If you’ve typed “why is Maggie leaving FBI” into a search bar this season, you’re not alone — the question has outrun the official record. People’s 2026 casting roundup (the celebrity magazine) confirms Missy Peregrym, Zeeko Zaki, and Jeremy Sisto all return for FBI Season 9; the actual shake-up is in-story, and it centers on OA. What follows separates confirmed from rumor — and explains why the Maggie–OA endgame keeps dominating the chatter.
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Season 9: Peregrym returning (2026)
Quick snapshot
- Peregrym returns as Maggie Bell in FBI Season 9, per the entertainment magazine People.
- Zeeko Zaki remains part of the series, per the CBS-owned streamer Paramount+.
- Whether the “Maggie is leaving” premise was ever true: the cast list still shows Maggie Bell and OA Zidan as the show’s special agents, per Canadian broadcaster Global TV.
- How permanent Isaiah Green’s role is: according to entertainment site MEAWW, he’s the new partner named so far — but CBS hasn’t confirmed a long-term position.
Seven rows, one pattern: the verified bio is short, and the gaps around it are where most of the Maggie–OA speculation lives.
| Full Name | Melissa “Missy” Peregrym |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | (Wikipedia) |
| Birthplace | Montréal, Québec, Canada |
| Known For | Maggie Bell on FBI |
| Notable Film | Stick It |
| Former Career | Fashion model |
| 494K followers (per her public profile) |
The pattern: the record answers the easy questions — who she is, when she was born — and stays silent on the ones driving the search spikes. That silence is the story.
Why is Maggie leaving FBI?
The short answer, based on the sources reviewed here: there is no verified reason, because there is no verified departure. The exit conversation around FBI in 2026 belongs to a different character.
- Maggie Bell isn’t the one leaving. People’s 2026 roundup says the core cast is not undergoing a major shakeup and lists Peregrym among the agents returning for Season 9 (People).
- The in-story exit is OA’s. According to People’s Season 9 coverage, OA was fired after refusing to participate in a cover-up tied to an NSA bioweapon leak.
- The exit landed in the Season 8 finale. Us Weekly’s look at the new season notes OA did not put up a fight (see the timeline signal in the snapshot above).
The setup matters: the series centers on New York City’s Federal Bureau of Investigation office, per the CBS affiliate news outlet CBS News Baltimore — and a partner shake-up inside that office is the engine of the new season.
The distinction between “character exit” and “actor exit” is the whole ballgame. OA the character is gone from the team; Zeeko Zaki the actor is still in the cast. That gap is where “why is Maggie leaving” gets its energy.
The query itself may be the artifact. If Peregrym is returning and the shake-up is OA’s, then “Maggie is leaving” is a fandom echo of a partner-separation plot — repeated until it became a search trend.
Who is leaving the FBI series in 2026?
- On the show: OA Zidan is the agent whose status changes. The firing cited above removes him from the team, not from the series.
- In the casting reports: the new partner detail from the snapshot above names Isaiah Green, played by Roland Buck III.
- What’s not happening: no CBS announcement in the reviewed record replaces Peregrym with a new actress.
So the “who’s leaving” answer for 2026 splits cleanly: a character was written out of the team, and an actor was not. Fans asking about Maggie are asking about the wrong half of that equation.
Why this matters: if you’re bracing for a Maggie farewell episode, you’re bracing for a rumor. The verified arc is quieter — a partner separation, a temporary new agent, and a reunion teased for the premiere.
Who is replacing Maggie Bell on FBI?
This question starts from a premise the record doesn’t support. Nobody is replacing Maggie Bell, because Maggie Bell is still on the cast list.
- No recast, no replacement announcement. The People roundup cited earlier in this article finds no major shakeup.
- The reported change is a new partner, not a new Maggie. Parade‘s Season 9 preview frames the season around Maggie adjusting to a new partner — the role stays hers.
- The new partner’s name: Isaiah Green, played by Roland Buck III. That detail comes from MEAWW’s gallery coverage, cited in the snapshot above.
The confusion is understandable: Season 9 storylines put Maggie beside a new colleague, and search queries translated “new partner for Maggie” into “replacement for Maggie.” Those are different things.
“Replacement” is the wrong frame. The role isn’t being recast; the team is being reshuffled. Isaiah Green is an addition to Maggie’s orbit, not a stand-in for her.
The pattern: when a search query outruns the facts, the gap fills with casting rumors. The verified cast list hasn’t changed; the on-screen roster has.
What is Missy Peregrym doing now?
Right now, her calendar is FBI. The same 2026 reporting that sparked the exit rumors also confirms she’s still in the field.
- Returning for FBI Season 9 as Special Agent Maggie Bell — the role she has played since 2018, per the People roundup cited above.
