Celebrity crush: Christine Woods

Today's entry features an actress who did drama quite well on FlashForward and more recently co-starred alongside fellow celebrity crush Olivia Munn on the sitcom Perfect Couples. Amazon and iTunes links follow. Any affiliate payments earned from your purchase or rental will help pay the hosting fees for my podcasts, so please consider clicking.

Name: Christine Woods (images | Facebook page | Twitter)
Hometown: The Orange County community of Lake Forest, Calif., according to her Wikipedia profile. She studied musical theatre at the University of Arizona.
Best Known For: FlashForward and Perfect Couples are her longest-term roles to date. In the former, she played a lesbian FBI agent who had foreseen herself being pregnant on a date in the not-too-distant future; as the show went along, we also learned she was a double agent.

Locking lips with fellow celebrity crush
Navi Rawat on FlashForward. Ain't nuthin' wrong with that.

Her role on Perfect Couples saw her has half of the show's most well-adjusted couple; the show didn't do well in the ratings and went off with at least one, maybe two episodes unaired, though its replacement The Paul Reiser Show sounds as if it was dead on arrival, so who knows, the remaining episodes may eventually be aired. (Co-star Munn has described her character, in contrast, as part of a couple who "represent everything that's wrong in America," complete with self-help books and affirmations.)

Looking a little like fellow crush
Sabrina Lloyd with the short 'do.

Humble Beginnings: Other roles include a small handful of film and TV-movie roles, a couple of appearances on the sitcom The Game, playing a waitress in an episode of How I Met Your Mother that guest-starred fellow celebrity crush Danica McKellar, and guest spots on the dramas House, CSI: Miami, NCIS, Cold Case, In Plain Sight, and Burn Notice.
All Not-Blonde FBI Agents Apparently Look Alike Dept.: Christine's IMDB site contains -- at this writing -- an apparent error, listing among her credits an appearance on the No Ordinary Family episode "No Ordinary Friends," playing the wife of Ricky Schroder's character. Thing is, that part was played by fellow celebrity crush Annie Wersching -- who played an FBI agent on 24 in its final two seasons, including season 7, when Schroder was in the cast.

I say "an apparent error" because, I suppose, there's some chance that Woods was a stunt double for Wersching or something -- I know that Wersching had a baby fairly recently, so who knows. But it's not credited as such; the episode's IMDB entry just lists both actresses as playing the same part. Oops.
Why Ye Olde Podcaster Likes Her: It may be a tad premature to list an actress here based on solely one role, but I was willing to take that gamble when I pre-wrote this. Her work as Janis Hawk on FlashForward was a case study in how a seemingly minor, background, character can slowly rise to the top of a storyline and how an unknown actress can end up shining as brightly as the big previously-known-quantity stars in the cast. She kept me guessing on her loyalties and captured a mix of fear, determination, and maternal dedication in her time there, and I look forward to seeing what she does next.

From left, Perfect Couples ladies
Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Olivia
Munn, and Christine Woods.

Actually, now that I look at her credits, I remember her being very good in her In Plain Sight guest appearance, as well. And Perfect Couples was far from perfect, but she and Munn both did their best with the material they were given.
Film and TV-movie credits: Sveener and the Shmiel (Amazon | iTunes) * Mike Birbiglia: What I Should Have Said Was Nothing - Tales from My Secret Public Journal (Amazon | iTunes) * The Madness of Jane (Amazon | iTunes) * The Haunting of Marsten Manor (Amazon | iTunes)
TV and Web series credits: Perfect Couples, season 1 (Amazon | iTunes) * FlashForward (Amazon | iTunes) * In Plain Sight, season 2: "One Night Stan" (Amazon | iTunes) * NCIS, season 6: "Love and War" (Amazon | iTunes) * Cold Case, season 6: "Street Money" (Amazon | iTunes) * House, season 5: "Dying Changes Everything" (Amazon | iTunes) * Welcome to the Captain (Amazon | iTunes) * How I Met Your Mother, season 3: "Third Wheel" (Amazon | iTunes) * The Game, season 1 (Amazon | iTunes) * CSI: Miami, season 4: "Prey" (Amazon | iTunes)