
Shiek Mahmoud-Bey played Marcus Payton in season two who was an FBI agent skeptical of Sam's methods. Other characters included Nathan Brubaker, played by Michael Whaley, a former defense attorney turned detective. It is led by Sam's mentor, Bailey Malone ( Robert Davi), Detective John Grant ( Julian McMahon), computer hacker George Fraley ( Peter Frechette), and forensic pathologist Grace Álvarez ( Roma Maffia). The VCTF is an elite team of pros who must solve the toughest cases. (His true identity was not revealed until the middle of the third season.)ĭue to the dangers of the still at-large violent criminal, "Jack of All Trades," Sam must live under police guard 24/7 in a former firefighter station with her seven-year-old daughter Chloe Waters ( Caitlin Wachs and later Evan Rachel Wood), and her best friend Angel Brown ( Erica Gimpel), an artist.
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While she performs all of her duties diligently and competently, her drive comes from experiencing both a professional and personal tragedy years earlier in which her husband was murdered by a serial killer known only as Jack of All Trades. This gift gives Sam an added special insight into the workings of the criminal mind. She is a criminal profiler with her own unique gift to "see" through the eyes of others.

Samantha "Sam" Waters ( Ally Walker) is a forensic psychologist working for the FBI's (fictitious) Violent Crimes Task Force - "VCTF" - based in Atlanta, Georgia. Both shows premiered at the beginning of the 1996–97 television season.ĭr.
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Profiler shares a similar lead character and premise with the Fox Network series Millennium, created by Chris Carter. Waters' daughter for the first two seasons, a role taken over by Evan Rachel Wood in 1998. Robert Davi, Roma Maffia, Peter Frechette, Erica Gimpel and Julian McMahon co-starred throughout the show's run. Rachel Burke during the show's final season. Samantha Waters during the first three seasons (1996–99), and was later replaced by Jamie Luner as prosecutor-turned-profiler Dr. The series follows the exploits of a criminal profiler working with the fictional FBI Violent Crimes Task Force (VCTF) based in Atlanta, Georgia.Īlly Walker starred as profiler Dr. Profiler is an American crime drama that aired on NBC as part of its Thrillogy block and CNBC Europe from 1996 to 2000.
