It's Official: CBS Greenlights 'Criminal Minds' Spin-Off

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Whitaker, who won an Academy Award for his role on The Last King of Scotland in 2007, will play the dynamic, mysterious, and charming father figure on the spin-off, who will take the reins as leader of the new group of profilers who work outside the FBI bureaucracy. His character Cooper is a former star profiler in Criminal Minds' BAU before Criminal mindsgoing off the radar for the past eight years.

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