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Shiri Appleby
Born	Shiri Freda Appleby December 7, 1978 (1978-12-07) (age 31) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1982–present

Shiri Freda Appleby (born December 7, 1978) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her leading role as Liz Parker in the popular television series Roswell. Her film credits include A Time for Dancing, where she was one of the two female main characters; Swimfan; Havoc with Anne Hathaway; and Charlie Wilson's War with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.

In 2008, Appleby joined the cast of the final season of ER, playing an intern named Daria Wade & now stars in the CW drama Life Unexpected.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Filmography 3.1 Television 3.2 Film 4 Awards and nominations 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Appleby was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Dina (née Bouader), an Israeli-born Hebrew school teacher, and Jerry Appleby, a Jewish-American telecommunications executive.¹ She and her younger brother Evan were raised in Calabasas in Los Angeles County. Her mother is of Sephardic Moroccan Jewish background.² In Hebrew, shiri means either "my song" or simply "sing." She has a scar above her left eyebrow, which resulted from a dog bite when she was young. To get over her fear of dogs, she went on the show Emergency Vets, accompanying staff veterinarian Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald (she also overcame another phobia in the same episode by holding a live snake, one of Fitzgerald's patients) and shortly after adopted a Tabby, which she named Abby.

Appleby graduated from Calabasas High School in 1997 and went on to major in English literature at the University of Southern California while also studying theater arts.

Career

Appleby began her acting career at the age of four, starting with advertising for various products such as Cheerios and M&M's. Her first advertisement was for Raisin Bran but it was never aired. She has had guest appearances on many television programs, most notably thirtysomething (1987), Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989), ER (1994), Baywatch (1989), Xena: Warrior Princess (1995), 7th Heaven (1996) and Beverly Hills 90210 (1990). For Roswell, she tried out for the roles of both Isabel and Maria before landing the leading role of Liz Parker. She made a guest appearance on the 7th Heaven episode "Girls Just Want to Have Fun".

Appleby was in Bon Jovi's music video for "It's My Life" with Will Estes. She featured in the 2004 music video for the song "I Don't Want To Be" by Gavin DeGraw, opposite Scott Mechlowicz. She appeared in Sense Field's music video for "Save Yourself" which is part of the Roswell soundtrack and featured in the first season DVD boxset.³

In 2006 she took a recurring role on the now canceled ABC drama Six Degrees as Anya, a young assistant in a relationship with a much older photographer. Later that year she was chosen to play Hildy Young in the new USA Network series To Love and Die, that began airing in late December 2008. She also participated in a short film called Carjacking directed by Dan Passman and co-starring Geoff Stults.

In 2007, she appeared in the movie What Love Is alongside Cuba Gooding Jr., Matthew Lillard and Anne Heche. She also participated in another short film, Love Like Wind, this one from Shaolin Film Productions. At the end the year, she appeared as Charlie Wilson's press secretary in the film Charlie Wilson's War, which stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. In 2008, Appleby got a recurring role on the final season of ER, playing an intern named Daria Wade. As of early 2010, Appleby stars in a new drama on The CW network called Life Unexpected.

Filmography

Television

Year	Series	Role	Episodes
1985	Santa Barbara	Little Girl	Episode #1.359
1986	Mystery Magical Special	Herself	Halloween special
1987	thirtysomething	Little Hope	"The Parents Are Coming, the Parents Are Coming"
1988	The Bronx Zoo	Nicole	"Truancy Blues" & "Behind Closed Doors"
	Freddy's Nightmares	Marsha (age 10)	"Freddy's Tricks and Treats"
	Dear John	Girl	"Hello/Goodbye"
1989	Knight & Daye	Amy Escobar	Unknown episodes
	Who's the Boss?	Kid #1	"To Tony, with Love"
1990	Knots Landing	Mary Frances (age 10)	"My Firstborn" & "My Bullet"
1991	Sunday Dinner	Rachel	"Whose House Is It Anyway?"
1993	Doogie Howser, M.D.	Molly Harris	"Love Makes the World Go 'Round... or Is It Money?"
	Raven	Jess (uncredited)	"The Guardians of the Night"
	Against the Grain	Claire	Pilot
1994	ER	Ms. Murphy	"Pilot: 24 Hours"
1997	Baywatch	Jennie	"Hot Water"
	7th Heaven	Karen	"Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
	City Guys	Cindy	"Bye Mom"
1998	Xena: Warrior Princess	Tara	"Forgiven" & "A Tale of Two Muses"
1999	Beverly Hills, 90210	Rene	"Local Hero"
	Movie Stars	Lori	Pilot (scenes deleted)
1999- 2002	Roswell	Liz Parker	All 61 episodes
2000	Batman Beyond	Cynthia	"Terry's Friend Dates a Robot"
	The Amanda Show	Nerd	Episodes #2.16 & #2.18
2003	Project Greenlight season 2	Herself	(see:The Battle of Shaker Heights)
2006- 2007	Six Degrees	Anya	6 episodes
2008	Welcome to The Captain	Heather	"The Wrecking Crew"
	Fear Itself	Tracy	"Community"
	To Love and Die	Hildy Young	12 episodes ordered/pilot turned into TV Movie
	ER	Dr. Daria Wade	15th season
2009	Unstable	Megan Walker	Lifetime movie
2010	Life Unexpected	Cate Cassidy	Main Role, series premiered January 18, 2010

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1987	Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife		TV movie
	The Killing Time	Annie Winslow
1988	Curse II: The Bite	Grace
	Go Toward the Light	Jessica	TV movie
1990	I Love You to Death	Millie	Girl in the park
1992	Perfect Family	Steff	TV movie
1993	Family Prayers	Nina	aka A Family Divided
1999	Deal of a Lifetime	Laurie Petler
	The Other Sister	Free sample girl
	The Thirteenth Floor	Bridget Manilla
2000	A Time for Dancing	Samantha 'Sam' Russell
2002	Swimfan	Amy Miller
2003	The Skin Horse	Carla
	The Battle of Shaker Heights	Sarah
2004	Undertow	Violet
	Darklight	Lilith / Elle	TV movie
2005	1/4life	Debra	TV movie
	When Do We Eat?	Nikki Stuckman
	Everything You Want	Abby Morrison	TV movie
	Havoc	Amanda
	Pizza My Heart	Gina Prestolani	TV movie
2006	I-See-You.Com	Randi Sommers
	I'm Reed Fish	Jill Cavanaugh
	Thrill of the Kill	Kelly Holden	TV movie
	Carjacking	Cary	Short film
2007	The Killing Floor	Rebecca Fay
	What Love Is	Debbie
	Charlie Wilson's War	Charlie's Angels - Jailbait

Awards and nominations

Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1993	Nominated	Young Artist Award	Best Young Actress in a Cable Movie for: Perfect Family (1992) (TV)
2000	Nominated	Teen Choice Awards	TV - Choice Actress for: Roswell (1999)

References

External links

• Shiri Appleby at the Internet Movie Database
• Shiri Appleby at Allmovie

Persondata
NAME	Appleby, Shiri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Appleby, Shiri Freda
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Film, television actress
DATE OF BIRTH	December 7, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH	Los Angeles, California
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH