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Joanna Cassidy joins cast of "Body of Proof"

Joanna Cassidy (Boston Legal, Six Feet Under) has joined the cast of ABC's new fall drama Body of Proof, the network confirmed to TV Guide Magazine exclusively.

Cassidy will appear in the third episode and play the yet-to-be-named mother of Dana Delany's medical examiner, Dr. Megan Hunt.

"I get this weird chill when I write scenes for the two of them, it's a wonderful dynamic," creator Christopher Murphey tells TV Guide Magazine. "I think Megan and her mother have a wonderful back story that we will be basically mining over the first few episodes. You're going to be finding out a lot about Megan."

Body of Proof premieres Friday, Sept. 24 at 9/8c on ABC.

Joanna Cassidy nominated for Steamy Awards

Congratulations to Joanna Cassidy for her 2010 Steamy Awards Nomination for Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series, for the series SEX ED.
The nominations were announced on March 1, 2010. The winners of the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards will be announced at the Streamy Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles, California on April 11, 2010 at the Henry Fonda Theater.

Joanna Cassidy in new drama series "Hawthorne"

Joanna Cassidy (Katherine Demery from FC's Season 2) stars in the new TNT drama series HAWTHORNE premiering yesterday Tuesday, June 16, 2009.

Christina Hawthorne (played by Jada Pinket Smith), a compassionate and headstrong Chief Nursing Officer heading up a group of dedicated nurses at Richmond Trinity Hospital who spend long days and nights on the hospital's front lines. Joining Pinkett Smith in HAWTHORNE is Michael Vartan as Dr. Tom Wakefield, the oncologist who treated Christina's husband and who serves as director of medicine for the hospital. The cast also includes Suleka Mathew as Bobbie Jackson, a fellow nurse and one of Hawthorne's best friends; David Julian Hirsh as Ray Stein, a nurse struggling with being accepted in a female-dominated profession; Christina Moore as Candy Sullivan, a nurse with a unique sense of duty; and Hannah Hodson as Camille, Hawthorne's daughter. In addition, special guest star Joanna Cassidy portrays Amanda, Hawthorne's mother-in-law, who also happens to be a member of the hospital board.

Synopsis from TNT: Hawthorne takes place at Richmond Trinity Hospital in Charlotte, N.C., where the strong-but-caring director of nursing, Christina Hawthorne (Jada Pinkett Smith), continuously fights battles she often knows she won't win. Whether treating the homeless woman in front of the hospital like a human being or trying to talk a suicidal cancer patient off the ledge, Christina must challenge hospital administrators, heartless doctors, apathetic colleagues and a system that sometimes forgets it's there to serve the sick. Recently widowed and the mother of a smart, willful teenager, Christina juggles her career with her equally important role as a single parent. Between the two, she barely has time for herself and has difficulty keeping things together. But she knows she has to and can't give up on anyone. That's what her passion requires; it's what it takes to be a hero.

Here you'll find a first pilot review.

Find more information at the Official Site.