Here’s Who Plays Young Pride in the NCIS: Origins Prequel

NCIS: Origins continues to explore the early days of Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell) at the young NCIS Camp Pendleton office, and season 2 is bringing in another familiar face from the wider franchise.

Alongside Gibbs and his boss Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid in Origins, originally played by Muse Watson), the prequel will introduce a young version of NCIS: New Orleans’ Agent Dwayne Pride. Shea Buckner – known for roles in Only Murd3rs in the Building, Power Book II: Ghost, The Rookie, The Blacklist, and Shameless – will take over the role from Scott Bakula.

Buckner previously appeared in the main NCIS series in 2018 as Xavier Blackburn, a murd3r suspect tied to the Taliban. In Origins, he will guest-star in one episode as a newly minted Probationary Agent from the NIS Panama office. His character already has history with Gibbs, and the two must address old tensions while going undercover.

The episode will also reunite the famed “Fed Five” – Gibbs, Franks, Pride, Dan McLane, and Felix Betts – the task force that caught the Privileged K1ller in the original show. Casting for McLane and Betts has not yet been announced.

Season 2 has also welcomed back another fan favorite: Adam Campbell, who reprises his role as a young Dr. “Ducky” Mallard, last seen in a 2014 NCIS flashback and again in the Origins episode “The Edge.”