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Elisabeth Röhm
Elisabeth Röhm, August 2006
Born	Elisabeth Röhm April 28, 1973 (1973-04-28) (age 36) Düsseldorf, Germany
Years active	1997-present
Spouse(s)	Ron Wooster

Elisabeth Röhm (born April 28, 1973) is a German American television actress, best known for playing Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn on the television drama Law & Order and as Detective Kate Lockley on the TV series Angel.

Life and career

Röhm was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, but then moved to New York City before reaching her first birthday and later lived in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut.^[1] She maintains dual citizenship (U.S. and Germany). Her father, Eberhard Röhm, was a corporate attorney. Her mother, Lisa Loverde, a copywriter, once wrote for the soap opera Guiding Light.^[2] The two divorced when Röhm was 8 or 9.

She graduated from St. Andrew's-Sewanee School and attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, New York, where she studied Writing and European History.

Röhm, who made Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" list in 2002, had her first major television role as Dorothy "Dorf" Hayes on the soap opera One Life to Live (1997). She also had recurring role on Angel as Detective Kate Lockley and a regular role on the TNT drama Bull before being cast in Law & Order. She left the series in 2005.

She is an avid equestrienne who rides four times per week. She switched from hunter jumper to dressage at the request of the producers of Law and Order.

Röhm gave birth to her daughter, Easton August Anthony, on April 11, 2008. The father is entrepreneur Ron Wooster.^[3][4]

Awards and nominations

With the cast of her show, she shared nominations in 2002 and 2004 at Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Law & Order (1990).

Filmography

Röhm during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike

• Deconstructing Harry (1997) .... (uncredited)
• One Life to Live (1997-1998) (unknown episodes) .... Dorothy "Dorf" Hayes
• The Invisible Man (1998) (TV movie) .... (as Elisabeth Rohm)
• Fantasy Island (1998) (1 episode) .... Beautiful Cindy
• The '60s (1999) (TV movie) .... Amanda Stone (as Elisabeth Rohm)
• Turks (1999) .... Marla
• Eureka Street (1999) (TV mini-series) .... Max
• Bull (20 episodes, 2000-2001) .... Alison Jeffers
• Angel (15 episodes, 1999-2001) .... Detective Kate Lockley
• Law & Order (85 episodes, 2001-2005) .... Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn
• Law & Order: Dead on the Money (2002) (video game) .... Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn (voice)
• Law & Order: Double or Nothing (2003) (video game) .... Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn (voice)
• Push (2004) .... Samantha (as Elisabeth Rohm)
• Law & Order: Justice is Served (2004) (video game) .... Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn (voice)
• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) .... Agent Janet McKaren
• FBI: Negotiator (2005) (TV movie) .... Laura Martin
• Amber's Story (2006) (TV movie) .... Donna Whitson
• Ghost Image (2007) .... Jennifer
• Masters of Science Fiction (2007) (1 episode) .... Lt. Granger
• Big Shots (2007) (3 episode) .... Alex Mason
• The Kreutzer Sonata (2008) ....
• The Mentalist (2008) (1 episode) .... Sophie Miller
• San Saba (2008) .... Leigh
• The Whole Truth (2009) .... Angela Masters
• The Spy and the Sparrow (2009) .... Josephine Sparrow
• Aftermath (2009) .... Rebecca Fiorini
• Heroes (2009) .... Lauren Gilmore

References

External links

• Elisabeth Röhm at the Internet Movie Database
• Elisabeth Röhm at TV.com
• Elisabeth Röhm at MySpace