Kathryn Erbe

Kathryn Erbe (born July 2, 1966)^[1] is an American actress, known for her role as Det. Alexandra Eames on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a spin-off of Law & Order. Erbe is a veteran of film, stage, and television.

Biography

Personal life

Erbe was born the oldest of three children in Newton, Massachusetts. Her mother, Elisabeth Magnarelli, was a vice president of a Boston management firm, and her father, Dr. Richard Erbe, is an internist subspecialized as a medical geneticist.^[2][1]

Kathryn Erbe graduated from New York University in 1989. She was formerly married to actor Terry Kinney; they have two children: daughter Maeve (born 1995) and son Carson (born 2003). Erbe currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Career

While an undergraduate student at NYU, Erbe was cast as Lynn Redgrave's daughter on the sitcom Chicken Soup. Following the series, she became a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and has starred in many of their productions, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Curse of the Starving Class, My Thing of Love, and The Grapes of Wrath, which ran for six months and won the 1990 Tony Award for Best Play. Erbe earned a Tony Award nomination in 1991 for her portrayal of Mary in The Speed of Darkness, written by Steve Tesich. She has also performed in many world premiere productions by playwrights such as Tom Donaghy and Alex Gersten.

In 1994 she sang backup vocals in the song "Riding Towards Albany" with fellow Steppenwolf Theatre actor Skipp Sudduth for his band Minus Ted.

Erbe has starred in several films, including What About Bob?, Stir of Echoes and the independent films Dream with the Fishes, Love from Ground Zero and Entropy. She played the second wife of an ex-convict opposite David Caruso in the crime thriller Kiss of Death.

She also portrayed Shirley Bellinger on the HBO series Oz to critical acclaim. She made a guest appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1997.

Since 2001, she has starred as Detective Alex Eames on the NBC/USA Network series Law & Order: Criminal Intent alongside Vincent D'Onofrio. In Spring of 2010, both Erbe and D'Onofrio will be leaving Law & Order.^[3]

Filmography

• Runaway Dreams (1989) .... Denise Donaldson
• Chicken Soup (12 episodes, 1989-1990) .... Patricia Reece
• What About Bob? (1991) .... Anna Marvin
• Rich in Love (1993) .... Lucille Odom
• Breathing Lessons (1994) (TV) .... Fiona
• D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994) .... Michele MacKay
• Kiss of Death (1995) .... Rosie Kilmartin
• The Addiction (1995) .... Anthropology Student
• Dream with the Fishes (1997) .... Liz
• George Wallace (1997) (TV) .... Mrs. Folsom
• Joe (1997) .... Herself and special thanks
• Homicide: Life on the Street (1 episode, "All Is Bright", 1997) .... Rita Hale
• Naked City: Justice with a Bullet (1998) (TV) .... Sarah Tubbs
• Love from Ground Zero (1998) .... Alex
• Oz (17 episodes, 1998-2003) .... Shirley Bellinger
• Entropy (1999) .... Evan (as Katheryn Herbe)
• Stir of Echoes (1999) .... Maggie Witzky
• The Runaway (2000) (TV) .... Evelyn Carnes
• Speaking of Sex (2001) .... Helen
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (127 episodes, 2001-Presents) .... Detective Alexandra Eames
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1 episode, "27 December 2001", 2001) .... Herself
• Criminal Intent: The Beginning (2003) (V) .... Herself
• Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (2004) (TV) .... Herself
• Jeopardy! (1 episode, "10 November 2006", 2006) .... Herself
• Three Backyards (2009) .... John's Wife (post-production)

Theatre

Steppenwolf Theatre Company

• The Speed of Darkness
• A Month in the Country
• Down the Shore
• The Grapes of Wrath

References

External links

• Kathryn Erbe at the Internet Movie Database
• Kathryn Erbe at the Internet Broadway Database