ESTELLA WARREN of SYFY's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!

Published: Feb. 24, 2010, 3 p.m.

b'Starring Estella Warren (Planet of the Apes), Beauty and the Beast is not the traditional Disney fairy tale. In this gritty celebration of Valentine\\u2019s Day, a young Beauty (Warren) with a gift for healing helps a deformed Prince (Rhett Gilles, Wraiths of Roanoke) regain his throne and defeat the ruthless nobleman who wants to be king -- and then together they try to destroy a power-hungry witch. Beauty and the Beast was directed by David Lister and written by Gavin Scott.

Warren\'s movies include
Driven (2001) alongside Sylvester Stallone and Burt Reynolds,

Planet of the Apes
(2001) directed by Tim Burton with Mark Wahlberg, Kangaroo Jack

(2003) with Jerry O\\u2019Connell \\u2013 all three films reaching #1 in their opening weekend at the

Box Office. She also appeared in the critically acclaimed
The Cooler (2003) with Alec

Baldwin and William H Macy.

Warren has appeared in
That \'70s Show as well as in Law & Order and its spin-off Law &

Order: Special Victims Unit
. She also appeared in Ghost Whisperer, in an episode entitled

"On the Wings of a Dove", where she portrayed Alexis ("Lexi") Fogerty.

In 2009 Warren has completed filming episodes of
Mental for FOX Television Network and All Stars
for ABC Network, the feature film Blue Seduction opposite Billy Zane, the feature
film Transparency opposite Lou Diamond Phillips and is slated to start filming Devil\\u2019s Pride opposite Peter Fonda and Rosanna Arquette in 2010.'