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Emily Procter
Birth name	Emily Mallory Procter
Born	October 8, 1968 (1968-10-08) (age 39) Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Other name(s)	Emily Proctor
Official site	EmilyProcter.com

Emily Mallory Procter (born October 8, 1968 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American actress best known for her recurring role as Ainsley Hayes in The West Wing and the major part as Calleigh Duquesne in CSI: Miami.

Procter was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. Emily is a graduate of Ravenscroft School in Raleigh. While at East Carolina University she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. After she received her degrees in journalism and dance at East Carolina, she was employed as a television weather anchor at WNCT-TV in Greenville, North Carolina.

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.

She 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. She took the role after consulting with her friend Jorja Fox.^[1]

She participated in 2007's LiveEarth by reading (along with several other actresses) an essay written by Michelle Gardner-Quinn while Gardner-Quinn was a student at the University of Vermont.^[2]

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 flower jigsaw puzzles and tries to assemble them faster with each attempt.

• Fast Company (1995-08-14) as Roz Epstein
• Leaving Las Vegas (1995) as Debbie
• Friends: “The One With the Breast Milk” (1995-09-28) as Annabel
• Lois & Clark: “Tempus, Anyone?” (1996-01-21) as Lana Lang
• Crosscut (1996) as Counter Girl
• Jerry Maguire (1996) as Former Girlfriend
• Just Shoot Me!: “Back Issues” (1997-03-04) as Anchorwoman
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997-04-25) as Mavis
• The Girl Gets Moe (1997) as Tammy
• Early Edition: “A Regular Joe” (1997-11-22) as Colleen Damski
• Breast Men (1997) as Laura Pierson
• Family Plan (1998) as Julie Rubins
• Kingdom Come (1999)
• Guinevere (1999) as Susan Sloane
• Body Shots (1999) as Whitney Bryant
• Forever Fabulous (1999) as Tiffany Drawl
• The Big Tease (1999) as Young Valhenna Woman
• The West Wing (2000–2002, & 2006-04-16) as Ainsley Hayes
• Submerged (2001-05-20) as Frances Naquin
• CSI: Miami (2002—) as Det. Calleigh Duquesne
  • CSI: “Cross Jurisdictions” (2002-05-09, CSI: Miami’s backdoor pilot)
• Big Momma's House 2 (2006) as Leah Fuller

1. ^ Evelyn Teo (2005-09-04). Procter prospers. www.star-ecentral.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-24.
2. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zctmNe0t-wU

• Official website
• Emily Procter at the Internet Movie Database
• Emily Procter at TV.com