Kerry Bishé

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| caption = Bishé in 2024 at the 10th anniversary panel for Halt and Catch Fire

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| occupation = Actress

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| birth_place = New Zealand

| education = Northwestern University (BS)

| yearsactive = 2007–present

| partner = Chris Lowell

| children = 1

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Kerry Bishé is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Donna Clark in the AMC period drama series Halt and Catch Fire (2014–2017) and Lucy Bennett, the lead/narrator in the final season of the ABC medical sitcom Scrubs (2009–2010). She is also known for her supporting role in the drama film Argo (2012).

Early life and education

Kerry Bishé was born in New Zealand. Shortly afterward, the family moved to Glen Ridge, New Jersey, in the United States.{{cite web |url=https://www.nj.com/inside-jersey/2012/09/kerry_bish_continues_her_journey_in_argo.html |title=Kerry Bishé continues Her Journey in 'Argo' |date=September 28, 2012 |website=The Star-Ledger |access-date=January 7, 2018 |quote="Bishé, 28, who grew up in Glen Ridge, plays a diplomat who poses as a set designer in the film based on the true story of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, in which the CIA concocted a fake movie shoot to smuggle six American diplomats out of the country.... Bishé attended the Montclair Kimberley Academy, where her now-retired father was a beloved history teacher."}}

She graduated from Montclair Kimberley Academy,{{cite web |last=Charpentier |first=Lauren |url=http://cougarcall.mka.org/2010/02/19/kerry-bishe-mka-alumni-and-tv-star/ |title=Kerry Bishé, MKA Alumni and TV Star |date=February 19, 2010 |publisher=The Cougar Call |website=Montclair Kimberley Academy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727090418/http://cougarcall.mka.org/2010/02/19/kerry-bishe-mka-alumni-and-tv-star/ |archive-date=July 27, 2011}} where her father, Kenneth Bishé, taught social studies,{{cite web|url=http://www.mka.org/page.cfm?p=495 |title=Founder's Cup |website=Montclair Kimberley Academy}} and then enrolled at Northwestern University in 2006.{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/annualcommenceme2006nort/page/20/mode/2up?view=theater| title=Annual commencement / Northwestern University |date=June 11, 2014 |work=Northwestern University}}

Career

Bishé toured professionally with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks during the summer of 2004, performing the role of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.{{cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=LF2QQ4McgglT9npbh08wRKrj2ltQv6DHh2mQXLTpZcdQqTYs6ksp!1888687908!1581092936?docId=5009503218 |title=Romeo and Juliet |publisher= |date=September 5, 2004}}{{dead link|date=July 2021}} She also appeared in a 2006 production of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/theater/reviews/16ape.html |title=Top-Deck Visitor Unnerves 'Beast' in the Belly of a Ship |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |date=October 16, 2006 |work=The New York Times}} and in the Roundabout revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.{{cite web |last=Simon |first=John |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=anOEfgNUv_vk&refer=muse |title=Claire Danes is Fair Lady in 'Pygmalion' |website=Bloomberg}}

Bishé made her screen debut in 2007 when she portrayed Sarah Rosen in The Half Life of Mason Lake, a low-budget production. After appearances as an extra in the first film adaptation of Sex and the City and The Lucky Ones, and a small role in The Understudy (2008), Bishé was cast in Night Life, a television pilot directed by Scrubs star Zach Braff. The production did not make Bishé well-known, but did introduce her to Braff, with whom she later worked on Scrubs.

In 2009, Bishé had a number of television roles, appearing in an episode of the US version of Life on Mars, an episode of the USA comedy drama series Royal Pains, and in the lead role in the TV movie made from the failed pilot of the proposed sci-fi series Virtuality.

