Elizabeth Prentiss

Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss is the mother of SSA Emily Prentiss and the ambassador of Ukraine in the United States. Because of her job she and her family had to travel all around the world, which gave Emily the chance to learn many languages like Arabic, Egyptian, Russian, etc. At some point during their lives she bought her daughter and apartment and keep paying for it, but the two of the pretended that didn't happened and Emily worked to pay the apartment. At 15 Emily became pregnat but have an abortion, likely this was approved by Emily.

She made her first appearence in Season Two, episode Honor of all Thieves when Emily seek her help regarding a case of a russian man that was kidnapped by the russian maffia. Elizabeth and Emily have a normal mother-daugther relationship.

Played by Kate Jackson