Calliope Callie Thorne is an American actress known for her role as Dr. Dani Santino on the USA Network series Necessary Roughness. She is also known for past work such as her roles on Homicide Life on the Street as Detective Laura Ballard, a role she held for two seasons, and the movie Homicide The Movie. She is also known for playing Sheila Keefe on Rescue Me and Elena McNulty in The Wire.
Thorne was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and is of Armenian and English descent. She studied theater and dramatic literature at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City.
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