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Annabeth Gish (b.
Anne Elizabeth Gish on
March 13,
1971 in
Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a contemporary
American actress known for starring roles in
Shag,
The X-Files,
Mystic Pizza and
Double Jeopardy.
Biography
Gish was born to Robert and Judy Gish. Her grandmother was named Lillian, but Annabeth isn't related to the early
silent film actress sisters
Lillian Gish and
Dorothy Gish. When she was 2, her family moved to
Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she grew up with her brother Tim and sister Robin. Her father was an English professor at the
University of Northern Iowa; her mother was an elementary school educator.
Gish is married to former
X-Files stunt man Wade Allen and the two have a son named Cash Alexander Allen born on
January 12,
2007.
Career
During her youth, Gish accumulated significant acting experience that culminated with a starring role in the 1986 teen film
Desert Bloom. During this time she was active in the
Lutheran denomination and became fluent in
Spanish. Gish went to
Northern University High School in
Cedar Falls, Iowa where she graduated in 1989. She attended
Duke University where she was a member of the
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and focused her energies on the drama program, film studies and women's studies. She received a BA in English in July 1993. Numerous television and film appearances followed, building on her previous teen acting experiences.
In
1989, Gish got her first major TV film role in
When He's Not a Stranger as a rape victim Lyn McKenna.
Gish portrayed
Anne Hampton, the doomed second wife of
Rhett Butler in
1994 in the
TV mini series Scarlett.
In
1997, Gish received her first starring role in a movie, portraying
Susan Sparks opposite
Shaquille O'Neal in the movie adaptation of DC Comics Superhero
Steel.
In
2001, Gish joined the cast of
The X-Files as Special Agent Monica Reyes after series star
David Duchovny announced his intention to leave the show. During the eighth and ninth seasons, Gish and fellow newcomer
Robert Patrick became the show's principal characters and it was presumed that the two could carry on the show even after Gillian Anderson left. While it's generally agreed their performances were good, ratings continued to drop with the departure of Duchovny and his dynamic with
Gillian Anderson; the ninth season of
The X-Files became the show's last.
In
2003, Gish guest-starred on
The West Wing playing Elizabeth Bartlet Westin, eldest daughter of
President Josiah Bartlet (
Martin Sheen). She appeared several times over the following seasons, rounding out the fictional Bartlet family also consisting of
First Lady Abigail Bartlet (
Stockard Channing) and daughters Ellie (
Nina Siemaszko) and Zoey (
Elisabeth Moss).
In
2006, Gish played the role of Julia in the independent movie
The Celestine Prophecy and costarred in
Candles on Bay Street alongside
Eion Bailey and
Alicia Silverstone. In the same year, Gish began a continuing major role in the eleven-episode Showtime drama
Brotherhood. There she plays fictional Rhode Island State Representative Tommy Caffee's wife Eileen, who strives to maintain a model political family while struggling with
adultery and
drug abuse. Gish has said her portrayal of Eileen Caffee is the best role she's had in 22 years as an actress.
Brotherhood has been picked up for a second season of 10 episodes to air in Fall 2007, and Gish reprises her Eileen Caffee role.
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