At the end of the season, she leaves the team to return and run Interpol in London. 69524 CSP Campanile Quebec, QC G1X 5A2 1.888.868.0005 Cook launched her feature film career as one of five suicidal Lisbon sisters in 1999's The Virgin Suicides. His mother, Haley Hotchner, is killed in season five by George Foyet (a.k.a. He went to Northwestern University on a football scholarship, holds a black belt in judo, runs FBI self-defense classes, and served in a bomb squad unit and as a Chicago police officer. In "Brothers Hotchner", she is abducted by the Replicator, later revealed to be a former FBI agent named John Curtis, whom she left to take the blame along with Blake following the Amerithrax case. Since September 2005, she has starred as Jennifer "J.J." Jareau in the CBS drama Criminal Minds. In season 11, Spencer takes some time off from the BAU to visit her. Penelope stated that she didn't know why she was ever "that" person. Garcia attempts to hack into the database under his watch. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Criminal_Minds_characters&oldid=1018610632#William_LaMontagne_Jr. She was introduced to the show because Shemar Moore, the actor who portrays Morgan, had requested that his character should get a romantic partner. Former Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner promoted him to unit chief in his place, a promotion Derek saw as only temporary until the "Boston Reaper" was captured. In the episode "Fate" (10x09), Joy sought Rossi out and they're getting to know each other. Strauss becomes more prominent in season eight. Played by A. J. Cook, SSA Jennifer "JJ" Jareau originally acted as the team's Communication Liaison with the media and local police agencies and later turned to a full time agent in the field after returning from the Pentagon. She returns once again in the season six finale before returning as a full-time cast member again in season seven. Gibson appeared in 1–2 episodes in the forthcoming season; he was then immediately removed as a cast member. Later in the show Penelope brings him in for a case in Season 6. Her first appearance was in season one in a scene with Russ "Monty" Montgomery, where Monty hides Garcia's octopus mug and claims not to have it. Prior to the series, he was said to have had a "nervous breakdown" (or "major depressive episode") after he sent six men into a warehouse with a bomb in it; all six agents were killed, and he was heavily criticized about the event. John married Mary O'Brien on month day 1903, at age 31 at marriage place , Massachusetts. Gideon participated in some field operations during his time with the BAU and had the rest of his team "think outside the box" as well, as he made a major advancement by shouting at the top of his lungs with pleas of mercy and, when questioned by his team, he said that the victims were being threatened to be kept quiet as neighbors would have heard the pleas if they were unrestrained. She has three siblings: Nathan, Paul, and Angela. Played by Bodhi Elfman, Peter Lewis (aka Mr. Scratch) is a proxy killer who poisons his victims causing them to kill people for him. He and other BAP agents, including his longtime friend Sam Bower, were sent undercover to investigate corruption in the Russian government. Cook's real-life sons Mekhai Anderson and Phoenix Andersen. He was a former member of a Special Ops unit, and his experience with the unit allowed him to hone his profiling skills. At the end of the "Demons", she sits apart from the rest of the group on the plane ride home, and it is implied that she sends a text message to Hotch handing in her resignation. YourFolks.com C.P. She has two sons with her now husband Detective William LaMontagne Jr. (Josh Stewart), whom she met while the team was working a case in New Orleans in the season two episode "Jones" and married at the end of the season seven two-part finale, "Hit and Run". His age is 11 as of 2019. During the episode, it was revealed that he and JJ had been secretly contacting each other since "Jones". She is best known for her role as Supervisory Special Agent Jennifer "JJ" Jareau on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds (2005-2020). In the process, she made herself find the humanity inside these broken men (and, sometimes, women) in order to learn if there was a conscience behind their brutal crimes. She is shot and killed by Hotch's nemesis, George Foyet (a.k.a. As season eight progressed, Blake found herself in danger when she was threatened by a serial killer, 'The Replicator', who turned out to be John Curtis: a fellow former FBI agent disgraced due to the events of the Amerithrax case, who targeted Blake out of envy that she had restored her reputation while his own was still in ruins. Mr. Scratch. First appearance "Compulsion" 1x02, September 28, 2005: Last appearance "And in the End" 15x10, February 19, 2020: Created by: Jeff Davis: Portrayed by: A. J. Cook: In-universe information; Nickname: JJ: Title: FBI BAU Supervisory Special Agent: Occupation: FBI Special Agent Conditional Unit Chief (formerly) Communications Liaison (formerly) Family: Sandy … Penelope taught herself to hack after she dropped out of college and was aligned with the best underground hackers in the world. Josh Stewart - West Virginia native Josh Stewart studied at the T. Schreiber studios in New York City and was a company member of the 13th Street Repertory Theatre. Henry LaMontagne (16) Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (15) Emily Prentiss (11) Derek Morgan (11) David Rossi (11) Penelope Garcia (10) Aaron Hotchner (10) William LaMontagne Jr. (7) Jack Hotchner (4) Include Relationships Henry LaMontagne & Spencer Reid (18) Jennifer "JJ" Jareau & Spencer Reid (12) Penelope Garcia & Spencer Reid (8) In 2013, it was announced she was hired as a spokeswoman