Scottie Thompson
Susan Scott "Scottie" Thompson (born November 9, 1981) is an American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known as '' Jeanne Benoit'' in ''NCIS''. Early life Thompson grew up in Richmond, Virginia, where she attended Collegiate School. From an early age, she began to learn ballet, jazz, and modern dance. She danced with the Richmond Ballet for many years, took a year off after graduating to dance with the company, and then went on to study for a degree in performance studies and literature at Harvard University. Thompson started dancing with the Harvard Ballet Company and acted in many theater productions. She was the publicity manager for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals in 2003, worked for Let's Go Travel Guides, and was credited as associate editor for the travel book ''Let's Go: Vietnam''. Thompson graduated in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in performance studies and literature, focusing on French and postcolonial works. Career After graduating, Thompson lan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rene Benoit
''NCIS (TV series), NCIS'' is an American police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps. The series was created by Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill as a Television pilot#Pilot season, backdoor pilot with the season eight episodes "NCIS backdoor pilot, Ice Queen" and "Meltdown" of ''JAG (TV series), JAG''. The series premiered on September 23, 2003 featuring an ensemble cast, which has included: Mark Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum, Sean Murray (actor), Sean Murray, Cote de Pablo, Lauren Holly, Rocky Carroll, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, Wilmer Valderrama, Jennifer Esposito, Duane Henry, Maria Bello, Diona Reasonover, Katrina Law, and Gary Cole. Overview Notes Notes Main cast and characters Leroy Jethro Gibbs Supervisory Special ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jeanne Benoit
''NCIS'' is an American police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The series was created by Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill as a backdoor pilot with the season eight episodes " Ice Queen" and "Meltdown" of '' JAG''. The series premiered on September 23, 2003 featuring an ensemble cast, which has included: Mark Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Cote de Pablo, Lauren Holly, Rocky Carroll, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, Wilmer Valderrama, Jennifer Esposito, Duane Henry, Maria Bello, Diona Reasonover, Katrina Law, and Gary Cole. Overview Notes Notes Main cast and characters Leroy Jethro Gibbs Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) was born in Stillwater, Pennsylvania to Jackson and Ann Gibbs. He enlisted in the Marine Corp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of NCIS Characters
''NCIS'' is an American police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The series was created by Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill as a backdoor pilot with the season eight episodes " Ice Queen" and "Meltdown" of '' JAG''. The series premiered on September 23, 2003 featuring an ensemble cast, which has included: Mark Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Cote de Pablo, Lauren Holly, Rocky Carroll, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, Wilmer Valderrama, Jennifer Esposito, Duane Henry, Maria Bello, Diona Reasonover, Katrina Law, and Gary Cole. Overview Notes Notes Main cast and characters Leroy Jethro Gibbs Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) was born in Stillwater, Pennsylvania to Jackson and Ann Gibbs. He enlisted ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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West Hollywood, California
West Hollywood is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Incorporated in 1984, it is home to the Sunset Strip. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, its population was 35,757. It is considered one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States. History Most historical writings about West Hollywood begin in the late-18th century with European colonization when the Portuguese explorer João Rodrigues Cabrilho arrived offshore and claimed the already inhabited region for Spain. Around 5,000 of the indigenous inhabitants from the Tongva Indian tribe canoed out to greet the ship. The Tongva tribe was a nation of hunter-gatherers known for their reverence for dance and courage. By 1771, these native people had been severely ravaged by the diseases brought in by the Europeans from across wide oceans. The Spanish mission system changed the tribal name to "Gabrielinos", in reference to the Mission de San Gabriel. Early in 1770 Gaspar de Portola's Mexican expeditiona ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Performance Studies
Performance studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses performance as a lens and a tool to study the world. The term ''performance'' is broad, and can include artistic and aesthetic performances like concerts, theatrical events, and performance art; sporting events; social, political and religious events like rituals, ceremonies, proclamations and public decisions; certain kinds of language use; and those components of identity which require someone to do, rather than just be, something. Performance studies draws from theories and methods of the performing arts, anthropology, sociology, literary theory, cultural studies, speech communication, and others. Performance studies tends to concentrate on a mix of research methods. The application of practice-led or practice-based research methods has become a widespread phenomenon not just in the anglophone world. As such research projects integrate established methods like literature research and oral history with perf ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Criminal Minds
''Criminal Minds'' is an American police procedural crime drama television series created and produced by Jeff Davis. The series premiered on CBS on September 22, 2005, and originally concluded on February 19, 2020; it was revived in 2022. It follows a group of criminal profilers who work for the FBI as members of its Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), using behavioral analysis and profiling to investigate crimes and find the unsub (unknown subject), the team's term for perpetrators. The show tells the story of the team as they work various cases and tackle their personal struggles. The show's original main cast consisted of seven characters: Jason Gideon ( Mandy Patinkin), Aaron Hotchner ( Thomas Gibson), Elle Greenaway ( Lola Glaudini), Derek Morgan ( Shemar Moore), Spencer Reid ( Matthew Gray Gubler), Jennifer Jareau ( A. J. Cook), and Penelope Garcia ( Kirsten Vangsness). The cast underwent major changes throughout the series' run, with several of the show's original member ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Matthew Gray Gubler
