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May 2, 2022 · Zoe McLellan, who played Merri Brody on NCIS: New Orleans, quit the show after Season 2 amid allegations of sexual harassment against showrunner Brad Kern. The actress has not confirmed the reason for her departure, but sources suggest she was not considered \"f***able\" by male viewers.
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Meredith "Merri" Brody is a former NCIS Special Agent who worked for two years as a member of the NCIS New Orleans Office led by NCIS Special Agent Dwayne Cassius Pride before her resignation from both the team and NCIS in September 2016.
Pre-Series
Born in an unknown State in the U.S., Brody was the daughter of an unnamed professor who had served in the military and a journalist, Olivia Brody with Brody also having a twin sister, Emily Brody. Not much was revealed about Brody's early life but it's presumed that she went to a local high school and also attended Michigan State University which she graduated from. Brody had a very distant, almost cold relationship with her parents as Olivia and her husband often shipped their daughters off to boarding school with Brody herself even regarding them as "the Stepfords" while even mentioning the two engaged in screaming matches with one another during Thanksgiving although they would later offer tearful apologizes to one another at half time. However, Brody suffered a tragedy when Emily was killed in an apparent car accident, an event that would haunt Brody for many years and led her to search for answers while leaving her unable to sleep as she would stay up all night, stewing over her twin sister's death. At one point, she joined NCIS and participated in a mission with NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs with the mission itself remaining classified to this day. She was then assigned to the U.S.S. Moultrie, becoming its Agent Afloat. In 2010, Navy Petty Officer Third Class Jerry Hooper wielded a suicide vest with Brody confronting him. However, she hesitated and Hooper then committed suicide by detonating the vest which not only killed him but left five people dead and caused the ship to suffer extensive damage from Hooper's attack with Brody having been unwilling to fire a shot due to the fact that his blue eyes reminded her on her twin sister who had died in the accident days before. In the aftermath of the bombing, Brody was later reassigned to the NCIS Midwest Office, becoming the youngest Special Agent in the region's history. She presumably worked there for some time before requesting the assignment to New Orleans.
NCIS Season 11
Brody made her debut appearance in the NCIS Season 11/NCIS: New Orleans backdoor pilot episode, "Crescent City Part 1".
NCIS: New Orleans Season 3
In the NCIS: New Orleans Season 3 premiere episode, Aftershocks (episode), Pride received a phone call from Brody with Pride later telling LaSalle and Sonja that Brody wasn't coming back which suggested that she had abruptly quit the team with the news leaving both LaSalle and Sonja stunned. Pride also informed them although Brody was sad about leaving her colleagues, she wasn't sad about leaving the job and that she seemed pretty clear about her decision with Pride even saying that he'd tried to talk her out of it. LaSalle believed that there had been more to it and that the whole mess with Russo couldn't have been the only reason Brody had quit with Pride stating that Brody had claimed it wasn't and that according to her, she'd been thinking about it for a long time now. Later in the morgue, Loretta confided in Pride that she had known about Brody's departure given that she had been Brody's landlord, suggesting that the two had probably spoken about it in advance and it's presumed that Brody was probably experiencing a feeling of burnout from the stress of her job or maybe that since she had finally solved the murder of her twin sister, she had no reason to stay on the team or even in New Orleans anymore.
Brody was a tall, thin woman in her late thirties, early forties with short brown hair and brown eyes.
In the backdoor pilot for NCIS: New Orleans and also NCIS: New Orleans Season 1, Brody had short hair that reached to the back of her neck with a slight fringe covering her forehead.
In NCIS: New Orleans Season 2, Brody's hair grew long to the point that it completely covered both her ears while the fringe covered the right side of her forehead.
Brody also wore various jackets, shirts and trousers along with high heeled boots while wearing her NCIS badge on the right side of her hip.
While processing a crime scene, Brody donned an NCIS windbreaker and cap while maintaining her high-heeled boots.
While pursing a criminal in the field, Brody wore the NCIS cap and also donned the traditional NCIS bulletproof vest as well as high-heeled boots although she later exchanged those for low-heeled boots.
Nov 26, 2019 · Zoe McLellan played Meredith Brody, a senior special agent on NCIS: New Orleans, for two seasons. She left the show in 2016 to join Designated Survivor, and later appeared in Suits, Law & Order: SVU, and Gaslit.
- Leila Kozma
In 2014, she began playing the female leading role in the CBS procedural drama NCIS: New Orleans. In July 2016, it was reported that she would not return for season three. In 2017, McLellan was cast in a series regular role in the second season of ABC's Designated Survivor as White House Counsel Kendra Daynes. Filmography
YearTitleRoleNotes2019Is My Daughter Really Dead?Olivia WhitmoreTV film2018Mean QueenJulie TaylorTV film2017–2018Kendra DaynesMain cast (Season 2)2017Dr. Fran ConwayEpisodes: "Chasing Theo", " Episode #18.Jul 27, 2016 · The original cast member of NCIS New Orleans will not return for Season 3, after her character was compromised in the Season 2 finale. Find out the reason for her exit and how it will affect the team and the new FBI agent.
- Matt Webb Mitovich
May 19, 2020 · Actress Zoe McLellan played Agent Brody on NCIS: NOLA for two seasons before quitting the show. She allegedly left because of sexist and harassing remarks by showrunner Brad Kern, who made casting decisions based on her 'f***ability'.
Meredith "Merri" Brody is a former NCIS Supervisory Special Agent with the New Orleans field office. The daughter of a professor who was later revealed to have served in the military and a journalist, Oliva, Brody later graduated from Michigan State University. She was also engaged to be married...
