Saturday, June 26, 2010

Aimee Garcia

Most recently appearing in the new movie Go For It, where she does all her own dancing, Aimee gained fame doing comedy as a regular on several tv series including The George Lopez Show, where a guest-stint turned into a regular role until the series ended!
Nonetheless, she's done considerable genre work including all three CSI series (as different characters) and the acclaimed (but unsold) tv adaptation of the graphic novel Global Frequency, and is now appearing on Dexter!
Genre appearances include...
Dexter (Jamie Batista)
7eventy 5ive aka Dead Tone (Jody Walters)
Trauma (EMT Pilot Marissa Benez)
Dragon Wars aka D-War aka War of the Dragons (Brandy)
Global Frequency [unsold pilot] (Aleph)
D.E.B.S. [2004] (Maria)
BetaVille (Ruby Derain)
StandOff "Severance"
Cruel World (Gina)
Bones "The Science in the Physicist"
CSI: Miami "Won't Get Fueled Again"
CSI: New York "City of the Dolls"
CSI "Big Shots"
The Agency (HouseKeeper)
Supernatural "Jus in Bello"
V.I.P. "The Uncle from V.A.L"
Angel "Birthday"

Check out...
Aimee's Official Site
C'mon guys! There are NO FanSites for this amazing lady???

Saturday, June 19, 2010

María José de Pablo Fernández

MORE Cote pix HERE!
Best-known as Mossad (Israeli Secret Service) agent Ziva David on NCIS, Cote de Pablo is actually Chilean!
Her family moved to the US while she was a child, and she attended arts-oriented schools including Carnegie Mellon University, where she majored in Theater.
Cote began her tv career as a host on the Univision series Control, but soon went on to guest appearances on several comedy and drama series, then starring roles on the short-lived The Jury, and, currently, NCIS.
Trivia: Cote performed the song "Temptation" on the NCIS episode "Last Man Standing". The complete performance is on the NCIS soundtrack cd.
She also appeared on Broadway in The Mambo Kings!
Cote is bi-lingual (Spanish-English), but uses a linguistics coach to help her with Ziva's Hebrew and Yiddish dialogue, which she does phonetically (and sounds pretty convincing). NOTE: Ziva's also been shown to speak French, German, Russian, Turkish, and Arabic, all of which Cote does phonetically.
Genre appearances include...
NCIS (Mossad Liaison Officer, now Probationary Agent Ziva David)
The Jury (Marguerite Cisneros)
TOCA Race Driver [VG] (Melanie Sanchez)
Check out...
Cote's bio on CBS's NCIS Pages

Monday, June 14, 2010

Sophie Okonedo

Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated actress Sophie Okonedo moves easily from playing the title role in Mrs. Mandela to making multiple appearances (including a gun-toting Queen Elizabeth the 10th) on Doctor Who! (And Sophie was just named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, one of the highest awards a civilian can receive in England!)
Genre appearances include...
Criminal Justice(Jackie Woolf)
Æon Flux(Sithandra)
Doctor Who
"The Beast Below" (Queen Elizabeth the 10th aka Liz 10)
 "Scream of the Shalka"(Alison Cheney)
Note: the animated "Scream" is not considered "canon" in the Dr Who series.
Spooks aka MI5 (Amanda Roke)

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Jennifer O'Dell

Jennifer O'Dell started acting at the age of 8 and did a range of commercials, tv guest appearances and minor film roles until her early 20s.
Jennifer finally secured a starring role as the scantly-clad Veronica in the tv version of The Lost World playing a character not in the original novel or any prevous tv or film version! (And, IMHO, she was the best thing about the series, easily outshining the cheesy "special effects"!)
Since the show's never-resolved cliffhanger demise, she's been doing guest shots on everything from comedies like Two and a Half Men to genre shows as well as featured roles in a variety of movies, usually scantly-clad (not that I'm complaining).

Trivia: She's actually a brunette, but most of her roles (including Veronica) show her as blonde.

Genre appearances include...
Saving Sarah Cain aka Redemption of Sarah Cain
(Madison Miller)
Lost Gold of Khan (Carla)
Black Widow (Natalie)
NCIS "In the Zone"
Nevermore (Lydia Usher)
CSI: NY "The Ride In"
Shark "Teacher's Pet"
Slayer aka Mexferatu Mexico (Dr. Laurie Williams)
CSI: Miami "Nailed"
The Closer "About Face"
She Spies "Wedding of the Century"
Charmed "A Long Day's Journey into Night"
Angel "City of Angels"
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's the Lost World
(Veronica Layton / Abigail Layton [Veronica's Mother])
Point Doom (Stephanie)
Diagnosis: Murder "Dead in the Water"
Sometimes They Come Back...for More (Mary)
Pacific Blue "Seduced"
Profiler "Every Five Minutes"
Silk Stalkings (Kimberly Snow)
Renegade (Linda)
A Spasso nel Tempo: L'avventura Continua (Salon Girl)

Check out...
Jennifer's Official WebSite
Jennifer's MySpace Page
JenniferODell.org, a FanPage