Emily Bergl

Emily Bergl
File:Emily Bergl - Men in Trees.jpg Bergl in Men in Trees

Emily Bergl (born April 25, 1975) is an English-American actress.

Biography

Early life

Bergl was born in Milton Keynes, England to an Irish mother and an English architect father. She moved to Chicago with her family when she was a child and attended Glenbrook South High School and Grinnell College, where she was the lead in several school productions. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1997 with a BA in English and Theater.

Career

Bergl's big break came with the lead role of Rachel Lang in the 1999 film, The Rage: Carrie 2, which is the sequel to the 1976 Carrie film adaptation. Much of her acting also takes place on television. Bergl has appeared in episodes of the TV shows Gilmore Girls, CSI Miami, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NYPD Blue, and Star Trek: Enterprise. She also appeared in the psychological thriller Chasing Sleep, opposite star Jeff Daniels, and had a major role in the Steven Spielberg miniseries Taken.

Recently she starred in the ABC series Men in Trees as Annie, an enthusiastic fan of relationship expert Marin Frist (Anne Heche) who travels to every event she appears at, and ends up in Elmo, Alaska with Marin by taking a bus up north from Vancouver. Annie stays in Elmo (as does Marin after she decides to re-evaluate her life), when she meets Patrick Bachelor (Derek Richardson), a local hotel desk clerk and radio DJ she knew through online chats about Marin's books. They quickly fall in love, despite Annie's jealousy streak towards other women interested in her new boyfriend, and clashes with Patrick's mother Celia Bachelor (Cynthia Stevenson), the chief law enforcement official of Elmo.

Awards and nominations

She was nominated in 2000 and 2003 for a Saturn Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA for Best Performance by a Younger Actor/Actress for The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) and for Best Actress in a Television Series for Taken (2002), respectively.

Filmography

• The Governor's Wife (2008) (TV) .... Dr. Heather McManus (completed)
• Men in Trees (36 episodes, 2006-2008) .... Annie O'Donnell
• Fur (2006) .... Allan's New Assistant
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (1 episode, Vacancy, 2006) .... Alice
• The Hard Easy (2005) .... Natalie
• CSI: Miami (1 episode, Blood Moon, 2004) .... Melanie Hines
• Star Trek: Enterprise (1 episode, North Star, 2003) .... Bethany
• Gilmore Girls (4 episodes, Like Mother, Like Daughter, Haunted Leg, That'll Do, Pig and I Solemnly Swear, 2001-2003) .... Francie Jarvis
• Final Draft (2003) .... Helga
• Taken (5 episodes, Charlie and Lisa, God's Equation, Dropping the Dishes, John and Taken, 2002) .... Lisa Clarke - Adult
• Providence (3 episodes, Meet Joe Connelly, Trial & Error and Rule Number One, 2001) ....
• Happy Campers (2001) .... Talia
• Chasing Sleep (2000) .... Sadie
• ER (1 episode, May Day, 2000) .... Gloria Milton
• NYPD Blue (1 episode, Welcome to New York, 2000) .... Anya Weiss
• The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) .... Rachel Lang
• Wasteland (1 episode, Indian Summer, 1999) .... Corie

External links

• Emily Bergl at IMDb
• Emily Bergl at AllMovie
• Emily Bergl - Official Website
• Emily Bergl Interview by Beth Stevens on Broadway.com
• Emily's Men in Trees blog on TVGuide.com

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