Emily Bergl

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**Emily Bergl**
Bergl in Men in Trees
Born:	April 25, 1975 Buckinghamshire, England
Occupation:	Actress
Website:	EmilyBergl.net

Emily Bergl is an English-American actress. She was born on April 25, 1975, in Buckinghamshire, England. She moved to Chicago with her family when she was a child and attended Glenbrook South High School and Grinnell College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in English and Theater.

Bergl played the lead role in the film, The Rage: Carrie 2. Much of her acting also takes place on television. Bergl has appeared in episodes of the T.V. shows Gilmore Girls, CSI Miami, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and NYPD Blue. She also appeared in the psychological thriller Chasing Sleep, opposite star Jeff Daniels, and had a major role in the Steven Spielberg miniseries Taken.

Currently, she stars in the ABC series Men in Trees as Annie, an enthusiatic fan of relationship expert Marin Frist (Anne Heche) who travels to every event she appears at, and ends up in Elmo, Alaska with Marin by taking a bus up north from Vancouver. 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. They quickly fall in love, despite Annie's jealousy streak towards other women interested in her new boyfriend, and clashes with Patrick's mother Celia Bachelor (Cynthia Stevenson), the chief law enforcement official of Elmo.

She graduated from Grinnell College in 1997.