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Show NRL TINS uf} MARG HELGENBERGER NHER STARRING ROLE as an investigator in the hit CBS Thursday-night series CSI: Crime Scene Born Nov. 16, Investigation, Marg Hel1958, in Fremont, Neb. genbergerspendsan inorMarried to Alan dinate amount of time Rosenberg since 1989; one working over corpses on son, Hughie,10. autopsy tables in the Las Vegas morgue while looking impresInclude Always, sivelycool. Isn't she squeamish? 1989: Alter Marg (she pronounces her Midnight, 1989; Crooked Hearts, name witha hard “g”) 199% The Cowboy Way, relatively squeamishin civilian life. I've been very fortunate not 1995: My Fellow to have todeal with such things Americans, in my immediate family. When 1996; The Last Time | we're filming autopsy scenes, I Committed actuallyfeel sad. Behind each of Suicide, 1997; these deaths there’s usually a back Fire Down Below, 1997; story ofunhappiness and loss, We Species ti, 1998; use a guidebook the Las Vegas Erin Brockovich, 2000, police put togetherthat’s incredibly graphic, Lookingat the pictures can make me turn white, Includes Ryan's Hope, 1984 TT'm goingoverit, studying the ript at home, my husband will a Beach, 1988- ot Blind ask, ‘Are you all right? 1990; Death Dreams, 199%; In Sickness and in Health, 1992; The Tommyknockers. 1993; When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn, 1993; Fallen buton the daywe spoke,she wag set to flyto Vegas for 12 days@ shooting while “rolling blacks outs” were hitting powers California. Had theycut p at her house? “Not yet, Vengeance, Marg lives in Santa Monica, Marg, “but when I came home = last night, my son said, ‘Mom, Angels, 1993: Distant Cousins, Sunta Monica may go out at 9," Most of CS/ is shot in L.A. “We don't go to Vegas very often,” said Marg. “This stay is unusual and gives me a chance to Jose more money than usual.” Marg had just wrapped the CBS miniseries Perfect Murder, Perfect Town—in which she played the motherof the murdered child beauty pageant winPHOTOBY EDDIE ADAMS; HAIR BY KALI FOR CELESTINE AGENCY: MAKEUP BY SHERILYN STET2: STYLIST, VINCENT BOUCHER FOR LUXE; GOWN BY DOLCE & GABBANA Emmy-winner Marg Helgenberger segues from Erin Brockovich to portraying the mother of JonBenet Ramsey to CBS's hit show CSI. = Marg told me that William Petersen, her co-star on CS/, is “very easy to live with.” But then, Marg has worked with many leading men— from Jack Lemmon to Keanu Reeves, not to mention her four~ episode ting with George Clooney on ER. The JonBenet Ramsey miniseries, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, co-starring Ronny Cox as. vohn Ramsey, ner JonBenet Ramsey—when her agenttold her about CS/. Recalled Marg: “Shesaid, ‘If you're going to do one pilot this season, makeit this one,’ [liked that the role was sexy and tough, emationaro" and it was an ensemble showI Thebe: selling took on would not have tocarry. Also, which it was I'd worked with Jerry[Bruck- based “was more about the heimer, the executive pro- investigation ducer] before. And because I'd. worked for CBS,and they were alwaysinterested in me, I didn’t have toaudition. Only parents were trouble was, I'd dyed myhair very approving the book. dark brownto play Patsy of The cast was Ramseyand had tostripit? asked if we Marg grew upin North wanted to go to Atlanta to Bend, Neb., and studied acting at Northwestern, Her breakthrough came in 1984, when ABC cast her in the soap Ryan's Hope. Marg won an Emmy 10 “A few days ta ind years ago for her role as “K.C.” mysteriously, on China Beach. Her big movie they told us we were not last year was Erin Brockovich, going. | think in which she played the cancer their lawyer must have victim whose case gets the pol- advised them lution investigation started. And, againstit.” yes, she was rooting for longtime pal Julia Roberts at the Oscars, So, when she goes home,is it a big deal—“local girl makes good”? “Nah,” said Marg. “Nebraskans don’t impress easily.” PAGE 18» APRA, 22, 2001+ |
