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ABOUT NECESSARY ROUGHNESS 
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Necessary Roughness Cast - Callie Thorne, Scott Cohen, Mehcad Brooks, Marc Blucas
Dr. Dani Santino (Callie Thorne) thought she had it all figured out: she had a beautiful home, a successful husband, two great teenaged kids, and a satisfying career as a psychotherapist. But when she caught her husband cheating, Dani’s perfect world began to unravel, and she was forced to find a way to keep her family, her finances, and her sanity intact. Then a romantic encounter with Matt (Marc Blucas), the handsome trainer of the local pro football team, the New York Hawks, leads to the chance for Dani to demonstrate her special brand of “tough love” therapy. Before she can say “Hail Mary,” Dani has taken on the team’s unpredictable star wide receiver, Terrence “TK” King (Mehcad Brooks), as a patient and has become the most sought-after therapist for pro athletes and other high-profile personalities on Long Island. Even with the ups and downs of being a newly divorced single parent and being employed by a demanding organization with its very own “Fixer”—the mysterious Nico (Scott Cohen)—Dani begins to find her footing.
Mehcad Brooks as Terrence King - Necessary Roughness
As football season ramps up once again, Dr. Dani has a whole new batch of issues to tackle, both personally and professionally. Now that she’s more deeply invested in the Hawks players’ welfare—and in a new relationship with Matt—the pressure is definitely on to hold it all together, all while trying to keep her kids on track. It’s a whole new season…and a whole new set of crazy.
ABOUT THE ACTORS:
Callie Thorne 
Actress Callie Thorne has made a name for herself appearing in many of television’s most celebrated series. She is perhaps best known for her performance as Sheila Keefe on the critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated FX drama “Rescue Me,” starring Denis Leary. Callie has had multi-episode arcs on FOX’s “Prison Break” and NBC’s “ER,” and starred as the estranged wife of Jimmy McNulty on the acclaimed HBO series “The Wire.” She also memorably appeared as series regular Det. Laura Ballard on NBC’s critically acclaimed series “Homicide: Life on the Street.” Other television credits include guest-starring roles on USA’s “Burn Notice,” “White Collar” and “Royal Pains,” appearances in three of NBC’s “Law & Order” franchises, and performances on “Third Watch” and “Ed.” Callie has also recently guest-starred opposite David Duchovny on Showtime’s hit series “Californication.”
Callie’s film credits include lead roles in “Welcome to Academia,” with James LeGros, “Watching the Detectives” opposite Cillian Murphy and Lucy Liu, and “Delirious,” starring Steve Buscemi and Alison Lohman. Other film credits include “Analyze That” (Warner Bros.), “Hysterical Blindness” (HBO), “Sidewalks of New York” (Paramount), “Next Stop Wonderland” (Miramax) and “Nice Guy Johnny.” She also starred opposite Sam Rockwell and Justin Long in the critically acclaimed short “Robin’s Big Date.”
Callie’s theater credits include The Public Theater’s “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman; Manhattan Theater Club’s “Gone Home,” directed by David Warren; The Atlantic Company’s “Joe Fearless,” and The Mark Taper Forum’s “Slavs.”
Mehcad Brooks
Mechad Brooks as Terrence "TK" King
Actor Mehcad Brooks has appeared in numerous television and film roles, most recently starring as “Eggs” on Alan Ball’s HBO hit series “True Blood,” opposite Anna Paquin and Steven Moyer. He is a SAG Award winner for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series on the ABC show “Desperate Housewives,” on which he played the son of Alfre Woodard’s character Betty Applewhite. This role earned him a nomination for an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Image Award, and inclusion in Daily Variety’s “Ten Young Actors to Watch” feature in August 2005. He has also appeared in guest-starring roles on “Malcolm in the Middle,” “Boston Public,” “One on One” and “Cold Case,” among other television series.
Mehcad has appeared in a number of feature films, including Chris Carter’s upcoming feature “Fencewalker,” the Paul Haggis film “In the Valley of Elah” alongside Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron, and Disney’s “Glory Road,” in which he appeared opposite Josh Lucas as a star NCAA basketball player.
An athlete himself, Mehcad grew up in Austin, Texas where, in addition to playing football and baseball, he was an All-State basketball player. He attended the University of Southern California, where he studied in the School of Cinema-Television. Mehcad modeled during his high school and college years, and is currently one of the faces (and bodies) of Calvin Klein Underwear.
Marc Blucas
Actor Marc Blucas has worked consistently in television and film, appearing alongside some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Known to many fans for his role opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in the hit television series, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” on which he appeared for two seasons, Mark has also appeared in a range of film projects. One of his first acting roles was in Gary Ross’ “Pleasantville,” with Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon. He followed that up with supporting roles in “Summer Catch,” starring Jessica Biel, Kevin Smith’s “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” and “We Were Soldiers” with Mel Gibson. Mark then went on to star opposite Katie Holmes in “First Daughter,” directed by Forest Whitaker.
His additional film credits include: “Prey For Rock and Roll“; the BBC Films’ period drama “I Capture The Castle” with Bill Nighy and Rose Byrne, John Sayles’ “Sunshine State” opposite Edie Falco; “Starship Dave” with Eddie Murphy and Elizabeth Banks; and “The Killing Floor,” executive produced by Doug Liman and Avi Arad. Mark played Emily Blunt’s misunderstood husband in Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Jane Austen Book Club” and most recently starred in “Knight and Day” opposite Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, in Kevin Smith’s “Red State” and as Naomi Watts’ love interest in Rodrigo Garcia’s “Mother and Child.”
A native of Pennsylvania, Blucas played basketball at Wake Forest University.
Scott Cohen
Versatile character actor Scott Cohen is a face recognizable to many thanks to numerous roles in television, film, and theater. He is perhaps best known for his work on a variety of television series, including “Gilmore Girls,” on which he starred as Max Medina, the love interest of Lauren Graham’s Lorelai. He also starred in SHO’s hit series, “Street Time,” and has appeared on “NYPD Blue,” “Law and Order: Trial By Jury,” “The Practice,” “Without a Trace,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “CSI,” “Castle” and “Blue Bloods,” among other series.
Cohen recently starred opposite Natalie Portman in Don Roos’ feature film “The Other Woman.” He has appeared in “Everybody’s Fine,” alongside Robert DeNiro, in Nicole Holofcener’s “Please Give,” and in Ed Zwick’s “Love and Other Drugs,” and has starred in numerous independent films, including “Iron Cross,” “Winter of Frozen Dreams,” and indie darling “Kissing Jessica Stein.” This fall, he will appear alongside Mel Gibson in “How I Spent My Summer Vacation.”
Cohen’s prolific theater resume includes roles in the Broadway comedy “Losing Louie” for the Manhattan Theater Club, in David Ives’ “The Other Woman” and in “A Nervous Smile” opposite Amy Brenneman, among many others.
Along with his acting projects, Scott also serves on the Columbia County Film Festival Advisory Board, now in its eleventh year. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.
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