Catherine Willows
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Catherine Willows (Born March 26, 1963) is a character on the CBS television series . She is employed as a crime-scene investigator supervisor (a "CSI-3") and forensic scientist for Clark County, Nevada, which contains the city of Las Vegas. She is played by Marg Helgenberger, who has received two Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations for the role.
Biography and Personal
Willows was born in Bozeman, Montana and raised by her mother, a former show girl (Kiss, Kiss, Bye, Bye) with occasional contact with her biological father, casino owner Sam Braun (Scott Wilson). Willows herself worked for a time as a dancer/stripper and briefly had a cocaine habit, dropping it before pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology from the University of Las Vegas. Like the other characters on CSI, she has a wide knowledge of odd facts that help in their investigations of crime scenes.Willows has one daughter, Lindsey Willows (Madison McReynolds), and had a stormy relationship with ex-husband Eddie (Timothy Carhart) until his murder at the hands of business associates (Lady Heather's Box). Her relationship with her now teenage daughter Lindsey has also been stormy since Eddie's murder. Lindsey got in fights at school and was picked up for hitchhiking. Catherine took her daughter to the morgue and showed her the dead body of a victim to impress upon Lindsey the dangerousness of her behavior. Catherine later enrolled Lindsey in a private school that would keep a tighter rein on her. Catherine's relationship with Sam Braun has occasionally created conflicts, in cases where he is involved in some way with an ongoing investigation (i.e. No More Bets). However, Catherine and Lindsey are now financially stable thanks to a sizable monetary gift from Sam Braun.
Willows dates in several episodes. One brief flirtation, in the episode Weeping Willows, ended when the man (Adam Novak, played by Marg Helgenberger's real-life husband, Alan Rosenberg) became overly aggressive. No long-term romantic relationships have otherwise been established, though there was a slight flirtation with fellow CSI Warrick Brown, ending with his marriage. Willows maintains a close friendship with the other investigators on the night shift, especially supervisor Gil Grissom, though she has occasionally criticized him for his lax attitude toward paperwork and office politics.
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