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  Emily Bergl

  Full Name

  Anne Emily Bergl

  Origin

  Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

  Years Active

  1995-present

  Anne Emily Berglis an English actress. She portrayed Samantha Slottin the US version of Shameless.

  She is an actress best known for her roles as Rachel Lang on the film The Rage: Carrie 2, Annie O'Donnell on the ABC television show Men in Trees, Beth Young on Desperate Housewives, and Tammy Bryant on the TNT drama series Southland. She also performs as a cabaret singer.

  Early Life[]

  Emily was born in Milton Keynes, England, to an Irish mother and an English architect father. She lacks an English accent, because she moved to Glenview, Illinois, 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 BA in English and Theatre. During her college years, she spent a semester studying with the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. She has a brother.

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  Emily Bergl

  
  

  BIO

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

  
  Emily was born in Milton Keynes, England to a British father and Irish mother. The family moved to the States when she was six, eventually settling in Chicago. Emily soon began acting in local theatre productions, all of which she produced, directed, designed and catered in her backyard. The reviews, also written by Emily, were glowing. After she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Grinnell College, Emily quickly moved to New York to pursue a stage career, where she lived in a studio apartment above a strip club along with another actor and a tap dancer. She supported herself by understud