Emmanuelle Vaugier
Emmanuelle Vaugier is a Canadian film actress, singer, model, songwriter and television actress who has had recurring roles as Detective Jessica Angell on CSI: NY, Mia on Two and a Half Men, Dr. Helen Bryce on Smallville, FBI Special Agent Emma Barnes onHuman Target, and as The Morrigan on Lost Girl. In feature films, Vaugier has appeared alongside Michael Caine and Robert Duvall in Secondhand Lions. She appeared asAddison Corday in Saw II and Saw IV, and had a supporting role in the Josh Hartnett film40 Days and 40 Nights
Early life
Vaugier was born on June 23rd, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia and grew up in a French-speaking French Roman Catholichousehold. She is fluent in French.[1] She divides her time between Los Angeles and Vancouver. She attended Crofton House School, an all-girls private school, for 10 years until she transferred to Magee Secondary School, which offers a flexible academic program for professional and pre-professional student athletes, artists and musicians (SPARTS), for the last two years of high school.[2]
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Career
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Television
In 2004, Vaugier played Lindsey Kellogg on the short-lived Fox Television series North Shore. She has also had guest-star spots onVeronica Mars, Supernatural, The Outer Limits, Higher Ground, Andromeda, and Charmed. She also appeared in the Emmy Awardnominated miniseries The Beach Boys: An American Family where she portrayed Mike Love’s wife, Suzanne. Vaugier also completed a starring role in MOW Veiled Truth for the Lifetime Network. She is also known for her role during the first two seasons of One Tree Hill, as Nicki, Jake's (Bryan Greenberg) ex-girlfriend and mother to their child, Jenny.
In 2005–2006, Vaugier guest starred in six episodes of CBS's hit sitcom Two and a Half Men as Mia, a ballet teacher who Charlie Harper fell in love with and almost married. In 2005, she also played the title character in the Painkiller Jane television movie for the Sci Fi Channel. However, she first became noticed by the science fiction community when she portrayed Dr. Helen Bryce, the love interest of Lex Luthor, on the WB’s hit drama Smallville in 2002–2003.
Vaugier had a recurring role from 2006–2009 on the CBS show CSI: NY as Detective Jessica Angell. She left the show after the fifth season due to budget cuts.[3] Angell was in a serious relationship with Eddie Cahill's character Detective Don Flack.
Vaugier appeared in two episodes of the Fox series Human Target as FBI agent Emma Barnes. Emma is first introduced to the show on January 26, 2010, in the episode "Embassy Row".[4]
Vaugier currently has a recurring role on the Syfy series Lost Girl as The Morrigan, the leader of the Dark Fae.[5]
Even within the Hollywood world awash in beautiful women, her unique facial beauty stands out above all others.
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Film
Vaugier starred as Addison in Saw II and Saw IV. In the Canadian film Unearthed, she played Annie, the sheriff of a small rural desert town. She appeared in the film 40 Days and 40 Nights, which starred Josh Hartnett.
She had starring roles in Suddenly Naked, in which she plays a Latin pop sensation; the TV-movie Mindstorm, a science-fiction thriller; and Ripper, a psychological thriller about students who mysteriously disappear after enrolling in a class about serial killers. She stars also in the sequel to Mirrors, which is directed by Victor Garcia.[6]
Maxim magazine featured her on the cover of the February 2006 issue in the United States. Three months later, she landed spot #31 on their annual Hot 100 list.[7][8]
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Games
Vaugier appeared in Need for Speed: Carbon as Nikki. She was the helper of the main character in the game. She also played Nightingale in The House of the Dead 2, a video game that inspired the horror film House of the Dead 2.
