Alana De La Garza Photos and Biography

Alana de la Garza (born June 18, 1976) is an American actress. She was born in Columbus, Ohio to a Mexican-American father and an Irish-American mother. She was raised in El Paso, Texas. Alana de la Garza was born in Columbus, Ohio. She was brought up in El Paso, Texas, by her Mexican-American father and Irish-American mother. In 1989, Alana entered the El Paso Miss Teen USA beauty pageant. She was awarded the title of Miss Photogenic, which served to pay off later in her acting career.

After completing high school, Alana took on the role of teacher for special-needs children. She then decided to attend The University of Texas where she studied physical therapy and social work. It was after Alana completed her degree that the acting bug bit her.

Alana traveled from Austin, Texas, to Orlando, Florida, where she managed to get her start in acting. Her first role came in 1999 when she appeared on the short-lived television series Mortal Kombat: Conquest. After one episode of work, she did not reappear on the show, and decided to move to New York City for a larger television calling: soap operas. Alana landed the role of Rosa Santos on All My Children in 2001. The celebrated soap brought her enough television attention to make the next three years of her acting career a rollercoaster ride of guest-starring roles.

Alana de la Garza made her film debut in the 2002 drama Carnival Knowledge. The film had no major stars and Alana’s role was only a bit part. Alana’s flop in the film domain prompted her to return to television for work, and it wasn’t long before she found a few series to call her own.

In 2003, Alana guest-starred on the long-running NBC series JAG. She appeared in only one episode of the show, but once that job was complete she stayed with NBC for another role. Alana made an appearance on Las Vegas in 2003, working with talented veteran James Caan.

She won the “Miss Photogenic” title in the Miss El Paso Teen USA local beauty pageant. She then became a special-needs teacher and enrolled at The University of Texas, studying physical therapy and social work. Upon graduating, she landed some small roles while living in Orlando, Florida, and soon moved to New York City. She obtained the role of Rosa Santos on the soap opera, All My Children, guest-starring roles in JAG, Charmed, Two and a Half Men, and Las Vegas. She starred as Maria in the short-lived television series The Mountain, in which she received high marks for her acting.

Between 2005 and 2006, Alana de la Garza went on a rampage through some of television’s most popular series. She started her trip by making a stop on Smallville, starring Kristin Kreuk and Tom Welling, for one episode in 2005. She then left the world of superheroes and villains to try her talent with the power of three in Charmed, starring Alyssa Milano. In 2006, Alana de la Garza saw a little more continuity on the series for which she obtained more roles.

Alana appeared in three episodes of the controversial comedic drama The Book of Daniel before the show began to be pulled by networks and later canceled after only eight full episodes. She found herself in 11 episodes of the popular crime drama CSI: Miami as Marisol Delko.

Alana joined the cast of Law & Order in 2006 for the show’s 17th season as Assistant District Attorney Connie Rubirosa. She also took a little time to return to the film world to make Mr. Fix It (2006), a romantic comedy costarring television heartthrob David Boreanaz.

In 2005, she starred in the film Mr. Fix-It co-starring David Boreanaz. She also guest-starred as an evil Kryptonian woman (named “Aethyr” in promotional materials) in the fifth season premiere episode of Smallville titled “Arrival” and played the recurring role of Marisol Delko on the CBS television series CSI: Miami. She has twice been featured in the “Girls of Maxim” online gallery. In 2006, she joined the cast of NBC’s Law & Order during the premiere of the seventeenth-season, portraying Connie Rubirosa.

Terminator Salvation Film (Terminator 4)

The next trilogy of Terminator films has been on the table for a while, but Warner Bros. has officially announced Terminator 4, which has been given the utterly ludicrous title Terminator Salvation.

“After the drastic effects of Terminator 3, the story continues as John Connor and soon to be wife Kate Brewster begin the creation of a resistance organization with Earth’s remaining survivors against the army of cyborgs slowly being built up by Skynet. As they are building this resistance, one survivor happens to be a traitor in disguise, and has a secret that nobody would ever come to suspect. “

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins is the upcoming 2009 fourth installment to the Terminator film series, written by David Campbell Wilson, John Brancato, and Michael Ferris, directed by McG, and starring Christian Bale as John Connor. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, and Claire Danes will not be returning. Shooting of the film is expected to start on April 21, 2008 in Budapest.

