Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about MARG HELGENBERGER!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Mary Marg Helgenberger (born November 16, 1958) is an American actress . she began her career in the early 1980s and first came to attention for playing the role of Siobhan Ryan on the daytime soap opera Ryan Helgenberger is of Irish and German descent and had a Roman Catholic upbringing . she played the French horn in her high school marching band . Until she went to college, she aspired to be degree in speech and drama, she also worked as a deboner at her father’s meatpacking plant . after performing in a NU campus production of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, she developed an interest Helgenberger left the show in January 1986 to pursue new opportunities . she guest-starred in an episode of the ABC series Spenser: For Hire, NBC’s Matlock, and ABC’s thirtysomething . in 1989, she made her feature-film debut in a leading role in one segment of the Wheat brothers’ horror anthology After Midnight . she followed it up with a role in Steven Spielberg’s romantic comedy- she played a molecular biologist in Species (1995) and reprised the role in a sequel . she had roles in the television films Not on the frontline and In Sickness and in Health . in 2000, she made a guest appearance in the Valentine’s Day episode of Frasier . she co-starred in the role of Catherine Willows, a former show girl employed as a blood-spatter analyst she won the 2005 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series . she also starred in writer-director Paul Weitz’s romantic drama comedy In Good Company (2004) . in 2006, she renamed the street on which she had her childhood home “helgenberger Avenue” in 2007, she lent her voice as Greek goddess Hera to the straight-to-video animated film Wonder Woman . the last one was the most-watched episode of the season with 14.26 million viewers . she also starred as Lilian Strand in the series Intelligence alongside Josh Holloway and Meghan Ory . on December 1, 2008, the couple announced that they were separating . on March 25, 2009, she filed for divorce . Helgenberger’s mother battled breast cancer for 27 years .