I find Tania to be an extremely stunning girl. A joy to watch when she was on Lost. Then I realized from the credits that she is Frankie on Cold Case! I'm not sure if their hair and makeup people are inept or if they are trying to make her look cheap and more homely. I mean, she's still attractive, but she looks very average. She also looks like she's in her 30s instead of 20. What's up with that?
sharei'd hazard a guess and say they make her look older due to the fact that Valen's is 34 and shes only 20, and by making her look older, they're bridging the age gap
shareShe's also a "lab rat" and we know that people who work those kinds of "sciency" jobs are geeks & are ugly or at least homely. It's from the same Hollywood book that says you can just throw glasses and maybe a pony-tail on a really attractive woman & suddenly they're ugly.
I'd cut them some slack on the age gap except for the fact that she doesn't look her actual age, she's always looked older & an apparent age gap would not be something you'd really think of between those characters. Now the fact that she was married on the other hand....