The HBO hit series True Blood has borrowed from The Vampire Diaries’s playbook and has cast Courtney Ford (The Good Doctor, Dexter) to play the recurring role of Portia Bellefleur, “a classic Southern beauty who runs her own law practice.” Yes, that’s Bellefleur, as in sister to detective Andy Bellefleur (Chris Bauer). Ford played a guest role of Vanessa Monroe, Isobel’s research assistant at Duke University on the CW’s The Vampire Diaries this season.

[Above: Courtney Ford]

This is the second major casting move for the show’s upcoming fourth season. The show has just cast Fiona Shaw of Harry Potter fame in a regular role of Marnie, “a mousy, timid and secretly self loathing storefront medium and palm reader who is taken over by the spirit of a powerful witch.”

[Source] Deadline