Fresh Face: Elaine Cassidy 
Her Current Gig: Playing goody-two-shoes Abby Mills on the new show Harper's Island. The twentysomething returns to her hometown off the coast of Seattle for her best friend’s wedding. The joyful homecoming is shadowed with gloom and doom considering Abby’s mother was murdered there seven years earlier, and her relationship with her dad, the local sheriff, is estranged. Now, a new killer is on the loose and picking off wedding guests one by one.
You Know This Face … because Cassidy earned accolades for her 2001 breakout role in Disco Pigs, playing the eccentric Runt to Cillian Murphy’s increasingly violent Pig. Until now, the Irish beauty spent most of her time on British television like A Room With A View and The Ghost Squad. Last year, fans on this side of the pond got the chance to see her co-star with Colin Firth in the When Did You Last See Your Father as it made its way around the festival circuit.
Why So Fresh? The 29-year-old is set for primetime success with her new show on CBS (if she’s not killed off). And in other exciting news: Cassidy and her husband Stephen Lord will welcome their first child this year.
In Her Own Words ... “It's a small island, not a huge population, so [the murders] affected everyone; and [Abby’s] relationship with her dad broke down straightaway,” she tells FearNet of her new show. “He didn't know what to do with the loss of his wife, and then [had] a grieving child on top of it. So he thought the best thing was to send her to L.A. to stay with her grandmother …The only person she stays in contact with is Henry. They've been best friends since they were kids. He really counsels her through the dark times, the tough times…coming back to Harper's Island is a really big deal because she hadn't been back in all this time, but it just shows the friendship that she has with Henry because that's what brings her back.” LAST WEEK'S FRESH FACE: 'Parks and Recreation' Star Aziz Ansari