Emily Olivero-Hernandez

## Emily Olivero

**Emily Mia Olivero-Hernandez** is a character on FOX's *9-1-1* who works as a police officer for the LAPD alongside Athena Grant-Nash.She debuts in the first episode of the first season of *9-1-1* and is portrayed by starring cast member Melissa Barrera.

## History

### Early Life

Emily was born in Arcata, a small college town in Northern California in 1990 and is the youngest of two children. She is the daughter of two college professors and comes from a family of educators.

She knew she didn’t want to be an educator, but was feeling a lot of pressure from her parents to become one. Because of this she started acting out, racing cars in vacant lots and private streets. She met her first boyfriend, Miles at one of these races. He was 17 and she was 15. They entered into a relationship, which ended a couple of years after Emily started going straight (and found out she was not).

## Relationships

### Family

#### Usnavi and Katrina Hernandez

According to Emily, her parents weren’t keen on the idea of her becoming a police officer. In "Emily Begins" we find out that her parents hadn’t planned for her and as a result, pretty much ignored her for most of her life until they felt it was time for her to become an educator like the rest of her family.

#### Khloe Reed

Khloe and Emily aren’t really close. Emily tells the 118 that she hasn’t really spoken to her sister and brother-in-law in years and that they mostly communicate via Christmas Cards.

### Friends

#### Athena Grant-Nash

Emily met Athena when she was a rookie at the Los Angeles Police Department. Athena introduced Emily to other “misfits”, a gay firefighter, another female policewoman and Henrietta Wilson. They became a support group of sorts, regularly meeting to commiserate their sometimes difficult occupations.

#### Bobby Nash

Emily met Bobby when she met the other members of the 118 through Hen. Since then, Bobby has seemed to take a fatherly role to Emily—who has admitted that she doesn't really have one in her life.

#### Evan Buckley

Emily and Buck are best friends and completely inseparable. Both are known to be a bit reckless—Buck more than Emily—but because of this both Hen and Chimney like to call them *Dumb and Dumber*.

### Romance

#### Miles Kirby

Emily met Miles when she was 15 and he was 17 at a street race she was at. They entered into a relationship, which ended a couple of years after Emily started going straight (and found out she was not). Her interaction with Nina Mancilla had her finally cut ties with him. Unbeknownst to her, Emily’s parents charged him with statutory rape after the fact.

#### Nina Mancilla

Nina was Emily’s first girlfriend, whom she met after Nina—a police officer—hauled her into the station. Emily was snarky with her but Nina remained patient, gave Emily her card, told her that she saw potential in her and told her to call when she was ready for something better.

Emily ended up calling her and Nina helped her through her recovery, helping her get clean and get her record expunged. The two started a relationship during this time, but broke up after Emily decided to leave to Los Angeles to start fresh—Nina declining Emily’s offer to go with her.

In "Survivors", when at the hospital to take Eddie home, Nina is seen there. Emily—surprised Nina is in LA—awkwardly starts a conversation with her about their lives.

#### Jack Gill

Emily met Jack during the middle of season 1. They had a thing for a while that never really went anywhere, them breaking up in the middle of season 2.

## Trivia

* She drives a 1963 Mercury Comet Convertible
	+ She told Buck and Eddie that her favorite car to race was a Dodge Challenger Hellcat
* Three of the offenses on her file are:
	+ Reckless Driving
	+ Reckless Endangerment of a Minor
	+ Drug Possession
* Emily is bisexual
	+ Emily confessed to Eddie that some of her most meaningful relationships have been with women
		- This is an indirect mention of her first girlfriend, Nina Mancilla.