Fiona Gubelmann Biography

Fiona Victoria Gubelmann (born March 30, 1980) is an American actress. A native of California, she has appeared in a number of single episode roles in television, including CSI: NY, My Name Is Earl and Knight Rider, as well as a handful of films including Employee of the Month and Downstream. She is best known for playing Jenna in the FX television series Wilfred.

Early life

Fiona Gubelmann was born in Santa Monica, California. She began acting and dancing in preschool, and her mother enrolled her in dance classes as a child. Her first play was at the age of four in a ballet version of The Cabbage Patch Kids. As a child and teenager, she attended drama camps in the summer, acted in local community theater, and became involved in the drama department at her school, Torrey Pines High School in Del Mar, California. She enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she was a pre-medical major. She successfully auditioned for a play during her freshman year. She found she enjoyed acting so much that she switched her major to theater. During her time as an undergraduate, she volunteered with ArtsBridge, a program for at-risk youth in the Los Angeles area.

She graduated from UCLA in 2002, and went on to study acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse (performing in plays with the organization's Katselas Theater Company).

Career

Gubelmann made her television acting debut in 2003 on the UPN sitcom The Mullets, and made her film debut the following year in the comedy Employee of the Month. She appeared as a guest star in a number of television series and in a few films over the next several years. She also continued stage work, appearing in Peter Lefcourt's play La Ronde de Lunch in Los Angeles in 2009.

When Gubelmann's agent sent her the script for Wilfred, she said that she "absolutely fell in love with it", although "didn't quite get the whole guy in the dog suit thing". She watched some of the original Australian version online, and described her reaction as "Oh my God, this is amazing!" After auditioning, she was called back several more times over the course of three and half weeks. She also auditioned with Elijah Wood and Jason Gann so producers could see if she had on-screen chemistry with her potential co-stars, and was tested a final time before winning the role.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2004	Employee of the Month	Amber
2007	Blades of Glory	Woodland Fairie
2010	Downstream	Tabitha
	Sex Tax: Based on a True Story	Tina
2011	Last Stop	Ella	In post production.
2012	Rice on White	Julie	In post production.

Television

Year	Show	Role	Notes
2003	The Mullets	Valley Girl	Episode 1.9 Airway to Heaven
2004	Cold Case	Bobbi Jean Banks 1968	Episode 2.4 The House
	The Mountain	Darlene Toth	Episode 1.7 The Letter
2005	Joey	Anna	Episode 1.14 Joey and the Premiere
2007	CSI: NY	Isabella Cooksey	Episode 3.20 "What Schemes May Come"
	Sales Guys	Season Fisher
	My Name Is Earl	Lucy	Episode 3.6 Frank's Girl
2008	Comedy Gumbo	ShmappleBapp's Hostess / The Future Mrs. Chambers	Recurring character in three episodes, and a different character in one
	Knight Rider	Courtney Flynn	Episode 1.8 Knight of the Zodiac
2009	The Closer	Lisa Price	Episode 5.12 Waivers of Extradition
	Californication	Young Wife	Episode 3.4 Zoso
2011	The Paul Reiser Show	Jill	Unaired episode The Shave
2011"present	Wilfred	Jenna	Main cast
2011	Parenthood	Sandy	Episode 3.1
2012	Wedding Band	Violet	Episode 1.4