Emily Bergl

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Emily Bergl

Emily Bergl (born April 25, 1975 in Milton Keynes , England ) is a British - American film and stage actress .

Life

Emily Bergl was born to a British father and an Irish mother in 1975 in Milton Keynes, a town in southern England. At the age of six, she and her family moved to Chicago, United States. She attended Glenbrook South High School and later Grinnell College, where she took part in various performances, with Phi Beta Kappa recording, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in English and theater. In order to promote her acting career, Bergl then moved to New York City , where she took part in several theater productions; at the same time, she was invited to several auditions until she was finally offered the lead role of Rachel Lang in Katt Shea's Carrie 2 - The Revenge . For her performance, Bergl received a nomination for the Saturn Award 2000 for " Best Young Actor ".

After the shooting of her first film was over, further film and television productions followed. Parallel to her screen career, she successfully played theater. For example, she starred in Romeo and Juliet at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, as well as in The Lion in Winter on Broadway alongside Laurence Fishburne and Stockard Channing . For the latter performance she was even honored with the FANY Award (Friends of NY Theater) in the category “Best Broadway Debut”.

Bergl can often be seen in well-known US television series - mostly in guest roles - such as NYPD Blue , CSI: Miami , Criminal Intent , Gilmore Girls and The Good Wife . In the Steven Spielberg - miniseries Taken she played Lisa Clarke, the mother of Allie Keys ( Dakota Fanning ). As a result, in 2003 she received another Saturn Award nomination in the “ Best TV Leading Actress ” category .

From 2009, Bergl appeared in the first three seasons of the police series Southland as Tammi Bryant. She played Beth Young in the seventh and eighth seasons of the widely acclaimed dramedy series Desperate Housewives .

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SURNAME Bergl, Emily
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American film and stage actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Milton Keynes , England , UK