Stupid question: Who was that red headed Irish girl on Hercules that

played the Druid/Love interest in the later episodes.

I melt everytime I hear her speak.

(Too many beers, I guess)

On edit: Her character name is Morgan.

Darn, she's not even Irish.



by Michelle Erica Green

Tamara Gorski attracts very interesting men. Her most famous romance was with the Greek god Hercules, and now brooding vampire Angel is intrigued by her. "I would have to say that they're both surreal," laughs the actress when asked which one she'd prefer to date. "Hercules is not of this time, and neither is Angel, but they're equally cool in their own respective ways!"

A Canadian-born actress who went to Los Angeles for an audition two years ago and never made her way back to Toronto, Gorski has a resume packed with genre roles - Poltergeist: The Legacy, Psi Factor, Earth: Final Conflict, Highlander, Dracula: The Series, to name a few. "I've had the really great good fortune to get these chameleon-like roles - I haven't been stereotyped," she rejoices. "Though in the last three shows, I played the girlfriend the guy has never had. With Derek Rayne in Poltergeist, he hadn't let anyone get close, and Hercules had his wife killed so he was afraid to get involved. Angel is standoffish because he's become so protective of his secrets. We're always dealing with these intimacy issues."

Guardian Angel

Gorski's character Rebecca has gotten closer to Angel than any woman yet to appear on the series. "I play a popular actress he helps out because she has a stalker, though at first he doesn't want to," she explains. "Wesley says Angel must feel something for her, otherwise he would have taken the case right away, and Cordy is upset with Angel for not taking the case because she wants to get close to a star!"

The reclusive actress and the reclusive vampire bond "in a very keen but nerd-like way," since they both avoid sunlight and are both obsessive about their privacy. In fact, Rebecca's initial attraction to Angel seems to be that he has no idea who she is, though she has thousands of fans who know her as "Raven" from a popular, recently canceled television series.

"We shot a premiere at an old theater, the Pacific Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, with the carpets and the lights, and all the fans are screaming, 'Raven!'" explains Gorski. "Angel ends up staying over and protecting me one night - the stalker comes crashing through the front window at this beautiful house in the Palisades." Because she can't see his reflection in her mirror, she deduces that he's a vampire.

Rebecca drugs Angel in the hope that he will turn her into an immortal, but she doesn't seem to have thought about the nasty side of blood-drinking demonic life. The drug causes evil Angelus to emerge, so that Rebecca must defend herself from him and flee. This might sound like bad news, but it leaves open the possibility for the character to return. "Most people die on the show," notes Gorski. "The producers were already starting to toss around ideas in the middle of this blood-drinking scene as to what they might do to bring Rebecca back, so that was a really great treat in the middle of a 14-hour day."

"I don't know if fans believe this, but the show's producers do read the boards and the mail, so if anyone liked my character on Angel - or Now and Again or Hercules/Xena - they can ask the producers to bring me back!" she adds hopefully.

Getting Her Irish Up

The role of Morrigan was also supposed to be limited, but the producers asked Gorski to stay after seeing her work. "It was only supposed to be a three-show thing, like when Lucy Lawless came to Hercules - it was just supposed to be the Celtic stuff," reveals the actress, who thinks Rob Tapert must have been impressed with her bedraggled performance on her second day of work.

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http://www.littlereview.com/getcritical/interviews/gorski.htm

I still give the Best Casting award to Aphrodite. (Valleyspeak and all.)

:toast:

she'd get my vote -- but some of it is the fabulous outfits.

Surfer Dude Cupid as played by Karl Urban.



Karl is now better known as Eomer of the Rohirrim. Xena fans knew about the natural wonders of New Zealand before LOTR.