Days' Leann Hunley Moonlights On NCIS Posted by Klutzy_girl at Tuesday, February 09, 2010 View Comments Labels: NCIS

Gena Rowlands will soon be raising hell on NCIS as Joann, an ex mother-in-law of Mark Harmon’s Gibbs—and that’s good news for Days of Our Lives star Leann Hunley (Anna). The suds queen has been hired to play Joann in flashbacks set during the 1980s. Airing March 2, the retro scenes—which feature Harmon’s own son, Sean, as the younger Gibbs—will explain the bad blood between the two characters. “You see that Joann is very angry at Gibbs for taking her daughter and grandchild away from her when his job is relocated,” Hunley reports. That move led to the murder of Gibbs’ family by a Mexican drug dealer.

The guest-stint was a fantasy come true for the seductive, smoky-voiced Hunley, who has often been likened to Lauren Bacall but always saw herself as more of a Rowlands type. “When I first saw her back in the ’70s in A Woman Under the Influence, I thought, ‘That woman looks like me! She has my eyes!’” Hunley recalls. “Ever since, it’s been my secret little wish that I might play her some day. But, seriously, what were the chances? To have it actually happen is just wild!”

Source: TV Guide Magazine