Kerry Bishé
New Zealand-born American actress
Kerry Bishé is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Donna Clark in the AMC period drama series Halt and Catch Fire (2014–2017) and Lucy Bennett, the lead/narrator in the ninth season of the ABC medical sitcom Scrubs (2009–2010), and her supporting role in the drama film Argo (2012).
Early life and education
Kerry Bishé grew up in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, in the United States. She graduated from Montclair Kimberley Academy, where her father, Kenneth Bishé, taught social studies, and then enrolled at Northwestern University in 2006.
Career
Bishé toured professionally with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks during the summer of 2004, performing the role of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. She also appeared in a 2006 production of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape and in the Roundabout revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
Bishé made her screen debut in 2007 when she portrayed Sarah Rosen in The Half Life of Mason Lake, a low-budget production. After appearances as an extra in the first film adaptation of Sex and the City and The Lucky Ones, and a small role in The Understudy (2008), Bishé was cast in Night Life, a television pilot directed by Scrubs star Zach Braff. The production did not make Bishé well-known, but did introduce her to Braff, with whom she later worked on Scrubs.
In 2009, Bishé had a number of television roles, appearing in an episode of the American version of Life on Mars, an episode of the USA comedy drama series Royal Pains, and in the lead role in the TV movie made from the failed pilot of the proposed sci-fi series Virtuality.
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