Detective Nyla Harper is a main character on The Rookie. She was Nolan's second training officer due to receiving a "golden ticket" and trained Thorsen before returning to a detective position. She is a Police Detective I who previously worked undercover for four years.

In 2019, she began co-starring in the second season of the ABC police procedural drama The Rookie as Detective Nyla Harper, first appearing in the fourth episode "Warriors and Guardians". [22]

Feb 4, 2025 · Nyla Harper was ambushed by the serial killer. She was injected with a paralyzing substance and left helpless before being rescued, forcing her to confront doubts about her instincts while...

Feb 5, 2025 · When clues put vending machine operator named Liam Glasser (Fringe‘s Seth Gabel) on their radar, Detective Nyla Harper (played by Mekia Cox) at first casually approached the stranger, ostensibly ...

Oct 9, 2022 · In the fourth season of ABC’s police procedural show ‘The Rookie,’ Nyla Harper gets pregnant and starts to expect the baby with her partner James Murray. In the second episode of the fifth season, Harper takes leave from her duty to deliver their baby.

In 2019, she co-starred in the second season of the ABC police procedural drama “The Rookie” as Detective Nyla Harper, debuting in the fourth episode, “Warriors and Guardians.” On August 23, 2016, Mekia began a recurring role in the NBC medical drama “Chicago Med.”

She portrays Detective Nyla Harper on The Rookie. Cox moved with her family to Orlando, Florida at the age of seven, after she spent five years studying dance in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Much of her early work was associated with Universal Studios and Nickelodeon.

Jan 26, 2022 · Playing Nolan's training officer Nyla Harper is Mekia Cox. Mekia has been married to basketball analyst Britt Leach since 2018, and the two share a three-year-old daughter.

Most recently she starred in three primetime shows: TV Land's "Impastor", ABC's "Secrets and Lies" the NBC hit drama "Chicago Med."

Feb 5, 2025 · Warning: SPOILERS ahead for The Rookie season 7, episode 5! The Rookie star Mekia Cox has explained Nyla's tense confrontation with a potential serial killer in season 7, episode 5, revealing why she instigated it. The episode saw the detective confront a vending machine operator named Liam Glasser (Seth Gabel), who she believes is a serial killer that previously attacked her in an abandoned ...