THE LONGEST NIGHT. THE END OF 'SOUTHLAND'

The ever thinning blue line in law enforcement continues. SOUTHLAND returns. Images: TNT.

Going out with a bang, the cast and crew of the critically acclaimed TNT police drama SOUTHLAND deliver a tense, dramatic and explosive end to their fifth and final season (hopefully arriving on the UK's MORE 4 channel later in the year). And right from the start, our favourite characters, having all faced a period of upheaval and transition from events at the end of Season Four, face a tough time coping with their new choices and responsibilities. Detective Lydia Adams (brought to life with such caring, believable humanity, and a sometimes beleaguered heart, by Regina King) is now a proud mommy, but has to juggle her dedicated life as a police woman with her equally dedicated life as a parent-and things are going to get even more brutal. Within the confines of former junkie, big-hearted but troubled officer John Cooper's (Michael Cudlitz) restricted life, still on the patrol streets in the only real job he knows- to truly serve and protect - he gets another tricky partner to contend with after his prior complicated "relationship" with the now departed Jessica Tang (Lucy Liu) - clashing personalities with a former military veteran from Afghanistan, whilst recently promoted Ben Sherman (Ben McKenzie), having gained a dark side to his personality the previous season, sees a series of big decisions go big-time wrong, with severe consequences. Finally, hard done by officer Sammy Bryant (Shawn Hatosy) starts his year on a continued streak of bad luck, still clashing with his ex-wife and struggling to make ends meet- but could there possibly be any light at the end of the tunnel for him?

Detectives Lydia Adams (Regina King) and Ruben Robinson (Dorian Missick) investigate, in the episode Chaos.

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Tricky, lifed-up cops Sammy (Shawn Hatosy) and Ben (Ben McKenzie) continue to clash.

In a show where the lives of our flawed heroes often isn't fair or sweet, where violence and cruelty is common place, and where Hollywood is more Hollyweird than ever, the series final subplots and personal conflicts gather upstream momentum, gaining intensity towards a genuinely shattering finale- of the kind that only SOUTHLAND can deliver so effectively. Its final scenes are likely to linger in viewers mind for a long time to come, possessing genuine shock and tragedy.

The complex John Cooper (Michael Cudlitz) continues to endure the L.A. streets.

It's faced many challenges in its five year run- cancellation and budget/ cast changes being standouts- but the gritty and realistic life and work on the streets series, as seen through the creative eyes of Ann Biderman and her dedicated actors and film crew, has endured to justifiably earn its place as one of modern US TV's best genre drama series.

Goodbye, SOUTHLAND. And thank you.

FIGHTING THE BEATEN PATH - 'FALLING SKIES' SEASON THREE...

Humanity gains an alien ally in the fight against the evil Skitters. Invasion drama FALLING SKIES returns to UK TV. Images: FOX/TNT.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend - an old saying which the remaining battle scared human heroes of the Second Massachusetts group hope to discover with the arrival of a new group of aliens to their sacred Earth, supposedly a powerful and knowledgeable ally wanting to help them win back their planet once and for all from its original extra-terrestrial enslavers, the “Skitters”, as the new bigger action, bigger stakes third season of FALLING SKIES, once again staring Noah Wyle as the brave historian tuned soldier Tom Mason, with the help of his equally determined young family (including alien-altered youngster Ben (Connor Jessup)), returns to the UK’s FOX channel from 16^th July.

 

Abraham Lincoln with a machine-gun? Tom Mason (Noah Wyle) makes an impact in his new leadership role.

Propelled into far-reaching events in the opening two-hour season launcher, seven months on, the alliance between humanity and the alien Volm continues, but trust issues continue to be a thorny problem. Meanwhile, Tom and Anne’s (Moon Bloodgood) baby arrival, a ray of light within such tumultuous change, will surely prove to be something “special”, though the human death toll against the invaders gets ever more serious. Having caused havoc with her full reveal as an alien Overlord, the converted former rebel, Karen (Jessy Schram), is also likely to strike once more (using her puppet on a string Hal Mason (Drew Roy)), and at the worst possible time, as will the now fully converted human child soldiers alongside her, bringing creepy new meaning to the term “little monsters”!

