Isabel Gillies

Isabel Gillies
Born	Isabel Boyer Gillies February 9, 1970 (1970-02-09) New York City, New York, United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1990–2011
Spouse	DeSales Harrison 1999–2005 (divorced) Peter Lattman 2007–present

Isabel Gillies (born February 9, 1970 in New York City, New York) is an actress and author. She has played Elliot Stabler's wife, Kathy, in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit since 1999. In March 2009, Scribner published Happens Every Day, her New York Times bestselling memoir.

Prior to assuming her role on SVU, Gillies appeared in an episode of the original Law & Order series, "Bad Girl". She played a young woman who murders an undercover police officer, and then undergoes a religious conversion during her trial and is born again. In 2000, she played the role of Alison in the short-lived Fox TV series The $treet.

She played the film parts of Cynthia McLean in Metropolitan (1990) and Alison in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996). She also played Moira Ingalls in the movie On Line (2002), Isabel in Happy Here and Now (2002), and Kathryn in New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008).

Gillies' 2009 memoir, Happens Every Day, is about her leaving New York to follow her first husband to Oberlin College, only to see her marriage suddenly crumble. Happens Every Day was New York Times bestseller and featured by Starbucks as a nationwide selection for its book program. NPR's Fresh Air selected it as a Top Ten Book of 2009.

Her second book, A Year and Six Seconds will be released in August 2011.

External links

• Isabel Gillies at the Internet Movie Database
• Official site