Who is tara on leverage

Then Ryan enjoyed a long run on Boston Public earlier this decade and was recently on the too-short-lived Shark , with James Woods. Leverage kicks off the final six episodes of its second season — with Ryan — on January How do you feel when a show is cancelled?

Jeri Ryan: With Shark , I was home on maternity leave, so my mind was in a very, very different place. I was really quite fine with it — that one did not hurt. Boston Public was tough, though. So, that was tough, compounded by the fact that it was a perfect work experience. I loved everything about that show: the character, the show, the people. The acting was great. The writing was great.

We were proud of what we were doing. It was sad to see that one go down. Is that difficult? Jeri Ryan: No, actually it was very appealing to me that it was only seven episodes, partly because it shoots in Portland and my family is [in Los Angeles]. Was that fun? She loves what she does. It was a lot of fun.

SheKnows: Last thing. Although the team was mistrustful of her at first, she soon became a valued member of the team. Tara's history is largely unknown, but she has dropped hints that suggest she was trained by the FBI, and may also have some experience in military intelligence; she referred to time spent "at Quantico", but did not specify with which agency. She speaks Russian and German and knows how to deal with Russian bureaucracy.

She also has training in cryptography. In The Runway Job she demonstrated she is adept at hand-to-hand combat. Besides she also reveals a scar on her head in The Future Job, where she plays a psychic in a con, she claims the scar is from a brain tumor that the doctors got rid of, but afterwards "was twice blessed. With renewed life, and with this gift. Her grifting style is quite different than that of Sophie's.

While Sophie would usually get close to a mark by appearing as a business partner, Tara prefers to use her looks. Instead of trying to do business with marks, Tara will often flirt and get the mark to fall for her.

This is made apparent in The Bottle Job when she got the mark to trust her simply by flirting.