Brooklyn Nine-Nine is an American sitcom which premiered in September 2013 on Fox, and later moved to NBC. The show revolves around the detective squad of the fictional 99th Precinct of the New York Police Department, located in Brooklyn.
Cast Main
Character Actor Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Jake Peralta Andy Samberg colspan="8" Rosa Diaz Stephanie Beatriz colspan="8" Terry Jeffords Terry Crews colspan="8" Amy Santiago Melissa Fumero colspan="8" Charles Boyle Joe Lo Truglio colspan="8" Gina Linetti Chelsea Peretti colspan="6" Raymond Holt Andre Braugher colspan="8" Michael Hitchcock Dirk Blocker colspan="4" colspan="3" Norm Scully Joel McKinnon Miller colspan="4" colspan="3"
Supporting
CharacterActorSeasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Mlepclaynos Fred Armisen colspan="3" colspan="2" Captain McGintley Mike Hagerty colspan="3" colspan="3" Deputy Commissioner Podolski James M. Connor colspan="7" Keith "The Vulture" Pembroke Dean Winters colspan="2" colspan="2" Zeke Jamal Duff colspan="3" colspan="5" Fire Marshal Boone Patton Oswalt colspan="7" Hank Kevin Dorff colspan="3" colspan="2" Doug Judy Craig Robinson colspan="8" Sharon Jeffords Merrin Dungey colspan="2" colspan="5" Vivian Ludley Marilu Henner colspan="7" Kevin Cozner Marc Evan Jackson colspan="2" colspan="2" Detective Lohank Matt Walsh colspan="2" colspan="4" Teddy Wells Kyle Bornheimer colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="2" Chief Madeline Wuntch Kyra Sedgwick colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="2" Sophia Perez Eva Longoria colspan="6" Lynn Boyle Stephen Root colspan="6" Darlene Linetti Sandra Bernhard colspan="6" Marcus Nick Cannon colspan="5" Geoffrey Hoytsman Chris Parnell colspan="6" Roger Peralta Bradley Whitford colspan="2" Oliver Cox Gabe Liedman colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="2" Genevieve Mirren-Carter Mary Lynn Rajskub colspan="2" colspan="4" Adrian Pimento Jason Mantzoukas colspan="2" colspan="3" colspan="2" Maura Figgis Aida Turturro colspan="2" colspan="5" Bob Annderson Dennis Haysbert colspan="2" colspan="5" Karen Haas Maya Rudolph colspan="3" colspan="4" Jason "C.J." Stentley Ken Marino colspan="3" colspan="2" Sheriff Reynolds Jim O'Heir colspan="3" colspan="4" Nikolaj Boyle Antonio Raul Corbo colspan="3" Bill Hummertrout Winston Story colspan="3" colspan="3" Veronica Hopkins Kimberly Hébert Gregory colspan="3" colspan="4" Melanie Hawkins Gina Gershon colspan="3" colspan="3" Caleb John Gosche Tim Meadows colspan="4" Jeff Romero Lou Diamond Phillips colspan="4" colspan="3" Warden Granville Toby Huss colspan="4" colspan="3" Seamus Murphy Paul Adelstein colspan="4" colspan="3" Olivia Crawford Allison Tolman colspan="4" colspan="3" Trudy Judy Nicole Byer colspan="5" colspan="3" John Kelly Phil Reeves colspan="5" colspan="2" Jocelyn Pryce Cameron Esposito colspan="5" colspan="2" Debbie Fogle Vanessa Bayer colspan="6" Frank O'Sullivan John C. McGinley colspan="7"
Main characters Jake Peralta
Andy Samberg portrays Jacob "Jake" Jeffrey Peralta, the series's protagonist. At the beginning of the series, Peralta is portrayed as an exceptional detective despite his immaturity, engaging in pranks and making childish jokes at the expense of his colleagues. He is fun-loving, sarcastic, and is often motivated by his emotions. Despite his goofiness, Peralta is smart, perceptive, and quick thinking, and as such has the best arrest rate in the precinct. In the pilot, Terry Jeffords explains to Captain Holt that Peralta is his best detective.
Jake's father, Roger Peralta, an airline pilot, abandoned the family during Jake's childhood. Jake initially refuses to celebrate Thanksgiving, since he associates the holiday with his father's absence. After Jake calls his father out for his irresponsible parenting in "Captain Peralta", the two slowly began to mend their relationship. In the season 5 episode "Two Turkeys", Jake finds out he has three half-sisters, along with an unknown number of half-brothers. He meets one of his half-sisters, Kate, in the episode "DFW". He mentions being half Jewish and half Italian in the show.
Jake began his career as a patrol officer with the 74th Precinct and was partnered with Stevie Schillens; the two nicknamed themselves the "Beatsie Boys". He was promoted to detective with the 99th Precinct in 2005. He has a strong emotional tie to his muscle car, a 1967 Ford Mustang, which he buys outright on his first day as a cop. He often quotes and makes references to Die Hard and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In "The Bet", it is revealed that Jake is Jewish.
Jake's best friend is co-worker Charles Boyle, who encourages his eventual romance with Amy Santiago. Jake and Gina are childhood friends, while he and Rosa Diaz were classmates at the police academy.
While Jake initially struggles with Captain Holt's strict management style, he matures under Holt's supervision and comes to see the captain as a father figure. In "The Oolong Slayer", Jake achieves his lifelong dream to catch a serial killer, but gives credit for the arrest to the Chief of Brooklyn Detectives in exchange for Holt's transfer back to the 99th Precinct. In season five, Holt puts his career at risk by negotiating with mobster Seamus Murphy in order to free Jake and Rosa from prison. The two also work closely together to bring down Jimmy Figgis after being forced to go into witness protection in Florida.
