Pilot Scoop: Justified's Natalie Zea Is a Person of Interest

Justified star Natalie Zea has landed a guest-starring role on J.J. Abrams' CBS pilot, Person of Interest, TVGuide.com has learned.

Zea will play a district attorney whose investigation of a particularly troubling homicide may cost her life. Written by Jonathan Nolan (The Prestige, The Dark Knight), the show also stars Lost alum Michael Emerson as a billionaire who recruits a presumed-dead CIA agent (Jim Caviezel) to catch violent criminals in New York. Taraji P. Henson will also co-star.

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This is the second project Abrams has this pilot season along with Fox's Alcatraz, which will feature another Lost actor, Jorge Garcia.

Besides her work on Justified, Zea starred on ABC's Dirty Sexy Money. She has also had recurring roles on HBO's Hung and CBS' The Defenders.

(Additional reporting by Robyn Ross)