(Anna on who the joksters on the CSI: NY set are) Belknap: I think it's kind of all of us! I definitely do my fair share of joking around, but so does Eddie [Cahill, Don Flack]. He's kind of a clown, and Carmine is too. Everybody is pretty funny. I can't think of a practical joke! Mainly we crack up when things go wrong or when lines are all wrong, blooper kind of things, which there are a lot of.
(Anna talks about how she got the role of Lindsay Monroe in 'CSI:NY') Anna: Basically the way it works out here is that you get auditions and you go in. I knew Hill Harper was on the show. I can't remember if I talked to him about it before or after I went in to audition. I was actually auditioning for "Numb3ers"-they needed somebody new on that show--and I didn't wind up getting that and then they were like, "Well, what about CSI: New York? So I was like, "Great!" So I went in, and I think they videotaped it and sent it off to executive producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Anthony Zuiker, and then I got it.
(On how close Anna is to the cast outside of work) Anna:Not too much. We don't hang out. Carmine and I live near each other so I've bumped into him in a caf?, and Hill I see occasionally. If Gary's band is playing we'll all try to go. They played on the lot at Christmas time which was awesome. But no, we don't really hang out too much. The four of us--Eddie, Carmine, Hill and I--all are in this little bungalow [which houses the dressing rooms], which is fun. It's like college. Eddie, Carmine and I were playing a lot [of guitar] for a while. And Carmine and I would sing our scenes, we'd sing the lines of the scenes, which is actually a good exercise. It frees you up a bit.
(Anna's talks about her favorite episode or a favorite moment for Lindsay from what she have done so far) Anna: I liked a lot the scene in the dumpster where she finds the rifle ("Bad Beat"). I liked a lot the scene where she took her shoes off outside the door ("City of the Dolls") before she interrogated the woman--I thought that was a good [glimpse] into her squareness. The thing that's kind of neat about playing Lindsay is that she's got a lot of layers. Everything is so new to her, there's a lot of role-playing she does to fit in. I feel like she's very kind of square and excited but she can kind of put on this banter, this attitude that's a little more New Yorky when she talks to Danny but then when she's with Mac it's really different, and I really like that about playing her. I thought it was neat that they had me be a little bit excited about the creepy factor of the sort of haunted house in "Cool Hunter". I like it when she gets a little tough or testy with people. I like doing the physical stuff so I liked checking that guy into the car ("Zoo York") and chasing that other guy ("Risk")--that kind of stuff is fun.
(On what Anna likes best about Lindsay so far) Anna:I love how excited she is by the work. I myself could never do this kind of thing for a living, and I admire people who do it in the real world because it's a gruesome profession and I would think a really difficult one. So I like how excited she is about it. I like how she's kind of open--I know Anthony has hinted at a backstory that is sort of bleak but that hasn't turned her into a depressive. Instead it kind of opened her up to the world--she's an open person, willing to learn. And I like her sense of fun, and I think she and I are similar in that way because I'm always joking around on the set. I think she likes to have a good laugh.
Anna has worked in the following movies: The Reality Trap as Tracy Alchemy as Marissa.
Anna's last name is pronounced as Bell Nap.
Anna gave birth to a baby girl on January 14th 2007.
Anna loves to do yoga in her spare time.
Anna graduated from Middlebury College.
Anna received her B.A. from Middlebury College in Vermont, and a masters in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater.
Anna received a San Diego Theater Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Performance as Marina in the Globe Theaters' production of 'Pericles' in 2002.
While most of the CSI: NY cast is from New York, Anna Belknap is one of three exceptions. The others are Gary Sinise (who was born in Illinois) and Melina Kanakaredes (who was born in Ohio). However, Anna Belknap and Gary Sinise have both lived in NY at some point in time.
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