Former Jamaica Fashion Model winner Parisa Fitz-Henley has landed her biggest role since becoming a professional actress.

She was recently cast in the new NBC series Midnight, Texas. The show is based on the best-selling trilogy by Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse books that were adapted for HBO’s vampire drama, True Blood.

“I play Fiji Cavanaugh. I’m a witch and owner of a shop called ‘The Inquiring Mind,’ selling crystals, herbs and teaching people about spiritual matters. She has two best friends, an assassin named Olivia, and a pawn shop owner named Bobo, who she’s secretly, desperately in love with,” Fitz-Henley, 39, told the Jamaica Observer. “Fiji is innately, extremely powerful, but is scared of her power. As a result, she’s not always able to control it.”

Fitz-Henley got into acting in 2002 with a walk-on role in the film Death Of A Dynasty. Since then, she has appeared inGrey’s Anatomy, Private Practice and House of Cards.

Her film credits include The Jane Austin Book Club and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. She also appeared in two Netflix series: Luke Cage and Jessica Jones.

Born in Kingston, Fitz-Henley attended St Andrew High School and got into modelling while there. Winning Pulse’s Jamaica Fashion Model pageant 20 years ago opened doors for her.

“It opened up possibilities for travel I had not dreamed of, and exposed me to artists and entrepreneurs who helped me learn about the world in ways I might never have otherwise. I also got to meet a lot of people who were famous and see that people are basically people, no matter how many folks know them or how wealthy they are,” she said.

Fitz-Henley’s most challenging acting gig was in a pilot for CBS three years ago.

“I played a cellist, torn between two brothers, in a television pilot for CBS a few years ago, with the incomparable Jamie Lee Curtis. I booked the job and 12 hours later was on my way to Vancouver to shoot it. Total whirlwind. Though I played violin already, I had a crash course in cello with a challenging piece to play on screen. Man, they may look like similar instruments but they are played very differently. It worked out fine, but shooting that was probably my most terrifying day of work ever,” she recalled.