NCIS: Los Angeles guest stars
2,355 actors have guest-starred in NCIS: Los Angeles across 323 episodes and 14 seasons. The most-credited is Duncan Campbell, NCIS Special Agent Castor in 34 episodes. 1,312 of them have also guest-starred in five or more of the other shows in this catalogue.
Who came back most
| Actor | Character | Eps |
|---|---|---|
| Duncan Campbell | NCIS Special Agent Castor | 34 |
| Bar Paly | Anastasia "Anna" Kolcheck | 33 |
| Vyto Ruginis | Arkady Kolcheck | 29 |
| Andrea Bordeaux | Special Agent Harley Hidoko | 21 |
| Erik Palladino | Vostanik Sabatino | 20 |
| Elizabeth Bogush | Joelle Taylor | 15 |
| Pamela Reed | Roberta Deeks | 14 |
| Kavi Ladnier | NCIS Reserve Agent Shyla Dahr | 10 |
| Natalia del Riego | Rosa Reyes | 10 |
| Peter Jacobson | Special Prosecutor John Rogers | 10 |
| Rocky Carroll | Director Leon Vance | 10 |
| Jeff Kober | Harris Keane | 9 |
| Jeronimo Spinx | NCIS Agent Thompson | 8 |
| Karina Logue | LAPD Detective Ellen Whiting | 8 |
| Marsha Thomason | Nicole DeChamps | 8 |
| Matthew Grant Godbey | LAPD Detective Dan Evans | 8 |
| Ravil Isyanov | Anatoli Kirkin | 8 |
| Aunjanue Ellis | Michelle Hanna | 7 |
| Esai Morales | NCIS Deputy Director Louis Ochoa | 7 |
| Mercedes Mason | DEA Agent Talia Del Campo | 7 |
| Richard Gant | Raymond Hanna | 7 |
| Alicia Coppola | FBI Senior Special Agent Lisa Rand | 6 |
| Anslem Richardson | Tahir Khaled | 6 |
| Bill Goldberg | DOJ Agent Lance Hamilton | 6 |
| Christophe Lambert | Marcel Janvier | 6 |
NCIS: Los Angeles guest stars by season
| Season | Guests | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 177 | Rocky Carroll, Brian Avers, Ronald Auguste, JR Bourne, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Kinga Philipps, Pauley Perrette, Aaron Norvell, Aaron Toney, Abdoulaye N'Gom, Adrian LaTourelle, Albert Garcia and 165 more |
| Season 2 | 194 | Alicia Coppola, Brian McNamara, Candace Edwards, Claire Forlani, Dean Chekvala, Elaine Hendrix, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Haley Ramm, Jürgen Prochnow, Louis Mandylor, Raymond J. Barry, Vincent Irizarry and 182 more |
| Season 3 | 216 | Christophe Lambert, Claire Forlani, Alon Aboutboul, Anslem Richardson, Brian Avers, Cooper Thornton, Douglas Weston, Ella Thomas, Eyal Podell, Kim Swennen, Lovensky Jean-Baptiste, Spencer Garrett and 204 more |
| Season 4 | 207 | Aunjanue Ellis, Kent Shocknek, Timothy V. Murphy, Alon Aboutboul, Andrew Howard, Christophe Lambert, Edwin Hodge, Gillian Alexy, Joel Bissonnette, John Corbett, John Oldham, Kathleen Rose Perkins and 195 more |
| Season 5 | 213 | Andrew Leeds, Erik Palladino, Ali Olomi, Dawn Noel, Eric Allan Kramer, Jack Topalian, Kent Shocknek, Matthew Del Negro, Mercedes Mason, Nick Massouh, Theophilus Clark, Yvonne Huff and 201 more |
| Season 6 | 208 | Vyto Ruginis, Aisha Hinds, Eddie Shin, John Heard, Marybeth Massett, Amol Shah, Elena Evangelo, Elizabeth Bogush, Paul Duke, Aaron Lustig, Aaron Ramzi, Adam Bartley and 196 more |
| Season 7 | 191 | Bar Paly, Tye White, Vyto Ruginis, Anslem Richardson, Douglas Weston, Ella Thomas, Melise, Mercedes Mason, Pamela Reed, Ravil Isyanov, Salvator Xuereb, Abhi Sinha and 179 more |
| Season 8 | 222 | Bar Paly, Kurt Yaeger, Erik Palladino, Jackson Hurst, Matthew Grant Godbey, Adam Bartley, John M. Jackson, Karina Logue, Laura Harring, Sammy Sheik, Tristen MacDonald, Anne-Marie Johnson and 210 more |
| Season 9 | 192 | Andrea Bordeaux, Jeff Kober, Long Nguyen, Duncan Campbell, Bar Paly, John M. Jackson, Lamont Thompson, Tony Curtis Blondell, Amy Stewart, Ariel Llinas, Ashley Spillers, Carl Lumbly and 180 more |
| Season 10 | 222 | Peter Jacobson, Esai Morales, Bar Paly, Max Martini, Pamela Reed, Marsha Thomason, Vyto Ruginis, Aiden Berryman, Bill Goldberg, Carl Chao, Danny Boushebel, David James Elliott and 210 more |
| Season 11 | 157 | Moon Bloodgood, Don Wallace, Adam George Key, Bar Paly, Bill Goldberg, Catherine Bell, Dawn Noel, Erik Palladino, Gil Birmingham, Kate Orsini, Natassia Halabi, Royce Binion and 145 more |
| Season 12 | 116 | Kayla Smith, Bar Paly, Duncan Campbell, Elizabeth Bogush, Nicki Micheaux, Vyto Ruginis, Olesya Rulin, Ravil Isyanov, Adam George Key, Allen Theosky Rowe, Erik Palladino, Eugene Prokofiev and 104 more |
| Season 13 | 156 | Duncan Campbell, Bar Paly, Beckett Gunderson, Kavi Ladnier, Natalia del Riego, Richard Gant, Andrei Dolezal, Ashwin Gore, Briana Marin, Christine Horn, Cyd Strittmatter, Elizabeth Bogush and 144 more |
| Season 14 | 153 | Duncan Campbell, Natalia del Riego, Kavi Ladnier, Bar Paly, Lesley Boone, Richard Gant, Ava McCoy, Pamela Reed, Vyto Ruginis, Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, David DeSantos, Erik Palladino and 141 more |
Guest stars you know from somewhere else
The hardest-working character actors in this show's guest cast, ranked by how many other shows in this catalogue they have also guest-starred in. Not the most famous names, the most prolific ones.
| Actor | In NCIS: Los Angeles | Other shows |
|---|---|---|
| Raphael Sbarge | Leo Chadmont | 54 |
| Tom Virtue | Dr. Hodge | 48 |
| Robert Curtis Brown | Air Force OSI Executive Director David Cole | 45 |
| Michael Reilly Burke | Malcolm Tallridge | 44 |
| Spencer Garrett | Peter Clairmont | 40 |
| John Billingsley | Doug Ouellet | 38 |
| Phil Abrams | Ben Walker | 38 |
| Sam Anderson | Senator Dick Osborne | 38 |
| Glenn Morshower | Brian Adams | 37 |
| Michael B. Silver | Damon Westphal | 37 |
| Andy Umberger | Andrew Hughes | 36 |
| Alex Fernandez | Luis Perez | 34 |
| Benito Martinez | Gonzalo Vargas | 34 |
| Michael O'Neill | Retired U.S. Army General Richard Collins | 34 |
| Colby French | Phillip Beckett | 33 |
Played more than one character
| Actor | Characters | Eps |
|---|---|---|
| Jeff De Serrano | LAPD Officer, LAPD Officer Rojas, LAPD Sergeant | 3 |
| Brian Leigh Smith | Bomb Tech Aaron Roberts, Wingman | 4 |
| Dawn Noel | LAPD Officer Jessica Cole, LAPD Partner | 4 |
| Jorge-Luis Pallo | Special Agent Salazar, Special Agent Bomb Tech Salazar | 3 |
| Kim Swennen | LAPD Cop #2, NCIS Agent #2 | 3 |
| Lovensky Jean-Baptiste | LAPD Cop #1, NCIS Agent #1 | 3 |
| Myk Watford | Navy Petty Officer William Moffat, Mike Hoffman | 3 |
| Scott Grimes | NCIS Special Agent Dave Flynn, Digital Forensics Specialist Dave Flynn | 3 |
| Ali Olomi | Insurgent, Taliban Leader | 2 |
| Aliah Whitmore | Ameenah Shah, Kelly James | 2 |
Shares a cast with
- NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS — 870 shared actors
- NCIS: Los Angeles and Criminal Minds — 557 shared actors
- NCIS: Los Angeles and Grey's Anatomy — 412 shared actors
- NCIS: Los Angeles and Castle — 407 shared actors
- NCIS: Los Angeles and Bones — 372 shared actors
- NCIS: Los Angeles and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — 370 shared actors
- NCIS: Los Angeles and The Mentalist — 367 shared actors
- NCIS: Los Angeles and S.W.A.T. — 344 shared actors
Cast data from TVmaze, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.