- Credited as a producer on FBI as of 2026, according to the community-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia.
- Maintaining a public Instagram presence of 494K followers, per her public profile.
The confirmed-projects list is short: Stick It (2006) and FBI (2018–present) are the credits that show up across the sources reviewed. Everything beyond those two anchors — new films, new series, a rumored exit — is unconfirmed in this record.
That thinness is worth pausing on. A performer with one active series and one public channel leaves a lot of space for speculation to fill.
Peregrym’s verified footprint is small, and the 2026 rumor cycle is running on the absence of information. The producer credit, though, says her relationship with FBI deepened — not ended.
The implication: her present is still very much FBI, and the behind-the-camera credit suggests she’s now shaping the show rather than leaving it.
What happened between Zachary Levi and Missy Peregrym?
This one has a public answer, and it’s shorter than most fans expect.
- They married in June 2014. Wikipedia’s chronology of Peregrym’s personal life records the marriage to actor Zachary Levi.
- The separation date on the filing is December 3, 2014.
- Peregrym filed for divorce in April 2015, according to the same Wikipedia chronology.
That’s the entire verified arc: a short marriage, a quick separation, a quiet dissolution. None of the sources reviewed for this article attach a scandal or a dramatic cause to the split.
The fan interest is easy to understand — two recognizable actors, a brief union, and very little public explanation. But the absence of explanation isn’t evidence of anything else.
The verified story is unglamorous, which is exactly why speculation keeps filling the gap. Treat the court record as the baseline and fan theories as noise until a primary source says otherwise.
What this means: “what happened” has a paper trail — married mid-2014, separated by December, divorced by spring 2015. Anything beyond those dates is commentary, not fact.
Do Maggie and OA get together romantically?
The short answer from the verified record: they’re partners, they’re not a confirmed couple, and the show is currently separating them professionally.
- They’re longtime partners. The official Season 9 overview from the CBS-owned streamer Paramount+ describes Maggie as one of the team’s central special agents and OA Zidan’s longtime partner.
- They’ve shared the screen since 2018. CBS’s launch coverage at CBS News Baltimore identified Peregrym and Zaki as the duo from the start.
- Season 9 splits them. OA’s firing, covered above, forces Maggie to adjust to a new partner.
Who does OA end up with in FBI?
- No verified source answers this. The cited reporting covers OA’s firing and Maggie’s new-partner arc, but no storyline confirms a romantic endgame for OA.
- The premiere hints at unfinished business. The preview quoted below shows Maggie and OA reunited in a dangerous undercover sequence for the Season 9 premiere.
The “endgame” question is really a fandom framework. On-screen partnership reads as romantic tension, and the writers have not confirmed or denied it in the reviewed coverage. What they have done is raise the stakes: a firing, a new partner, an undercover reunion.
The catch: romance remains unwritten. The verified plot points are partnership, loss, and a dangerous reunion — none of which is a love story yet.
Is OA married in real life?
OA is a character, and the man playing him keeps his private life private — at least in the sources that meet the verification bar here.
- OA is played by Zeeko Zaki. CBS’s launch coverage, cited above, identified Zaki as the actor behind OA.
- Zaki remains part of the show in Season 9. The Paramount+ overview cited in the snapshot above still lists him.
- His real-life marital status is not documented in the sources reviewed for this article.
How tall is Zeeko Zaki?
- The sources reviewed for this article don’t record an official height for Zaki.
- CBS’s own coverage treats him as an actor and lead, not a stat sheet — no measurement appears in the cited pages.
- Until a reliable profile publishes one, any height figure is best treated as unverified.
Why is Omar on FBI called OA?
- The short answer is in the character’s name. Canadian broadcaster Global TV‘s cast listing gives his full name as Omar Adom “OA” Zidan.
- “OA” is the initials-based nickname written into the name: Omar Adom.
The distinction: on-screen identity and private life are separate records. The verified record describes the character in detail; the person playing him mostly stays out of it.
Is Scola on FBI married?
Same split as OA: the question mixes a character sheet with a private life, and the verified sources here only cover the character sheet.
- Scola is a character on FBI. The question conflates the role with the performer.
- The actor’s real-life marital status isn’t verified in the sources reviewed for this article.
- The same confusion drives the Maggie–OA talk. Treating on-screen partners as real-life couples is a recurring fandom pattern, not a documented one.
Every show with a believable partnership produces a “married in real life?” search spike. The discipline that keeps readers accurate is simple: the character sheet and the actors’ private lives are different documents.
What this means: the public record answers a question the search query doesn’t actually ask. What’s verifiable about Scola is his role on the show; what’s verified about the actor stops at his professional credits.
Missy Peregrym and FBI: key dates
Five dates, one through-line: a fast rise, a long-running lead role, and a 2026 rumor cycle that ran far ahead of the facts.
