Elle Greenaway

Elle Greenaway is a fictional character from the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, portrayed by Lola Glaudini.

Background

Before joining the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), Greenaway was assigned to the FBI's Seattle field office with a specialty in profiling sexual offenders, a skill that would prove to be useful to the BAU. Elle's mother is Cuban, and she is fluent in Spanish, as seen in 'Machismo'. Her father was a police officer who was killed in the line of duty, as was fellow profiler Derek Morgan's father.

Time at the BAU

Elle Greenaway joined the BAU directly after success in the pilot episode Extreme Aggressor. Unit Chief Jason Gideon, who had recently returned to active duty in the BAU, used her file as a guide and labelled her impatient, instructing her to correct the characteristic. After being hired, Greenaway quickly became good friends with the team's media liaison, Jennifer Jareau (JJ).

Greenaway was relatively successful in the BAU until the Season 1 finale, The Fisher King . During the finale, Randall Garner, a psychotic unsub (the FBI term for an unknown subject, differentiated from a "suspect", whose identity is known), ambushed Greenaway in her apartment and shot her. He then reached his fingers into her bullet wounds and wrote the word "RULES" on the walls with her blood. After this trauma, Greenaway went on a four-month leave of absence in an attempt to heal and move on with her life. Despite having physically recovered from her...
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