Elisabeth Röhm
Elisabeth Röhm (/roʊm, ruːm/, German: [eˈliːzabɛt ˈʁøːm]; born April 28, 1973)[1] 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.
Elisabeth Röhm
April 28, 1973
Elisabeth Rohm
Actress, director
1997–present
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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[edit]
Röhm was born in Düsseldorf, West Germany, to Lisa Loverde and Eberhard Röhm.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3][4][1]
Personal life[edit]
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.[9] She appeared in a horse-riding scene 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.[10][11] Röhm and Wooster married in October 2008.[12] They divorced in October 2014.[13][14] In January 2019, Röhm announced her engagement to Judge Jonathan T. Colby.[15] In March 2020, Röhm's publicist revealed that she and Colby are no longer together.[16]
In October 2021, Röhm married Peter Glatzer with her daughter in attendance.[17]
Röhm had a blog on her personal website, where she often wrote about life with her daughter and her then-fiancé.[18] On January 6, 2011, People added Röhm's blog to the "Moms & Babies" section of its website.[19]
Awards and nominations[edit]
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.[20]
Röhm was selected for Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" list in 2002.[21]