KOOL TV BABE OF THE WEEK: 'COVERT AFFAIRS' KARI MATCHETT

Gentlemen prefer blondes. The cool and confident Canadian actress Kari Matchett. Image: ULIKE.

No stranger to playing determined, fiery women, office super bitches or crisp cool femme fatales across all kinds of TV series, lovely award winning Canadian actress Kari Matchett has had a very diverse and populist home country/Hollywood career ranging from mini-series (like the FIVE DAYS TO MIDNIGHT time travel thriller, opposite Timothy Hutton (who she would star with again in the LEVERAGE series) to hit shows like 24 (as Vice President Noah Daniels ruthlessly efficient personal assistant Lisa Miller), the medical ensemble world of ER (as Dr.Skye Wexler) and in her most recent series role as the conflicted DPD agency boss Joan Campbell in the USA NETWORK action drama series COVERT AFFAIRS. She's even been unrecognisable under tons of prosthetics as a creepily believable alien Taelon in the popular long running series EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT of the early 2000's, as well as playing one of the shows loyal human companion protectors, too-the Irish firebrand of Siobhan Beckett, and lover to fellow agent Ronald Sandoval (Von Flores), making a fine impression in the series first two seasons. Other sci-fi related work would include movie CUBE 2: HYPERCUBE and the popular, if only one season lasting, Florida set aliens on Earth series suitably titled INVASION (as possessed mom and career Doctor, Mariel Underlay). Other notable genre crossing work would include populist hits like THE NERO WOLFE MYSTERIES, CRIMINAL MINDS, UGLY BETTY, THE ELEVENTH HOUR, SHARK and Aarron Sorkin's witty if doomed STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP.

As an alien Taelon in early episodes of EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT. Image: ALLIANCE ATLANTIS.

Aliens amongst us? With William Fichtner in the short-lived but memorable INVASION series. Image: ABC.

Re-united with Timothy Hutton in several episodes of the hit series LEVERAGE. Image: TNT.

And as part of the ensemble cast of the popular action drama COVERT AFFAIRS. Image: USA NETWORK.

Recently making an appearance in the Brad Pitt starring/Terrence Malick directed THE TREE OF LIFE, Miss Matchett is now back to her Canadian roots: her next film project being as co-star in the drama TRACING IRIS, a mother/daughter drama based on the novel by Genni Gunn, alongside acting talents Aidan Quinn and Kenneth Welsh.

Always a welcome presence on high quality TV: the lovely Kari Matchett. Image: ULIKE.