16 Actors Who Played Different Characters Across ‘NCIS’ Shows
There may be three shows currently airing in the NCIS franchise, and CBS may host the occasional crossover (including the upcoming event with the longest and latest shows), but that doesn’t mean that they necessarily share the same characters.
Over the years, many of the same actors have appeared across the franchise, sometimes in different roles — especially when the guest star’s original character died. Sometimes they’ve played a very different role, and at other times they’ve still been the good or bad guy.
Scroll down for a look at 16 actors who have appeared on NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, and NCIS: Hawai’i in different roles.
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Randy Vasquez
ATF Special Agent Phillip Caffey (above)
NCIS: Season 12 Episode 20 “No Good Deed”
Naval Intelligence Commander Downey
NCIS: New Orleans: Season 3 Episode 19 “Quid Pro Quo”
Omid Abtahi
Saleem Ulman (above)
NCIS:
Season 6 Episode 25 “Aliyah”
Season 7 Episode 1 “Truth or Consequences”
Ari Sayed
NCIS: Los Angeles:
Season 4 Episode 18 “Red: Part One”
Season 4 Episode 19 “Red: Part Two”
Jonathan Chase
Kevin Turner
NCIS: Los Angeles:
Season 6 Episode 8 “The Grey Man”
Navy Commander Marshall May (above)
NCIS:
Season 17 Episode 12 “Flight Plan”
Graham Hamilton
Scott Davis
NCIS: Los Angeles:
Season 1 Episode 19 “Hand-to-Hand”
Gabriel Hicks (above)
NCIS:
Season 15 Episode 7 “Burden of Proof”
Season 15 Episode 15 “Keep Your Enemies Closer”
Don Franklin
Agent Ron Sacks (above)
NCIS:
Season 3 Episode 9 “Frame Up”
Season 4 Episode 1 “Shalom”
Season 4 Episode 10 “Smoked”
Captain Alan Beck
NCIS: Los Angeles:
Season 6 Episode 13 “In the Line of Duty”
Brian Letscher
Sam Bennett
NCIS:
Season 6 Episode 10 “Road Kill”
Marine CPL Scott Reilly
NCIS: Los Angeles:
Season 1 Episode 8 “Ambush”
Jim Keene (above)
NCIS: New Orleans:
Season 6 Episode 11 “Bad Moon Rising”
Sean Harmon
Young Leroy Jethro Gibbs
NCIS:
Season 6: Episode 4 “Heartland” and Episode 15 “Deliverance”
Season 7 Episode 16 “Mother’s Day”
Season 9: Episode 8 “Engaged (Part I),” Episode 9 “Engaged (Part II),” and Episode 14 “Life Before His Eyes”
Season 18 Episode 2 “Everything Starts Somewhere”
Charlie Connor (above)
NCIS: Los Angeles:
Season 6 Episode 20 “Rage”
T.J. Ramini
Mossad Officer Malachi Ben-Gidon (above)
NCIS:
Season 7 Episode 4 “Good Cop, Bad Cop”
Season 8 Episode 8 “Enemies Foreign”
Season 8 Episode 9 “Enemies Domestic”
Tobin Shaked
NCIS: Los Angeles:
Season 8 Episode 6 “Where the Heart Is”
Season 10 Episode 8 “The Patton Project”
Liza Lapira
Michelle Lee (above)
NCIS:
Season 4: Episode 1 “Shalom,” Episode 2 “Escaped,” Episode 5 “Dead and Unburied,” Episode 8 “Once a Hero,” Episode 10 “Smoked,” Episode 15 “Friends & Lovers,” Episode 16 “Dead Man Walking,” and Episode 24 “Angel of Death”
Season 6: Episode 1 “Last Man Standing,” Episode 7 “Collateral Damage,” Episode 8 “Cloak,” and Episode 9 “Dagger”
Araminta Jax
NCIS: New Orleans:
Season 5 Episode 15 “Crab Mentality”
Dina Meyer
Holly Snow
NCIS:
Season 7 Episode 13 “Jet Lag”
Season 7 Episode 19 “Guilty Pleasure”
Veronica Stephens (above)
NCIS: Los Angeles:
Season 10 Episode 10 “Heist”
Season 11 Episode 12 “Groundwork”
Alicia Coppola
Lieutenant Commander Faith Coleman
NCIS:
Season 1 Episode 18 “UnSEALed”
Season 2 Episode 7 “Call of Silence”
Season 2 Episode 21 “Hometown Hero”
FBI Agent Lisa Rand (above)
NCIS: Los Angeles:
Season 2 Episode 5 “Little Angels”
Season 6 Episode 20 “Rage”
Season 7 Episode 19 “The Seventh Child”
Season 9 Episode 17 “The Monster”
Marisol Nichols
Tracy Keller
NCIS: Los Angeles:
Season 2 Episode 6 “Stand-Off”
ATF Special Agent Zoe Keates (above)
NCIS:
Season 12 Episode 6 “Parental Guidance Suggested”
Season 12 Episode 12 “The Enemy Within”
Season 12 Episode 20 “No Good Deed”
