Sprague Grayden
Grayden at 24's season 7 finale screening, 2009
Born	July 21, 1980 (1980-07-21) (age 29) Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, U.S.

Sprague Grayden (born July 21, 1980) is an American television, film and theater actress born in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. An alumna of Manchester-Essex Regional High School (then Manchester High School) and Barnard College, Columbia University, she appeared in the US television drama Jericho, playing schoolteacher Heather Lisinski. Sprague is her mother's maiden name.

Career

Grayden co-starred in the short-lived FX war drama Over There in 2005, and had a recurring role in the fourth and fifth seasons of the HBO series Six Feet Under as Anita Miller, and the second season of the CBS series Joan of Arcadia as Judith Montgomery. She also had a substantial supporting role in the 2002 FOX TV series John Doe as Karen Kawalski.

Grayden's other television credits include guest appearances in Lie to Me, Weeds, Crossing Jordan, One Tree Hill, Private Practice, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Sons of Anarchy and Criminal Minds. She also starred in the 1989 film Dad as "Young Annie", and has been acting since the age of five.¹

Her theater credits include productions of Hopscotch: The New York Sex Comedy, Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, Sam Shepard's Fool for Love, Hamlet, Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty and Ordinary Day.

On John Doe, Grayden's character was unsuccessfully hit on by a guest character played by Ryan Hurst, who would later play her husband on Sons of Anarchy.

Grayden played First Daughter Olivia Taylor, in 24's seventh season.²

Grayden appeared on May 19, 2009 on a episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Pam Galliano, a woman who is raped in her bedroom by a man who mistook her for a user of a rape fantasy site.

She appeared on February 15, 2010 in an episode of Criminal Minds as Meg Collins, a woman whose husband is murdered by a serial killer while at mass.

References

External Links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sprague Grayden

• Sprague Grayden at the Internet Movie Database
• Sprague Grayden Bio at CBS - Jericho