Celebrity crush: Annie Wersching

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Name: Annie Wersching (images | Web site | Twitter)
Hometown: She grew up in St. Louis, Mo., according to her Wikipedia profile.
Best Known For: It depends on the time of day and your tastes in television. Annie played FBI Agent Renee Walker in the final two seasons of 24, injecting some life into the series in her time there. She also did about 80 episodes of the daytime soap General Hospital in 2007.

More recently, she guest-starred in an episode of No Ordinary Family playing the wife of a character played by former 24 co-star Ricky Schroeder. And they even had a kid named Chloe, another wink and nod toward 24.

As "Demonatrix Two" in an episode of Charmed.

Humble Beginnings: Annie grew up competing in Irish dance competitions and earned a degree in musical theatre before going to Hollywood. Early TV work includes appearances on Star Trek: Enterprise, Charmed, the short-lived military drama E-Ring, Frasier, Angel, Cold Case, Boston Legal, the short-lived crime drama Killer Instinct, and the short-lived sitcom Out of Practice. Film work has been more sparse, including a cameo in Bruce Almighty.

The only thing cuter than the dog here are the freckles.

Obligatory Edgy Stuff: Playing a "Demonatrix" on Charmed allowed a great photo for this entry. That's about it. She's married and a new mom, so I'm not going to dig for any dirt on her.
Why Ye Olde Podcaster Likes Her: As I said, she breathed new life into 24 in her time there. And it was great to see her on No Ordinary Family this winter; I'd be interested in going back to some of the earlier appearances detailed below to spot her in these works where I didn't know her before.

Film and TV-movie credits: Below the Beltway (Amazon | iTunes) * Company Man (Amazon | iTunes) * The Showdown (Amazon | iTunes) * Bruce Almighty (Amazon | iTunes)
TV and Web series credits: No Ordinary Family, season 1: "No Ordinary Friends" (Amazon | iTunes) * NCIS, season 8: "False Witness" (Amazon | iTunes) * CSI, season 11: "House of Hoarders" (Amazon | iTunes) * 24, season 8 (Amazon | iTunes) * 24, season 7 (Amazon | iTunes) * Journeyman: "Friendly Skies" (Amazon | iTunes) * Supernatural, season 2: "Playthings" (Amazon | iTunes) * Boston Legal, season 3: "The Nutcrackers" (Amazon | iTunes) * Cold Case, season 4: "The Key" (Amazon | iTunes) * E-Ring: "Christmas Story" (Amazon | iTunes) * Killer Instinct: "Forget Me Not" (Amazon | iTunes) * Out of Practice: "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do. And Do. And..." (Amazon | iTunes) * Charmed, season 6: "A Wrong Day's Journey Into Right" (Amazon | iTunes) * Angel, season 4: "Shiny Happy People" (Amazon | iTunes) * Frasier, season 10: "Door Jam" (Amazon | iTunes) * Birds of Prey: "Split" (Amazon | iTunes) * Star Trek: Enterprise, season 1: "Oasis" (Amazon | iTunes)