"Nina (Sarah Clarke), the in-house villainess who killed Jack's wife at the end of the last season, now seems to be channeling the combined spirits of Patty Hearst, the Baader-Meinhof gang, and the youthful members of the PLO every time she glances at her nemesis with glittering, malevolent eyes. Needless to say, she looks sexy as hell doing it." - Brendan Bernhard
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"Sarah Clarke" Biography (Winter
2006)
No character on 24 has more secrets than Nina Myers, who
started the series as Jack Bauer's closest ally, but then turned
out to be his worst enemy.
But those were nothing compared to the secret that Sarah Clarke,
the 33-year-old actress who plays Nina, managed to keep from her
costars during the first season of 24. Right under
everyone's noses, Clarke fell in love that year with Xander
Berkeley, the 50-year-old actor who plays Counter Terrorism Unit
boss George Mason. "We just wanted to keep it to ourselves
for a while," she once recalled.
The twosome sparked at the very first script read-through, then
finally hooked up a few weeks later when they found themselves
alone in a makeup trailer after the power mysteriously went out.
"We sat there and talked in the dark," Berkeley has
said. "It was one of those complete swept-off-the-feet
feelings from the word 'go'."
Clarke was already feeling a little light-headed from her rapid
rise to stardom. After growing up in a humble St. Louis suburb
and studying Italian at Indiana University, she moved to New York
and quickly scored guest spots on Sex and the City and Ed
before landing the breakthrough gig on 24. "It was
nonstop from day one," she said. "I got cast on the
show. I met Xander, and all of a sudden I'm living in
Hollywood!"
Clarke and Berkeley kept their relationship a secret until the 24
cast returned from vacation to start work on the second season.
Then they called everyone together for a big announcement: not
only were they dating, they were engaged to be married! Clarke
and Berkeley tied the knot in September 2002, in a romantic
ceremony at a 19th-century church in Dutchess County, New York.
The couple tried to keep their off-screen romance invisible
on-screen, but it wasn't easy. "Upon returning from our
honeymoon in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, we were back at work the next
day and I was interrogating her," Berkeley tells Biography.
"Our tans were justified by the virtue of my having been
exposed to radiation and Sarah's character being fresh from the
prison yard." Not surprisingly, Clarke recalled that
"Xander was showing a little too much warmth towards my
character—and I'm sure I was doing the same!"
