From Punks to... Peachy

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. The cat is in the house. One, two, three " Each morning at her rented flat in Vancouver, Canada, between yawns and yoga stretches, Jacqueline McKenzie will listen to her language tapes. You'd think the 37-year-old graduate of Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art would be a dab hand at American accents by now, but you try saying such lines as "statistically significant disease cluster" in impeccable shotgun Seattle-style. As agent Diana Skouris in the Francis Ford Coppola-produced TV sci-fi series The 4400, McKenzie does that and more. The highest-rating debut...

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