Name: Anthony 'Tony' DiNozzo
Occupation: Special Agent, Major Case Response Team Senior Field Agent (NCIS)
Relations: None
Various Fun Fact: He despises anything of the Civil War (his dad worked as a Civil War reenactor)
Personality
Tony is written as a streetwise, promiscuous former homicide detective. His behaviour toward women is occasionally noted by other characters to be chauvinistic, and throughout most of the series Tony is shown flirting with nearly every woman he encounters. He does not respect personal boundaries, going so far as to rifle through his colleagues' possessions, both at work and in their homes, and listen in on private phone calls. The targets of this behaviour are either victims of Tony's quests for new sources of amusement, or those for whom he believes he has reason to be concerned.
Although Tony is canonically in his thirties, he is typically written as possessing a juvenile sense of humour that manifests itself in name-calling, teasing and pranks directed at his colleagues. Tony delights in quoting movies in everyday life, often mimicking the original actor when quoting them; Sean Connery's James Bond and Tommy Lee Jones come up frequently. Tony also finds parallels between the cinema and his everyday life. This occasionally proves to be more useful than aggravating, as when his application of a solution from the movie Speed ends in the successful resolution of a case. In a nod to NCIS creator Donald Bellisario, Tony has also been established as a fan of the television series Magnum, P.I. and Airwolf, both of which are also Bellisario productions. In the episode "Dead Man Talking," Tony introduces himself to a suspect as Airwolf character "Stringfellow." Tony's coworkers often display visible frustration with his behaviour, but throughout the series Tony has been shown to be very loyal to his coworkers at NCIS, particularly his supervisor, Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
Although his immature behavior often gets Tony into trouble, he also demonstrates himself to be an insightful agent when the need arises. On more than one occasion he surprises his colleagues when an outwardly immature action on his part actually causes new evidence to be uncovered. He is generally written as a highly capable agent, and in season four is offered a prized position as a supervisory agent in Rota, Spain, which he nonetheless turns down. Tony is known to be fluent in both Spanish and English, as is established from his earliest appearance in the JAG-NCIS crossover episodes as well as throughout the NCIS series.
Tony claims to have 20/10 vision in the episode "Left for Dead;" however, in the episode "The Curse," he can be seen wearing glasses at his desk before promptly taking them off to talk to Gibbs. He also once donated to a sperm bank, but no one wanted to use his sperm. He drove a 1966 Ford Mustang until it was bombed.
The character is initially portrayed as a "technophobe" who, like his superior, has limited patience with the scientific method and technical terms. However, he can be seen to develop an aptitude for technology in later episodes, and is occasionally depicted hacking into computer systems.
