Barker played a rapper also in the Season 6 episode "Poppin' Tags". Rapper Obie Trice and singer Akon make a cameo appearance in the same episode as themselves.
- Shanna Moakler, former Miss USA, appeared in the same episode as now ex-husband Travis Barker.
- Taylor Swift as Haley Jones in the Season 9 episode "Turn, Turn, Turn".
- Holt McCallany was in the Season 9 episode "Young Man with a Horn". He previously played Det. John Hagen on CSI: Miami.
- Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia played Bobby in the Season 1 episode "Friends & Lovers". Star Zachary Quinto, the villain Sylar, appears in the second season episode "Anatomy of a Lye" as Mitchell Sullivan, a greasy chop-shop attendant. Stephen Tobolowsky, Heroes' Bob Bishop, appears in the episode "Two and a Half Deaths".
- The Office co-stars John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson,and Melora Hardin have all made guest appearances: Krasinski in the Season 5 episode "Who Shot Sherlock"; Wilson appeared as a purse snatching thief in the Season 1 finale "The Strip Strangler"; snd Hardin appeared as the sports book manager in season 5's "Big Middle".
- Carlos Alazraqui as a Reno cop in Season 9's "Let It Bleed" (a nod to his role in Reno 911!).
- Vince Vieluf stars in three episodes, two as Connor Foster.
- Allison Scagliotti-Smith, known for her role in Drake & Josh, played fast food restaurant employee Mindy Crenshaw in the Season 9 episode "Deep Fried and Minty Fresh".
- Wil Wheaton guest-starred as homeless murder suspect Walter in Season 5 episode "Compulsion".
- Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald D. Moore along with Galactica actors Grace Park and Rekha Sharma, make cameo appearances in the 2009 episode "A Space Oddity". (The three appear in a science fiction convention scene, with Moore shouting angrily at a man while Park and Sharma play audience members). Another Galactica alumna, Kate Vernon, is a major guest star in the same episode. Tricia Helfer also appears as dead model "Ashleigh James" in the final episode of Season 2 "The Hunger Artist".
- Kellan Lutz played Chris Mullins in "Empty Eyes".
- Willie Garson plays the "sexy kitty" in season 4's "Fur and Loathing".
- D.B. Woodside from Buffy and the second President Palmer from 24 plays a convicted sex offender in the season 5 episode "Harvest".
- Nana Visitor who plays Kira Nerys from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine appears as a wrongly convicted murderer's ex-wife in the fifth season episode "Mea Culpa".
- Robia LaMorte, Buffy's Jenny Calendar played murder victim Joan Marks in season 2's "You've Got Male".
- Courtney Jines from Spy Kids 3-D guest starred as Jessica Rachel Trent, the sister of Jennette McCurdy, who killed an elderly woman for a cat. The episode was "Cats in the Cradle", from season 2.
- Jennette McCurdy from Nickelodean's show iCarly guest starred as Jackie Trent, the sister of Courtney Jines who killed an elderly woman for a cat. The episode was "Cats in the Cradle", from season 2.
- Cory Hardrict guest starred as Ross Davis, a character whose bike is stolen. The episode was "Early Rollout" from season 4.
- Dawson's Creek actress Meredith Monroe appears as a nun in the seventh season episode "Double-Cross". Sean Patrick Flanery from Boondock Saints also appears in this episode as a used car salesman.
- Alan Tudyk (Wash from Firefly), plays Carl Fisher, a convicted sex offender in the seventh season episode "Burn Out".
- Peter Stormare, the Cosmonaut from Armageddon, John Abruzzi from Prison Break, etc. appears as "Binky" the brothel owner in the seventh season episode "Ending Happy".
- Kirby Morrow, star of the hit cartoon, Class of the Titans, stars in an episode.[citation needed]
- Without A Trace star Anthony LaPaglia reprises his role as Jack Malone in the episode "Who and What".
- Jesse Plemons stars in the episode "Down the Drain".
- Two and a Half Men stars Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones cameo as themselves in "Two and a Half Deaths".
- Justin Bieber stars in the premiere episode of season 11, as Jason McCann, a boy who has caused some trouble. He has been said to be playing the character more than once throughout the season.
- Seamus Dever and Jon Huertas of Castle (series) appeared in season 6's "Love Bites" and season 5 "Committed" respectively.
- Ann-Margret appeared in the 4 episode of season 11, playing a Las Vegas legend with a secret that could take it all away.
See also
- List of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation cast members
- Minor characters in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Footnotes
- ^ http://www.cbspressexpress.com/div.php/cbs_entertainment/original/release?id=231&dpid=56&rid=26613
- ^ http://www.cbspressexpress.com/div.php/cbs_entertainment/release?id=25873
- ^ http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/08/04/ask-ausiello-spoilers-greys-house-bones/
- ^ In this episode, John Mathers only appears in a TV interview recorded before his death.
- ^ Although Kevin Greer does not appear in the episode (and is not identified as the Blue Paint Killer), he does kill one of his victims off-screen on the day of John Mathers' execution.