Catching Up With…Amy Carlson (ex-Josie, ANOTHER WORLD, 1993-98)

American television actress, known for her roles as Linda Reagan in the CBS police procedural Blue Bloods

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Soap Opera Digest: You recently made your debut on FBI: MOST WANTED. How did that come about?

Amy Carlson: They offered it to me [laughs]. I read for another part on there, and then they called me and said, “We want to offer you this other part,” and I said, “Um, what’s the part?” And they said, “It’s Jackie Ward, she’s a bounty hunter, she prays at the altar of Dolly Parton, she’s foul-mouthed and lives in her car.” I was like, “Oh, my God, am I dreaming?” Like, “Who really knows me? Someone knows me! Someone was spying on me?” I was like, “That is me, finally! Yay!” And I watched the show, because as one does, when you’re flipping the channels and you see your old soap friends, you stop and you go, “Oh, what are they doing?” So it happened that one night I was flipping channels and I saw Julian’s [McMahon, ex-Ian] face and I was like, “Oh, what’s Julian doing?” And then I started watching the show and I thought it was really compelling.

Digest: When was the last time you had seen Julian? Had you even been in touch?