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She selected two from column A. For most of the fall and winter, the 34-year-old was shuttling between the sets of CBS's hit drama CSI, where she plays forensics analyst Mia Dickerson, and ABC's 24, where her duplicitous character Marianne Taylor was killed off in the February 21 episode.
Although her work schedule was exhausting, she says she had a blast playing two compelling characters while changing people's perceptions. "People like Jamie Foxx, Robin Williams and Tom Hanks came out of very broad comedy," she reminds. "You don't have to be limited by what people know you for. If you want to do good work as an actor, you have to spread your net as wide as you can."
Toward that end, she's not counting on other people's scripts to boost her career. She has already written one book, Swerve, a collection of comic anecdotes about being a single girl. She also writes screenplays, is developing her own show for CBS, still does standup on occasion and is thinking about a second book, even though while writing Swerve she swore she'd never do it again. "It was like the homework assignment that would never die. Remember when you were in college and you were always behind? I felt like that for a year," she laughs.