Sharon Raydor
| Sharon Raydor | |
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| First appearance | "Red Tape" (The Closer, season 5, episode 3) June 22, 2009 |
| Created by | James Duff |
| Portrayed by | Mary McDonnell |
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| Gender | Female |
| Occupation |
LAPD Commander, formerly Captain of Major Crimes Former Head of the Force Investigation Division |
| Spouse(s) | Jackson Raydor (Major Crime Season 1–3) |
| Children | Ricky Raydor Emily Raydor Rusty Raydor née Beck (adopted son Season 4–present) |
| Relatives |
Andy Flynn (Boyfriend Season 3–Season 5, Fiancé Season 5- Present) |
Commander Sharon O'Dwyer Raydor is a fictional character on the police procedural drama The Closer, and the protagonist of its spinoff, Major Crimes. She is portrayed by Mary McDonnell.
Sharon was estranged from her husband Jack (Tom Berenger), an attorney who moved to Las Vegas to gamble; by season three of Major Crimes, the two are divorced. They have two grown children, Richard William "Ricky" and Emily Raydor. In "Down the Drain", Sharon adopts Rusty Beck (Graham Patrick Martin), the star witness against serial rapist/murderer Phillip Stroh (Billy Burke).
As of season 4, she is in a relationship with Andy Flynn, a lieutenant from her division. At the end of "Dead Drop", Flynn proposed to her and they are currently engaged.
Captain Raydor originally joined the police force as a way to put her husband through law school, with the intention that he would reciprocate. Those plans fell through, however, once she got pregnant and had kids, and then she and Jack separated. She came to realize as a police officer that she enjoyed enforcing the law a lot more than practicing it.
A few months out of the police academy, then-patrol officer Raydor was involved in an officer-involved shooting. She attended mandatory counseling sessions afterwards, and although she thought she didn't want counseling, it turned out to be a good thing. However, this incident did not result in her killing the suspect as she is stated not to have killed anyone until Dwight Darnell in Major Crimes "White Lies, Part 1".
In her first appearance, it is mentioned that a few years before Chief Johnson joined the force, then-Sergeant Raydor of Internal Affairs forced Lt. Provenza and his partner George Andrews (Beau Bridges) to attend sensitivity training.
As the Commanding Officer of the LAPD's Force Investigation Division, Captain Raydor is charged with investigation of officer-involved use of force and bound by federal oversight, which brings her into conflict with Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson of the Major Crimes Division, and the two soon develop an adversarial relationship. Over time, they have gradually come to respect each other, and Raydor is instrumental in Brenda's candidacy for Chief of Police. In one episode, Sharon states that she personally wrote most of the rules that the division used in its investigations.
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