Isabel Gillies
Isabel Gillies | |
|---|---|
| Born | Isabel Boyer Gillies February 9, 1970 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1990–2011 |
| Spouse(s) | DeSales Harrison 1999–2005 (divorced) 2 sons Peter Lattman 2007–present, 1 stepdaughter |
Isabel Gillies (born February 9, 1970, in New York City, New York) is an actress and author. She played Elliot Stabler's wife, Kathy, in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 1999-2011. In 2009, Scribner published Happens Every Day, her New York Times bestselling memoir.
Gillies landed her first movie role in 1990 when Whit Stillman cast her as Cynthia McLean in his pioneering independent film, Metropolitan.[1] Other film credits include Alison in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), Moira Ingalls in On Line (2002),[2] Isabel in Happy Here and Now (2002), and Kathryn in New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008).
Prior to her role on SVU, Gillies appeared in "Bad Girl," an episode of the original Law & Order series, playing 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 series The $treet.
Books
Gillies's 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.[3] Happens Every Day was a 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.[4][5] Her follow-up memoir, A Year and Six Seconds was published in 2011.[6][7] She is currently working on a young adult novel, Beside Me, due out in 2013.[8]
Personal
Gillies is the daughter of Linda Gillies (former director of the Astor Foundation) and Archibald Gillies (former president of the Andy Warhol Foundation). She graduated from New York University with a BFA in Film. According to an August 24, 2012 interview on internet radio Majority Report with Sam Seder, she went to Rhode Island School of Design as a freshman before dropping out to do a movie.
She was married to DeSales Harrsion (an English professor at Oberlin) from 1999-2005.[9]
Gillies met Peter Lattman, then a Wall Street Journal reporter, on a play date with their children; they married on October 13, 2007.[10]
References
- ^ Canby, Vincent (23 March 1990). "Reviews/Film Festival; The Dance Is Over, but the Whirl Goes On". The New York Times. p. 18.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (27 June 2003). "FILM REVIEW; When Cybersex Addicts Try Real Life". The New York Times. p. 10.
- ^ Isabel Gillies (2009). Happens every day: an all-too-true story. New York: Scribner. ISBN 1-4391-2662-3.
- ^ Maureen Corrigan (March 17, 2009). "'Happens Every Day': A Marriage's Abrupt Ending". NPR.
- ^ Deirdre Donahue (4/13/2009). "Isabel Gillies' memoir: An iced cup of revenge". USA TODAY.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Isabel Gillies (2011). A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story. Voice. ISBN 1-4013-4162-4.
- ^ "A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story". Kirkus Reviews. April 15, 2011.
- ^ "Rights Report: August 25". Publishers Weekly. Aug 25, 2011. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
- ^ "WEDDINGS; Isabel Gillies, DeSales Harrison". The New York Times. p. 12.
- ^ "Isabel Gillies, Peter Lattman". The New York Times. p. 18.
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