Kerr Smith
Lieutenant Jonas Cobb (above)
NCIS:
Season 8 Episode 23 “Swan Song”
Season 8 Episode 24 “Pyramid”
David Ross
NCIS: Los Angeles:
Season 10 Episode 14 “Smokescreen”
Season 10 Episode 15 “Smokescreen: Part II”
Michael Nouri
Mossad Director Eli David
NCIS:
Season 6: Episode 1 “Last Man Standing” and Episode 25 “Aliyah”
Season 7 Episode 4 “Good Cop, Bad Cop” (voice, uncredited)
Season 8: Episode 8 “Enemies Foreign” and Episode 9 “Enemies Domestic”
Season 10: Episode 1 “Extreme Prejudice” (uncredited) and Episode 11 “Shabbat Shalom”
Jason Campbell (above)
NCIS: New Orleans:
Season 6 Episode 9 “Convicted”
Anthony Ruivivar
Mark Ruiz
NCIS: Los Angeles: Season 7 Episode 6 “Unspoken”
Daniel Tennant (above)
NCIS: Hawai’i: Season 1 Episode 10 “Lost”
Scott Lawrence
Captain Thomas Lind
NCIS: Season 8 Episode 14 “A Man Walks Into a Bar…”
Judge Malcolm Keen (above)
NCIS: Hawai’i: Season 1 Episode 11 “The Game”
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Wasn't Scott Lawrence on the last couple of seasons of JAG?
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Don’t forget Derek Webster, he plays dirty cop in ncis la and plays director isler in ncis New Orleans
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What about: Doug Savant (so far he is the only actor I recalled playing two different characters in NCIS alone)
Then there are: John Getz, Erik Palladino
If we count JAG, Kari Turner and Zoe McLellan played different characters in NCIS
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Scott Grimes, honestly this list is absurdly and at times disturbidly to long.
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Chelsea Field plays Joyce Wayne in. NCIS and Rita Deveraux in NCIS New Orleans.
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He plays a soldier in NCIS
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Nonsense. Hollywood has been doing it for decades. Good actors are more than capable of playing multiple roles. If you think this is bad form, I can only imagine what you think of shows from the past who frequently utilized the same actor in the same show within the same season
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Agent Dom NCIS LA-kidnapped agent & later found; looks like Agent Carter on NCIS New Orleans.
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it is bad form to cast the same actors hollywood has enough actors to cover different parts, it is one thing i really hate and looks bad when they do it.
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what about Eric Palladino, cia Sabatino NCIS LA, and staff sergeant Daniel cryer on NCIS
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Well, if you include JAG then Sean Murray should be on the list.
Tim McGee (NCIS) and Danny Walden (JAG) (and he also played a sailor on one episode, some time before being cast as Danny - but I don't recall the name)
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what about Melinda McGraw? she played two characters that both got shot one was a one shot red harring and the other was fornell and gibbs is deceased ex wife?
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Randy Vasquez also played Gunnery Sgt. Victor 'Gunny' Galindez on NCIS' parent show JAG!
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What about the Astrid character she played on NCIS and NCIS la
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You are correct,
Seems like NCIS does not do it as often. At least within the original NCIS alone, I only recall Doug Savant playing two different characters but also many years apart.
Past TV series used to have the same actors guest star over and over again to play different characters like Steve Forrest in Gunsmoke.
Maybe because NCIS has many recurring characters, or perhaps now there are reruns