Rena Sofer

I kind of dig Rena Sofer. Apparently she is best known for a couple of gigs on daytime soaps in the 90’s, but I know her from a short-lived series on the Sci-Fi channel called “The Chronicle”.

I hadn’t seen much of her after that show got cancelled in 2002 after only 22 episodes (it wasn’t all that great anyway and I admit that I was only watching it in the end because Penny was still watching it and I just wanted to keep looking at Rena), according to the Internet Movie Database, she’s had some parts in a few different TV shows that I didn’t watch. Recently she has shown up playing a recurring character in not one, but two of my favorite TV shows.

And what’s more these 2 shows, “Heroes” and “24” are now being shown opposite each other on different networks (thank the good lord for DVR’s).

She made her first appearance on “24” on the most recent episode this past Monday, playing the wife of a man with questionable motives and integrity. So far she has made 2 appearances on “Heroes”, although none recently, also playing the wife of a man with questionable motives and integrity (although that’s looking like it may change soon, both the questionable motives and integrity and the fact that she’s his wife).

I find it interesting that she is playing 2 seemingly similar roles on different TV shows at the same time that are also on at the same time. I wonder if this has ever happened. Also, it looks like she will at least be in next weeks episode of “24”, and possibly more (you just never know who will be killed next in that show), and although she has not been on “Heroes” recently I think I remember reading that she would be back; which begs the question, “will there be a time when she is actually on 2 shows at the same time, and has it ever happened before”?

Just wondering.