Elisabeth Röhm ( "Rome" "room", ; born April 28, 1973) is an American television and film actress and director. She is best known for playing Kate Lockley in the television series ''

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'' from 1999 to 2001 and Serena Southerlyn in the television series '' Law & Order'' from 2001 to 2005. She has also appeared in films such as '' Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous'' (2005), '' American Hustle'' (2013), '' Joy'' (2015), ''Seduced'' (2016), '' Once Upon a Time in Venice'' (2017), '' The Tribes of Palos Verdes'' (2017) and '' Bombshell'' (2019). Röhm made her directorial debut with the Lifetime film '' Girl in the Basement'' (2021).

Early life

Röhm was born on April 28, 1973, in

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, to Lisa Loverde and Eberhard Röhm. Her father was a German partner at the law firm of Duane Morris LLP New York, and the family moved to New York City before her first birthday. Her mother was an American scriptwriter who once wrote for the TV soap opera ''

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''. Röhm's parents divorced when she was 8 or 9. Her maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant. Röhm attended grades 11–12 at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School, a small private

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in Sewanee, Tennessee, and then graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1996 with a B.A. in European history.

Career

Röhm received her first TV acting role in 1997, as Dorothy Hayes in the American soap opera ''

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''. She had a starring role in the 1999

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'' Eureka Street'', and she then portrayed recurring character Detective Kate Lockley in the first two seasons (1999–2001) of the TV series ''

''. While appearing in ''Angel'', Röhm also had a regular role in the only season (2000–2001) of the Turner Network Television drama series ''

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''. Röhm portrayed regular character Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn through four seasons (2001–2005) of the television series '' Law & Order''. She also portrayed deputy DA Amanda Taylor on '' Stalker''. More recently, Röhm has received critical acclaim for her roles in two David O. Russell films, '' American Hustle'' (2013) and '' Joy'' (2015). Between 2016 and 2017, Röhm appeared in three episodes of '' Hawaii Five-0'' a Season-14 episode of '' NCIS'', Netflix's '' Flaked'', the film '' Once Upon a Time in Venice'' including Bruce Willis, Jason Momoa, John Goodman and Famke Janssen and the film '' The Tribes of Palos Verdes'' starring Jennifer Garner and

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. She portrayed Martha MacCallum in the 2019 film '' Bombshell'' with Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie. She portrayed the mother of Aiden, a drug-addled teen who gets recruited by police to take down a drug czar, in the 2021 film '' The Runner''. She made her directorial debut with the Lifetime film '' Girl in the Basement'' (2021), based on the Fritzl case.

Personal life

Röhm was a longtime avid equestrian, but she gave up professional

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after a 2005 accident that she spoke about in a 2011 episode of the Biography Channel series '' Celebrity Close Calls''. She appeared in several horse-riding scenes with

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in an ''NCIS'' episode. Röhm was engaged to director Austin Smithard in 2000. In 2005, Röhm began a relationship with Ron Anthony Wooster. Röhm and Wooster have a daughter born in 2008. Röhm and Wooster married in October 2008. They divorced in October 2014. In January 2019, Röhm announced her engagement to Judge Jonathan T. Colby. In March 2020, Röhm's publicist revealed that she and Colby are no longer together. In October 2021, Röhm married Peter Glatzer with her daughter in attendance. Röhm had a

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on her personal website, where she often wrote about life with her daughter and her then-fiancé. On January 6, 2011, ''

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'' added Röhm's blog to the "Moms & Babies" section of its website.

Awards and nominations

Röhm, as part of the cast of the TV series '' Law & Order'', was nominated for their

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performance, and again for their 2003 performance, for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. In 2014, Röhm and the rest of the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for their roles in '' American Hustle''. Röhm was selected for ''

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'' magazine's "Hot 100" list in 2002.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

External links

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