On May 9, 2007, it was announced that rights to the Terminator series had passed hands from producers Andrew G. Vajna and Mario Kassar to the Halcyon Company, a privately funded company formed by entrepreneurs Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson. In the Variety article detailing the purchase, it states the fourth film is now earmarked for a summer 2009 release and will focus on a 30-year old John Connor in what the producers hope will be a new trilogy. Series creator James Cameron is currently not involved with the project. Variety also mentioned that Warner Bros. has McG prepping the film.

On July 19, 2007, it was revealed that the Terminator 4 project is currently in legal limbo due to a lawsuit between MGM and Halcyon subsidiary T Asset. According to the article, MGM has an exclusive window of 30 days to negotiate for distribution of the Terminator films. When negotiating for Terminator 4, Halcyon rejected their initial proposal, and MGM suspended negotiations. After the 30 days were over, MGM claimed that the period during which negotiations were suspended did not count and their exclusive period is still open. Halcyon is now asking a court for an injunction allowing them to approach other distributors.

The plot and storyline of the film takes place after the events of T3 around 2014 and focuses mainly on the war between man and Skynet in the post-apocalyptic world. John Connor will continue to be the central character along with a new character named Marcus, who will have “equal presence.” However, other sources say that the film will instead focus on Marcus. James Middleton, the associate producer of the film, stated that “It’s really about the birth of a new hero.”

Is ‘Terminator’ unstoppable?

Terminator TV: Judgment Day
Searches Spike for the Sarah Connor Chronicles

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is an American television series that premiered on Sunday, January 13, 2008 on the U.S. television network Fox. It is a continuation of the Terminator film franchise. Produced by Warner Bros. Television and C2-Pictures, it revolves around the life of Sarah Connor, and her son, John Connor after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The series is being executively produced by the Terminator 3 producers and C2 Pictures co-presidents, Mario Kassar and Andrew G. Vajna, C2 Senior Vice President James Middleton, David Nutter, and Josh Friedman, who is also writing.

Sunday night, Fox aired the debut episode of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” By Monday morning, the show’s message board was raking in the comments. In threads with titles like “This show doesn’t make sense” and “THIS IS A NO SHOW!!!!!!!!,” many fans fumed about how the new series deviated from the original “T” storyline.

Judging by buzz, though, the sci-fi drama may actually be an unstoppable, musclebound “yes.” After the show aired, searches for the cyborg series spiked nearly 400%, busting into our top movers. Lena Headey, who plays Sarah Connor, Interest in fellow actors Thomas Dekker and Summer Glau soared. Glau’s character, the re-programmed teen Terminator Cameron Phillips, also surged in Search Engines.

Even if the series does eventually crumble in the face of some fans’ resistance, it’s already benefited the larger good of the franchise. Searches for “terminator,” “terminator 2,” and “terminator 3″ are all on the rise. Demand for “terminator 4″ and its trailer has blasted upwards. For now, the world is looking safe for the ongoing saga of the Connor family.

Sarah Connor Chronicles Trailer:

Here’s a press release recently released by FOX:

Again facing relentless Terminators that will stop at nothing until John Connor, the future leader of the resistance, is eliminated, Sarah Connor stops running and starts fighting back against fate and the machines that are out for her son in the highly anticipated new series TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES premiering Monday, Jan. 14 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

Unfolding where the film “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” leaves off, TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES finds SARAH (Lena Headey) and her 15-year-old son JOHN CONNOR (Thomas Dekker) alone in a dangerous world. As fugitives from the law, they are confronted by the ever-evolving technological enemy bent on destroying their lives, and perhaps the world. Balancing his inevitable fate as the possible savior of mankind and his current life as an ordinary high school student, John must learn what it takes to become the future leader of the people’s resistance. His only friend is CAMERON (Summer Glau), an enigmatic and otherworldly student at his high school who soon proves to be much more than his confidante – she assumes the role of Sarah and John’s fearless protector. Together, Sarah, John and Summer, all extraordinary in their own right, attempt to become a “normal” family. On their trail are not only threats from the future, but an intelligent and tough FBI agent, JAMES ELLISON (Richard T. Jones), who just may become a powerful ally.

TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES represents an exciting reinvention of the “Terminator” film franchise, in which the strong and intrepid Sarah discovers that protecting her son and stopping the rise of the machines is more difficult than she had ever imagined.

Produced by C2 Pictures in association with Warner Bros. Television, TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES is executive-produced by Josh Friedman and John Wirth. James Middleton serves as consulting producer, while Toni Graphia serves as co-executive producer and Natalie Chaidez serves as a consulting producer for the series. The pilot was directed by David Nutter.

Casting: The casting process of the series took 16 weeks during which the producers auditioned actors not only from America but also from Australia, Canada, and England. Over 300 actresses auditioned for the role of Sarah Connor, the heroine of the Terminator series.Series creator Josh Friedman described the actress he was looking for was someone “who embodied that spirit and who was believable in that role and not just some glammed up, Hollywood, actressy thing.” After a friend recommended English actress Lena Headey for the role, Friedman watched her audition tape, and thought she was “a tough, tough woman”. Headey was officially cast on November 7, 2006.

On December 7, 2006, the actor cast in the role of 15-year-old John Connor was announced to be Thomas Dekker. Regarding the Terminator films, Dekker says, “They are like my favorite films when I was younger. So it’s very ironic that I’m getting to do this. And I know for the younger generation and for myself, John was equally important to me as Sarah was, and I know a lot of the people that I hear from really, really care about John.”

The remaining two principal cast members of the series, Richard T. Jones and Summer Glau, were announced in January 2007 and February 2007 respectively. Jones likens his character, an FBI agent, to that of Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive. Moreover, he is allowed to improvise a few lines to provide “a little bit of comic relief” to the show. Unlike Dekker, Glau had not seen the Terminator films prior to being cast as Cameron Phillips, whose role in the series was initially kept concealed but was later revealed to be a Terminator sent from the future to protect John. Friedman had previously wanted to cast Glau in a pilot he wrote four years prior to The Sarah Connor Chronicles but she was already committed to Serenity. Glau admitted that she felt “intimidated” by the role because the character is comprised of both human and robot characteristics.

The role of Cromartie, a Terminator sent back to kill John Connor, first went to Owain Yeoman, who appeared in the pilot. The trade press reported on September 24, 2007, that Garret Dillahunt has joined the show in that same role. The cast also features veteran TV actor Dean Winters as a former boyfriend of Sarah’s.

Filming: The pilot episode was primarily filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The principal photography started on January 24, 2007 and took approximately one month to complete. Subsequent episodes in the series are filmed in the backlot of the Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California, where the set was previously used by Gilmore Girls to depict their fictional town, Stars Hollow.

The Story:
At the end of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sarah, John, and the Terminator successfully destroy the T-1000 and the arm and computer chip from the first Terminator. Sarah and John then watch as the Terminator is lowered into a molten steel pit in an attempt to destroy all future technology that could be used to create Skynet. Sarah and John now find themselves alone in a very dangerous and complicated world. Fugitives from the law, they are confronted with the reality that still more enemies — from the future and the present — could attack at any moment.

Prompted by the return of Terminators into their lives, Sarah and John decide to stop running and focus on stopping the launching of Skynet. They are aided by Cameron, a Terminator who poses as a student at John’s school and whose mission is to protect John. Meanwhile, FBI Agent James Ellison pursues Sarah and John with the belief that Sarah is deranged. The pilot episode as broadcast takes place in August and September 1999 with a jump to September 2007.

Characters and Cast:

• Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) is a major character in the Terminator series. She is seen as a deranged fugitive by the authorities, who do not believe her story about the terminators.

• John Connor (Thomas Dekker) is Sarah’s son. The future leader of the human resistance, he is only fifteen years old in the show’s time setting.

• Cameron Phillips (Summer Glau) is a cyborg sent back in time to protect John Connor. She is an unknown model and, according to the trailer, the most human yet; being able to convincingly mimic human emotions better than her predecessors.

• James Ellison (Richard T. Jones) is an FBI agent pursuing the Connors.

• Cromartie (Owain Yeoman) is a Terminator sent back to kill John in the pilot episode. He is shown to take damage to his biological covering, similar to the Model 101. Garret Dillahunt is also reported to have been cast in this role.

