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Emily Mallory Procter (born October 8,
1968 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American actress
best known for her roles of Ainsley Hayes in The West
Wing (1999–2006) and Calleigh Duquesne in CSI: Miami
(2002–present).
Early life: Emily Procter was raised in Raleigh,
North Carolina. She was two years old when her parents
William (a general practitioner) and Barbara divorced.
Emily is a graduate of Ravenscroft School in Raleigh.
After she received her degrees in journalism and dance
at East Carolina University, she was employed as a
television weather anchor at WNCT-TV in Greenville,
North Carolina.
Emily had originally intended to get
into the theater department at her college in East
Carolina, but the head of the theater department told
her that he thought she did not have what it takes to
become an actress and that it would not work for her.
According to Emily's own words, this was a great
inspiration to go out and do it anyway.
Career: After the move to Los Angeles, her father
provided the costs for acting school for two years.
Before even graduating, she had already landed a number
of small roles in films such as Jerry Maguire (1996) and
Breast Men (1997), where she appeared along with David
Schwimmer and Chris Cooper. During the 1995–96 season
(season 3) of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of
Superman, she portrayed Lana Lang the first blond
actress to ever do so. She also briefly appeared in the
1997 TV movie The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! as Mavis.
A gorgeous, perky blond with milky white skin, a petite
figure and a snappy twang, Emily Procter has built a
strong career out of her Steel Magnolia-style Southern
charm.
When the Raleigh, North Carolina, native tried to get
into the theater department at East Carolina University,
they told the future “CSI: Miami” star that they
were full. Procter studied journalism and dance instead
and got a job as a weather girl on the Greenville CBS
affiliate while working on her degrees.
She moved to Los Angeles after graduation and her father
paid for her acting classes for two years. Her first
Hollywood speaking role was an appearance in Tobey
Maguire’s extremely short-lived series “Great
Scott” (Fox, 1992). The former sorority girl and soup
kitchen volunteer ironically got early breaks with a
small role in “Leaving Las Vegas” (1995) and an
appearance that year on NBC’s powerhouse sit-com
“Friends.”
Procter then made a string of TV guest appearances,
including “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of
Superman” and “Early Edition.” She also played an
anchorwoman on a 1997 episode of the NBC sit-com “Just
Shoot Me."
Her movie credentials quickly started piling up with a
role as one of Tom Cruise’s ex-girlfriends in “Jerry
Maguire” (1996), followed by a part in the
well-reviewed HBO movie “Breast Men” (1997) opposite
David Schwimmer.
In the film, two plastic surgeons (Schwimmer and Chris
Cooper) pioneer silicone breast implants—Procter plays
the object of Schwimmer’s desire who becomes first his
patient and then his wife and partner.
The film includes eyebrow-raising shots of Procter
before and after a staged augmentation. The first shot
is the real Emily Procter, while the second is a
CGI-enhanced shot of her upper body.
The late 90s brought many movie roles Procter’s way,
including: “The Girl Gets Moe” (1997) with Tony
Danza, the telepic “The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion”
(1997): “Family Plan” (1998) with Leslie Nielsen,
Judge Reinhold and Joely Fischer; the indie “Kingdom
Come” (1999) and the well-reviewed “Guinevere”
(1999) as one of Stephen Rea's many former
students/paramours.
Proctor played Whitney, the cool dance club employee, in
“Body Shots” (1999), the underwhelming graphic 90s
dating expose with Amanda Peet, Sean Patrick Flannery,
Tara Reid. She then appeared in the hair industry
mockumentary “The Big Tease” (1999) and “Forever
Fabulous” (2000) with Jean Smart.
Her star rose to new heights in 2000, when she joined
“The West Wing,” cast in a breakout role as the
endearingly ultra-verbal, tough-minded aide Ainsley
Hayes, the lone Republican on Jeb Bartlett’s White
House staff, as well as the only potential love interest
to ignite real sparks with Rob Lowe’s character, Sam
Seaborn.
As Ainsely provided a conservative political
counterpoint to the left-leaning main characters, many
“West Wing” fans mourned her quick and unexplained
departure following the 2002 season. Off-screen,
Procter’s star was on the rise: she soon reappeared as
the gorgeous, tough, gun-toting Detective Calleigh
Duquesne on the forensic franchise spin-off “CSI:
Miami” (CBS, 2002 - ), a role that made her a
household name, particularly after her character
received more screen time following first-season lead
Kim Delany’s departure.
She next co-starred alongside Martin Lawrence in “Big
Momma’s House 2” (2006), playing a clueless Southern
belle who hires the FBI agent disguised as Big Momma to
be a nanny to her children.
Away from performing, Procter has also enjoyed a
successful career as an interior designer, making over
many elite homes. Procter also had a recurring guest
role as Associate White House Counsel Ainsley Hayes on
NBC's The West Wing. She landed her breakthrough with
the role of Calleigh Duquesne in the television series
CSI: Miami, which has been running on American
television since 2002.
Private life: She has volunteered as an actress
with the Young Storytellers Program. She is very
interested and knowledgeable in interior decoration and
antiques. She puts these interests to good practical use
in the 1921 Spanish-style home that she owns.
She is an avid poker player. She says she learned to
play this game as a child when her father would play a
game called "penny poker" with her. She has
already participated in at least one celebrity poker
tournament. She is also fascinated with jigsaw puzzles
and tries to assemble them faster with each attempt. |
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