Jennifer Finnigan

Jennifer Finnigan

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Birth name: Jennifer Christina Finnigan
Date of birth: 22 August 1979
Place of birth: Montreal, Québec, Canada
Nickname: Jen
Height: 5′ 7″ (1.70 m) 
Spouse: Jonathan Silverman (7 June 2007 – present)

Famous Quote: “I read it and went, How could I not? I’ve never really felt as connected to a role as I did with this one. The writing was brilliant. She’s just this amazingly strong character. She’s got so many dimensions. All these procedurals out there, as great as they are, it’s rare that you get to see these women in their home life and in that different environment and that vulnerability and that softer side.”

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Jennifer Finnigan
c/o Aviel Talent Management
1117 St. Catherine St. West Suite 718
Montreal, QC H3B 1H9, Canada 

Biography:  Jennifer Christina Finnigan (born August 22, 1979) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her Emmy-winning role as Bridget Forrester in the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 2000 to 2004. Canadian actress Jennifer Finnigan used her shining face, clear blue eyes and cupid bow lips to charm American audiences and catapult onto the A-list in her breakout role as the lawyer and mother on Jerry Bruckheimer’s “Close to Home” (CBS, 2005 – ).

Finnigan was born in Montreal. She is the daughter of popular radio personality the late Jack Finnigan who was a fixture on CJAD radio in Montreal for over thirty years. Finnigan modeled as a child, but always wanted to act. Her first brush with fame came with her role in the Canadian TV series “Student Bodies” (Telescene, 1999), a sitcom about high school students who run a humorous newspaper. Finnigan took off for Hollywood after this first success, making a string of appearances on action and horror TV shows including “The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo,” “The Big Wolf on Campus,” “La Femme Nikita,” “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” and “The Fearing Mind.” The swing dancing enthusiast parlayed these spots into the title role in the sudser “The Stalking of Laurie Show” (USA, 2000). 

In the reality-based Movie of the Week, Finnigan’s Laurie is just trying to fit in when a popular girl singles her out for abuse and ensnares her into a web of deceit that leads to a murder. She starred in a sitcom called Student Bodies, and in a true story in the telefilm The Stalking of Laurie Show in December 2000, about the real life murder of a young teenage girl. Also in 2000, she played the character “Tara” in the episode “The Tale of the Last Dance” in Season 7 of Are You Afraid of the Dark?.

Finnigan took a break from the supernatural and thrillers in 2000 with a four-year stint as spunky teenage girl on “The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS, 2000-2004). Over the course of her tenure on the program, Finnigan’s character evolved from a meddling teenager to a mature medical student. She won Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Younger Actress for three of her four years in the role and fans mourned her departure. In 2004, she was seen in advertisements for Almay cosmetics. In 2005, she played the character Marni Fliss on the NBC series Committed, which only aired for 13 episodes before the show was axed due to low ratings.

Finnigan was featured on 10 episodes of Crossing Jordan as pathologist Dr. Devan Maguire in 2004. She is the only person to win three consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards (29th, 30th, 31st Awards), all as “Outstanding Younger Actress”, for her role as Bridget Forrester in long-running soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. In 2004, she was back to the thrillers with a 10-episode stint on “Crossing Jordan” (NBC) as an opinionated rookie at the medical examiner’s office opposite fellow Canadian Jill Hennessey. With little on-screen comedic experience, Finnigan got a big break to play a leading role on the romantic sit-com “Committed” (NBC, 2004). She played Marni, a perpetually cheery occupational therapist who falls in love with Nate (Josh Cooke), a mathematician who works in a record store and comes from a family of geniuses who all eventually go insane. Marni also houses former-“Newhart” handyman Tom Poston as a dying clown living in her closet. 

Although the show won some admirers, the program was short-lived. It turned out to be a good time to be available: Jerry Bruckheimer had been conducting a drawn-out search for a heroine for his new drama and when Finnigan nailed her audition she was selected for the lead role in “Close to Home,” earning rave reviews for her portrayal of Annabeth Chase, the tough prosecutor with a perfect conviction record who is also a protective, new, suburban mother. 

Finnigan had the role of Alex Sinclair in The Dead Zone episodes “Double Vision,” “A Very Dead Zone Christmas,” and “Exile.” From 2005-2007, Finnigan was the star of the CBS television drama series Close to Home, playing a deputy district attorney. Finnigan married actor Jonathan Silverman on June 7, 2007 on the island of Mykonos in Greece.

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