'9-1-1' Season 4: Meet Peter Krause, Angela Bassett and rest of the cast as crime procedural returns to Fox
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More thrills, less chills. '911' is back with Season 4 and you can expect more chaos reigning in LA. The drama follows the lives of Los Angeles' first responders which include police officers, firefighters, paramedics and dispatchers. They will deal with more landslides, dam bursts, earthquakes...you know it.
The first season featured Connie Britton ('Nashville', 'American Horror Story') who left the show in the finale but returned in the heartstopping Season 3 finale, while Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ryan Guzman joined the cast in the second season.
Just like other shows, there is much speculation on whether '911' will address the coronavirus pandemic. “I feel like you have to address it,” showrunner Tim Minear told TVLine. “I haven’t broken a single episode, but my feeling — and I reserve the right to completely change my mind — is that on a first responder show like this, you can’t really ignore it.” Without revealing plot details, he also admitted that the characters would go through what the audience has gone through. "There may be flashbacks that will show what our people went through at the height of the [pandemic], but by the time we resume physical production, that means the world will have figured out how to start opening for business again," he had said back in May 2020.
Before the procedural returns, meet the cast of the Fox show.
Peter Krause
Peter Krause's acting credits include 'Parenthood' and 'Dirty Sexy Money'. He plays Bobby Nash, captain of Station 118 of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett won the Golden Globe for Best Actress award for 'What's Love Got to Do WIth It', her breakthrough role. In '9-1-1' she plays Los Angeles Police Department, Sergeant Athena Carter. She was also in 'Black Panther', as Marvel fans would fondly remember.
Bassett first appeared in small roles on 'The Cosby Show' (1984) and 'Spenser: For Hire' (1985), but it was not until 1990 that a spate of television roles brought her notice. She delivered the only three-dimensional performance in the 1992 ABC miniseries about The Jackson Five and their family, The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992). In 1999, she played Janet Williams--the principal of the school where Roberta Guaspari taught in Music of the Heart (1999).
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jeniffer Love Hewitt plays Maddie Buckley, Buck's sister who is a 911 operator.
She had her breakthrough on TV as Sarah Reeves Merrin on the Fox teen drama 'Party of Five' (1995–1999) and rose to fame as a teen star for her role as Julie James in the horror films 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' (1997) and its 1998 sequel, as well as her role as Amanda Beckett in the teen comedy film 'Can't Hardly Wait' (1998). Hewitt's other notable films include 'Heartbreakers' (2001), 'The Tuxedo' (2002) and the two Garfield live-action films (2004–2006). She has starred as Melinda Gordon on the CBS supernatural drama 'Ghost Whisperer' (2005–2010), Riley Parks on the Lifetime drama series 'The Client List' (2012–2013), Special Agent Kate Callahan on the CBS crime drama 'Criminal Minds' (2014–2015).
The actress is also into music, as Hewitt has released four studio albums to date. After her debut album, Love Songs (1992), was released at age 12 exclusively in Japan, she went on to record 'Let's Go Bang' (1995), 'Jennifer Love Hewitt' (1996) and 'BareNaked' (2002), the latter of which became her first album to chart in the United States, peaking at number 37 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Ryan Guzman
Ryan Guzman is known for his role in the 'Step Up' dance-movie franchise. He plays firefighter Edmundo 'Eddie' Diaz. His first role as a series regular was Carlos Gutierrez in 'Heroes Reborn'. He then joined the '9-1-1' series in its second season.
The main cast also includes Oliver Stark as firefighter Evan 'Buck' Buckley, Kenneth Choi as firefighter Howard 'Howie'/'Chimney' Han, Aisha Hinds as firefighter Henrietta 'Hen' Wilson, and Rockmond Dunbar as Michael Grant (Athena's ex-husband).
'911' will release on Fox, January 18, 2021, at 9 pm.