Lauren Lee SmithTakes the Lead On CSI

CSI’s newest cast member is the center of tomorrow’s night’s tension fraught episode. We learn a great deal about Riley Ryan after she’s taken hostage during an investigation.
“They’ve played with this whole idea of her being mysterious and always telling a different story about her background, which I like and which keeps the character very open,” Lauren Lee Smith said during an onset interview.
“Every episode I get, I’m like, ‘Oh, this is what they’re doing with her.’ It keeps it more interesting for me personally not to know too much in advance.”
Smith landed the role after a pilot she’d worked on wasn’t picked up. “I’m very lucky. I don’t know how it all came about. I sort of blinked and suddenly I’m here and living in L.A. on the No. 1 TV show. I just feel very, very blessed.”

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