• Charley Dixon (Dean Winters) Sarah’s former fiancé, who will be looking for her for a number of episodes. In the original pilot, this character was named Burke Daniels, and played by Tim Guinee.

Amy Lee Desktop Wallpapers and Photos

Amy Hartzler (born Amy Lynn Lee and best known as Amy Lee, December 13, 1981 in Riverside, California) is an American singer-songwriter and classically-trained pianist. She is a founding member and lead singer of the Grammy Award winning rock band Evanescence. Her influences range from classical musicians such as Mozart to modern artists like Björk, Tori Amos, Danny Elfman, and Plumb.

She co-founded the band with Ben Moody. The two met at a youth camp after he heard Lee playing Meat Loaf’s “I’d Do Anything for Love (but I Won’t Do That)” on the piano. Within a month, the pair were playing acoustic sets at Arkansas book stores and coffee houses, and they eventually recorded two EPs, Evanescence EP (1998) and Sound Asleep EP (1999), selling them at various local venues. In 2000, Evanescence recorded the longer EP Origin. This demo contains three songs from the debut album Fallen and was written by Lee and Moody: “Whisper”, “Imaginary” and “My Immortal”. Whereas “Whisper” and “Imaginary” underwent further modifications before being included on Fallen, “My Immortal” is virtually identical. A later band version of “My Immortal” was made available for download for those who had bought an official version of Fallen through their official web site, but required that a CD checker program also be downloaded for verification before it would play. The band version was included on later copies of Fallen, notably the Brazilian and Argentinian editions.

On October 22, 2003, guitarist Ben Moody left the band citing “creative differences”. In an interview several months later, Amy said: “We’d gotten to a point that if something didn’t change, we wouldn’t have been able to make a second record”. She also said “We’re finally a real band, not just Ben and I and a few others thrown together”. Ex-Cold guitarist Terry Balsamo replaced Moody in the band, both on guitar and as Lee’s writing partner.

On December 1, 2005, former Evanescence manager Dennis Rider filed a lawsuit against Lee for breach of contract. The suit claims Rider was prematurely and unjustly terminated from his position as manager of Evanescence.

In return, Lee filed a counter-suit against Rider for “breach of fiduciary duty, sexual assault and battery, professional negligence, currency conversion, and other charges”. The suit also claims Rider “neglected Lee’s career and business and has focused his efforts on having extramarital affairs, hiding them from his wife, becoming intoxicated during business meetings, physically abusing women and boasting about it, making repeated unwelcome sexual advances toward Lee, receiving fees in excess of what was provided for in his management agreement and using Lee’s corporate credit card to purchase gifts for his mistress.”

Rider’s attorney, Bert Deixler, claimed in a statement that Rider had fully performed all of the duties and obligations owed by the firm under the management agreement, and that he had always conducted himself by the highest professional standards.

Lee had claimed to be working on music for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but that the music was rejected for being “Too dark and epic.” However, the producers of Narnia stated that Lee was never asked to compose any music for the film, whose score was written by Harry Gregson-Williams, and that “No Evanescence music was planned for the soundtrack.”

While there was some speculation that one of the supposed songs had been cut and used in several tracks of The Open Door, Lee stated this was not true except for part of it being used to segue into the last track of the album, “Good Enough”.

Lee revealed during the taping of MuchMusic’s January 9, 2007 episode of Live @ Much that she had become engaged the previous evening. She later confirmed on EvThreads.com that she had been proposed to by Josh Hartzler, a 29-year-old therapist and longtime friend. She noted in an interview that the songs “Good Enough” and “Bring Me To Life” were inspired by him. The couple were married on May 6, 2007, and honeymooned near The Bahamas. She has posted on EvThreads that she is “now officially Mrs. Amy Hartzler.”

Lee has a recognizable goth style, marked by her occasional use of Gothic make-up and taste for Victorian-styled clothing. She also designs many of her own clothes, including those worn in the music video for “Going Under”, the dress she wore at the 2004 Grammy awards, and the dress worn for the cover of The Open Door. After she designed it she chose Japanese designer H. Naoto to make it for her. In concerts, she often wears a corset and fishnets, as well as long skirts and knee-high boots. She used to have a notable piercing on her left eyebrow which is visible on the cover of Fallen.