In December 2009, Bishé took on the lead role on the ABC medical sitcom Scrubs, that of Lucy Bennett, the show's new narrator, taking over from Zach Braff.{{cite magazine |last=Tucker |first=Ken |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20325968,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217051416/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20325968,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 17, 2010 |title=Scrubs |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}} ABC cancelled the show May 14, 2010. Bishé costarred in the independent film Nice Guy Johnny (2010) with Edward Burns and Matt Bush. She also played a supporting role in Kevin Smith's horror film Red State (2011) and in Ben Affleck's drama film Argo (2012). In 2013, she co-starred with Elijah Wood in the independent film Grand Piano.{{cite web |url=http://www.upcoming-movies.com/new/grand-piano-casts-kerry-bishe-tamsin-egerton-allen-leach-in-elijah-wood-john-cusack-starrer/ |title=GRAND PIANO casts Kerry Bishé, Tamsin Egerton, Allen Leach in Elijah Wood, John Cusack starrer

|date=October 9, 2012 |website=Upcoming Movies |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121208045300/http://www.upcoming-movies.com/new/grand-piano-casts-kerry-bishe-tamsin-egerton-allen-leach-in-elijah-wood-john-cusack-starrer/ |archive-date=December 8, 2012}}

From 2014 to 2017, Bishé starred as Donna Clark in the AMC period drama series Halt and Catch Fire. Coincidentally, her character's husband in Halt and Catch Fire is portrayed by Scoot McNairy, who also played her spouse in Argo (2012).{{cite web |date=March 12, 2013 |last1=Goldberg |first1=Lesley |title=Kerry Bishé to Reteam With 'Argo' Co-Star in AMC's '80s Computer Drama |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/argo-kerry-bishe-amc-halt-catch-fire-427537/ |work=The Hollywood Reporter }}{{cite interview |date=June 5, 2014 |last=McNairy |first=Scoot |subject-link=Scoot McNairy |title=Halt and Catch Fire Q&A - Scoot McNairy (Gordon Clark) {{!}} AMC Talk |url=https://www.amc.com/blogs/halt-and-catch-fire/halt-and-catch-fire-qa-scoot-mcnairy-gordon-clark--50407 |website=AMC |quote=A: I had a great time working with her on Argo. I was really excited to see her and to work with her again, on another show, and to play her husband.}}{{cite web |last=Bernstein |first=Abbie |title=HALT AND CATCH FIRE: Stars Kerry Bishé and Scoot McNairy on Season 2 - Exclusive Interview - Assignment X |url=https://www.assignmentx.com/2015/halt-and-catch-fire-stars-kerry-bishe-and-scoot-mcnairy-on-season-2-exclusive-interview/ |website=Assignment X |date=July 5, 2015 |quote=It was just a happy coincidence.}} In season three of Narcos, she played Cristina Jurado, the American wife of the Cali Cartel's Harvard-educated money launderer Franklin Jurado.

In 2023, Bishé returned to theatre, starring in the Steven Soderbergh-produced play The Fears.{{cite web |last=Hall |first=Margaret |url=https://playbill.com/article/maddie-corman-kerry-bishe-natalie-woolams-torres-more-to-star-in-world-premiere-of-the-fears |title=Maddie Corman, Kerry Bishé, Natalie Woolams-Torres, More to Star in World Premiere of The Fears |date=March 17, 2023 |access-date=October 22, 2023 |work=Playbill}}

Personal life

Bishé is in a relationship with actor Chris Lowell. The couple have a daughter.{{cite news |last1=Barilla |first1=Chris |title=Is 'How I Met Your Father' Star Chris Lowell Married? Fans Want to Know |url=https://www.distractify.com/p/chris-lowell-married |access-date=March 17, 2023 |work=Distractify |date=January 18, 2022}}

