Melissa Sagemiller
Biography
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Melissa Sagemiller (born June 1, 1974, height 5' 6" (1,68 m)) is an American television and film actress.
Sagemiller was born in Washington, D.C. to a political activist mother and a professional American football player father, who played in the NFL for the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. She attended Georgetown Day School. Her entry into the performing arts was at age 3 when she began studying tap dance, ballet, jazz dance and modern dance. She made her stage debut in To Kill a Mockingbird when she was 9 years old, and soon after she became a regular on her local stage. At 14, however, acting took a backseat to modeling after Sagemiller was scouted by Eileen Ford in a jewelry shop. She eventually left modeling to take an undergraduate degree in Art History at the University of Virginia.
Shortly after graduation, she decided to return to acting full-time, and studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory, New York University's Stonestreet Studio and at Michael Howard Studios. Sagemiller appeared in Movieline magazine in August 2001. In November 2001, Sagemiller appeared in Gear magazine. In early career, she starred on number of teen films, like Get Over It and Sorority Boys, and was lead actress in 2002 box office bomb thriller Soul Survivors.
On television, Sagemiller portrayed the character Michelle Ernhardt in the TNT series Raising the Bar from 2008 to 2009. After that series was cancelled, Sagemiller joined Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in a recurring role as ADA Gillian Hardwicke. She replaced Paula Patton when Patton departed the series after just one episode. Sagemiller was featured in ten episodes of the 12th season of SVU. She was replaced in the 13th season by Stephanie March and Diane Neal. In 2013, she was cast as female lead on Chicago Fire spinoff Chicago PD,but later left from show.
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- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Becky Sorenson
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Gillian Hardwicke
- Chicago Fire (2012) as Detective Julia Willhite
- Chicago P.D. (2014) as Detective Julia Willhite
- Person of Interest (2011) as Sandra Nicholson
- Without a Trace (2002) as Carmen Kane
- Raising the Bar (2008) as Michelle Earnhardt
- Eleventh Hour (2008) as Sofia Lyons
- Sleeper Cell (2005) as Gayle Bishop
- The Guardian (2006) as Emily Thomas
- Get Over It (2001) as Allison McAllister
- Sorority Boys (2002) as Leah
- Love Object (2004) as Lisa Bellmer
- Mr. Woodcock (2007) as Tracy
- The Clearing (2004) as Jill Hayes
- Standing Still (2005) as Samantha
- Soul Survivors (2001) as Cassie
- The Santa Con (2014) as Carol Guthrie
- All I Want for Christmas (2013) as Elizabeth Watson
- Life on the Ledge (2005) as Claire
- Mr. Woodcock: Phys Ed Trauma Tales (2008) as Self