List of The Shield characters
| Monica Rawling | |
|---|---|
| The Shield character | |
| First appearance | "The Cure" (episode 4.01) |
| Last appearance | "Ain't That a Shame" (episode 4.13) |
| Created by | Shawn Ryan |
| Portrayed by | Glenn Close |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | former police officer |
| Title | former Captain |
| Danielle Sofer | |
|---|---|
| The Shield character | |
| First appearance | "Pilot" (episode 1.01) |
| Last appearance | "Family Meeting" (episode 7.13) |
| Created by | Shawn Ryan |
| Portrayed by | Catherine Dent |
| Information | |
| Nickname(s) | Danny |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Los Angeles Police Department sergeant |
| Title | Sergeant |
| Children | Lee Sofer (son) |
| Ronald Everett "Ronnie" Gardocki | |
|---|---|
| The Shield character | |
| First appearance | "Pilot" (episode 1.01) |
| Last appearance | "Family Meeting" (episode 7.13) |
| Created by | Shawn Ryan |
| Portrayed by | David Rees Snell |
| Information | |
| Nickname(s) | Ronnie |
| Occupation | Los Angeles Police Department detective |
| Title | Detective, Strike Team member |
| Shane Vendrell | |
|---|---|
| The Shield character | |
| First appearance | "Pilot" (episode 1.01) |
| Last appearance | "Family Meeting" (episode 7.13) |
| Created by | Shawn Ryan |
| Portrayed by | Walton Goggins |
| Information | |
| Aliases | Cletus Van Damme, Trap (undercover name) |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Los Angeles Police Department detective |
| Title | Detective |
| Spouse(s) | Mara Sewell-Vendrell (wife) |
| Children | Jackson Vendrell (son), Frances Abigail Vendrell (unborn daughter) |
| Detective Julien Lowe | |
|---|---|
| The Shield character | |
| First appearance | "Pilot" (episode 1.01) |
| Last appearance | "Family Meeting" (episode 7.13) |
| Created by | Shawn Ryan |
| Portrayed by | Michael Jace |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Police officer |
| Title | Detective, Strike Team member |
| Spouse(s) | Vanessa Lowe (wife) |
| Children | Randall Lowe (step-son) |
| David Aceveda | |
|---|---|
| The Shield character | |
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| First appearance | "Pilot" (episode 1.01) |
| Last appearance | "Family Meeting" (episode 7.13) |
| Created by | Shawn Ryan |
| Portrayed by | Benito Martinez |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Mayor of Los Angeles; reserve LAPD police officer |
| Title | Police Committee Chairman |
| Spouse(s) | Aurora Aceveda (wife) |
| Children | Sofia Aceveda (daughter) |
| Claudette Wyms | |
|---|---|
| The Shield character | |
| First appearance | "Pilot" (episode 1.01) |
| Last appearance | "Family Meeting" (episode 7.13) |
| Created by | Shawn Ryan |
| Portrayed by | CCH Pounder |
| Information | |
| Nickname(s) | Peaches |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Los Angeles Police Department captain |
| Title | Captain |
| Spouse(s) | 2 ex-husbands (Jeff Franklin ) |
| Children | Bonnie Wyms (daughter) Rebecca Wyms (daughter) |
| Relatives | Bryce Wyms (father) |
| Holland Wagenbach | |
|---|---|
| The Shield character | |
| First appearance | "Pilot" (episode 1.01) |
| Last appearance | "Family Meeting" (episode 7.13) |
| Created by | Shawn Ryan |
| Portrayed by | Jay Karnes |
| Information | |
| Nickname(s) | Dutch, Dutchman, Dutchboy |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Police officer |
| Title | Detective |
| Spouse(s) | Ex-wife |
| Curtis Lemansky | |
|---|---|
| The Shield character | |
| First appearance | "Pilot" (episode 1.01) |
| Last appearance | "Postpartum" (episode 5.11) (Death) "Wins and Losses" (flashback, funeral) |
| Created by | Shawn Ryan |
| Portrayed by | Kenny Johnson |
| Information | |
| Nickname(s) | Lemonhead, Lem |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Former police officer |
| Title | Former detective; Strike Team member |
The following is a list of character summaries from the FX Networks television series, The Shield.
Captain Monica Rawling is a fictional character from the FX television show The Shield, played by Glenn Close, who received an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance.
Monica Rawling succeeded David Aceveda as Captain of the Farmington precinct. A morally strong woman, she tried to redeem Vic Mackey and Ronnie Gardocki by involving them in a controversial asset forfeiture program designed to clean up Farmington, by destroying the neighborhood drug trade. The program was extremely unpopular with the local citizens, yet she continued to keep the seizures in place, believing that they did more good than harm.
Rawling had a history in Farmington, starting as a patrol officer with partner Rich Nelson. In "Back in the Hole", drug kingpin Antwon Mitchell reveals that Rawling and Nelson had an affair, but that Nelson eventually returned to his family. Mitchell claimed that Nelson planted evidence on him that put him in jail for 13 years. When Rawling told Mitchell that Nelson had died of cancer, Mitchell appeared pleased, saying that Nelson has said he would "piss on his grave". When Mitchell murdered a 14-year-old girl turned police informant, Rawling was determined to take him down. A video recording of him confessing the murder to Shane Vendrell and also ordering the death of Vic Mackey provided the means to send Mitchell back to jail. However, after finally proving that Mitchell was responsible for ordering the brutal stabbing deaths of two Farmington police officers, Rawling learned that David Aceveda had arranged an immunity deal for the imprisoned drug lord. Learning that the DEA was using Antwon's information to build a case against the Salvadoran drug cartel which had been supplying him with heroin, Captain Rawling ordered Vic and the Strike Team to build a case against the Salvadorans first.
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