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Emmy Awardwinner Marg Helgenberger grew up near Omaha, Nebraska, and studied speech and drama at Northwestern University, where she appeared as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew and as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire: Following graduation, she moved to New York, where she made her mark as the feisty rookie cop on the popular ABC daytime serial Ryan's Hope. While in New York, she also worked with TADA, the Children's Theatre Company.

Moving to Los Angeles, she continued an active career in television, starring in several cable movies and gueststarring in such series as thirtysomething, Matlock and HBO's Talesirom the Crypt. In 1988, she joined the cast of ABC's acclaimed Vietnam drama, China Beach, winning a supporting actress Emmy in 1990 (and two additional nominations) for her breakout role as the hardbitten hooker K.C.

Most recently, Helgenberger played George Clooney's formidable love interest in four episodes of NBC's Emmywinning series, ER; starred in the highlyrated miniseries The Tommyknockers from Stephen King's novel; and appeared in Showtime's Fallen Angels (in the episode marking Tom Hanks' directorial debut) and the Oscarnominated short film Partners, directed by Peter Weller. She also starred in the NBC telefilm Murder Live and Showtime's The Gold Coast.

On the big screen, Helgenberger costarred in such movies as Steven Spielberg's Always, The Cowboy Way, Bad Boys, My Fellow Americans, Crooked Hearts and Fire Down Below.

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