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Tuesday, January 23, 2024
East Providence’s Kali Reis stars opposite Jodie Foster in “True Detective: Night Country” currently on HBO. PHOTO: HBO promotion
Rhode Islander Kali Reis is making headlines starring in “True Detective” with Jodie Foster.
“True Detective: Night Country” is the fourth season of the crime drama television series, which premiered on January 14 on HBO MAX.
Reis plays Detective Evangeline Navarro on the show.
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She previously wrote and starred in “Catch the Fair One,” where she played a Native American woman who embarks on the fight of her life, when she intentionally gets entangled in a human trafficking operation in an effort to retrace the steps of her little sister.
From EP Roots to Hollywood
A 2004 graduate of East Providence High School, Reis was given a key to the city by Mayor Bob DaSilva in 2023.
She has won the International Boxing Association crown, the World Boxing Council World Middleweight title, and the World Boxing Association and World Boxing Organization Super Lightweight Champion titles.
Now she has equal billing with Foster — winner of two Oscars and numerous awards throughout her career — in the detective series.
Reis at the premier of “True Detective.” PHOTO: CC 3.0/HBO
It has been 50 years since Foster has appeared on TV.
“TV and streaming is where it’s at,” said Foster in an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this week.
“Two seconds into reading it, I was really captivated and wanted to know what happened,” said Reis of landing the role. “To have this as my third job, to get this opportunity was a pretty big deal. Just a blessing.”
in 2023, Reis was inducted into the North American Indigenous Athletic Hall of Fame (NAIAHF) for becoming a role model for the youth of the community and for her accomplishments as an athlete.
“With my advocacy — I use advocacy very lightly with the work I do, it’s just something I feel as a duty as mixed-Indigenous, Cape Verdean woman, as having a warrior spirit, as being a voice for the voiceless,” said Reis of her role on “True Detective,” on Morning Joe.
“These women, these people that have gotten murdered, and have gone missing and have no authorities looking for our people is just something that needs to be put on mainstream media,” said Reis.
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