Fonts display wrong in Final Cut Pro

One of the other editors in the office put together this piece and now I am making some changes to it on my machine. We're using the font "Baskerville" a common font that comes on the computer, and it is showing up correctly in the Font Book, but it is not showing up correctly in Final Cut Pro.
There should be other options like regular, bold, semiBold etc, but there's only bold, italic, and bold italic.
The other strange part is that when I first opened it on my computer it displayed wrong, and I tried reinstalling the fonts, and then it worked fine. I tried reinstalling the font again but it didn't help. I also tried restarting and that didn't help either. I checked in the Library > Fonts folder as well as the fonts folder under my user and the fonts match.
Any suggestions as to what I could do?

As far as I remember, Final Cut has always had this issue....
I believe it has something to do with Final Cut only reading True Type (not Post script) fonts.
That's why I only use Text for simple things like legals. For all other text uses, I use Photoshop...

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