Jessalyn Gilsig: Difference between revisions

|caption = Gilsig at the [[Peabody Award|69th Annual Peabody Awards]] in 2010

|birth_name = Jessalyn Sarah Gilsig

|birth_place = [[Montreal]], Quebec, Canada

|death_date =

|website = {{url|jessalyng.com}}

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==Early life==

After guest-starring in two episodes of Kelley's ''[[The Practice]],'' Gilsig was cast in two episodes of another Kelley program, the short-lived ''[[Snoops (1999 TV series)|Snoops]].''<ref name=Kelly /> Although the series was cancelled before Gilsig's episodes were broadcast, Kelley wrote the part of Lauren Davis in ''[[Boston Public]]'' specifically for her, a series that premiered in September 2000 on [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]];<ref name=Kelly>{{cite web |title=Tough Lesson – Vol. 56 No. 21 |url=http://people.com/archive/tough-lesson-vol-56-no-21/ |website=PEOPLE.com|access-date=November 11, 2016 |date=November 19, 2001}}</ref> Gilsig would leave the series after the end of the second season in May 2002.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gilsig Makes A 'Public' Exit |url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2003-03-02/entertainment/0302260408_1_nero-wolfe-gilsig-bruce-springsteen |website=tribunedigital-orlandosentinel|access-date=November 11, 2016}}</ref>

 

 

In addition to her extensive credits in television and theatre, Gilsig has appeared in film, beginning with a small role in the 1998 film ''[[The Horse Whisperer (film)|The Horse Whisperer]].''<ref name=Kelly /> She then provided the speaking voice for Kayley in the animated film ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' (1998), with [[Andrea Corr]] performing the character's songs.<ref name=Kelly /> In 2004 she starred in ''[[Chicks with Sticks]]'',<ref name=sticks>{{cite web |title=Jessalyn Gilsig |url=http://www.southbeachmagazine.com/jessalyn-gilsig/ |website=South Beach Magazine|access-date=November 11, 2016 |date=September 3, 2004}}</ref><ref name="NStars">{{cite web |author=<!--staff writers--> |title=Chicks with Sticks |website=Northernstars |date=June 30, 2016 |publisher=Canadian Independent Visual and Digital Media Association |location=Toronto, Ontario |url=https://www.northernstars.ca/chicks_with_sticks/ |access-date=April 15, 2021 |archive-date=April 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415223322/https://www.northernstars.ca/chicks_with_sticks/ |url-status=live}}</ref> appeared in ''See This Movie'',<ref name=see>{{cite web |title=Seth Meyers and Jessica Paré's absurd Montreal movie |url=http://cultmontreal.com/2015/09/see-this-movie-seth-meyers-jessica-pare/ |website=Cult MTL |date=September 6, 2015|access-date=November 11, 2016}}</ref> and in one of the lead roles in the 2007 film ''[[Flood (2007 film)|Flood]]''.<ref name=flood>{{cite web |last1=Dodd |first1=Stacy |title=Jessalyn Gilsig |url=https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/jessalyn-gilsig-2-1117938299/ |website=Variety|access-date=November 11, 2016 |date=February 15, 2006}}</ref>

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|''[[1923 (TV series)|1923]]''

|Beverly Strafford

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