Meet The Characters From Rosewood

Find out more about the cast and characters from the new US hit series Rosewood.

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Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. (Morris Chestnut)

Brilliant, cool, and with tons of charisma, Doctor Beaumont Rosewood is the city?s top private pathologist who takes all major credit cards.

Plagued with his own set of medical ailments, 'Rosey' believes that every moment of life, no matter how small, should be embraced and lived to the fullest. Teaming up with Miami detective Annalise Villa, his heightened awareness allows him to see details on bodies that others cannot. But what drives him most are the victims who are stripped of life?s moments.

Morris Chestnut Profile

Morris Chestnut has been appearing in television and film for the past two decades. He appears in the feature When the Bough Breaks, directed by Jon Cassar. In 2014, Chestnut shot the feature Bus 657 opposite Robert DeNiro and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, as well as starring in The Perfect Guy. In 2013, Morris starred in the breakout hit The Best Man Holiday. The film had the fifth-largest opening ever for an R-rated romantic comedy and garnered Morris an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.

Previously, Chestnut starred opposite Halle Berry in The Call. He also was featured in Kick Ass 2 and the hit comedy Identity Thief opposite Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy.

Television credits include American Horror Story, Nurse Jackie and a series regular role on Legends. His performance as Dr. Prentiss on Nurse Jackie won him the 2014 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Det. Annalise Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz)

Through perseverance and charm, Dr. Rosewood unofficially partners up with tough-as-nails Miami P.D Detective Annalise Villa in solving the unsolvable. Their yin and yang makes the perfect team.

While Villa is impressed by Rosewood?s incredible abilities, his constant optimism is more annoying than it is infectious.

Jaina Lee Ortiz Profile

Jaina Lee Ortiz was born in Monterey, California and grew up in the Bronx, in New York City.

As a child, Ortiz learned to salsa as a hobby, which turned into a professional dance career, enabling her to tour internationally as an instructor and performer. Rosewood marked Ortiz?s network television debut.
Pippy Rosewood (Gabrielle Dennis)

Joining Rosewood in his state-of-the-art practice is his sister and the "toxicology queen" Pippy Rosewood. Sharing Rosewood's sharp wits, Pippy is teh first in line to put him in his place, but is also the perfect foil when he performs his lab-based genius.

Gabrielle Dennis Profile

Gabrielle Dennis is an actress and stand-up comedienne best known for her work in television on The Game and Blue Mountain State, as well as for leading roles in independent films including Black Coffee and the teen comedy Bring It On: Fight to the Finish.

Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Dennis graduated with honors from Howard University. In addition to acting, her background includes singing, dance and musical theater.
Donna Rosewood (Lorraine Toussaint)

Donna Rosewood is on the cusp of some major life changes that will affect her children profoundly.

Mother to Rosey and Pippy, Donna is a proud matriarch with a lot of strong opinions. She holds family gatherings sacred and makes Rosewood?s love life a regular topic of conversation.

Lorraine Toussaint Profile

For her role as the viciously seductive inmate Vee on the second season of Orange Is the New Black, Lorraine Toussaint won the SAG Award and Critics? Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Toussaint also received praise both for her performance in the Academy Award®-nominated feature film Selma, and her starring role on the fantasy-drama series Forever.

Born in Trinidad and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Toussaint studied theater at New York?s renowned High School of Performing Arts. She then enrolled in The Juilliard School?s drama division, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. On her graduation day, she landed her first paying job as Lady Macbeth with the Lenox, Massachusetts-based Shakespeare & Company.

Toussaint spent the first 12 years of her career acting on stage in New York City before moving to Los Angeles. Her first television appearance was in the 1983 telefilm The Face of Rage. Perhaps most notably, she co-starred opposite Annie Potts in the TV series Any Day Now, which earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination, a TV Guide Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series and the Wiley A. Branton Award from the National Bar Association.

Additional TV credits include recurring roles on Friday Night Lights, Saving Grace, Law & Order and Ugly Betty. She also has made guest-starring appearances on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Grey?s Anatomy and Scandal.

Toussaint?s first film role was opposite Burt Reynolds in the crime comedy Breaking In. She also appeared in Dangerous Minds, The Soloist and Middle of Nowhere, for which her performance earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female.

She can be seen in the Seth Rogen comedy X-Mas. She also stars in the period drama Sophie and the Rising Sun, written and directed by Maggie Greenwald.
Tara Milly Izikoff aka TMI (Anna Konkle)

DNA specialist Tara Milly Izikoff, also known as TMI, is Pippy Rosewood?s fiancée. A great asset in Rosewood's lab, the trio make snappy work of their examinations.

Anna Konkle Profile

Anna Konkle?s television credits include a recurring role on Maron and guest starring roles on New Girl, Man Seeking Woman, Big Time in Hollywood, FL and Betas.

A graduate of New York University?s Tisch School of the Arts, Konkle co-created the production company Mana with Maya Erskine. Together, they produced the digital series Project Reality. They also co-created (along with Sam Zvibleman) and starred in the comedy project Pen15.
Capt. Ira Hornstock (Domenick Lombardozzi)

Miami P.D.?s Captain Ira Hornstock is a great team leader but terrible at managing his own life. Hornstock and Rosewood have a complicated relationship: while he can?t stand Rosewood?s big personality and sunny disposition, he acknowledges Rosewood?s stellar contributions to the department.

Domenick Lombardozzi Profile

Bronx-born Domenick Lombardozzi has acted in many film and television projects over his 20+ year career. He appeared as Ralph Capone on Boardwalk Empire. He was a series regular on Breakout Kings in 2012, had a recurring role on Entourage in 2008 and is well-known for his role as Thomas ?Herc? Hauk on The Wire, which ran from 2002-2008.

His film credits include the 2014 John Slattery feature God?s Pocket; The Gambler co-starring Mark Wahlberg, also in 2014; the 2013 Luc Besson film The Family starring Robert DeNiro and Michelle Pfeiffer; Public Enemy and Miami Vice in 2006; S.W.A.T in 2003; and Phone Booth in 2002.

Other notable television appearances include 24, NYPD Blue, Kate & Leopold, Bored to Death, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Oz, among many others.