| Emily Bergl | |
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| Born | Anne Emily Bergl 25 April 1975 Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Website | |
| https://www.emilybergl.net | |
Anne Emily Bergl[1] (born 25 April 1975) is an English film, stage and television actress. She is best known for her role as Rachel Lang on the film The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999), Annie O'Donnell on the ABC television show Men in Trees (2006–08), Beth Young on Desperate Housewives (2010–11) and Tammy Bryant on the TNT drama series Southland (2009–present). She also performs as a cabaret singer.
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Early life [link]
Bergl was born in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England to an Irish mother and an English architect father.[2] She lacks a British accent because 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 B.A. in English and Theatre. She has a brother.
Career as actress [link]
Bergl's big break came with the lead role of Rachel Lang in the 1999 film, The Rage: Carrie 2, the sequel to the 1976 supernatural thriller Carrie. Much of her acting also takes place on television. Bergl has appeared in episodes of the TV shows Gilmore Girls, CSI: Miami, Medium, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NYPD Blue, and Star Trek: Enterprise. She also appeared in the psychological thriller Chasing Sleep, opposite star Jeff Daniels. Bergl had a major role in the Steven Spielberg 2002 miniseries Taken.
Bergl had a significant co-starring role in the ABC series Men in Trees as Annie, an enthusiastic fan of the series' main character, relationship expert Marin Frist (Anne Heche). Annie travels to every event Marin appears at, and ends up in Elmo, Alaska with Marin. 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.
Recently, Bergl played in Becky Shaw at Second Stage Theatre in New York in the beginning of 2009. As of the season's second episode Bergl played Paul Young's new wife, Beth, in the seventh season of Desperate Housewives.[3]
Cabaret singer [link]
Since 2010 Bergl has performed a cabaret show called Kidding on the Square, which had a run in the summer of 2010 in Los Angeles and New York, then later in Chicago. In September 2011, with the show in New York, the New York Times wrote of her performance:
"Emily Bergl, an incandescent kewpie doll with a bright Betty Boop-inflected chirp, a defiant flounce and a sharp comedic edge, took the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel by storm on Tuesday evening. Her sensational show, “Kidding on the Square” may have played elsewhere, but arriving at the staid Oak Room it felt like a gust of fresh air that could knock you off your feet.[4]"
Filmography [link]
| Year | Film/TV | Role | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Wasteland | Corie | 1 episode, "Indian Summer" |
| 1999 | The Rage: Carrie 2 | Rachel Lang | Nominated ″Saturn Award″ Best Performance by a Younger Actress |
| 2000 | NYPD Blue | Anya Weiss | 1 episode, "Welcome to New York" |
| 2000 | ER | Gloria Milton | 1 episode, "May Day" |
| 2000 | Chasing Sleep | Sadie | |
| 2001 | Happy Campers | Talia | |
| 2001 | Providence | 3 episodes, "Meet Joe Connelly", "Trial & Error" and "Rule Number One" | |
| 2002 | Taken | Lisa Clarke - Adult | TV miniseries (5 episodes, "Charlie and Lisa", "God's Equation", "Dropping the Dishes", "John" and "Taken") Nominated ″Saturn Award″Best Performance by a Younger Actor/Actress |
| 2003 | Final Draft | Helga | |
| 2001–2003 | Gilmore Girls | Francie Jarvis | (4 episodes, "Like Mother, Like Daughter", "Haunted Leg", "That'll Do, Pig" and "I Solemnly Swear") |
| 2003 | Star Trek: Enterprise | Bethany | 1 episode, "North Star" |
| 2004 | CSI: Miami | Melanie Hines | 1 episode, "Blood Moon" |
| 2005 | The Hard Easy | Natalie | |
| 2006 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Alice | 1 episode, "Vacancy" |
| 2006 | Fur | Allan's New Assistant | |
| 2006–2008 | Men in Trees | Annie O'Donnell | 36 episodes |
| 2008 | The Governor's Wife | Dr. Heather McManus | (TV film) |
| 2009–2011 | Southland | Tammy Bryant | 13 episodes |
| 2009 | Medium | Victoria | 1 Episode, "Things to do in Phoenix when you're dead". |
| 2009 | Date Blind | Susan | |
| 2009 | The Good Wife | Bree | 3 episodes |
| 2010 | Grey's Anatomy | Trisha | 1 episode, ″Shiny Happy People″ |
| 2010–2012 | Desperate Housewives | Beth Young | 13 episodes (special guest star) + 1 cameo |
| 2011 | Grassroots | Theresa Glendon | Post-production |
Awards and nominations [link]
She was nominated in 2000 and 2003 for a Saturn Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films 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.
References [link]
- ^ Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005.; at ancestry.com
- ^ Close-up - Movies, Dakota Fanning, Colorado - chicagotribune.com
- ^ "Desperate Housewives" Exclusive: "Trees" Charmer to Play Paul's Bride!, Entertainment Weekly, July 22, 2010
- ^ Holden, Stephen. "A Harlow for the New Era" New York Times, 1 September 2011. Accessed on 9/1/11 at: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/arts/music/emily-bergl-at-the-oak-room-review.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28
External links [link]
https://wn.com/Emily_Bergl
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