Peralta continuously pranks and teases his partner Amy Santiago, masking his secret romantic feelings for her. Peralta confessed his feelings to her in "Charges and Specs" before going undercover for a mafia operation. His romantic feelings for her developed further throughout season two and they shared their first kiss in the season finale, "Johnny and Dora". Jake and Amy start dating in "New Captain" and decided to move in together in "Greg and Larry", but don't make it official until season four's "The Fugitive". Jake proposed to Amy at the end of their annual Halloween heist in "HalloVeen" and the two are later married by Captain Holt in the season five finale. In season 7, Amy became pregnant with their child. Their son McClane "Mac" Santiago-Peralta (who was named after John McClane from Die Hard) is born in the season 7 finale.
In the series finale, with Amy's new position taking up more of her time and making their parenting schedule difficult, Jake decides to quit his job to become a stay-at-home dad, not wanting his son to grow up without a father as he did. Jake is the only character, along with Captain Holt, to appear in every episode of the series.
Awards and decorations The following are the medals and service awards fictionally worn by Peralta.
American Flag Breast BarNYPD Commendation—IntegrityNYPD Excellent Police DutyNYPD Award of MeritPolice Gallantry CitationNYPD 150th Commemorative Breast BarNYPD Firearms Proficiency Bar
While his commendations are not specifically covered in the series, in the episode "Stakeout", he received a commendation for his work on Rosa's drug task force.
Rosa Diaz
Stephanie Beatriz portrays Rosalita "Rosa" Diaz, a smart, tough, and enigmatic detective. Implied to have had a relatively stable and loving childhood, she attended parochial school before transferring to a prestigious ballet school; the pressure on her to succeed there drove her to commit several underage crimes (including home invasion and "beating up ballerinas"Season 1, Episode 6, "Halloween"), which resulted in her expulsion from ballet school and landing in juvenile detention. In response, her parents effectively cut her dead, leaving Rosa to rebuild her life alone; this convinced her that she should not expect support from her loved ones, leading her to become obsessed with self-sufficiency and privacy and to avoid emotional investment in the lives of others.
Though Rosa is a loyal and effective member of the squad, her anger management issues and lack of compassion for others terrify most of her coworkers. If Rosa is angry enough, they will not even walk past her to go to the bathroom, something Terry and Holt briefly attempt to use to increase precinct efficiency. She is highly secretive about her personal life and information about her is contradictory; it is established that she does not stay in any accommodation for long periods of time and her neighbors know her by not only a different name but a different personality. In the episode "Greg and Larry", Rosa even suggests that her real identity is hidden from the squad itself. As revealed in "Cop-Con", she and Amy are younger than most of the other precinct members as they are hurt by a device that emits a loud noise to those under 35, whereas Jake and Boyle only pretended to be affected by it.
Alongside her proficiency at ballet, at some point Rosa became an accomplished gymnast (which she considers her "deepest shame") and is also highly skilled at yoga and archery. In "White Whale", she tells Amy that she attended both medical school and business school and has a pilot's license. In her spare time, she restores old cars to sell to famous people and has an online business selling homemade jewellery (for which she uses bolt cutters). She is also a dedicated motorcyclist, showing a marked expertise in the riding, care and knowledge of motorbikes.
In Season 2, Rosa dates Captain Holt's nephew Marcus, but breaks up with him due to not being ready for marriage. She later finds love with former undercover detective Adrian Pimento; things move very swiftly, with the two getting engaged in "Paranoia" while chasing a drug dealer through an alley, but their wedding is delayed when Pimento goes off-grid to escape the wrath of mob boss Jimmy Figgis. Once he returns, they agree to marry within twenty-four hours, but decide to slow down after realizing they are rushing their renewed relationship.
At the end of Season 4, Rosa and Jake are framed by their idol Lt. Melanie Hawkins and declared guilty of armed robbery and grand larceny. After several months in prison prior to the start of Season 5, the two are freed thanks to the precinct exposing Hawkins's crimes. Her experience prompts her to reconnect with her family, becoming close with them again, and to end things with Pimento. While on the road trip home from their former captain's funeral, Charles overhears a woman calling her "babe" over the phone, leading Rosa to admit she is bisexual; she subsequently comes out officially to the precinct and her parents, the latter of whom reacts poorly, fracturing their bond once again. However, her father subsequently affirms that he accepts her, but reveals that her mother is not at this stage yet. After several months of waiting for her to initiate a meeting, Rosa eventually reaches out herself; her mother is clearly grateful and they go on to repair their relationship. After coming out, Rosa has several relationships with other women over the course of the series, including an unseen woman that the squad nicknamed "Becky"; a friend of Gina's; a cab driver named Alicia; a woman Charles nicknames "Couscous"; and a cosmetologist named Jocelyn Pryce. In the episode "Valloweaster," she becomes the first three-time Halloween Heist Champion.
In season eight, Rosa leaves the NYPD after losing faith in the system following the George Floyd protests, becoming a private investigator. By the series finale, she is not in a serious relationship nor does she have children, but she makes it clear she is happy where she is in life.
Rosa appeared in every episode of the series but two: "Coral Palms: Part One" and "The Box".
Awards and decorations The following are the medals and service awards fictionally worn by Diaz.
American Flag Breast BarNYPD Excellent Police DutyNYPD Firearms Proficiency Bar
While her commendations are not specifically covered in the series, in the episode "Stakeout", she received a commendation for her work as the leader of a drug Task Force.
Terry Jeffords