CBS has rounded out the cast of “NCIS: New York,” adding Jennifer Beals in the female lead role alongside three other series regulars ahead of the spinoff’s fall premiere. Beals will play Assistant Special Agent in Charge Robyn Wells, the head of the show’s New York field office and the boss of stars LL Cool J and Scott Caan.
Joining Beals as series regulars are Jacqueline Byers, Shane Harper and Devin Druid, who will round out the field team led by Sam Hanna, the character LL Cool J has played across 14 seasons of “NCIS: Los Angeles” and a season of “NCIS: Hawai’i.” Byers takes on Special Agent Addison “Addy” Ross, described by CBS as tough and resourceful with something to prove. Harper plays Special Agent Wyatt Hill, a skilled field agent the network calls a hopeless romantic, while Druid plays tech specialist Sean Sullivan, characterized as sharp but resistant to authority.
The series follows Hanna returning to his hometown to lead a new team out of the New York field office, this time paired with Caan’s Nick Schaeffer, described as a roguish agent tasked with protecting one of the country’s busiest ports. The pairing carries some franchise history: Caan and LL Cool J previously shared scenes in a 2012 crossover between “Hawaii Five-0” and “NCIS: Los Angeles,” where Caan played Detective Danny Williams.
Beals is best known for her breakout role in “Flashdance” and for playing Bette Porter across six seasons of Showtime’s “The L Word” and its follow-up series. Her recent credits include “Luckiest Girl Alive,” “Law & Order: Organized Crime” and a recurring part in the upcoming third season of Disney+’s “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.”
Behind the camera, “NCIS: New York” reunites LL Cool J with R. Scott Gemmill, who wrote across all 14 seasons of “NCIS: Los Angeles” and later created HBO Max’s “The Pitt.” Byron Balasco, a writer-producer on “Without a Trace” and creator of the Audience Network series “Kingdom,” serves as showrunner. LL Cool J is also an executive producer alongside Gemmill, Balasco, Adam Davidson, Kyle Harimoto, Joe Wilson and Jason Barrett.
The series received a straight-to-series order in the spring and begins filming this month in New York. It will air Tuesdays at 9 p.m., slotted between the flagship “NCIS” and “NCIS: Origins” on CBS’ fall schedule, with “NCIS: Sydney” set to join the lineup at midseason.
