Age: 71
female
Vernee Watson-Johnson born September 28, 1954 in North Trenton, New Jersey is an American television actress who has had a forty year career as a character actress in the movies and on television with 284 credits as of August, 2013 including a regular role on the sitcom "Carter Country" and six episodes on "Suit Up". Her roles often are playing doctors, nurses and judges. She has appeared four times on The Big Bang Theory as a nurse named Althea. She appeared in both the pilot and the original unaired pilot. In May 2005, she testified on behalf of the defense in Michael Jackson's trial on charges of child molestation.
She arrived in the city with someone else's name and someone else's money. The body in the hotel room was the first thing that was truly hers. Set in contemporary Los Angeles, Night Carnation is a neo-noir thriller with the visual language and moral ambiguity of classic noir but resolutely contemporary psychology. Vera Cruz, 25, arrives in Los Angeles with a stolen identity, a significant amount of cash whose origins she has partially chosen not to investigate, and the specific plan of someone who has been planning for years without having finalized the destination. Within forty-eight hours of arriving, she discovers the body of a man in the hotel room adjacent to hers — a man who, it becomes clear, knew her real name, which nobody in this city is supposed to know. The film follows Vera across four days as she simultaneously investigates what happened to the dead man, manages the various forces now converging on her, falls into a complicated entanglement with Leo, a private investigator she initially tries to manipulate and who refuses to be manipulated in ways she didn't plan for, and reckons with the question that noir always finally asks: whether the crime she is running from is what she did or who she is. Shot entirely at night. Every frame is a choice. Act One — The Arrival Vera checks in. The body is discovered. The first forty-eight hours. The city and the night establish themselves as active presences. Act Two — The Investigation Vera investigating what the dead man knew while being investigated herself. Leo's shifting allegiance. Victor's first appearance. Act Three — The Name Vera's real name is spoken aloud. Everything that follows is the consequence of that moment.
