Emily Procter Biography

Emily Mallory Procter (born October 8, 1968) is an American actress best known for her starring role as Calleigh Duquesne in the CBS police drama CSI: Miami and her recurring role as Ainsley Hayes in the NBC serial drama The West Wing. In 2013, she began a recurring role as Amanda Callaway in the USA Network crime comedy-drama White Collar.

Biography

Early life

Procter was adopted as an infant to William Procter, a general practitioner and Barbara Jones, a volunteer worker and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was three years old when her parents divorced. She has an older brother, Whit, who is also adopted.

Procter is a graduate of Ravenscroft School in Raleigh. While at East Carolina University she became 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.

Career

After Procter moved to Los Angeles, her father provided the funds 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. In 1996, Procter guest-starred in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, where she portrayed Lana Lang. She briefly appeared in the 1997 TV movie The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! as Mavis. She was also in Body Shots as Whitney.

Procter had a recurring guest role as Associate White House Counsel Ainsley Hayes on NBC's The West Wing and she also portrayed a brief love interest of Joey (Matt LeBlanc) on Friends.

Procter is a good friend of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation actress Jorja Fox, who persuaded her to try for the role of Calleigh Duquesne in its spinoff CSI: Miami, which ran on CBS for 10 seasons from September 23, 2002 to April 8, 2012.

Procter participated in 2007's Live Earth 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.

In 2013, Procter began a recurring role in the USA Network crime comedy-drama White Collar playing Amanda Callaway, the new head of the FBI's white collar division.

Personal life

Procter prefers to keep her personal life private. She often enjoys taking holidays with her sister, a professional chef. She jogs for two hours a day, five days a week, and has taken part in various triathlons and marathons. An avid poker player, she learned to play the game as a child when her father would play a game called 'penny poker' with her, and has participated in at least one celebrity poker tournament. Procter also sings in a 1980s cover band called White Lightning, which is now renamed Motion. Procter has volunteered as an actress with the Young Storytellers Program, and helps out at homeless shelters.

Procter is very interested in interior decoration and antiques, putting this to practical use in the 1921 Spanish-style home that she owns in Los Angeles. During the 2007-2008 WGA strike, she designed a home for a friend in Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands. In People magazine's Country Special of March 2009, it was revealed she decorated Kenny Chesney's home in Malibu. She has also acted as a guest judge on the Home & Garden Television show Summer Showdown.

Procter and her boyfriend, musician Paul Bryan welcomed a daughter Philippa Frances (called "Pippa") on December 8, 2010. Her pregnancy was not written into the ninth season of CSI: Miami, although her appearances on the show were limited for the entire season.

Filmography

Year	Film/TV	Role	Notes
1995	Renegade	Brenda	TV, 1 episode
	Platypus Man	Mindy	TV, 1 episode
	Fast Company	Roz Epstein
	Leaving Las Vegas	Debbie
	Friends	Annabel	TV, 1 episode
1996	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Lana Lang	TV, 1 episode
	Crosscut	Counter Girl
1997	Just Shoot Me!	Anchorwoman	TV, 1 episode
	The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!	Mavis
	The Girl Gets Moe	Tammy
	Family Plan	Julie Robins
	Early Edition	Colleen Damski	TV, 1 episode
	Breast Men	Laura Pierson
1999	Kingdom Come	Uncredited
	Guinevere	Susan Sloane
	Body Shots	Whitney Bryant
	Forever Fabulous	Tiffany Dawl
	The Big Tease	Young Valhenna Woman
2000"02, 2006	The West Wing	Ainsley Hayes	TV, recurring role, 12 episodes
2001	Submerged	Frances Naguin
2002	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Calleigh Duquesne	TV, 1 episode "? CSI: Miami's backdoor pilot "Cross Jurisdictions"
2002"2012	CSI: Miami		TV, main role, 232 episodes
2006	Big Momma's House 2	Leah Fuller
2009	Barry Munday	Deborah
2013	White Collar	Amanda Callaway	TV, recurring role, 2 episodes