Kathryn Erbe

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Kathryn Erbe (2016)

Kathryn Elsbeth Erbe (born July 2, 1966 in Newton , Massachusetts ) is an American actress . In opening and closing credits, she is sometimes also called Katie Erbe , Katy Erbe or Katheryn Herbe .

Life

Erbe has been an actress since graduating from New York University in 1990 .

She was hired as the daughter of Lynn Redgrave on the sitcom Chicken Soup when she was a student. After the series she became a member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company and has appeared in many of the company's productions. These included A Streetcar Named Desire , Curse of the Starving Class , My Thing of Love and The Fruits of Anger . The latter ran for six months and won the Tony Award for Best Play. In 1991, Erbe received a Tony Award nomination for her portrayal of Mary in Speed ​​of Darkness by Steve Tesich .

She became known on the screen through films like What about Bob? and Echoes - voices known from the intermediate world. In the television series Oz - Hell Behind Bars , she embodied the unpopular character of Shirley Bellinger .

Kathryn Erbe was married to the American actor Terry Kinney until 2006. She met him in 1993 when she became a member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago , which Terry Kinney co-founded. They have a daughter and a son together.

She is best known to German audiences for her portrayal as Detective Alexandra Eames in the US crime series Criminal Intent - Verbrechen im Visier , in which she appeared in 144 episodes from 2001 to 2011.

Filmography

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b entry at filmreference.com