for Proactiv. In those flashbacks the viewers see a Goth-looking García. In "The Thirteenth Step" (episode 6.13), Prentiss receives some disturbing news from her previous boss at Interpol. Through the first two seasons, Gideon was portrayed to be very good at chess, winning against Reid many times (only exception being Reid's birthdayE104) and encouraging him to "think outside the box". Reid immediately recognises her as Lindsey Vaughan and later remembers that she was Mr. Scratch's accomplice from the hotel in Mexico but is taken back to his cell before he can warn Diana, later being revealed that she is the accomplice, and girlfriend, of Cat Adams. Her dream was to study psychopaths up close and personal – and her psychology background, combined with her experience in the FBI, brought her face-to-face with monsters. As a result of his actions, Aaron Hotchner was suspended, which was the final straw for Gideon. Stephen's first case concerned a terrorist cell in Belgium, and three agents were sent undercover to infiltrate it. Played by Rachel Nichols, Ashley Seaver is an FBI cadet assigned to the BAU. In that episode, he was brought to Miami where the unsub had killed a friend and colleague of his. He is next seen in the pilot episode for the upcoming spinoff, entitled Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, which was the nineteenth episode of season ten. She is an alcoholic, as revealed in the seventh-season episode "Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" when she rants at the commandant of a military academy and Morgan smells alcohol on her breath. He is first hunted by the BAU in season 10. In an interview, she said that she still tap dances. Played by Gonzalo Menendez, Agent Josh Cramer runs the FBI Field Office in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as the Organized Crime division in that city. This case haunted Rossi for twenty years and prompted him to return to the BAU, where he eventually solved it. The reason William left is because he was aware Diana witnessed a murder, as a family friend avenged his own son's murder. He is married to a woman named Monica and has two children with her, Maya and Eli. After her funeral, the team celebrates her life during dinner at Rossi's garden, discussing happy stories of her time with them and acknowledging her as a good woman, friend, and mother. LaMontagne commenced his "Part of the Light Tour" which kicked off May 27 at the Pacific Northwest Sasquatch Music Festival . He was taken under the wing of a local youth center coordinator, Carl Buford (Julius Tennon), who acted as a surrogate father to Derek and helped him to obtain a college football scholarship. She was last seen giving birth to her and Derek's son, Hank Spencer Morgan, after she was shot by Chazz Montolo. In 2015, the actress announced she was expecting her second child, which was written into JJ's storyline. He met Emily Prentiss, then the chief of Interpol's London office, during his line of work. She was once a university literature professor, but is no longer since her diagnosis of schizophrenia. The two episodes which take place in Baltimore, "Natural Born Killer" (1.8) and "Honor Among Thieves" (2.20) both have him liaising with the BAU. In "Entropy", he reveals she has early signs of Dementia and when he first walked in her room, she didn't know who he was for three seconds. [6] She also returned for one episode for the departure of Paget Brewster from the series. William LaMontagne Jr. (505) Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (465) Spencer Reid (362) Aaron Hotchner (329) Emily Prentiss (327) Penelope Garcia (310) Derek Morgan (305) David Rossi (290) Henry LaMontagne (215) Jack Hotchner (141) Include Relationships Jennifer "JJ" Jareau/William LaMontagne Jr. (192) Aaron Hotchner/Spencer Reid (83) She also has a tough relationship with her mother. The couple's second son, Phoenix Sky, was born in July 2015. In the finale of season 14, JJ reveals to Reid that she was in love with him during a hostage situation. He served in the Vietnam war and lost a close friend which was revealed in a series of flashbacks. Higher Ground lasted one season, ending with a romance between Shelby and Hayden Christensen's character, Scott. In the following episode, "Sense Memory", after coming home from work, she notices that someone had been in her house because her cat's back was wet and her window was open. In 2003, Cook guest starred in Dead Like Me. She faked her death to escape an old nemesis with the help of both Hotch and JJ while the rest of the team continued to assume she was dead. The BAU travels to Los Angeles looking for a serial killer dubbed "The Nanny Killer", who annually abducts nannies and the children they care for on the same day. has not been disclosed, though they exchanged rings with Henry's birthstone in season four. Played by Thomas Gibson, Unit Chief SSA Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner used to be a prosecutor and was formerly assigned to the FBI field office in Seattle. Because of this, he had a resentment towards God and church. Played by Daniel Henney, SSA Matthew "Matt" Simmons is a Special Operations agent and special agent with the IRT. My husband and I feel very blessed! Aaron again took his place as unit chief when he returned after grieving over his ex-wife's murder. She was ranked at 88 on the Maxim Hot 100 2014 list. Spencer is known for having an IQ of 187 and has an eidetic memory. However, after Scott is injured by the UnSub, the two siblings start to reconnect, and by the end of the episode, she reconciles with both Scott and Damon when she and the rest of the BAU team have a barbecue at her father's home. My husband and I feel very blessed! Played by Matthew Gray Gubler, SSA Dr. Spencer Reid is a genius who