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Carly Pope
Pope at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	August 28, 1980 (1980-08-28) (age 29) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996 - Present

Carly Pope (born 28 August 1980) is a Canadian actress.

Early life

Pope was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, with an older brother, Kris, also an actor, and a younger brother, Alex. She began acting during her high school years in Vancouver where she appeared in stage classics such as The Odd Couple, playing Mickey, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, playing Titania.¹

Career

Pope started her career with several small roles, such as Disturbing Behavior, Snow Day, and Night Man, before being cast as Sam McPherson on the WB's high-school drama Popular. After the show ended, Pope had several roles in film and television, including The Glass House, Jeff Probst's Finder's Fee, and Orange County. In 2004 she had starred as Maya Kandinski in The Collector. In 2005 she was a guest-star in an episode of FOX's Tru Calling and played an aspiring social worker in the film Eighteen.

More recently, Pope has appeared in FOX's hit thriller, 24, as Samantha Roth. She starred in the Power Up project Itty Bitty Titty Committee.²

Personal life

at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival party

Splitting her time between Los Angeles and Vancouver, Pope is currently attending university when her filming schedule allows. She speaks Italian, Spanish and French fluently and is seeking to expand her education in literature and languages.

On December 29, 2009, Pope and her brother, Kris Pope were driving a black BMW down West Georgia Street in Downtown Vancouver when David Fromradas, 31 of Alberta jumped on top of the car and yelled at them to run him over. When Kris got out of the car, Fromradas jumped in the front seat and drove the vehicle into the new CBC studios. Pope suffered a broken rib, and two cracked vertabrae, Kris suffered severe injuries to his ankle along with another victim who was a passerby.³

Awards and nominations

• 2000 - Nominated for a Teen Choice Award at the Teen Choice Awards for TV - Choice Actress for Popular (1999)
• 2004 - Won a Leo at the Leo Awards for Dramatic Series: Best Supporting Performance by a Female for The Collector (2004), for episode "The Prosecutor"
• 2005 - Won a Leo at the Leo Awards for Best Performance by a Female in a Short Drama for Sandra Gets Dumped (2005)
• 2005 - Won a Women in Film & Video Vancouver's Artistic Merit Award for The Hamster Cage (2005)

Filmography

Films

Television

References

External links

• Carly Pope at the Internet Movie Database