9.19 CRUSADE: Casting
Daniella Evangelista has been cast in the role of DENYA in the upcoming episode, “Crusade”, written, directed, and produced by Robert C. Cooper, according to her official website. “Crusade” is the first part of the Season Nine two-part season finale (to be followed by “Camelot”).
When casting the part of Denya, producers were looking for an actress in the age range of 22-25 who was also beautiful. Evangelista was born 20 September 1982, according to her biography in the Internet Movie Database site, and started her career at the age of four. Her first acting job was at the age of five in the film Lies from Lotus Land, playing opposite Michael J. Fox, while most of her early work was done as a model and in commercials.
The episode’s character Denya is a prostitute who works as a barmaid in a village on the planet to which Vala Mal Doran (Claudia Black) was sent when her matter stream was captured during the Ori’s attempt to establish a foothold in the Milky Way Galaxy (9.06 “Beachhead”). Vala and Denya become friends who are able to talk to each other woman-to-woman, and Denya is instrumental in getting Vala involved with the Anti-Ori cause which aims to destroy a fleet of spaceships carrying tens of thousands of soldiers to the Milky Way.
“Crusade” is scheduled to be before the cameras through September 27th.
IMDB for Evangelista
Daniella Evangelista’s Website
9.19 “Crusade” Episode Guide