The actress seen in the suicide fall sequence at the Fade In is actually a stunt actor & double named Michelle Sebek. They used a special cable & harness rig mounted to a special repelling machine to capture the POV the TV viewer sees of Ms. Sebek's face as her character falls in slow motion to the top of the taxi cab.
The shots of her "corpse" in the crushed car are eerily similar to the infamous 1947 suicide of Miss Evelyn McHale, 20, who leaped off the Observation Deck on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building on May 1st. Miss McHale landed squarely on the roof of a sedan parked on the street below, crushing it. A LIFE magazine photographer took a photograph of her body, and she looks peaceful, almost as if she was asleep. The event was surprisingly free of blood & gore, and she's still known as the "Beautiful Sleeping Suicide Blonde" and other similar tags. The LIFE photo and the shots seen in the TV show are nearly identical.
Unfortunately, stunt woman Michelle Sebek, who is actually acting in the suicide scene of Blue Bloods, is not credited in the cast for she had no lines.
The shots of her "corpse" in the crushed car are eerily similar to the infamous 1947 suicide of Miss Evelyn McHale, 20, who leaped off the Observation Deck on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building on May 1st. Miss McHale landed squarely on the roof of a sedan parked on the street below, crushing it. A LIFE magazine photographer took a photograph of her body, and she looks peaceful, almost as if she was asleep. The event was surprisingly free of blood & gore, and she's still known as the "Beautiful Sleeping Suicide Blonde" and other similar tags. The LIFE photo and the shots seen in the TV show are nearly identical.
Unfortunately, stunt woman Michelle Sebek, who is actually acting in the suicide scene of Blue Bloods, is not credited in the cast for she had no lines.
Last episode for John Ventimiglia.