In four years, Bridget Regan has gone from the School of Drama at UNC School of the Arts to a medieval realm called Westland.

She has a leading role in Legend of the Seeker, a new fantasy adventure series from producers Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, the team behind Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and the Spider-Man movies. The series will make its debut at 6 p.m. today on WMYV channel 48 (cable channel 15 on Time Warner).

Regan has known that she wanted to act since she was a child growing up in San Diego. In high school, she went to a summer conservatory. "One of the teachers there raved about Gerald Freedman and said this is the man to learn from, and that I should go where he is teaching."

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