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Marg Helgenberger

Mary Margaret Helgenberger was born on the 16th November 1958 in Fremont in Nebraska, the daughter of Kay, a nurse, and Hugh Helgenberger, a meat inspector.
Marg got her first job as a nightly local news weather girl in her hometown of Nebraska, and as a meat boner at the meat packing plant her father was working at during the day.
While performing in a summer of 1981 NU campus productions of Shakespeare's “Taming of the Shrew,” in which she played Kate, Marg was spotted by a scout for the TV show “Ryan's Hope,” playing uptight amateur cop Siobhan Ryan Novak (from 1982-1986).
Marg’s first prominent role was in "China Beach". She then starred in the films - After Midnight, Always , Crooked Hearts , The Cowboy Way, Bad Boys, Species and Species-.html">Species 2.
Marg also has starred in tv films - Blind Vengeance, Death Dreams, Not on the Frontline (as a narrator) and In Sickness and in Health.
she was also seen in I'll Be Waiting, Fallen Angels helmed by Tom Hanks, and as a novelist on the ABC mini series Stephen King's The Tommyknockers.
She was also seen in the mini series When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn and in Showtime's Partners.
After playing a recurring role as George Clooney's love interest on popular medical drama ER, Marg became David Caruso's sex-starved widow on Gold Coast. She also starred as a woman involved with Steven Segal in the 1997 cult action film Fire Down Below. Then as a talk show host on Murder Live, and in the series Gulf War Syndrome, Thanks of a Grateful Nation.
She also starred opposite Ann-Margret in Showtime's Happy Face Murders.
It was after this that she got the part of Catherine Willows on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Her performance as the female lead has earned her two Emmy Award two Golden Globe nominations.
Marg supported Julia Roberts in the true story-based, Oscar-winning film Erin Brockovich and also portrayed Patsy Ramsey in the mini series about the mysterious murder of 6-year-old beauty pageant contestant JonBenet Ramsey in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town.
She also starred as Dennis Quaid’s wife and Scarlett Johansson’s mother in the romantic drama comedy - In Good Company.
Recently she has starred alongside Kevin Costner in the film - Mr Brooks.
Marg is married to Alan Rosenberg, and has a son called Hugh. Marg is very supportive of breast cancer charities, after her mother battled the deadly disease.





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Marg Helgenberger - what members say


  • Species
  • Species review by James Pryde from Edinburgh, Scotland
    Rated - 3 stars Better than the sequel - not difficult mind you! 9 July 2004
    ...A classy cast including Alfred Molina, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger & Natasha Henstridge help to make Species rise above it's essentially B-movie roots. Th...  
  • Fire Down Below
  • Fire Down Below review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 4 March 2006
    ...ould be all too willing to repeat. Taggart becomes involved with Sarah Kellogg (Marg Helgenberger), a woman whose father also died under circumstances that trace back to Hanner....  

Marg Helgenberger - filmography


  • Mr. Brooks
  • Mr. Brooks on DVD (2007)
    Starring: William Hurt,  Demi Moore,  Dane Cook
    Director: Bruce A. Evans
    Certificate: 18
    Consider Mr. Brooks. A successful businessman, a generous philanthropist, a loving father and devoted husband. Seemingly, he's perfect. But Mr. Brooks has a secret - he is an insatiable serial killer, so lethally clever that no one has ever suspected him -- until now. Kevin Costner stars as Earl ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 24,669 members
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  • Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3
  • Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 (6 discs) on DVD (2004)
    Starring: William Peterson,  Marg Helgenberger,  George Eads
    Certificate: 15
    PLEASE NOTE: THE DISC NUMBERS MAY NOT FOLLOW EACH OTHER. PLEASE CHECK EPISODES BEFORE RETURNING YOUR DISC.C.S.I. is an acclaimed, edgy, fast-paced drama series about a passionate team of forensic investigators (among them William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger) who work the graveyard shift at the ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.0 86% from 1,842 members
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  • Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1
  • Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 (6 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: William Peterson,  Marg Helgenberger,  George Eads
    Certificate: 15
    PLEASE NOTE: THE DISC NUMBERS MAY NOT FOLLOW EACH OTHER. PLEASE CHECK EPISODES BEFORE RETURNING YOUR DISC.Welcome to Las Vegas. Meet the Crime Scene Investigators ready on a daily basis to solve the dark crimes of the city of sin. Features all episodes of season 1: Pilot followed by "Cool Change", "..read more »
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  • Species
  • Species (2 discs) on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Michael Madsen,  Alfred Molina
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: 18
    A genetically engineered, shape-shifting creature with extraterrestrial intelligence adopts the form of a beautiful woman to mate with humans and unleash a brood of offspring that will destroy mankind. A team of experts must band together to stop her--it--from accomplishing its diabolical mission.
    Rate this: 3.0 60% from 2,001 members
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  • Crime Scene Investigation - Season 2
  • Crime Scene Investigation - Season 2 (6 discs) on DVD
    Starring: William Peterson,  Marg Helgenberger,  George Eads
    Certificate: 18
    PLEASE NOTE: THE DISC NUMBERS MAY NOT FOLLOW EACH OTHER. PLEASE CHECK EPISODES BEFORE RETURNING YOUR DISC.Welcome to Las Vegas. Meet the Crime Scene Investigators ready on a daily basis to solve the dark crimes of the city of sin. Features all episodes of season 2: "Burked", "Chaos Theory", "..read more »
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Marg Helgenberger - downloads


  • Erin Brockovich
  • Erin Brockovich for Download (2000)
    Starring: Veanne Cox,  Julia Roberts,  Cherry Jones
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: 15
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    Run time: 126 minutes
    She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees. A research assistant (Julia Roberts) helps an attorney (Albert Finney) in a lawsuit against a large utility company blamed for causing an outbreak of cancer and other illnesses in a small community.
    Rate this: 3.5 72% from 362 members
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