Ocean Ave.

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Ocean Ave. is a Swedish-American soap opera, produced by the Swedish production company, Kajak, and the American company, Dolphin Entertainment. It filmed in Miami, Florida between 2002-2003. The main cast only included five Swedish actors, and two other Swedish actors were seen in minor roles. 130 episodes were filmed (60 minutes each, including commercials) but Swedish Television cut it into 260 episodes (30 minutes each, including commercials). Ocean Ave. has received bad reviews from the start, probably due to some of the actors' inexperience and the series' poor direction. Many models appeared in the series. One of them, Nicole Rawlins, who played the mysterious and beautiful high school student, Kayla McDermott, was killed off by a serial killer in the middle of the series.

Soap opera actor, Timothy Adams, plays cop Thomas "Thom" O'Keefe, who is working on the case of a prostitute murdering serial killer. Thom's father, the Police Commissioner, Jamie O'Keefe (Marc Macaulay), has been involved in illegal activities for years. When Thom finds out about his father's criminal life, he flips out and tries to kill Roberto Rendon, but everything goes wrong and Thom is shot by Manny Ortega. At the hospital, Thom forgives his mother who left him when he was a child, and he begs Sage to promise that she will leave Macy. Thom then dies. Sage follows through with her promise. She divorces Macy, but helps him to escape from the Russians, Vladimir (Angelo Fierro) and Vega, who are after him for never paying them the money he owes. In the last episode, Sage marries Thom, who mysteriously comes back to life.

We later find out that the psychopath, Manny Ortega, has killed countless people. One of them, Stefan Eriksson, was shot to death in front of his son Alex, who black out and can't remember the murderer. Alex finally regains his memory and recognizes Manny as his father's killer. Manny then confesses in front of Alex and Elena and tells them he is also behind the explosion at Dev Tech, in Sweden. It is there that Nora, the mother of Chrissy and Alex, died. Manny's plan was to have killed Stefan, but he survived. At least until Manny shoots him. Manny also tells Alex and Elena that he was the man who raped Elena's mother, Alicia, and that he then strangled her and planted her car in the water so it looked like she drowned in a car accident. Manny probably strangled Hadley Marx as well, but he never confesses to it. Manny is finally shot to death by his own son, Jimmy Ray, who was sent by Roberto.

The journalist, Crystal Tate (played by Victoria Jackson), starts her own investigation and finds out many dark secrets about the Devon, O'Keefe, Hamilton and Rendon families. The secrets date back to 1977 and have to do with the death of bordello girl, Jazz De Guise (Heidi Mark). Everybody thinks that Jazz died of a drug overdose but Crystal convinces the Police to reopen the Jazz case and the question "Who killed Jazz?" makes the Devon's and O'Keefe's very nervous.

Later in the series, the Swedish model and actress, Victoria Silvstedt, appears in a few episodes. She plays a detective sent to Miami to help the Police with the serial killer case, but she soon falls victim to the killer herself.

Cast list

Steve DuMouchel (Martin Devon)
Leigh Lombardi (Anne Devon) (2002)
Jean Carol (Catherine Devon)
Tony Templeton (Macy Devon)
Kristy Eisenberg (Sage Devon-O'Keefe)
Timothy Adams (Thomas "Thom" O'Keefe)
Matthew McKerrow (Ian Blake)
Rebecca Ferguson (Chrissy Eriksson)
Marc Menard (Lucas Devon)
Natalie Khoury (Gabriella "Gaby" Hamilton)
Victoria Jackson (Crystal Tate)
Petrus Antonius (Antonio "Tony" Avanti)
Pa Neumüller (Charlotta Eriksson)
Justin Gorence (Dr. Will O'Keefe)
Lyn Foley (Lorraine O'Keefe, aka Teri Martin)
Marc Macaulay (Jamie O'Keefe)
Robert Emmett Fitzsimmons (Mike Moran) (2002-2003)
Francisco Paz (Manny Ortega)
Carlos Iglesias (Jimmy Ray Ortega)
Antoni Corone (Roberto Rendon)
Denise DeQuevedo (Elena Rendon)
Marcus Larsson (Alex Eriksson)
Edward Finlay (Dylan O'Keefe)
Nicole Rawlins (Kayla McDermott) (2002-2003)
Jessica Sutta (Jody Starr)
Michael Sarysz (Raider Howarth)
Candace Kroslak (Lindy Maddux)
Gwendolyn Osborne (Jade Dominguez) (2002-2003)
Michael Anderson (Marco Jones)
Ken Clement (Harry Sowalski)
Brian Baer (Davey Lapin/Cameron Ramsey)
Jan Waldekranz (Stefan Eriksson) (2002)
Jacqueline Ramel (Nora Eriksson) (2002)
Megan Fox (Ione Starr)
Sean Sullivan (Josh Mandell)

Minor roles

Bart Baldwin (Bobby Devon) (2002)
Martin Forsström (Nils Thurmond) (2002)
Wayne Farnes (P.I. Paterson)
Thatcher Stevens (Vincent)
Miriam Salazar (Julianna Ortega)
Peter Haig (Trebly)
Andrea Abenoza (Hadley Marx)
Susanne Krietman Taylor (Dr. Martha Kurtz)
Eric Anderson (Torrance Jones)
Angel Schmiedt (Arlette Kelly-Jones)
Kimona Ryan (Jewel Starr)
Arielle Quatro (Tasha James)
Will McClain (Jordan Matthews)
Sean Dennison (Mr. Steve Ryan)
Linda L. Miller (Lisa Maddux) (2003)

Billy Kelly (Matt Baxter) (2003)

Guest roles

Justine Eyre (Karen) (2002)
Brooke Leslie Reid (Regina) (2002)
Raul Roman (Coach Perez) (2002)
Mario Ingoglia (Janitor) (2002)
Michele Lepe (Denise) (2002)
Todd Nasca (Jake) (2002)
Irene B. Colletti (Joan) (2002)
Lee Perkins (Detective Sanders)
Linda Batista (Daniella)
Chanin Owens (Ally/Misty)
Roxie Stice (Louise)
Dave Corey (Dr. Jaspers)
Chris Charles Herbert (Michael Layton)
Krizia Bajos (Noelle)
Magda Hernandez (Alicia Rendon)
Heidi Mark (Jazz De Guise)
Nick Ondarza (Ramon Vega)
Kalex (Armand Vega)
Angelo Fierro (Vladimir)
Marjorie Manushaw (Kayla's Grandmother) (2003)
Tina Harbom (Eva Olin) (2003)
Victoria Silvstedt (Detective Johanna Marsden) (2003)
Erin Plewes (Jessica) (2003)
Monika Kramlik (Nadine Royal) (2003)
Sally Boni (Lauren Ramsey) (2003)
Vivian Ruiz (Margaret) (2003)