Elle Greenaway

Elle Greenaway
Criminal Minds character
Lola Glaudini as Elle Greenaway
First appearance	"Extreme Aggressor" 1x01, September 22, 2005
Last appearance	"The Boogeyman" 2x06, October 25, 2006
Created by	Jeff Davis
Portrayed by	Lola Glaudini
Information
Occupation	FBI Special Agent
Title	FBI BAU Supervisory Special Agent
Family	Unnamed mother Robert Greenaway (father, deceased)
Seasons	1, 2

Elle Greenaway is a fictional character from the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, portrayed by Lola Glaudini throughout the first season and the beginning of the second season.

Before joining the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), Greenaway was assigned to the FBI's Seattle field office with a specialty in profiling sexual offenders, a skill that would prove to be useful to the BAU. Elle's unnamed mother is Cuban, and she is fluent in Spanish, as seen in "Machismo". Her father was a police officer who was killed in the line of duty, as was fellow profiler Derek Morgan's father.

Elle Greenaway joined the BAU directly after success in the pilot episode "Extreme Aggressor". Unit Chief Jason Gideon, who had recently returned to active duty in the BAU, used her file as a guide and labelled her impatient, instructing her to correct the characteristic. After being hired, Greenaway quickly became good friends with the team's media liaison, Jennifer Jareau (JJ).

For a year, Greenaway was relatively successful in the BAU, aiding her colleagues in solving cases and capturing the criminals responsible until the season one finale, "The Fisher King (1)".

Elle was involved in a hostage situation, when a mentally unstable man, on his way to a medical conference with his caretaker and doctor were on a train along with Elle, who was going to interview a child murderer. In the ensuing events, he wounded his caretaker, and nearly shot Elle, but was stopped by Reid, who was on board. Elle suffered some stress due to the event along with her failure to stop the caretaker from being shot.