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Poppy Montgomery

Poppy Montgomery
Poppy Montgomery was born Poppy Petal Emma Elizabeth Deveraux Donahue on the 19th June 1975 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Early roles include being cast in Tammy And The T-Rex as a Party Girl, Jake Lassiter: Justice On The Bayou as Cindy, Devil In A Blue Dress as Barbara's Sister and in The Cold Equations as Marilyn 'Lee' Cross.
She also starred in Silk Stalkings as Angel, NYPD Blue as Lisa, Party of Five as Allison and in Peacock Blues.
Poppy has also been in The Wonder Cabinet as Dr. Sarah Coleman, Dead Man on Campus as Rachel opposite Tom Everett Scott and Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Desert's Edge as Mary and Relativity as Jennifer Lukens.
Another role was in This Space Between Us as Arden Ansfield and in Life as Older Mae Rose Abernathy.
She has also starred in The Other Sister as Caroline Tate opposite Juliette Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi, Diane Keaton, and Tom Skerritt, The Beat as Elizabeth Waclawek and in Men Named Milo, Women Named Greta as Barri Noodleman.
Poppy came to prominence in the film called Blonde as Norma Jean Baker and Marilyn Monroe with Patricia Richardson and Wallace Shawn.
Other roles were in Raising Waylon as Julia and in Going to California as Penelope.
She has also appeared in Snow Wonder as Paula, Murder in the Hamptons as Generosa Rand with David Sutcliffe, Between as Nadine Roberts and 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover as Allison.
But perhaps Poppy's most notable role is that of playing Samantha Spade in Without A Trace - Season 1, Without A Trace - Season 2, Without A Trace - Season 3, Without A Trace - Season 4 and Without A Trace - Season 5 with Anthony LaPaglia, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Eric Close and Enrique Murciano.
She has also appeared in Demontown (which is also known as Glory Days) as Ellie Sparks alongside Eddie Cahill and Amy Stewart and in Lying to Be Perfect as Nola Devl.
Another role is in True Blue as Katherine Miller with Marc Blucas.





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Poppy Montgomery - what members say


  • Without A Trace - Season 2
  • Without A Trace - Season 2 review by from FBI, Missing Persons Unit
    Rated - 5.0 stars Without a doubt the best TV series! 30 January 2006
    ...e vein as the first, with 22 superb episodes with various twists along the way. Poppy Montgomery is in great form as the gorgeous Sam Spade. This series include Kirstie Alley a...   Read customer review

Poppy Montgomery - filmography


  • Without A Trace - Season 4 (3 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Anthony LaPaglia,  Poppy Montgomery,  Marianne Jean-Baptiste
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer's award-winning television series WITHOUT A TRACE follows the FBI's Missing Persons Unit as they investigate individual disappearances in New York City. Led by senior agent Jack Malone (Anthony LaPaglia), the special task force utilises psychological profiling ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 759 members
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  • Without A Trace - Season 3 (4 discs) on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Eric Close,  Marianne Jean-Baptiste,  Anthony LaPaglia
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Every 30 seconds in America, normal life stops. Someone is reported missing. That's where special agent Jack Malone (Anthony LaPaglia) comes in. On behalf of victims and loved ones, Jack and his FBI team do the hard, exciting work of turning the missing into the found. All the series' stars return ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,918 member
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  • Without A Trace - Season 2 (4 discs) on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Eric Close,  Marianne Jean-Baptiste,  Anthony LaPaglia
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Without A Trace provides a fascinating glimpse into a rarely seen arena: the search for people who vanish inexplicably. For authoritative agent Jack Malone (Anthony LaPaglia) and his driven colleagues, finding the missing depends as much on figuring out who they are as it does on determining where ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 2,756 members
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  • Without A Trace - Season 1 (4 discs) on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Eric Close,  Marianne Jean-Baptiste,  Anthony LaPaglia
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The first season of the programme about the Missing Persons Squad of the FBI. Episodes are: 'Pilot', 'Birthday Boy', 'He Saw, She Saw', 'Between The Cracks', 'Suspect', 'Silent Partner', 'Snatch Back', 'Little Big Man', 'In Extremis', 'Midnight Sun', 'Maple Street', 'Underground Railroad', 'Hang On ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 3,679 members
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  • Blonde on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Poppy Montgomery,  Patricia Richardson,  Wallace Shawn
    Director: Joyce Chopra
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The remarkable life and tragic death of Marilyn Monroe has fascinated film fans for decades, but this two-part TV miniseries, based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, takes an unusual approach, looking inside the minds of Monroe and those around her to ponder the circumstances of her rise and fall. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 129 members
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  • Dead Man on Campus (1998)
    Starring: Tom Everett Scott,  Mark-Paul Gosselaar,  Poppy Montgomery
    Director: Alan Cohn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Josh and Cooper are two room-mates: Josh is the studious type, Cooper's the nothing-succeeds-like-excess guy - a lifestyle that rubs off on Josh and soon has them both in danger of flunking out. But there's a catch: a clause in the school charter that awards A's to students who suffer the trauma of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 345 members
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Poppy Montgomery facts

5 most recent films

Unforgettable - Series 1 - Complete - 3 stars
Without A Trace - Season 6 - 4.0 stars
Without A Trace - Season 5 - 4.5 stars
Without A Trace - Season 4 - 4.0 stars
Without A Trace - Season 3 - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Without A Trace - Season 5 - 4.5 stars
Without A Trace - Season 6 - 4.0 stars
Without A Trace - Season 4 - 4.0 stars
Without A Trace - Season 3 - 4.0 stars
Without A Trace - Season 2 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Unforgettable - Series 1 - Complete - 3 stars
Demontown - 2.5 stars
Blonde - 2.5 stars
Dead Man on Campus - 3.5 stars
Without A Trace - Season 1 - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Anthony LaPaglia - 27 times - show films
Marianne Jean-Baptiste - 27 times - show films
Eric Close - 19 times - show films
Enrique Murciano - 19 times - show films
Theresa Russell - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 19 times - show films
Randall Zisk - 5 times - show films
Greg Walker - 4 times - show films
Jonathan Kaplan - 4 times - show films
Jeannot Szwarc - 4 times - show films