Kate Beckett (Stana Katic)Kate Beckett is a New York City Homicide Detective in the 12th precinct. She is one of the youngest women to ever hold this position.She is a top-notch investigator who has the ability to look at cases differently than other cops and also has the ability to empathize with victims because of a tragedy in her own past.When s...
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Kate Beckett (Stana Katic)Kate Beckett is a New York City Homicide Detective in the 12th precinct. She is one of the youngest women to ever hold this position.She is a top-notch investigator who has the ability to look at cases differently than other cops and also has the ability to empathize with victims because of a tragedy in her own past.When she first partners with best-selling mystery author Rick Castle because a killer has been copycatting the crimes in his book she finds his goofy charm exasperating and is less than enthusiastic about his help. But she also realizes that Castle has skills that could prove useful thanks to his years of crime research for his novels and the two become an unlikely pair. Castle is so inspired by Beckett that he uses her as the inspiration for his latest series heroine Nikki Heat. Beckett is tough, smart, and extremely committed to her job, and driven to seek justice in part by the unsolved murder of her own mother which she worked for several years before she came to a dead end.She has not been particularly lucky at love due to the nature of her job.Beckett attended Stanford University and NYU. Show less «