Kyle Harmon

Equations

During CSI: Miami's opening credits, several actors' names morph in and out of equations.

Notable cast members

CSI: Miami ran for ten seasons between 2002 and 2012, and featured a cast of thirteen regulars. David Caruso, as Lieutenant Horatio Caine, was afforded the starring credit, while Emily Procter was credited second to him. Kim Delaney, the female lead in the episodes she appeared, was credited as and, while Rory Cochrane was afforded this credit following his departure, despite being previously credited as with. Also holding and positions were Adam Rodriguez, during seasons 9 and 10 (he was previously credited directly following Procter), and Eddie Cibrian during season 8. Sofia Milos (season 3), Khandi Alexander (seasons 1–6), Jonathan Togo (seasons 3–10), Rex Linn (seasons 5–10), Eva LaRue (seasons 5–10), Megalyn Echikunwoke (season 7), and Omar Benson Miller (seasons 8–10) were credited consistently in that order.

Crossover characters

CSI: Miami hosted several crossover episodes during its ten seasons on air. Gary Sinise, as Detective Mac Taylor, and Melina Kanakaredes as his partner, Detective Stella Bonasera, were introduced during a 2004 episode of CSI: Miami, as were the rest of the CSI: NY cast. Sinise reprised his role during Miami's fourth season, while CSI: Crime Scene Investigation alumnus Laurence Fishburne appeared as his established character during part one of a three part CSI: Trilogy event. All of the actors listed below were credited as special guest stars.

In addition to appearing on CSI: Miami, several regular and recurring cast members have made appearances on both CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: NY. David Caruso, and Emily Procter, along with the rest of the original Miami cast (with the exception of Kim Delaney) were introduced during a 2002 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Caruso later crossed over to CSI: NY.

Special guest stars

Actors who would later join the main cast, as well as returning former cast members, were often credited as special guest stars. Rex Linn (seasons 1–4), Sofia Milos (seasons 1–2, 5–7), Eva LaRue (season 4), Rory Cochrane (season 6), Khandi Alexander (seasons 7–8), and Adam Rodriguez (season 8), were among the performers afforded this credit, along with major recurring player Taylor Cole (season 10), and high-caliber guest performers such as Malcolm McDowell (seasons 8 and 10). This is not an extensive list, and as such, single-episode special guest appearances are not listed.

Recurring cast

CSI: Miami hosted an extensive recurring cast throughout its ten seasons, consisting of law enforcement officials, family members, litigators, and fugitives. Law & Order: Los Angeles alums Wanda de Jesus and Alana de la Garza, 24's Carlos Bernard, Boston Legal actor Christian Clemenson and Rizzoli & Isles' Ed Begley, Jr. are among the most notable of those listed below.

Crime lab personnel

Laboratory Technician Sam Belmontes (Cristian de la Fuente, seasons 1–2, 10): Chemical Analysis lab tech.

Laboratory Technician Tyler Jenson (Brian Poth, seasons 1–3): Audio/visual and multimedia lab technician who was later replaced by Dan Cooper.

Laboratory Technician Cynthia Wells (Brooke Bloom, seasons 2–5, 8–10): Questioned Documents lab tech.

Laboratory Technician Carrie Delgado (Nicole DeHuff, season 2): Blood evidence technician. She was a fan of Quincy, M.E. as a child, influencing her to become a criminalist. She only appeared in season 2, as two years later, DeHuff died from pneumonia.

Laboratory Technician Joseph Kayle (Leslie Odom Jr., seasons 2–4): A lab tech who worked in fingerprints.

Laboratory Technician Maxine Valera (Boti Bliss, seasons 2–8): DNA analyst. She was temporarily suspended from her duties in season 3 for technical errors and was then reinstated by season 4. She has an unfortunate habit of taking shortcuts with evidence, which caused her suspension and also brought her under suspicion when the lab was investigated by the FBI (episode 4.25, "One of Our Own"). She goes on a date with Natalia Boa Vista's ex-husband, Nick Townsend, and thinks she is his killer after he turns up murdered, though this assumption is proved to be untrue. Jake Berkley (who investigated the case) kept insisting she and Natalia had killed him, despite the fact that Townsend was brutally beaten to death. She and Natalia were cleared, however, when it is revealed that Nick Townsend's death is related to the case of Lauren Sloan and her husband Jeff Murdock. Jeff killed Nick to get back his wife's earring (episode 5.12, "Internal Affairs"). Her final appearance was in "Delko for the Defense".

Laboratory Technician Aaron Peters (Armando Valdes-Kennedy, seasons 3–4): A trace evidence lab tech. He did not like Eric Delko in his lab while working his sister's case being in his lab. He filed a report, but later regretted it when the lab falls under federal investigation. Presumably, as a result of the intense pressure the FBI was giving the Crime Lab, Peters most likely quit his job or at his own request was transferred to work elsewhere.

