Background Actors on Heartland
Funny the things you notice on second watch of Heartland. The show currently has a dedicated YouTube channel that runs Seasons 1–17 for Canadian subscribers. As I watched Through the Smoke (Ep. 1404) last night, there's a scene in Maggie's Diner where rookie mayor Lou second-guesses herself about the tone she struck in delivering the evacuation order.
In the background were some of her council members. One of the women looked oddly familiar, and then it dawned on me she looked an awful lot like the woman who drove by Amy and Ty (and Ty's stalled truck) in Ep. 303. She's the one who stopped to ask if they needed help (and of course they didn't).
I had time tonight to go back and check.
Sure enough, it is the same actress: Karen Ryan, according to the IMDb. (She also appeared in Ep. 102 After the Storm and Ep. 1407 Courage; her character in Season One is apparently "Bunny".)
It's kind of cool to see this sort of thing on Heartland, that background actors return and randomly show up, even if they're not involved in any significant way.
