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Erica Gimpel
Birth Name:Erica Fawn Gimpel
Birth Date:25 June 1964[1]
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.
Education:High School of Performing Arts
Yearsactive:1982–present

Erica Fawn Gimpel (born June 25, 1964) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and composer. She is best known for her roles on television shows Fame as Coco Hernandez[2] and on Profiler as Angel Brown. She is also known for her recurring roles on the television shows ER as Adele Newman and on Veronica Mars as Alicia Fennel. From 2018 to 2020, Gimpel had a series regular role as Trish on the series God Friended Me.

Gimpel was a judge on RTÉ One's Fame: The Musical, an Irish TV talent show seeking a boy and a girl to play Nick and Serena respectively in the Irish touring production of Fame.[3]

In January 2010, Gimpel released her first CD, Spread your Wings and Fly.

Personal life

Gimpel was born in Manhattan, New York City in 1964. She graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts a few months after she started filming her role as a student at the same school for the television show Fame. She had toured the United States and Europe with her mother, singer Phyllis Bash, who was in the opera Porgy and Bess. Her father was Joseph Gimpel, an actor, singer and writer.

Career

Film and television

Gimpel has starred in numerous primetime and streaming shows including , Chicago Med, Grey's Anatomy, Shut Eye, True Blood, Criminal Minds, Nikita, Rizzoli & Isles, House, ER, Profiler, and Veronica Mars. One of Gimpel's favorite projects was playing Trish on the CBS drama God Friended Me for two seasons. She played Ellie Fielding in Mayfair Witches and Brittany Arrington on The Night Agent.

On film, she has appeared in Tuesday Morning Ride (1995), Smoke, King of New York, No Such Thing, Freaky Friday, Romeo and Juliet in Harlem, and Sylvie's Love, and in the independent feature Bang Bang (2023).

Theater

Theater credits include originating the role of Mayme in Lynn Nottage's award-winning Intimate Apparel.,[4] Glory Bee in States of Shock,[5] and Nelly in Each Day Dies With Sleep.[6] Gimpel received the Stage Raw Award for Best Solo Performance for her work in the one-woman play Sister by Michael Phillip Edwards.[7]

Music

Gimpel composed and performed the song "This Moment" on God Friended Me. She also co-wrote and performed the song "Goodbye" on Babylon 5.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1988Case ClosedKathyTV movie
1990King of New YorkDr. Shute
Penny Ante: The Motion PictureDale Martinez
1991HomicideWoman with Randolph
UndertowNina
1994Jackie
AmateurIrate Woman
1995SmokeDoreen Cole
FlirtNurse
Tuesday Morning RideModineShort
Officer HudsonTV movie
1996Sticks & StonesMiss William
1997Touch MeKareen
1999Santa and PeteCassie MooreTV movie
Intimate BetrayalToniTV movie
2001No Such ThingJudy
ImpostorNewscaster No. 1
2003Freaky FridayHarry's Teacher
2004In Your EyesYolie
BethTV movie
Betty's TreatsMrs. WilsonShort
Beck and CallLeahTV Short
2006Jane Doe: The Harder They FallMargaret MonroeTV movie
2007Gail
2009Veronika Decides to DieNurse White
Blue EyesSandra
2010Machete JoeErica
2013Tio PapiDet. Johnson
2015Cloudy with a Chance of LoveDr. Ruth HarrisTV movie
Sex, Death and BowlingShanti
2017Romeo and Juliet in HarlemNurse[8]
2020Sylvie's LoveEunice
2021Far MoreShanti
2024Bang BangSharon[9]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1982–87FameCoco HernandezMain Cast: Season 1–3, Guest: Season 4 & 6
1985ShelleyEpisode: "Original Sin"
North and SouthSemiramisMain Cast
1986North and South, Book IISemiramisMain Cast
1988JenniferEpisode: "Waterworks"
1990American PlayhouseWendyEpisode: "Women & Wallace"
1994Law & OrderTempletonEpisode: "Breeder"
Touched by an AngelSydney JessupEpisode: "Tough Love"
1995New York UndercoverMelindaEpisode: "The Smoking Section"
1996Babylon 5CailynEpisode: "Walkabout"
1996–99ProfilerAngel BrownMain Cast: Season 1–3, Recurring Cast: Season 3-4
1997Felice CarlyleEpisode: "Driving Ms. Money"
1997–03ERAdele NewmanRecurring Cast: Season 3-4 & 6–8, Guest: Season 9
1999Any Day NowLaura SandersEpisode: "A Parent's Job"
2000Ella's LawyerEpisode: "The Real Terrorist" & "How They Lived"
2001RoswellFBI Agent Suzanne DuffRecurring Cast: Season 2
2002Touched by an AngelSydney JessupEpisode: "The Last Chapter"
MDsAllison GreelyEpisode: "Cruel and Unusual"
2003–04JAGVarese ChestnutEpisode: "A Merry Little Christmas" & "What If"
2004Aimee BreckridgeEpisode: "Bite Me"
2004–06Veronica MarsAlicia FennelRecurring Cast: Season 1-2
2005EverwoodDr. GansEpisode: "Surprise"
2006HouseElizabeth StoneEpisode: "Failure to Communicate"
Numb3rsPrincipal Riva BellEpisode: "Waste Not"
Criminal MindsSarahEpisode: "Profiler, Profiled"
2006–07Boston LegalAttorney Samantha FriedRecurring Cast: Season 2, Guest: Season 3
2007Close to HomeDr. UdellEpisode: "Protégé"
Murder 101: If Wishes Were HorsesPolice Sgt. Joanne MattersonEpisode: "If Wishes Were Horses"
2008Eleventh HourLizzie SummersEpisode: "Cardiac"
2009Grey's AnatomyBethany AndersonEpisode: "Invest in Love"
2011Prime SuspectPrincipalEpisode: "Wednesday's Child"
Det. Harriet MauroRegular Cast
2011–12Rizzoli & IslesER DoctorGuest Cast: Season 2-3
2012NikitaCarla BennettRecurring Cast: Season 2
Criminal MindsSarahEpisode: "The Company"
True BloodFaerie ElderEpisode: "Sunset"
2013CultGinny YarrowEpisode: "The Good Fight" & "The Devil You Know"
2014Switched at BirthYvette GiffordEpisode: "Have You Really the Courage?"
EnormousCarolineEpisode: "Enormous"
2015Code BlackAlice SellersEpisode: "Black Tag"
2016The CatchRenée EtheridgeEpisode: "The Larágan Gambit"
Murder in the FirstCorinne HagerEpisode: "The Barbers of Seville"
2017Shut EyeAgent SimsRecurring Cast: Season 2
2018Chicago MedLydia SingletonEpisode: "An Inconvenient Truth"
2018–20God Friended MeTrishaRecurring Cast: Season 1, Main Cast: Season 2
2021NCIS New OrleansLynette CarterEpisode: "Leda and the Swan, Part 1 & 2"
20229-1-1Pauline BarrettEpisode: "Fear-o-phobia"
2023Mayfair WitchesEllieRecurring Cast
The Night AgentBrittany ArringtonEpisode: "The Marionette"

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: This day in history . . 25 June 2011 . 20 December 2011 .
  2. News: Rothenberg. Fred. 'Fame' Series Pilot 'Sparkling'. 20 December 2011. The Sumter Daily Item. 7 January 1982. October 15, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211015160725/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yIgiAAAAIBAJ&pg=1302%2C915526&dq=erica+gimpel&hl=en. live.
  3. News: Sweeney. Ken. 'Fame' beckons as 1980s star Coco seeks new talent. 20 December 2011. Irish Independent. 23 January 2010. September 8, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100908064329/http://www.independent.ie/national-news/fame-beckons-as-1980s-star-coco-seeks-new-talent-2028542.html. live.
  4. Web site: Bandler . Michael J. . Intimate Apparel . TheaterMania.com . 30 May 2023.
  5. Web site: States of Shock . IOBDB.com Internet off-broadway database . IOBDB . 30 May 2023.
  6. Web site: Each Day Dies with Sleep . Internet Off-Broadway Database . IOBDB.
  7. Web site: 2nd Annual 'Stage Raw' Awards Winners Announced . broadwayworld.com . Broadway World . 30 May 2023.
  8. Web site: Romeo and Juliet in Harlem . imdb.com . IMDB . 30 May 2023.
  9. Web site: Bang Bang . IMDB . 30 May 2023.