Miami-Dade Police Department

MDPD Robbery-Homicide Division (RHD) Detective John Hagen (Holt McCallany, seasons 1–3): A homicide detective who had emotional and psychological problems. He was also Raymond Caine's partner prior to his faked death. He told Calleigh once that he could not stand being reminded of being the partner of a dirty cop. He also had a brief relationship with Calleigh in season 2. While pulling a crucial piece of evidence from a crime scene, he panicked when Calleigh came over to photograph the scene; he then crept up behind her and put his gun behind her head. Although he did not mean to hurt her, it allowed him time to escape (she did not know it was him at that time). He later shot himself in the Ballistics Lab right after Calleigh turned around to walk out of the lab during the season 3 finale.

MDPD Robbery-Homicide Division (RHD) Detective Adelle Sevilla (Wanda de Jesus, season 1): A Latina homicide detective who occasionally accompanies the CSIs. She appeared in ten episodes of season 1 and is fluent in Spanish.

MDPD Robbery-Homicide Division (RHD) Detective Bernstein (Michael Whaley, season 1): An African-American detective who also accompanies the CSIs to various crime scenes.

MDPD Officer Aaron Jessop (Joel West, seasons 2, 4): A patrol officer, Jessop joined the force during season 2 and his first appearance was in "The Oath". While he thought like a cop, he also was able to think like a CSI. This was evident in "The Oath", where he was able to help Calleigh assess the crime scene and upped the charge and penalty. Jessop was killed when he opened a cabinet rigged with a hand grenade booby trap at the scene of a Mala Noche shootout, leaving Horatio and the other CSIs distraught at his death. (West had previously appeared as Officer Ramirez in the season 2 episode "Big Brother".)

MDPD Robbery-Homicide Division (RHD) Detective Jake Berkeley (Johnny Whitworth, seasons 5–8): An undercover officer with the MDPD narcotics unit. As of episode 5.12 ("Internal Affairs"), he has moved to being a robbery-homicide detective. He and Calleigh dated while they were in the Academy. At the end of season 5 and in season 6, they had again begun a relationship, but new department regulations involving officer fraternization and pressure from Rick Stetler caused Berkeley to break things off. He resumed his undercover duty in episode 8.21 ("Meltdown"), tracking a gang of diamond thieves.

Relatives and friends of the CSI team

Raymond Caine (Dean Winters and Chistopher Stapleton): Horatio's brother who faked his death while working undercover. Horatio was deeply in love with Yelina Salas, Raymond's wife. He is eventually reunited with his wife, Yelina, and son Ray Jr. with the three flying to Rio to start a new life for themselves. Unfortunately, Ray's attempts to get clean fail, and over time, he becomes involved with the Mala Noche and is later beaten to death by Antonio Riaz, and dies in Horatio's arms, but not before urging Horatio to save Ray Jr.

Raymond Caine, Jr. (Alex Buck, Hayden Tank, and Carter Jenkins, seasons 1–5), Horatio's nephew, son of Yelina and Raymond Caine (Horatio's brother). He is first introduced in "Grave Young Men", when Horatio finds out that he has been getting into fights at school. He tells Horatio that he has been fighting because people keep calling his dad a "dirty cop", to which Horatio replies, "You know that's not true". He appears in "Hell Night", it is discovered that a homeless man died from a heart attack after being shot with a paintball gun, and Ray Jr. becomes the primary suspect. However, he is cleared when a tape reveals that he asked the shooter to stop. He is seen at the end of "Nothing To Lose" when he donates bone marrow to save Madison Keaton, who is terminally ill. Then, Yelina finds out Madison is in fact Ray's daughter, not Horatio's. He is briefly seen in "Whacked" when Horatio goes to Yelina's house. When he arrives there, Sergeant Rick Stetler is leaving. Shortly afterward, Ray Jr. expresses resentment toward Stetler. He is seen again in "10-7", the season 3 finale, when he is kidnapped by people who are trying to flush his father out of hiding. They are later reunited and fly to Brazil. On the season 5 premiere, "Rio", Mala Noche leader Antonio Riaz is revealed to have tried to involve Ray Jr. in a drug-running scheme. Horatio kills Riaz, but not before Riaz murders Ray Sr. Ray Jr. has not been seen since season 5, but he is assumed to be back in Miami with Yelina.

Madison Keaton (Kyndell Rose Crowell) (seasons 1–3): The illegitimate daughter of Raymond Caine and Susie Barnam Keaton (episode 208, "Big Brother"). In a later episode, Madison becomes terminally ill. Neither Horatio nor Susie are matches for a bone marrow transplant. Horatio convinces Yelina Salas (who had assumed Madison was Horatio's daughter before Horatio told her the truth) to have her son tested. Presumably, Ray Jr. is tested and proves to be a match, and Madison is cured.

Criminals

Stewart Otis (William O'Leary, season 1): Stewart is a registered pedophile with a long record starting at age twelve. He has been in and out of prison for years and as a forensic countermeasure, he cut off his fingerprints and put them back on in a different arrangement, so that if his prints ever did come up at a crime scene they wouldn't register in the system. He has shown to be doing this a long time as he avoids cameras with ease and is very calculating.

