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Watch Kirsten Moran as she catches up with Jennifer Beals, who searches for life after death in TNT's intriguing new summer drama Proof. We talk to Jennifer Beals about her near-death experiences, the Bay Area, life after death, and her brushes with Prince and Michael Jackson in the 80's.
For millennia, the world's greatest scholars and philosophers have sought the answer to one important question:Is death truly the end, or is there something else beyond? Now a brilliant surgeon is ready to take up the mantle inTNT's intriguing new drama Proof, starring Golden Globe® nominee Jennifer Beals (The L Word, Flashdance)and executive-produced by Emmy® winner Kyra Sedgwick (TNT's The Closer).
Set to premiere this summer, Proof also stars Matthew Modine (And the Band Played On, Weeds), David Sutcliffe (Private Practice, GilmoreGirls) and Joe Morton (Scandal, Terminator 2: Judgment Day), along with Callum Blue (Dead Like Me, RoyalPains), Edi Gathegi (X-Men: First Class, Justified), Annie Thurman (The Hunger Games) and newcomer Caroline Rose Kaplan.
Proof is set to premiere Tuesday, June 16, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT) on TNT and will be available across TNT's on-demand, digital and mobile platforms the following day. In the series, Beals plays Dr. Carolyn Tyler, who hassuffered the recent, devastating loss of her teenage son, the breakup of her marriage to Dr. Len Barliss (Sutcliffe)and a growing estrangement from her daughter (Thurman). Carolyn is persuaded by Ivan Turing (Modine), acancer-stricken tech inventor and billionaire, to investigate cases of reincarnation, near-death experiences,hauntings and other phenomena, all of it in the search for evidence that death is not the end.
It’s both a journey of exploration toward finding an answer to a question many people have asked and a deeply personal and emotionaljourney for Carolyn, who hopes to find answers in the wake of her son's death.Assisting Carolyn on her task are Dr. Zedan "Zed" Badawi (Gathegi), a young intern from Africa, and JanelRamsey (Kaplan), Turing's brilliant young protégé. Together they will explore one of life's most profoundmysteries, crossing paths along the way with Peter Van Owen (Blue), a bestselling author who claims to bepsychic. Constantly trying to control the maverick Carolyn is her intimidating boss, Dr. Charles Richmond(Morton), head of the hospital.
Proof is produced by TNT, with Kyra Sedgwick, Rob Bragin (Greek, Murphy Brown), Tom Jacobson (FerrisBueller's Day Off, Uncle Buck), Jill Littman and Emmy winner Alex Graves (The West Wing, Game of Thrones)serving as executive producers. The pilot episode was written by Bragin and directed by Graves.