Elisabeth Röhm
{{Short description|American-German actress}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2020}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2017}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Elisabeth Röhm
| image = Elisabeth Röhm by Gage Skidmore.jpg
| caption = Röhm in 2023
| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1973|4|28|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Düsseldorf, West Germany
| other_names = Elisabeth Rohm
| education = Sarah Lawrence College
| occupation = Actress, director
| years_active = 1997–present
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Ron Anthony Wooster|2008|2014|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Peter Glatzer|2021}}
}}
| children = 1
}}
Elisabeth Röhm ({{IPAc-en|r|oʊ|m}} "Rome" {{small|or}} {{IPAc-en|r|uː|m}} "room", {{IPA|de|eˈliːzabɛt ˈʁøːm|lang}}; born April 28, 1973) {{cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/rohm-elisabeth-1973-elizabeth-rohm|title=Rohm, Elisabeth 1973– (Elizabeth Rohm)|work= Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |publisher=Cengage|accessdate=September 2, 2023}} is an American television and film actress and director. She is best known for playing Kate Lockley in the television series Angel from 1999 to 2001 and Serena Southerlyn in the television series Law & Order from 2001 to 2005.
She has also appeared in films such as Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005), American Hustle (2013), Joy (2015), Seduced (2016), Once Upon a Time in Venice (2017), The Tribes of Palos Verdes (2017) and Bombshell (2019).
Röhm made her directorial debut with the Lifetime film Girl in the Basement (2021).
Early life
Röhm was born in Düsseldorf, West Germany, to Lisa Loverde and Eberhard Röhm. Her father was a German partner at the law firm of Duane Morris LLP New York, and the family moved to New York City before her first birthday. Her mother was an American scriptwriter who once wrote for the TV soap opera Guiding Light. Röhm's parents divorced when she was 8 or 9. Her maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant.{{cite book|last1=Rohm|first1=Elisabeth|last2=Adamson|first2=Eve|title=Baby Steps: Having the Child I Always Wanted (Just Not as I Expected)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D2L_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA26|year=2013|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=978-0-7382-1663-8|page=26}}
Röhm attended grades 11–12 at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School, a small private boarding school in Sewanee, Tennessee, and then graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1996 with a B.A. in European history.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/01/nyregion/film-set-in-yonkers-native-s-locale.html |title=Film Set in Yonkers Native's Locale|work=The New York Times |date=March 1, 1998 |first=Linda |last=Spear}}{{cite web |title=Notable Alumni |url=https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/about/notable-alumni/ |website=Sarah Lawrence College |access-date=June 20, 2021}}
Career
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Röhm received her first TV acting role in 1997, as Dorothy Hayes in the American soap opera One Life to Live. She had a starring role in the 1999 BBC Northern Ireland miniseries Eureka Street, and she then portrayed recurring character Detective Kate Lockley in the first two seasons (1999–2001) of the TV series Angel. While appearing in Angel, Röhm also had a regular role in the only season (2000–2001) of the Turner Network Television drama series Bull.
Röhm portrayed regular character Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn through four seasons (2001–2005) of the television series Law & Order. She also portrayed deputy DA Amanda Taylor on Stalker.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2014/07/elisabeth-rohm-stalker-new-regular-cbs-807580/|title=Elisabeth Rohm Joins New CBS Drama 'Stalker' As New Regular|first=Nellie|last=Andreeva|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=July 22, 2014}}{{cite web|title=Elisabeth Rohm: Does 'Stalker' Glorify Stalking?|url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/elisabeth-rohm-does-stalker-glorify-stalking_video_2418037|website=Access Hollywood|access-date=18 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018223227/http://www.accesshollywood.com/elisabeth-rohm-does-stalker-glorify-stalking_video_2418037|archive-date=October 18, 2014}} More recently, Röhm has received critical acclaim for her roles in two David O. Russell films, American Hustle (2013) and Joy (2015).
Between 2016 and 2017, Röhm appeared in three episodes of Hawaii Five-0 a Season-14 episode of NCIS, Netflix's Flaked, the film Once Upon a Time in Venice including Bruce Willis, Jason Momoa, John Goodman and Famke Janssen and the film The Tribes of Palos Verdes starring Jennifer Garner and Alicia Silverstone. She portrayed Martha MacCallum in the 2019 film Bombshell with Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie.{{cite web|title=Elisabeth Röhm—Martha MacCallum from Bombshell Stars Compared to Their Real-Life Counterparts |url=https://www.eonline.com/photos/29777/bombshell-stars-compared-to-their-real-life-counterparts/983313 |website=E! Online |date=December 18, 2019 |access-date=February 24, 2020}} She portrayed the mother of Aiden, a drug-addled teen who gets recruited by police to take down a drug czar, in the 2021 film The Runner.