Clavo Cruz (Gonzalo Menendez, seasons 2–3, 5): In season 2, Clavo started out as an arrogant criminal who killed a model with his Lamborghini to protect his brother Ramon, who had accidentally drowned the model's roommate (#201 – "Blood Brothers"). When the team tried to arrest Clavo, it was revealed that the brothers' father was General Antonio Cruz, an ambassador from the Baracas, an area which was under diplomatic immunity from the United States. Therefore, they could neither arrest Clavo nor could they use any of his possessions as evidence. His older brother (Ramon) was able to be arrested, as the woman he drowned was on Canadian soil (the Canadian Embassy), had Canadian blood, and because he flew the Bahamian flag in international waters, leaving him unprotected and arrestable in the Bahamas. Clavo reappears in season 3 after being traced to the murder of a woman who was found after being swallowed and then regurgitated from a boa constrictor (#315 – "Identity"). He continues to taunt Caine, using the line "We never close", a line Caine had spoken after arresting Ramon. A blood test of General Cruz, the alleged father of Ramon and Clavo, revealed that although Clavo and Ramon had the same mother, Dona Marta Cruz, they had different fathers, making Clavo an adoptive son of General Cruz. When Caine reveals Marta's infidelity to the family, the General becomes infuriated. Caine then reminds the General that he can disown Clavo and thus rescind his immunity at any time; he does immediately, allowing the CSIs to arrest Clavo. In season 5, however, Clavo escapes custody after a cohort steals a rocket launcher from a crime scene and blows up the courthouse in which he was being arraigned (#514 – "No Man's Land"). He later lures Caine and Delko into a parking lot to find a hostage, who turns out not to be there. In the ensuing gun battle with his cohorts, Delko is nearly killed when a security guard shoots him in the head (Clavo offered him $100,000 to do so). In the next episode (#515 – "Man Down"), Clavo seeks revenge, killing his adoptive father in the consulate. Later on, Clavo's real father is revealed, and as it turns out, Clavo had smuggled illegal blood diamonds into Miami, and his escape from jail was intended to help his father sell them to underground dealers. One of the dealers is raided and shut down after the plain sight of illegal child labor by Natalia and Ryan. After being disowned by his biological father and having nothing to live for, Clavo returns to "duel" with Caine. Immediately after raising his gun at Caine, he is shot once in the chest by Caine, and dies.

Others

Special Agent Dennis Sackheim (Tom Hillmann, seasons 1–2): An FBI agent first introduced in the crossover episode, "Cross Jurisdictions" who had a contemptuous working relationship with Horatio Caine. In their first scene together, Caine confronts Sackheim for meddling in a Miami-Dade crime that may have resulted in an unnecessary death. Later they are on the waterfront at night, assuming the killer is on the boat, when in fact it is one of the killer's victims. Sackheim orders his sharpshooter to "take him out!" and Caine intercedes at the last minute, saving the victim's life.

Secret Service Special Agent Peter Elliott (Michael B. Silver, seasons 2–5): Working in the Secret Service's Financial Crime Division, Agent Elliott had an obvious infatuation with Calleigh Duquesne that interested her, but she stopped short when she found out, after taking him to the hospital for a gunshot wound, that he was engaged to another woman. At the end of the season, it was revealed that his fiancée, Monica West, was the one that impugned the CSI lab and stole drug money seized in a raid; she caused the FBI to investigate, hoping that discrediting the lab would help her out politically. Elliot, wearing a wire, got her to confess, and she was arrested (episode 4.25, "One of Our Own").

Bob Keaton (Max Martini, seasons 2–3): Susie Keaton's abusive, drug-dealing husband. In "Big Brother", Horatio discovers that Bob's methamphetamine is the same batch as that used by Raymond Caine on the night of his alleged death. Despite his denials, Bob is convicted of Caine's murder and jailed. When he is released (episode 3.20, "Killer Date"), it is revealed that he is an undercover DEA agent and Caine's ex-partner. Bob confirms to Horatio that his brother is still alive. His involvement in the DEA investigation and his knowledge about the Caine case leads to his murder (episode 3.22, "Vengeance").

Assistant State Attorney Rebecca Nevins (Christina Chang, seasons 3, 6, and 8): Assistant Florida State Attorney. Rebecca was briefly romantically involved with Horatio Caine, but he broke it off when she made a deal with a criminal suspected of killing a cop, committing a series of robberies, and having a relationship with a 16-year-old girl who took part in his crimes. Nevins was not seen again after their breakup until season 6 (episodes 6.03 and 6.07, "Inside Out" and "Chain Reaction"), when she appeared as the assigned state prosecutor for Kyle Harmon on two occasions, driving a further wedge between Horatio and her. In "L.A.", Rebecca tells Horatio she has to suppress evidence submitted by CSI Jesse Cardoza due to his past history with a previous suspect in his former department. To help Horatio clear Cardoza's name, she sends Eric Delko (now the State Attorney's Forensic Expert) out with him to find the missing evidence from that previous case. In episode 8.23 ("Time Bomb"), she is killed in an explosion meant for Eric, with whom she was meeting. They were both conducting an internal investigation of the lab after diamonds were stolen from an evidence locker.