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Dr. Lightman is getting a new assistant, straight off the boat from Jericho and Agrestic. Shoshannah Stern (pictured) will be joining 'Lie to Me' this season as a grad student whom the doc (Tim Roth) hires to help him with his new book.
The Fox show (Mondays at 8PM ET) follows the investigations of Dr. Cal Lightman, the world's top expert on detecting deception. He and his firm, The Lightman Group, aid federal law enforcement through their observation of even the tiniest of facial expressions to catch criminals in their lies.
Stern's character, like the actress, will be deaf -- a fact that EW reports will make some of Cal's colleagues question whether she's up to par to assist him. The hyper-observant doc, however, takes a shine to his new right-hand woman, who will be a recurring character for the show's upcoming third season, which premieres Nov. 10.
Stern may be familiar to viewers as Bonnie, the bad-ass teen on CBS's ill-fated series, 'Jericho,' which left the air in 2008 amid major outcry from fans. Before moving to the farm, she stirred up hormones and drama as Silas's girlfriend on the first season of 'Weeds.'
Most recently, Stern appeared alongside Marlee Matlin and Jeff Daniels in the CBS special, 'Sweet Nothing in My Ear,' about a couple that struggles over whether to give their deaf son an implant that would let him hear again. And while she has two other projects in development ('Hamill' and 'Five Good Years') the actress's next task is tackling the quirky working habits of her on-screen boss this fall.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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