 

Humanity's new saviours? The Volm have arrived.

Intriguing guest stars this time out include Gloria Reuben as Mason's aide Marina Perlata in a multi-episode arc, TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY’s Stephen Collins, and a memorable appearance from HOUSE’s Robert Sean Leonard, playing an obsessive but gifted scientist who runs the local power grid and lives underground with his pet rats.

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Gaining better production values and strong visualists (including continuing HEROES veteran Greg Beeman and STAR TREK’s Jonathan Frakes), with the actors fully settled into their roles-Noah Wyle bringing humanity and heroism to his role of Tom Mason, now the elected President of the New United States- the series may have recently lost its main frontrunner in Remi Aubchon (turning his hand to writing a novel), but FALLING SKIES future, garnering respectable comments from the critics and strong opening ratings, looks hopefully set to continue for at least another year of sci-fi adventure (seen-in by seasoned dark heart producer, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA's David Eick).

Check out some more promotional material from the new series here: 

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LIQUID GOLD! 'DALLAS' SEASON TWO ON UK TV

An oil state for the cast of DALLAS. Image: TNT.

The family fortunes of the Ewing oil empire explode into crisis and feuding once again for the upcoming second season of TNT’s hit re-imagining of the classic eighties series, DALLAS, coming to the UK’s FIVE channel from 29^th January. And the legacy of that crafty and beloved JR Ewing, as played by the irreplaceable and sadly departed Larry Hagman, will be celebrated, remembered and mined for emotional drama in the process. Hagman was on fine form during the previous premiere year, despite the cancer which saw him depart for a couple of episodes. Indeed, before his passing, he even managed to film around six episodes of Season Two as the family’s greatest, and brightest, manipulating, oil baron, dutifully and greedily out to reclaim his papa’s birthright, and in constant opposition against his loving and always faithful brother, Bobby (Patrick Duffy). The iconic character of JR will apparently be killed off, with an episode (eight) that concentrates on the characters funeral, a time that will surely be genuinely emotional for the cast and audiences, as well as giving the behind the scenes writers the intriguing opportunity to introduce a new plot-line linked to his on-screen departure. There are further developments for the rest of the Ewing family, too, as Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe) and Elena (Jordana Brewster) finally make wedding plans, John Ross (Josh Henderson) gets a fiery new lady into his bed (possibly 24’s lovely heroine Annie Wersching?), whilst Bobby’s faithful Ann (Brenda Strong) will be left bed-ridden and ill due to a mysterious set of circumstances that her husband must unravel…

Trailer: Dallas Season 2 Trailer # 2 - YouTube
Dallas "New Episodes This January" Teaser (HD) - YouTube

As an additional bonus, keeping links to the classic series, there’s also the return of old-time series veterans Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark for a few episodes (presumably linked to J.R.’s funeral), who previously went on to headline their own DALLAS spin-off of the time, the very popular KNOTS LANDING. Whilst Ken Kercheval, still shining as the wily entrepreneur Cliff Barnes, obsessed with getting one up on the Ewing clan, will hopefully get more prominence as the series antagonist alongside his now outed daughter, Pamela Rebecca (Julie Gonzalo).

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Larry Hagman seen in final scenes as Dallas legend JR Ewing before his tragic death | Mail Online

A SLICE OF GALACTIC HISTORY. REVISITING THE 'BABYLON 5' TV MOVIES

Out in space, Captain John Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) sizes up a deadly new foe in the BABYLON 5 TV movie Thirdspace. All images: Warner Brothers.

The final season of supreme nineties space opera BABYLON 5 may have generated a lot of controversy amongst its die-hard, worldwide fans, as did creator J. Michael Straczynski's follow up in that epic universe: CRUSADE, but the nice thing was that the series then new makers TNT, saving the show and it's sci-fi legend from a premature end with its fourth season, were quick to ride the wave of its building popularity, and a dedicated genre audience base, by commissioning numerous feature-length event TV movies appearing in, out and during its purchase of the original four seasons of B5 in syndicated stripping, and as a warm up to its commissioned fifth year. Okay, so these ratings winning projects would be of varying quality, but there's no denying that the four films comprising the TNT collection are all interestingly diverse and take the universe making heroes of Captain John Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner), Mimbari Ambassdor Delenn (Mira Furlan), former Security Chief Michael Gairbaldi (Jerry Doyle), and others, into previously unexplored and fascinating new avenues of storytelling and character, backed up by the shows then state of the art and evolving CGI effects work.

