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She's quite possibly one of the most ubiquitous actresses you've never heard of, but a glance at Michelle Forbes's resume reads like a compendium of the best-loved TV series in recent memory.

A chubby, sympathetic character player , Ned Beatty had performed in more than seventy plays when John Boorman spotted him on Broadway in "The Great White Hope" and signed him for.... A chubby, sympathetic character player , Ned Beatty had performed in more than seventy plays when John Boorman spotted him on Broadway in "The Great White Hope" and ...

Q: I read somewhere that Khandi Alexander, who was on "CSI: Miami," was going to be in a new series.

An intense black character player and occasional lead, Andre Braugher gained considerable critical attention for his portrayal of Detective Frank Pembleton on the acclaimed series "Homicide" before he left the show to.... An intense black character player and occasional lead, Andre Braugher gained considerable critical attention for his portrayal ...

Forbes joined the cast of the HBO vampire drama at the end of last season as the mysterious Maryann Forrester.

On Season 2 of the hit HBO television series True Blood , the mysterious and somewhat sinister Maryann Forrester is stirring things up in a major way, while her true identity and her real reason for showing up in Bon Temps remain to be seen.

Slender, handsome player of films and TV with a wistful, boyish look, often cast in roles with an antagonistic edge to them.

The television season ended last week, but the season ends for " Law & Order: Special Victims Unit " next week.

With an African-American who enjoys broad white support now in the White House, the buzzword of the moment, when it comes to American race relations, is "post-racial." What that exactly means is the focus of a new film opening the Santa Cruz Film Festival.

Actor-writer-director Giancarlo Esposito and Danny Glover play antagonists in 'Gospel Hill.' Shakespeare's melancholy Dane is one of the few roles Giancarlo Esposito, born in Copenhagen of an American opera singer and an Italian carpenter, seems not to have played.

If Callie Thorne's Sheila Keefe had a theme song, it would be Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire." The ode to flaming desire animates Thorne's character, who returns for her fifth season of FX's " Rescue Me ," the testosterone-fueled dramedyabout a dedicated crew of emotionally flawed New York City firefighters.

The way everyone goes on about The Wire, you'd think it invented the ultra-realistic, thematically ambitious TV crime series.

Emilie Ullerup is the newest actress on this list. This Danish beauty can be seen in the web and Sci-Fi Channel hit, Sanctuary , where she plays Ashley Magnus.

Published: Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 6:57 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 7:06 p.m. The Black Arts Alliance, which has organized the Cine Noir Black Film Festival for eight years, was founded ...

I am - " Hercules!! Melissa Leo, who almost won an Oscar for her role in "Frozen River," has joined the cast of HBO's "Treme," the pilot about musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans from "The Wire" mastermind ...

Of the five women who were nominated for best actress in a lead role at the Academy Awards, Melissa Leo was probably the most bohemian, the least likely to live in a luxury hotel or employ a personal assistant ...

The Independent Spirit Awards honor the best in independently financed films. The ceremony takes place in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica.

All this talk about the Grey's Anatomy / Private Practice crossover event has got us at TWoP thinking: true television crossovers are rare.

Melissa Leo is nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in Frozen River .

The Jewish Alliance for Change will present "BROADWAY FOR A NEW AMERICA" - Standing Up for Marriage Equality and a Progressive Agenda for Change, on Monday, March 2nd at 7:00 PM, at Peter Norton Symphony Space ...