Annabeth Gish

Actress

Birthday March 13, 1971

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.

Age 53 years old

Nationality United States

Height 173 cm

#6632 Most Popular

1971

Anne Elizabeth "Annabeth" Gish (born March 13, 1971) is an American actress.

She has played roles in films Shag, Hiding Out, Mystic Pizza, SLC Punk!, The Last Supper and Double Jeopardy.

On television, she played Special Agent Monica Reyes on The X-Files, Elizabeth Bartlet Westin on The West Wing, Diane Gould on Halt and Catch Fire, Eileen Caffee on Brotherhood, Charlotte Millwright on The Bridge and Sheriff Althea Jarry on the seventh and final season of Sons of Anarchy.

Gish was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the daughter of Judy and Robert Gish.

When she was two, her family moved to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she grew up with her brother, Tim, and her sister, Robin.

Her father was an English professor at the University of Northern Iowa; her mother was an elementary school teacher.

1986

Gish's first starring role was in the 1986 teen film Desert Bloom.

1987

In 1987, she starred in the film Hiding Out with Jon Cryer.

1988

She played Kat, the sister of Julia Roberts' character, in 1988's Mystic Pizza.

1989

Gish went to Northern University High School in Cedar Falls, where she graduated in 1989.

She attended Duke University, where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and focused her energies on the drama program, film studies and women's studies.

In 1989, Gish's first major TV film role was in When He's Not a Stranger as rape victim Lyn McKenna.

She starred in the 1989 comedy Shag, starring Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates, Page Hannah, Jeff Yagher and Scott Coffey.

1993

She graduated in 1993, earning a B.A. in English.

1994

Gish portrayed Anne Hampton, the doomed second wife of Rhett Butler, in 1994 in the TV mini series Scarlett.

In 1994's Wyatt Earp, starring Kevin Costner, she played Urilla Sutherland, Wyatt's childhood sweetheart and eventual wife.

The next year, she appeared in Oliver Stone's Nixon as Julie Nixon.

1996

In 1996, Gish played the girlfriend Tracey in Beautiful Girls.

1997

In 1997, Gish received her first starring role in a movie, portraying Susan Sparks opposite Shaquille O'Neal in the movie adaptation of DC Comics superhero Steel.

In 1997, she starred in the TV movie True Women as Euphemia Ashby alongside Dana Delany and Angelina Jolie.

1998

In 1998, Gish starred in SLC Punk! as a head shop owner named Trish.

2001

In 2001, Gish joined the cast of The X-Files as Special Agent Monica Reyes after series star David Duchovny announced his intention to leave the show.

During the eighth and ninth seasons, Gish and fellow newcomer Robert Patrick became the show's principal characters and it was presumed that the two could carry on the show even after Gillian Anderson left.

2003

She guest-starred on The West Wing playing Elizabeth Bartlet Westin, eldest daughter of President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen), first appearing in 2003.

2006

In 2006, Gish played the role of Julia in the independent movie The Celestine Prophecy and co-starred in Candles on Bay Street alongside Eion Bailey and Alicia Silverstone.

The same year she landed a lead role in the Showtime drama Brotherhood as Eileen Caffee, and appeared in 29 of the 33 episodes in the series' three-season run.

2011

Gish played Jo Noonan in the A&E TV miniseries Stephen King's Bag of Bones in 2011.

Also in 2011, she played the role of Anne Sullivan, a mysterious therapist in Pretty Little Liars.

2012

In 2012, she made a guest appearance in twelfth season of the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

The same year she co-starred on the ABC drama pilot Americana as the mother of Ashley Greene's character.

However, the pilot was not picked up.

2013

From 2013 to 2014, Gish was part of the main cast in the FX series The Bridge, in which she played Charlotte Millwright, a widow who discovers that her recently deceased husband had secrets on both sides of the US–Mexican border.

2014

She had a guest-starring role on Sons of Anarchy as Lt. Althea Jarry of the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department, in 2014.

The following summer, it was announced Gish would return as Monica Reyes in the upcoming The X-Files revival, appearing in episode 6 of season 10, and reprising her role in the eleventh season.

2016

While it is generally agreed their performances were good, ratings continued to drop with the departure of Duchovny and his dynamic partnership with Anderson; the ninth season of The X-Files became the show's last until 2016.

She co-starred with Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane and Dash Mihok in the 2016 thriller film Before I Wake.

Gish appeared as drug lord Alice Sands in three episodes of the TNT series Rizzoli & Isles, in 2016.

Two years later she had a recurring role as the caretaker Mrs. Dudley in the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, based loosely off of Shirley Jackson's novel of the same name.

In 2021 she again teamed up with Mike Flanagan in the Netflix horror series, Midnight Mass.

Gish is a supporter of CARE International and, more recently, of Students Rebuild and One Million Bones.