Why the guest star playing Jemma on Chicago P.D. looks familiar
Nbc reports Season 13 of Chicago P.D. featured guest star Donna Lynne Champlin in the episode "Missing," with the Intelligence Unit fighting tooth and nail to see justice served.
Champlin is known for playing Paula Proctor on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and for a long history on Broadway, including Hollywood Arms, Sweeney Todd and Billy Elliot the Musical; she has also appeared on Law & Order, The Good Wife, The Blacklist and in films such as Birdman and Downsizing, and in 2025 returned to the Law & Order universe as Megan Wallace on Law & Order: SVU.
In the episode, Intelligence Unit rookie Eva Imani is called after a social worker finds Jemma, who lost a son 18 years earlier, in a panic claiming a man who visited her was her missing son Ben; DNA and the investigation showed the visitor was a conman and led the team to a serial pedophile who likely killed Ben, but without a body Jemma remained convinced her son might be alive, leaving Imani deeply affected.