CSI: Miami

“Calleigh Duquesne” (Emily Procter)

Known as “Bullet Girl” throughout the Miami-Dade Police Department, Calleigh is a top-drawer ballistics expert who can ID calibers on sight.  However, the suicide, in her presence and in “her” ballistics lab, by another investigator, has left her rethinking her professional future.  She grew up the privileged daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenworth Duquesne, a lawyer and an aspiring novelist.  A true southern gent with a weakness for John Barleycorn, Duquesne hoped his daughter would also marry a southern gent and settle down.  He is surprised, but proud, of the path she has chosen.  For her part, Calleigh is quick to come to her dad’s aide when trouble arises, but as any member of a recovering alcoholic’s family, her concern for his addiction is never far from the surface.

 Having been present when her boyfriend took his own life at the end of Season Three, Calleigh took time off from the Firearms Department in Season Four, but soon returned when it became clear that her replacement was not up to her standards.  Later in the season, another former beau surprises her with a visit, only to announce his engagement.  It is this man and his fiancée whose actions put the entire lab in jeopardy of being closed down, and Calleigh must figure out what is going on to keep she and her colleagues out of deep trouble.

 As Season Five begins, Calleigh takes on a new leadership role, albeit briefly, while Horatio is out of the country.  In doing so, she firmly establishes Natalia Boa Vista’s place on the team and lets the other CSI’s know that past indiscretions will be put aside in order to keep the lab’s work the focus of the CSI “family.”      

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 Prior to landing her role on CSI: Miami, Procter portrayed White House staffer Ainsley Hayes in the Emmy Award-winning series The West Wing.  Her other television credits include guest-starring roles in Friends and Just Shoot Me.

 Procter graduated with a degree in Journalism and Dance from East Carolina University, and while in school, worked as a weather anchor at WNCT-TV in Greenville, N.C.  Soon after graduating, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and landed roles in the feature films Leaving Las Vegas and Jerry Maguire.  She also starred in the made-for-cable film Breast Men and went on to land a leading role in the feature film Body Shots.  In 1995, she co-starred with Martin Lawrence in the feature film Big Mama’s House 2, shot on location in New Orleans prior to Hurricane Katrina.

Procter was born and raised in Raleigh, N.C., and lives in Los Angeles, where she spends her off time supporting charities that fight homelessness.  She is also the celebrity host of the Nike-sponsored marathon held each year in San Francisco to benefit the fight against breast cancer.  Her birth date is Oct. 8.