Since the second episode of its eleventh season, top-rated NCIS (CBS, Tuesdays, 8pm) has been down a team member with the departure of Cote de Pablo’s Ziva David – a departure that is still affecting the members of the team. On November 19th, Ziva’s desk will have a new person assigned to it permanently – NSA analyst Eleanor ‘Ellie’ Bishop.
Bishop, played by Emily Wickersham, is described as ‘a mysterious mixture of analytic brilliance, fierce determination and idealism who specializes in international threat assessment and global preparation,’ and joins the team to investigate the bugging of SecNav – a possibility she had forecast in a threat assessment two years earlier. Bishop, and Wickersham, join the series for its November 19th episode. Check out the press release after the jump.
EMILY WICKERSHAM JOINS THE TEAM, ON “NCIS”
LOS ANGELES – Nov. 4, 2013 — Emily Wickersham joins the team on NCIS as a series regular beginning Tuesday, Nov. 19. She plays NSA Analyst Eleanor “Ellie” Bishop, a mysterious mixture of analytic brilliance, fierce determination and idealism who specializes in international threat assessment and global preparation.
“Emily Wickersham’s Ellie Bishop is proving to perfectly compliment the NCIS team,” said Executive Producer Gary Glasberg. “Her energy and enthusiasm is contagious. Great things are planned for Bishop and we couldn’t be more thrilled to have her on board.”
Wickersham’s character, Ellie Bishop, will be introduced when it is discovered the Secretary of the Navy was bugged during a confidential briefing, a security breach Bishop described in exact detail two years ago in a threat analysis report. Working side-by-side with Gibbs and the team, Bishop cross-examines the case file to help determine who is behind the crime.
Wickersham’s film credits include “Gone,” “I am Number Four” and “Remember Me.” Her television credits include “The Sopranos,” “The Bridge” and “Gossip Girl.”
The 11th season of NCIS is broadcast Tuesdays, 8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT on the CBS Television Network.
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