Emmanuelle Vaugier is
a Canadian film actress, singer, model, songwriter and television
actress who has had recurring roles as Detective Jessica Angell on CSI:
NY, Mia on Two and a Half Men, Dr. Helen Bryce on Smallville, FBI
Special Agent Emma Barnes onHuman Target, and as The Morrigan on Lost
Girl. In feature films, Vaugier has appeared alongside Michael Caine and
Robert Duvall in Secondhand Lions. She appeared asAddison Corday in Saw
II and Saw IV, and had a supporting role in the Josh Hartnett film40
Days and 40 Nights
Early life
Vaugier
was born on June 23rd, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia and grew up
in a French-speaking French Roman Catholichousehold. She is fluent in
French.[1] She divides her time between Los Angeles and Vancouver. She
attended Crofton House School, an all-girls private school, for 10 years
until she transferred to Magee Secondary School, which offers a
flexible academic program for professional and pre-professional student
athletes, artists and musicians (SPARTS), for the last two years of high
school.[2]
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Career
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Television
In
2004, Vaugier played Lindsey Kellogg on the short-lived Fox Television
series North Shore. She has also had guest-star spots onVeronica Mars,
Supernatural, The Outer Limits, Higher Ground, Andromeda, and Charmed.
She also appeared in the Emmy Awardnominated miniseries The Beach Boys:
An American Family where she portrayed Mike Love’s wife, Suzanne.
Vaugier also completed a starring role in MOW Veiled Truth for the
Lifetime Network. She is also known for her role during the first two
seasons of One Tree Hill, as Nicki, Jake's (Bryan Greenberg)
ex-girlfriend and mother to their child, Jenny.
In
2005–2006, Vaugier guest starred in six episodes of CBS's hit sitcom
Two and a Half Men as Mia, a ballet teacher who Charlie Harper fell in
love with and almost married. In 2005, she also played the title
character in the Painkiller Jane television movie for the Sci Fi
Channel. However, she first became noticed by the science fiction
community when she portrayed Dr. Helen Bryce, the love interest of Lex
Luthor, on the WB’s hit drama Smallville in 2002–2003.
Vaugier
had a recurring role from 2006–2009 on the CBS show CSI: NY as
Detective Jessica Angell. She left the show after the fifth season due
to budget cuts.[3] Angell was in a serious relationship with Eddie
Cahill's character Detective Don Flack.
Vaugier
appeared in two episodes of the Fox series Human Target as FBI agent
Emma Barnes. Emma is first introduced to the show on January 26, 2010,
in the episode "Embassy Row".[4]
Vaugier currently has a recurring role on the Syfy series Lost Girl as The Morrigan, the leader of the Dark Fae.[5]
Even within the Hollywood world awash in beautiful women, her unique facial beauty stands out above all others.
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Film
Vaugier
starred as Addison in Saw II and Saw IV. In the Canadian film
Unearthed, she played Annie, the sheriff of a small rural desert town.
She appeared in the film 40 Days and 40 Nights, which starred Josh
Hartnett.
She
had starring roles in Suddenly Naked, in which she plays a Latin pop
sensation; the TV-movie Mindstorm, a science-fiction thriller; and
Ripper, a psychological thriller about students who mysteriously
disappear after enrolling in a class about serial killers. She stars
also in the sequel to Mirrors, which is directed by Victor Garcia.[6]
Maxim
magazine featured her on the cover of the February 2006 issue in the
United States. Three months later, she landed spot #31 on their annual
Hot 100 list.[7][8]
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Games
Vaugier
appeared in Need for Speed: Carbon as Nikki. She was the helper of the
main character in the game. She also played Nightingale in The House of
the Dead 2, a video game that inspired the horror film House of the Dead
2.