Here's a look back at those four original movies, in the original production order they were made, now playing in and out of the UK FOX channel's Xmas schedules.

Disturbing visions for Commander Ivanova (Claudia Christian) in Thirdspace.

THIRDSPACE. Filmed in between Season Four and the approaching Five commission from TNT, this is Straczynski's bold attempt to do a pure Lovecraftian horror story in his sci-fi universe, set sometime shortly after the Shadow War, with the commercial/diplomatic Babylon 5 station's Earthforce crew now seceded and outcast fugitives from their home planet's government, due to their exposing the murderous actions of the insane and ambitious President Clarke. Suffering from lack of supplies, Captain John Sheridan and his team have been fighting off increased attacks from raiders taking their goods when a hyperspace journey sees an encounter with a drifting and immense, totally alien ship possibly over a million years old. As a shady Interplanetary Expeditions research team (headed by Shari Belafonte) arrives to help unearth the crafts secrets and possible scientific riches, commercial telepath Lyta Alexander (Patricia Tallman) starts going loopy with premonitions of danger and death to come via her prior genetic manipulation from the mysterious and now departed Vorlon race, whilst many others on the station start to exhibit equally strange behaviour and soon nightmarish visions of another world and universe, populated by a race of cannibalistic aliens. Quickly, the ultimate intentions of the craft are discovered, but can the doorway to the domain of Thirdspace be shut down before it's too late...

Exploring a dangerous relic: Bill Morishi (Clyde Kusatsu) and Elizabeth Trent (Shari Belafonte).

Making the most of existing sets for the show-the reason it was filmed before Straczynski's mostly all-new environments of the In the Beginning prequel, Thirdspace starts off well, solidly building up the mystery and tension with the aforementioned Lovecraftian elements and shades of the Nigel Neale Quatermass and the Pit. Jesus Salvador Trevino's accompanying direction is fine, and has some creepily effective moments, as does the shows art direction. In front of the camera, our cast equally has stuff to enjoy, especially feisty heroine Susan Ivanova (Claudia Christian), who finely displays her kick boxing, fist packing action skills at one point. Unfortunately, the plot stops in the final act and becomes an all-out space battle mess of a finale, when what it really needed was some added and sophisticated story weight to give it a more satisfactory closure. Still, it is a lot of fun and eminently watchable-the horror angle certainly having not been as ramped up before in the series history as it is here. KOOL TV RATING: 3 out of 5

A dark time of revelation for Minbari leader Delenn (Mira Furlan) in the B5 prequel In the Beginning.

IN THE BEGINNING. It seemed like everyone was doing prequels in the nineties, so why not BABYLON 5? Especially as there was so much story material that had been talked about but never really shown over four years, making it a creative gamble definitely worth taking by Straczynski, and especially as the project was going to help launch the fifth season on a new network. In the Beginning would help acclimatise viewers into knowing who was who, who did what to who, and where they came from in this special universe. In a nutshell, the story concerns Earth's continued exploration of the stars, and their first contact with the religious warriors, the Minbari, which, unfortunately for all concerned, ends in tragic disaster with the slaying of the alien leader Dukat (a towering performance Reiner Schone), whose species, now lead by his trusted acolyte, the young and impressionable Delenn (Mira Furlan), initiates a bloody and vengeance fuelled Holy War against Humanity across the entire galaxy, with the might of their unstoppable race and war machine technology at their side, against Earth's limited resources but counter attacking spirit. Humanity's fate in this terrible time is decided at the history marking Battle of the Line, where a lone pilot, Jeffrey Sinclair (the late, much missed Michael O'Hare) becomes the salvation and key to the ultimate saving of his people from universal extinction and the soon following and totally unexpected end of the war. In between all that, Straczynksi crafts a clever and effective new story charting another hero of the saga, John Sheridan and his steady rise to captain and war hero during the early days of the conflict, as well as those histories of the series other important main characters, including Narn ambassador G'Kar (Andreas Katsulas, before his iconic role became a good guy!), Doctor Stephen Franklin (Richard Biggs) and a yery young Susan Ivanova (Claudia Christian returning for a fun cameo). Then, around all that, Straczynski builds the main framing device through which the story and history is ultimately told and completed, set in a not too distant future on his devastated home world of Centauri Prime, where the sullen, bitter and lonely rule of Emperor Londo Mollari (a uniformly excellent Peter Jurasik) - a key player in the series from the start- is coming to an even darker end, his fate inexplicably linked to that of an older, and now captured and awaiting execution Sheridan and Delenn...

