Anastasia Griffith (born 23 March 1978) is a
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
actress best known for her role as Katie Connor on the FX legal drama
DamagesDamages is an American television drama series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler . It is broadcast in the United States on the cable network FX and is produced by the creators' own production company, KZK Productions. It premiered on...
.
Griffith's on-screen acting debut was in a minor role in the 2004
made-for-television movieA television movie is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a...
She's Gone. Also in 2004, she appeared in more prominent roles in the television movie
Dirty Filthy LoveDirty Filthy Love is a British single television drama starring Michael Sheen as an architect living with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome....
, the comedy film
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and the short film
Turn, as well as featuring in
The Headsman and guest-starring on the British comedy
The Worst Week of My LifeThe Worst Week of My Life is a British comedy television series, first broadcast on BBC One between March and April 2004. A second series was aired between November and December 2005 and a three-part Christmas special, The Worst Christmas of My Life was shown during December 2006...
in 2005.
Griffith won her role as Katie Connor on the 2007 television series
DamagesDamages is an American television drama series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler . It is broadcast in the United States on the cable network FX and is produced by the creators' own production company, KZK Productions. It premiered on...
after taking a last-minute audition a month after she moved to
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.
Anastasia Griffith (born 23 March 1978) is a
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
actress best known for her role as Katie Connor on the FX legal drama
DamagesDamages is an American television drama series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler . It is broadcast in the United States on the cable network FX and is produced by the creators' own production company, KZK Productions. It premiered on...
.
Career
Griffith's on-screen acting debut was in a minor role in the 2004
made-for-television movieA television movie is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a...
She's Gone. Also in 2004, she appeared in more prominent roles in the television movie
Dirty Filthy LoveDirty Filthy Love is a British single television drama starring Michael Sheen as an architect living with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome....
, the comedy film
AlfieAlfie is a 2004 American-British film starring Jude Law as the title character. The movie is written, directed and produced by Charles Shyer.-Synopsis :...
and the short film
Turn, as well as featuring in
The Headsman and guest-starring on the British comedy
The Worst Week of My LifeThe Worst Week of My Life is a British comedy television series, first broadcast on BBC One between March and April 2004. A second series was aired between November and December 2005 and a three-part Christmas special, The Worst Christmas of My Life was shown during December 2006...
in 2005.
Griffith won her role as Katie Connor on the 2007 television series
DamagesDamages is an American television drama series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler . It is broadcast in the United States on the cable network FX and is produced by the creators' own production company, KZK Productions. It premiered on...
after taking a last-minute audition a month after she moved to
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
. The role saw her with an imitated American accent; she says "[the producers] were a little concerned at first about a Brit playing an American, especially because they already had an Australian (
Rose ByrneMary Rose Byrne , best known as Rose Byrne, is an Australian actress. She has appeared in a number of feature films, including 28 Weeks Later, Troy, Sunshine, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and Knowing, but is probably best-known for her ongoing role of Ellen Parsons in the US TV...
) playing an American," and so she addressed them in an American accent from beginning to end of the audition. The series has been booked for a second and third season and
Todd A. KesslerTodd A. Kessler is an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and director. He is the co-creator and head Writer of the FX drama series Damages. He also has a small role in Damages as Perry the Doorman. Directed the 2008 Indie Drama "Keith".-Career:TODD A...
, one of the show's creators/executive producers, has confirmed that Griffith will be returning in the role of Katie for the show's second season.
More recently, she has guest-starred in an episode of
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, and guest-starred in the television series
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's second episode, "Golden Boy". She also plans to re-enter theatre as she says she has been "traditionally trained" at the
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.
She also plays Liz on the BBC's online videogame/drama, CDX (http://cdx-thegame.com/).
Griffith also stars in the NBC medical drama "Trauma," which began airing in September 2009.
Personal life
Born in
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,
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to an Irish mother and American father, Griffith was raised in
West London with six older brothers, one of whom is actor
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. She said that, growing up, although he had many opportunities, acting grabbed his attention, as it did hers, but it was her father who thought it as more fitting for a daughter to pursue an acting career than a son and did not trust the world of acting.
She completed a degree in the History of Art at the
University of BristolThe University of Bristol is a university in Bristol, England. One of the so-called "red brick" universities, it received its Royal Charter in 1909, although its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876...
, but later trained at the
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before moving into acting.