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Emily Bergl as Annie O'Donnell on "Men in Trees"
Emily Bergl as Annie O'Donnell on "Men in Trees" - © ABC
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Emily Bergl as Annie O'Donnell on "Men in Trees" Emily Bergl as Annie O'Donnell on "Men in Trees" Emily Bergl Pictures
Emily Bergl stars as Annie O'Donnell on ABC's "Men in Trees."

Emily Bergl is one of a few young actresses today who has managed to create a substantial career in film, television and the theatre.  Emily Bergl's work already includes diverse roles in comedy and drama, and characters from many different centuries.  Emily Bergl has worked with award-winning directors on film and television, including James Mangold, Antoine Fuqua, Steven Shainberg, Jonathan Kaplan, and on stage with Doug Hughes, Daniel Sullivan, Michael Greif, Michael Mayer and Mark Brokaw.

Emily Bergl was born in Milton Keynes, England to a British father and Irish mother. The family moved to the U.S. when she was six, eventually settling in Chicago. Emily Bergl soon began acting in local theatre productions, all of which she produced, directed, designed and catered in her backyard. The reviews—which she also wrote—were glowing.

After she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Grinnell College,  Emily Bergl quickly moved to New York to pursue a stage career, living in a studio apartment above a strip club along with another actor and tap dancer.  Emily Bergl supported herself by understudying on Broadway in the evening and then working the graveyard shift at various law firms. After only a few months, Emily Bergl was chosen from a nationwide casting call to play the lead in "The Rage: Carrie 2," her first job on camera. The film earned rave reviews for the novice film actress' performance and led to starring roles in independent films such as "Happy Campers" and "Chasing Sleep," opposite Jeff Daniels. Emily Bergl can also be seen in the Diane Arbus biopic, "Fur," opposite Nicole Kidman.

Emily Bergl soon returned to the theatre, starring in "Romeo and Juliet" at the Old Globe and on Broadway in "The Lion in Winter," opposite Laurence Fishburne and Stockard Channing, for which she won the FANY Award for Best Broadway Debut. Many guest star roles in television soon followed, including "ER", "NYPD Blue," "Providence," "CSI: Miami," "Star Trek Enterprise," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and two seasons as the malevolent Francie on "Gilmore Girls."  Emily Bergl also starred in "Steven Spielberg Presents Taken," a historic 20-hour miniseries, as Lisa, the mother to Dakota Fanning.

While maintaining a career in film and television, Emily Bergl has worked throughout the country at regional theatres such as the Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage and Film, South Coast Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse and The Globe Theatres, playing lead roles in "Proof" and "Our Town."  Emily Bergl starred on Broadway in "The Rivals" at Lincoln Center (a performance the New York Times described as "infinitely nuanced"), and originated roles off-Broadway in new plays by Christopher Shinn and Steven Dietz.  Emily Bergl s also a member of Antaeus, a theatre company in Los Angeles that produces classic works. In 2006 Emily Bergl returned to Broadway to star opposite Gabriel Byrne in Eugene O'Neill's "A Touch of the Poet."

Currently living in Los Angeles, Emily Bergl traveled to Alaska to research "Men in Trees" and plans to document her trip online. In her free time,  Emily Bergl volunteers for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic.






EMILY BERGL: FACTS

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Age: 34 years old
Birthday: April 25, 1975
Height: 5' 5"
Birthplace: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK





 

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