- — Born June 16 in Montréal, Québec (date verified in the facts table above, per Wikipedia).
- — Began a modeling career at 18, the career entry in the facts table above (Wikipedia).
- — Appeared in the gymnastics film Stick It (filmography per the facts table above, via Wikipedia).
- — Began her lead role as Maggie Bell on CBS’s FBI, per the network’s launch-era reporting at CBS News Baltimore.
- — October Season 9 coverage confirms she returns while the Maggie–OA separation fuels exit rumors; the entertainment outlet Parade previews the new-partner arc.
The timeline’s last row is the whole editorial problem in miniature: the facts say she’s working, the queries say she’s leaving. Trust the dates, not the trend.
Confirmed vs unclear: sorting the 2026 FBI chatter
Low-confidence information environments reward a simple discipline: separate what’s sourced from what’s repeated.
The confirmed side
- Peregrym returns as Maggie Bell for FBI Season 9 (People, cited above).
- Zeeko Zaki remains part of the series in Season 9 (Paramount+, cited above).
- OA the character was fired at the end of Season 8 after refusing to join an NSA-related cover-up (People, cited above).
- Maggie’s Season 9 story involves adjusting to a new partner (Parade, cited below).
- Peregrym was married to Zachary Levi from June 2014 to their April 2015 divorce filing (Wikipedia, cited above).
The unresolved side
- Whether “Maggie is leaving” was ever a real story: no official CBS announcement appears in the reviewed record.
- Whether Isaiah Green is a permanent partner or a temporary addition: the reporting stays non-committal (MEAWW, cited above).
- Whether OA’s exit reverses in Season 9: the premiere preview hints at a reunion, but the status quo isn’t confirmed (Us Weekly, cited below).
- Zeeko Zaki’s real-life marital status and height: not documented in the sources reviewed.
- The actor behind Scola’s real-life marital status: not documented in the sources reviewed.
The balance tips toward the unresolved side, and that’s the honest state of the record: the confirmed facts about the 2026 cast are real but small, while the rumor surface is large.
What the reporting says
Three sourced positions capture the 2026 conversation better than any single headline.
“Maggie will adjust to a new partner.”
FBI Season 9 preview — Parade (entertainment outlet)
“An October 2026 preview shows Maggie and OA reunited in a dangerous undercover sequence for the Season 9 premiere — including a beat where OA punches Maggie while undercover.”
First-look coverage — Us Weekly (celebrity weekly)
“Global TV’s cast page lists Special Agent Maggie Bell and Special Agent Omar Adom ‘OA’ Zidan as FBI cast members.”
FBI cast page — Global TV (Canadian broadcaster)
Read together, they form a consistent picture: Maggie stays, OA’s status changes, and the season’s tension is built on their separation — not on Peregrym’s departure.
Why this matters: The 2026 FBI exit chatter is a case study in search queries overtaking source material. The verified record says Maggie Bell stays, OA’s character arc carries the drama, and Peregrym’s career is in its most stable stretch since 2018. For fans chasing a farewell episode, the choice is clear: adjust expectations to match the reporting — or keep waiting for an official CBS announcement that may never confirm Maggie Bell’s departure.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Missy Peregrym’s net worth?
None of the sources reviewed for this article disclose a verified net-worth figure. Her confirmed credits — Stick It (2006) and FBI (2018–present) — are in the facts table above, but her earnings are not public.
Was Missy Peregrym a gymnast?
Not according to the verified record. She played an elite gymnast in Stick It, which is likely why the question keeps coming up, but the sources reviewed here don’t confirm real-life gymnastics training.
What movies and TV shows has Missy Peregrym been in?
The verified credits in this article’s record are Stick It (2006) and FBI (2018–present). The modeling work that preceded them is also documented in the facts table above. Anything beyond those entries should be checked against a full, verified filmography before being treated as fact.
How tall is Missy Peregrym?
No official height appears in the sources reviewed for this article. Fan pages frequently cite conflicting numbers, so it’s safest to treat any figure as unverified until a reliable profile publishes one.
Does Missy Peregrym have children?
Not documented in the sources reviewed here. Her public record covers her career and her 2014 marriage to Zachary Levi, which ended in divorce (see the section on that relationship above); no children are mentioned in that record.
Who is Missy Peregrym’s husband?
Her publicly documented marriage is to actor Zachary Levi — June 2014 to the April 2015 divorce filing, with a December 3, 2014 separation date listed on the paperwork (see the section above). No current spouse is documented in the sources reviewed for this article.
How old is Missy Peregrym?
Born June 16, 1982 (see the verified-facts table above), she is 44 as of the 2026 Season 9 coverage.
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Noah Gagnon is Senior Reporter at Canada Scope, covering daily news and breaking stories across Canada.