{"id":16800,"date":"2011-09-14T17:03:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T00:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=16800"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:44:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T20:44:05","slug":"csi-gets-a-new-ballistics-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/09\/csi-gets-a-new-ballistics-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;CSI&#8217; Gets A New Ballistics Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Dark Knight<\/em>\u00a0actress <strong>Monique Gabriela Curnen<\/strong>\u00a0is joining <em>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/em>\u00a0in a recurring role.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Curnen will join the cast this season in the second episode &#8220;Tell-Tale Hearts,&#8221; which airs September 28. Executive Producer <strong>Carol Mendelsohn<\/strong>\u00a0announced the casting during tonight&#8217;s CBS Fall Premiere Chat.\u00a0&#8220;New rats this season,&#8221; Mendelsohn teased. &#8220;Xiomara in ballistics,&#8221; she added. The character&#8217;s full name is\u00a0Xiomara Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>The casting comes after a full season without resident ballistics expert Bobby Dawson (<strong>Gerald McCullouch<\/strong>). McCullouch last appeared as the character back in season ten&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/csi\/season10\/take_my_life_please.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Take My Life, Please!&#8221;<\/a> According to Mendelsohn (who was chatting with fans alongside fellow Executive Producer <strong>Don McGill<\/strong>), Dawson &#8220;transferred to days,&#8221; prompting a vacancy that needed to be filled.<\/p>\n<p>While known for her supporting role in <strong>Christopher Nolan<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>The Dark Knight<\/em>, Curnen also appeared on <em>CSI: Miami<\/em>\u00a0during season eight.<\/p>\n<p>For more hot topics from the CBS.com chat, stay tuned for CSI Files&#8217; <strong>Rachel Trongo<\/strong>&#8216;s report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dark Knight\u00a0actress Monique Gabriela Curnen\u00a0is joining CSI: Crime Scene Investigation\u00a0in a recurring role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906],"tags":[3099,2990,3023,2964],"class_list":["post-16800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-curnen","tag-guest-stars","tag-mccullouch","tag-mendelsohn"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Shane Saunders","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/shane\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-lv\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67010,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800\/revisions\/67010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}