Roles
Starring Roles
Guest Starring Roles
| Series
|
Role
|
Episode
|
Airdate
|
| Lifestories: Families in Crisis |
Chris |
1x06 - No Visible Bruises: The Katie Koestner Story |
January 12, 1993
|
| Class of '96 |
Kristie Lewis |
1x14 - Educating David |
April 27, 1993
|
| Acapulco H.E.A.T. |
Danielle Perkins |
1x10 - Code Name: Body Double |
November 27, 1993
|
| Party of Five |
Shelley |
2x11 - Unfair Advantage |
January 3, 1996
|
| Strange Luck |
Leigh Anne |
1x13 - Healing Hands |
January 5, 1996
|
| ER |
Roxanne Please |
5x01 - Day for Knight |
September 24, 1998
|
| ER |
Roxanne Please |
5x03 - They Treat Horses, Don't They? |
October 8, 1998
|
| ER |
Roxanne Please |
5x05 - Masquerade |
October 29, 1998
|
| ER |
Roxanne Please |
5x06 - Stuck on You |
November 5, 1998
|
| ER |
Roxanne Please |
5x07 - Hazed and Confused |
November 12, 1998
|
| ER |
Roxanne Please |
5x08 - The Good Fight |
November 19, 1998
|
| ER |
Roxanne Please |
5x09 - Good Luck, Ruth Johnson |
December 10, 1998
|
| ER |
Roxanne Please |
5x11 - Nobody Doesn't Like Amanda Lee |
January 7, 1999
|
| ER |
Roxanne Please |
5x20 - Power |
May 6, 1999
|
| Oh Baby |
Nikky |
2x19 - What It Should Be and What It Is |
February 19, 2000
|
| Dawson's Creek |
Aunt Gwen |
3x19 - Stolen Kisses |
April 26, 2000
|
| Jake in Progress |
Brooke |
1x06 - Loose Thread |
March 24, 2005
|
| Lost |
Sarah Shephard |
1x20 - Do No Harm |
April 6, 2005
|
| Jake in Progress |
Brooke |
1x10 - Boys' Night Out |
April 7, 2005
|
| Jake in Progress |
Brooke |
1x12 - Jake or the Fat Man |
April 21, 2005
|
| Jake in Progress |
Brooke |
1x13 - Henry Porter and the Coitus Interruptus |
April 21, 2005
|
| Lost |
Sarah Shephard |
2x01 - Man of Science, Man of Faith |
September 21, 2005
|
| Lost |
Sarah Shephard |
2x11 - The Hunting Party |
January 18, 2006
|
| Lost |
Sarah Shephard |
3x01 - A Tale of Two Cities |
October 4, 2006
|
| Lost |
Sarah Shephard |
3x22 - Through the Looking Glass |
May 23, 2007
|
| Weeds |
Lisa Ferris |
4x06 - Excellent Treasures |
July 21, 2008
|
| Weeds |
Lisa Ferris |
4x07 - Yes I Can |
July 28, 2008
|
| Weeds |
Lisa Ferris |
4x08 - I Am the Table |
August 4, 2008
|
| Weeds |
Lisa Ferris |
4x09 - Little Boats |
August 11, 2008
|
| Weeds |
Lisa Ferris |
4x10 - The Love Circle Overlap |
August 18, 2008
|
| Weeds |
Lisa Ferris |
4x11 - Head Cheese |
August 25, 2008
|
| Weeds |
Lisa Ferris |
4x13 - If You Work for a Living, Then Why Do You Kill Yourself Working? |
September 15, 2008
|
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
Gwen Sibert |
10x01 - Trials |
September 23, 2008
|
| Boston Legal |
Denise Bauer |
5x07 - Mad Cows |
November 3, 2008
|
| Monk |
Marilyn Brody |
7x14 - Mr. Monk and the Bully |
February 6, 2009
|
Specials and Made-for-TV Movies
Talk Show Appearances
| Series
|
Episode
|
Airdate
|
| The Rosie O'Donnell Show |
|
January 24, 2001
|
| The Rosie O'Donnell Show |
|
April 4, 2001
|
| The Rosie O'Donnell Show |
|
December 18, 2001
|
| Last Call with Carson Daly |
|
March 29, 2003
|
| Howard Stern |
|
April 2, 2003
|
| The Ellen DeGeneres Show |
|
January 30, 2004
|
| The Ellen DeGeneres Show |
|
March 22, 2005
|
| Last Call with Carson Daly |
|
October 7, 2005
|
| The Ellen DeGeneres Show |
|
November 1, 2005
|
| Jimmy Kimmel Live |
|
September 22, 2006
|
| The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson |
|
January 30, 2007
|
Awards and Accolades
(2 Wins in 6 Nominations)
- Won: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (2011, 2012)
- Modern Family
Trivia
- Her father, John is a commercial real estate developer
- Has an older sister, Molly, who is an interior designer and a younger sister, Annie, who is a doctor
- Is of German, as well as Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English, and French ancestry
- Was raised in Ruxton-Riderwood, Maryland
- Graduated with Brown University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Renaissance studies
- Spent her junior year of college in Florence, Italy
- Is fluent in Italian
- Studied acting at the Actor's Institute
- Has a pacemaker due to bradycardia
- Is a self-described "low Protestant"
- Married to real estate investor & software developer Scott Phillips from 2004 to 2018; they have three sons: Oliver (born in 2007) and twins John & Gustav (born in 2009)
