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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 1)
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The first season of CSI, Crime Scene Investigation premiered on CBS on October 6,2000, and ended on May 17,2001. The series stars William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger and its all change at the Las Vegas Crime Lab following the shooting death of Holly Gribbs, yet the team still find themselves tasked with solving the bizarre, the brutal, and the impossible. Meanwhile, Brown struggles with an addiction, Sidle adjusts to life in Las Vegas. Jorja Fox joins the main cast in the second episode and it was, however, filmed in 16,9, and the widescreen versions of the episodes are present on the Blu-ray release
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a procedural forensics crime drama television series that premiered on CBS October 6,2000. The series, starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson, the series concluded on September 27,2015, after 15 seasons, with a feature-length finale titled Immortality. The team is led by Gil Grissom, a socially-awkward forensic entomologist. Grissoms second-in-command, Catherine Willows, is a mother with a cops instinct. Born and raised in Vegas, Catherine was a stripper before being recruited into law enforcement, following Grissoms departure during the ninth season of the series, Catherine is promoted to Supervisor. After overseeing the training of new investigator Raymond Langston, Willows is replaced by D. B, Russell, and recruited to the FBI shortly thereafter. Russell is a man, a keen forensic botanist and a veteran of the Seattle Crime Lab. In the series season, Russell is reunited with his former partner Julie Finlay. During the 1990s, Anthony Zuiker caught producer Jerry Bruckheimers attention after writing his first movie script, Zuiker was convinced that there was a series in the concept, Bruckheimer agreed and arranged a meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures. The studios head at the time liked the script and presented it to ABC, NBC and Fox executives. The head of development at CBS saw potential in the script, and the network had a pay-or-play contract with actor William Petersen. The networks executives liked the pilot so much that they decided to include it in their 2000 schedule immediately, airing on Fridays after The Fugitive. Initially it was thought that CSI would benefit from The Fugitive, which was expected to be a hit, formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that companys interest was later bought by the investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. CBS acquired AACs international distribution rights to the program, though the non-US DVD distribution rights did not change, the series is currently in syndication, and reruns are broadcast in the U. S. on the Spike and TV Land cable networks. The show has aired in reruns on the USA Network since January 14,2011, the CSI catalog has been exclusive to the whole NBC Universal portfolio since September 2014. Occasionally, the cast would still shoot on location in Las Vegas, other California locations include Verdugo Hills High School, UCLAs Royce Hall, Pasadena City Hall, and California State University, Los Angeles. While shooting took place primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, CSIs theme song was, since season one, Who Are You, written by Pete Townshend with vocals by lead singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. In certain countries, to music licensing fees, a unique theme was used instead
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William Petersen
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William Louis Petersen is an American actor and producer. He also starred in films including To Live and Die in L. A. Manhunter, Young Guns II, Fear, The Contender, Detachment and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. Petersen was born in Evanston, Illinois, the youngest of six children of Helen June and Arthur Edward Petersen and he is of Danish and German descent. He has two brothers, Arthur, Jr. and Robert, and three sisters, Anne, Mary Kay and Elizabeth and he graduated from Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho, in 1972. He was accepted to Idaho State University on a football scholarship, while at Idaho State, Petersen took an acting course, which changed the direction of his life. He left school along with his wife, Joanne, in 1974 and followed a drama professor to the Basque country, where he studied as a Shakespearean actor. Petersen was interested in Basque culture and he studied the Basque language, Euskera, Petersen returned to Idaho with the intention of being an actor. Not wanting to work a job in Idaho, he returned to the Chicago area. He became active in the theater and earned his Actors Equity card, in 1985, Petersen received his first break when he played a Secret Service agent gone rogue to avenge his mentor in William Friedkins 1985 action film To Live and Die in L. A. In 1986, he played FBI agent Will Graham in the first Hannibal Lecter film, because his role was so emotionally exhausting, he did everything he could to rid himself of Graham after finishing principal photography. He shaved off his beard, cut his hair and bleached it blond and he declined a part in Oliver Stones Platoon, as it would have kept him in the Philippines, away from his family. Instead, he worked on the 1987 HBO made-for-TV movie Long Gone as a minor league player and manager named Cecil Stud Cantrell. Petersen was offered the role of Henry Hill in the film Goodfellas, an exposé about the film in the May 2015 issue of Playboy claims that Petersen turned down the audition altogether. In a 1990 ABC three-part miniseries, The Kennedys of Massachusetts, Petersen played U. S. President John F. Kennedys father, the film won an Emmy and a Golden Globe from eight and two nominations, respectively. Also in 1990, Petersen portrayed the infamous Patrick Floyd Pat Garrett in Young Guns II, in 1993, Petersen appeared in a CBS TV miniseries, Return to Lonesome Dove as former Ranger Gideon Walker. He played Steven Walker in Fear, Petersen played Governor Jack Hathaway, an unscrupulous candidate for vice president following the death of the incumbent, in The Contender in 2000. He appeared uncredited in the noir thriller Mulholland Falls as a character who finds himself on the violent receiving end of a Los Angeles police squads tactics, in 1999, he starred in Kiss the Sky as Jeff. He appeared as part of an all-star cast in a remake of the 1997 film 12 Angry Men, from 2000 to 2010, he played Dr. Gil Grissom in the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation
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Gil Grissom
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Gilbert Arthur Gil Grissom, Ph. D. is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by William Petersen. Grissom is a forensic entomologist and, for the series first nine seasons and he appeared in 198 episodes, and was replaced by Laurence Fishburne and, later, Ted Danson. Following his departure from the main cast, Petersen reprised his role on five occasions. Voice Season 09, Turn, Turn, Turn Season 13, Wild Flower, Dead Air On Screen Season 11, The Two Mrs. Grissoms Petersen also guest starred in Immortality, CSIs feature-length series finale. Anthony E. Zuiker, who created the show, loosely based Grissom on real life Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department criminalist Daniel Holstein, Zuiker was fascinated by Holstein, who, like Grissom, kept maggots and pigs blood in his refrigerator. Holstein works as a consultant for the show, the name Gil came from one of the actors hobbies, fishing. In 2000, CBS had bought the script from Zuiker, and Nina Tassler, CBSs head of drama development, passed it on to Petersen. Petersen has said that many TV shows were offered to him over the years, however, he was impressed with the complexity of Grissoms character, and he decided to audition. It was the second time Petersen portrayed a forensic scientist, having portrayed Will Graham in the 1986 film Manhunter, Gil Grissom first appears in CSI, Crime Scene Investigation on the pilot episode. William Petersen did not appear during the six episode Gum Drops. This episode was going to be how Grissom was convinced that an abduction victim was still alive. When Petersens nephew died, he flew home and was unavailable for the filming of the episode, also in 2007, the character appeared in a two part crossover with another CBS series, Without a Trace. It was the episode of the sixth season entitled Where. The plot of the crossover between CSI and Without a Trace involved a serial killer that had eluded capture in Nevada and had escaped to New York City, Gil Grissom was brought in to assist in the apprehension. Gilbert Arthur Gil Grissom was born on August 17,1956, as a child to a middle-class family in Santa Monica. Grissoms father taught botany at a college and passed his enthusiasm for natural sciences onto his son. His father died when Grissom was 9 years old, Grissom recalls the day his father died to Catherine Willows in the episode Still Life, He came home from school, one hot humid day, laid down on the couch. I was watching TV, my mom brought in some cold drinks, no one would tell me why
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Marg Helgenberger
