This is a list of characters in the television series Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, an American police procedural drama that premiered March 16, 2016, on CBS in the United States.
Through his job, he shares personal history with Aaron Hotchner and David Rossi of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit and Clara Seger from his own team.
Played by Alana de la Garza, SSA Clara Seger is a smart, well-traveled and multi-lingual cultural anthropologist and special agent with the IRT.
[2] The character did not appear in the series' backdoor pilot (Criminal Minds' "Beyond Borders"), but instead replaced Anna Gunn's "law expert and linguist Lily Lambert"[3] in the first episode (March 16, 2016).
[4] Seger is a cultural anthropologist, returning to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's International Response Team[5] in the first season after taking a two-year sabbatical following the death of her co-worker and husband.
She speaks 13 languages fluently, including French and Thai, a feat that complicated de la Garza's performances: "That was tricky for me, to kind of swallow it and make it sound authentic.
Simmons is married to his wife Kristy (Kelly Frye) and has a total of four young children, including sons Jake and David and twin daughters.