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SARAH: I thought there wasn't enough room for both me and your job. - "Killing Emmett Young"
Press
"Meet the 24 seven" USAToday
(12/3/2002)
By Donna Freydkin and Dennis Hunt
Although Fox's real-time spy thriller 24 is fueled
in part by muscle and machismo, it also runs on some of the
strongest and most intriguing female characters in prime time.
Already, last year's mole Nina (Sarah Clarke), has returned;
Tuesday, the president's scheming ex-wife, Sherry (Penny Johnson
Jerald), reappears. Take a look at some of the women who provide 24's
finest hour.
Sarah Clarke
Assignment: Last season, Clarke's character, Nina Myers,
ostensibly served as the chief of staff in the Counter Terrorist
Unit — but was actually the mole feeding information to the
other side. This year, we get to figure out Myers' connection to
the dark side.
Dossier: Clarke, who was born and raised in St. Louis, graduated
from Indiana University with an Italian degree but moved to New
York to study acting at Circle in the Square, appearing in a few
small-budget movies before landing the role of 24's
consummate bad girl. "I'm not as ruthless as Nina,"
Clarke says. "Playing her is all about ambition, greed and
protecting herself. She pursues what she wants, but I'm not that
way."
Background check: If you didn't recognize her from the film Pas
de Deux, you might have spotted her in her breakout vehicle
— a 1999 Volkswagen Jetta TV commercial. "I drove a
Jetta all through college, but then I got into this horrible car
crash. I was fine, but my little car was totaled, and I never got
a Jetta again," she says. "Two years later, cut to me
in New York, not needing a car anyway, and getting the Jetta
commercial."
Obstacles: She may play one of 24's most cunning,
calculating characters, but that didn't stop Clarke from finding
true love on the show. In September, she married co-star Xander
Berkeley, who plays George Mason, the head of Los Angeles' CTU
bureau. "It was non-stop from day one. I got cast on the
show, I met Xander, and all of a sudden I'm living in
Hollywood," Clarke says with a laugh.
