'The Equalizer’s' Liza Lapira Reflects On Her 'NCIS' Years, And The Sweet Surprise Her Mom Got From Mark Harmon And Rocky Carroll

For going on three seasons now, Liza Lapira has been a primetime regular within the cast of CBS’s "The Equalizer," where she stars as the bar-owning, ass-whooping former sniper Mel Bayani. But she’s definitely been a familiar face among CBS viewers for far longer, and for an assortment of other projects. Perhaps most notably, she recurred as the duplicitous lawyer Michelle Lee across three earlier seasons of "NCIS," and the actress reflected on that career highlight while revealing the fun way co-stars Mark Harmon and Rocky Carroll surprised Lapira’s mom.