Alana Bloom ( Caroline Dhavernas) inadvertently slips deeper into Hannibal's world, clinical psychiatrist Dr. The FBI staff that supports Graham is headed by Special Agent in Charge Jack Crawford ( Laurence Fishburne), who takes Graham from his teaching job to help investigate only the most gruesome and bizarre of murders, and includes a forensic team consisting of Beverly Katz ( Hettienne Park), Brian Zeller ( Aaron Abrams) and Jimmy Price ( Scott Thompson). Hannibal Lecter ( Mads Mikkelsen), a forensic psychiatrist and secret cannibal destined to become Graham's most cunning enemy. The series focuses on the budding relationship between FBI Special Agent Will Graham ( Hugh Dancy), a crime scene investigator who holds the ability to empathize with psychopaths and murderers, and Dr. The series is based upon characters and elements appearing in the novels Red Dragon (1981), Hannibal (1999), and Hannibal Rising (2006) by Thomas Harris. Hannibal is an American psychological thriller television series developed by Bryan Fuller for NBC that aired for 39 episodes from April 4, 2013, until August 29, 2015.