List of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders characters

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This is a list of characters in the television series Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, an American police procedural drama that premiered March 16, 2016, on CBS in the United States.

The FBI's International Response Team. From left to right: Senior SSA Clara Seger, SSA Jack Garrett, SSA Russ "Monty" Montgomery, ME and SSA Mae Jarvis and SSA Matthew "Matt" Simmons.

Main characters

Character Actor Position Seasons
1
2
Jack Garrett Gary Sinise Unit Chief / Senior Supervisory Special Agent Main
Clara Seger Alana de la Garza Linguistics Specialist / Senior Supervisory Special Agent Main
Matthew "Matt" Simmons Daniel Henney Special Operations Agent / Supervisory Special Agent Main
Russ "Monty" Montgomery Tyler James Williams Technical Analyst Main
Mae Jarvis Annie Funke Medical Examiner / Supervisory Special Agent Main

Jack Garrett

Played by

Aaron Hotchner and David Rossi of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit and Clara Seger from his own team. In his personal life, Garrett is married to his wife Karen (Sherry Stringfield
) and together they have six children, Ryan, Jack Jr, Josie, R.J., Millie and Emma. His son Ryan recently got into the FBI Academy which concerned him, as Ryan would therefore be putting himself in harm's way as an agent. His daughter Josie recently went away to college. Garrett takes his job seriously and hopes to make the world a safer place for his family to live in.

Clara Seger

Alana de la Garza as Clara Seger

Played by Alana de la Garza, SSA Clara Seger is a smart, well-traveled and multi-lingual cultural anthropologist and special agent with the IRT. Before rejoining the IRT in 2016, Seger was married to a man named Brad who was a fellow agent and, like her, knew Jack.[1] In 2013, she took a sabbatical from the FBI after her husband Brad died from unknown causes, which Clara struggled to cope with. She later, reluctantly, returned to the IRT in 2016.[2]

The character did not appear in the series'

the first episode (March 16, 2016). When de la Garza spoke to Yahoo! in March 2016, she raved about the ease and comfortableness of the character's wardrobe: flat-heeled shoes, cargo pants, and loose-fitting t-shirts.[4]

Seger is a

the first season after taking a two-year sabbatical following the death of her co-worker and husband. She speaks 13 languages fluently, including French and Thai, a feat that complicated de la Garza's performances: "That was tricky for me, to kind of swallow it and make it sound authentic. […] In Thai, there was a line I had to say that I kept saying like a question but it was actually a statement. I was like, 'This feels awkward.' It's like retraining your brain."[3]

Matt Simmons

Main article:
Matt Simmons (Criminal Minds)

Played by

JJ of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit
. He was a former member of a Special Ops unit, and his experience with the unit allowed him to hone his profiling skills.

Russ Montgomery

Played by

Penelope Garcia, the tech analyst of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit
. Much like Garcia, he upholds a positive attitude, though he shows it in a different way. In addition to his job as a technical analyst, he liaises with the families of victims on the American homeland while the rest of his group is away.

Mae Jarvis

Played by Annie Funke, Mae Jarvis is a medical examiner and special agent with the FBI's International Response Team (IRT). Young and spunky, Mae has a fun-loving big bro-little sis relationship with Simmons and was in the FBI purely as a medical examiner before being brought onto the IRT as a resident medical examiner to bypass the bureaucratic red tape in various countries.[1] Jarvis was briefly engaged to a man but later called off the wedding due to her devotion to her job with the IRT.

Recurring

Karen Garrett

Played by Sherry Stringfield, Karen Garrett is the wife of Jack Garrett and the mother of their five children.

Josie Garrett

Played by Brittany Uomoleale, Josie Garrett is the middle daughter of Jack and Karen Garrett's five children.

Kristy Simmons

Played by Kelly Frye, Kristy Simmons is the wife of Matthew Simmons and the mother of their four children.

Jake Simmons

Played by Ezra Dewey, Jake Simmons is the son of Matthew and Kristy Simmons and David's twin brother.

David Simmons

Played by Declan Whaley, David Simmons is the son of Matthew and Kristy Simmons and Jakes's twin brother.

Ryan Garrett

Played by Matt Cohen, Ryan Garrett is Jack's and Karen's oldest son who is currently training at the FBI Academy and following in his father's footsteps.

Characters from Criminal Minds

  • Florence, Italy
    .
  • Penelope Garcia – portrayed by Kirsten Vangsness
    Garcia appeared in the third episode of season one "Denial". In the opening scene of the episode, Garcia is looking for her octopus coffee mug that Russ Montgomery took. She later returned in the season two premiere "Lost Souls", in which she helped Monty track down victims' families while the IRT were investigating a mass abduction in Tanzania
    .
  • Emily Prentiss – portrayed by Paget Brewster
    Prentiss appeared in the season two episode "Type A", in which she aided the IRT track down an unsub active in New York City and Taiwan
    .
  • Mateo "Matt" Cruz – portrayed by Esai Morales
    Cruz appeared in the season two episode "La Huesuda", in which he called Jack regarding information about his son, Ryan.

References

  1. ^ a b "Meet the Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders Team". TV Guide.
  2. ^ Review 'Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders' isn't beyond playing on xenophobic travel fears
  3. ^
    ISSN 0039-8543. Archived
    from the original on 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2020-09-20.
  4. ^ de la Garza, Alana (2016-03-15). "Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders: Alana De La Garza Shares Spinoff's Joys and Frights, Hails 'Wonderful' Forever Fans" (Interview). Interviewed by Matt Webb Mitovich. Yahoo!. Archived from the original on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2020-09-20.
  5. ^ Petski, Denise (2015-07-17). "Alana De La Garza & Annie Funke Join 'Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders'". Deadline. Penske Media Corporation. Archived from the original on 2020-01-27. Retrieved 2020-09-20.
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