Callie Thorne as Sheila Keefe | Rescue Me on FX

After guest starring on the USA Network hit primetime shows White Collar, Burn Notice and Royal Pains, Callie Thorne will rejoin the USA family starring in its new series Necessary Roughness. Thorne portrays “Dr. Dani Santino,” a tough Long Island hypnotherapist. 

Thorne has had multi-episode arcs on FOX’s Prison Break, NBC’s ER and HBO’s The Wire. Her career began in 1998 as series regular “Laura Ballard” on NBC’s critically acclaimed show Homicide: Life on the Street. Thorne recently guest starred on Showtime’s Californication opposite David Duchovny. Other television credits include NBC’s Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Third Watch, and Ed. 

Thorne’s film credits include lead roles in Welcome to Academia opposite James LeGros, Watching the Detectives opposite Cillian Murphy and Lucy Liu, and Delirious opposite Steve Buscemi and Alison Lohman. Others include Analyze That (Warner Bros.), Hysterical Blindness (HBO), Sidewalks of New York (Paramount), Next Stop Wonderland (Miramax) and Ed Burns’ Nice Guy Johnny. She also starred opposite Sam Rockwell and Justin Long in the critically acclaimed short Robin’s Big Date. 

Thorne’s theater credits include The Public Theater’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Sam Rockwell; Manhattan Theatre Club’s Gone Home, directed by David Warren; The Atlantic Company’s Joe Fearless; and The Mark Taper Forum’s Slavs.