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Gretchen Egolf as Emma in Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the Huntington Theatre Company (directed by Maria Aitken) in 2012.
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Born |
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
9 September 1973
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1994 – present |
Spouse(s) |
Adam Chodzko (2013-present) Mason Phillips (1999-2002) (divorced) |
Gretchen Egolf (born 9 September 1973) is an American theater, film and television actress.
Gretchen Egolf is most known for her various television roles, including Journeyman (NBC, 2007), Roswell (WB, 2000), and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, 2009-2012), among others, and the TV movies The Two Mr. Kissels (Lifetime 2008) and Gleason (CBS, 2002).
Her film roles include The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Namesake, and Quiz Show.
After winning the Michel St. Denis Award for an Exceptional Graduating Drama Student from the Juilliard School, Egolf went on to perform on Broadway in Jackie, An American Life by Gip Hoppe (also in London’s West End) and Jean Anouilh’s Ring Round the Moon with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Broadway, directed by Gerald Gutierrez. Off-Broadway, Egolf has appeared in Davey Holmes’ More Lies About Jerzy at The Vineyard Theater and a number of new plays with Second Stage Theatre,The Flea Theater (in Polly Draper’s Getting Into Heaven), The Women’s Project Theatre, and Dodger Stages (now New World Stages) (in Modern Orthodox, directed by James Lapine).
Egolf has also worked in many American regional theaters. She received critical acclaim for her Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire at The Guthrie Theater (directed by John Miller-Stephany), Emma in Betrayal at the Huntington Theatre Company (directed by Maria Aitken),Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Old Globe Theatre,Candida in Candida and Rosalind (As You Like It) at Pittsburgh Public Theater,Emily in Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues at Wilma Theater (Philadelphia) and other plays with Berkshire Theater Festival (including Hay Fever with Joanne Woodward) and Barrington Stage Company, with whom she is an Artistic Associate