She made her directorial debut with the Lifetime film Girl in the Basement (2021), based on the Fritzl case.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediavillage.com/article/elisabeth-rohm-makes-her-directorial-debut-with-lifetimes-girl-in-the-basement/|title=Elisabeth Röhm Makes Her Directorial Debut with Lifetime's "Girl in the Basement"|first=Jacqueline|last=Cutler|date=February 25, 2021|website=MediaVillage|accessdate=February 25, 2024}}
Personal life
Röhm was a longtime avid equestrienne, but she gave up professional equestrianism after a 2005 accident that she spoke about in a 2011 episode of the Biography Channel series Celebrity Close Calls."Jermaine Jackson, Angie Everhart, Elisabeth Rohm, Jose Canseco." Dir. Seth Jarrett, Timothy F. Smith, and Erich Storm. Celebrity Close Calls, The Biography Channel, 16 July 2011. She appeared in several horse-riding scenes with Mark Harmon in an NCIS episode.
Röhm was engaged to director Austin Smithard in 2000. In 2005, Röhm began a relationship with Ron Anthony Wooster. Röhm and Wooster have a daughter born in 2008.{{cite web|date=April 11, 2008 |title=Elisabeth Röhm Welcomes a Baby Girl |url=https://people.com/parents/elisabeth-rhm-welcomes-a-baby-girl/|first=Kristen|last=Mascia|work=People |access-date=February 27, 2019}}{{cite web|date=March 10, 2011 |department= Elisabeth Röhm's Blog |title= Sharing My IVF Secret|url=https://people.com/parents/elisabeth-rohms-blog-sharing-my-ivf-secret/|first=Elisabeth|last=Röhm |work=People|access-date=February 27, 2019}} Röhm and Wooster married in October 2008.{{cite web|date=August 7, 2008|title= Elisabeth Rohm Makes Room For Dog, Baby in Wedding |url=https://okmagazine.com/babies/elisabeth-rohm-makes-room-dog-baby-wedding/ |first=Valerie |last=Nome |website= OK Magazine|access-date=2019-01-30}} They divorced in October 2014.{{cite web|date=December 2015|title= 20 Questions: Elisabeth Rohm Fills Us In |url=https://www.momtastic.com/entertainment/586935-20-questions-elisabeth-rohm-fills-us/ |first=Heather Morgan|last=Schott |website=Momtastic |access-date=2019-01-30}}{{cite web|date=August 21, 2018|title= Elisabeth Röhm's Blog: I'm Back — and Ready to Talk Parenting Post-Split|url=https://people.com/parents/elisabeth-rohm-blog-back-parenting-daughter-easton/ |first=Elisabeth |last=Röhm |website=People |access-date=January 30, 2019}} In January 2019, Röhm announced her engagement to Judge Jonathan T. Colby.{{cite web|date=January 30, 2019|title='Law & Order' Alum Elisabeth Rohm Is Engaged to Judge Jonathan T. Colby|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/law-order-alum-elisabeth-rohm-is-engaged/ |first=Sarah |last=Hearon|website=US Weekly|access-date=January 30, 2019}} In March 2020, Röhm's publicist revealed that she and Colby are no longer together.{{cite web|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/celebrity-splits-of-2020-stars-who-broke-up-this-year/elisabeth-rohm-and-jonathan-t-colby/|title=Celebrity Splits of 2020|author=Us Weekly Staff|work=Us Weekly|date=March 19, 2020|access-date=March 20, 2020}}
In October 2021, Röhm married Peter Glatzer with her daughter in attendance.{{Cite news|last=Ellin|first=Abby|date=2021-11-12|title='The Kiss to End All Kisses'|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/style/elisabeth-rohm-peter-glatzer-wedding.html|access-date=2021-11-18|issn=0362-4331}}
Röhm had a blog on her personal website, where she often wrote about life with her daughter and her then-fiancé.{{cite web|date=April 14, 2011 |work=Elisabeth Röhm's Blog |title= Easton Turns Three! |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120403022941/http://www.elisabeth-rohm.com/home/blog/127-easton-turns-three| archive-date= 3 April 2012| url=http://www.elisabeth-rohm.com/home/blog/127-easton-turns-three |first=Elisabeth |last=Röhm |publisher=elisabeth-rohm.com |access-date=2011-10-07}} On January 6, 2011, People added Röhm's blog to the "Moms & Babies" section of its website.{{cite web|date=January 6, 2011 |title=Elisabeth Röhm's Blog: Embracing Change In the New Year|url=https://people.com/parents/elisabeth-rohms-blog-embracing-change-in-the-new-year/|first=Elisabeth |last=Röhm |work=People|access-date=February 27, 2019}}
Awards and nominations
Röhm, as part of the cast of the TV series Law & Order, was nominated for their 2001 performance, and again for their 2003 performance, for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. In 2014, Röhm and the rest of the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for their roles in American Hustle.{{cite web |last=McNary |first=Dave |title='American Hustle' Wins SAG Ensemble Cast Award |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/awards/lupita-nyongo-jared-leto-win-sag-supporting-actor-awards-1201063802/ |website=Variety |access-date=June 20, 2021 |date=January 18, 2014}}
