“30 Rock” star Katrina Bowden has netted a role in Dimension Films’ new fish-&-chicks frightener Piranha 3-DD. The insanely hot 22-year-old joins a cast that includes Danielle Panabaker (The Crazies), Meagan Tandy (Unstoppable), Gary Busey (Predator 2) and a bevy of nameless, top-heavy starlets.

Directed by John Gulager (Feast 1-3) and written by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan (Saw 4-7), Piranha 3-DD is set at a popular water park during summer. Shooting on the film began exactly a week ago in Wilmington, NC.

Bowden, who was voted this year’s Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire readers, has starred in director Eli Craig’s still-in-distribution-limbo hillbilly-horror-comedy Tucker and Dale VS. Evil and the 2009 home-video slasher The Shortcut.

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