NCIS: Hawaii casts female lead
Vanessa Lachey becomes the first female to headline an NCIS series.
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Vanessa Lachey (BH 90210, Dads) will star in spin-off series NCIS: Hawaii.
Lachey will play Jane Tennant, the first female Special Agent in Charge of NCIS Pearl.
As diplomatic as she is hard-charging, Tennant is a keen investigator who can navigate a crime scene and inter-bureau politics with equal aplomb. She’s also a single mother mother who often finds herself torn between running a family and running NCIS.
Lachey will be the first female to headline an NCIS series, following on from Mark Harmon in NCIS, Chris O’Donnell and LL Cool J in NCIS: Los Angeles and Scott Bakula in the soon-to-conclude NCIS: New Orleans). She married singer Nick Lachey in 2011 after he split from Jessica Simpson.
Also joining in supporting roles are Yasmine Al-Bustami (The Originals) and Jason Antoon (Claws).
Source: TV Line
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I like Vanessa but I’m confused they didn’t cast a Hawaiian actress to lead
Sorry just because it is shot in Hawaii does not mean it should have a actress from Hawaii. Scott Bakula is not from New Orleans. I will give it a go.
Thanks for the info. I presume Ten will have the rights to this since it is CBS & another NCIS… but will be interesting to see how they treat it…
The show also is NCIS: Hawai’i now not NCIS: Hawaii