Sunday 7 February 2021

Articles Where Are They Now: Miracle Day: The Blood Line Cast?

 

The final instalment of the series, The Blood Line, brought the fight to Buenos Aires and Shanghai, or a Pit in Old Shanghai, antipodes of each other. Jack at one end and Rex the other. It was only going to end in bloodshed. Was this where we saw our Immortal now Mortal Jack Harkness facing his last, at the hands of his most loyal of colleagues? It said goodbye to the many and a welcome return of others. Torchwood were resetting the world and bringing Death Back.



Benito Martinez

‘Captain Santos’

 “All my men.”

  

Captain Santos is from the Fourth Manoeuvre Unit, Second Brigade. He meets Rex and Esther in Buenos Aires. After loading their gear into the back of the open back truck, into the hands of the Argentinian squad, one of the soldiers opens the blood case and detonates a bomb strapped about his person and kills everyone in the truck. It would be picked up by the CIA and anyone tracking Rex and Esther.    

Since Torchwood, has played Edgar and Leviathan in Supernatural from 2011 - 2012, played Gabriel in Bless Me, Ultima in 2012. Voiced Manuel Noriega in Call of Duty: Black Ops II video game and played Luis Torres in Sons of Anarchy from 2011 - 2012. 

In 2013 played Gonzalo Vargas in NCIS: Los Angeles. Voiced Desperado Scientist, and Khamsin for the English version of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance video game. Played Special Agent Sam Walker in Castle. Voiced Bautista in Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel video game and played an Officer in Dallas episode Legacies. He also played Captain Alexio Barros in Almost Human. 

In 2014 played Gabriel Ortiz in CSI. Played Commando Delgado for The Mentalist, Alfredo Armas for Graceland and Jesse Soria for Beyond the Lights and for 7 episodes played Hector Mendoza for House of Cards from 2014 - 2015. 

In 2015 and more video game action, voiced Captain Julian Dawes for Battlefield: Hardline. Played Chief Raul Montoya for Criminal Minds, Steve Jasso for Code Black, and for 16 episodes of American Crime from 2015 - 2017 played Alonzo Gutierrez, Luis Salazar and Dominic Calderon. 

In The Leftovers played Arturo for the episode It's a Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt World in 2017, followed by Jose Menendez in Menendez: Blood Brothers movie. Played Mateo Rodriguez in BehindEnemy Lines and for 18 episodes from 2016 - 2018 played Todd Denver in How to Get Away with Murder. 

In 2018 played Santino Rojas for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, before playing President Alvarez in Shooter (series). Played Senator - President Robert Diaz for 8 episodes of The Blacklist from 2016 - 2019. 

In 2019 played Senator Moreno for 1 episode of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series. Played Mateo Dias in Hawaii Five-0. Played Sheriff Edgar in Queen & Slim and Raul for Jane the Novela.


But for many of us who were gripped by the 'whodunnit' final season of 13 Reasons Why from 2019 - 2020, he played Sheriff Diaz for 17 episodes.

 

  

Chris Butler

 

‘The Cousin’

 “His blood endangers the plan. We had to draw him out into the open.”

 

He was the voice over the Intercom as the crusher cubed (Mare Winningham's characters) car after her crushing defeat against Oswald Danes, and came into his own in this episode as he was revealed as the co-conspirator of The Blood Line in Buenos Aires. 

Since Torchwood, Butler has played Dewitt in Hound Dogs in 2011, Agent Farrow in iCarly in 2012, and Sergeant Mullen in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the same year. He played Navy Lieutenant Commander Dean Westerman in NCIS and played Emory Broome for 4 episodes of True Blood from 2011 - 2012. 

In 2012 played Robert Chase in Hollywood Heights. Chris in Private Practice and Thomas Casey in Bones. In the Reality Star Struck episode of Castle, Butler played Bob Foster in 2013. Played Cassius in Shameless and FBI Agent Darius Carter in King & Maxwell for 10 episodes. 

In 2015 played a Detective for one episode of Justified. Played D.D.A. Meeks for 2 episodes of Major Crimes from 2012 - 2015 and played Lacey's Attorney in True Detective. 

