Where Kelli Williams character Dr. Gillian Foster has learned how to read facial expressions, Ria Torres, is a "natural" at deception detection.
Ria was a Transportation Security Administration agent that Dr.Lightman (Tim Roth) ran into and almost immediately saw that she had her natural ability.
Sounds almost "X-Men" doesn't it?
Even though Ria has raw talent, it hasn't been honed yet and she sometimes lets her emotions cloud her judgment.
And she has a habit of seeing through her colleagues "covers "and reading their emotions, seeing underneath turmoil, and that has a habit of annoying them.
Stil sounds like X-Men doesn't it?
The beautiful young woman that plays Ria is Monica Raymund.
Monica was born in 1986 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
She attended the Juilliard School in New York City, participated in the "Broadway Theater Project in Tampa and attended the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.
Besides "Lie to Me" she has appeared in the 2007 movie Fighter and an episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit".
