{"id":377329,"date":"2026-10-19T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377329\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:36:11","slug":"why-nick-schaeffer-from-ncis-new-york-looks-so-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377329\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Nick Schaeffer From NCIS: New York Looks So Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2275945\/ncis-new-york-premiere-recap-episode-1-cbs-ll-cool-j\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;NCIS: New York&#8221; premiered<\/a> on October 6, 2026, but it&#8217;ll feel somewhat familiar to fans who watched &#8220;NCIS: Los Angeles.&#8221; The crime procedural also stars LL Cool J, who reprises his role as Agent Sam Hanna. This time, though, he&#8217;s returned to his hometown roots in New York City. He&#8217;s joined by Scott Caan, who plays Nick Schaeffer, an agent with a rebellious streak. But while &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2149330\/ncis-new-york-cbs-series-order-ll-cool-j-scott-caan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NCIS: New York<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0is still new, Caan certainly is not.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Caan has been acting since the &#8217;90s, taking on a wide range of film and television projects. One of his most recognizable film roles is Turk Malloy in &#8220;Ocean&#8217;s Eleven,&#8221; &#8220;Ocean&#8217;s Twelve,&#8221; and &#8220;Ocean&#8217;s Thirteen.&#8221; Despite the franchise being packed with A-listers such as Brad Pitt and George Clooney, the experience was a joy for Caan. &#8220;I was positive that, working with all these gigantic movie stars, someone was going to be a jerk, and it was the opposite,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/scott-caan-random-roles-interview-1850007685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A.V. Club<\/a> in January 2023. &#8220;Not only are they the most talented dudes, [but] they&#8217;re also the nicest and coolest people to be around.&#8221; He continued, &#8220;So the whole experience of doing all three of those movies, it was just fun from beginning to end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And his television career has been just as extensive.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                Scott Caan starred in Hawaii Five-0 and Alert<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/scott-caan-starred-in-hawaii-five-0-and-alert-1792444883.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2291099\/nick-schaeffer-ncis-new-york-actor-scott-caan\/\" data-post-id=\"2291099\" data-slide-num=\"1\" data-slide-title=\"Why Nick Schaeffer From NCIS: New York Looks So Familiar: Scott Caan starred in Hawaii Five-0 and Alert\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Danny Williams looking on outside\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    CBS<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Scott Caan has appeared in plenty of movies, but some of his most recognizable roles have been on television. Most notably, Caan starred in the &#8220;Hawaii Five-0&#8221; reboot for 10 seasons, from 2010 to 2020, playing Danny Williams. The series also crossed over with &#8220;NCIS: Los Angeles,&#8221;\u00a0connecting it to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2058608\/ncis-shows-ranked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;NCIS&#8221; universe<\/a>. In 2011, Caan was nominated for a Golden Globe for\u00a0&#8220;Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Caan also starred in &#8220;Alert,&#8221; which follows Nikki Batista (Dania Ramirez), a member of the Philadelphia Police Department&#8217;s Missing Persons Unit who is searching for her missing child. Caan played Jason Grant. While speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/staytunedmag.com\/tv-news\/2023\/01\/08\/scott-caan-alert-missing-persons-unit-fox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">StayTuned<\/a>,\u00a0he explained what drew him to the role. &#8220;You say it&#8217;s a cop show, and immediately you think that they&#8217;re all the same thing,&#8221;\u00a0he said, adding, &#8220;But as far as [filming] the pilot, and what John pitched me for the episodes to come, it was stuff that I&#8217;ve never experienced or played with before as an actor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Caan&#8217;s other film and television credits include &#8220;Entourage,&#8221; &#8220;Gone in 60 Seconds,&#8221; &#8220;Varsity Blues,&#8221; and &#8220;Enemy of the State.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#8220;NCIS: New York&#8221; premiered on October 6, 2026, but it&#8217;ll feel somewhat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-377329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}