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Gil Grissom
"I know one thing: my guys will not bend, and they will
not be intimidated."
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CSI Level: Three Height: 5'10" Weight: 168
lbs
Place of Birth: Santa Monica, CA Date of
Birth: August 17, 1956 Education: B.S. in Biology, UCLA Special Skills: Entomology Marital
Status: Single
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Previous Employment: Youngest coroner in the history of L.A. County at age 22. Eight years later, a headhunter recruited him to run
the Field Services office in Las Vegas. Grissom has spent the last 15 years helping Las Vegas move from #14 to #2 in the U.S.
Crime Lab rankings.
Biography: Grissom grew up in Marina Del Rey, California.
His mother ran an art gallery in Venice, and his father was in the "import/export" business, dealing primarily with communist
China. Grissom's parents divorced when he was five. At eight or nine, Grissom began riding his bike out to the beach every
day to collect dead seagulls, opossums, and anything else he could find. He would bring the remains home and conduct autopsies,
slowly teaching himself the ins and outs of death. As a teenager, Grissom became known to local authorities, who employed
him for quick autopsies on dead animals such as cats and dogs. By age sixteen, Grissom was an "unofficial intern" for the
L.A. County morgue. He worked his way through college and then went to work full time as the youngest coroner in the history
of L.A. County. His philosophy about his work has always been: "If you want to learn about forensics, master everything else
first." While others may have a reason for being a CSI, for Grissom the job is not about choice. Grissom could no more work
in another profession than a fish could stop swimming. CSI is not a job for Grissom, it's an expression of who he is as a
person, the perfect synthesis of personality and profession.
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Catherine Willows
"A bully? All right, I guess I was. But, I mean, not the kind that people want
to take a gun out and shoot."
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CSI Level: Three Height: 5'6" Weight: 104
lbs
Place of Birth: Bozeman, MT Date of Birth: March
26, 1963 Education: B.S. in Medical Technology, UNLV Special Skills: Blood
spatter analysis Marital Status: Divorced
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Previous Employment: Willows worked as an exotic dancer on the Strip in her early 20s while going to college. A young filed services officer
named Grissom recruited her to work at the lab. She started as an assistant technician and has worked her way up over a decade
to become a CSI level Three.
Biography: Catherine was born on a ranch
in western Montana. She was the eldest daughter of fourth-generation ranchers, but the rural life was never for her. Catherine
could ride before she could walk, but horses were always for taking her away from work. She left home for the first time as
a sixteen-year-old. She lived in Seattle for a year with her would-be rock-star boyfriend, eking out a living as a waitress.
When he left her for an older woman, she went home to find home wasn't there anymore. Her parents had been forced to sell
their ranch and moved to town. They made it clear that Catherine was on her own. The next stop for Catherine was Las Vegas.
She waited tables until she discovered a much more lucrative line of work: exotic dancing. The men loved her and the money
poured in. Catherine spent it all on school and the aspiring career of her music-producing boyfriend, Eddie. Dating turned
to engagement which turned to marriage. When their turbulent quasi-romance ended, Eddie left her with ten dollars in the bank,
a coke habit, and a small child, Lindsey. Catherine pulled it together for her own sake and for the sake of her daughter.
She didn't become a CSI because she wanted to right the wrongs of the world - she became a CSI because it makes her feel like
a kid solving puzzles. She loves the challenge and she loves the buzz of working a case. It's a high for her - and anything
that makes Catherine feel as good as she does can't be all bad.
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Warrick Brown
"I was a dork in high school. I’m still a dork."
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CSI Level: Three Height: 6'2 Weight: 190
lbs
Place of Birth: Las Vegas, NV Date of Birth: October
10, 1970 Education: B.S. in Chemistry, UNLV Special Skills: Audio/Visual analysis Marital
Status: Single
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Previous Employment: Worked as a casino runner throughout his teenage years. He put himself through college working as a
taxi driver, a bell captain at the Sahara, selling helicopter rides over the Grand Canyon, and a grave digger before finding
his way to the LVPD and CSI.
Biography: The only
member of the team born and raised in Las Vegas. To this day, Warrick has never met his father. His mother passed away when
Warrick was seven, leaving Warrick in the care of his maternal grandmother. He grew up in a strict household, and that meant
he kept his position as a runner a secret from his grandmother. Warrick was quite literally born to live in Vegas. He loves
the casinos, loves the action, loves the pulse of the city. He can move just as easily through the Clark County courthouse
as he can through the Sportsbook at Hard Rock. To let off steam, he DJs at clubs run by his friends, and writes his own songs.