A young John Sheridan uses his instincts to defeat a Minbari war ship.

Ultimately best enjoyed by fans after seeing the entire series, In the Beginning is a major success for BABYLON 5 in the long run. Mike Vejar's confident and fast-paced storytelling works well against Straczynski's fill in the blanks script. The effects work is excellent for its time, and its great to see the youngified regular actors seeing their characters first moments of glory. Continuity and the use of previous classic moments from the series are well integrated, especially footage of O'Hare/Sinclair from the important first season episode And the Sky Full of Stars. KOOL TV RATING: 4.5 out of 5

Matters of life and death for the mysterious Soul Hunter leader (Martin Sheen) in The River of Souls.

RIVER OF SOULS. Set in the years between Season Five's penultimate and final episodes, archaeologist Robert Bryson (Ian McShane), under the employ of now pharmaceutical empire running businessman Michael Garibaldi, arrives on Babylon 5 with a stolen artifact from the sacred home world of the Soul Hunters, hoping to unlock is secrets and discover immortality. Instead, he incites the wrath of that race, who soon arrive en mass at the station to demand its return, whilst Doctor Stephen Franklin (Richard Biggs) personally gets caught up in the artifact's life and death abilities and revelations. At the same time, its mystical and surreal powers are causing havoc to the station and its inhabitants, as phantoms roam its metal corridors, of which Commander Elizabeth Lochley (Tracy Scoggins) unforgettably discovers why she's recently become such a popular hit with the male inhabitants of the diplomatic/trade outpost...and not in a good way!

Hello Boys! A different side to Captain Lochley (Tracy Scoggins) is revealed...

Full cast publicity shot for The River of Souls.

The weakest of the four TV movies, River of Souls starts off with good intentions, with what should have been an intriguing and meaningful look into the soul and life after death: the former having played such an important part of the series multi-aspect storytelling since its premiere year, as well as being a fine opportunity for the late Richard Biggs to get more substantial character material to work with as Franklin. Unfortunately, the quirky story just doesn't sustain the duration and could easily have been one of the shows fifty minute episodes. Boredom sets in quickly with primary guest stars Ian McShane and THE WEST WING's Martin Sheen looking lost in it all (in fact, Sheen apparently hated working on the show and pretty much disowns his performance as the strange talking, alien Soul Hunter leader. He originally thought he was going to be playing McShane's role). Overall, more than anything else, River will probably be best remembered for the titillating scenes of the hologram Elizabeth Lochley looking great in her space lingerie, of which promotional images were splattered all over the various film and sci-fi magazines of the period. KOOL TV RATING 2.5 out of 5.

Sheridan, Lochley and Garibaldi lead the fight against the Drakh in A Call to Arms.

A CALL TO ARMS. It's the eve of the fifth anniversary of Sheridan's great and good-intentioned galactic alliance, and a huge celebration is planned. At the same time, he and business entrepreneur Michael Garaibaladi are overseeing the shakedown tests of the first two, hot off the production line prototype starships that will see in the next generation of the protectorate Ranger army. Unfortunately, despite all the good work and noble intent going on, the evil Drakh, seeking revenge on their curtailed power with the loss of their once masters, the Shadows, plan a huge act of retaliation and revenge on both Sheridan and Earth by unleashing the last of a deadly fleet of planet killers against them. Soon, our noble, greyer hero, helped by the mysterious Technomage Galen (a charismatic Peter Woodward) and a motley Earth/alien crew, race against the clock, using their new experimental firepower to win Earth's government over in mobilising its forces against the mighty Drakh menace. As the two great battle fleets lock horns and blaster weapons over the green/blue home of Humanity, the conflict is won, but the war is lost. as the Drakh survivors successfully unleash a deadly bacterial plague into the planet's atmosphere, of which the Alliance will have only five years to discover a cure before all life on Earth is extinct. The clock is ticking...

