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Erica Fawn Gimpel (born June 25, 1964) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. 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 2018-2020, Gimpel had a recurring role as Trisha on the series God Friended Me.

Erica Gimpel
Born	Erica Fawn Gimpel (1964-06-25) June 25, 1964 (age 58)[1] Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer, dancer
Years active	1982–present

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. In 1982, she graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts,[3] 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, in the play Porgy and Bess. Her father is Joseph Gimpel, a short story writer.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Case Closed	Kathy	TV Movie
1990	King of New York	Dr. Shute
	Penny Ante: The Motion Picture	Dale Martinez
1991	Homicide	Woman with Randolph
	Undertow	Nina
1994	The Fence	Jackie
	Amateur	Irate Woman
1995	Smoke	Doreen Cole
	Flirt	Nurse
	Tuesday Morning Ride	Modine	Short
	The Price of Love	Officer Hudson	TV Movie
1996	Sticks & Stones	Miss William
1997	Touch Me	Kareen
1999	Santa and Pete	Cassie Moore	TV Movie
	Intimate Betrayal	Toni	TV Movie
2001	No Such Thing	Judy
	Impostor	Newscaster #1
2003	Freaky Friday	Harry's Teacher
2004	In Your Eyes	Yolie
	A Boyfriend for Christmas	Beth	TV Movie
	Betty's Treats	Mrs. Wilson	Short
	Beck and Call	Leah	TV Short
2006	Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall	Margaret Monroe	TV Movie
2007	The List	Gail
2009	Veronika Decides to Die	Nurse White
	Blue Eyes	Sandra
2010	Machete Joe	Erica
2013	Tio Papi	Det. Johnson
2015	Cloudy with a Chance of Love	Dr. Ruth Harris	TV Movie
	Sex, Death and Bowling	Shanti
2017	Romeo and Juliet in Harlem	Nurse
2020	Sylvie's Love	Eunice

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982–87	Fame	Coco Hernandez	Main Cast: Season 1-3, Guest: Season 4 & 6
1985	Spenser: For Hire	Shelley	Episode: "Original Sin"
	North and South	Semiramis	TV Mini Series
1986	North and South, Book II	Semiramis	TV Mini Series
1988	The Cosby Show	Jennifer	Episode: "Waterworks"
1990	American Playhouse	Wendy	Episode: "Women & Wallace"
1994	Law & Order	Templeton	Episode: "Breeder"
	Touched by an Angel	Sydney Jessup	Episode: "Tough Love"
1995	New York Undercover	Melinda	Episode: "The Smoking Section"
1996	Babylon 5	Cailyn	Episode: "Walkabout"
1996–99	Profiler	Angel Brown	Main Cast: Season 1-3, Guest: Season 4
1997	The Big Easy	Felice Carlyle	Episode: "Driving Ms. Money"
1997–03	ER	Adele Newman	Recurring Cast: Season 3-9
1999	Any Day Now	Laura Sanders	Episode: "A Parent's Job"
2000	The District	Ella's Lawyer	Episode: "The Real Terrorist" & "How They Lived"
2001	Roswell	FBI Agent Suzanne Duff	Recurring Cast: Season 2
2002	Touched by an Angel	Sydney Jessup	Episode: "The Last Chapter"
	MDs	Allison Greely	Episode: "Cruel and Unusual"
2003–04	JAG	Varese Chestnut	Episode: "A Merry Little Christmas" & "What If"
2004	The Division	Aimee Breckridge	Episode: "Bite Me"
2004–06	Veronica Mars	Alicia Fennel	Recurring Cast: Season 1-2
2005	Everwood	Dr. Gans	Episode: "Surprise"
2006	House	Elizabeth Stone	Episode: "Failure to Communicate"
	Numb3rs	Principal Riva Bell	Episode: "Waste Not"
	Criminal Minds	Sarah	Episode: "Profiler, Profiled"
2006–07	Boston Legal	Attorney Samantha Fried	Recurring Cast: Season 2, Guest: Season 3
2007	Close to Home	Dr. Udell	Episode: "Protégé"
	Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses	Police Sgt. Joanne Matterson	Episode: "If Wishes Were Horses"
2008	Eleventh Hour	Lizzie Summers	Episode: "Cardiac"
2009	Grey's Anatomy	Bethany Anderson	Episode: "Invest in Love"
2011	Prime Suspect	Principal	Episode: "Wednesday's Child"
	The Young and the Restless	Det. Harriet Mauro	Recurring Role
2011–12	Rizzoli & Isles	ER Doctor	Episode: "Burning Down the House" & "What Doesn't Kill You"
2012	Nikita	Carla Bennett	Recurring Cast: Season 2
	Criminal Minds	Sarah	Episode: "The Company"
	True Blood	Faerie Elder	Episode: "Sunset"
2013	Cult	Ginny Yarrow	Episode: "The Good Fight" & "The Devil You Know"
2014	Switched at Birth	Yvette Gifford	Episode: "Have You Really the Courage?"
	Enormous	Caroline	Episode: "Enormous"
2015	Code Black	Alice Sellers	Episode: "Black Tag"
2016	The Catch	Renée Etheridge	Episode: "The Larágan Gambit"
	Murder in the First	Corinne Hager	Episode: "The Barbers of Seville"
2017	Shut Eye	Agent Sims	Recurring Cast: Season 2
2018	Chicago Med	Lydia Singleton	Episode: "An Inconvenient Truth"
2018–20	God Friended Me	Trisha	Recurring Cast: Season 1, Main Cast: Season 2
2021	NCIS New Orleans	Lynette Carter	Episode: "Leda and the Swan, Part 1 & 2"
	12 to Midnight	Mother	Episode: "Red Sneakers"
2022	9-1-1	Pauline Barrett	Episode: "Fear-o-phobia"
2023	Mayfair Witches	Ellie

See also

• The Kids from "Fame"

References

External links

• Official website
• Erica Gimpel at IMDb

На других языках

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[ru] Гимпел, Эрика

Эрика Гимпел (англ. Erica Gimpel, род. 25 июня 1964 (1964-06-25)) — американская актриса. Она наиболее известна благодаря своим ролям Коко Эрнандес в сериале «Слава» (1982—1987), и Энджел Браун в сериале «Профайлер» (1996—1999). Также Гимпел известна благодаря своим второстепенным ролям в сериалах «Скорая помощь» (1997—2003) и «Вероника Марс» (2004—2005).

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