Every once in awhile, an elite crime fighting team emerges
– a
highly sophisticated covert ops, specially trained in global
intelligence maneuvers.
This is not one of those teams.
They are three career criminals with one shot at freedom.
Now they are working for the feds who put them away.
These are the women of She Spies – bad girls gone good!
Cassandra ("Cassie") McBane
is a serious con artist, often disguising herself to lure the bad
guys into submission. The hard-hitting ringleader draws on a wealth of tactical experience to outwit evil-doers.
Natasha Henstridge's "Power and Beauty" (Showtime, July
2002) coincided with this very different series. Best known as
a human-alien hybrid who liked to undress and kill men with her tongue
in "Species," she's currently happening in Hollywood, with
two visits to "Late Late Show with Craig Kilborne."
She grew up in Alberta. At fourteen, she went to Paris to become a model.
It's a typical American success story.
She starred in "Species" at twenty, becoming an instant celebrity.
In 1995, Henstridge had a J-Lo duration marriage to actor Damian Chapa.
Henstridge has two sons with longtime partner Liam Waite.
Motherhood: "the most grounding, rewarding thing that's ever happened to me.
It changed my whole sensibility. It puts everything in perspective – it's all the old cliches, but they're dead on."
A bona fide movie star of such films as "The Whole 9 Yards," "Bounce" and "Maximum Risk."
Natasha: On Sunset Boulevard, there's "Power and Beauty" and "She
Spies" billboards 200 feet apart. It's fun and it's good for the ego.
All three of us girls are going down to take some pictures by the "She
Spies" one. It's so huge there on the side of the Hyatt Hotel building!
Shane
Phillips is "more than just a token African-American – she's
proficient in Brazilian jujitsu and makes a wonderful peach cobbler."
Expertise:
second-story "person."
Pet peeve: men
striking women.
Catch-phrase: "With what, my mouth?"
Her idea of anger management usually involves a flying scissors kick, a fierce head butt and
a bad guy in an ambulance.
Natashia Williams fut remarqué dans
sa jeunesse à Los Angeles. Dés 1997, immédiatement
après le lycée, elle signe un contrat avec la prestigieuse
agence de mannequin Ford avec laquelle elle diffusa son image dans le
monde entier. Parallèlement à cela, elle joue dans la
série Save by the Bell. Elle eut un rôle dans How to be a
Player, (Je me souviens d'elle dans cela.) tout en continuant la télévision dans le Jamie
Foxx Show, Sister Sister et Girlfriends. Natashia entama
également avec succès une carrière dans la musique
(participation avec Sting), et monta récemment un groupe pop,
Intrigue. Whatever that means.
Susan ·
NON-SEQUITOR.
Elle Films: “Two Can Play That Game,” “Trippin'” and “How to Be a Player.”
For those whose Swedish is um bocado oxidado:
Natashia Williams. Born Pontiac, Illinois, 2 August 1978. And you thought it was in Michigan.
Her family moved to L.A. when she was in her early teens. (“It was a lot different than the midwest.”
Well, sure. Isn't Pontiac where the kids can't dance?)
She may have a Sociology degree at UCLA. Luckily, she can act.
Natashia loves spy movies and her character:
“Shane gives me an outlet for my aggressions; it’s road rage that’s OK,” adding
“There is a little bit of her in all of us.” Natashia's done a whole lot of tv series,
plus feature films like “Deux Peuvent Jouer ce Jeu,” “Trébucher,” “Comment être un Joueur.”
Shane: We're ex-cons working for a clandestine group
to take down low-lifes like you.
Michael Dvornak: That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Cassie: Yeah. You know, everyone always says that.
Shane: Right before we kick their asses.
from "Poster Girl"
Diedre ("DD") Cummings is the "nice" one, who never met a computer she didn't like to hack. Given her name, it's no surprise she's a romantic, the type of girl you'd like to bring home to mom. Just don't let her near mom's computer.
Kristen Miller is the daughter of a
choreographer and an opera-singing lawyer. She's from California,
natch! Kristen started out in musical theater. ["You don't like Gilbert and Sullivan? What kind of monsters are
you!?"]
Kristen's appeared in such classy shows as "USA High,"
"Malibu Shores," "That's My Bush" and "Son of the Beach."
As if that wasn't enough, Kristen
she demonstrated her dance and musical artistry in "Betrayal."
Her films: "Reality Check," "Man of the Year," "Swimming Pool" (Der Tod feiert mit) "Cherry Falls," "Dog Watch."
Jack Mitchell is the Agency liason. Sometimes he saves their booties. More often, he's the brunt of their humour – Miss Parker vs Broots times three.
Quote: "It's a Saturday night at 10:00.
If I had a social life,
you'd all be dead."
Carlos Jacott
has appeared on "Seinfeld," "Buffy," "Angel," "Firefly," "Ally McBeal," "Frasier" and others.
Film roles include Ken McCullard in "Grosse Pointe Blank," Larry in
"Being John Malkovich" and the photographer in "She's All That."
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'She Spies' sizzles with wit. What the show lacks in plot it makes
up for in entertainment. Tonight's hourlong opener fizzes madly with self-referential TV
humor, tossed off so lightly and deftly I couldn't help grinning. "Guys,
this isn't a movie!" protests fluffy spy D.D. when tough-girl spy Shane
suggests some outrageous scheme. It's hard not to wonder if "She Spies" – created by Joe Livecchi and
Vince Manze, whose backgrounds are primarily in advertising and
promotion – can keep up the delirious pace that makes it such a
hoot. If they can, though, I'll come back: for the jokes; for
Henstridge, whose star quality is no surprise; for Williams, who's
Henstridge's equal for both glamour and glibness; and for the
silver-tongued Jacott, who, like Williams, could hold down a show of his
own someday. No, I haven't forgotten to mention the show's premise or plot. It
hasn't much of either, and it doesn't need them. |
