- This article is about the character from the television series. For the movie rendition, see Trudy Joplin (Film).
Trudy Joplin
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Affiliation
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Metro-Dade Detective, OCB, Vice Division
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Born
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1960
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Played By
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Detective "Big Booty" Trudy Joplin (born 1960) is an officer with the Metro-Dade Police Department, working undercover in the Organized Crime Bureau, Vice Division. She is the partner of Detective Gina Calabrese.
Trudy, along with her partner Gina, were the "lures" for prostitution johns in the Miami streets. Trudy is also a strong-willed policeman who takes her job seriously, and follows cases she is involved in to the end, regardless of the cost.
She was played in the television series by Olivia Brown.
Biography
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Life before Vice
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Not much is known of Trudy before her Vice career, she used to date a singer named David Jones, and the relationship became serious before they broke up over her police career.
Joining Vice
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Trudy joined the Metro-Dade police, then worked up to the Detective position in the Organized Crime Bureau-Vice Division.
Career in Vice
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Trudy (and Gina) started out as a prostitution lure, wearing exotic and revealing clothing to attract johns. Gina & Trudy also mingled among the real prostitutes, gaining "street cred" which allowed them to gain valuable "Big Booty" Trudy
Personal Life
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Trudy is single. After she and Jones broke up, she never had another serious relationship.
Vehicles
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Trudy usually rode with Gina (or occasionally Crockett/Tubbs), and did not appear to own or operate a car of her own. In a short clip in the episode "Free Verse", Trudy drives a 1985 Toyota MR2, along with Shadow in the Dark, Trudy drives a Honda Prelude.
Weapons
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Gina and Trudy both carried Smith & Wesson Model 36 revolvers chambered in .38 Special as their sidearms, and were rarely seen to use anything else (although both have been seen using Mossberg 500 shotguns on occasion).
Trivia
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- In the pilot "Brother's Keeper", Olivia Brown was not listed among the show's starring cast during the opening credits, but as a guest star after the opening sequence. This was changed starting with the second episode, "Heart of Darkness" (and also in the syndicated two-part version of "Brother's Keeper").
Main Characters: James "Sonny" Crockett • Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs • Gina Calabrese • Stan Switek • Larry Zito • "Big Booty" Trudy Joplin • Martin "Marty" Castillo • Lou Rodriguez Minor Characters: Miami Vice Film: |