'Blacklist' lead Megan Boone exiting series after eight seasons

“The Blacklist” star Megan Boone is leaving the NBC drama series after eight seasons, Variety has confirmed.

Boone has performed FBI profiler Elizabeth Keen on the series because it started, starring reverse James Spader. With her exit, Spader, Harry Lennix, and Diego Klattenhoff are the one authentic forged members left on the present.

NBC declined to remark.

News of Boone’s exit comes forward of “The Blacklist” Season 8 finale. There are two episodes left within the present season, with the subsequent scheduled to air on June 16 adopted by the finale on June 23.

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At the time of her exit, Boone could have appeared in over 170 episodes of “The Blacklist.” She additionally performed the function of Keen within the short-lived spinoff series “The Blacklist: Redemption.” Boone lately appeared within the critically-acclaimed Amazon series “The Underground Railroad,” taking part in the function of Miss Lucy within the present’s second episode. Her different credit embody “Law & Order: LA,” “Sex and the City 2,” and “Blue Bloods.”

Megan Boone, who starred as Liz Keen on ‘The Blacklist,’ is leaving the present after eight seasons. 
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“The Blacklist” was renewed for Season 9 again in January. Spader stars as Raymond “Red” Reddington, one of many FBI’s most needed fugitives, who helps the Bureau monitor down probably the most infamous criminals on the planet.

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Spader, John Eisendrath, Jon Bokenkamp, John Davis, John Fox, Lukas Reiter, Laura A. Benson, Daniel Cerone and Sean Hennen function government producers on the series. Davis Entertainment produces in affiliation with Sony Pictures Television Studios and Universal Television. Bokenkamp created the series and serves as co-showrunner with Eisendrath.

Deadline was first to report Boone’s exit from the series.