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CSI fan, helps him with pronunciation.
Also tricky for Togo: navigating Los
Angeles freeways. Having lived in New
York for the past five years (he was cast
in CSI: Miami there), he's had to get
used to commuting by car.
"The thing I miss most about New
York is public transportation," he says.
"There's something about being on a
train with hundreds of other people
being all smashed in there. It's very unify-
ing."
n the ephemeral world that is net-
work TV, there are few guarantees.
But it's a safe bet that anyone asso-
ciated with the blockbuster CSI fran-
chise will be gainfully employed for the
foreseeable future. Jonathan Togo, new
on CSI: Miami this season as patrolman-
turned-evidence investigator Ryan
Wolfe, likens his new job to hitting the
lottery.
"The odds are so against you,"
explains Togo. "They make like 50
pilots. Of the 50, there are parts for you
in 20; and of those 20, there are 1,000
guys auditioning for those 20 parts and
10 of them go to names; and of those
pilots, five go to air and one survives
past the first year. So to get on a show as
good and as successful. as CSI: Miami, to
be part of the franchise, is astonishing. I
feel extremely lucky"
The 27-year-old Togo — whose previ-
ous credits include a small role in Mystic
River, the sci-fi series Special Unit 2,
series guest spots and a Jack in the Box
commercial — compares his good for-
tune to being traded to the Yankees
Jonathan Togo as patrolman-turned-evi-
before the World Series.
dence investigator Ryan Wolfe on "CSI:
"The success of the show I can take
Miami"
zero credit for," he laughs, but he's
enjoying the ride, even though being the
new guy was at first "like being a foreign
He and Gettinger picked their current
exchange student. You're part of the fam- apartment because of its New York feel.
ily but you're new, so I was a little nerv-
The building looks like a Brooklyn
ous. But all the fears that I had were
brownstone," says Togo.
allayed. Everyone has been beyond sup-
Originally from Rockland, Mass.,
portive."
Togo describes himself as "a little bit of a
Playing the bright, analytical and
mutt. My mother is Italian and Irish,
committed Wolfe comes easily to Togo.
and my father is Ukranian-Jewish," he
"He's highly motivated, and I can relate
says, noting that Togo was originally
to that because as an actor I'm always
Tonkaviev, shortened by a grandfather in
trying to do the best that I can in the
search of a catchier name for his carpet
moment. He's a bright guy, funny, hon-
business.
est and he cares deeply."
"I was raised as a Jew in a predomi-
But the more graphic aspects of the
nantly Irish-Catholic part of the country.
procedural drama do give Togo pause. In We were extremely liberal Jews. I went
biology class, "I couldn't dissect a frog. It
to Hebrew school, but we were middle
made me nauseous," he confides. As for
class and it costs money to join a syna-
a slated drive-along with homicide
gogue, money we didn't always have,"
detectives, "now that I'm faced with it,
explains the actor. "I was bar mitzvahed
the idea of actually seeing a dead body is
at 13 and basically never returned to the
daunting."
synagogue."
The tricky scientific jargon can be
These days, "I characterize myself as
daunting as well, but Togo has advisers
Jewish in culture but not very religious. I
to help on the set. At home, girlfriend
definitely identify myself as a Jew," says
Diana Gettinger, an actress and a big
Togo. "I believe in the tenets of Judaism.