graduated from Las Vegas High School at age 12. He enlists the BAU to help the international team find a vicious international killer in Barbados. "The Boston Reaper") but is spared when his father gives him a secret signal to "work the case" (hide in the trunk in Hotch's office). He prayed for the first time in 20 years at exactly the time, he later found out, that Penelope Garcia was being operated on after being shot. Walker was a member of the Behavioral Analysis Program. In the end, the suspect commits suicide by cop in front of her. William "Will" LaMontagne, Jr. is a recurring character on Criminal Minds. It is revealed in "The Silencer" that the newest member of the BAU team, Alex Blake, worked with her during the Amerithrax case, during which Strauss left her to take the fall when a linguistics flub led to the arrest of the wrong suspect. Their first kid Mekhai (child) was brought into the world in the year 2008. As a result of those scars, Elle began acting even more harshly in season two, especially during a case involving a serial rapist.E205 Ultimately, she killed the suspect before he could even be properly arrested.E205 During this episode, she mentioned that the unsub wrote on the wall with her blood from the wound.E205 She handed in her badge and gun in the episode "The Boogeyman" saying that it was not an admission of guilt. In "The Replicator", Erin Strauss is killed in the line of duty when Curtis poisons her with spiked wine and leaves her to die. See more ideas about criminal minds, criminal, criminal minds cast. It is shown in season seven's "Painless" that Jack is being bullied. In the season three finale, it is revealed that he transferred to Metro to move to Virginia to be with JJ and raise Henry together. Savannah first appeared in Season Nine's "The Return" and it is presumed Morgan and Savannah started dating prior to Season Nine, and first met after she approached him when he was depressed over a case that ended badly. In the season nine two-part finale, Blake becomes distraught and depressed when Reid is shot in the neck by the UnSub after pushing Blake out of the way and nearly dies, even commenting that it should have been her who was shot instead. As a result, Blake did not get along with her afterwards. Cook", "A.J. The team discovers the real killer is "Mr. Scratch" who taunts the team by turning over the real "Crimson King", who was tortured to the point he no longer remembered who he was. In the Season 12 premiere he works with the BAU to catch the "Crimson King", one of the escapees that attacked Alvez's old partner. Through his job, Simmons has some prior history with Derek Morgan and JJ of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. She is half Cuban and speaks Spanish. Blake graduated from Berkeley with a double major and also holds a PhD. Reid's mother, Diana Reid has Schizophrenia and was sent to a mental hospital by Spencer himself when he turned 18. They've developed a dating relationship in spite of Garcia's 'special' relationship/mutual admiration with Agent Morgan. Add. Hotch scolds Anderson briefly for not doing more, and quickly sends him back to the scene of the crime. Cook was born in Oshawa, Ontario. In the episode "What Happens at Home", the BAU investigate a series of murders in a gated community and bring Ashley along because of her understanding of the family dynamics of a serial killer. He has played the role of Henry LaMontagne. Her guilt and distress over Reid's brush with death touched a major nerve with her, seemingly pushing her to the breaking point. Matthew Gray Gubler has been known for his many hairstyles throughout the continuing show. Played by Mekhai Andersen (A.J. At the end of "The Silencer", Strauss tries apologizing to her, but Blake turns Strauss down. He was shown to have a very close relationship with Reid, having hand-picked him from the FBI Academy for his team, helping Reid through many difficulties (including his implied drug use), and even leaving the good-bye letter for Reid to find. He makes a brief appearance as Henry LaMontagne in an episode of Criminal Minds, when Cook's character is buying children's medicine from a pharmacy. Henry LaMontagne (574) Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (507) Spencer Reid (402) Emily Prentiss (364) Aaron Hotchner (339) Penelope Garcia (313) Derek Morgan (297) David Rossi (283) William LaMontagne Jr. (273) Jack Hotchner (248) Exclude Relationships Jennifer "JJ" Jareau/Emily Prentiss (124) Jennifer "JJ" Jareau/William LaMontagne Jr. (114) View the profiles of professionals named "Henry Lamontagne" on LinkedIn. He also appeared in Criminal Minds as JJ's second son, Michael. She danced competitively for many years, before deciding at the age of 16 that she wanted to try acting. He first appeared on Criminal Minds in 2009 in an episode called "100." [12], Cook is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,[13] but does not limit her acting solely to roles reflecting her beliefs. Gideon began to lose confidence in his profiling skills after Frank Breitkopf murdered his girlfriend, Sarah Jacobs. Played by former Ghost Whisperer star Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kate Callahan has been in the FBI for eight years and has experience as an undercover agent, which has allowed her to establish a prior friendship with members of the BAU. John Lamontagne 1871 John Lamontagne in 1930 United States Federal Census She was soon shot by The Fisher King, as he had already been there, waiting for her. Cook Returning to CBS' 'Criminal Minds, "Criminal Minds Star AJ Cook To Serve As Grand Marshal For STP 500", "From Philo to Donny – 22 Mormons who made their mark on TV", "Exclusive: A.J. She has not been to see him. Paget Brewster was confirmed to return for a several episode arc in Season 12.