Marina Squerciati

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Marina Teresa Squerciati (born April 30, 1984 in New York City , New York ) is an American actress .

life and career

Marina Squerciati was born on April 30, 1984 in the metropolis of New York City in the US state of New York, where she grew up and went to school. She made her first film appearance as a child when she starred in the 1993 film The Nutcracker , starring Macaulay Culkin . After that, it was largely quiet again about the young acting talent, who in the meantime appeared mainly in school plays. After attending the Dalton School on the Upper East Side , she graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in theater in 2003 . She received further training that was important for her later career, including at the School of American Ballet in ballet dance , with the Upright Citizens Brigade and The PIT in improvisational theater , with Tina Landau in acting and movement, and with Lewis Black and Tom Shillue in the stand -up comedy . Both during and after graduation, Squerciati appeared primarily as a stage actress. For example, in 2006 she took part in Stage II , the smallest of the three stages in the New York City Center , in the piece Beauty of the Father . She also had her first notable appearance in film or television in 2006; the short film Hold by Aloura Melissa Charles , however, remained her only significant engagement in this area in the next few years. Her career as a theater actress turned out to be far more successful. As such, she made her debut in the fall of 2008 in the play To Be or Not to Be by British actor Nick Whitby at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Broadway .

From 2009 Squerciati could be seen again in film and television and tried to gain a foothold in this area parallel to her theater career. She made her first notable appearance in 2009 in an episode of Criminal Intent - crime in the sights , as well as in the romantic comedy If Love Were So Easy by Nancy Meyers . In addition, she has repeatedly appeared in the theater and has received several awards. In 2010, she mimed the actress and singer Judy Holliday, who died of breast cancer in 1965, in the biographical play Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story by Bob Sloan , who both directed and wrote the screenplay . For her portrayal of Judy Holliday in the off-Broadyway play performed at the Lucille Lortel Theater , she was awarded the Agnes Moorehead Award , among others . Also in 2010 she received a nomination for a Kevin Kline Award in the Best Ensemble category . This was followed by television appearances in one episode of Good Wife and Damages - Im Netz der Macht in 2010, as well as in Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2011, before appearing in a recurring unit from 2011 Role as Alessandra Steele in eight episodes of Gossip Girl . Your appearance as Dr. Sara Bella in Alter Ego - Big Heroes, Bigger Problems the following year also contributed to her growing international notoriety.

In the indie film Frances Ha , nominated for a Golden Globe , Squerciati was also seen in a small role as a waitress in a club in 2012. In 2013, speaking roles in the drama Night Moves by Kelly Reichardt followed , as well as in the 3-D animated fantasy film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 , directed by Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn . She also appeared in a supporting role in Sparks - Avengers from Hell that year and was seen in an episode of The Americans as a Soviet spy. However, her breakthrough on television came the following year when she was first seen in the role of Officer Kim Burgess on the television series Chicago PD . Since the first season she has been part of the regular cast in over 128 episodes (as of 2019). In her role as Kim Burgess , she can also be seen in other series in the series universe; She has appeared in 18 episodes of Chicago Fire since 2014, five episodes of Chicago Med since 2015 , one episode of Chicago Justice in 2017 and a crossover episode of Law & Order: in 2015 . Furthermore, she is said to have played in Rest in Peace - A Walk Among the Tombstones in 2014 . She had other notable film and television appearances in 2017 in the short-lived web series Special Skills at the side of Patrick Webb , when she starred and screenwriter in all five episodes , as well as in the films Central Park - Massacre in New York and Marshall .

Personal, family etc.

She is married to the lawyer Eli Kay-Oliphant; Their first child, a daughter, was born in May 2017.

In the summer of 2018, Squerciati announced that she was the biological daughter of Wall Street mogul John R. Jakobson (1930-2017), who had died a year earlier . Jakobson had an affair with Marina Squerciati's mother, Marie, for around a year in the early 1980s. Before that, he had a month-long relationship with former Miss America Bess Myerson . Through Jakobson, she also has a number of half-siblings, including actress Maggie Wheeler . After Jakobson and Squerciati broke up, he continued to provide maintenance with $ 1,200 a month for over 20 years and also contributed $ 175,000 for Marina Squerciati's attendance at Dalton School, an upper-class school, and an additional $ 131,000. Dollars for education, room and board at Northwestern. In the will of Jakobson, who died in 2017 at the age of 86 from complications from pneumonia , it was not considered.

Marina Squerciati's German-speaking voice actors

At times, Marina Squerciati had numerous different voice actors in the various German-language dubbed versions of the films and series in which she had worked, and thus no standard speaker yet. One of the most frequently listed speakers in the German dubbing file is Nicole Hannak , who gave her the voice in Chicago Fire and all of her other appearances as Kim Burgess in the other series in the series. Other voice actors were Aline Staskowiak (Marshall) , Eva Michaelis (Central Park) , Sonja Spuhl (The Americans) , Maike von Bremen (Good Wife) , Melanie Hinze (Gossip Girl) and Annina Braunmiller (Damages - Im Netz der Macht) .

Filmography (selection)

Film appearances (also short appearances)
Series appearances (also guest and short appearances)
Speaking roles

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g TV star: I'm the secret love child of a Wall Street mogul , accessed on September 9, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Officer Kim Burgess on NBC's official website , accessed September 8, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Marina_Squerciatis resumé (status: 2014) on the official website of the Nicolosi & Co. Talent Agency (English), accessed on September 9, 2019
  4. ^ Casting Announced for Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story , accessed on September 9, 2019
  5. ^ Eli J. Kay-Oliphant on the official website of Massey & Gail, accessed on September 9, 2019
  6. ↑ JOHN JAKOBSON - Obituary (English), accessed on September 9, 2019
  7. ↑ Star of Chicago PD claims that a Wall Street mogul who had several affairs is her father and she's entitled to a slice of his $ 100MILLION fortune , accessed September 9, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Squerciati, Marina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Squerciati, Marina Teresa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States