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Criminal Minds: Why Lola Glaudini's Elle Greenaway Left In Season 2
2023/11/21

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saw various changes in its core team throughout its run, like Lola Glaudini’s Elle Greenway leaving in Season 2. Police crime dramas are very popular on TV, and while there have been a variety of successful shows from this branch, one of the most popular ones in the last 20 years is . Created by Jeff Davis, premiered on CBS in 2005 and came to an end in 2020 after 15 seasons. However, the BAU returned for season 16 as a soft reboot,

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As progressed, some characters left for different reasons, and some of them left quite early, as was the case of Elle Greenaway. The original team in consisted of Jason Gideon (Mandy Patinkin), , Elle Greenaway, Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore), Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler), Jennifer Jareau (A.J. Cook), and Penelope Garcia (Kristen Vangsness), of which only Reid, JJ, and Penelope stayed until the final season.

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The first one to go was Elle Greenaway, a Supervisory Special Agent with the BAU whose specialty was sexual offense crimes — and her exit was due to actress Lola Glaudini.

What Happened To Elle Greenaway In Criminal Minds

Speaking to in 2006, writer and producer Ed Bernero shared that Glaudini was leaving the show to return to the East Coast as she was unhappy living in Los Angeles.

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This hasn’t been confirmed by Lola Glaudini, who has never revealed her reasons for leaving the show. Elle Greenaway, presumably, left because Lola Glaudini wanted to leave the series.

gave proper closure to Elle Greenaway, though there were some tough events that led to her departure. Greenaway was shot by a suspect who broke into her home, and while she made a full physical recovery, she was left with PTSD.

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