| BIOGRAPHY
Best known for her television work, Marg Helgenberger started
acting in college theatrical productions while studying speech
at Northwestern University. A native of Omaha, NE, where she was
born on November 16, 1958, Helgenberger moved to New York after
graduating from college and landed a role as a tough young policewoman
on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. During her four-year tenure on
the show, she also maintained her ties with the theater through
her involvement with TADA, the Children's Theater Company.
Following a move to Southern California, Helgenberger began guest
starring on such television series as Matlock, thirtysomething,
and HBO's Tales From the Crypt. She co-starred on the short-lived
series Shell Game (1987) before getting her big break with the
role of K.C., a tough prostitute, on the distinguished drama China
Beach in 1988. Helgenberger's role won her two Emmy nominations
and one win in 1990. Following the series' demise in 1991, Helgenberger
returned to television guest-star status on ER, where she had
a four-episode-long recurring role, and in the miniseries The
Tommyknockers.
A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her feature-film
debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger
has played a wide variety of roles in films ranging from Species
(1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to
Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000), which
cast the actress as a woman whose family is devastated by cancer
because of the chemicals dumped into their water by a local power
plant.
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FILMOGRAPHY
• In Good Company (2004)
• Erin Brockovich (2000)
• Lie Down With Lions (1999)
• Species 2 (1998)
• Fire Down Below (1997)
• The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)
• My Fellow Americans (1996)
• Frame by Frame (1995)
• Species (1995)
• Through the Eyes of a Killer (1995)
• The Tommyknockers (1993)
• Death Dreams (1992)
• Desperate Motive (1992)
• Blind Vengeance (1990)
• After Midnight (1989) |
