BWTVF to Honor CSI: Miami Actress

TORONTO, February 7: The
Banff World Television Festival (BWTVF) has announced that actress Sofia Milos,
who stars in the Emmy-winning CBS series CSI: Miami, will receive this year’s Award of Excellence.

The 29th edition of BWTVF
will take place at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, Canada, from
June 8 to 11. The Award of Excellence, which acknowledges exceptional
achievement through a body of work over an extended period of time, will be presented
to Milos at the Alberta Film Awards Lunch on Monday, June 9.

Previous recipients of the
Banff Television Award of Excellence include Carol Mendelsohn (2007), Gordon
Pinsent (2004), David Chase (2003), Gary David Goldberg (2002), Norman Jewison
(2001), Dick
Wolf (2000), David E. Kelley (1999), Don
Hewitt (1998), Diane English (1997) and Steven
Bochco (1996).

Milos will also be
speaking before delegates in one of BWTVF’s In Conversation sessions, where she
will answer questions about her experiences in the television industry and on CSI:
Miami.

Sofia Milos has been
featured in roles such as Homeland Security Agent Blanca LaGarda in The
Border and as detective Yelina
Salas on CSI: Miami, a role she
has had for five seasons. On the HBO mob drama The Sopranos, Milos had the recurring role of mob boss Annalisa
Zucca, where she went toe-to-toe with Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini); and on
HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, she
had Richard Lewis as a boyfriend. She has also made appearances in a number of
NBC sitcoms, including an episode of Friends as the object of Matthew Perry’s obsession, guest
starred in the season finale of Mad About You with Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt; and from 1997 to
1998 she starred in Caroline in the City.

—By Irene Lew