NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2014, CNS – Guyana-born actress, activist and artist, CCH Pounder, is back on TV screens in the new CBS primetime drama, ‘NCIS: New Orleans.’
Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder is coroner Dr. Loretta Wade, an eccentric intellectual, on the new series which will officially get underway on Tuesday, September 23 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
“NCIS: New Orleans” is a drama about the local field office that investigates criminal cases affecting military personnel in New Orleans, a city rich in culture and known for its music, entertainment and decadence.
Pounder was born on Christmas Day 1952 in then British Guiana, and named after female relatives, Carol, Christine, and Hilaria. She was raised on a sugar cane plantation. Her parents moved to the United States while she was still a young girl, but she and her sister were sent to a convent boarding school in Britain where they were introduced to art and the classics.
Following high school graduation, she arrived in New York and studied at Ithaca College, where her acting talents were discovered.
She’s appeared in the TV series ‘ER,’ FX’s ,Sons of Anarchy,’ ‘Warehouse 13,’ and ‘Brothers,; and been thanked by top actor Jamie Foxx in his Oscar acceptance speech when he won Best Actor in a leading role for ‘Ray.’
Pounder lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband Boubacar Kone. She has three children – two daughters and a son and six grandchildren.
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