In 2016 played Davenport in The Grinder. Chip in Modern Family and a TV Producer in Scandal. In The Good Wife, played Matan Brody for 21 episodes. 

Voiced additional voices for video game Mafia III in 2016 followed by Middle-Earth: Shadow of War in which he voiced the Nemesis Orcs in 2017.

 

Carrying on with 2017 played Quinn Bishop for one episode of Longmire before playing Dax Minter for 5 episodes of Designated Survivor from 2017 - 2018 (Check out our review of this in Beyond the Hub, this month). 

Returned to play Matan Brody for 1 episode of The Good Fight in 2019. Played Ray in short Weekend Retreat in 2020. Played Denon in Burning Dog and played Phillip in Superstore in the same year. 

 

McKenzie Applegate


‘Girl’

In the final few moments of the Miracle, Andy Davidson sat beside the bedside of an unnamed teenager who had been abandoned in the Cowbridge Camp, and witnessed her peaceful death.  

 


Since Torchwood played Vickie Ellis in The Best of Enemies in 2019.

  

 

Veronica Milagros

 ‘Female Soldier’

  

Was on the truck before it detonated.

Since Torchwood, has been uncredited as Salsa Instructor #2 for Rob in 2012. Uncredited in Not Fade Away (character unknown) also in 2012, and voiced Isabella Keyes for Dead Rising 3 video game in 2013. In a film short back in 2012 played The Sister, which if I'm correct, is the same film short in 2015 now titled Silencio, also playing The Sister. Milagros was also associate producer of this film. 

In 2015 played Lisa Goodwin for Class Act TV series short before playing Mrs Alvarez in Lethal Weapon Pilot in 2016. 

It's been announced that Milagros will play Aria in Slade.

 

 

Noemi Del Rio

 


‘Sandra Morales’

“Excuse me, but foreign investment's still rare in Argentina, so we've been tracking contract intensive money since 1980. The information's on file just waiting to be filtered.”

 

A Watch Analyst with the CIA, was working in the office with Noah when the bomb went off, killing everyone in the room, including Shapiro. Charlotte, whose phone was revealed to be the connection with the Three Families, escaped, but we all know how this ends…right? 


Since Torchwood played Jennie in Harry's Law in 2011 and Teresa in film short Veladora in 2013. However, behind the scenes, has worked as an Associate Producer of Night Call film short in 2017 where she was also involved in Additional Casting. Was Assistant director for Mrs Fitzgerald is Missing episode - Knock, Knock in 2017 and Set PA for Better Things episode Eulogy also in the same year.

 

 

Fernando Fernandez

 


‘Young Male Soldier’

  

Am assuming he was the soldier who blew his squad to kingdom come in the back of the truck.

Prior to Torchwood and in the mid-90s Fernandez played characters in a lot of television series. Such as Mario in De la Nuca for 18 episodes in 1997. Armando in Señoras sin señores in 1998 and 9 episodes of Mi ex in 1999 and 19 episodes of Libre-mente - no mention of which character here though.


Since Torchwood, has only played one other character - Manny in Damon's Tiki Bar from 2016 - 2017.

  

Cici Lau

‘Chinese Woman’

 “Sad Girl. Crazy girl.”

Gwen runs into an angry Chinese Woman as she follows the ‘blood line’. She is forbidden from going through the door. Warned that it’s a bad place full of ghosts. After talking to Rhys on the phone about her father, the Chinese woman takes pity on Gwen, and offers her a cup of tea while she sits beside the door, emotional about the future when the Miracle ends. 

Since Torchwood Lau has played a Flower Lady in Whitney in 2011, Mrs. Lee in Petals in the Wind short where she also worked as the writer of the screenplay and story, and was executive producer, and Kyoko Wung Su in Forever Young at Heart. 

In 2012 played Mei Wei in Breaking in series, and a Grandmother in Oyster film short. In 2013 played Woman at Mahjong in Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Played a Funeral Mourner in It's Dark Here and in 2014 played an Old Thai Lady in Mantervention.

