After her successful runs on Chuck and Dexter, Yvonne Strahovski is back with another high profile and creatively invigorating show (24: Live Another Day). Trying to compete with Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is usually a fruitless venture, but Strahovski’s Kate Morgan is a CIA agent that, like Bauer, has her own share of inner struggles.

“Kate Morgan is, well, she’s been described as brilliant and impulsive,” said Strahovski, who also worked with Robert De Niro and Clive Owen in 2011’s Killer Elite. “And when we first meet her, she’s actually being demoted from her job, because she missed something pretty big in her life, I guess. She was married to another agent and totally didn’t see that he was a spy for someone else. She’s usually very good at picking up on these things and she didn’t. And, so she’s being demoted. So, I think even though she is this brilliantly-minded agent, she’s, at the time that we meet her in this first episode, I think she’s struggling with her sense of self-worth.”
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