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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – August 2013

danny_pino_002_430x180 Somehow I don’t think a mention here is going to cut it as a consolation prize.

Last time out in our CCCC-up we mentioned the possibility of Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) winning an Imagen Award. The event took place a couple of weeks ago and, sadly, neither Danny nor his new show Law & Order: SVU took away any silverware. Castle took the best TV show award and one it stars, Jon Huertas (who plays Javier Esposito), got the nod for best television actor, the category that Danny was in. Monica Raymund of Chicago Fire won for best television actress. Danny is currently filming for the 15th season of L&O:SVU. The first episode is less than a month away as it is due to première on September 25th.

Around the time that Danny was preparing his acceptance speech/just happy to be nominated face, the trailer for the movie McCanick starring Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) was released. This garnered a lot of attention as the film is one of the last projects starring Cory Monteith, most famous for his role on the TV show Glee. Cory died just a month prior to that news. McCanick will premiere at the Toronto Internation Film Festival (TIFF) in early September. Making it doubly poignant, another of Cory films, All The Wrong Reasons, will be first aired at TIFF the day before McCanick. David Morse (The Green Mile) is the titular cop. Rachel Nichols (Resurrecting The Champ, which starred Kathryn) and Ciarán Hinds (Game Of Thrones) also star. Producer/director Josh C. Waller did the same things for Tracie’s other movies of 2013: Raze. The trailer for McCanick can be seen on YouTube HERE.

A last minute addition. Yesterday (28th August), Tracie took part in a special event to mark the 50th anniversary of the mass march on Washington that culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I have a dream” speech. Phylicia Rashad (The Cosby Show) is directing a “developmental reading” of Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin, a play by Michael Benjamin. The event, that took pace at La Jolla Playhouse, California, was not open to the public.

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – July 2013

tracie_thoms_001_430x180 Since starting these regular CCCC-up updates it is clear that one person tends to dominate them: Tracie. The sheer number of differing projects she takes on, especially compared to her fellow Cold Case alumni, makes it unavoidable.

Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in Cold Case), or as we’re going to call her this month, the Award Winning Tracie (AW… T ) has been a busy girl again. She started the July with a trip to Aruba in the Caribbean. It’s a tough life. She was there with actress and stunt performer Zoë Bell (Alias and Django Unchained) promote the Raze movie that seems to have been around for so long now without an actual release. Zoe will be known to some of you, even if you don’t realise it, as Xena: Warrior Princess. Zoë was the stunt double for Lucy Lawless. This means that Zoë worked with Kathryn during her two episodes as Najara. Zoë and AWT spent an evening on a beach in Aruba giving stunt lessons to festival attendees. A chance to get their own back at some film critics me thinks

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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – June 2013

tracie_thoms_001_430x180 As tempting as it is to let this drift into next month I think we’ll squeeze in a quick one before June ends.

Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in Cold Case) has been nominated for a 2013 Imagen Award it was announced last week. The Imagens honour Latino actors and the portrayal of Latinos and their culture in film and television. Danny is nominated in the Best Television Actor category for his role in Law & Order: SVU. He is up against Benjamin Bratt (Private Practice), Guillermo Diaz (Scandal) and Jon Huertas (Castle). Danny has been nominated 3 times previously for an Imagen, each time for his work on Cold Case, and in 2010 he won. Fingers crossed for Danny. L&O:SVU will be returning to American TV screens on the 25th of September 2013 for the début episode of the 15th season.

Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on Cold Case) on the other hand has been treading the boards and winning an award, and that was just one weekend in her ever busy life. I don’t know how she does it. I’m tired just typing this! Tracie took part in another 24 hour play event starting the creative process on Friday and performing the resulting 6 short plays on Saturday, all in aid of the Urban Arts Partnership. The cast of 24 actors including Sasha Alexander (Rizzoli & Isles), Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), Gillian Jacobs (Community), and John Cho (Star Trek) worked with 6 writers, 6 directors and production crews to create the half dozen 10 minutes plays from scratch in just 24 hours. Well done everyone. That’s the boards, what about the award? A short film called A Different Tree, starring Tracie won an American Black Film Festival Award. The short was in a line up of 5 films in a category sponsored by TV network HBO. Congratulations to all involved. As mentioned in the last CCCC-up Tracie will be performing her “Seasons” show on the 28th and 29th of July (a Sunday and Monday) at the Rockwell in LA. Yesterday she announced she will have Wayne Brady as her special guest. Wayne will be best known to us on this side of “the pond” as a regular in the British original version of the comedy improvising TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? back in the the late 1990s.

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – May 2013

tracie_thoms_001_430x180 We’re cutting it a bit fine this month!

A week after our CCCC-up for April 2013 the US TV network NBC announced that Law & Order: Special Victims Unit would be renewed for a 15th season. Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in Cold Case) will be continuing in his post-Cold Case role of Det. Nick Amaro. The order is a for a full 22 episode season. Last year the same thing happened and two more episodes were added later. The pick-up for L&O:SVU‘s 14th season was much in doubt with lead actress Mariska Hargitay and the studio playing chicken in a chicken-and-egg situation to see who jumped first. Without Mariska’s signature would the network agree to a new season? But unless there was the promise of a new season why would Mariska sign? That was sorted out but this time things were different. The show was renewed while negotiations continued with Mariska. On Monday (27th May 2013) it was announced that she would be returning. Good news for all her and the show’s many fans.

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Cold Case Cast Catch-up – December 2012

danny_pino_002_430x180 Everyone loves a bit more Pino.

Our final round-up of news about Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn for 2012.

The long-running TV show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has had its current season extended by 2 episodes, bringing it to a total of 24. That’s either a good show of support or a chance for the writers to give it a proper ending. Which theory you subscribe to depends on your point of view. Our understanding is that despite weak “lead ins” (i.e. the show on before SVU has a low audience count to carry over into SVU) the cop drama continues to do OK. It is gradually fading but it is hardly surprising as the show is currently in its 14th year. Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in Cold Case) continues as Detective Amero in SVU. There are no signs of Danny taking on other film or television roles at the moment.

Last month’s CCCC-up included a reference to John Finn‘s guest-starring role in the hit drama series Homeland. At the time the episode was just a few days away from broadcast in the UK, having been shown in the US just a few days before that report. The part was not particularly large and the character of Rex Henning has not re-appeared in the episodes since. John’s next feature film The Lifeguard by Cold Case writer/producer Liz Garcia is due to début at Sundance 2013. The film festival runs from January 17th to the 27th.

We seem to have been talking about Thom Barry‘s role in the new Texas Chainsaw 3D movie for a very long time. It was first reported here back in July 2011. Back then the planned release date was October. In early summer it was pushed back to January 2013, probably to avoid clashing with the many big releases in the autumn. Now we are in the home straight, with just a few weeks to go for much of the world.

A couple of Thom’s co-stars in Texas Chainsaw 3D have caught our eye: Tania Raymonde (Lost) and Richard Riehle (Office Space). Tania guest starred on Cold Case for eight episodes in the latter half of season 6 as a PPD lab tech that Scotty became involved with. Richard (the hardest working man in Hollywood) will be seen very soon in the film 2 Br/1 Ba, in which Kathryn has a small but pivotal role.

If you have any news about any of the Cold Case main cast then please let us know.