Paget Brewster. Paget Brewster. Paget Brewster. Career[edit] In 2005, she began voice work as Judy Sebben/Birdgirl, a recurring character on the animated series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (and would play a similar guest character on American Dad!. Brewster had a long run with the show Criminal Minds, playing multi-lingual Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss until the show's sixth season, when she and A. J. Cook were released from their contracts by CBS in a cost-cutting move. Due to complaints from fans, both she and Cook were rehired and kept for the following season.
In February 2012, Brewster announced via Deadline that she was leaving Criminal Minds at the end of the season to pursue a possible career in comedy television.[2] Brewster reprised as Emily Prentiss in season nine for the 200th episode, as a special guest star.[3] Brewster subsequently portrayed bureau chief ADA Paula Foster in the Public Integrity Unit of the District Attorney's office on NBC's long-running legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Criminal Minds' Paget Brewster -- Leaving The Show. UPDATE: Reached for comment by Dateline, Criminal Minds star Thomas Gibson gave us the following statement, “We all love Paget and her character and will miss her greatly but I know that she will have continued great success.”
EXCLUSIVE: Emily Prentiss is turning in her badge. Criminal Minds co-star Paget Brewster will leave the hit CBS drama series at the end of this season. Brewster had been itching to do something else for awhile. Last year, she used a provision in her modified deal for Criminal Minds that allowed her to shoot a pilot and did NBC’s comedy My Life as an Experiment. Had the pilot gone to series, Brewster would’ve left the CBS drama for it but when it didn’t, Criminal Minds producer ABC Studios had an option to bring her back and exercised it. I hear that Brewster, whose contract is up in May, wanted to do a half-hour pilot again this year but didn’t get the blessing of CBS and ABC Studios who tried to keep her on the show with an offer for a new deal. The Paget Brewster Picture Pages. Criminal Minds Background: American actress Paget Brewster is best known to television viewers for playing Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the CBS series “Criminal Minds,” a role she began in 2006.
The Massachusetts native began as a singer for rock bands in New York City and then became a local TV personality in San Francisco before coming to prominence with her recurring role of Kathy on “Friends” (1997-1998). She went on to work in the short lived shows “Love & Money” (1999), “The Trouble With Normal” (2000), “Andy Richter Controls the Universe” (2002-2003) and “Huff” (2004-2006) before landing the noted role of Emily. Brewster has also acted in many films, including “Let's Talk About Sex” (1998), “Desperate But Not Serious” (1999), “The Specials” (2000), “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle” (2000), “Now You Know” (2002), “Man of the House” (2005), “My Big Fat Independent Movie” (2005), “Unaccompanied Minors” (2006) and “The Big Bad Swim” (2006). Parsons School of Design Huff Career: Twitter. Jeanne Tripplehorn replaces Paget Brewster on Criminal Minds. Jeanne Tripplehorn will join Criminal Minds on CBS this fall as a series regular.
Tripplehorn replaces Paget Brewster, who left the procedural drama this year after seven seasons. “We’re thrilled to have Jeanne Tripplehorn join our team as a profiler,” said Executive Producer Erica Messer in a statement. “Her character will be introduced in the premiere. It’s an exciting way to start season 8.” For five seasons, Tripplehorn starred in HBO’s Big Love. She also played Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in the HBO film “Grey Gardens,” for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2009. For more: