Lisette Olivera joins “FBI” as a new agent as Katherine Renee Kane exits series

Kane will be departing the CBS procedural after four seasons, while Olivera, known for "National Treasure: Edge of History," will be a new series regular.

The FBI team will look a little different in the upcoming seventh season.

Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that Lisette Olivera is joining the cast of the hit CBS procedural as a series regular. She'll play Syd, an agent from the Behavioral Analysis Unit who's heading into the field.

But as one door opens, another closes: Katherine Renee Kane, who has been a series regular since season 3, is on her way out. Kane will exit the show in season 7 after appearing in at least one episode. Deadline Hollywood first reported Olivera's casting and Kane's departure.

Olivera previously made waves as the first actor outside of franchise originator Nicolas Cage to secure a starring role in a National Treasure project. She headlined the Disney+ spinoff series National Treasure: Edge of History as Jess Valenzuela, a DACA resident in Baton Rouge who takes up her late father's mantle as an international treasure protector.

Despite being supported by a stacked cast that included Catherine Zeta-Jones, Harvey Keitel, and Justin Bartha, and boasting a pilot directed by Mira Nair, Edge of History was canceled after one season.

Kane, meanwhile, was introduced as Special Agent Tiffany Wallace in a 2020 episode. While the reasons for her departing the series are unclear, it seems plausible that Olivera's Syd will take over Wallace's position at partner to John Boyd's Special Agent Scola. This is the second time Scola's partner has been replaced, after Wallace filled in for Kristen Chazal, the character played by Ebonée Noel until she left the show in season 3.

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Olivera will make her FBI debut alongside the series' remaining core castmates, who include Boyd, Missy Peregrym, Zeeko Zaki, Jeremy Sisto, and Alana de la Garza.

Recurring FBI cast members include James Chen, known for his role as Kal on The Walking Dead; One Tree Hill's Shantel VanSanten; Carmen Lamar Gonzalez (One Life to Live) as FBI bomb disposal expert Carla Flores; and Antwayn Hopper, who played Hakim Siran, the Somalian terrorist who killed Roshawn Franklin's Agent Hobbs and became the primary antagonist of FBI season 6's climactic finale.

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Olivera's character will step into a team that is as fractured as it's ever been. FBI, however, is as popular as its ever been. CBS renewed the series for three additional seasons while season 6 was on air. That guarantees the show airtime through a ninth season.

A Dick Wolf production, FBI has unsurprisingly gone the Law & Order route and spun off into several different series that had a massive crossover last year.

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The stars of FBI, FBI: Most Wanted, and FBI: International converged for a three-hour special centering on the abduction of an American citizen in Rome that ultimately leads to a planned mass-killing in New York City. Sisto's FBI character, Special Agent Jubal Valentine, acted as the crossover's connective joint, uniting Most Wanted's Dylan McDermott, Roxy Sternberg, and Keisha Castle-Hughes, and International's Luke Kleintank, Heida Reed, and Carter Redwood.

Reed announced she would be leaving FBI: International in December, after season 3, and Kleintank made the same announcement in April. The major gaps Reed and Kleintank's left in the show's cast have already filled by Christine Wolfe (The Ark) and Jesse Lee Solfer (Chicago P.D.).

FBI will return to CBS for season 7 on Oct. 15.

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