Argentine Mia Maestro To Lead FX Vampire Pilot 'The Strain'

Actress Mia Maestro, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, will reportedly be taking the lead role in an upcoming FX Cable Network pilot called "The Strain". Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, the author of "The Strain" novel series, will be heading up the project. Del Toro will be joined in the production of "The Strain" by Carlton Cuse, best known for his work on the CBS drama series "Nash Bridges", which starred Don Johnson as the famously cheeky titular San Francisco cop and Richard "Cheech" Marin as his sidekick.

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Mia Maestro will play Dr. Nora Martinez, who is working for a Dr. Ephraim Goodweather. In "The Strain", Goodweather (Corey Stoll) is the chair of the CDC's Canary Team in New York. Goodweather, with the help of Martinez, must investigate a 'vampire virus' outbreak in the Big Apple.

According to FOX News Latino, if the television series follows the storyline of the first of Del Toro's novels, a jet full of deceased passengers lands in the District of Columbia and "signs saying a strange being" was on the airplane. Vampires were later found to be the source of the murders. This plotline would therefore tie in to the importance of Maestro's and Stoll's characters as they seek to eradicate the fatal problem.