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The FBI: Worldwide crew has welcomed a brand new member! Within the Jan. 10 episode known as “BHITW,” viewers of the Dick Wolf procedural are launched to Particular Agent Zoey McKenna. McKenna is appointed to the Fly Staff by Ken Dandridge and joins them to analyze the suspicious loss of life of an American athlete enjoying basketball abroad in Lithuania.
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The FBI franchise is not any stranger to solid turnover, so viewers have been questioning if McKenna is a everlasting addition to the lineup and the place they’ve seen the actor enjoying her earlier than. (Trace: It is an FBI-adjacent sequence.) Hold studying to be taught extra particulars about who performs Zoey McKenna and whether or not or not the character shall be again for future episodes.
Kelley Missal as Zoey McKenna and Heida Reed as Particular Agent Jamie Kellett in ‘FBI: Worldwide’
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Zoey McKenna is performed by ‘Regulation & Order: SVU’ alum Kelley Missal.
Kelley Missal performs Particular Agent Zoey McKenna on FBI: Worldwide. Like many visitor stars, the New Jersey native involves the present after being on one other Dick Wolf sequence.
In 2014, she guest-starred on Regulation & Order: SVU in Season 16, Episode 3, “American Shame.” She performed Carla Gannon, a press consultant for a sportswear firm. Apparently, the plot of that episode additionally revolved round basketball — Carla was considered one of a number of girls who accused a basketball star of rape.
FBI: Worldwide is the primary procedural that Kelley has appeared in since SVU, so she’s comparatively new to the style in the identical manner that Zoey is new to the Fly Staff.
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Her different primetime credit embrace ABC’s short-lived science fiction sequence The Crossing (2018) as Hannah, and a 2017 episode of Fox’s horror drama Sleepy Hole within the function of Malligo Dyer.
Nonetheless, eagle-eyed viewers may have acknowledged her from the function that earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination.
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Kelley bought her begin as Danielle Manning within the cleaning soap opera ‘One Life to Reside.’
Kelley’s first performing function got here as Danielle Manning (initially Rayburn) on ABC’s cleaning soap opera One Life to Reside. She debuted within the function on Oct. 23, 2009, and performed the character for over 300 episodes!
She additionally reprised her function for an additional 40 installments when OLTL was briefly revived in 2013.
Danielle was Todd Manning and Téa Delgado’s daughter, and the love curiosity of Matthew Buchanan and Nate Salinger. She finally started working as a paralegal for Nora Buchanan.
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Kelley Missal attends the forty first Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 2014
Kelley earned a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2014 for her efficiency as Dani. Eight years later, she’s making a splash on one of many largest franchise reveals on tv — and she or he is likely to be sticking round.
Audiences will see extra of Kelley on FBI: Worldwide. A CBS press launch confirms that McKenna will even seem within the subsequent new episode, “Somebody She Knew,” airing Tuesday, Jan. 24.
Whereas she’s nonetheless listed as a visitor star in that episode, it isn’t unusual for repeat visitors be promoted to recurring solid members and even full-time stars, so followers ought to maintain watching to see if her function will increase earlier than Season 2 ends.
FBI: Worldwide airs on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. EST on CBS.
