Don’t miss our hottest news! Sign up today for our free newsletter.

Enter Your Email *

Pride Newsletter

Search form

Scroll To Top

#20Questions

#Activism

#Beyoncé

#Bisexual

#BlackLivesMatter

#Celebrities

#ColtonHaynes

#ComingOut

#Dating

#Disney

#FirstPerson

#FrankOcean

#Geek

#GOT

#Interviews

#Kesha

#Lesbian

#LaverneCox

#LadyGaga

#LGBTQ+

#LoveSimon

#Men

#Movies

#Music

#Netflix

#NickJonas

#OITNB

#Pride

#Queer

#Rihanna

#RuPaulsDragRace

#Sex

#StarWars

#Style

#Travel

#TroyeSivan

#TV

#Women

#ZaynMalik

#The Pride Store

By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Private Policy and Terms of Use.

Women

Paget Brewster to Guest Star on SVU Season Premiere Opposite Criminal Minds

The hot quotient just got upped on Law and Order: SVU (as if that were possible) with the announcement that Paget Brewster, the woman who played SSA Emily Prentiss on Criminal Minds for several seasons, will guest star on the two-hour SVU season premiere that airs on Sept. 26, opposite Criminal Minds.

Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.

Read Full Bio

Tracy E. Gilchrist

TracyEGilchrist

July 18 2012 2:26 PM EST

November 08 2024 6:50 AM EST

The hot quotient just got upped on Law and Order: SVU (as if that were possible) with the announcement that Paget Brewster, the woman who played SSA Emily Prentiss on Criminal Minds for several seasons, will guest star on the two-hour SVU season premiere that airs on Sept. 26, opposite Criminal Minds, according to The Wrap.

Brewster will play the head of the DA’s Public Integrity Unit handling the case against the Special Victims Unit’s Captain Cragen (Dann Florek), who woke up in the season finale next to the body of a murdered woman. Here’s hoping Brewster’s character is forced to work intimately with Mariska Hargitay’s gold standard of TV detectives and Kelli Giddish’s Det. Amanda Rollins to get to the bottom of the case.

A regular on CBS’s hit crime series Criminal Minds since the show’s second season, Brewster was unceremoniously let go during the seventh season when producers also fired another female cast, AJ Cook, who plays JJ. Following a campaign that out actress and Criminal Minds favorite Kirsten Vangsness -- who plays Penelope Garcia – spearheaded, Brewster and Cook were asked to return. Last season Brewster left of her own volition to pursue other projects.

A television veteran Brewster guest starred on Friends in the mid-nineties as the woman who dated both Joey and Chandler. She also had a starring role in Showtime’s short-lived but excellent Huff. Brewster guest starred on SVU during the show’s eighth season.