Exclusive: True Blood Vamp Plays Minds Games

Fresh off her head-turning role as Bill's maker Lorena on True Blood, Mariana Klaveno has booked a guest stint on CBS' forthcoming spinoff Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior. The actress will play Veronica, a spotlight-hungry hellraiser who excels at manipulating the opposite sex. Sounds like Lorena minus the fangs.

This marks the Minds franchise's second piece of inspired guest casting in less than a week. As I reported, Friday Night Lights MVP Adrianne Palicki will channel her inner Juliette Lewis in an upcoming episode of Minds: Original Flavor loosely inspired by Natural Born Killers.

Michael Ausiello will be contributing to Movieline.com and Deadline.com as he preps for the January launch of a new TV-centric website.