An offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators - these are just a few of the trails exhibited by television's next great detective, Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, played by three-time Golde Globe Award nominee Kyra Sedgewick in The Closer. In her first lead role in a dramatic series, Sedgwick plays a tough CIA-trained detective, with Southern charm, who has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, hogh-profile murder cases. The Closer is executive produced by the team behind Nip/Tuck.