"The Blacklist" Star Megan Boone Leaving NBC Series after 8 Seasons
by Nellie Andreeva
June 15, 2021


"The Blacklist" is headed for a shocker. Megan Boone, the female lead opposite James Spader, is departing the long-running NBC series after eight seasons, I have learned.

She will make her last appearance as a series regular in the upcoming Season 8 finale.



The decision about Boone’s exit was made early on, well ahead of The Blacklist‘s Season 9 renewal in January. That allowed the writers to craft the arc for her character, Elizabeth “Liz”” Keen, this season as her final chapter.

I hear the decision was mutual, and Boone already is plotting her next move. Reps for NBC and Sony Pictures TV, which produces "The Blacklist" with Universal TV, had no comment.

https://deadline.com/2021/06/the-blacklist-megan-boone-leaving-elizabeth-keen-8-seasons-1234768133/

Megan Boone says goodbye to The Blacklist (https://deadline.com/2021/06/megan-boone-reaction-the-blacklist-exit-nbc-elizabeth-keen-1234780631/)

“This experience, for me, has been an entire life inside of my own life,” Boone wrote on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/CQfDxsVsvcz/) next to a photo of her and James Spader in character on the NBC drama. “These eight years playing Liz Keen have helped me better define the world and myself, as she set out to do the same. Liz sought incorruptible familial bonds, and collided with powerful forces to reveal the boundaries where a cruel, indifferent world ended and she began.” Boone went on to thank her cast and crew and the show’s long list of guest stars. “What a list. What a dream. Thank you all,” she wrote.

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