{"id":63078,"date":"2015-06-23T18:55:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T01:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=63078"},"modified":"2015-06-24T17:05:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T00:05:36","slug":"aisha-tyler-joins-criminal-minds-in-a-recurring-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2015\/06\/aisha-tyler-joins-criminal-minds-in-a-recurring-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Aisha Tyler Joins &#8216;Criminal Minds&#8217; In A Recurring Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2015\/05\/criminal-minds-finale-csicyber-ratings-promo-are-available\/\">departure<\/a> of <b>Jennifer Love Hewitt<\/b> (Kate Callahan), and with <b>AJ Cook<\/b> (JJ Jareau) going on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2015\/05\/cbs-picks-up-criminal-minds-beyond-borders-plus-criminal-minds-ncis-ncisla-ncisnola-news\/\">maternity leave<\/a>, <I>Criminal Minds<\/i> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2015\/06\/22\/criminal-minds-aisha-tyler\">added<\/a> <b>Aisha Tyler<\/b> to the cast in a recurring role for season eleven. Tyler previously appeared in 13 episodes of <I>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation&#8217;<\/i>s fifth season, where she played DNA lab tech Mia Dickerson. On <I>Minds<\/i>, she&#8217;ll portray a forensic psychologist named Dr Tara Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>\nTyler spoke about the role on <I>The Talk<\/i> yesterday, and you can watch the video below:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mSqqsNyXog8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nYou can find more details about the character after the jump, along with tweets&#8212;two from Tyler and one from new costar <b>Kirsten Vangsness<\/b> (Penelope Garcia)!<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more-->According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2015\/06\/22\/criminal-minds-aisha-tyler\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, Aaron Hotchner (<B>Thomas Gibson<\/b>) interviews several candidates to replace Kate on the team. Dr Lewis stands out, and she helps the team during an investigation. Here&#8217;s a description of the character&#8217;s background:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Her dream was to study psychopaths up close and personal \u2013 and her psychology background, combined with her experience in the FBI, brought her face-to-face with monsters. Her job was to stare them down and interview them, in order to determine if they were fit to stand trial. In the process, she made herself find the humanity inside these broken men (and, sometimes, women) in order to learn if there was a conscience behind their brutal crimes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAnd here are the tweets:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh lordy so exciting: &quot;&#39;Criminal Minds&#39;: Aisha Tyler joins cast in recurring role <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/sTQyWgYyFT\">http:\/\/t.co\/sTQyWgYyFT<\/a> &quot; via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EW\">@EW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aisha Tyler (@aishatyler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aishatyler\/status\/613069604013764608\">June 22, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes Yes and yes yes yes yes!!! Hooray!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KUixFB6D7j\">https:\/\/t.co\/KUixFB6D7j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kirsten Vangsness (@Vangsness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vangsness\/status\/613126835291840512\">June 22, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks to all who sent me congratulations today. So excited to join <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrimMinds_CBS\">@CrimMinds_CBS<\/a> this fall! Thanks to the fans for making me feel welcome!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aisha Tyler (@aishatyler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aishatyler\/status\/613172647480791040\">June 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the departure of Jennifer Love Hewitt (Kate Callahan), and with AJ Cook (JJ Jareau)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3248],"tags":[2971,3646,3338,2954],"class_list":["post-63078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminalminds","tag-other-cbs-programming","tag-tyler","tag-vangsness","tag-video"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/criminalminds\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Criminal Minds<\/a>","tag_info":"Criminal Minds","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63078"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63084,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63078\/revisions\/63084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}