She has stated on a number of occasions that she would never flash her breasts or engage in other publicity stunts that would draw attention to herself. In fact, in the music video for “Everybody’s Fool,” she aimed to mock such artists by suggesting that celebrities who use sex to appeal to an audience are, in fact, merely peddling “lies” (the unifying theme of the music video). Many fans praise Lee for her refusal to emulate other celebrities by using sex appeal in her music. In 2006, Blender listed Lee as one of the hottest women in rock alongside such singers as Joan Jett, Courtney Love and Liz Phair.

In 2000, Lee sang guest vocals on two of former Evanescence keyboardist David Hodges’ songs: “Breathe” (The Summit Church: Summit Worship) and the unreleased “Fall Into You”. She performed backup vocals for “Missing You”, a song on Big Dismal’s 2003 debut album Believe, and sang backup vocals on two songs with ’supergroup’ The Damning Well, though her vocals were taken off the final release due to record label issues. Lee later performed a duet with her then-boyfriend Shaun Morgan on the track “Broken” for Seether’s 2004 album Disclaimer II. The song was also featured as part of the soundtrack for the 2004 film The Punisher.

In 2006, Lee became the American Chairperson for Out of the Shadows, an international foundation with the goal of educating others about epilepsy. Lee’s younger brother, Robbie, was previously diagnosed with this condition.

The singer also made a brief guest appearance in the music video for Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”, where she chose to appear laying flowers on a grave. She was recorded in Trinity Church in Manhattan. During the shoot, she wore a ‘long-sleeve black velvet coat’ that belonged to Tim Burton.

On Korn’s MTV Unplugged: Korn, Lee was featured in the song “Freak on a Leash”. The song is also the first single from the album and was released to television and radio in early February 2007.

In late 2007, VH1 produced a mockumentary in the style of Behind the Music, titled Rock Band Cometh: The Rock Band Band Story, to promote the video game Rock Band. Lee was one of the celebrity cameos featured on the show.

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Lucy Liu new Photos and Wallpapers

The “Charlie’s Angels” star commits to the small screen with ABC’s “Cashmere Mafia,” one of two “Sex and the City”-esque dramas set to air this season (the other is “Lipstick Jungle” on NBC). It remains to be seen which series will wear its Manolos best, but already La Liu has given “Cashmere” the Buzz advantage – she’s been charting a steady climb in Search for weeks.

Native New Yorker Lucy Liu skyrocketed to popularity in 1998 when she played the deliciously malicious Ling Woo on the hit comedy “Ally McBeal” (Fox, 1997-2002). Fresh off of her television success, she went on to establish a big screen persona as the petit, butt-kicking heroine of stylish action outings like the “Charlie’s Angels” franchise and “Kill Bill, Vol. 1” (2003).

In 2007, she returned to a regular TV role with the Darren Star drama “Cashmere Mafia” (ABC, 2007), playing one a tightly-knit group of independent professional women supporting each other through the ups and downs of career and romance.

For Liu, the change was welcome, in that with the new TV role, she would essay a real person with everyday problems, versus some secret agent or badass fighter which she had long made a career playing believably on the big screen.

Lucy Liu was born on Dec. 2, 1968 and raised in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, NY. Her parents were Taiwanese immigrants who left behind careers in biochemistry and civil engineering to start a new life in the State; with both encouraging their children to receive a full education and pursue professional careers of their own.

Reluctant to make waves in her ambitious family, the arts-oriented Liu kept her dreams of a becoming an actress to herself, studying her favorite Charlie Chan films for inspiration. In 1986, she graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City and went on to New York University, but after one year, transferred to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI.

While Liu closed in on a Bachelor of Science degree in Asian Languages and Culture, it was becoming harder to ignore her lifelong aspirations of acting. Her senior year she auditioned for a supporting role in a college production of “Alice in Wonderland” and was astonished to be offered the lead – particularly because the part typically called for blonde-haired Caucasian. In 1990, Liu broke the bad news to her parents — despite her freshly inked college degree, she was moving to Los Angeles to become an actress. “I just knew it was the only thing I felt strongly about,” she recalled in an interview years later.

