Poll: Top TV Criminal Consultants

A poll by Ed_Jones_XLIX

Results of 633 votes:

  1. 153

    Mads Mikkelsen in Hannibal (2013)

  2. 98

    Tom Ellis in Lucifer (2016)

  3. 70

    Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock (2010)

  4. 54

    Simon Baker in The Mentalist (2008)

  5. 34

    James Spader in The Blacklist (2013)

  6. 24

    Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote (1984)

  7. 23

    Tony Shalhoub in Monk (2002)

  8. 18

    Dulé Hill and James Roday Rodriguez in Psych (2006)

  9. 17

    Rose McIver in iZombie (2015)

  10. 17

    Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu in Elementary (2012)

  11. 13

    Tom Payne in Prodigal Son (2019)

  12. 13

    Nathan Fillion in Castle (2009)

  13. 12

    Joshua Jackson and John Noble in Fringe (2008)

  14. 11

    Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, and Bruce Harwood in The X-Files (1993)

  15. 10

    Tim Roth in Lie to Me (2009)

  16. 8

    Robbie Coltrane in Cracker (1993)

  17. 7

    Cobie Smulders in Stumptown (2019)

  18. 7

    Robson Green in Wire in the Blood (2002)

  19. 6

    David Krumholtz in Numb3rs (2005)

  20. 6

    Jake McDorman in Limitless (2015)

  21. 6

    James Roday Rodriguez in Psych (2006)

  22. 5

    Lance Henriksen in Millennium (1996)

  23. 5

    Brendan Gleeson in Mr. Mercedes (2017)

  24. 4

    Jennifer Carpenter in The Enemy Within (2019)

  25. 3

    Patricia Arquette in Medium (2005)

  26. 3

    Tom Bosley, Tracy Nelson, and Mary Wickes in Father Dowling Mysteries (1989)

  27. 1

    Jaimie Alexander in Blindspot (2015)

  28. 1

    Alan Cumming in Instinct (2018)

  29. 1

    Jack Cutmore-Scott in Deception (2018)

  30. 1

    Rufus Sewell in Eleventh Hour (2008)

  31. 1

    Angela Roy and Tom Beck in Einstein (2017)

  32. 1

    Kirill Käro in Sniffer (2013)

  33. 0

    Wisdom of the Crowd (2017)

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