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As a juvenile actress, Gish gave a fine performance as a young girl caught between bomb testings and family feuds in the 1986 “sleeper” hit, “Desert Bloom”. She then played Julia Roberts’ sister in “Mystic Pizza” (1988) before taking time to earn a BA from Duke University. When she returned to Hollywood, she was a young leading lady with a porcelain complexion and winning smile.

Gish made “Desert Bloom” when she was 13, and, while still a teen, she portrayed the high school girl whom Jon Cryer, on the run from mobsters, romances in “Hiding Out” (1987). Since returning to films, Gish played the first wife of the young “Wyatt Earp” (1994), Julie Nixon in Oliver Stone’s “Nixon” (1995) and was in the ensemble casts of “Beautiful Girls” and “The Last Supper” (both 1996). In the former, she was Timothy Hutton’s girlfriend, a high-powered Manhattan attorney, while in the latter she was an idealistic left-wing student who joins others in killing right-wingers.

Her TV debut was in the 1986 ABC TV-movie “Hero in the Family”. Gish had her first lead in “When He’s Not a Stranger” (CBS, 1989) as a college freshman victimized by acquaintance rape and a college administration that wishes to make the incident disappear. In “Silent Cries” (NBC, 1993), she delivered a gritty portrayal of a young woman interned by the Japanese during World War II, while in the miniseries “Scarlett” (CBS, 1994) she was Anne Hampton, the wife Rhett Butler takes after his divorce from Scarlett O’Hara in the sequel to “Gone With the Wind”. Gish made her TV series debut in the 1995 CBS effort “Courthouse” as a young lawyer assigned to the sex crimes unit despite her discomfort with the area. Six years later, she joined the cast of Fox’s long-running “The X-Files” playing Agent Reyes.

• Born:
  on 03/13/1971 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Job Titles:
  Actor

Significant Others

• Companion: Wade Allen. engaged as of September 2003; married on October 11, 2003

Education

• Duke University, North Carolina, English and theater, BA, 1993 (date approximate)

Milestones

• 1986 Feature debut, “Desert Bloom”
• 1986 TV-movie debut, “Hero in the Family”
• 1987 Starred in the teenage action comedy, “Hiding Out”
• 1988 Co-starred with Julia Roberts and Lili Taylor in the breakout hit “Mystic Pizza”
• 1994 Appeared in first miniseries, “Scarlett”
• 1995 TV series debut, “Courthouse”
• 1996 Appeared in two ensemble cast feature films, “Beautiful Girls” and “The Last Supper”
• 2000 Joined cast of Fox’s “The X-Files” in the recurring role of FBI agent Monica Reyes; made regular as of 2001-2002 season
• 2001 Featured opposite Frank Whaley in “Pursuit of Happiness”
• 2001 Had a recurring role as Special Agent Monica Reyes on the Fox drama, “The X Files”
• 2001 Starred in the VH-1 orginal film “The Way She Moves”
• 2003 Had a recurring role on NBC’s White House drama, “The West Wing”
• Started acting at age 8, appearing in several TV commericials