
Emily Bergl
Acting • Born 1975-04-25
Biography
Bergl was born in Milton Keynes, England to an Irish mother and an English architect father. She lacks a British accent because she moved to Chicago with her family when she was a child and attended Glenbrook South High School and Grinnell College, where she was the lead in several school productions. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1997 with a B.A. in English and Theater. She has a brother. Bergl's big break came with the lead role of Rachel Lang in the 1999 film, The Rage: Carrie 2, the sequel to the 1976 supernatural thriller Carrie. Much of her acting also takes place on television. Bergl has appeared in episodes of the TV shows Gilmore Girls, CSI: Miami, Medium, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NYPD Blue, and Star Trek: Enterprise. She also appeared in the psychological thriller Chasing Sleep, opposite star Jeff Daniels. Bergl had a major role in the Steven Spielberg 2002 miniseries Taken. Bergl had a significant co-starring role in the ABC series Men in Trees as Annie, an enthusiastic fan of the series' main character, relationship expert Marin Frist (Anne Heche). Annie travels to every event Marin appears at, and ends up in Elmo, Alaska with Marin. Annie stays in Elmo (as does Marin after she decides to re-evaluate her life), when she meets Patrick Bachelor (Derek Richardson), a local hotel desk clerk and radio DJ she knew through online chats about Marin's books. Recently, Bergl played in Becky Shaw at Second Stage Theatre in New York in the beginning of 2009. Since 2010 Bergl has also performed a cabaret show called Kidding on the Square, which had a run in the summer of 2010 in Los Angeles and New York, then later in Chicago. As of the season's second episode Bergl played Paul Young's new wife, Beth, in the seventh season of Desperate Housewives.
Filmography
46 credits
The Rage: Carrie 2
Movie • 1999
Rachel Lang

Happy Campers
Movie • 2001
Talia

The Governor's Wife
Movie • 2008
Dr. Heather McManus

Generation Wrecks
Movie • 2021
Barbara Snyder

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Movie • 2006
Allan's New Assistant

Grassroots
Movie • 2012
Theresa Glendon

Miyubi
Movie • 2017
Cheryl

Escaping Ohio
Movie • 2023
Renee

The Hard Easy
Movie • 2006
Natalie

Broadway: The Next Generation
Movie
Self

Chasing Sleep
Movie • 2001
Sadie

I Know What I'm Doing
Movie • 2013
June Bennett

Final Draft
Movie • 2003
Helga

Blue Jasmine
Movie • 2013
Hal and Jasmine's Friend

The History of Sound
Movie • 2025
Mrs. Roux

Star Trek: Enterprise
TV • 2001
Bethany

CSI: Miami
TV • 2002
Melanie Hines

Providence
TV • 1999

Desperate Housewives
TV • 2004
Beth Young

Men in Trees
TV • 2006
Annie O'Donnell

Taken
TV • 2002
Lisa Clarke

Medium
TV • 2005
Victoria

Gilmore Girls
TV • 2000
Francine Jarvis

Southland
TV • 2009
Tammi Bryant

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
TV • 2017
Tessie

Hawaii Five-0
TV • 2010
Rhea Carver

The Wild Thornberrys
TV • 1998
Lisa Soderblom (voice)

The Mentalist
TV • 2008
Ms. Marina Austin

Elementary
TV • 2012
Marion West

The Knick
TV • 2014
Mrs. Hemming

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
TV • 2016
Francie Jarvis

The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Bree

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Judith Briggs

How to Get Away with Murder
TV • 2014
Sally

Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005
Trisha

Warehouse 13
TV • 2009
Autumn Radnor

Scandal
TV • 2012
Janet Beene

Dirty John
TV • 2018
Marie Stewart

MINDHUNTER
TV • 2017
Mavis Leland

You
TV • 2018
Nancy

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Alice

Shameless
TV • 2011
Sammi Slott

FBI: Most Wanted
TV • 2020
Becca McCann

ER
TV • 1994
Gloria Milton

American Crime
TV • 2015
Lilah Tanner

Law & Order
TV • 1990
Kate Leavy