Played Chinese Mama in Sons of Anarchy in this year and Amah in Thoughts Afar in Moonlight of which she wrote and produced.

In 2015 played Aunt Mei in Love Arcadia. Played a Server in Mike & Molly and played the Fortune Teller in The Comedians. In Fear the Walking Dead also in this year, played Susan Tran. 

In 2017, skipping past a series of short films, Lau played Grandma in The Jade Pendant, and played Mrs Saithong in Ryan Hensen Solves Crimes on Television series.

In 2019 was executive producer at the pre-production of The Missing Twin. As an actor played Mina in S.W.A.T. and for 2 episodes of Arrested Development played Bev from 2018 - 2019. Played an Elderly Woman in Better Things in this year before playing Nana in Love Never Forgets film short, which she was also producer and Location Manager for. 

In 2020 played Mariella for Shameless, Mrs Chang for Paper Tiger and has completed Metamorphosis short as May Wong, along with Baker in Mondo Hollywoodland. Has also ccompleted All Aboard as Mary and Lao Lao in a short of the same name.  Currently in post-production Lau plays Ccarmen's Mom in Silent Goodbye. 

 

Laura Waddell

‘Category One Nurse’

“He's the lucky one. See that girl over there? She was brought in as Category One. She must be fifteen, sixteen. No one's tried to claim her. We don't even know her name. Anyway, you've got till the end of the shift and then we're moving this lot. They're going to the furnace.”

 One of the nurses at the Cowbridge site. 

Since Torchwood played another nurse, this time in Angels Among Us in the same year. Played a Girl With Autism in After Lately. Played Laura for 6 episodes of Passport to Explore from 2011 - 2012. Played Merle Eppis in Folklore in 2012. Voiced an Audio Tour Guide in Warner Bros. Studio Tour London: The Making of Harry Potter video short. Also in 2012 played Claire for 3 episodes of Living with Frankenstein. 

In 2013 played a Woman with Infant in the brilliant film Saving Mr. Banks. Voiced the character Tracy Buxton in Batman: Arkham Origins video game and voiced the Vault and Michelle in 8 episodes of The Vault from 2011 - 2014. 

Also, in 2014 voiced Sibeal McKinnon in Simplexity: Sizzle Reel television movie. Voiced Ana in Rise of the Tomb Raider video game in 2015 and in 2018 voiced characters for the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth video game. 

In 2016 played Trish in The Love Witch. In 2018 played The Other Woman in For the Love of George and in 2019 voiced Gary in Love, Death & Robots tv series short.

Currently in pre-production plays Pixie in Renaissance Girl

 

 

Daniel Espeseth

‘CIA Operative (Uncredited)’

 

Can only assume that he’s one of the CIA agents caught up in the bombing of the building at Langley. 

Prior to Torchwood, his acting credits began back in 2003 playing an Assistant Director in the episode TV of Watching Ellie. From then he played a series of credited and uncredited roles, including Dr. O'Brien in ER also in 2003. In 2005 played an Ameribanx Security Guard in Fun with Dick and Jane and played Max in My Boys before playing a Morgue Assistant in The Closer.

Torchwood appears to be his last credit entry to date.

 

  

Chris R. Taylor

‘Whale Cop’ (uncredited)

 Not entirely sure I saw any whales in this episode!!! Unless that refers to a slang term for something else. 

Since Torchwood it's at least a good six years before he returns to play a character in a role. He returns with Dennis in Badd: A College Party Short in 2017 returning to play Dennis in Frat House in 2018. He was also a script supervisor for this film.

For Wave of the Future short, he not only played in front of the camera as Calvin but was also executive producer behind the camera in 2019.

 


In the television series The Book of Edict, he played Kalaraja Abiodun for the first episode in 2019. 

In further trips behind the camera, Taylor was production assistant on Hunter's Moon in 2020, and post production for Sins of Thy Father, in which he also played character William Parrish.

He worked as writer for Cosa Nostra short in 2020 and writer and producer for Battling Dreams which is currently in pre-production. 

Sins of Thy Father was his last credit entry. 

 

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