

- #MARG HELGENBERGER TODAY PROFESSIONAL#
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She played opposite Bruno Kirby in I'll Be Waiting, and as a novelist on the miniseries Stephen King's The Tommyknockers opposite Jimmy Smits. Helgenberger had roles in the television films Not on the Frontline and In Sickness and in Health. Laura Baker, a molecular biologist, in Roger Donaldson's science-fiction thriller, Species (1995), and reprised the role in a sequel, Species II (1998). Alison Sinclair in Michael Bay's action comedy film Bad Boys (1995). She followed it up with a role in Steven Spielberg's romantic comedy-drama Always (starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, and John Goodman), a modern version of the original 1943 Victor Fleming film A Guy Named Joe.ĭuring the early to mid-1990s, Helgenberger played the love interest to Woody Harrelson's character in The Cowboy Way (1994), and had a small role as Capt. In 1989, Helgenberger made her feature-film debut in a leading role as an all-night answering-service operator in one segment of the Wheat brothers' horror anthology After Midnight.
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The role earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1990. She then had a role as Karen Charlene "K.C." Koloski, a heroin-addicted prostitute on the ABC war drama series China Beach from 1988 to 1991. She also played a regular role as Natalie Thayer, opposite Margot Kidder and James Read, on the six-episode drama comedy series Shell Game (1987). Helgenberger guest-starred in an episode of the ABC series Spenser: For Hire, NBC's Matlock, and ABC's thirtysomething. After nearly four years, Helgenberger left the show in January 1986 to pursue new opportunities.
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Soon after completing college, Helgenberger landed her first professional role on the long-running ABC Daytime soap opera in March 1982, playing amateur cop Siobhan Ryan Novak DuBujak, a role previously played by Ann Gillespie.
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While performing in a summer 1981 NU campus production of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, where she played Kate, Helgenberger was spotted by a scout for the TV soap opera Ryan's Hope. After portraying the role of Blanche Dubois in a university production of A Streetcar Named Desire, she developed an interest in acting. During the summer, she also worked as a deboner at her father's meatpacking plant. Helgenberger began as a nightly weathergirl at KHGI-TV, the ABC affiliate in Kearney, while attending college (her name was changed by the producer to Margi McCarty). Until she went to college, Helgenberger aspired to be a nurse like her mother, but attended Kearney State College (now the University of Nebraska at Kearney) in Kearney, Nebraska, then attended Northwestern University's School of Speech in Evanston, Illinois, (now the School of Communication) and earned a B.S. Helgenberger played the French horn in her high school marching band. She has one older sister named Ann and a younger brother named Curt. Helgenberger is of Irish and German descent and had a Roman Catholic upbringing. She was raised in North Bend, Nebraska, where she graduated from North Bend Central High School. The actress caused a stir on Instagram when she posted a TBT photo of herself reading a newspaper on set.Helgenberger was born Novemin Fremont, Nebraska, to Mary Kay ( née Bolte), a nurse, and Hugh Helgenberger, a meat inspector. She hasn't signed on for that show due to her commitment to Getaway. Marg also starred in All Rise, a courtroom drama that was canceled by CBS but picked up for a third season by OWN. So what's Marg Helgenberger up to now? The actress was slated to star alongside Manifest's Matt Long in a pilot for a new NBC show called Getaway, but according to Pop Culture, NBC pulled the plug on that pilot. In the first episode of the new series, Sara explains Catherine’s whereabouts to Brass: “Catherine has rolled out a red carpet, she would be here, you know that, if she could.” Brass replies, “Yeah, she’s got a little grandbaby in Dublin.” Marg left the show in season 12 when Willows decided to leave CSI for the FBI. Marg Helgenberger portrayed Catherine Willows from 2000-2013. But fans of CSI: Vegas are hoping to see the return of more familiar faces from the original, namely Marg Helgenberger.


More than 21 years after the hit show premiered, a spinoff is here with fan favorites Gil Grissom ( William Petersen), Sara Sidle ( Jorja Fox), David Hodges ( Wallace Langham), and Jim Brass ( Paul Guilfoyle) reuniting to follow the evidence. CSI fans are thrilled to see their old favorites back on the small screen.