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

2007

|The Half Life of Mason Lake

|Sarah Rosen

rowspan="3" | 2008

|The Lucky Ones

|College Girl

Sex and the City

|Twenty-Something Girl Dreaming

The Understudy

|April

2009

|Motherhood

|Good Sharing Mom

rowspan="2" | 2010

|Meskada

|Emily Cordin

Nice Guy Johnny

|Brooke

rowspan="3" | 2011

|Red State

|Cheyenne

Turkey Bowl

|Kerry

Newlyweds

|Linda

rowspan="2" | 2012

|Argo

|Kathy Stafford

The Fitzgerald Family Christmas

|Sharon

rowspan="4" | 2013

|Max Rose

|Annie Rose

Goodbye World

|Lily Palmer

Grand Piano

|Emma Selznick

Blue Highway

|Kerry

rowspan="2" | 2016

|The Ticket

|Jessica

Rupture

|Dianne

2018

|How It Ends

|Meg

2020

| The Evening Hour

| Lacy Cooper

2021

| Happily

| Janet

2024

| Madame Web

| Constance Webb

=Television=

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

rowspan="3" | 2009

| Life on Mars

| Eve Flannery

| Episode: "The Simple Secret of the Note in Us All"

Royal Pains

| Emma Newberg

| Episode: "Strategic Planning"

Virtuality

| Billie Kashmiri

| Television pilot

2009–2010

| Scrubs

| Lucy Bennett

| 13 episodes

2014–2017

| Halt and Catch Fire

| Donna Clark

| 40 episodes

2015

| Public Morals

| Sarah

| 2 episodes

2016

| Billions

| Elise

| Episode: "Short Squeeze"

2017

| Narcos

| Cristina Jurado

| 5 episodes

2018

| The Romanoffs

| Shelly Romanoff

| Episode: "The Royal We"

rowspan="2" | 2020

| Amazing Stories

| Mary Ann Whitaker

| Episode: "The Rift"

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

| Sister Molly Finnister

| 10 episodes

2022

| Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

| Austin Geidt

| 7 episodes

=Video games=

class="wikitable"
Year ! Title ! Role
2019 \| Telling Lies \| Emma

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Year

! Title

! Role

2019

| Telling Lies

| Emma

Theatre

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Venue

rowspan="2" | 2006

| The Hairy Ape

| Mildred Douglas

| Irish Repertory Theatre

My Name Is Rachel Corrie

| Rachel Corrie (replacement)

| Minetta Lane Theatre

2007

| Pygmalion

| Clara Eynsford-Hill

| American Airlines Theatre

2023

| The Fears

| Thea

| Irene Diamond Stage

Awards and nominations

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! Year

! Award

! Category

! Work

! Result

! Ref.

rowspan="2" | 2012

| Hollywood Film Awards

| Ensemble of the Year

| rowspan="4" | Argo

| {{won}}

| align="center" | {{cite web|last= Donnelly |first= Matt |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2012-oct-23-la-et-mg-hollywood-film-awards-bradley-cooper-de-niro-story.html |title=Hollywood Film Awards honor Affleck, Apatow, De Niro and more |date=October 23, 2012 |access-date=October 22, 2023 |work=Los Angeles Times}}

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

| Best Ensemble Performance

| {{nom}}

| align="center" | {{cite web|url=https://www.sdfcs.org/san-diego-film-critics-select-top-films-for-2012/ |title=San Diego Film Critics Select Top Films for 2012 |date=December 11, 2012 |access-date=October 22, 2023 |work=San Diego Film Critics Society}}

rowspan="2" | 2013

| Palm Springs International Film Awards

| Ensemble Performance Award

| {{won}}

| align="center" | {{cite web|url=https://psfilmfestawards.org/awards/ |title=Awards |access-date=October 22, 2023 |work=Palm Springs International Film Festival}}

Screen Actors Guild Awards

| Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

| {{won}}

| align="center" | {{cite web |url=https://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/19th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards |title=The 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards |access-date=October 22, 2023 |work=Screen Actors Guild Awards}}

2017

| Women's Image Awards

| Actress Drama Series

| Halt and Catch Fire (for "NeXT")

| {{nom}}

| align="center" | {{cite web |url=https://www.thewinawards.com/win19 |title=WIN 19 The WIN Awards 2017 |access-date=October 22, 2023 |work=Women's Image Network Awards}}