{"id":60322,"date":"2022-08-30T03:58:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T03:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jesse-lee-soffer-exits-chicago-pd-season-10-will-be-his-last\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T03:58:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T03:58:15","slug":"jesse-lee-soffer-exits-chicago-pd-season-10-will-be-his-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jesse-lee-soffer-exits-chicago-pd-season-10-will-be-his-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Lee Soffer Exits &#8216;Chicago PD,&#8217; Season 10 Will Be His Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tJesse Lee Soffer is turning in his badge on \u201cChicago PD\u201d The upcoming 10th season will be the last for Soffer, <em>variety<\/em> can exclusively announce.  The actor has portrayed Det.  Jay Halstead since the NBC series&#8217; debut in 2014, appearing in all 187 episodes.  He will be departing sometime in the fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\t\u201cI want to thank the incredible fans for their unwavering support during the past 10 years and want to express my deepest gratitude to Dick Wolf and everyone at Wolf Entertainment, Peter Jankowski, Matt Olmstead, Derek Haas, Michael Brandt, Rick Eid, Gwen Sigan , NBC, Universal Television, my fellow castmates and our incredible crew,\u201d he said in a statement to <em>variety<\/em> on Monday.  \u201cTo create this hour drama week after week has been a labor of love by everyone who touches the show.  I will always be proud of my time as Det.  Jay Halstead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tHalstead has been at the center of the show since the beginning;  over the past two seasons, he&#8217;s become Sergeant Hank Voight&#8217;s (Jason Beghe) right-hand man and married Det.  Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiradakos).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\t\u201cChicago PD,\u201d one of Wolf&#8217;s nine shows currently on the air, has experienced many changes both in front of and behind the camera through recent years.  Last October, writer and executive producer Sigan took over as showrunner, as Eid exited to focus on his role as showrunner on both \u201cLaw &#038; Order\u201d and \u201cFBI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tAdditionally, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, who guest starred in the Season 9 finale, was upped to series regular over the summer.  He will reprise his role of Dante Torres, a rookie in Intelligence coming up from patrol.  Marina Squerciati, Patrick Flueger, LaRoyce Hawkins and Amy Morton also stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tSoffer, who has been acting since age six, made his debut as Jay Halstead in the Season 2 premiere of \u201cChicago Fire,\u201d which led to the first spinoff series.  Prior to joining the \u201cOne Chicago\u201d world, he had a main role on \u201cAs the World Turns,\u201d appearing on 502 episodes and earning three Daytime Emmy nominations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tHe is repped by UTA, Ethos Entertainment and Schreck Rose Dapello &#038; Adams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\t\u201cChicago PD\u201d is produced by Universal Television, in association with Wolf Entertainment.  Wolf, Sigan, Eid, Haas, Jankowski, Brandt, Gavin Harris, Chad Saxton and Arthur W. Forney serve as executive producers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tSeason 10 premieres on NBC Wednesday, Sept.  21, at 10 pm ET.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Lee Soffer is turning in his badge on \u201cChicago PD\u201d The upcoming 10th season will be the last for Soffer, variety can exclusively announce. The actor has portrayed Det. Jay Halstead since the NBC series&#8217; debut in 2014, appearing in all 187 episodes. He will be departing sometime in the fall. \u201cI want to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jesse-lee-soffer-exits-chicago-pd-season-10-will-be-his-last\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jesse Lee Soffer Exits &#8216;Chicago PD,&#8217; Season 10 Will Be His Last<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60736,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jesse-lee-soffer-leaving-nbcs-chicago-pd-after-10-seasons-deadline\/","url_meta":{"origin":60322,"position":0},"title":"Jesse Lee Soffer Leaving NBC&#8217;s &#8216;Chicago PD&#8217; After 10 Seasons \u2013 Deadline","date":"August 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Another big change in the Dick Wolf-verse: Deadline has confirmed that Jesse Lee Soffer, who plays Det. 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