NCIS (season 9)
The ninth season of NCIS an American police procedural drama originally aired on CBS from September 20, 2011, through May 15, 2012.Cast and characters
Main
- Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent of Major Case Response Team assigned to Washington's Navy Yard
- Michael Weatherly as Anthony DiNozzo, NCIS Special Agent, second in command of MCRT
- Cote de Pablo as Ziva David, NCIS Junior Special Agent
- Pauley Perrette as Abigail Sciuto, Forensic Specialist attached to NCIS
- Sean Murray as Timothy McGee, NCIS Special Agent
- Rocky Carroll as Leon Vance, NCIS Director
- David McCallum as Dr. Donald Mallard, Chief Medical Examiner for NCIS
Also starring
- Brian Dietzen as Jimmy Palmer, Assistant Medical Examiner for NCIS
Recurring
- Joe Spano as Tobias Fornell, FBI Senior Special Agent
- Joel Gretsch as Stan Burley, NCIS Special Agent and former member of Gibbs' team
- Darby Stanchfield as Shannon Gibbs, Gibbs' deceased wife
- Robert Wagner as Anthony DiNozzo Sr.
- Michelle Pierce as Breena Slater, Palmer's girlfriend and soon to be wife
- Diane Neal as Abigail Borin, CGIS Special Agent In Charge
- Sarah Jane Morris as E.J. Barrett, NCIS Senior Special Agent
- Matt Craven as Clayton Jarvis, Secretary of the Navy
- Enrique Murciano as Ray Cruz, rouge CIA Agent
- Tamer Hassan as Agah Bayar, NCIS target
- Melinda McGraw as Diane Sterling, Gibbs' and Fornell's ex-wife
- Scott Wolf as Casey Stratton, NCIS target
Guests
- Philip Casnoff as Sean Latham, NCIS target
- Matt Willig as Simon Cade, NCIS Special Agent
- Wendy Makkena as Dr. Rachel Cranston, a psychiatrist and Caitlin Todd's sister
- Lily Tomlin as Penelope Langston, McGee's grandmother
- Jack Conley as Danny Sportelli, Metro P.D. Detective
- Daniel Louis Rivas as Kyle Davis
- Meredith Eaton as Carol Wilson
- Matt L. Jones as Ned Dorneget, NCIS Probationary Agent
- Sasha Alexander as Caitlin "Kate" Todd, deceased NCIS Special Agent who was killed by Ari Haswari
- Michael O'Neill as Riley McCallister, retired Senior Special Agent for NCIS
- Tim Kelleher as Christopher Pacci, deceased NCIS Special Agent
- Rudolf Martin as Ari Haswari, deceased rogue Mossad Agent who killed Caitlin Todd
- Muse Watson as Mike Franks, deceased retired Senior Special Agent for NCIS
- Lauren Holly as Jenny Shepard, deceased NCIS Director
- Sam Schuder as Kelly Gibbs, Gibbs' deceased daughter
- Ralph Waite as Jackson Gibbs
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Dr. Samantha Ryan, head of DoD PsyOps Division
- Paula Newsome as Jackie Vance, Leon Vance's wife
- Akinsola Aribo as Jared Vance, Leon Vance's son
- Kiara Muhammad as Kayla Vance, Leon Vance's daughter
- Richard Schiff as Harper Dearing, NCIS target
- Ned Luke as Frank West, NCIS Senior Special Agent Assign To Fugitive Task Force In San Diego
- Michael Kelly as Jim Porter, NCIS Special Agent, second in command In San Diego
- Eve Mendez as Vanessa Neal, NCIS Special Agent
- Chris Noth as Rick Smith, NCIS Deputy Director In San Diego
Episodes
Production
Development
NCIS was renewed for a ninth season on February 2, 2011.Reception
NCIS ranked #3 with a total of 19.49 million viewers for the 2011–12 U.S. television season.Ratings