Where You've Seen The Cast Of 2023's Night Court Before

Melissa Rauch plays Judge Abby Stone on the new "Night Court." She's the daughter of Judge Harry Stone, who previously occupied the bench for the Manhattan Criminal Court's night shift. Abby brings the same approach to jurisprudence as her late father, treating those who appear before her as people first and foremost. Rauch was a huge fan of the original "Night Court," as she revealed during an interview with Glamour. "I have such a distinct memory of watching those opening credits with the iconic theme song playing," she said. "I vividly remember being transfixed by it in my childhood bedroom."

Rauch got her start in the 2006 film "Delirious" alongside Steve Buscemi. She followed up her big-screen debut with roles in the comedy shows "12 Miles of Bad Road" and the American remake of "Kath & Kim." After appearing briefly in the 2009 bro-mantic comedy "I Love You, Man," Rauch got her big break when she joined the cast of the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" as recurring character Bernadette Rostenkowski during the show's third season. She was promoted to the main cast the following season and played Bernadette until the show's conclusion in 2019.

While she has worked primarily in television, Rauch has had several high-profile film projects as well. In 2015, she starred as Hope Ann Gregory in the sports comedy "The Bronze," and the following year she provided the voice of Francine in "Ice Age: Collision Course." Her voiceover resume also includes playing Harley Quinn in the 2017 animated film "Batman and Harley Quinn," and Gwen the Cat in "Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite." "Night Court" is her first major project since the end of "The Big Bang Theory."

New Orleans native John Larroquette has been acting in film and television since the 1970s. In the "Night Court" reboot, Larroquette reprises his role as Dan Fielding from the original, a performance which netted him four Primetime Emmy awards. In the pilot episode of the revival, Dan, no longer a district attorney, is working as a process server before being convinced to return to court as a public defender by Abby Stone. Larroquette was initially apprehensive about reprising his role but was ultimately intrigued by the idea of exploring how his character had grown. "How often does an actor get a chance to revisit some character that he played three and a half decades ago?" he said during a TV Line interview.

Larroquette got his start as the narrator of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" in 1974. He had small roles in several TV shows in the late 1970s, including "Kojak," "Doctor's Hospital," and "Black Sheep Squadron." His first major film role came in 1981 when he played Captain Stillman in the Bill Murray war comedy "Stripes." In the 1980s, in addition to his role on "Night Court," he played the Klingon officer Maltz in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" and he was also in "Twilight Zone: The Movie," appearing in the "Time Out" segment.

After "Night Court," Larroquette got his own sitcom about a night shift on NBC: "The John Larroquette Show," in which he played recovering alcoholic John Hemingway. Following the show's cancellation after four seasons, he continued to appear regularly on television, popping up in shows like "The West Wing," "The Practice," "Arrested Development," and "House." Prior to reprising the role of Dan Fielding, Larroquette appeared as Gavin Firth in "The Good Fight."

Kapil Talwalkar plays Abby's clerk Neil in the new "Night Court." In an interview with Bleeding Cool, he said that being cast on a multi-camera sitcom was something he had always dreamed about as a kid. "I grew up watching that kind of stuff, so it was surreal," he said before going on to praise star and executive producer Melissa Rauch. "Melissa is a unicorn of a human being. She creates the most amazing work environment ever. She's so positive, and she's like her character in so many ways that she plays."

Talwalkar came out of the gate hard and fast in 2015 with a starring role in "Love Pyar Whatever," a romantic comedy about an Indian student who travels to the United States hoping to find the woman of his dreams. That same year, he appeared in the film "Prep School," a drama about an elite rugby player who suffers a mental breakdown. His breakout role came in 2020 when he was cast as Tobin in the NBC musical comedy "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist," starring Jane Levy and Skylar Astin. He appeared in 24 of the 25 episodes and would reprise his role in the 2021 Christmas special "Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas."

Before being cast as Neil, Talwalkar appeared in an episode of Topher Grace's ABC sitcom "Home Economics" and provided the voice of Viju in the children's show "Mira, Royal Detective." If you're a fan of The CW, then you'll probably recognize Talwalkar from the "Charmed" reboot — he recurred as the Gandharva (magical beings that use singing to change their surrounding environment) Dev across six episodes in 2022.

Actor and musician Dimiter Marinov appears in "Night Court" as Nikolai, the court's mysterious maintenance man. Per his website, he was originally a classical violinist in Bulgaria. Marinov began acting in ad campaigns when he moved to the United States in 1990. His first major role came in the 2012 war thriller "Act of Valor," where he shared the screen with real-life Navy SEALs. He followed up this role with small parts in numerous television shows including "NCIS," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," and the Marvel series "Agent Carter," in which he played the Soviet colonel Fyodor, an operative of the espionage agency Leviathan.

Marinov continued to work steadily in television into the late 2010s, landing roles in the Zach Galifianakis comedy series "Baskets" and HBO's dark comedy "Barry," starring Bill Hader. His big break would arrive in 2018 when he was cast as Dr. Shirley's cellist in the historical drama film "Green Book," starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen. The film would go on to win best picture at the Academy Awards, and Marinov became the first Bulgarian actor to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. More recently, he played the hotel manager in the 2021 crime drama "The Little Things," sharing the screen with Hollywood heavyweights Denzel Washington and Rami Malek.

Brendan Jennings plays Howie in the second episode of the new "Night Court." A product of the illustrious Second City in Chicago, Jennings' improv background has gotten him numerous roles in TV comedies since 2013, when he appeared as Walt Koypond in a Season 5 episode of "Parks and Recreation." His other early TV roles include small parts in "Cougar Town" and "New Girl," and he was also cast in a sketch in the Netflix show "W/Bob and David" in 2015. Like his "Night Court" co-star Kimia Behpoornia, he also landed a role in "Drive Share" in 2017 before he was cast in a regular role on the Paramount comedy series "Nobodies" that same year.

In 2018, he briefly appeared in the "Breaking Bad" prequel series "Better Call Saul" as an office worker, then, two years later, he was cast in an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." After working in television for most of his career, he made his film debut in 2021, playing Clyde in the superhero comedy "Thunder Force," starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer. His most recent roles prior to "Night Court" were as Dale in "A.P. Bio," Dennis in "Superstore," and as Massacre Mike in the Netflix Comedy series "The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window."

Al Bayan hadn't been acting for very long when he appeared in the second episode of "Night Court" in 2023. He got his start in the industry in 2018 when he played a coroner in an episode of "9-1-1" and since then he has appeared regularly on the small screen, popping up in a number of big shows. He followed up his debut role by appearing in 2019 episodes of "Good Girls," "Why Women Kill," and the Oprah Winfrey Network legal drama "All Rise."

In 2020, Bayan landed his biggest role to date, appearing in HBO's critically acclaimed dystopian science fiction series "Westworld." He played a behavior tech in the Season 3 episode "The Winter Line," in which Thandiwe Newton's Maeve tries to lobotomize herself due to the pain of being separated from her daughter. The following year Bayan played a security guard in the Netflix superhero series "Jupiter's Legacy," and he landed similar one-episode roles in "The Afterparty" and "Super Pumped" in 2022 as he continued to cement himself as a one-to-watch actor in Hollywood.