Criminal Minds Enlists The Practice's Camryn Manheim for Season Premiere

The Practice's Camryn Manheim is returning to the small screen.

The actress will guest-star on the two-part Season 9 premiere of Criminal Minds , TVLine reports. The Emmy winner will play the overprotective mother of an unsub who is carrying around some deep, dark family secrets. Among her character's other emotional issues? She kills women who look like her son's ex-girlfriend.

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In recent years, Manheim has recurred on Ghost Whisperer and Harry's Law .

Criminal Minds' Season 9 premieres on Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 9/8c on CBS.

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