Academy
Award nominee Elisabeth Shue, 48, will join the cast of CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation (the original Las Vegas version) as a regular beginning with the
February 15th episode.
Shue
will play a character who has recently been to an anger management course and
there are rumors that she had a previous run-in with Ted Danson's D.B. Russell
who reportedly fired her when she worked for him in Seattle.
“While
it’s difficult to say goodbye to a beloved character like Catherine Willows,
it’s exciting to start a journey with a new CSI, especially when that character
is played by Elisabeth Shue,” said executive producer Carol Mendelsohn. “The
new CSI also struggles with ‘brutal honesty issues’ and suffers no
fools.” (The Willows character, played by Marg Helgenberger, exits at the
end of the season 11.)
“Elisabeth’s
character will share a past, in another crime lab, with Ted Danson’s character
(D.B. Russell),” said executive producer Don McGill. “The first time things
didn’t go so well between the two of them. Maybe the second time’s the charm,
or not.”
Shue’s film credits include “Leaving Las Vegas,” which earned her
an Academy Award nomination, “Adventures in Babysitting,” “Deconstructing
Harry,” “Mysterious Skin,” “Hollow Man,” “The Karate Kid.”
She also stars in
the upcoming film from Relativity Media, “House at the End of the Street,”
starring opposite Jennifer Lawrence and scheduled for April 2012, and is
currently filming Fox 2000’s “Of Men And Mavericks,” with director Curtis
Henson and starring opposite Gerard Butler.
On television, Shue has appeared in “Call to Glory” and has had guest-starring roles on “Curb Your
Enthusiasm” and “Dream On.”
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation airs Wednesdays (10:00-11:00 PM
ET/PT) on CBS.
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