‘NCIS’ Young Gibbs Spin-Off Casts Austin Stowell

“NCIS: Origins” has found its young Gibbs.

Austin Stowell has been cast as young Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the new “NCIS” prequel series, CBS announced Monday. “NCIS: Origins” will follow Stowell’s Gibbs as he starts his career in 1991, years before the events of “NCIS.”

Gibbs will start out as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks, according to the official logline.

Best known for his roles in “Whiplash,” “Bridge of Spies” and for alongside Emma Stone in “Battle of the Sexes,” Stowell can also be seen in TV series “A Friend of the Family,” “The Hating Game,” “Breathe,” “Catch 22,” Steven Spielberg’s series “Amazing Stories” and “Public Morals.”

More to come …

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