The enigmatic Galen (Peter Woodward) joins the series.

A time of crisis for Sheridan and Dureena (Carrie Dobro) on the bridge of the Excalibur.

A deliberate and exhilarating action adventure, A Call To Arms is another directorial success for innovative with a budget series regular Mike Vejar. The final original TNT B5 film from Straczynski, primarily acting as a passing the torch primer for the new TNT spin-off series, CRUSADE, Call is a  much underrated and exciting film, full of fresh promise and ideas potential (the visually stunning and powerful starship Excalibur being the particular standout, what with its intriguing submarine like interior and mixing of Human, Vorlon and Minbari technologies, fast becoming a terrific visual creation), whilst the return of the Drakh as a believable nemesis for use across the two B5 series is decently handled. Overall, it's a lively and action-packed send off, done in a stirring incident packed way, though it's a shame that a few more original cast members couldn't have been fitted into the tale beyond Bruce Boxleitner, Jerry Doyle and Tracy Scoggins. Boxleitner is great as the older, but still gung- ho Sheridan, as, too, is Doyle. Newcomers and soon CRUSADE regulars Peter Woodward as the mysterious and often sarcastic Galen and Carrie Dobro as Thieves Guild alien Dureena Nafeel, whose extinct race had prior contact with one of the Shadow's doomsday weapons, are a superb new addition to the series, the latter particularly bringing a fresh new perspective to the series. Special mention to guest star Tony Todd as the brave and resourceful Captain Anderson of the starship Victory, who, with his gallant crew, sacrifice their lives in a last ditch effort to save the Earth. Only the distinctive but ultimately lacking incidental music by newcomer composer Evan Chen, replacing notable series regular Christopher Framke, slightly hampers the project. 
KOOL TV RATING: 4 out of 5.

Get hold of the original BABYLON 5 TV movies here: Amazon.com: Babylon 5: The Movie Collection: Bruce Boxleitner, Jerry Doyle, Peter Jurasik, Bill Mumy, Richard Biggs, Mira Furlan: Movies & TV

First lady of BABYLON 5, Claudia Christian, who played sexy and sassy Commander Susan Ivanova in four seasons and two TV movies, has recently published her autobiography, which includes her time working on the series. It's received rave reviews.  Purchase it here: Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction: Claudia Christian, Morgan Grant Buchanan: 9781937856069: Amazon.com: Books

Claudia's FACEBOOK page: Claudia Christian

GOODBYE, LARRY HAGMAN...

The world is not enough! The late, great Larry Hagman as charismatic evil-doer J.R. Ewing in DALLAS. Image: ULIKE. 

He'd been a well recognised face on TV throughout the sixties (most notably in the fantasy comedy I DREAM OF JEANNIE) and into the seventies, but for worldwide fans of the hit series DALLAS, American actor Larry Hagman, who sadly passed away yesterday at the age of 81, will always be remembered for his brilliant and truly iconic portrayal of corrupt and corrupting Texan oil millionaire and feuding next generation family matriarch J.R. Ewing. It was a TV performance seemingly tailor made for his fine talents as an actor, as he brought such a lot of nuance and subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, villainy to a part-the baddie we all truly loved to hate- that helped redefine the soap opera genre in TV and give it a massive quality injection. J.R. was everything soap-dom could ever have wanted in a baddie: multi-layered, greedy, ruthless, a family man yet a complete bastard to his loved ones, and always needing to have the last word in everything. And whenever he gave us that wicked smile, we all smiled too and enjoyed his deviousness. He was the only man in his unique universe who could make nastiness so much fun...

Certainly the best thing about the TNT channel's resurrected DALLAS series of this year, his character out of the retirement home and his eyes lit up once more whenever the words "oil" and "profit" were mentioned by his son and heir, John Ross, it was a building return to form for the big hatted entrepreneur. It's sad that such two distinctive greats- J.R. and Hagman, a much liked and respected talent in the Hollywood industry and a dedicated family man- are now gone.

They'll be very sadly missed...

Dallas star Larry Hagman dies aged 81 after battle with cancer | Mail Online

GUARDIANS OF ANGELES. 'SOUTHLAND' SEASON FOUR ARRIVES ON UK TV...

Law and order? It's just another day at the office for our dedicated police heroes of SOUTHLAND. Image: TNT.

New faces join the brave and the bold complimenting the Los Angeles Police Department team of SOUTHLAND, returning for it's new fourth season, ten episode run of powerful social/personal drama on the UK's MORE4 channel from tomorrow. The standout newcomer will surely be the lovely Lucy Liu, who, before joining the modern Holmes in ELEMENTARY, plays officer Jessica Tang, new partner to the volatile and opinionated older cop John Cooper (big bear-like Michael Cudlitz), now off his painkiller addiction, on the law and order beat, and early on proving a bit of a cold fish as their relationship starts off on rocky ground. Further mixing things up a bit in the long-term storytelling, stalwart and relatable heroine Detective Lydia Adams (Regina King) finally gets a new colleague she enjoys working with, ex-military man Ruben Robinson (Dorian Missick), whilst back to cop status ex-detective, Sammy Bryant (the always compelling Shawn Hatosy), trying to erase the spectre of his partner's death the season previously, goes out on the road with straight-as-a-die officer Ben Sherman (Benjamin McKenzie), in a street partnership that, amongst the gangs and day to day problems of the city's residents, starts encouragingly but may end up in tragedy...

John Cooper (Michael Cudlitz) and Jessica Tang (Lucy Liu) make an intriguing new pairing.

Behind the scenes: Southland season 4 Three New Partnerships - YouTube
Lucy Liu talks Officer Tang's 'Southland' past - YouTube

It's felt like forever since we last saw the show on UK television (Channel 4, why are you treating such a classy show so poorly!), and KOOL TV has missed its regular fix of such finely crafted US drama. Welcome back SOUTHLAND!

Check out our previous SOUTHLAND features here: KOOL TV: SOUTHLAND

KOOL TV BABE OF THE WEEK: 'DALLAS' STAR LEONOR VARELA

Bedroom eyes! The enchanting actress/model Leonor Varela. Image: via www.leonor-varela.com

Her run as Bipolar bunny boiler-to-be manipulator Marta Del Sol may have come to a sudden end in Wednesday's seventh episode screening of the re-imagined/next generation DALLAS series (on the UK's FIVE channel), literally thrown out of a hotel window to her death by the Goon Squad of oil king wannabe Carlos Bernard, but the lovely Chilean born actress/model Leonor Varela has lots more interesting acting work on the horizon beyond the cattle ranches and oil drums of SouthFork, including a film starring role in a promising new mystery from writer/director Stephen Sommers (best known for his work in resurrecting THE MUMMY and VAN HELSING for Universal Studios), ODD THOMAS, based on the Dean Koontz novel, co-starring Willem DaFoe and STAR TREK's Anton Yelchin.

The Queen of the Nile. In the starring role of CLEOPATRA. Image: ABC TV/HALLMARK.

In deep mire with Wesley Snipes in BLADE II. Image: NEW LINE.

In action with Mark Valley (centre) in HUMAN TARGET. Image: FOX.

Rising to fame in the 1999 ABC TV mini-series of Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor's legendary sixties portrayal would prove a hard act to follow, but Varela's exotic beauty and mystery helped her along just fine, with great co-star support from ex-James Bond Timothy Dalton. She also proved a worthy female foil/love interest, and kick-ass sword wielding heroine, to Wesley Snipes in Guillermo Del Toro's gorefest BLADE II, and to chiselled hero Christopher Chance in two memorable episodes of Mark Valley's much-missed HUMAN TARGET series. Other noteworthy appearances well worth checking out include the Pierce Brosnan adaptation of John Le Carre's THE TAILOR OF PANAMA, a critically acclaimed performance in Lawrence Bender's drama INNOCENT VOICES-about a brave mother caught in the Salavadoran civil war, and the popular sci-fi series STARGATE: ATLANTIS.

Continuing her career as a model, a humanist and animal rights supporter, check out her official website here: Leonor Varela ~ Official Website