KOOL TV BABE OF THE WEEK: '24' AND 'HAWAII FIVE-O's REIKO AYLESWORTH

Charm and talent radiate from popular actress Reiko Aylesworth. Image: ULIKE.

Being married to a controversial, high-profile crime taker like Detective Chin Ho Kelly was never going to be easy, but things certainly weren't fun under the sun for Doctor Malia Waincroft, as played by the lovely actress Reiko Aylesworth, during last years seasons finale of HAWAII FIVE-O, as she ended up being kidnapped and threatened with death by corrupt ex-cop Frank Delano (William Baldwin) and his goons, wanting to get in the good books of the shows fugitive top super baddie, Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos). She was saved from a grisly fate at the last moment, but we expect things aren't going to be the same again for the cosy Kelly union anytime soon...unless of course she gets to put a revenge-fulled bullet in her once captors head. Now that would be some great action satisfaction!

On-screen wedding bells with Daniel Dae Kim in HAWAII FIVE-O. Image: CBS.

Miss Aylesworth, a charming and talented actress with an intriguing Welsh, Dutch and Japanese ancestry, is no stranger to long running action/adventure drama, after her three year stint as tough but vulnerable CTU agent, later boss Michelle Dessler in the hit series 24. She also showed her female RAMBO skills as a modern-day Ellen Ripley successor, Kelly, a returned solider soon fighting xenomorphic hordes in her Southern Californian home town, during the horror/gore fest that was ALIEN VERSUS PREDATOR 2: REQUIEM.

As CTU agent/boss Michelle Dessler, in pursuit of the baddies, in 24. Image: FOX.

Soon to be seen in an upcoming second season episode of PERSON OF INTEREST, as well as the modern Sherlock Holmes series ELEMENTARY, beyond explosions, gunfire and chases, other fine series to have benefited from her guesting include the excellent third season of DAMAGES (as wife to a dodgy financial alumnus's son), a seemingly cut back run in CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION as a volatile new Forensics team member, playing caring hospital chaplain Julia Dupree in ER, and as pregnant islander Mary Goodspeed in the penultimate season of LOST.

The next series of HAWAII FIVE-O, which picks up other cliff-hanger threads from it's exciting second season finale, should hopefully be back on UK TV screens in the New Year.