What role will Nancy Travis play in NCIS Season 23? Here's all about the latest casting updates

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Still from the show (Image via Amazon Prime Video)
Still from the show (Image via Amazon Prime Video)

NCIS Season 23 will premiere in October 2025 and according to TVLine, a major character will make an appearance in the new season of the show. Created by Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill, the military police procedural series is one of the most famous shows.

The series focuses on a group of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and focuses on their personal and professional lives. The show has 22 seasons till now and is one of the longest-running scripted, live-action American prime-time TV series.

The show has spawned various spin-offs and is a pop culture staple. First premiering in 2003, NCIS Season 23 will soon be available in October 2025. Over the years, some of the important actors in the show have been Mark Harmon, Sean Murray, Lauren Holly, and others.

With NCIS Season 23 ready to premiere, exclusive news from TVLine confirms that actress Nancy Travis will play the character of Navy Vice Admiral Harriet Parker. This character will be the sister of Gary Cole’s Special Agent Alden Parker.


Details about Nancy Travis’ role in NCIS Season 23 explored

Nancy Travis at the Lionsgate's "Ordinary Angels" New York Premiere - Source: Getty
Nancy Travis at the Lionsgate's "Ordinary Angels" New York Premiere - Source: Getty

NCIS Season 23 will focus on sibling rivalry and therefore actress Nancy Travis has been brought in to play the role of Navy Vice Admiral Harriet Parker, who is the disciplined sister of Gary Cole’s character Special Agent Alden Parker. Further, Nancy Travis’ character will be a part of the two-part NCIS Season 23 premiere in October.

By bringing in the sister of Alden Parker, viewers will get some insight into the upbringing and past of the Special Agent. Showrunner Steven D. Binder tells TVLine that, “The Alden Parker that we know and see now is not what Alden Parker was as a child… We’ve gotten into his history a bit — he was a troubled kid, he was in a juvie home, he stole things — and that’s the dynamic that his sister grew up with. He was the ‘bad’ kid and she was the good kid.”

Alden and Harriet will be reunited as adults as their father Roman has been recently murdered. Therefore, the sibling rivalry will be in full focus and this will throw light on their relationship and the type of person Alden and his sister Harriet are.

Binder goes on to say that, “They’re going to relive that between the two of them… She’s this super squared-away Navy admiral, and then you’ve got Alden Parker, who’s got this ‘bad kid ‘seed. Those two are going to come to a head, and what’s funny about that is it’s one thing to have it happen over Thanksgiving dinner, it’s a whole other thing to happen in the middle of a global crisis! The bickering is, I might say, very NCIS”


Further details about Nancy Travis

Still from Last Man Standing (Image via TVLine)
Still from Last Man Standing (Image via TVLine)

The veteran actress is the first new NCIS cast member that has been announced for the new season, NCIS Season 23, and she has been a very familiar faces on TV. Nancy Travis has worked in projects like Last Man Standing, where she played the role of Vanessa Baxter and also played the character of Lisa in The Kominsky Method.

The actress has also starred in the movie Greedy alongside Michael J. Fox and has worked in the movie So I Married an Axe Murderer with Mike Myers. Recently, she was seen in Grosse Pointe Garden Society.


NCIS is available on Amazon Prime Video.

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