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Dec 16,2007-Dec 23,2007 |
Sofia Milos: I’m Italian but few people know
From CSI Miami to The Border, a special agent in a new CBC series
By Paola Bernardini
Beautiful and unapproachable, Sofia Milos sports the ‘physique du role’ of a Hollywood actress and a most Italian heart. Well known as CSI Miami’s Yelina Salas, in January she’ll appear in The Border, a new TV series from CBC where she will play a Department of Immigration special agent who must tackle the national security issues raised after the 9/11 attacks.
“The Border is an action movie where I have a role alongside James McGowan and Graham Abbey,” said Milos. “My character is agent Bianca LaGarda, a strong, smart and courageous woman with a Cuban father and an Italian mother. Her heritage therefore resembles my own, as does her story; she immigrates to the United States, obtains the citizenship and builds a future for herself. LaGarda is very grateful towards the USA, which have offered her an opportunity to get an important position.”
Like agent LaGarda, Sofia Milos – born in Zurich from an Italian father (from Potenza) and a Greek mother – immigrated to the United States in 1990 in order to further her modelling career, which she had started in Milan and continued in Tokyo, Paris, Monaco, and Vienna.
After New York, she went to Los Angeles, where the climate reminds her of Italy and where she began acting in movies. “In Switzerland I went to school and university (Economy), growing up with a French family; then I moved to Rome, where my mother has been living for 30 years. Then came America. I toured the world and lived in many different places, but I must confess that Italy will always be home for me. I feel 100% Italian. I am grateful for the opportunities I got in the States, much like those of my character Bianca LaGarda; I live in a beautiful home on the hills above Hollywood, and I got every opportunity to be myself, however, Italy remains the place of my dreams. Who knows, maybe some day I will return there, where I still have a mother, many friends, my fiancé, designer Alessandro Martorana, and my brother, who lives in Potenza.”
In the TV series, Bianca LaGarda is a special US agent stationed at the Canadian border. In her past there is the flight from Cuba and the journey to Florida on board a small boat, an experience that led her to see the United States as a ‘promised land.’ Nowadays she’s a woman of temperament, determined, self-assured, never afraid to speak her mind. She has plenty of courage and is unafraid to use her powers to try to improve things around her, even though she occasionally has to break the rigid rules imposed on cross-border traffic of cargo and people. “LaGarda was sent to Toronto because she has irked a few powerful people in Washington, so now her assignment is here in Canada, where she works with her counterpart, the head of the ICS (Immigration and Customs Security) Unit, major Mike Kessler, played by charismatic James McGowan.”
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