As the widow of a firefighter who perished on 9/11, Callie Thorne was at the center of the controversial FX drama, “Rescue Me” from the beginning. She played Sheila Keefe, and her deceased husband was lead character Tommy Gavin’s cousin and best friend, who speaks to him like a conscience from time to time. Sheila and Tommy, played by series star and co-creator Denis Leary, soon began a controversial romance, breaking an unwritten firefighter’s code. An experienced stage performer, Thorne has worked frequently with the NYC acting troupe Naked Angels and at the now-defunct Malaparte., a
