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MUMBAI:
Oscar nominee Laurence Fishburne What's Love Got To Do
With It, The Matrix will join the cast of the CBS
Paramount Network Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television
series, CSI: Crime Scene Invetsigation.
In India, the show airs on AXN.
Fishburne
will play a former pathologist who is now working as an itinerant
college lecturer, teaching a course in criminalistics. His
focus is on understanding criminal behavior, how and why people
commit acts of violence - tendencies he disturbingly sees
within himself. In the course of a murder investigation, he
comes into contact with the CSI team and ultimately joins
the Las Vegas Crime Lab as a Level-1 CSI.
CSI
executive producers Carol Mendelsohn and Naren Shankar said,
"We had the opportunity to see Mr. Fishburne in Thurgood
on Broadway a few weeks ago, and it was a truly profound experience.
The actor disappeared and Thurgood Marshall was standing there
on the stage. Mr. Fishburne is also a talented writer and
director. If you distill CSI down to its essence, it's a collaboration-and
we are so looking forward to collaborating with Mr. Fishburne.
For all of us at CSI, this is truly a dream."
Fishburne
says, "I am elated and delighted to be joining the cast
of CSI. I look forward to a wonderful collaboration
with the creative and talented team of such a successful and
distinguished show".
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