Matthew Gray Gubler (, ; born March 9, 1980) is an American actor, filmmaker, fashion model, painter, illustrator, director, and author. He is best known for his role as criminal profiler Dr. Spencer Reid in the CBS television show ''Criminal Minds'', for which he directed several episodes. Gubler has appeared in ''The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'', '' (500) Days of Summer'', '' Life After Beth'', ''Suburban Gothic'', and ''Newness.'' He was also the voice of Simon in ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'' and its three sequels. Early life and education Gubler was born on March 9, 1980, in Las Vegas, Nevada, the son of Marilyn ( Kelch), a rancher and political consultant, and John Gubler, an attorney. Gubler is a high school graduate of the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, where he studied acting because the school did not offer his first choice, filmmaking. He is a graduate of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where he majored in film directing. Career Modeling While s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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NCIS (season 5)
The fifth season of the police procedural drama ''NCIS'' premiered on September 25, 2007 and marks the end of Donald P. Bellisario's involvement as show runner. (subscription required) The new showrunner, starting from this season, is Shane Brennan. It concludes the La Grenouille storyline which ended with a cliffhanger in season four's finale, "Angel of Death". This season also reveals more background information about Gibbs. The Writers Guild strike limited episode production and the DVD set had five discs instead of six. The season ended with its 19th episode on May 20, 2008; the strike-caused gap is between episodes 11 and 12. The season ended with a two-part season finale called "Judgment Day". The season featured the departure of recurring characters Colonel Hollis Mann and Jeanne Benoit, as well as the death of Jenny Shepard, one of the main characters. From this season on, the opening sequence was shortened to 30 seconds instead of the normal 37–44 seconds that ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Armand Assante
Armand Anthony Assante Jr. (; born October 4, 1949) is an American actor. He played mobster John Gotti in the 1996 HBO television film ''Gotti'', Odysseus in the 1997 mini-series adaptation of Homer's ''The Odyssey'', Nietzsche in ''When Nietzsche Wept'', and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in 1982's '' I, the Jury''. His performance in ''Gotti'' earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award. Early life Assante was born in New York City and raised in Cornwall, New York, the son of Armand Anthony Assante Sr. (1922–2017), a painter and artist, and Katharine (née Healy; 1921–2011), a music teacher, English teacher and poet. He is of Italian and Irish descent. Career During the 1970s, Assante was a regular on two NBC soap operas, '' How to Survive a Marriage'' as Johnny McGhee and '' The Doctors'' as Mike Powers. His first film was '' The Lords of Flatbush'' (1974), although his work did not appear in the fi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michael Weatherly
Michael Manning Weatherly Jr. (born July 8, 1968) is an American actor, producer, director, and musician, known for playing the roles of Anthony DiNozzo in the television series ''NCIS'' (2003–2016) and Logan Cale in '' Dark Angel'' (2000–2002). In 2016, he began the title role of Dr. Jason Bull in ''Bull'', a courtroom drama. He also starred in '' Meet Wally Sparks''. Early life Weatherly was born in New York and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut. His parents are Patricia (née Hetherington) and Michael Weatherly. Weatherly is of Irish descent. Weatherly attended Fairfield Country Day School and graduated from Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts. He attended Boston University, Menlo College, American University, and The American University of Paris but left college to pursue acting. Career Weatherly began his acting career with a minor television role on ''The Cosby Show'' as Theo Huxtable's roommate. He played the role of Cooper Alden in ''Loving'' and la ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anthony DiNozzo
Anthony D. "Tony" DiNozzo, Jr.Season 3, Episode 9 "Frame Up" is a fictional character from the CBS TV series ''NCIS'' portrayed by American actor Michael Weatherly. An original cast character created by producer Donald P. Bellisario, he is credited in episode 306, but actually appearing in 305 of the series. He has also made guest appearances on the spin-offs '' NCIS: Los Angeles'' and '' NCIS: New Orleans''. Tony DiNozzo, born in 1972 (as guessed correctly by Caitlin Todd in the season 1 episode Split Decision), is the senior field agent of the fictional Major Case Response Team (MCRT) led by Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), a former Marine Gunnery sergeant. The team investigates major crimes involving military personnel, often dealing with local law enforcement officers (LEOs). A former police detective, he is characterized as an outgoing, joking, charismatic former jock and frequent lothario. His charisma helps him do undercover work and to deal with intra-agenc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jason Isaacs
Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English actor. Isaac's film roles include Col. Tavington in '' The Patriot'' (2000), Michael D. Steele in '' Black Hawk Down'' (2001), Lucius Malfoy in the ''Harry Potter'' film series (2002–2011), Capt. Hook in ''Peter Pan'' (2003), Marshal Georgy Zhukov in ''The Death of Stalin'' (2017), and Vasili in '' Hotel Mumbai'' (2018). His other films include ''Event Horizon'' (1997), '' Divorcing Jack'' (1998), '' The End of the Affair'' (1999), '' Sweet November'' (2001), ''The Tuxedo'' (2002), ''Battle of the Brave'' (2004), '' Nine Lives'' (2005), '' Friends with Money'' (2006), ''Good'' (2008), ''Green Zone'' (2010), ''Abduction'' (2011), '' A Single Shot'' (2013), '' Fury'' (2014), '' A Cure for Wellness'' (2016), ''London Fields'' (2018), '' Occupation: Rainfall'' (2020), and ''Mass'' (2021). Isaacs' roles in television have included Det. Michael Britten in the NBC series '' Awake'' (2012), Dr. Hunter Aloysius "Hap" Percy in the Netfl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |