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Valerie Cruz
Valerie Cruz (born July 18, 1976) is an American actress. Cruz was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey of Cuban ancestry. She attended Florida State University and received a BFA theatre degree. Career She has appeared in films such as ''Cellular'' and played Grace Santiago, a main character in ''Nip/Tuck'', but she left the show just after the first season. She has made guest appearances in series such as ''Grey's Anatomy'' and ''Las Vegas''. In 2007, she appeared as Connie Murphy, a tough Chicago police detective, in SciFi Channel's adaptation of ''The Dresden Files''. The show lasted for one season. Cruz played Maria Nolan on the CW's ''Hidden Palms''. In 2008, she appeared in the third season of '' Dexter'', playing Syl Prado, the wife of Assistant District Attorney Miguel Prado (Jimmy Smits). In 2009, she appeared in the horror film ''The Devil's Tomb'' and the HBO series ''True Blood'', in which she played the part of Isabel. That same year, Cruz played Olivia in the film ...
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The Devil's Tomb
''The Devil's Tomb'' is a 2009 American horror film, directed by Jason Connery. It stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Ray Winstone and Ron Perlman. The film was released direct–to–video on May 26, 2009. Plot An elite group of Special Operations soldiers, led by Captain "Mack", are sent by Dr. Elissa Cardell, a CIA operative, to rescue her father, scientist Lee Wesley, from an archaeological dig in the Middle Eastern desert. The dig site was a suspected bunker for WMDs. After entering the dig site, they encounter a priest who has strange boils all over his body. The team's medic, "Doc" Sarah Harrington, sedates him. I.T. Specialist and former hacker Click uses the dig site's terminal to activate the elevator and notices something codenamed the Gehenna Project. Cardell denies knowing about it. All communications from the site have been disabled and the wiring cut. Mack orders Communications Specialist Nickels to stay to fix the commo and watch the priest while the rest of the team takes ...
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The Following
''The Following'' is an American crime thriller television series created by Kevin Williamson, and jointly produced by Outerbanks Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television. The first season follows former FBI agent Ryan Hardy ( Kevin Bacon) trying to help recapture serial killer Joe Carroll, while Carroll's assembled cult captures Carroll's son from his ex-wife and sends Carroll's messages to the world. The second season introduces Hardy's niece, who provides help in finding Carroll after his faked death while also dealing with a new cult. The series was broadcast on the commercial broadcast television network Fox. In its first two seasons, it starred Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy in leading roles, as well as Shawn Ashmore, Natalie Zea, and Valorie Curry. The first season, comprising 15 episodes, premiered on January 21, 2013, and concluded on April 29, 2013. On March 4, 2013, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on January 19, 2014, and concluded ...
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Necessary Roughness (TV Series)
''Necessary Roughness'' is an American drama television series starring Callie Thorne and Scott Cohen that aired from June 29, 2011 to August 21, 2013. The second season premiered on June 6, 2012. The one-hour drama series was picked up for 12 episodes on January 19, 2011. On January 7, 2013, USA Network announced the series was renewed for a 10-episode third season, which began on June 12, 2013. On November 19, 2013, USA canceled the series after three seasons. Cast and characters Main * Callie Thorne as Dr. Danielle "Dani" Santino (née Romano): The protagonist. Dr. Dani Santino is a tough divorcée who, to make ends meet, becomes the therapist for a professional football team and quickly becomes sought after by other athletes, musicians, politicians and those living in the spotlight. Starting season three she works for V3, a major talent agency in NYC, after being fired by the new GM/head coach of the New York Hawks. * Marc Blucas as Matthew "Matt" Donnally (seasons 1–2 ...
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List Of Necessary Roughness Episodes
'' Necessary Roughness'' is a USA Network drama which premiered on June 29, 2011. The series stars Callie Thorne as Danielle Santino, a tough Long Island divorcee who, in order to make ends meet, gets a job as a therapist for a professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... team. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (2011) Season 2 (2012–13) Season 3 (2013) References External linksOfficial website* {{DEFAULTSORT:Necessary Roughness Episodes Lists of American drama television series episodes ...
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Scandal (TV Series)
''Scandal'' is an American political thriller television series starring Kerry Washington. Created by Shonda Rhimes, it aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from April 5, 2012, until April 19, 2018, for 124 episodes over seven seasons. Kerry Washington's character, Olivia Pope, is partially based on former George H. W. Bush administration press aide Judy Smith, who serves as a co-executive producer. The show takes place in Washington, D.C. and focuses on Olivia Pope's crisis management firm, Olivia Pope & Associates (OPA), and its staff, as well as staff at the White House and surrounding political scene. In addition to Kerry Washington, the show features Tony Goldwyn as Fitzgerald Grant III, the President of the United States—later a former President—and Olivia's main love interest; Darby Stanchfield as Abby Whelan, an assistant at OPA (later renamed Quinn Perkins & Associates or QPA), and also the former White House Press Secretary and Chief of Staff; Katie Lowes as ...
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Scandal (season 1)
The first season of the ABC American television drama series ''Scandal'' premiered on April 5, 2012 and concluded on May 17, 2012, with a total of 7 episodes. Plot This season introduces Olivia Pope and the various members of her firm, as well as President of the United States Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn) and Cyrus Beene (Jeff Perry), his chief of staff. The season focused on the lives of the team members, the relationship between Olivia and the president (her former employer), and the mystery surrounding Amanda Tanner's (Liza Weil) involvement with the White House, among other cases the team solved. Cast and characters Main * Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope * Henry Ian Cusick as Stephen Finch * Columbus Short as Harrison Wright * Darby Stanchfield as Abigail "Abby" Whelan * Katie Lowes as Quinn Perkins * Guillermo Diaz as Huck * Jeff Perry as White House Chief of Staff Cyrus Beene * Tony Goldwyn as President Fitzgerald "Fitz" Thomas Grant III Recurring * Jos ...
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Grimm (TV Series)
''Grimm'' is an American fantasy police procedural drama television series created by Stephen Carpenter and Jim Kouf & David Greenwalt and produced by Universal Television for NBC. The series aired from October 28, 2011, to March 31, 2017, for 123 episodes, over six seasons. The series' narrative follows Portland homicide detective Nicholas Burkhardt (played by David Giuntoli), who discovers he is a Grimm, the latest in a line of guardians who is sworn to keep the balance between humanity and mythological creatures, known as Wesen. The series features a supporting cast with Russell Hornsby, Bitsie Tulloch, Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz, Reggie Lee, Bree Turner, and Claire Coffee. ''Grimm'' was originally developed for CBS, but did not end up moving forward due to the 2007–08 writers' strike. In January 2011, the series moved to NBC. It has been described as "a cop drama—with a twist ... a dark and fantastical project about a world in which characters inspired by ''Grimm ...
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Organ Grinder (Grimm)
"Organ Grinder" is the 10th episode of the supernatural drama television series ''Grimm'' of season 1, which premiered on February 3, 2012, on NBC. The episode was written by story editors Akela Cooper and Spiro Skentzos, and was directed by Clark Mathis. Plot Opening quote: " We shall see the crumbs of bread... and they will show us our way home again." In a forest, two teenagers, Steven (Donald Fisher) and Kevin (James Maxey), are running from Wesen. Steven falls into a river and drowns, and his body is swept downstream and over a waterfall, while Kevin is captured. Monroe ( Silas Weir Mitchell) and Nick (David Giuntoli) are talking over dinner. Nick wants to tell Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) about his Grimm identity; Monroe warns of bad consequences. Nick is called when Steven's body is found, drained of blood and wearing a puka shell necklace. He, Hank (Russell Hornsby) and Sgt. Wu ( Reggie Lee) investigate. Nick and Hank find another youth with the same necklace and locate the ...
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Alphas
''Alphas'' is an American superhero drama television series created by Zak Penn and Michael Karnow. It follows a group of people with superhuman abilities, known as "Alphas", as they work to prevent crimes committed by other Alphas. The series was broadcast in the United States on the cable channel Syfy and was a co-production between BermanBraun and Universal Cable Productions. It premiered on July 11, 2011. After initial reports that the show was canceled, on September 7, 2011, ''Alphas'' was renewed for a 13-episode second season, which premiered on Monday, July 23, 2012, at 10 p.m. ET. On January 16, 2013, Syfy announced that the program would not be returning for a third season, ending the series with an unresolved cliffhanger. Plot The series follows five people, known as "Alphas", led by noted neurologist and psychiatrist Lee Rosen (David Strathairn), as they investigate criminal cases involving other suspected Alphas. Rosen and his team operate under the auspices of t ...
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Syfy
Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal through NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. Launched on September 24, 1992, the channel broadcasts programming relating to the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres. As of January 2016, Syfy is available to 92.4 million households in America. History In 1989, in Boca Raton, Florida, communications attorneys and cable TV entrepreneurs Mitchell Rubenstein and his wife and business partner Laurie Silvers devised the concept for the Sci-Fi Channel, and signed up 8 of the top 10 cable TV operators as well as licensing exclusive rights to the British TV series ''Doctor Who'' (which shifted over from PBS to Sci-Fi Channel), ''Dark Shadows'', and the cult series ''The Prisoner''. In 1992, the channel was sold by Rubenstein and Silvers to USA Networks, then a joint venture between Para ...
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Off The Map (TV Series)
''Off the Map'' is an American medical drama television series created by Jenna Bans, who also served as an executive producer together with Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers. The series ran on ABC from January 12, 2011 to April 6, 2011. The series was filmed in Puerto Rico and on Oahu, Hawaii, using many of the production facilities remaining from the ABC series Lost (2004–10). On May 13, 2011, ABC cancelled the series after one season. Premise Set in a remote South American village, seven doctors search for the reasons that brought each of them to medicine Cast and characters Main * Martin Henderson as Dr. Benjamin "Ben" Keeton: Keeton is "one of the world's greatest humanitarians", according to Mina and Lily. He was married to Abby and they had a daughter together, but they died during an accident. However, in episode 4 it is revealed that Abby is on life support in the San Miguel Hospital and Ben is keeping her on life support because her trust fund bankrolls the clinic. When ...
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