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Melina Kanakaredes: Biography

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Birth Place: Akron, OH
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 04/23/1967, Taurus
Profession: Actor

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This stunning, curly-haired actress spent five years on the daytime soap Guiding Light before jumping in to prime time 1995 with a recurring role as an ambitious journalist on NYPD Blue. A few short-lived serie... read more

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VIDEO: CSI: NY Star Previews Tonight's Deadly Finale | Today's News: Our Take | 5/14/2009
Lest anyone miss it, you are hereby reminded that CSI: NY's season finale airs this Thursday at 10 pm/ET, on CBS.

Series star Melina Kanakaredes came by TVGuide.com to preview the season-ender, in which one team member breathes his or her final breath.

"Listen, someone dies every episode," she says, "but it's not always that ... read more 7 Comments
Exclusive: CSI: NY Collars Ex-Creek Stud | Today's News: Our Take | 7/21/2007
Some fresh blood is turning up on CSI: NY.Ex-Dawson's Creeker Kerr Smith and Shark's Bess Wohl are joining the cast as recurring players this season. Smith, last seen in Fox's short-lived Justice, will play Drew Becker, an expert in forged documents and a love interest for Stella (Melina Kanakaredes). "Well, he pretends to be an expert in forged documents," clarifies executive producer Pam Veasey. "He has a mysterious background that we are slowly developing. He's a love interest who has an ulterior motive."Meanwhile, Wohl, who, in addition to a two-episode stint on Shark has guest-starred on Cold Case and Ghost Whisperer, will play a new lab tech and a good friend of Adam's (A.J. Buckley). For more CSI: NY prattle — including some good news for Danny/Lindsay-shippers — check out the post-press-tour edition of Ask Ausiello on Aug. 1. read more
Do you have any new spoilers ... | Today's News: Our Take | 3/21/2007

Question: Do you have any new spoilers about CSI: NY?

Answer: The show has put out a casting call for a child actress who looks like Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) at 8 years old. Not so coincidentally, they're also looking for a thirtysomething female to play a woman from Stella's past who harbors a secret identity.
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TV Guide Exclusive: Inside the Sexy New CSI: NY | Today's News: Our Take | 12/6/2006
Something remarkable happened while shooting this season's opening episode of CBS' CSI: NY (Wednesdays at 10 pm/ET). Instead of the usual nose-holding over the rotting corpse du jour, the actors huddling around the playback monitors were doing puppy-dog head tilts and whispering, "Awww." "It was so sweet," says Melina Kanakaredes, who plays the normally tough-talking detective Stella Bonasera. "I mean, Mac and Peyton are adorable together." Sweet? Adorable? Is this CSI: NY or 7th Heaven? After two seasons of by-the-book forensic gumshoeing, the crime drama's focus has suddenly shifted to topics that are decidedly more… cuddly. And it's not just the actors who are cooing. New, more personal story lines, including the burgeoning affair between hard-bitten Manhattan investigator Mac Tayl read more
BIG CHANGES AT CSI: NY | Today's News: Our Take | 8/5/2005
CSI: NY is planning a killer plot twist for fall. "We'll be losing one of our primary six characters in the first two episodes," teases executive producer Anthony Zuiker, who declined to reveal if the CSI would be whacked or merely written out. "I can't say [more than that]. It's big." Well, we know it won't be Hil Harper, whose Dr. Hawkes is getting a nice promotion in Season 2. Zuiker confirms that the morgue man is being moved into the field alongside Gary Sinise and Melina Kanakaredes. "We love him so much," says Zuiker, "we need more of him." And the person being let go? Apparently not so much. read more

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Melina Kanakaredes: Credits

Title	Year	Type
A Home for the Holidays (Appearing)	2006	TV Show Series
CSI: NY (Actor - Det. Stella Bonasera)	2004	TV Show Series
Into The Fire (Actor - Catrina/Sabrina Hampton)	2004	Movie
15 Minutes (Actor - Nicolette Karas)	2001	Movie
Providence (Actor - Sydney Hansen)	1999	TV Show Series