Carly Pope
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| Carly Pope | |
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 Pope at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival |
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| Born | August 28, 1980 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1996–present |
Carly Pope (born August 28, 1980) is a Canadian actress.
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[edit] Early life
Pope was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, with an older brother, Kris, also an actor, and a younger brother, Alexander. She began acting during her high school years in Vancouver where she appeared in stage classics such as The Odd Couple, playing Mickey, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, playing Titania.[1] She attended high school at Lord Byng Secondary School near the University of British Columbia campus, along with classmate Cobie Smulders.
[edit] Career
Pope started her career with several small roles, such as Disturbing Behavior, Snow Day, and Night Man, before being cast as Sam McPherson on the WB's high-school drama Popular. After the show ended, Pope had several roles in film and television, including The Glass House, Jeff Probst's Finder's Fee, and Orange County. In 2004 she had starred as Maya Kandinski in The Collector. In 2005 she was a guest-star in an episode of FOX's Tru Calling and played an aspiring social worker in the film Eighteen.
In 2007, Pope starred in the Power Up project Itty Bitty Titty Committee [2], and in Martin Gero's intelligent sex comedy and Toronto International Film Festival hit, Young People Fucking. In 2009, she appeared in FOX's hit thriller, 24, as Samantha Roth, the president son's girlfriend.
Pope joined the main cast of the short lived NBC courtroom drama series Outlaw in 2010.[3]
[edit] Personal life
Splitting her time between Los Angeles and Vancouver Pope is currently attending university when her filming schedule allows. She speaks Italian, Spanish and French fluently and is seeking to expand her education in literature and languages.
On December 29, 2009, Pope and her brother, Kris Pope were driving a black BMW down West Georgia Street in Downtown Vancouver when David Fromradas, 31, of Alberta jumped on top of the car and yelled at them to run him over. When Kris got out of the car, Fromradas jumped in the front seat and drove the vehicle into the new CBC studios. Pope suffered a broken rib, and two cracked vertabrae, Kris suffered severe injuries to his ankle along with another victim who was a passerby.[4]
[edit] Awards and nominations
- 2000 - Nominated for a Teen Choice Award at the Teen Choice Awards for TV - Choice Actress for Popular (1999)
- 2004 - Won a Leo at the Leo Awards for Dramatic Series: Best Supporting Performance by a Female for The Collector (2004), for episode "The Prosecutor"
- 2005 - Won a Leo at the Leo Awards for Best Performance by a Female in a Short Drama for Sandra Gets Dumped (2005)
- 2005 - Won a Women in Film & Video Vancouver's Artistic Merit Award for The Hamster Cage (2005)
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | A Girl's Guide to Kissing and Other Nightmares in Teenland | Short film | |
| 1998 | Disturbing Behavior | Abbey | |
| 2000 | Snow Day | Fawn | |
| 2001 | Finder's Fee | Carla | |
| 2001 | The Glass House | Tasha | |
| 2002 | Orange County | Tanya | |
| 2002 | Various Positions | Cheryth Bleyn | |
| 2003 | Nemesis Game | Sara Novak | |
| 2004 | Intern Academy | Sarah Calder | |
| 2004 | Everyone | Rena | |
| 2005 | Window Theory | Angela | |
| 2005 | Sandra Gets Dumped | Sandra | Short film |
| 2005 | The Hamster Cage | Candy | |
| 2005 | The French Guy | Anna | |
| 2005 | Eighteen | Jenny | |
| 2005 | Two for the Money | Tammy | |
| 2005 | White coats | ||
| 2005 | Sandra Goes to Whistler | Sandra | Short film |
| 2007 | Itty Bitty Titty Committee | Shulamith | |
| 2007 | Beneath | Vanessa | |
| 2007 | Young People Fucking | Kris | |
| 2008 | Say Goodnight | Crystal | |
| 2008 | Edison and Leo | Zella (voice) | |
| 2008 | Toronto Stories | Roshanna | |
| 2009 | Life Is Hot in Cracktown | Stacy | |
| 2009 | Stuntmen | Karla Bravo | |
| 2010 | Man and Woman | Amy | Short film |
| 2011 | S.W.A.T.: Firefight | Kim Byers | Video |
| 2011 | Textuality | Simone | |
| 2012 | Concrete Blondes | Kris Connifer | Post-Production |
| 2013 | Baja Dunesm (original title: Elysium) | Filming |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Principal Takes a Holiday | Student | TV movie |
| 1998 | I've Been Waiting for You | Cheerleader | TV movie |
| 1998 | Night Man | Teresa Chase | Episode: "Manimal" |
| 1999 | Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge | Mari Ferraez | TV movie |
| 1999 | Aliens in the Wild, Wild West | Sara Johnson | TV movie |
| 1999 | A Cooler Climate | Beth | TV movie |
| 1999-2001 | Popular | Sam McPherson | 43 episodes |
| 2000 | Trapped in a Purple Haze | Molly White | TV movie |
| 2002-2003 | Kim Possible | Amelia (voice) | 2 Episodes |
| 2003 | 1st to Die | Cindy Thomas | TV movie |
| 2003 | Hemingway: That Summer in Paris | Young Loreto Callaghan | TV movie |
| 2003 | This Time Around | Melissa 'Mel' Rochester | TV movie |
| 2003 | Jake 2.0 | Rachel / Yori | Episode: "The Good, the Bad, and the Geeky" |
| 2003 | A Tale of Two Wives | Bianca | TV movie |
| 2004 | The Ranch | Beth Ann | TV movie |
| 2004 | The Mountain | Ronnie | Episode: "The Letter" |
| 2004-2006 | The Collector | Maya Kandinski | 16 episodes |
| 2005 | Young Blades | The Enchantress | Episode: "Enchanted" |
| 2005 | Tru Calling | Off. Kate Wilson | Episode: "The Perfect Storm" |
| 2005 | Recipe for a Perfect Christmas | J.J. Jenner | TV movie |
| 2006 | 10.5: Apocalypse | Laura Malloy | TV movie |
| 2006 | The Evidence | Episode: "Stringers" | |
| 2007 | Dirt | Garbo | 6 episodes |
| 2007 | The 4400 | Kara | Episode: "Till We Have Built Jerusalem" |
| 2007 | Whistler | Bailey | Episode: "The Rules of Attachment: Part II" Episode: "Last Run" |
| 2008 | Robson Arms | Anke Vermeulen-Papathanasiou | Episode: "Cherchez la Femme" |
| 2008 | Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon | Sarah | TV movie |
| 2008 | 24: Redemption | Samantha Roth | TV movie |
| 2008 | Californication | Annika | Episode: "Coke Dick & First Kick" Episode: "Blues from Laurel Canyon" |
| 2009 | 24 | Samantha Roth | 5 episodes |
| 2010 | Day One | Bonnie | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2010 | Outlaw | Lucinda Pearl | 8 episodes |
[edit] References
- ^ "Carly Pope: Biography". tv.com. http://www.tv.com/carly-pope/person/1752/biography.html. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
- ^ "Carly Pope on the clock for "24"". Reuters. 2007-10-09. http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSN0936276820071010. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
- ^ "NBC Unveils 2010-2011 Primetime Schedule Accented by Five New Comedies, Seven New Dramas, and New Alternative Program". The Futon Critic. May 16, 2010. http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2010/05/16/nbc-unveils-2010-2011-primetime-schedule/20100516nbc01/. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
- ^ "Actors Kris, Carly Pope hurt in Vancouver carjacking". CBC. 2009-12-30. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2009/12/30/bc-car-jacking-carly-kris-pope.html. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
2003 Television movie: "Recipe for Christmas"
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