
Ally McBeal(1997)
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!



Brooke Elliott
Jane Bingum

April Bowlby
Stacy Barrett

Jackson Hurst
Grayson Kent

Kate Levering
Kim Kaswell

Margaret Cho
Teri Lee

Lex Medlin
Owen French
Drop Dead Diva is a comedy, drama series that first aired in 2009 exploring themes of overweight, afterlife, second life, lawyer, law firm, life after death. Created by Josh Berman, it stars Brooke Elliott, April Bowlby, Jackson Hurst. A shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized attorney.
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