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NCIS: New Orleans season 5

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ56739558 ↗
Source-derived summary

The fifth season of NCIS: New Orleans, an American police procedural drama television series, originally aired on CBS from September 25, 2018, through May 14, 2019. The season was produced by CBS Television Studios, with Christopher Silber as showrunner and executive producer. This season contained its 100th episode.

Cast and characters

Main

Scott Bakula as Dwayne Cassius Pride, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent (SSA), later NCIS Southeast Field Office Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC)

Lucas Black as Christopher LaSalle, NCIS Senior Field Agent (SFA), Second in Command

Vanessa Ferlito as Tammy Gregorio, NCIS Special Agent (SA)

Necar Zadegan as Hannah Khoury, NCIS SSA and Team Leader

Rob Kerkovich as Sebastian Lund, NCIS Forensic Special Agent

Daryl "Chill" Mitchell as Patton Plame, NCIS Computer Specialist

CCH Pounder as Loretta Wade, Jefferson Parish Medical Examiner

Recurring

Ellen Hollman as Amelia Parsons Stone, ex-CIA assassin.

Jason Alan Carvell as Jimmy Boyd, Dwayne's younger, previously unknown half-brother.

Chelsea Field as Rita Devereaux, Dwayne's girlfriend.

Shanley Caswell as Laurel Pride, Dwayne's daughter by his ex-wife, Linda Pride.

Stacy Keach as Cassius Pride, Dwayne's estranged father and an ex-con.

Amy Rutberg as Megan Sutter's ghost/The Angel of Death

Derek Webster as Raymond Isler, FBI Senior Special Agent

Guests

Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) assigned to Washington's Navy Yard

Carlos Gomez as Dan Sachez, NCIS Deputy Director

Izzie Steele as Carmen Delahoy

LeVar Burton as Rufus Nero

Mark Gessner as Oliver Crane

Liza Lapira as Aminta Jax

Hal Ozsan as Ryan Porter

Kate Burton as Angela Prescott

Tom Arnold as Elvis Bertrand

Episodes

Production

Development

NCIS: New Orleans was renewed for a fifth season on April 18, 2018, with a 24-episode order. The season contains its 100th episode.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “NCIS: New Orleans season 5” as season of television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around NCIS, Orleans and season.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with NCIS, Orleans and season providing the first useful test.
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