Marg Helgenberger
Marg Helgenberger (born November 16, 1958) is an American actress. She began her career in the early 1980s and first came to attention for playing the role of Siobhan Ryan on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope from 1982 to 1986. She is best known for her role as Catherine Willows in the CBS police procedural drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–13), the subsequent television film Immortality (2015), and the second and third seasons of the sequel series CSI: Vegas (2022–2024).[1] Helgenberger is also known for playing the role of K.C. Koloski in the ABC drama China Beach (1988–91), which earned her the 1990 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She is also known for roles in the TV series Under the Dome and Intelligence, and the films Species (1995), Species II (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), and Mr. Brooks (2007).
Marg Helgenberger
November 16, 1958
Mary Helgenberger
Actress
1977–present
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Charlie Haugk(m. 2022)
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Early life[edit]
Helgenberger was born November 16, 1958, in Fremont, Nebraska, to Mary Kay (née Bolte), a nurse, and Hugh Helgenberger, a meat inspector.[2] She has an older sister Ann and a younger brother Curt.
They are of Irish and German descent[3] and had a Roman Catholic upbringing.[4] They were raised in North Bend, Nebraska. She graduated from North Bend Central High School, where she played the French horn in its marching band.
Until college, Helgenberger aspired to be a nurse like her mother. She attended Kearney State College (now the University of Nebraska at Kearney) in Kearney, Nebraska, then Northwestern University's School of Speech (now the School of Communication) in Evanston, Illinois, earning a B.S. degree in speech and drama.[5]
Personal life[edit]
In 1984, Helgenberger met Alan Rosenberg, a guest actor on Ryan's Hope. The two became friends and started dating in 1986. They married in 1989 and have one son, Hugh Howard Rosenberg (b. 1990), named after Helgenberger's late father. On December 1, 2008, the couple announced that they were separating, and on March 25, 2009, she filed for divorce.[18][19] Their divorce was finalized in February 2010.[20]
As a result of Helgenberger's mother's 27-year battle against breast cancer, Helgenberger and Rosenberg became involved in breast-cancer-related charity and have hosted a benefit Marg and Alan's Celebrity Weekend annually in Omaha, Nebraska since 1999.[21]
In April 2022, Helgenberger married Charlie Haugk, whom she had been in a relationship with since the fall of 2019.[22] He is an actor and stunt performer, with credits for acting and stunt-work on movies including Predator 2 (1990), Black Panther (2018) and Wonder Woman 1984.