Emmanuelle Vaugier
Canadian actress
Emmanuelle Frederique Vaugier (, voh-zhee-AY; born June 23, 1976) is a Canadian film and television actress. Vaugier has had recurring roles as Detective Jessica Angell on CSI: NY, Mia on Two and a Half Men, Dr. Helen Bryce on Smallville, FBI Special Agent Emma Barnes on Human Target, and as The Morrigan on Lost Girl. In feature films, Vaugier appeared, albeit in a minor role, alongside Michael Caine and Robert Duvall in Secondhand Lions. She starred as Addison in Saw II, reprising her role in Saw IV, and had a supporting part in the Josh Hartnett film 40 Days and 40 Nights.
Early life
Vaugier was born in Vancouver, the daughter of French immigrants. She grew up in a Roman Catholic, French-speaking household. She attended Crofton House School, a girls private school, for 10 years until she transferred to Magee Secondary School, which offers a flexible academic program for professional and pre-professional student athletes, artists and musicians (SPARTS), for the last two years of high school. She has an older brother, Jason.
Career
Television
Vaugier played the role of young upstart Maria Alcobar in a 1995 episode of Highlander: The Series.
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