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Mary Marg Helgenberger is an American actress. She began her career in the early 1980s and first came to attention for playing the role of Siobhan Ryan on the soap opera Ryans Hope from 1982 to 1986. She is also known for roles in the TV series Under the Dome and Intelligence, and the films Species, Species II, Erin Brockovich, Helgenberger was born in Fremont, Nebraska, to Mary Kay, a nurse, and Hugh Helgenberger, a meat inspector. She was raised in North Bend, Nebraska, where she graduated from North Bend Central High School, Helgenberger is of Irish and German descent and had a Roman Catholic upbringing. She has one sister named Ann and a younger brother named Curt. Helgenberger played the French horn in her high school marching band. S. degree in speech, Helgenberger began as a nightly weather person at KHGI-TV in Kearney, Nebraska, while attending college. During the summer she worked as a deboner at her fathers meat packing plant. After portraying the role of Blanche Dubois in a university production of A Streetcar Named Desire, while performing in a summer 1981 NU campus production of Shakespeares Taming of the Shrew, where she played Kate, Helgenberger was spotted by a scout for the TV soap opera Ryans Hope. After nearly four years, Helgenberger left the show in January 1986 to pursue new opportunities, Helgenberger guest starred in an episode of the ABC series Spenser, For Hire, NBCs Matlock and ABCs thirtysomething. She also played a role as Natalie Thayer, opposite Margot Kidder and James Read. She then had a role as Karen Charlene K. C. Koloski, the role earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1990. In 1989, Helgenberger made her film debut in a leading role as an all-night answering service operator in one segment of the Wheat brothers’ horror anthology After Midnight. She followed it up with a role in Steven Spielbergs romantic comedy-drama Always, during the early to mid-1990s, Helgenberger played the love interest to Woody Harrelsons character in The Cowboy Way, and had a small role as Capt. Alison Sinclair in Michael Bays action comedy film Bad Boys and she also played Dr. Laura Baker, a molecular biologist, in Roger Donaldsons sci-fi thriller, Species, and reprised the role in the sequel, Species II. Helgenberger had roles in the television films Not on the Frontline and In Sickness and she played opposite Bruno Kirby in Ill Be Waiting, and as a novelist on the miniseries Stephen Kings The Tommyknockers opposite Jimmy Smits. After playing a role as George Clooneys love interest on NBCs medical drama ER. She also starred opposite Ann-Margret in Showtimes Happy Face Murders, actually, this invitation is but a smokescreen, so that Frasier can accidentally run into his newest dream girl Emily. Helgenberger co-starred in the role of Catherine Willows, a show girl employed as a blood spatter analyst on the CBS drama CSI
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Catherine Willows
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Director Catherine Willows is a fictional character, portrayed by Marg Helgenberger, from the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation. Helgenberger made her debut in CSI, Crime Scene Investigations first season episode Pilot. Helgenberger received several nominations for her portrayal of Catherine, including two Primetime Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Award nominations. Helgenbergers character was billed as a stripper-turned-investigator who is also a single mom, the character of Catherine is based on real-life Las Vegas forensics officer Yolanda McClary. Helgenberger met with McClary and talked about her job in forensics in preparation for the role, the actress stated that McClary helped her to understand why she enjoyed working the job. Helgenberger announced her departure in 2011, with Catherine making her last appearance in the season episode Willows in the Wind. In August 2013, it was announced that Helgenberger would make a guest appearance in the shows 300th episode Frame By Frame, Catherine appeared in a series of newly recorded flashbacks to a case that occurred in the timeframe of the first season. Guest star Helgenberger appeared as a guest star in the season fourteen episode Frame by Frame, Catherine Willows was raised by her single mother, Lily Flynn, a cocktail waitress and showgirl. Due to the nature of her mothers jobs, Catherine was constantly moved around the west coast of America as a child and because of this, consequently, she failed to excel to her full potential in school, despite her high intelligence and razor-sharp mind. Catherine left school and began work as a dancer in order to support her boyfriends music career. She became interested in police work when she befriended a regular at the club, Detective Tadero. She attended West Las Vegas University, where she graduated with a degree in Medical Science, Catherine joined the CSI team at LVPD as a lab technician, after which she worked her way up to the role of supervisor under the watchful eye of Gil Grissom. Catherine has one daughter, Lindsey Willows, who appears in episodes of CSI. Lindseys father and Catherines ex-husband, Eddie Willows, also falls into storylines before being murdered, Catherine also discovers that her absent father was, in fact, her old family friend and big casino boss, Sam Braun. After coming to terms with the revelation, she lost Braun when he was gunned down, in Season 10, Catherine began a relationship with LVPD Detective Vartann. It was revealed in season 11 that Sam Braun had left her a portion of his business in his will. She also had a best friend Laura whom she met up with in the episode, after Catherines friend is killed along with four FBI agents, Russell receives an e-mail apparently from her saying that she wants to resign. She is then shot in her home, although she is able to escape with the help of Russell
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Gary Dourdan
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Gary Dourdan is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Warrick Brown on the television series CSI, Dourdan was born Gary Robert Durdin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Sandy, a teacher and fashion designer, and Robert Durdin, an entrepreneur and agent for jazz musicians. Dourdan is the fourth of five children, when he was six, his 21 year-old brother Darryl died by falling from a balcony in Haiti while doing research on the family lineage. In his youth he moved with his family to Willingboro, New Jersey, during that time, his interests included acting, music, and martial arts. Later, Dourdan moved to New York City and worked as a doorman at a rehearsal studio, Dourdan played in several bands in New York City in the early 1990s and acted in regional theatre around the tristate area. He received his first break when Debbie Allen cast him as Shazza Zulu on A Different World, in 1996, Dourdan appeared in the Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman episode Never On Sunday, where he played Ziggy, an assistant to Baron Sunday. In 1997, Dourdan played the character Christie, the first mate, crack-shot, in 2007, he played the character Cameron, the boyfriend of Rowena Price, in the film Perfect Stranger. Dourdans most popular role was as a cast member of the original CSI series and he played analyst Warrick Brown, who, viewers find out, has a checkered past fraught with gambling problems. By working in Las Vegas, the character is able to use his experiences from the street to help him throughout his career. Ultimately, he ends up battling his demons throughout the show instead of overcoming them, in 2008, there was media speculation surrounding Dourdans CSI contract negotiations with CBS. The parties could not reach a resolution, and as a result his contract was not renewed and it was reported on April 14,2008, that Dourdan was leaving the show. In the Season 8 finale, Dourdans character was shot and left for dead at the episodes end, the Season 9 premiere revealed Dourdans character dying in the arms of his colleague and friend Gil Grissom. Dourdan played Janet Jacksons love interest in the video for her 1993 hit Again and he had a cameo appearance in the music video Move the Crowd by Eric B. Dourdan joined hip hop artist DMC onstage at the Live 8 concert in Barrie, Ontario and he sang alongside Macy Gray at the 2005 Emmy Awards. Dourdan is a musician and a record producer. He played political prisoner/Black Revolutionary George Jackson in the movie Black August and he acted in A Different World as Shazza Zulu. He portrayed Malcolm X in the TV movie King of the World, TV Guide voted him the Sexiest CSI actor on TV in its 2008 Sexiest issue. He was the host of a BET spoken word show entitled Lyric Cafe and he played a leading role in 2007s Perfect Stranger
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Warrick Brown
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Warrick Brown is a fictional character in the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by Gary Dourdan. Warrick Brown, born in 1971, was a Las Vegas native, whose father abandoned him soon after his birth, raised by his grandmother and Aunt Bertha, Warrick found it very difficult to socialize, and could often be found with his head in a book. His love of mathematics and science took him to Western Las Vegas University, Warrick grew up in a strict household, and kept his position as a casino runner a secret from his grandmother. He once told Catherine that while he was unpopular in school and still had dimples. He was strongly influenced by a community organizer who ran a center that he spent time at after school, early in the series it was discovered that Warrick had a gambling addiction. He even admitted to Sara Sidle that he counted cards, after an incident in the pilot episode that resulted in a rookies death, Warricks gambling addiction caused friction with a number of other team members. Sara did not get along with Warrick early in the series because she knew of his addiction, however, they ended up becoming good friends, Warrick was also sensitive to the difficulties of minorities. When Jason, an African-American teenager he was mentoring, was arrested, also, Warrick showed understanding and sympathy for the young African American James Moore, who committed a hit and run that resulted in the death of a young girl. He offered advice before James was taken into custody and gave him his phone number. He told James to contact him just in case trouble arises in prison, after dating a woman named Tina for a short time, Warrick proposed and married her in Season 6. Nearing the Season 6 finale, Warricks marriage seemed to have become rocky, through the midpoint of Season 7, Warrick still wore his wedding band, which would suggest that he and Tina have worked through their differences. In season 8, however, Warrick told Catherine that he was getting divorced, later on in the season, Warrick found out that Tina was pregnant with his child. He asked her to let him raise the child with her, at Warricks funeral, Sara and Greg discovered that Warrick had a son named Eli with Tina, and had been fighting for custody over him. Tina also brought their son to the funeral, Warrick appeared to have a close working and personal relationship with Catherine Willows, although it became clear throughout the show that their relationship did not develop into a romantic one. In the season 5 episode Down the Drain, he and Catherine shared a moment which was interrupted. Catherine and Warrick continued to flirt with each other until Season 6, Catherine told Warrick that she was disappointed that he hadnt told her, and was visibly upset and jealous of his new relationship. Warrick and co-worker Nick Stokes were close friends and surrogate brothers, Warrick was frightened when Nick was kidnapped and buried alive, and led the team in rescuing him. Warrick had a deep, abiding respect for Gil Grissom, Grissom genuinely cared for Warrick as well, he regarded Warrick as like a son, often trying to help the younger man when he struggled with his gambling addiction
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George Eads
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George Coleman Eads III, is an American actor, best known for his role as Nick Stokes on the CBS police drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation. He currently stars as Jack Dalton on the CBS action-adventure series MacGyver, Eads was born in Belton, Texas, and grew up in Belton. His father is Arthur Coleman Cappy Eads, a district attorney who died November 1,2011. Eads has a sister, Angela Eads Tekell, who is an attorney in Waco. Eads stepfather, Dudley Baker, is a gynecologist, George graduated from Belton High School and from Texas Tech University with a degree in marketing. In college, he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, prior to beginning an acting career, Eads worked as a copy machine salesman, as well as selling first aid and safety supplies for Cintas. To pursue his career, he headed to Los Angeles, California. When he arrived in Los Angeles, he could only drive during the day because the truck had two broken headlights, Eads got his big break on the primetime soap opera Savannah. Though his character died in the episode, Eads was so popular, producers continued to use him via flashbacks. Afterwards, Eads guest-starred on ER, and worked on several films such as Crowned. In 2000, Eads became one of the characters of the CBS police drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation. Parallel to CSI, Eads has worked on films, such as 2003s Monte Walsh. In 2011, Eads married Monika Casey, in January 2014, Eads and Casey were reported to be expecting their first child. George and Monica divorced in 2015. In March,2009, Eads was voted as one of TV Guides Sexiest Male Actors in the TV Guides Sexiest Stars issue, the Sexiest Stars issue voted The Mentalists Simon Baker as the Sexiest Male Actor. Eads was not discouraged by this, however, and said that he was appreciative of his fans calling him sexy. It makes me want to work harder for them and it makes me want to be sexier
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Nick Stokes
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Nicholas Nick Stokes is a fictional character from the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by George Eads. He made his first screen appearance in the pilot, broadcast on October 6,2000. Eads is credited in 335 episodes of the series, nicholas Stokes was born in Dallas, Texas, to Judge Bill Stokes and lawyer Jillian Stokes as the youngest of seven children, with at least one brother. As a child, he showed athletic and academic potential and played football, overall, he had a happy childhood and a close relationship with his parents. Nicks father calls him Pancho and Nick, in turn, calls his father Cisco, during the conclusion of one episode, Gil Grissom uses the name to calm Nick while rescuing him from a coffin that was rigged with explosives. Nicks early life was not without pain, however, he was molested at age nine by a female babysitter, as a result, he often has difficulty investigating crimes committed against children. Nick attended Texas A&M University, where he pledged at a fraternity, after leaving college, he joined the Dallas Police Department and took a job with the crime lab, where he specialized in hair and fiber analysis. Because of a feeling that he would not be able to match his parents considerable achievements, there, he found he could be his own man, and joined its successful CSI team under the leadership of Grissom in 1997. Nick has a natural empathy with the affected by the crimes he investigates, in contrast with many of his colleagues. On occasion, Nicks empathy causes friction with his colleague Warrick Brown and with his supervisor, Grissom, Nick has a good command of Spanish, he frequently deals with cases involving Hispanics and the Latino community. In season six, Nick grows a moustache then shaves it off and he has had a variety of hair cuts, such as a mop-top and a shaved head. In the season-five episode Grave Danger, Nick is kidnapped and buried alive in a glass coffin rigged with explosives and he was previously stalked by Nigel Crane, a cable technician, who threw him from a second-story window. His bad luck in relationships might be explained by a gag that whenever Nick is with a woman. For example, he has a stand with Kristi, and she is murdered later that night. Also, Nick and Catherine go to a club together, then shortly after Nick meets a woman at the club, again, during breakfast with the team at a diner, Nick eyes a pretty waitress and stays behind to get her number, while Warrick leaves. In the season 13 episode Play Dead, Nick refers to a girlfriend in passing when talking to his dog, Catherine turns down an offer to move into Grissoms office and offers it to Nick. He accepts it after some thought, then, in turn, decides to share the space with Greg Sanders. Grissoms infamous fetal pig in a jar is placed in the room by Hodges, Nick is promoted to assistant supervisor after Sara Sidle advises Catherine that she needs a number two
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Jorja Fox
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Jorja-An Jorja Fox is an American actress and producer. She first came to prominence as a recurring guest star on the medical drama ER as Dr. Maggie Doyle from 1996 to 1999 and this was followed by another critical success in the recurring role of Secret Service Agent Gina Toscano on the political drama The West Wing in 2000. She played Sara Sidle in the procedural drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation. Fox was born in New York City to Montreal-born parents Edward and Marilyn Fox, and is of French, Belgian and Irish descent and she has an older brother, Jeff. She describes herself as being overweight while growing up, with a prominent gap between her teeth, by her 20s, she observed that neither her wisdom teeth nor braces had appreciably helped, and Fox said forget it. After attending Melbourne High School for two years, she began a career after winning a local contest. She subsequently enrolled as a student at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. Fox had minor roles in films and television series, including a 1993 episode of the NBC legal drama Law & Order. In 1996, Foxs big break was a role in the NBC medical drama ER. She left the show in 1999, Fox appeared in The Puppy Episode Part 2, the April 30,1997 episode of the sitcom Ellen, in which that series main character came out as gay. In 1999, she was cast as Secret Service Agent Gina Toscano on the NBC political drama The West Wing, Fox has appeared in the films Velocity Trap and Food for the Heart and she also appeared briefly in Memento playing Guy Pearces wife. In 2000, she gained a role on the CBS police procedural drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation as Sara Sidle. She and CSI co-star George Eads were fired from the show in 2004, Fox had allegedly failed to submit a letter to CBS confirming that she would be on time for shooting. The disputes were resolved in just over a week, and the two were rehired by CBS, however, neither actors salary was raised, in spite of other cast members receiving raises. It was also reported that of the two, Fox was approached first to resume her contract with CSI, but she refused until Eads was rehired as well. On April 18,2007, TV Guide began reporting that Fox may not be returning for the season of CSI. The season finale turned out to be a cliffhanger involving her character, the New York Post reported that Fox did not show up to film the finale because of ongoing issues over her employment. Neither CBS nor Jorjas agent confirmed the allegations, with the help of donations, the campaign also organized plane flyovers over the Universal Studios lot in California where CSI is filmed
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Sara Sidle
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Sara Sidle is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by actress Jorja Fox. Fox appeared in both the first eight seasons and the five seasons of the show as a series regular. She also recurred throughout the ninth and tenth seasons of the series, Sidle was born on September 16,1971, in Tomales Bay, an hour and a half north of San Francisco. Her father was abusive, alcoholic until Sidles schizophrenic mother, Laura, killed him, when searching for records of the crime in the Season 5 episode No Humans Involved, she searches for records from Modesto. Afterward, she spent time in the care system, which didnt keep her from graduating high school as valedictorian at age 16. She attended Harvard on a scholarship, moving on to school at the University of California. Some time later, while she was working in San Francisco, Sidle went to Las Vegas and helped resolve some Internal Affairs problems within the CSIs while also providing a replacement for Holly Gribbs, who had been shot. Some episodes later, she became a permanent member of the Night Shift as a CSI Level 3 at the LVPD Criminalistics Bureau, specialising in Materials, in Season 8, Sidle briefly changed from Nights to Swing. In the Season 10 premiere, it is revealed Sara is now married to Grissom, in Season 13, Episode 15, Sara revealed that Grissom had split up with her. However in series finale Immortality, Sara and Grissom are ultimately re-united, perhaps because of her traumatic childhood, Sidle has demonstrated compassion and empathy for victims of domestic violence, and fury against their abusers. She also has a spot for animals, and became a vegetarian after she saw Grissom conduct an experiment on a dead pig. In recent years, perhaps because of her mothers schizophrenia, Sara has been seen to work several cases with a mental health aspect. An example of this is when she was able to calm Agent Moores schizphrenic son in 418/427, in the early years of the show, Sidle is depicted as antisocial. Her hobbies are all work-related, and she claims to prefer working with corpses over live people, in a mid-second season episode, she realizes how much she is missing out on and decides to get a life outside of work. During season three she dates a paramedic named Hank Pettigrew, but this relationship later in the season when she discovered that he had a longtime girlfriend. During the fourth and fifth seasons, Sidle seems to be on a spiral as her memories of childhood resurface. Also, the fact that Grissom decided to promote Nick Stokes instead of Sidle, Season Four concludes with Sidle being stopped by a traffic cop. Although she is driving under the influence, she is not charged and he arrives at the station to bring her home, and finally seems to notice her emotional state
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Jim Brass
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James Jim Brass is a fictional character from the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by Paul Guilfoyle. He made his first screen appearance in the pilot, broadcast on October 6,2000. He was credited in 317 episodes, guilfoyles departure was announced in March 2014 and his character left on May 7,2014. On March 24,2014 it was announced that Jim would be leaving CSI, Guilfoyle was written out of the show after the producers decided to end his characters storyline. The actor found out that he would not be returning for the season the week before the announcement. Executive producers Carol Mendelsohn and Don McGill stated In a show about forensics, fans looked forward to the handcuffs coming out. Brass putting his spin on the crime of the week, just as Paul Guilfoyle put his stamp on the character. Jim left the team on May 7,2014 but returned for the finale in season 15. Brass enlisted in the United States Marine Corps fresh out of high school and he graduated from Seton Hall University with a degree in history. After the war, he joined the Newark Police, Brass spent 20 years working his way up to homicide detective in Newark, New Jersey. Before he became a detective, he was assigned to Vice. While working in Vice, he worked hard to clean up his department, Brass, under stress, sometimes drank and would cover it up by popping cough drops to hide the smell of alcohol on his breath. Brass claims later that it was Nancys affair that ruined their marriage, rather than the way around. Brass transferred out of New Jersey in the 1990s and came to Las Vegas, early on, Brass and other officers new to the force were courted by Undersheriff McKeen in regards to taking bribes, the entire group having been invited to McKeens for a barbecue. Brass made it clear he was not for sale and said he was not invited to anymore gatherings after that, however, he was very much a player and a partier, describing work as an interruption to his fun. He had a fling with former officer Ann-Marie Tolsom, his name later turning up on a list of those who had had relations with her when she was believed killed by her ex-husband. Brass eventually left his wilder side behind, and eventually running the CSI department. Brass used to have Grissoms job as the supervisor of the CSI team, after young CSI Holly Gribbs was murdered on her first day in the field, he lost his position to Grissom
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Robert David Hall
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Robert David Hall is an American actor, best known for his role as coroner Dr. Albert Robbins M. D. on the television show CSI, Crime Scene Investigation. Born in East Orange, New Jersey, Hall attended Tustin High School in California, Hall is a former professional musician and accomplished guitarist, and is also proficient on piano, percussion and mandolin. For several years he was a high-profile radio DJ in Los Angeles and he has also done extensive voice work on television commercials and cartoons. In 1978, Hall had to have both of his legs amputated as a result of an accident in which an 18-wheeler truck crushed his car, the accident also caused the gasoline tank of the car to explode, causing burns over 65% of his body. He now comfortably uses prosthetic limbs, allowing for personal mobility, several of his characters, including his CSI character, have openly shared this disability. He is a prominent advocate for disabled Americans, Hall mentioned once that he has prosthetic legs, but never alluded to the accident in reality. A. He also furnishes the narration on CourtTVs documentary series North Mission Road, currently, Hall is working on the short thriller The Roymann Closure in the Netherlands, written by writer/director David Grifhorst and executive producer Jop Douma. Hall was married to Susan Petroni from 1969 until their divorce in 1974 and his son, Andrew, was born of his second marriage. Halls third and current marriage is to Judy Sterns in 1999, the Littles as Dinky Little and Mr. Bigg G. I
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Al Robbins
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Dr. Albert Al Robbins is a fictional medical doctor in the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by actor Robert David Hall. Al has appeared in every episode since Who Are You. with the exception of Still Life from season six, Albert Al Robbins was raised by his mother, who was also a registered nurse. Consequently, Al spent most of his childhood in hospital environments, from a very early age, he was able to understand the cycle of life and as a young man graduated with a Masters Degree in Physiology from Johns Hopkins University. At a young age, Al was hit head-on by a drunk driver and he walks with the use of prosthetic limbs and a crutch. Als accident runs parallel to an accident that Hall had at age 32. Robbinss first appearance was in the Season One episode Who Are You and he became a series regular from Season Three onwards. Dr. Albert Robbins is the Chief Medical Examiner of the Las Vegas Police Department, working in conjunction with Dr. Gil Grissom. Since Grissoms departure, Robbins has been shown to be developing a sort of friendship with new CSI Raymond Langston. Due to his age and disability he usually sends his assistant David Phillips to examine the body on site, Robbins has a good working relationship with his colleagues. He acts as a mentor to Phillips, especially in Season 3 when Phillips performs his first exhumation. In the season nine premiere, For Warrick, an obviously distraught Robbins tells the team that he is going to have the day shift coroner do the postmortem on his friend, little was revealed of Robbinss personal life for the first several seasons. He was a twin, though the other was stillborn and his mother attributed his career choice to spending so many days next to a dead body. He is married with at least three children, according to the episode Overload, the youngest child was born in 1987. He is also terrified of rats, and suits up in a suit before hunting for an escaped rat in the mortuary in the season seven episode Lab Rats. In the season 12 episode Genetic Disorder, it was revealed that he and his wife Judy are grandparents as their daughter Pam just had a baby boy and that their cat was named Cinder. Robbins has a fondness for coffee, specifically macchiatos and plays guitar in a band he has formed with the day shift coroner. He also keeps an album of photos of celebrities who have died in Las Vegas and wound up on his table, including Tupac Shakur. He walks with a limp and uses crutches because of his prosthetic legs and it is not clear what happened to him, although it is probably due to the accident with a drunk driver which resulted in the amputation of both his legs
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Eric Szmanda
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Eric Kyle Szmanda is an American actor. He played Greg Sanders in the CBS police drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, Szmanda was born in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, to Elaine and Donald Szmanda, and has two brothers, Brett and Kyle. He attended Mukwonago High School and graduated at the age of nineteen from Caroll College and he went on to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California, where he attended classes for four years. While he was in school, he began marketing internships with music conglomerate BMG and moved to Chicago, Illinois and his great-uncle Ray Szmanda is the Menards Guy, a local celebrity in the Midwest famous for his enthusiastic ads for Menards hardware stores. He remained on the show until it ended after the season in September 2015. Campaign for Burma and traveled to Thailand to see the conditions of Burmese refugees who have fled their native country, dominic Leary Dangerous Attraction Szmanda also appeared in Marilyn Mansons music video AINT. Eric Szmanda Bio at CBS - CSI, Crime Scene Investigation Eric Szmanda at the Internet Movie Database
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Greg Sanders
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Gregory Greg Sanders is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by Eric Szmanda. Greg Sanders is originally from San Gabriel, California, US, statements from other characters and Greg himself have hinted that the Sanders family were from an upper middle class or wealthy background. Although friends and family told him that science was for geeks, the season 4 episode Coming of Rage revealed that he had a palate expander, braces, a retainer, and headgear while growing up. Although he was never good at sports, Greg was the captain of the school chess team. In the season seven episode Toe Tags he stated that he is an Eagle Scout, the same season, in the episode Fannysmackin, Greg reveals that his overprotective mother refused to let him play sports in high school because he was her only child. Greg stated that his mother wanted four children, but only got one, in the same episode, he reveals a fondness for Doc Martens in high school and thinks that skinheads enthusiasm for that style kinda ruined it for everyone. It is revealed that Greg was a big fan of The X-Files because in the season 7 episode Leapin Lizards he says that he grew up on The X-Files At some stage. He also used to bowl in school as seen in the season 10 episode. His surname Sanders in shortened from the Norwegian surname Sandersen and his fathers side was from Harstad, Norway. His mothers side was from Oslo, Norway and his grandfather was named Olaf Hojem the Eighth, where he resided in Edina, Minnesota in the 1900s. Olaf became a business owner, and had a big ego. His bragging lead to the citys nickname cake-eaters and then Gregs family moved to California revealed in season 12, in The Ultimate CSI Greg is said to have been an extremely intelligent child prodigy. He attended a school for the gifted at both grammar and high school levels, Greg successfully earned his degree in chemistry from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He has a variety of hobbies, including surfing, scuba diving. In Precious Metal it is revealed that Greg likes supermodels, latex. He is portrayed as well read, being familiar with The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, however, he also contradicts his scientific training and believes in occultism, stating that one could have paranormal beliefs and also be a scientist, something with which Grissom agrees. Greg Sanders is portrayed as a cheerful and optimistic individual and he is also known for his many different hair styles and colors. In the Season 2 episode Chasing The Bus, Greg responses to a all hands on deck call, Greg helped process the scene with no gloves and did not wear a warmer jacket during the cold night
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David Phillips (CSI)
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David Gregory Phillips is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by David Berman, who also serves as head researcher for the series. From Season 10 onwards David Berman has been credited in the opening titles, Phillips is the assistant coroner to Chief Medical Examiner Al Doc Robbins. He received his nickname after saving the life of a victim during an autopsy. In the ninth season, episode The Gone Dead Train, he is promoted to Assistant Medical Examiner, due to his line of work, he is not fazed by much. Occasionally other characters, including new CSIs, have turned off by his. Though earlier in the series, the main characters tease him about his lack of social experience. In the seventh season episode Leapin Lizards, he comments to Warrick Brown that his wife talking with him about the gruesome details of his work. In Season 13 his wife gives birth to their son Joshua Adams, in the 2002 episode Cats in the Cradle, it is mentioned that David is allergic to cats. Phillips attended Sagebrush High School, graduating in 1998, while preparing to attend his high school reunion he commented to his wife that his high school years made Lord of the Flies look like Fantasy Island. It is implied that he was a brain and somewhat socially awkward as a teen and his classmates called him Phillip Davis, a play on his name. List of CSI, Crime Scene Investigation characters Super Dave CSI official website at CBS
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Archie Kao
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Archie David Kao is an American actor. He is best known to American audiences for series regulars roles on Chicago P. D, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy as well as long-running hit CSI, Crime Scene Investigation. Kao grew up in the suburbs of Alexandria, Virginia, Archie, in his formative years, questioned what elephants had to do with agriculture. It has been a question his entire life, <Interview- CBS Radio> While attending George Mason University, Kao joined the Sigma Chi fraternity and graduated with a degree in Speech Communication. As an undergraduate, Kao was elected Student Government President as well as the Universitys Homecoming King and he initially had plans to attend Law School and work in politics before becoming an actor. Kao also speaks and understands Mandarin Chinese because he grew up in a household with two younger sisters. He also studied French for six years and he was named one of Peoples Hottest Bachelors in 2006. Kao currently divides his time between Los Angeles and Beijing. He has also appeared on TV shows such as Desperate Housewives, ER, NBCs Heroes, Century City, Huff, Power Rangers Wild Force, Once and Again, L. A. Firefighters, Maybe This Time and more. Kao shares his birthday with fellow Power Rangers actress Thuy Trang, Kao appeared as Sebastian in Wayne Wangs Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and starred as the main romantic lead, Jefferson, in Quentin Lees The People Ive Slept With. Kao has recently signed on to a film from China entitled The Deathday Party opposite Anita Yuen. Kao played Shum in Michael Manns film Blackhat, Kao has also had roles in films such as The Hills Have Eyes 2, Nomad, The Warrior, When In Rome, and Jet Lis The One. Kao provided the voice of Kenji in the videogame Need for Speed, Kao wrote, directed and produced a short film entitled Initiation, which starred Ashley Bell and Kaos CSI co-star Marc Vann. The film is about an assassin trainee who struggles with initiation day jitters under her mentor, Kao also produced and starred in a short film directed by Jerry Chan entitled Fast Money. In May 2014, Chinese actress Zhou Xun posted a picture of Archie and herself on her teams Weibo account, on July 16,2014, Kao and Zhou were officially married on stage after a charity event in Hangzhou, China
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Archie Johnson
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Archie Johnson is a fictional character from the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by Archie Kao. He first appeared in the season episode Caged, broadcast on November 8,2001. Archie is the labs audiovisual technician, Kao originally made a guest appearance in one episode, before he was asked to return in the recurring role of Archie by the shows executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Kao made his last appearance as Archie in the season episode Split Decisions. Actor Archie Kao was originally offered a guest appearance in one episode of CSI, when the shows executive producer, Jerry Bruckheimer saw the episode, he told Kaos agent that he wanted him to play a recurring character on the show. Kao told Frank Mustac from the Fairfax Times that he was stunned to learn that Bruckheimer wanted him back, Kao stated that his character was not named after him and it was just a coincidence they shared the same first name. Kao felt lucky to be cast in the due to Asian actors having severely limited roles to play on television. From his introduction in the second season, Kao appeared in every season until his departure in 2012. Kao explained that his characters job as an Audiovisual technician was not as technical as some of the other characters jobs and he also stated kind of a techie geek. He drives a Harley and he likes Star Trek, Archie works at the lab as an audiovisual technician, assisting the other CSIs in their cases. During an investigation at a business, Archie works out in the field. Archie is revealed to be a fan of Star Trek and internet-based role-playing games, while assisting Warrick Brown in a case involving an apparent death by heat stroke, Archie says that he would like to die in his sleep by an aneurysm. Along with the lab technicians, Wendy, Henry and Mandy. Archie later takes over the role of handwriting analysis, saying he wants to expand his horizons, Raymond Langston befriends Archie and notes that he has bought one of his books. Archie also compliments Raymond use of Mandarin Chinese, showing that Archie is of Chinese descent, Archie is sent undercover at a hotel along with Greg Sanders, Catherine Willows and Detective Vartann. There he installs a series of cameras, along with Greg, when Archie is leaving the hotel, he trips on the stairs and falls, coming face to face with the body of a woman. Archie is visibly shaken at his discovery, lyle Masaki from TheBacklot. com praised Kao, saying Kao was one of my reasons for watching CSI – until I realized he was horribly underused. Archie Johnson at the Internet Movie Database
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Gerald McCullouch
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Gerald McCullouch is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and singer. He is best known for playing Bobby Dawson on CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, McCullouch, an Irish-American, was born in Huntsville, Alabama. He first got his professional performing job at 16 was as a singer in the country western revue at Six Flags Over Georgia and he declined a scholarship to Savannah College of Art and Design to study in the BFA Musical Theatre Program at Florida State University. After surviving a fatal car crash during his sophomore year. McCullouch is a recurring guest host of FYE. on E. TV airing in nearly 500 million homes worldwide and his performance in Pirates of Silicon Valley, received a mention in the Daily Variety. He also played Jesus in the European tour of Jesus Christ Superstar and he has appeared in numerous commercials and print campaigns - having billboards in Times Square and on Sunset Boulevard and has performed stand up at LAs world famous Improv. As a director/writer his Award-winning short film The Moment After has received critical acclaim, McCullouch has been in many publications, including the New York Daily News, Los Angeles Daily News, Jezebel, The Advocate, and the Instinct. He was on the Law & Order, Special Victims Unit episode Quickie and he portrayed a father of a teenage girl who died. He also appears as Roger in the films BearCity and BearCity 2, mcCullouchs feature debut as a director, Daddy, is slated for release in 2015. The film is an adaptation of Dan Vias stage play of the same name and he also previously directed the short film The Moment After. The thief was arrested by New York City police officers and he had previously been robbed at gunpoint in Atlanta in 2001. McCullough is openly gay and has directed and starred in several gay-themed productions, in 2014, he revealed that he was in a relationship with college basketball player Derrick Gordon. Official Website Older Website Gerald McCullouch at the Internet Movie Database Interview of Out Actor Gerald McCullouch at GayInAlabama. com
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Eric Stonestreet
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Eric Allen Stonestreet is an American actor and comedian. Stonestreet first rose to prominence in a role on CSI. He has appeared in the films Bad Teacher, Identity Thief, in 2016, he portrayed Duke, a mongrel dog, in The Secret Life of Pets, and real life politician Kenneth Duberstein in Confirmation. Stonestreet was born in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of Jamey Anne, during his childhood, he wanted to become a clown. As a child, he created a character named Fizbo. I do know one day thats what my dad was calling me, the name Fizbo was used for a clown character he periodically plays on Modern Family. Stonestreet graduated from Piper High School and Kansas State University, graduating with a degree in sociology in 1996. While at KSU, he performed in plays including his first, Prelude to a Kiss, for which he auditioned on a dare and won the smallest role, All My Sons, and Twelfth Night. He went on to study improv at ImprovOlympic and The Second City Training Center in Chicago, Stonestreet plays Cameron Tucker in ABCs Modern Family. He is also notable for his role as Ronnie Litre on CSI, early on in his career, Stonestreet was featured in Northwestern Universitys 1996 football TV commercial campaign as the purple pride guy. He made his debut in Almost Famous, as desk clerk Sheldon. He also played Dr. Benson in Girls Will Be Girls, Ed the Trucker in The Island, in 2007, Stonestreet appeared in the short film Vinnys Vault, which was produced during the reality show On the Lot. He also appeared in the movies Identity Thief as Big Chuck, in his role as Cameron on Modern Family, Stonestreet earned three consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, winning the award in 2010 and 2012. He also received three Golden Globe Award nominations for his work on the series, in 2013, he appeared in a series of advertisements for Australian retail store Big W. In 2014, he performed in Weird Al Yankovics music video for Tacky, in the same year, he also starred in the remake of the Dutch thriller The Loft. He regularly appears onstage at IO West improv Theatre in Los Angeles, despite his most prominent role being a gay character, Stonestreet is heterosexual and has lightheartedly described himself as openly straight. His gay co-star, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who plays Stonestreets characters partner Mitchell Pritchett, Stonestreet is a supporter of the LGBT community, he declined to be photographed with Rick Santorum, an opponent of same-sex marriage. Stonestreet is a fan of Kansas State University, cheering for the Wildcats on Jimmy Kimmel Live
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David Caruso
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David Stephen Caruso is an American actor and producer. His most prominent roles are his portrayals of Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the TV series CSI, Miami and he also appeared in movies such as First Blood, Twins, Kiss of Death, Jade and Proof of Life and An Officer and a Gentleman. David Caruso was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, the son of Joan, a librarian, and Charles Caruso and he is of Irish and Italian descent. His father left when he was two years of age, forcing him to end up fathering myself, as he put it, raised as a Roman Catholic, Caruso attended Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic School in Forest Hills. He later attended Archbishop Molloy High School in nearby Briarwood, graduating in 1974, Caruso worked as a cinema usher, where he would see up to eighty movies a week. He said that he and his coworkers would act out scenes from some of these movies while they were at the back of the theater and it was in this job he found his role models in Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson. He said, The ethics of certain actors certainly had a power over me and these guys taught me how to be what I call a stand up kind of guy. Carusos first film appearance was in the 1980 film Getting Wasted as Danny and he then spent most of the next decade in film supporting roles, appearing in such films as First Blood, An Officer and a Gentleman, Blue City, Thief of Hearts and China Girl. He credits his role as Daniels, the cadet who nearly drowned, in An Officer, on television, he had a recurring role as Tommy Mann, the leader of the street gang The Shamrocks on Hill Street Blues in the early 1980s. He made a appearance on the television series Crime Story which ran from 1986 to 1988 on NBC. In 1984, he portrayed U. S. Olympian James Brendan Connolly in the NBC miniseries The First Olympics and we can see him in the video clip of the French music Voyages Voyages by Desireless in 1986. Caruso had supporting roles as officers in the crime films King of New York and Mad Dog. While filming 1991s Hudson Hawk, he employed method acting, refusing to talk to anyone on set because his character, Kit-Kat, was mute, having had his tongue bitten off. Carusos first major role was in 1993 as Detective John Kelly on the series NYPD Blue, TV Guide named him as one of the six new stars to watch in the 1993–94 season. He made news by leaving the highly rated show the year after failing to obtain the raise he wanted. He was unable to establish himself as a man in films despite starring in the crime thriller Kiss of Death. He also appeared in Jade, which flopped critically and at the box office, in a 2010 issue of TV Guide, his decision to leave NYPD Blue was ranked #6 on a list of TVs 10 biggest blunders. In the first episode of South Park, Kyle tells his brother, Ike, in 1997, Caruso returned to television as a New York City-based federal prosecutor in the short-lived CBS law drama series, Michael Hayes, which aired for one season
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Horatio Caine
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Horatio Caine is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American crime drama CSI, Miami, portrayed by David Caruso. He killed the man who murdered his mother, his own father, in 1995, while on the job, he was stabbed while investigating a case in which children were locked in closets while their parents were murdered. Caine worked undercover as John Walden in Pensacola, Florida for sometime during the early 1990s, during his time there, he dated a woman he believed to be named Julia Eberlie, and the two conceived a son named Kyle. Caine would not be aware of Kyles existence for another 16 years, sometime later he returned to Miami and to being a detective, in Out of Time he references previously working on the bomb squad. Finally, Caine moved to the lab, accepting a promotion to lieutenant, which earned him the animosity of Sergeant Rick Stetler. When veteran CSI Megan Donner went on leave following the death of her husband. In early seasons, Horatio frequently confirms his dedication to the job with the catchphrase We Never Close, Caine is known for wearing sunglasses, one of his trademarks is to put them on prior to making a dramatic remark. In season 8, we learn that this style of sunglasses were originally a gift from Eric Delko in 1997, Horatio was deeply in love with Yelina Salas, his brother Raymonds wife. In season 3 episode 24, she went to Rio with her husband, in season 4, Horatio began a romantic relationship with Marisol Delko, who looked like Yelina, his impossible love. Later, Horatio and Marisol got married and she was killed by the end of season 4, North closes the trunk with Natalia inside and pushes it off the pier. After North pushes the car away, the wounded Caine attempts to shoot North, Caine, unable to stand, attempts to stop the car with Natalia inside. Natalia uses her phone to call for help, but nobody answers as water drips over her. In the tenth-season premiere, Caine begins to have hallucinations of Marisol and she saying she is glad to see him but he needs to go back. He is next shown back at the dock where he was shot, still bleeding from his gunshot wound, he jumps into the water to save Natalia, managing to free her from the car. As they are rushed to the hospital, he repeatedly calls Marisols name and he couldnt forget her because he had a huge feeling of guilty due to he didnt avoid her murder. Against doctors advice, and still visibly in pain, he leaves the hospital to work on the case and he and the team manage to find North, and they try to get him to tell them where Toller is. Horatio manages to find and capture Toller there after he very nearly sets another woman on fire, after leading Toller back to jail, Horatio finally concedes that he is not all right and agrees to get checked out. In the CSI continuum, Caine is a day shift supervisor at the Miami-Dade crime lab and he is very protective of his team, who affectionately call him H
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Calleigh Duquesne
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Detective Calleigh Duquesne is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI, Miami, portrayed by Emily Procter. Calleigh is a ballistics and tool mark specialist originally from Louisiana and she is fluent in Spanish and has a bachelors degree in physics from Tulane University. While working for the New Orleans Police Department, she gained the nickname Bullet Girl for her knowledge of, Calleigh is an almost eternal optimist, with a sunny disposition and a smile to match. However, this attitude does not in any way interfere with her quest to put criminals where they belong and she is pretty much universally liked by her co-workers, who sometimes remark on her being nearly way too happy. And while she does not believe in curses and the like. Though her time as a CSI has exposed her to intense violence and gore, in season seven, its also shown that Calleigh uses a Sanyo Pro-700 that has been digitally modified to have as big a screen as her cell phone. Her father, Kenwall Duke Duquesne, is an alcoholic and an attorney who has tried to rehabilitate himself several times. Calleigh sometimes helps him by picking him up and driving home when he is too drunk to do so himself. When he comes to the lab to confess that he might have killed someone while driving drunk, she lies to her boss, Horatio Caine and her father sometimes calls her Lambchop. Calleigh states that her mother wanted to be viewed more as a friend than an authority figure and her parents divorced around 1992, and the separation was bitter and hostile. Calleigh reveals that she dated a Marine Corps Special Ops sniper, now retired. Calleigh has a relationship with Detective John Hagen, former partner of Horatios brother Raymond, in season 2. Ryan Wolfe, to her shock, informs her that a bad back is a euphemism for not passing the department psychological evaluation. In the season 3 finale, a deeply depressed Hagen steals a piece of evidence from a crime scene, possibly to produce it later. Unfortunately for him, Calleigh notices the void when she comes to photograph the scene, and Hagen comes up from behind, pulls his gun on her, and flees. Though at the time she does not know that he is the perpetrator, she remembers vividly the sound of the gun cock and she finds the missing evidence in his jacket pocket as the coroners wheel out his body. She also shares an attraction with Special Agent Peter Elliott, a Secret Service agent from the Financial Crimes Division. Hagen, in jealousy and hostility, tells Elliott to back off from Calleigh, Elliott becomes engaged to state attorney Monica West, but neglects to inform Calleigh of this, continuing to offer warm overtures to her
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Adam Rodriguez
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Adam Michael Rodriguez is an American actor, screenwriter and director. He is best known for his long running role as Eric Delko on CSI and he is currently portraying Task Force Agent and the newest recruit to the BAU Agent Luke Alvez in season 12 of Criminal Minds. Rodriguez was born in Yonkers, New York, the son of Janet, a ticket agent, and Ramon Rodríguez. His father is of half Puerto Rican and half Cuban descent and he attended Clarkstown High School North in New City, New York along with NFL player Keith Bulluck of the New York Giants, where he graduated with the class of 1993. Rodriguez had initially hoped to be a baseball player, but after a high school injury, he turned his attention to acting. Prior to full-time acting, he was a stockbroker and he has appeared in commercials, including one for Coca-Cola. His first film appearance was as an extra in The X-Files and he later appeared on Brooklyn South, Law & Order, Felicity, Roswell, and NYPD Blue. He was a participant in the video, Yes We Can. He joined the main cast of CSI, Miami which premiered in 2002 and directed and he left the main cast 5 episodes into Season 8 and was credited as a recurring cast member for 8 episodes. In Season 9, he returned to the main cast until the show ended with season 10 in 2012, Rodriguez starred in the 2009 Tyler Perry movie I Can Do Bad All By Myself as Sandino, alongside Taraji P. Henson. Rodriguez also co-starred in a film called Love and Debate. He played Bobby, Hildas love interest in season 4 of Ugly Betty and he splits his time between New York and Los Angeles, and has a third residence in Puerto Rico. He appeared in Let The Game Begin and Magic Mike, Rodriguez was recently cast as Luke Alvez, an FBI Fugitive Task Force Agent who joins the Behavioral Analysis Unit in the twelfth season of Criminal Minds, replacing Shemar Moore. Rodriguez was on the cover of H mag on April 2012, adam Rodriguez profile, cbs. com, accessed March 17,2016. Adam Rodriguez at the Internet Movie Database
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Eric Delko
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Detective Eric Delko Delektorsky is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI, Miami, portrayed by Adam Rodríguez. Mr. Eric Delko is the fingerprint, tire and drug expert of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab. He was born in Havana, Cuba, on December 18,1976, when Erics mother was pregnant with him, his father decided that he wanted a better life for his family, so he moved the clan to Miami. He also shortened the name to Delko in an effort at Americanization. Eric later finds out that his father, Alexander Sharov, is head of the Russian Mob. Delko typically acts as the teams frogman when the situation arises—his boss has even termed him his best diver, in the episode Shattered, his job is endangered when he is busted for drug possession. It is later revealed that he had been buying the drugs for his sister Marisol and it is revealed that Delko is Roman Catholic. On the episode Dead Woman Walking, Eric has a nosebleed, Eric has been given a clean bill of health, and Calleigh tells him that he gets nosebleeds during high-pressure situations. His nosebleeds had not been addressed since and it has been revealed in the episode The DeLuca Motel that Eric was born in Cuba before his mother and adoptive father arrived in the USA, after which they received fake birth documents for him. Delko pressed his mother for the truth after revealing that he knew his American birth certificate was a forgery, and he told her he had become suspicious after realizing that several key facts in the story of their arrival in the USA, changed each time she told it. She also told him that his father was a terrible man. Delkos biological father, in fact, orders a hit on him. The season 8 opener, Out of Time, reveals in a flashback that Eric had, in the past, discovered a BMW that had been dumped in the Everglades with a body in the trunk and called Detective Caine. Eric was a tow truck driver at the time and knew the area quite well and he helped Caine recover the murder weapon, which Caine used to prevent an innocent man from going to jail. In this same episode, Eric meets Calleigh and hits on her by saying, Calleigh responds that she doesnt date people shes even remotely involved with at work, and Eric replies, Ok. Caine, impressed by Erics eye for details, convinces him to go to the police academy, get his badge. Eric has been involved with a number of women, including co-worker Natalia Boa Vista, despite Natalias apparent duplicity, he remains protective of her when her ex-husband harasses her at crime scenes under the pretext of performing his duties as crime scene cleanup. He also had a relationship with the wealthy, unstable Gloria and she ends up having been there with her own rifle to shoot Marisol, but couldnt do it, and then hearing the shots from the room above her
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Khandi Alexander
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Khandi Alexander is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. She began her career as dancer in 1980s and was a choreographer for Whitney Houstons world tour from 1988–1992, during 1990s, Alexander has appeared in a number of films, include CB4, Whats Love Got to Do with It, Sugar Hill, and Theres Something About Mary. She starred as Catherine Duke in NBC sitcom NewsRadio from 1995 to 1998 and she also had a major recurring role in NBC medical drama ER as Jackie Robbins, sister to Dr. Peter Benton. Alexander also received acclaim for her leading performance in the HBO miniseries The Corner in 2000. From 2002 to 2009, Alexander starred as Dr. Alexx Woods in the CBS police procedural series CSI, from 2010 to 2013 she starred as LaDonna Batiste-Williams in HBO drama Treme. Later in 2013, she joined the cast of ABC drama Scandal as Maya Lewis, Olivia Popes mother, Alexander also received Critics Choice Television Award nomination for playing Bessie Smiths sister in the 2015 HBO film Bessie. Khandi Alexander was born in New York City, the daughter of Alverina Yavonna, an opera and jazz singer, and Henry Roland Alexander and she was educated at Queensborough Community College. She appeared on Broadway, starring in Chicago, Bob Fosses Dancin and she was a choreographer for Whitney Houstons world tour from 1988–1992, and also appeared as a dancer in Natalie Coles video for Pink Cadillac in 1988. Alexander began her career in the late 1980s. She made her debut on the 1985 sketch-comedy show FTV. Since the early 1990s, Alexander has concentrated on film and TV, playing supporting roles in movies, including CB4, Joshua Tree, Whats Love Got to Do with It, Poetic Justice. In 1995, Alexander was cast as Catherine Duke on the NBC comedy series NewsRadio and she stayed with the show until season 4 episode 7, Catherine Moves On. She played the character of Jackie Robbins in medical drama series ER. In 2000, Alexander won critical acclaim for her performance as Fran Boyd and she later appeared in the films Emmetts Mark and Dark Blue, and starred opposite Rob Lowe in the Lifetime television movie Perfect Strangers. In 2002 through 2008, she portrayed the character of Alexx Woods, Alexander left CSI, Miami shortly before the end of the 2007-2008 season. Her final appearance aired on May 5,2008, on February 2,2009, she returned to the role of Alexx Woods for a guest appearance in the episode Smoke Gets In Your CSIs. She returned again as Alexx Woods in guest appearances in the episodes Out of Time on September 21,2009, in fall 2008, Alexander was cast as a lead character in the HBO drama pilot, Treme, that premiered on April 11,2010. She played a bar owner in a neighborhood of New Orleans affected by the storm Katrina and she received critical acclaim for her performance in the show
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Alexx Woods
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Alexx Woods is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI, Miami, portrayed by actress Khandi Alexander. Alexx Woods, originally from Los Angeles, California, is an examiner who worked for the Miami-Dade Police department for six seasons on the show. She is married with two children and is always upbeat and has a bedside manner with her patients, despite being a coroner. Alexx has a tendency, displayed in many episodes, to talk to the corpses she is examining and she often addresses the corpses as sweetie, honey, or baby boy/girl in a maternal way, and she often comments that the victims were too young to die. She is also like a figure to her colleagues, especially to Ryan. She has two children, a son Bryan and a daughter Jamie, shes also married, her husbands name is Henry. As mentioned above, Alexx addresses the corpses in a maternal way and she is also seen addressing her own children in a very natural maternal way when talking about bad people to them after a case involving a child. CSI Delko pulls out a blanket in the nick of time. They are next seen being taken care of by rescue, Alexx is shaken up and talks with Horatio about not wanting to end up like the bodies on her table. Alexx also hosts groups from alcohol treatment programs, showing them the consequences of drunk driving, one of the participants, a young former Navy corpsman, asks her for a job, and Alexx agrees to a one-week trial. When a flask belonging to one of the corpses disappears, she suspects the man stole it. However, Alexx later discovers that it was in one of her fellow medical examiners, Dr. Glen Monroe. Alexx informs Dr. Monroe that if he does not report himself to the medical examiner. In episode 316, Nothing To Lose, Alexx is held hostage by serial killer, Kendrick, while being held hostage, Kendrick made repeated threats towards her children. She is eventually rescued by Horatio Caine, Kendrick flees capture into an Everglades wildfire. His body is identified by Alexx when she recognizes her own handiwork over his gunshot wound. She has a relationship with Horatio Caine and his team of CSIs from the lab. This has led to friction in the room from her fellow MEs as well as her boss
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Rory Cochrane
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Rory Cochrane is an American actor. He is known for playing Ron Slater in Dazed and Confused, Lucas in Empire Records, Lee Schatz in Argo, Freck in A Scanner Darkly and Tim Speedle in CSI, Miami. Cochranes first roles included a part in a docudrama about drugs on Saturday Night with Connie Chung and he then made his film debut in A Kiss Before Dying, followed by his first substantial role as Jeff Goldblums son in Fathers & Sons. Cochrane played major roles in the films Empire Records and Dazed and Confused, with Jason London and Ben Affleck and he also appeared in the Richard Linklater film A Scanner Darkly. Cochrane reprised his role as Tim Speedle on CSI, Miami in the episode Bang, Bang, Your Debt, in 2015, Cochrane had a supporting role as Boston mobster Stephen Flemmi in the true-crime film Black Mass, which starred Johnny Depp. Rory Cochrane at the Internet Movie Database Rory Cochrane at AllMovie
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Tim Speedle
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Timothy Tim Speedle, known by his nickname Speed, is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI, Miami. He was portrayed by Rory Cochrane until the death in the third season opening episode Lost Son. Prior to the untimely demise and Rory Cochranes departure from CSI, Miami at the start of season 3. Especially featured is his neglect of proper sidearm maintenance Dispo Day and he also, at one point, borrows Calleigh Duquesnes crime light and forgets to recharge it, much to her annoyance. Speeds cavalier attitude is also featured in other ways as well and he states that he sees his job as a CSI as no more than a paycheck, lacking the enthusiasm for criminology and justice shared by the rest of the team Wannabe. He rides his bike to work, and claims that hes happy with that rather than a standard automobile Lost Son, showcased in the series is his role as best friend to Adam Rodriguezs Eric Delko. This facet of him is evident in episode 604, Bang, Bang, Your Debt and this episode, especially with Speedles appearance therein, illustrates the ongoing trauma of the violent death of a friend on those who were close with that individual. Later, Ambush, it is revealed that she did not press charges, Tim Speedle was a Trace and Impressions expert with the Miami-Dade Crime Lab from Jamaica, Queens. Speed dies in the Season 3 opening episode, Lost Son and he and Caine brace themselves for a fight, but Speedles gun jams giving one of the thieves an opportunity to shoot him in the chest. Caine calls for an ambulance, but Speedle succumbs to his injuries before help arrives, Speedles death leaves the team, especially Caine and Delko, devastated. Internal Affairs is forced to investigate and Calleigh reports that the gun jammed due to faulty gun maintenance, a funeral is held and his parents and team is shown grieving over his loss. Speedles position on the team was taken by Ryan Wolfe. Speedle was instrumental in saving lives when he noticed a door ajar. Despite the trauma of the blaze, he insisted on working the scene with the rest of his team, a few months after his death, Sara Piper a. k. a. Cookie Devine, fears a sex tape she made with her boyfriend will be leaked and she goes to the lab and ask for Tim Speedle, whom had previously helped her and Horatio overhears. He steps in and informs her that Speed had been killed in the line of duty, five years after Speedles death, his memory is still tender in the hearts and minds of his colleagues. They leave his locker and effects intact, intriguing those who came after his demise
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Brigid Brannagh
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Brigid Brannagh is an American actress. She has been credited as Brigid Brannagh, Brigid Brannah, Brigid Brannaugh, Brigid Walsh, born in San Francisco, California, Brannagh is of Irish ancestry. She grew up in big family being the child of nine. Around the age of thirteen she started auditioning and she is a frequent guest star on various television programs, including a recurring role on CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, playing serial felon Tammy Felton in the first and second seasons. She starred in Kindred, The Embraced and Over There and she also had the recurring role of Virginia Bryce, Wesley Wyndam-Pryces girlfriend, during the second season of Angel. In 1999, Brannagh guest starred on a season 2 episode of the TV series Charmed as a witch named Tuatha. In 1991 to 1992 she was featured in the Fox sitcom True Colors about an interracial family, in 2007, she landed a role in the Lifetime series Army Wives, in which she portrayed Pamela Moran for six seasons until Spring 2012. She starred in Hallmark movie Crush on You, which aired in June 2011, soon after leaving Army Wives, Brannagh joined the cast of the proposed ABC drama series Gilded Lillys as Elizabeth, the matriarch of the Lily family. The show began filming in March 2012 in Boston after being ordered in late January, Gilded Lillys was created and produced by Shonda Rhimes. However, ABC did not pick up the series, Brannagh lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband Justin Lyons. Brigid Brannagh at the Internet Movie Database Army Wives official site, Brigid Brannagh bio
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Melinda Clarke
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Melinda Patrice Mindy Clarke is an American actress who has primarily worked in television. From 2010 to 2013, she portrayed Amanda on the television series Nikita. She was added as a character on Vegas in 2013. Clarke was born in Dana Point, California, the daughter of Patricia Lewis, a dancer, and John Clarke. One of three siblings, Clarkes sister, Heidi, died in 1994 of a malignant heart tumor, Clarke appeared on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives as Faith Taylor, and starred on Soldier of Fortune, Inc. for both of its seasons. She also appeared in the Seinfeld episode The Muffin Tops, playing Jerrys girlfriend who likes anything hairless and she also appeared in the 1993 horror film Return of the Living Dead 3. She appeared on the Fox drama The O. C. as Julie Cooper and her character in the show is mainly portrayed as a manipulative, morally wrong woman, but as the show progresses the reasons behind her choices are explained. As well as starring on The O. C. she has appeared on HBOs hit series Entourage as a version of herself. Clarke also appeared as the Devils girlfriend in The CWs 2007 series Reaper and she also auditioned for the role of Number Six on SCI-FIs smash hit Battlestar Galactica but the role ultimately went to Tricia Helfer. In 2010, she appeared on The CW show The Vampire Diaries as Kelly Donovan, other projects included the television film She Drives Me Crazy, which was produced by her former The O. C. co-star Kelly Rowan. She appeared as a guest star on Chuck, another series from The O. C. creator Josh Schwartz and she starred on The CW drama Nikita, where she played Amanda from 2010 to 2013. Melinda Clarke at the Internet Movie Database Melinda Clarke on Twitter
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Lady Heather
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Heather Kessler, also known as Lady Heather, is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by Melinda Clarke. This recurring character is a dominatrix and a potential romantic interest for then regular CSI supervisor Gil Grissom. The character appears in six episodes of CSI and the 2-hour finale TV movie. Lady Heather was created by writer Jerry Stahl and he has written some of CSIs most controversial episodes, which have also sometimes been the most watched. Bill Keveney of USA Today nominates Lady Heather as a favorite of viewers, steven Cohan explores in his book on the series, Lady Heather as part of the shows questioning of identity and the status of normality. Lady Heather is introduced in a 2001 episode as part of CSIs second season, a murder occurs at Lady Heathers fetish club which the CSI team investigates. Previously unaware of the club and curious about Lady Heathers world and she explains the lifestyle to her, and he admires her almost academic approach to human behavior. Later, they have tea, where she tells him that she has a daughter, Zoë, whos studying at Harvard. Grissom drawn to Heathers intellect, and both characters acknowledge an attraction to other, and as the episode ends, some sexual tension begins to build. William Petersen has said that his character, Grissom, is attracted to Lady Heather because they are both anthropologists, hes fascinated by her the sexual psyche of human beings. In 2002, a year after Lady Heathers first appearance, she appeared again in CSI in its season three and this time, two murders, apparently unrelated, lead the CSIs to her club. The team is surprised to know that her business is going better than ever, and that she now has a website, LadyHeather. com, that she described as Voyeurism in a Brave New World. To parallel the narrative of the episode, the real life URL pointed to a Lady Heather page, the original page has since been taken down, but the URL still redirects to the CSI site. In this episode, Lady Heather opens up a bit more to Grissom. During this episode, it is insinuated that Grissom might have slept with Lady Heather. They are both seen at her house at night, with Grissom approaching her in an intimate way and their intimacy is subdued until the 4th episode containing Lady Heather. In 2006, four years after Lady Heathers second appearance, she comes back in CSIs season six and this time Lady Heathers daughter Zoë has been murdered, and her body has been mutilated and dumped in the desert. She tells the CSIs that Zoës father left her when she was pregnant, Heather also says that while Zoë was at Harvard, Zoë began seeing a psychiatrist and became pregnant with his child
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Glenn Morshower
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Glenn Grove Morshower is an American actor, known for playing Secret Service Agent Aaron Pierce in 24. He appeared in season of the show except its last two. He has gone on to appear in feature films and television series, such as the Transformers film series and X-Men, First Class. Morshower was born on April 24,1959 in Dallas, Texas and his stepfather, Harry Sidney Morchower, was a navy commander. He was raised in the Jewish religion, Morshower changed the surnames spelling from Morchower for his acting career. He took up acting at the age of 12 at the Dallas Theater Center, at age 16, Morshower began his film career, with his first role in the movie Drive-In. After graduating from Hillcrest High School in 1977, Glenn moved to Hollywood and he married his high school sweetheart Carolyn in 1978, and has two children. He has appeared in productions as well as high-profile film and television programs. It has been noted that Glenns persona is that of a strong disciplined protective role, such as military, secret service or police man, in addition to making guest appearances on three Star Trek series, he also had a small part in Star Trek Generations. Morshower has had recurring roles on The West Wing and CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, voiced Overlord and Agent G in the video games Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2 and Battlefield 3, Morshower appeared on an episode of World Poker Tour on May 5,2008. He also is appearing in a film titled Walking Distance as Mr. Anderson, the film was released in 2011, it was written and directed by Mel House. The Extra Mile is a series of performances which are written, the program is a combination of motivation speaking, story telling, dramatic and comedic performance, acting instruction, and life coaching. Thousands, including a number of celebrities, have attended these events across the US. Glenn Morshower at the Internet Movie Database Glenn Morshower at AllMovie
