The Protector: Ally Walker Gives Her Latest Cop A Funny Spin

share: digg facebook twitter After two and a half seasons of playing ruthless ATF Agent June Stahl on Sons of Anarchy, Ally Walker says she was ready to do something a little lighter. Homicidal tendencies excluded, this role does feel a bit familiar for Walker, who also starred for three seasons as an FBI consultant on NBC's crime drama Profiler. The major difference between The Protector (premiering Sunday at 10/9c) and Walker's past work, she says, is the tone. Check out photos of Walker But she's also a divorced single mom raising two boys, Nick (Sage Ryan) and Leo (Thomas Robinson), with the help of her former drug addict brother Davey (Chris Payne Gilbert). "A lot of the times, [writers] make strong women just like men," Walker says. Ally Walker discusses the powerful season finale Walker says those struggles, including her character's divorce and troubled upbringing, will definitely be addressed during the show's first season. There are things that come up about her and her brother, and you start to see kind of how these characters were shaped into being who they are, Walker says. [...] there's always that tone of having fun.