Jesse Lee Soffer is back in the Dick Wolf world — but not as Jay Halstead. Soffer has nabbed a series regular part in Season 4 of “FBI: International,” which airs on CBS. He previously portrayed Detective Halstead on ten seasons of NBC’s “Chicago P.D.” He left the show in 2022.
Soffer will replace Luke Kleintank, who played Scott Forrester in “FBI: International” since its debut and left near the end of Season 3 last year. Carter Redwood, Vinessa Vidotto, Christina Wolfe and Eva-Jane Willis also star.
The casting news comes as a bit of a surprise since many viewers were hopeful Halstead would appear in the future on “Chicago P.D.,” a door he kept open when the character left Intelligence to take a job with the Army in Bolivia. (“I still love Halstead. Halstead’s always going to be in my blood. That’s never going to change,” he told Variety at the time.) However, now that Soffer is portraying a new character, that seems more unlikely.
“FBI: International” is the ninth show in the Wolf/Universal universe. The “Law & Order” flagship series led to spinoffs “Special Victims Unit” and “Organized Crime.” Those shows led to the “One Chicago” world — “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago P.D.” and “Chicago Med.” In 2018, “FBI” debuted on CBS (and featured a “Chicago P.D.” crossover). It led to spinoffs “Most Wanted” and “International.”
“FBI: International,” which follows the FBI’s International Fly Team through Europe, is produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with CBS Studios. Executive Producers include Wolf, Matt Olmstead, Michael Katleman, Ernesto Alcalde and Peter Jankowski. Olmstead is the series’ showrunner.