Röhm was selected for Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" list in 2002.{{cite news|url=https://www.maxim.com/women/2002-hot-100-post|title=2002 HOT 100 LIST|work=Maxim|date=May 1, 2002|access-date=June 9, 2018}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1999
| Puppet, Love and Mertz | Love | Short film |
| 2004
| Push | Samantha | Short film |
| 2005
| Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous | Agent Janet McKaren | |
| 2007
| Ghost Image | Jennifer | |
| 2008
| Abigail | |
| 2008
| San Saba | Leigh | |
| 2009
| The Whole Truth | Angela Masters | |
| 2009
| Josephine Sparrow | |
| 2011
| Lorna Price | |
| 2012
| Transit | Robyn | |
| 2013
| Alexandra Callahan | |
| 2013
| Rebecca Fiorini | |
| 2013
| Chlorine | Katherine | |
| 2013
| Dolly Polito | |
| 2014
| Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark | Rosie | |
| 2014
| Finding Happiness | Juliet Palmer | |
| 2015
| Joy | Peggy Mangano | |
| 2016
| Jessie's Mom | |
| 2016
| Seduced | Caroline Prati | |
| 2016
| Reverend Rachel | |
| 2016
| Polaris | Christine | |
| 2017
| Anne Phillips | |
| 2017
| Johanna Shannon | |
| 2017
| Scales: Mermaids are Real | Tiffany | |
| 2017
| Rachel | |
| 2017
| Kristen | |
| 2018
| Con Man | Lisa Minkow | |
| 2019
| Kimmy | |
| 2019
| |
| 2021
| Nancy Rothwelder | |
| 2021
| Miranda Albers | |
| 2021
| Stacey Newell | |
| 2022
| A Marriage Made in Heaven | Maria Chicopoulos | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1997–1998
| Dorothy Hayes | Unknown episodes |
| 1998
| The Invisible Man | | Television film |
| 1998
| Beautiful Cindy | Episode: "We're Not Worthy" |
| 1999
| The '60s | Amanda Stone | Television film |
| 1999
| Turks | Marla | Episode: "Live, Love, Lose and Learn" |
| 1999
| Max | Mini-series; 4 episodes |
| 1999–2001
| Angel | 15 episodes |
| 2000–2001
| Bull | Alison Jeffers | 20 episodes |
| 2001–2005
| ADA Serena Southerlyn | Main role 85 Episodes Season 12 - 15 |
| 2005
| Briar & Graves | Dr. Laurie Graves | Television film |
| 2005
| FBI: Negotiator | Laura Martin | Television film |
| 2006
| Donna Whitson | Television film |
| 2007
| Lt. Granger | Episode: "The Awakening" |
| 2007
| Alex Mason | 3 episodes |
| 2008–2013
| Dr. Sophie Miller | 2 episodes |
| 2009
| 90210 | Bitsy Epstein | Episode: "To New Beginnings!" |
| 2009–2010
| Heroes | 8 episodes |
| 2009
| Desperate Escape | Brooke Harris | Television film |
| 2011
| Priscilla Hall | Television film |
| 2012
| Jill Ferris | Episode: "Terminal Velocity" |
| 2012–2013
| Taylor Berkhalter | Recurring role, 14 episodes |
| 2012
| Lake Placid: The Final Chapter | Sheriff Theresa Giovi | Television film |
| 2013
| In the Dark | Ali | Television film |
| 2014
| A Christmas Kiss II | Miss Hall | Television film |
| 2014
| FBI Special Agent Dana Landon | 4 episodes |
| 2014
| Det. Anne Walker | Television film |
| 2014–2015
| Stalker | Amanda Taylor | 11 episodes |
| 2014
| Herself | Episode: "16 Chefs Compete" |
| 2016
| Seduced | Caroline | Television film |
| 2016
| Revenge Porn | Elaine Harris | Television film; AKA My Daughter's Disgrace |
| 2016
| Allison Shaw | 13 episodes |
| 2016–2017
| Dr. Madison Gray | 3 episodes |
| 2017
| Flaked | Alex | 5 episodes |
| 2017
| NCIS | May Dawson | Episode: "Beastmaster" |
| 2017–2019
| Eileen | 6 episodes |
| 2018–2019
| The Oath | Aria Price | Recurring role (13 episodes) |
| 2018
| Brooke Mason | Episode: "Sudden Death" |
| 2019
| Family Pictures | Maggie | Television |
| 2019
| Tales | Mrs. Sinclair | Episode: "My Life" |
| 2020
| Sleeping with Danger | Grace Tanner | Lifetime Television film |
| 2021
| Nurse (uncredited) | Television film; director |
| 2021
| - | Television film; director |
| 2022
| - | Television film; director |
| 2022
| ''Law & Order | - | Episode: "Only the Lonely"; director |
| 2024
| Devil on Campus: The Larry Ray Story | - | Television film; director |
=Video games=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2002
| Law & Order: Dead on the Money | ADA Serena Southerlyn (voice) | Video game |
| 2003
| Law & Order: Double or Nothing | ADA Serena Southerlyn (voice) | Video game |
| 2004
| Law & Order: Justice Is Served | ADA Serena Southerlyn (voice) | Video game |
References
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External links
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Category:American film actresses
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Category:Sarah Lawrence College alumni
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Category:German people of Italian descent
Category:Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners
Category:Actresses from Düsseldorf