SWAT season 8 has a new cast member and Chicago Fire fans may recognize her! Find out about casting news for the next season of the CBS series.
SWAT season 8 has some casting news and Chicago Fire fans may recognize the name! Not only will we see a new face on the team, but a recurring character has been upped to a series regular. This comes after we learned that actress Rochelle Aytes would be exiting in her role as Nichelle, Hondo’s wife. So what do we know about the casting for season 8?
Deadline reports Annie Ilonzeh will join Squad 20 in a recurring role. The actress was last seen on Chicago Fire at the end of season 8. Now she will go from playing a paramedic to a SWAT officer.
Her character Devin Gamble had grown up around crime and she became an officer in order to make a name for herself. However, she eventually left Los Angeles after her father’s arrest. Hondo brings her onto the team because of the attributes he knows she has. He knows she has plenty of street smarts and has an intuitive nature that will help the team as they become a unit once more.
The addition to Squad 20 comes after we said goodbye to Jim Street and Dominique Deluca, who both left SWAT during what they believed, at the time, to be the final season. However, CBS reversed that decision and has brought show back for season 8.
In that time, we have seen a lot of changes on the show, and there is at least one more for a character that hasn’t left. Actor Niko Pepaj, who has played Officer Miguel Alfaro since season 6, will be coming back to the squad as a series regular. This will cement his place in Squad 20, especially after season 7 saw the rest of the team struggling to come together and accept him into the fold.
