(Nia
Long)
CBS has announced that popular actress Nia
Long will be joining the cast of NCIS:
Los Angeles as a series regular. She will be introduced in the ninth season
premiere which will start on M-Net 101 in November 2017. An exact date will be
announced closer to the time.
Long will play the team’s new executive
assistant director, Shay Mosely. As a former Secret Service agent now working
for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Mosely is an experienced
Washington insider who brings an east coast style and demeanour to the west
coast team.
“The character was created specifically for
Nia to capitalize on her strengths and personality, and we are excited about
the new opportunities and dynamics she brings to the show,” said NCIS: Los Angeles executive producer R.
Scott Gemmill. “We couldn’t be happier to have her join our family.”
Since making her feature film debut in Boyz N the Hood, actress Nia Long has
gone on to star in more than 50 movies and television shows. Some of her
notable film credits include Friday, Soul
Food, Love Jones, The Best Man, Boiler Room, Big Momma’s House, Alfie, Are We
There Yet?, Big Momma’s House 2, The Best Man Holiday and Keanu.
Long is the ambassador for the United
Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets programme, a global, grassroots campaign
to save lives by preventing malaria. She will be traveling to Tanzania for the
campaign, to visit the world’s largest refugee camp where she will meet with
refugee families and distribute insecticide-treated mosquito nets that help keep
families safe from the disease.
NCIS:
Los Angeles stars Chris O’Donnell, LL COOL J, Linda
Hunt, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen, Barrett Foa and Renée Felice Smith.
It is produced by CBS Television Studios and the new season (nine) will air
exclusively on M-Net 101.
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