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Marg Helgenberger

Age: 51
Height: 5' 6"

Birth Place: Fremont, Nebraska, USA
Born: Nov. 16th, 1958

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Marg Helgenberger's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Catherine Wil&hellip
China Beach	K.C.
Shell Game	Natalie Thayer

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Marg Helgenberger is an established dramatic actress whose prominence has been steadily increasing. Her work has been noted on stage, film and TV. Most of her career has been spent in dramatic roles on television, but she has also had a noteworthy presence in feature films.

Helgenberger earned a degree in drama at Northwestern University. A talent scout recruited her from there to work on the soap opera "Ryan's Hope" (1975) where she appeared over the course of the next four years.

Throughout the 1990s Helgenberger took on numerous roles in made-for-TV movies and as a guest star on many TV series. In particular she appeared in many movies made specifically for the Lifetime cable network and also for Showtime. She won critical acclaim for In Sickness and in Health (1992) (TV), Thanks of a Grateful Nation (1998) (TV) and Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBen�t and the City of Boulder (2000) (TV).

In TV series she won an Emmy for her portrayal of a hard-bitten prostitute who catered to Vietnam War soldiers, in the series "China Beach" (1988). She also was George Clooney's love interest in a multi-episode arc of the monumentally successful TV series "ER" (1994).

In feature films, Helgenberger has appeared in Tootsie (1982), Steven Spielberg's Always (1989), Species (1995) and In Good Company (2004).

Her greatest claim to fame on the silver screen may be when she played opposite Julia Roberts (I) as a chemical exposure victim in the popular movie Erin Brockovich (2000).

Helgenberger is most known for her TV role as a crime scene investigator in "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000). She shared in CSI's 2005 Screen Actors Guild award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series.

In her personal life, Helgenberger is the daughter of a cancer survivor and is very active in supporting research for breast cancer.

TRIVIA:

Six years before the premiere of _"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000)_ (qv), she and 'Gary Dourdan' (qv) starred together in an unsuccessful TV series pilot called _Keys (1994) (TV)_ (qv).
Sister-in-law of 'Mark Rosenberg (I)' (qv) and 'Paula Weinstein' (qv).
Has a son: Hugh Howard Rosenberg; born Oct 21, 1990 and named after Marg's father, who died in 1986 of complications from Multiple Sclerosis.
Has been portrayed in several CSI games.
Earned a B.S. degree from the School of Speech (now the School of Communications) at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois).
Had a plane scare while attempting to fly from Dallas, Texas to Omaha, Nebraska. The pilot aborted take-off after the plane blew two tires. Marg eventually made it to Omaha. [October 20, 2005]
On _"ER" (1994)_ (qv) episode #2.21, _"ER" (1994) {Take These Broken Wings (#2.21)}_ (qv), Karen Hines, the character she played, wears a Northwestern University pullover.
Got her start as a local news weather girl in her native Nebraska. The news producer felt her name was too long and made her change it to Margi McCarty. This was her night job. Her day job was as a meat boner at the meat packing plant where her father was a meat inspector.