Spending his whole life in the city means Warrick knows at least one person in every bar, club, and hotel in the city. He's
connected, and he uses those connections to move between his worlds. He went through a lot of women in his early twenties,
but the first time he fell in love, the woman broke his heart. He now looks at women with a cautious eye. Warrick knows how
all the games are played in Las Vegas and is aware of the universal truth of the city . the only one who wins consistently
is the house because the odds are stacked. Warrick's got enough of a rebel in him to challenge those odds, and enough of a
realist in him to know the only one watching out for him is him, so he'll cut his losses to fight again another day if need
be.
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Nick Stokes
"Never a strap, never a smoker. Just all-around 'dependable' guy, I guess."
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CSI Level: Three Height: 5'10" Weight: 155
lbs
Place of Birth: Dallas, TX Date of Birth: August
18, 1971 Education: B.S. in Criminal Justice, Rice University Special Skills: Hair
and fiber analysis Marital Status: Single
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Previous Employment: Spent his first three years out of college on the Dallas police force, then transferred to the Dallas
crime lab, spending one year as CSI level One before transferring to Las Vegas.
Biography: The last child in a family of seven, Nick was born into law enforcement. His father worked as the state D.A. before being
appointed to the bench. Two years ago, Nick's father was appointed to the Texas State Supreme Court. Nick's mother has spent
her entire adult life working as a public defender. They have been happily-married for 45 years. With one brother and five
sisters, Nick had a lot of people looking out for him. Maybe that's why everything feels so personal to Nick. He has no distance
from his work because he's always been close to people. Where Sara struggles with relationships, Nick can't help himself.
Being with and around people is so easy for him. What's hard is balancing the unspoken but competing perspectives of his parents.
He wants to live up to their expectations, and becoming a CSI was one way of finding a compromise. Being a cop was too much
for his father. As a CSI, he's objective. He still has social responsibility to uphold, but does his job without an agenda.
The evidence speaks and everyone has to respect what it says, both public defenders as well as judges on the bench. Nick could
still be in Texas, but he chose to move two states over. There's a part of Nick that loves his family and his family name,
but there's a part of him that wants to be on his own, to lay down his own roots and establish his own identity. What he's
finding is that roots don't take quickly. Growing them is a slow process fraught with mistakes.and Nick isn't finished.
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Sara Sidle
"What kind of system rewards the suspect when the victim is too tough to die?"
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CSI Level: Three Height: 5'8" Weight: 107
lbs
Place of Birth: Tamales Bay, CA Date of Birth: September
16, 1971 Education: B.S. in Physics, Harvard Special Skills: Materials and
element analysis Marital Status: Single
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Previous Employment: Attended graduate school in theoretical
physics. Worked in the San Francisco coroner's office for five years, then transferred to the San Francisco crime lab before
being contracted by Gil Grissom to come to Las Vegas.
Biography: Sara was born and raised an hour and a half outside
of San Francisco on Tamales Bay. An only child of ex-hippies running a B and B, Sara always needed a bigger stage. Everything
about her as a child was outsized. Her intelligence, her energy, her curiosity. And unlike her parents, Sara always maintained
perfect self-discipline. Growing up, the roles were reversed for Sara and her parents. They kept telling her to take it easy,
and she kept coming up with business models for how they could take their B and B public and then franchise the brand. Sara
was pretty much all or nothing in high school, and as talented as she was, grace didn't come with the package. The other kids
resented her, and she did nothing to ease the resentment. Sara was a perfect example of why great athletes make rotten coaches.
Things come so easy to them, they can't understand why everyone else doesn't perform to their level. At eighteen, Sara found
a place where she could be at home. She went to Harvard and enjoyed four of the best years of her life. She took as many classes
as she could. She went to as many parties as she could. And she finally dated. Not well, but at least she tried. Like any
tragic figure worth their salt, Sara has a single flaw: people. She can solve any problem except for the problem of other
people and how she's supposed to relate to them. So she hides in the job. She pursues her career rigorously, perhaps more
so than any of the other CSIs. Partly because she's still rebelling against her parents' "lax" approach to social obligations,
and partly because she's afraid of what she'd find out about herself if she ever slowed down.
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Greg Sanders
"I'm like a sponge. I just absorb information."
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CSI Level: Lab Technician/CSI-in-training
Height: 5'10 1/5" Weight: 155 lbs
Place of Birth: San Gabriel, CA Date of Birth: May
5, 1975 Education: B.S. in Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Special Skills: DNA Analysis Marital Status: Single
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Previous Employment: Interned as an entry-level
lab tech at San Francisco PD for two semesters.
Biography: Since picking up his first
amateur chemistry kit when he was seven, Greg Sanders has wanted to be a scientist. Even though he was told that science was
supposed to be a hobby of the pasty-faced and romantically challenged, that did not dissuade him from joining the Science
Club in high school, nor from majoring in chemistry in college. He has always balanced lab work with athletics; studying with
flirting; and computer work with dating. Addicted to the pursuit of knowledge, he has been on a quest to learn all he can
about the scientific breakthroughs of past centuries. And discovering and naming a brand-new theory or element after himself
wouldn't hurt, either.
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Dr. Albert Robbins
"Sometimes I'm glad I only deal with dead people."
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CSI Level: Coroner
Height: 5'9 Weight: 179
lbs
Place of Birth: Falls Church , VA Date of Birth: January
19, 1952 Education: M.S. in Biological Chemistry, University of Virginia; M.D./Ph.D. in Physiology,
Johns Hopkins University Marital Status: Married
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Previous Employment: After completing his residency at Johns Hopkins, Robbins opened a clinic in the inner harbor area of Baltimore. He worked
as a general practitioner for 20 years before the chronic budget shortfalls and the practices of the newly powerful HMOs forced
him to close the clinic's doors. Strictly out of academic curiosity, he became an assistant coroner for the Arlington, VA,
police department, where he worked his way up to coroner in two years. After putting in four years in Arlington, he transferred
to Las Vegas. He has been the chief medical examiner in Las Vegas for the past five years.
Biography: Born to
a single mother in an era when everyone came from a two-parent household, Robbins spent his life as an underdog. Spurned by
his peers, he took solace in books from an early age, discovering an aptitude for academia. His mother worked as a nurse,
so Robbins spent most nights in the local hospital. The doctors and nurses unofficially adopted him, and they not only gave
him free rein of the premises, they allowed him to assist in any number of activities the chronically short-handed facility
required. From stocking shelves as a ten-year-old, to assisting in simple surgeries as a teenager, Robbins knew more about
the hospital than some of the doctors who worked there. And he put that knowledge to work when he opened his own clinic. Many
years of fighting the good fight eventually left him drained, and after shifting into what felt like a natural career change
for him (medicine is all about life and death), he and his wife and their three children packed up and moved to Las Vegas.
He's free to pursue his own interests, both at work and at home, and that's the way he likes it right now. His medical career
has somewhat followed the path he envisioned for himself, but his personal life has far exceeded his wildest expectations.
His wife and his children have replaced books as the center of his life and nothing will ever change that.
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Capt. Jim Brass
"I think every new hire should experience an autopsy on their first night."
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CSI Level: Homicide Detective, Las Vegas PD. Height: 5'9" Weight: 163
lbs
Place of Birth: Newark, NJ Date of Birth: January
3, 1953 Education: B.A. in History, Seton Hall University Marital Status: Divorced
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Previous Employment: Brass spent 20 years working his way up to homicide detective in New Jersey. He transferred out of Homicide and out of
New Jersey 10 years ago and came to Las Vegas. He eventually came to run the CSI department, more as an administrator than
as an investigator.
Biography: Brass
was born into a middle-class family in Newark. When the riots hit in the mid-sixties, Brass was in college. Something about
the injustice made him decide on a career in law enforcement. He approached his job with the zeal of a reformer, and at first
Brass gained a great deal of notoriety for his tenacious investigative style. Unfortunately, tenacious investigators tend
to be indiscriminate. When they see someone do something wrong, they go after the crime. Even if the criminals are cops. And
that's what happened to Brass. He became a Serpico-like figure in New Jersey. He cleaned up the department and the effort
cost him his marriage and what little relationship he had with his daughter. When the dust cleared, Brass headed for Second
Chance City, landing at CSI. He could get his fix of the investigative process without having to expend any personal capital.
His life gently slid into strip bars and J and B doubles and all was well enough until a young newbie named Holly Gribbs showed
up. Her death cost Brass his job and in some ways his peace of mind. Since she died, he's been transferred back to homicide.
He's not sure if he likes it, but it's familiar and it's easy, and that'll do for the short term. The long term is irrelevant
for Brass, because he stopped believing in the future long ago.
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Information provided by CBS' official site.
Note: Some of the information contained in the biographies has been contradicted within the show itself. Therefore, all
information is tentative.
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