Former “NYPD Blue” babe Charlotte Ross is set to ride shotgun opposite Nicolas Cage in Summit Entertainment’s upcoming road-rage thriller Drive Angry 3-D. The milfy 42-year-old actress will play a waitress seduced by Cage during his quest to run down the assholes who killed his daughter and abducted his grandchild.

(UPDATE: TO READ ABOUT CHARLOTTE’S NUDE ROLE IN DRIVE ANGRY, GO HERE)

Ross rose to fame during her stint as Detective Connie McDowell on ABC’s crime-drama procedural “NYPD Blue.” A 2003 episode entitled “Nude Awakenings,” catapulted Ross to sex symbol status by featuring her gorgeous nude ass and impressive side-boobage in a controversial opening shower sequence that found her getting walked in on by a very young boy (why does that turn me on so much?).

I still remember the episode. It was as if my penis had written it. ABC was fined $1.4 million by the FCC in 2008. Why did the fine arrive five years after the offending episode had aired? My guess is it took the FCC that long to get their hands freed up to write up the paperwork.

I couldn’t find the actual episode to put here, but you can still get a good glimpse at Ross in the following clip (just try to overlook the idiotic pop-ups the poster added):

Drive Angry 3-D is directed by Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine 3-D) and costars Amber Heard, Billy Burke, and David Morse. The film is slated to be in theaters on Feb. 11, 2011.