Fiona Rene's on-screen credits include episodes of "Jane the Virgin," "Grey's Anatomy," and "NCIS: Hawai'i." Rene's first recurring television role, however, was as Detective Kara Lee in the crime drama "Stumptown." The series follows Dex Parios (Cobie Smulders), a struggling Marine veteran working as a private investigator in Portland, Oregon. Kara serves as the partner to Detective Miles Hoffman (Michael Ealy), Dex's love interest.
In 2021, Rene once again appeared on the small screen as a detective, this time in the short-lived TV reboot of "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Like the 1997 hit film, the TV adaptation follows a group of teenagers who accidentally kill a stranger in a hit-and-run. One year later, they are stalked by a dangerous killer. Hot on the teens' tail is Detective Lyla Kalei, played by Rene, who is determined to solve the community's string of murders. But Lyla has some secrets of her own.
Rene may have had experience playing a detective, but "I Know What You Did Last Summer" brought its own set of challenges — especially given the series' relocation to Hawaii. "I've played detectives before, but this was something a little bit different," the actor told The List. "One, being set in Hawaii, the way that they have structure of their departments in regards to police officers works a little bit different than they do on the mainland. So I found myself, a month prior to really becoming acquainted with not only the structure of their departments."
