Katee Sackhoff on “Longmire”
By Abbie Bernstein

In LONGMIRE, A&E’s new Sunday night drama series based on Craig Johnson’s novels, Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor) is the sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, where he and his small staff are the only law for miles upon miles of prairie. Although this sounds like the premise of many a classic Western.

LONGMIRE is set in the present. However, this doesn’t mean that everyone and everything in Absoroka has caught up to the twenty-first century.

Katee Sackhoff plays Deputy Victoria “Vic” Moretti, who gave up a career as Philadelphia police detective to follow her husband to Wyoming and ends up solving crime on the open range. Though this is Sackhoff’s first gig as a law officer of the New West, TV viewers are used to seeing her playing authoritative characters handling weapons. The actress, who originally hails from Portland, Oregon, won enduring science-fiction fame as BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’s heroic Kara “Starbuck” Thrace. More recently, Sackhoff played a femme fatale attached to the counter-terrorism unit in the final season of 24, had an arc on CSI and appeared as herself on an episode of THE BIG BANG THEORY. Sackhoff also stars alongside Vin Diesel in the currently untitled but already-wrapped sequel to THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK.
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