In less than a year, Liu landed her first professional acting job with a stint as a Peach Pit waitress on “Beverly Hills, 90210″ (Fox, 1990-2000). Soon, she was enjoying several guest spots a year on both dramas and comedies – ranging from “The X-Files” (Fox, 1993-2002) to “Coach” (ABC, 1989-1997). One of her more memorable turns was a recurring part playing a woman whose young son was suffering from complications of AIDS on NBC’s medical drama, “ER” (NBC, 1994— ).

In 1996, Liu’s up and coming film career began with a bit part as an ex-girlfriend in the 1996 hit “Jerry Maguire.” The following year – probably much to the horror of her parents – she played an exotic dancer in the Harvey Keitel actioner “City of Industry,” but she was about to make her big break with a role her parents would be proud of: lawyer. In 1998, Liu auditioned for the role of Nelle Porter on hit TV dramedy series, “Ally McBeal.” The role was given to Portia de Rossi, but David E. Kelley was wowed by Liu’s talent and promised to write a guest part for her in the show.

The occasional appearances of Liu as Ling Woo — a hilariously bitchy, un-PC attorney — were such a winner with audiences, that Woo was added as cast regular in the show’s third season. During her run on the series, Liu’s scene-stealing comic relief earned her many fans, as well as an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Had Liu not already come to the public’s attention on “Ally McBeal,” the 1999 Mel Gibson flick “Payback” may have proven to be her breakthrough role. She starred as Pearl, a leather-clad dominatrix who proved so likable, that the initial script was rewritten to afford her more screen time.

The popular movie led to a pairing with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson in the Wild West comedy “Shanghai Noon” (2000), before Liu snagged her first and most famous leading screen role alongside Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz as one of “Charlie’s Angels” (2000). The girl-powered romp was a blockbuster; a refreshing new take on the action comedy helmed by female heroes and a respectful tribute to the iconic 1970s “jiggle” series. Even more refreshing was the inclusion of Asian-American Liu as representative of a new era of big screen female protagonists.

Following the phenomenal success of “Charlie’s Angels,” however, Liu’s film career weathered its share of ups and downs. She starred opposite Antonio Banderas in the little-seen sci-fi thriller “Ecks vs. Sever” in 2002. She nabbed a part in the Oscar-winning film adaptation of the Broadway hit “Chicago” (2002), turning in a juicy if all-too-brief performance as murderess Kitty Baxter. In 2003, Liu reunited with Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore for the action-packed sequel “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” – a film which was more laughable than anything else and all but killed the franchise off.

Undeterred, Liu got on board Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited fourth feature, “Kill Bill, Vol. 1″ (2003), giving a bravura performance as Japanese-Chinese-American O-Ren Ishii, Queen of the Tokyo Underworld and leader of the Crazy 88 Fighters. Liu also enlivened the 2004-05 first season of the doomed “Friends” spin-off sitcom, “Joey” by playing the compulsively clean TV producer Lauren Beck on several episodes.

Making a shift, Liu began to focus more on dramas, playing a role as an FBI psychologist in the feature film bounty hunter chronicle “Domino” (2005) and as a Mandarin black market blood dealer in “3 Needles,” which was not widely released but impressed the festival circuit with its gripping profiles of the international AIDS epidemic. Liu made her first foray into producing with the well-received documentary “Freedom’s Fury” (2006), which centered on a 1956 Olympic water polo tournament between Russia and Hungary that paralleled the nations’ struggle over power.

Liu returned to the screen as a fast-talking coroner trying to help Josh Hartnett survive a case of mistaken identity in the thriller “Lucky Number Slevin” (2006) before taking an executive producer credit (and a supporting role) on the unfortunate Cedric the Entertainer flop, “Code Name: The Cleaner” (2007).

A straight-to-video thriller “Rise: Blood Hunter” (2007) found undead journalist Liu on a quest for revenge against the vampires that took her life, until a waning film profile was interrupted with a return to series television on “The Cashmere Mafia” (ABC, 2007). From the executive producer of “Sex and The City” (HBO, 1998-2004), the highly anticipated hour-long drama promised to make the most of Liu’s persona as a strong, independent woman and a loyal friend – albeit, with a great wardrobe.

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