Kathryn Morris UK

Welcome to the latest of KM UK’s highly acclaimed (well I think it’s great, I exclaimed, whilst acclaiming it ) look at the burgeoning careers of those Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn.  Yes, even I noticed a few others on screen with her   Or, as I called it the Cold Case Cast Catch-up or CCCC-up.  This month it’s June so this is the June edition.  Clever huh?

One of the least regular appearers here is Thom Barry (Will Jeffries on CC).  More’s the pity as we all like him.  As busy as I am sure he is he doesn’t often trouble the headline writers.  However, this month we get to report on Thom’s return to the small screen as he is due to start a recurring role on the TV drama series Perception.  Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) stars as Dr. Daniel Pierce a lecturing neuropsychiatrist with enough of his own mental health issues to fill many a peer-reviewed paper.  Rachael Leigh Cook (She’s All That) is the no-nonsense FBI Agent.  He’s Pierce.  She’s an exception…al detective.  Together they are… Perception.  Or something like that.  Anyway, Thom Barry will be starring in the TNT network series as the Chicago (where the show is set) FBI office boss.  Two episodes of the 3rd season run have aired so far with no sign of Thom.  Still 8 more to go.

Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC) is another of our less commonly talked about CC cast members in this monthly feature.  After a special première screening to close out the LA Film Festival last week, the new film Jersey Boys went on general release in the US, Canada, and the UK last Friday (20th June).  Jeremy is credited as ‘police officer’ so probably doesn’t have a particularly large role in this new Clint Eastwood-directed telling of The Four Seasons formation story.  He’s not playing one of the singers (those roles have largely gone to less well known but experienced stage performers) but the biggest name in the cast has to be Christopher Walken as Angelo “Gyp” DeCarlo.  Gyp was a ‘wise guy’ that helped the group lead by Frankie Valli in the time before they became a hit in the 70s.  There’s at least one other Cold Case alumni in the cast. Kathrine Narducci who is Frankie’s mother in Jersey Boys was in CC episode The War At Home.  Like a few of the other actors Katherine was in The Sorpranos.

Finally there is signs of life from the Irish drama An Bronntanas which stars John Finn (John Stillman in CC).  Filmed last year,  An Bronntanas (“The Gift”) was due to shown as a 5 part drama series early this year.  Then it looked like it had been push back to the end of the year.  The latest news is that it will be screened as a 2 hour film at the closing night of the Galway Film Fleadh in mid-July.  Fleadh, pronounced “flar”, means festival.  The drama is about a lifeboat crew that discover a huge haul of drugs and a dead body on a boat found at sea, and moral dilemmas it causes.   Presumably this means it be released in that form at some point afterwards, whether that will be on the Irish TG4 TV channel or in cinemas is not clear.

Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC) next.  Not much to say about Danny at the moment.  We covered the return of L&O:SVO for a 16th season last month.  It is for his role as Detective Nick Amaro on the show that Danny has been nominated for an Imagen Award in the Best Actor/Television category.  The Imagen Foundation that created the award promotes the Latino culture within the media.  An amusing element in the other nominations that the show Devious Maids is almost guaranteed to win the Best Actress/Television category.  All but one of the 6 named ladies is from that show!  The Imagen Awards ceremony will take place on the 1st of August.

And finally Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC) but very much not leastly.  We certainly say she seldom features here   She is currently in Montreal with a travelling production of the For The Record: Tarantino show of music from Quentin’s films, we’ve mentioned previously.  Last weekend Tracie was doing a 24 Hour Play (mentioned here last month).  Starting ‘off Broadway’, which means smaller theatres near the famous area of NY, Tracie is taking a lead role in a new play called Lost Lake by awarding playwrite David Auburn.  John Hawkes (The Sessions) will co-star.  Veronica (Tracie) has takes her kids on a lake side holiday.  Hawkes is the troubled owner of the establishment.  Hilarity no doubt ensues… or maybe not.

Welcome to our final look for 2013 at the careers of other members of the Cold Case cast in what we like to call our Cold Case Cast Catch-up, or CCCC-up for not very short.

Due to her prodigious work rate and willingness to Tweet about it we’ll start, as usual, with Tracie Thoms aka Kat Miller in CC.  I believe that Tracie has completed filming on Annie, the Sony Pictures remake of the musical.  She was photographed by the paps in early December filming on the streets of NY and was back home in LA last week.  Of course Tracie may not have fully completed her work on the project.  There could still be re-shoots, studio based filming, and audio work to do.  It would be quicker to list who is not in this re-telling of the Annie story, suffice to say it is an all-star cast.  See a previous CCCC-up for a few more details.  The film is expected to be released a year from today on the 19th December 2014.  Raze, the Zöe Bell starring fighting females movie, has finally got a release date for the US cinemas.  It is the 10th January 2014.  It originally premièred back in April at the Tribeca Film Festival.  Also starring Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe) and Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks), Raze is about a group of women incarcerated against their will and forced into unarmed, to-the-death combat with each other.  Clearly not a comedy as this brutal new trailer shows.  Rachel also appears, albeit very briefly if reports are to be believed, in another film of Tracie’s: McCanick.  David Morse is Eugene ‘Mack’ McCanik, an out of control cop hunting for a young criminal played by the late Cory Monteith (Glee Club) in his final role.  It looks like McCanik is already out on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia but a theatre showing is expected in the US in the new year.  In the last couple of days Tracie has Tweeted from Germany.  She’s there as part of a series of events put on to entertain American troops stationed abroad.  Not surprisingly, in Germany in this case.  Tracie is billed alongside the likes of Gary Cole (Veep) and Raven Symone (That’s So Raven).  The AITAF (Arts In The Armed Forces) is behind the trip.  It is their mission to “honor, educate, inspire, and entertain all active duty and veteran members of the United States Armed Forces and their families by engaging them in the power and social service of the performing arts“.  You can read about AITAF on their website.

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