Celebrity crush: Emily Rose (revised)

Celebrity crush: Emily Rose (revised)

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Today's entry features the actress seen this summer on The Channel Formerly Known As Sci-Fi Before Its Marketing People Got a Case of Teh Stoopids and Renamed It to Something I Shall Not Type Out, So Ludicrous It Is in the Stephen King-inspired horror drama Haven.

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Name: Emily Rose (images -- though I warn you that you'll inevitably run across really creepy stuff pertaining to a "based-on-a-true-story" horror film about someone with the same name, unfortunately | Web site | Twitter)
Hometown: The Seattle suburb of Renton, Wash., according to her Wikipedia entry.
Best Known For: Emily is the star of the science fiction drama Haven. She plays an FBI agent who comes across a mysterious Maine town full of people with strange abilities that are more curse than blessing; it's very loosely based on the novel The Colorado Kidby Stephen King and comes from several of the people behind USA Network's Stephen King-inspired series The Dead Zone.

She's mainly worked in television and short films, since completing her MFA in acting from UCLA, but is also a voice actress. Emily has provided the voice of the character Elena Fisher in three (soon to be four)Uncharted video games, starting with Drake's Fortunein 2007.

Humble Beginnings: She appeared in about half the episodes of the final season of ER as a first-year resident, alongside fellow crushShiri Appleby. Other credits did several episodes of Brothers & Sisters (playing a vixen-ish friend of fellow crush Emily VanCamp), a few episodes of the post-apocalyptic drama Jericho, and co-starred in HBO's ill-fated John from Cincinnati, aka The Show That Killed Deadwood, More or Less.

Single-episode guest roles include the comedyTwo and a Half Men and the police dramasCold Case and Without a Trace. (She was also in an episode of the very short-lived crime drama Smith, which co-starred Amy Smart -- to whom she Emily bears at least a passing resemblance.)

Why Ye Olde Podcaster Likes Her:Emily's a solid actress as skilled at playing tough, seductive, vulnerable, or even wryly funny. Plus, she's purty (a technical Southern term). It's good to see her get a starring role and a chance to prove herself beyond supporting roles.
Voice work: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (2011 video game) (Amazon) *Uncharted: Eye of Indra (2009 video game)(Amazon) * Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009 video game) (Amazon) * Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007 video game)(Amazon)
Film and TV-movie credits: Perfect Plan (2010 TV-movie) (Amazon | iTunes) * The Last Page (2008 short) (Amazon | iTunes) * The Orphan (2008 short) (Amazon | iTunes) * Speed Dating (2007 short) (Amazon | iTunes) * Hurricane Party (2006 short) (Amazon | iTunes)

TV and Web series credits: Haven, season 2 (Amazon | iTunes) * Haven, season 1 (Amazon | iTunes) * Private Practice, season 3: "Fear of Flying" (Amazon | iTunes) * Ghost Whisperer, season 5: "Devil's Bargain" (Amazon | iTunes) * ER, season 15 (Amazon |iTunes) * Two and a Half Men, season 6: "Thank God for Scoliosis" (Amazon | iTunes) *Without a Trace, season 6: "Satellites" (Amazon | iTunes) * Cold Case, season 5: "Slipping" (Amazon | iTunes) * Jericho (2006),season 2 (Amazon | iTunes) * Brothers & Sisters, season 2 (Amazon | iTunes) * John from Cincinnati (Amazon | iTunes) * Smith:Episode 4 (Amazon | iTunes)